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Tarot & healing -- a winning combination!, June 3, 2001
This review is from: Tarot for the Healing Heart: Using Inner Wisdom to Heal Body and Mind (Paperback)
Tarot...it's not just for divination anymore. Now, Christine Jette, author, healer, RN, and professional Tarot consultant, combines her knowledge of healing with her insights into the Tarot to provide a powerful healing resource for tarot practitioners of all levels. If you loved Jette's previous book: Tarot Shadow Work, where she explores using the Tarot to illuminate the shadow sides of human nature, you will find this an extremely useful companion.
If you are new to Tarot, I'd recommend exploring some basic books regarding the use, meanings and symbolism of the cards alongside, or even better, *before* using this text.
Tarot for the Healing Heart is full of insights into the nature of health, disease and healing, how the healing process needs to be addressed on all levels -- body, mind and spirit, and how the Tarot can operate as an ally towards self-discovery and self-recovery.
Well-laid out, with contents pages separately listing Tarot activities and Tarot spreads for ease of access, readers will find this a fluid read from cover to cover. You will want to read it in sequence, at least up to Chapter eight, which gets into the individual card interpretations.
Chapter two deals with setting up an atmosphere to encourage healing including, affirming intent, creating sacred space, meditation, keeping a journal and doing dream work. Chapter three covers illness, providing an overview, Tarot layouts and other tools to assist in understanding personal patterns of disease.
Chapter four takes seekers into the heart of disease with methods to help examine the choices being made and how they affect the disease or healing process. Chapter five explores healing as a lifestyle. Chapter six guides seekers toward activities that support the healing process and chapter seven closes with some practical advise on healing yourself before you attempt to help heal someone else.
In her previous work, Jette utilizes only the Major Arcana for exploring the shadow side of human nature. Here, she uses all 78 Tarot cards. Cards are interpreted as neither inheritantly good or bad, but with a range of life experiences that can provide opportunities for seekers to learn, grow and heal. The four categories of interpretation for each card are life lessons (energy imbalances/disease), life wisdom (balanced energy/healing), actions that support the healing process, and contacting your inner wisdom (questions to further stimulate insights). Court cards can be used in some cases, to identify the type of healing practitioner an individual should seek out for help or counsel. In all cases, Jette provides a concise, in-depth analysis of each card's healing/dis-ease properties.
Chapter exercises include focused Tarot layouts, such as the Picturing the Pain Spread, which helps you examine a symptom, disease, or condition. The Good Grief spread helps explore the physical symptoms and messages gained, while enduring the process of grief and loss. The Whatever Goes Around, Comes Around Spread is an intricately designed spread, appearing like a cross when laid out, but consisting of two circles when read. The inner circle discusses what you have to release, let go of in order to heal, while the outer circle reveals what gifts you will gain when you release what is necessary on the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual levels.
The meditations on individual cards, or, selected groups of cards, such as the Aces of the Minor Arcana (Meditation for the Inner Healing Journey), are equally well-constructed and insightful. Other positive healing activities are also included. This is another exciting addition to the serious Tarot practitioner's bookshelves. It is an essential reference for anyone interested in using Tarot for health and healing.
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Excellent Book!, April 8, 2002
This review is from: Tarot for the Healing Heart: Using Inner Wisdom to Heal Body and Mind (Paperback)
I have found this book invaluable for my own Healing Workings. I really like how she makes it clear that you don't have to be a Wiccan to work with the Tarot for healing. Hopefully, this will help to open people up to the infinite possibilities that exist when Magick(or prayer) and the power of Spirit(however someone envisions that)are combined!
I also highly reccomend her other book about using the Tarot for healing. It's called, "Tarot Shadow Work," and has also been immensely helpful in my own Shadow/Healing Workings!
One last note: her books are well-written and easy to follow.
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