The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

Product Information

The suggestions on how the cards could be interpreted to inspire, support, and review artistic and creative work, e. A hip, accessible, and practical guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration in the tradition of The Secret Language of Birthdays and Steal Like an Artist. Learn how to read the cards for yourself and others, including four suggested spreads, as well as how to activate the deck and open space. So if you find yourself stuck without inspiration, it’s worth picking up a tarot deck for two reasons. La autora entrega sugerencias de obras de arte, libros o películas que resuenan con los distintos arcanos y da luces sobre a qué poner atención para que un proyecto pueda prosperar (ojo con la tirada sobre cómo entregar el proyecto creativo al mundo, super clara y completa).

Indeed, the indelible experience of taking in art marries perfectly with tarot’s wordless and often inexpressible deeper meaning. That’s when you don’t know how to start, and so the blank page (or canvas or whatever) just stares at you, daring to mar its unsullied perfection.But she also doesn’t do anything herself; she waits and attracts what she wants (“does not go out hunting for what she wants, she waits for what she wants to come to her. Her essay collection, The Dead Ladies Project, was hands-down one of the best books I read last year, so I spoke with Crispin about The Creative Tarot, her relationship with Chicago, and what’s she’s writing next. Almost to a fault, I process life through symbols, metaphor, and the patterns/connections they create – as smaller narratives nested within larger narratives, the micro and the macro mirroring each other. Either the author was cherry-picking parts of the people’s lives to fit the card, or vice versa, but it's obvious straws were being grasped.

Until recently, I’d never understood that a tarot deck is, more or less, a way to interpret personal stories – a hero’s journey told in cycles and represented through universal archetypes. Approaching tarot from the creative perspective gives the book an engaging and helpful sense of structure.You then flesh out that skeleton with your own circumstances, you populate it with the people in your life, and, using the intuitive cues provided by the cards’ images, you fit your story onto the story in the cards. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.