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Arthurian Tarot Course: A Quest for All Seasons

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Whether a tarot novice or a master reader, Caitlin Matthews' work serves as a self-paced learning guide to the Arthurian Tarot. This workbook provides practical advice on meditation, journal keeping, rituals, and spreads specific to this deck, yet these same principles can easily be adapted to other decks. Sixty lessons, mostly detailed studies of one or more cards, offer tarot students a way to better understand both the cards and themselves.

There are, however, two drawbacks to this book. First, it's out-of-print. Secondly, cross-references to two other works by Caitlin and John Matthews, the deck's HALLOWQUEST HANDBOOK and HALLOWQUEST: TAROT MAGIC AND THE ARTHURIAN MYSTERIES, mean additional purchases. A reader may also question the need for all three books when apparently material is recycled (note: I have not seen the 1998 HALLOWQUEST: THE ARTHURIAN TAROT COURSE: A TAROT JOURNEY THROUGH THE ARTHURIAN WORLD, which may have resolved this issue). Nevertheless, this workbook is a valuable addition to one's tarot library and is well worth its cost.

Ms Matthews here provides a delightfully straight-forward template for the serious study and exploration of the sanctum sanctorum of Celtic Mysteries, providing a glimpse behind the veil of the Ninefold Sisterhoods, the Otherworld Realms, the Wasteland, Mabon and the Sleeping Lord. The course is one of only a handful to really take on the central Mysteries of the Celtic and pre-Celtic traditions. A graceful, eloquent journey into the Otherworld itself.