Tarot Spellcaster: Over 40 Spells to Enhance Your Life With the Power of Tarot Magic (Quarto Book) [Hardcover]

Terry Donaldson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Quarto Book | Publication Date: September 2001

The riches and pleasures of love and good fortune come into readers' lives when they learn to use the Tarot to cast spells. Although Tarot cards are best known for their power to foretell the future, they also serve as aids to meditation and as tools for working magic. Because the Tarot's pictorial images are rich with symbolic meaning, knowledgeable Tarot spellcasters believe that Tarot cards are a set of "filters" through which unseen spiritual forces enter the physical world. This volume presents instructions for more than 40 Tarot spells. There are different spells for different needs, including ways to influence careers, enhance love life, advance social life, renew physical well-being, and develop artistic and creative talents. Tarot magic is not sorcery, but an esoteric body of knowledge that has been passed down by sages over the centuries. This book's description of spell casting begins with preparing the room, setting up a Tarot altar, then presents breathing and relaxation exercises, the method of opening the Tarot deck and consecrating the cards, meditation exercises to open the spellcaster's "third eye," and detailed instruction for performance of each spell. This attractive volume contains more than 200 beautiful full-color illustrations.

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About the Author

Terry Donaldson is a professional astrologer and Tarot reader-teacher. He appears regularly on radio and Television in Britain, and is the author of several books on metaphysical subjects.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764154028
• ISBN-13: 978-0764154027
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #904,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!, September 3, 2001

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Celestial Violet "Star Lady" (Center of the USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarot Spellcaster: Over 40 Spells to Enhance Your Life With the Power of Tarot Magic (Quarto Book) (Hardcover)

This book is a very worthy follow-up to the wonderful book by Janina Renee. Terry Donaldson has created a visually stunning and thought provoking journey through the Tarot. The book differs from Ms. Renee's in the way the spells and rituals are arranged. After preliminary discussions on magic, preparation, and correspondences, the Major Arcana are presented--each card with it's own beautiful spell and photograph of the altar arangement. Each spell is described thoroughly, from intention, to materials used, to procedure, to meditations. There is also a section of spells using multiple cards. I especially appreciate the very poetic meditations which find the heart of each intention, and are oriented toward serving humanity and spiritual growth. The book is perfect for beginners, but I've read Tarot for nearly twenty years and I've gained much insight from this book. If you love "Tarot Spells" by Janina Renee like I do--you'll feel the same about "Tarot Spellcaster."

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enhance your life with a little Tarot magick, September 2, 2001

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Barbara A. Bolek - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarot Spellcaster: Over 40 Spells to Enhance Your Life With the Power of Tarot Magic (Quarto Book) (Hardcover)

Most people are familiar with Tarot as a system of divination. But the potent imagery of Tarot cards can also be a powerful meditative tool and an aid in enhancing magick spells.

Donaldson, who's previous works include the Dragon Tarot and the Lord of the Rings Tarot provides 40 simple spells that seem designed to be performed by all levels of magickal practitioners. But, the more magickal knowledge you have, the better. Those with more background in how to work magick will be able to enhance these simple workings with a few ideas of their own.

The book is beautifully illustrated and includes pictures of the altar layouts for each of the individual spells. There is a brief history of the tarot at the beginning of the book along with a brief introduction into the practice and ethics of magic and spellcasting. Donaldson also provides readers a handy spellfinder guide to help you find the most appropriate spells in the book for your specific need.

One thing I was a bit unsure about -- Donaldson recommends consecrating your cards with lavendar oil (do at your own risk...I'd just run them through the smoke of some lavendar incense).

There is a spell for each of the 22 Major Arcana cards. Each of these spells are carefully constructed to utilize the energy behind the individual card's symbology. These spells are largely based on meditative work. For example, the spell for the Devil card has the participant meditating on the two warring factions inside of them...the negative and the positive elements within, and visualize the two merging together into a unified, balanced whole.

The 19 other spells in the book use combinations of Tarot cards from both the major and minor arcana. These spells are for specific purposes such as a spell for friendship, one for self-protection, and one for uncovering secrets. Supplies needed, spell overview, the magical intent of the working, and how to information is provided for each.

There are some very clever touches in this book, though I wish there was a bit more elaboration (the vast majority of the spells are only one side of a page long). But Donaldson provides tarot magickal enthusiasts with more ways in which to utilize the power of the Tarot.

Not since the book, Tarot Spells by Janine Renee, has there been any other book solely devoted to Tarot spellworking. This book is a wonderful resource for magickal practitioners of all levels.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Visually and spiritually appealing..., September 9, 2001

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T. Johnson "Axarca" (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tarot Spellcaster: Over 40 Spells to Enhance Your Life With the Power of Tarot Magic (Quarto Book) (Hardcover)

This is a lushly-illustrated and inspiring book for those of us who are looking for rituals to add to our spiritual lives, but who are not necessarily interested in the more obscure aspects of Tarot and Magick which are presented by some books.
I am not sure if I received a mis-printed copy of this book, however, because one of the charts and a couple of the pages have astrological symbols either associated with the wrong name, or which show the wrong symbol entirely. I also noticed that a few of the photo-illustrations have missing objects (i.e., candle, paintbrush, etc.), or some object pictured which is not explained in the text.
Despite these faux pas, the author provides simple but substantial instructions for many spells (which makes it very easy to fill-in-the-missing-blanks noted above).
This book can help you give yourself the gift of enhanced magic in your life...