Best of
Divination

2017

The Ultimate Guide to Tarot Card Meanings


Brigit Esselmont - 2017
    Finally! Here's a fresh, modern, and practical guide to the meanings of the Tarot cards that makes reading Tarot as easy as reading your favourite magazine!Brigit Esselmont, Founder of Biddy Tarot (the #1 Tarot card meanings website), shares her most comprehensive guide to the Tarot cards yet!Inside The Ultimate Guide to Tarot Card Meanings, you'll find upright and reversed Tarot card meanings for every card, interpretations for everyday situations from relationships to career, finances and well-being, journaling prompts, keyword charts, and so much more.Why waste time and money on outdated and confusing Tarot books when you can get the most relevant, modern and useful guide to Tarot card meanings you’ll ever need? It’s all here for you in The Ultimate Guide to Tarot Card Meanings."This is the most complete, comprehensive and informative book on Tarot I know." Inge Brust"The Guide is a complete lesson in reading, explaining, and simplifying the 78 cards of the Tarot. It is the best learning tool and reference book on the Tarot I have ever seen." Robert Neal"I am in complete awe of your book. It is truly The Ultimate Guide To Life – not only for Tarot card meanings but also for delving into our lives, finding paths to more enriching lives, seeking answers, and so much more." Cheryl Janzen

WTF is Tarot?: ...& How Do I Do It?


Bakara Wintner - 2017
    No necesitas aprender el tarot porque ya lo sabes. Es desde este punto de partida radical que este libro descompone el antiguo arte de la cartomancia. Esta gu�a fresca, accesible y a veces atrevida, arroja una luz hol�stica sobre c�mo leer el tarot, desde la base de la magia misma hasta la comprensi�n de las complicadas tarjetas para ofrecer lecturas a otros.El autor y lector de tarot Bakara Wintner desempaqueta la magia de los arcanos mayor y menor con sabidur�a cham�nica y el ingenio de una ni�a, iluminando su significado con an�cdotas y analog�as reflexivas que revelan cu�n enraizados est�n estos s�mbolos en nuestra vida cotidiana: podemos sentir a la Luna en una carrera descalza por Prospect Park, aceptar la gracia de Temperance al enamorarnos o identificar cu�ndo es el momento de soltar a un ex con el ahorcado.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Young Blood, Old Magic: A No-Nonsense Approach to the Ancient Art of Reading TarotYou do not need to learn the tarot because you already know it. It is from this radical jumping off point that WTF Is Tarot breaks down the ancient art of cartomancy. This fresh, accessible and sometimes cheeky guide sheds a holistic light on how to read tarot, from the foundation of magic itself to understanding those tricky court cards to offering readings to others.In WTF Is Tarot, author and tarot reader Bakara Wintner unpacks the magic of the Major and Minor Aracana with shamanic wisdom and girl boss wit, illuminating their meaning with thoughtful anecdotes and analogies that reveal how deeply rooted these symbols already are in our everyday lives: we can feel the Moon in a howling barefoot run through Prospect Park, accept the grace of Temperance in falling in love or a divine intervention, "ghost the haters" with the Six of Swords, or identify when it's time to let go of an ex with the Hanged Man.WTF is Tarot offers far more than a refreshingly candid tutorial on card reading. Bakara goes on to investigate the magic of crystal healing, chakras, meditation and other magical practices. This young witch offers not just a guide, but an invitation for even the most mundane Muggles to welcome magic into their lives, and for experienced wizards to rediscover it once again.

Everyday Witch Tarot


Deborah Blake - 2017
    Charming images pair with simple explanations to make this the go-to deck for anyone seeking to learn or practice the tarot. Based on the classic Rider-Waite deck but updated for the busy modern witch, this tarot has a whimsical air while still being dedicated to the serious job of providing answers to life’s tough questions. Author Deborah Blake brings her friendly, approachable style to a tarot experience that’s focused on the positive. Includes a deck with brilliant art and a full-color guidebook.

The Grimoire of The Forty Servants: The Complete Guide to the Magick and Divination System


Tommie Kelly - 2017
    Contains all the information you will need for powerful rituals, Chaos Magick workings and oracle casting. Perfect companion to The Forty Servants deck (available at http://www.fortyservants.com) or works as a standalone Magick system. This book contains all 40 Servant Full Colour images, along with tables and charts. It also contains their Sigils, Prayers, Mantras and detailed descriptions on their use.

Many Moons 2018 Workbook Vol 1


Modern Women - 2017
    (New, Waxing, Full, Waning, & Dark)This book begins in January 2018 and focuses on the first half of the year: January- June. This is all new content for the year of 2018.This book contains recipes, spell working suggestions and advice, manifestation musings, Tarot Talk, and self-help and development prompts to aid you in your evolution, healing, and to get your momentum and desires moving and flowing. In this workbook, information is given, questions are asked and exercises are suggested to help you with your own self-empowerment. These workbooks imagine a world where witches, women, femmes, and weirdos make their dreams come true, help others and the greater collective in service of their higher self and of spirit.This workbook includes:- Over 4 different Tarot Spreads.- Over 16 different and new rituals and spell workings.- Writings about Hecate, Innana, the Devil, boundary work, connecting with your intuition, sex magick, upleveling kickbacks, meditation ideas, crystal and herbal suggestions for the different main phases of the moon.- Astrology overviews for each month.- And much much much more!As always, the author and editor Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is joined by a wonderfully diverse collective of experienced practitioners of various modalities. This volume includes Diego Basdeo with your monthly astro info, writer and activist Virgie Tovar, herbalist and practitioner Liz Migliorelli of Sister Spinster, doula and Yoga teacher Monique McCrystal, artist Rachel Blodgett of Serpent and Bow, Herbalist, Channeler, and healer Shayne Case, and Tarot Reader, writer, and business owner Beth Maiden of Little Red Tarot.This is a limited edition item. This item will sell out. (it does every time.) This item is self-published and printed on recycled paper in California.

The Fountain Tarot: Illustrated Deck and Guidebook


Jason Gruhl - 2017
    

The Art of Shadowscapes Tarot


Stephanie Pui-Mun Law - 2017
    Inspiration, intuition, and emotion come alive with each stroke of the brush, creating elegant images that speak directly to the heart and soul. Filled with full-color paintings, sketches, personal reflections, and card meanings, this companion guide to Shadowscapes Tarot provides new insights into a groundbreaking deck that continues to redefine the possibilities of tarot.

The Game of Saturn


Peter Mark Adams - 2017
    It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and encoded within the deck. Beneath its beautifully decorated surface, its imagery ranges from the obscure to the grotesque; we encounter scenes of homoeroticism, wounding, immolation and decapitation redolent of hidden meanings, violent transformations and obscure rites. For the first time in over five hundred years, the clues embedded within the cards reveal a dark Gnostic grimoire replete with pagan theurgical and astral magical rites. Careful analysis demonstrates that the presiding deity of this ‘cult object’ is none other than the Gnostic demiurge in its most archaic and violent form: the Afro-Levantine serpent-dragon, Ba’al Hammon, also known as Kronos and Saturn, though more notoriously as the biblical Moloch, the devourer of children. Conveyed from Constantinople to Italy in the dying years of the Byzantine Empire, the pagan Platonist George Gemistos Plethon sought to ensure the survival of the living essence of Neoplatonic theurgy by transplanting it to the elite families of the Italian Renaissance. Within that violent and sorcerous milieu, Plethon’s vision of a theurgically enlightened elite mutated into its dark shadow – a Saturnian brotherhood, operating within a cosmology of predation, which sought to channel the draconian current to preserve elite wealth, power and control. This development marks the birth of an ‘illumined elite’ over three centuries before Adam Weishaupt’s ‘Illuminati.’ The deck captures the essence of this magical tradition and constitutes a Western terma whose talismanic properties may serve to establish an initiatory link with the current. This work fully explores the historical context for the deck’s creation against the background of tense Ferrarese-Venetian diplomatic intrigue and espionage. The recovery of the deck’s encoded narratives constitutes a significant contribution to Renaissance scholarship, art history, tarot studies and the history of Western esotericism.

Postcards from Spirit: A 52-Card Oracle Deck


Colette Baron-Reid - 2017
    What if they knew what you needed to know about every aspect of your life’s journey? What if, when you asked for advice or a sign about your direction, you could receive it in the form of a postcard from Spirit?Colette Baron-Reid has created this original and unique oracle card system to open a portal to the “other side” of the veil. Through a compassionate and sometimes playful chorus of voices, it’s as if you were receiving a postcard just for you from another dimension—a message that carries profound meaning as well as practical advice. Ask your loved ones, spirit guides, or guardian angels to help guide you in all of life’s issues. Pose a question and a postcard from Spirit will show up with just the right answer!

The Tarot, Magic, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism


Robert M. Place - 2017
    An exploration of the Tarot’s mystical roots, with a guide to The Tarot of Marseilles, The Waite-Smith Tarot, The Alchemical Tarot, and The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery.

The Card Geek's Guide to Kipper Cards


Toni Puhle - 2017
    Each card shows a situation in which the reader can find themselves and easily identify and interpret what the future holds. Kipper's predictive accuracy is hitting the world by storm, if you want to know your future - Kipper is your tool! Learn how to predict the future using techniques that have been passed down for over 200 years by generations of readers in Bavaria and be in awe of the accuracy in which you can predict actual events.

Hermetica Triptycha: The Mercury Elemental Year, with Ephemerides 1925-2050


Gary P Caton - 2017
    And yet to most modern astrologers he remains a relatively one-dimensional figure. Caton's Hermetic triptych is designed to ground you in the actual observation of Mercury as a living planetary phenomenon, and to bring the lessons of this planetary divinity back to the world of applied astrology. Hermetica Triptycha is the first-ever comprehensive and integral treatment of Mercury's retrogrades, with a one hundred and twenty-five year ephemeris to track the sequential pattern of the planet Mercury's backward trickster medicine dance as it cycles through: three repeated degrees over forty days, three signs of one elemental triplicity each year, the four elements every six to seven years, twelve elemental returns over seventy-nine years. With additional analysis, lessons, and exercises including: the magical power of the image derived from Mercury's cycle as a visible "star", the philosophical, psycho-spiritual and practical ramifications of our views and attitudes toward Mercury retrograde, and individual chapters for using each of the four cycles of Mercury's retrogrades to facilitate personal growth, psycho-spiritual transformation, and real-world magic.

Many Moons 2017 Workbook


Modern Women - 2017
    There is a moon calendar in the back, and blank pages to journal in.160 pages full of research, musings, and information to guide you through the main Moon phases of each month. If you are interested in spirituality, the occult, magic, feminism, practices, processes, herbalism, Tarot, nature, intuition, and/or self-development, then this is your book.This workbook Includes stellar contributions from a group of varied and talented spiritual practitioners.-Diego Basdeo with an overview of astro influences for each month. -Tatianna Morales with a New Moon in Polaris spread for January. -Marcella Kroll with a Pisces Moon ritual. -Jess Schreibstein with a March Full Moon recipe. -Erin Telford with a breath work April New Moon exercise. -Liz Migliorelli with suggestions on how to work with herbal allies for the May Full moon. -JAHA Priestess on vocal toning for the Dark Moon in June.

Gypsy Oracle Cards: A Handbook for Interpreting the Sibilla della Zingara: Deluxe Edition


M. Jacqueline Murray - 2017
    While being respectful of the traditional meanings, this book provides expanded modern definitions to help the reader address today’s questions about love, relationships, family, work, business and career. This book will help both beginners and experienced card readers develop a deeper understanding of the insights that the Gypsy Oracle Cards reveal.

Lightworker Oracle: Guidance & Empowerment for Those Who Love the Light


Alana Fairchild - 2017
    This oracle deck helps you create a positive contribution to our planet, evolve spiritually, and develop your innate abilities to work with energy through different healing modalities. Lightworker Oracle supports your deeper awakening and encourages you to fulfill your life purpose.Includes a 44-card deck and 140-page guidebook

The Elements of Spellcasting


Miller Jason - 2017
    Some books highlight thousands of spells, but do any of them actually work? And how well do they work? I don’t mean just getting a result—I mean getting a result that matters, a result that will impact your life or the lives of those you work for. The Elements of Spellcrafting provides the most effective and efficient ways to get things done with magic.The Elements of Spellcrafting identifies and explains 21 keys to successful sorcery—a best practices of sorcery—in three sections: Principals and strategies for how best to apply magic before you begin. Methods and tactics that will ensure a positive outcome. How to take spells to the next level—building a life of spiritual accomplishment and material success beyond the basics.If you have ever cast a spell that didn’t work, The Elements of Spellcrafting will help you figure out why.If you regularly cast spells that seem to work but you still wind up in the same circumstances, this book will definitely help you chart a new course for victorious spellcrafting.

Blue Bird Lenormand


Stuart R. Kaplan - 2017
    The 38-card deck now has extra Gentleman and Lady cards. It features playing card inserts and verses by Stuart Kaplan to assist the reader in interpreting the card meanings. The 40-page instruction booklet includes a brief biography of Mlle. Lenormand and card meanings.

The ABC of the Runes: Elder Futhark Learning for Toddlers and Beyond


Carrie Overton - 2017
     Includes pictures and words for first word recognition. This is THE book to get for young Heathen children who are learning to read. An in depth fully illustrated follow up to Baby's First Book of Runes that is sure to please your little Pagans! For Asatru Heathen Odinist Pagan Wiccan and curious children everywhere.

Healing Light Tarot


Christopher Butler - 2017
    This deck creates a time for visions, realizations, and, above all, healing. The main motif is the mandorla, the oval-shaped portal created when two circles overlap. A symbol of the divine feminine, the mandorla is a healing gateway. Where it opens there is healing and wholeness.The companion booklets for most Lo Scarabeo decks are in five languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German.

The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca tarocchi


Peter Mark Adams - 2017
    It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and encoded within the deck. Beneath its beautifully decorated surface, its imagery ranges from the obscure to the grotesque; we encounter scenes of homoeroticism, wounding, immolation and decapitation redolent of hidden meanings, violent transformations and obscure rites. For the first time in over five hundred years, the clues embedded within the cards reveal a dark Gnostic grimoire replete with pagan theurgical and astral magical rites. Careful analysis demonstrates that the presiding deity of this ‘cult object’ is none other than the Gnostic demiurge in its most archaic and violent form: the Afro-Levantine serpent-dragon, Ba’al Hammon, also known as Kronos and Saturn, though more notoriously as the biblical Moloch, the devourer of children. Conveyed from Constantinople to Italy in the dying years of the Byzantine Empire, the pagan Platonist George Gemistos Plethon sought to ensure the survival of the living essence of Neoplatonic theurgy by transplanting it to the elite families of the Italian Renaissance. Within that violent and sorcerous milieu, Plethon’s vision of a theurgically enlightened elite mutated into its dark shadow – a Saturnian brotherhood, operating within a cosmology of predation, which sought to channel the draconian current to preserve elite wealth, power and control. This development marks the birth of an ‘illumined elite’ over three centuries before Adam Weishaupt’s ‘Illuminati.’ The deck captures the essence of this magical tradition and constitutes a Western terma whose talismanic properties may serve to establish an initiatory link with the current. This work fully explores the historical context for the deck’s creation against the background of tense Ferrarese-Venetian diplomatic intrigue and espionage. The recovery of the deck’s encoded narratives constitutes a significant contribution to Renaissance scholarship, art history, tarot studies and the history of Western esotericism.

Enchanted Spell Oracle: Medieval Hedgewitch Magick - 44 Full Colour Cards with and 120 page Guidebook


Priestess Moon - 2017
    

The Herbal Healing Deck


Sarah Baldwin - 2017
    

Magickal Spellcards: Craft - Cast - Activate - Empower


Lucy Cavendish - 2017
    These spells guide, support, and activate your innate magickal powers for a more prosperous, blissful life. Includes an in-depth, easy-to-understand guidebook.Boxed kit includes a 45-card deck and 142-page guidebook.

The Oracles of Apollo: Practical Ancient Greek Divination for Today


John Opsopaus - 2017
    Fortunately, several ancient divination systems are available to us today. The Oracles of Apollo shows how to use two surviving divination systems—the Alphabet Oracle (dating from early third century Greek culture) and the Counsels of the Seven Sages, which were inscribed on tablets at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.There are several different techniques for consulting each oracle. This book provides rituals based in ancient practice for consecrating your divinatory tools and for conducting the most effective divinations. You will also discover important insights into the history and mythology of ancient divinatory practices.

Create Your Own Tarot Deck: Includes a Full Set of Cards for You to Press Out and Color


Alice Ekrek - 2017
    Coloring each one encourages deeper thinking about its meaning and is a great way to relax and meditate. The coloring exercise will introduce Tarot newcomers to the Major and Minor Arcana and will inspire a fascination with Tarot and the insights it brings.

The Coelbren Alphabet: The Forgotten Oracle of the Welsh Bards


John Michael Greer - 2017
    But as long as nobody knew how to use the system for divination, it remained simply a relic of a bygone era.In The Coelbren Alphabet, John Michael Greer reveals the secrets of this esoteric alphabet, restoring the Coelbren to its rightful place as a powerful magical tool. Unlike the Ogham or runes, the Coelbren letters take their meaning directly from the sounds they represent. Providing the name, Welsh keyword, meaning, symbolism, pronunciation, and divinatory interpretation of each letter, this book shows how to use this unique system for divination and magic. You will also discover sample readings, scrying and meditation techniques, and tips for making your own Coelbren set.Writing systems have been used for magical power and mystical insight in spiritual traditions throughout history. This book shows how to engage in an effective divinatory practice with an alphabet that is mysterious in its origins but undeniable in its power.