Tarot Mirrors: Reflections of Personal Meaning [Paperback]

Mary K Greer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1988 | ISBN-10: 087877131X | ISBN-13: 978-0878771318 | Edition: 1st

Tarot Mirrors is the third volume of Mary Greer's best selling Tarot Cycle, which began with Tarot for Your Self. In this volume she shows how to use the mirroring qualities of the Tarot to examine one's life and to create a doorway to other realms of possibility.

Tarot Mirrors incorporates the work of 19th century French Taroist, Papus, and Jane Roberts' channeled wisdom from Seth with Ms. Greer's own approach to Tarot as a tool for self-realization. The result is an entirely new synthesis of Tarot knowledge with powerful new layouts and processes for creating one's own reality.

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: United States Games Systems; 1st edition (August 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087877131X
• ISBN-13: 978-0878771318
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,014,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mary K. Greer is an independent scholar, writer, teacher, and professional tarot consultant. She has an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Central Florida where she also first taught tarot in 1974. For eleven years, she was a teacher and administrator at New College of California in San Francisco, including teaching tarot as an interdisciplinary subject integrating art, literature, history, and psychology. She is the author of eleven books on tarot and on magic.

Mary's books have pioneered entirely new techniques for learning about and working with the cards, including being the first to present in-depth techniques for reading for oneself. In 2007, Mary received the International Tarot Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Tarot Studies. She also received the 2006 Mercury Award from the Mary Redman Foundation for "excellence in communication in the metaphysical field," and the 2006 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) award for best divination book. She is also an ordained priestess in the Fellowship and Church of Isis.

Mary has lived in Japan, Germany, England and Mexico and in six states within the U.S., and continues to travel around the world teaching. She currently produces "Mary K. Greer's Tarot Blog" at http://marygreer.wordpress.com which focuses on tarot history and research, tarot in popular culture, and tips and techniques for reading the cards. Her blog posts are frequently translated into other languages and reposted on other sites.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The art of reading made accessible, October 25, 2002

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This review is from: Tarot Mirrors: Reflections of Personal Meaning (Paperback)

"Tarot Mirrors" is the third book in Mary Greer's series on tarot reading. It is by far the most in-depth of the series. Like its two predecessors it is an invaluable tool for anyone wishing to develop a deeper understanding of the tarot. This is not a book that tells you card meanings and gives convoluted history to the supposedly ancient Celtic cross spread. The book is an exercise in self discovery. The book is also designed to deepen and expand one's ability as a reader. Rather than rely on rote memorization, the exercises and theories presented serve to give you a foundation to build your own theories on.

The book is roughly divided into two parts. The first section is on the art of interpretation, the second details a rather elaborate spread designed to expand the spiritual side of reading.

The first section involves various methods of reading cards. This process is almost universally ignored by other authors. Ability to ask basic questions of yourself or of the person you are reading for is key to providing the kind of in-depth reading most people desire. Yet this is the first and only book I have seen where how to phrase questions one is asking of the cards is given anything more than a sentence. Ms. Greer suggests that a reading is a process between two people much like therapy, questions lead to answers that in turn lead to new questions. The process is an active one, not passive.
Identifies your particular style and works to expand that way of thinking into reading the cards. The four methods of thinking/reading include analytic, psychic, therapeutic and magical. Each has its own special quirks and each works slightly differently in processing a reading.

The second portion of the book relates to what Ms. Greer calls `the star system' it is her reinterpretation of Eliphas Levi's thoughts on the Tarot. This is not a reading to be done lightly or quickly. I have used it to great success when dealing with deep rooted issues in my own life. Ms. Greer pulls off a small miracle by making a complex and obscure spread appear understandable and easy to use.

While out of print this book is certainly worth the effort to find. IT is an invaluable tool for anyone interested in Tarot.