Beloved literary iconoclast Michelle Tea reinvents tarot for a new generation in this guide to using the Tarot as a twenty-first-century tool for connecting with our higher selves. Long before Michelle Tea was winning awards for her poignant memoirs, she was a scrappy misfit on the streets of San Francisco, supporting herself by giving
Beloved literary iconoclast Michelle Tea reinvents tarot for a new generation in this guide to using the Tarot as a twenty-first-century tool for connecting with our higher selves.
Long before Michelle Tea was winning awards for her poignant memoirs, she was a scrappy misfit on the streets of San Francisco, supporting herself by giving eerily prescient tarot readings. As her reputation as a writer grew, she stopped publicly reading the Tarot, though she never stopped doing it privately. Based on over twenty-five years of experience and a deep and abiding love of the cards, Modern Tarot brings the full force of Tea’s unique insight, inviting pop sensibility, and wicked humor to bear on the tradition of the Tarot in a fascinating journey through the cards that teaches us how to use this tradition for radical self-growth.
Whether you’re a dyed-in-the-wool seeker or a digital-age skeptic—or a little of both—the power of tarot is open to you. Modern Tarot doesn’t require you to believe in the supernatural or to focus narrowly on using the tarot as a divination tool. Instead, it offers fiercely insightful descriptions of each of the seventy-eight cards in the tarot system (each one fully illustrated by Amanda Verwey) and specially designed rituals to guide readers on a path toward transformative personal growth.
Grounded in Tea’s decades of tarot wisdom and personal experience, this is a guide that beginners will fall in love with and experienced readers will learn from anew. With her trademark one-of-a-kind insight and wit, Tea shows how tarot offers moments of deep, authentic connection during a time when “connection” is ubiquitous but rarely delves beneath the surface—and how the affirming and personal nature of the Tarot offers a spiritual experience that is gentle, individual, and aspirational.
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Love the card descriptions, the Tarot really comes to life. The pictures, not so much. This book has, to me, some of the best card descriptions out there. The author just really personalizes the cards so that you begin to see them come alive in your life and the people you know. She offers vignettes from her own life to illustrate situations that evoke each of the cards. I buy Tarot books a lot and this is, frankly, the first one that has not been something of a disappointment in recent months. So many books regurgitate the same information with only slight variation, but this…
I am having so much fun with this book I am having so much fun with this book. Some of the personal writing that relates Tarot and the authors life-events do not make much sense to me, as this is such a subjective topic. But the rituals for each card are super interesting and fun. I have clients that actually find performing ritual helps them a lot, and aligns them to the workings of the world; a lot like religious ritual helps folks. This book is fun, informative and when you pull a card out of the deck you have to option of…
A Modern Interpretation is Very Helpful I’m so glad I bought this book. As I age it’s harder to memorize, and absorbing the meanings of each tarot card has been difficult. This is fun and well written, with a touch of memoir to give examples and a touch of witchiness, with playful spells at the end of each card’s description to “either bring the energy of that card into your life or get rid of it.”I’ll quote an early description that convinced me “Ah, I can remember these!” Michelle Tea writes, “The…