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Discovering Your Self Through the Tarot: A Jungian Guide to Archetypes and Personality

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The author presents much good information, but muddies it up for the reader by discussing a new suit she is working on called "Spirits." In the Introduction, on page 2, she mentions she is working on the "Spirits" suit, one that is beyond the archetypal realm of The Fool. Chapter 15 is dedicated to working with the Spirits suit, and several readings where Suits cards came up in a spread are used as examples. For example, on page 129 (in the chapter dedicate to Spirits suit), she writes that all the cards in the spread for a particular person were from the Spirits suit. In the interpretations for the individual suit cards, there are interpretations for the Spirits suit. For example, the book gives interpretations for ace of Cups, Wands, Swords, Pentacles, and also Spirits. Outside of the chapter on the Spirits suit, there are no examples of spreads containing cards from Spirits suit. Including a new suit of her creation is only going to, in my opinion, end up creating confusion for many readers, thus only three stars.

Decent Jungian interpretation of the tarot. NOTE: binding is merely glue and will crack, allowing for loose pages, because the books have aged, even in storage.

I love this book, but as is my trouble with Tarot I don't practice it enough to get the information to stick. I would say it's great for someone who already has a general knowledge of Tarot and wants to go more deeply into the meanings of the cards. Great for Psycology lovers.