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April 18, 2022 Post a Comment

Everyday Tarot: Unlock Your Inner Wisdom and Manifest Your Future, by Brigit Esselmont
Running Printing, 9780762492800, 216 pp., 2018

Everyday Tarot: Unlock your Inner Wisdom and Manifest your Futurity by Brigit Esselmont is a tarot workbook that goes beyond just breaking downward the pregnant of each tarot card. I have followed Esselmont'southward blog that posts articles, spreads, advice and even a podcast on her website, biddytarot.com), which she mentions throughout the book. I enjoy her website and this made me curious near what her volume would offer.

Everyday Tarot focuses heavily on using your personal intuition to read your tarot cards and to make a i-on-one connexion with yourself, the tarot, and your subconscious. Esselmont begins with a affiliate that is a quick start guide with symbol charts. Information technology goes over the meaning for the suits loving cup, sword, wand, and pentagram. The guide provides short one word connections to each. This is more than helpful for someone who has already started using the cards and likes having that i word clan with the symbol to reading the cards.

What is also overnice is that Esselmont goes over the departure between a tarot deck and an oracle deck, which I come across sometimes confusing for people just starting out and looking for their commencement tarot set to apply. She even tries to break the old superstition that y'all must accept your starting time tarot deck gifted to y'all. If y'all are gifted your first tarot, that is great, but you can exit and buy your own every bit well. Esselmont has her ain tarot, which is sold separately, only she does not try to push for that to be the one that is needed. She gives a listing of questions to enquire when one is looking to buy a deck since at that place are so many in every theme under the sun these days.

Her big push through out the book is that reading tarot is not virtually sitting down and memorizing a bunch of symbol sets out of a guidebook and spitting it back out when doing a spread — it is virtually becoming comfy with the deck and making a true connection. Information technology'south perfectly fine to refer to a guidebook for aid merely she advises to not let the guidebook hinder y'all from finding deeper personal meaning in the cards.

Tarot will never to tell you what to do nor will the cards decide on your behalf, instead, Tarot offers information, possibilities and new insights.one

This is one of the big pitfalls people come across in first starting out with tarot: they turn information technology from a tool of guidance to i that determines each moment of one's solar day and allow it to get a crutch to not bargain with life. The tarot is a versatile tool that tin do many things and can be a great help in aligning one's path, equally Esselmont shows through Everyday Tarot, but it's important to utilize the tarot wisely. It's ok to take a moment and encounter how things are moving with the help of tarot, but one has to call back they tin still make their own determination.

Along with the quick guide, Esselmont starts you lot off on the unproblematic one to three-menu pulls to see how the cards work individually and how they tin can work together to make a whole story. Then as you progress through the book, the spreads get larger and more than complex. She shows spreads for finding a more ideal career that aligns with your truthful self, for gaining self-love, and so a run of the mill love spread.

A favoruite do of mine from this book is Tarot for Self-discovery. This exercise asks you to exercise a single card pull each twenty-four hours and encounter how it connects to you lot or what you should focus on that mean solar day. The next part of the exercise gets more into making your ain estimation with the "complimentary menstruum writing" exercise that has yous pull a carte and write for 15 minutes straight of what you meet with the card and what come up to heed. "Manifestation is non a one-off activity, just should instead be a regular practice or interaction," she writes.2

Though I have been working with tarot cards for more than 10 years, I am still learning new insights into each bill of fare. This practise lets me reassess how I view the cards with my own intuition, in comparison to what is said in many guidebooks. What would really fascinate me is to do this exercise over again with the same cards six months, or even a yr downwardly the route, and come across if my perception has changed. Whether you lot have worked with the cards for just a few months or more than xx years, this would exist a expert exercise to sit with your favourite cards and see how your human relationship has grown with this simple do.

At times though, Everyday Tarot lacks details about private cards. I understand that is accessible on her website or with her own tarot cards she came out with recently, just a bit more than information in this book would have been preferable. The descriptions used throughout Everyday Tarot are simplistic in design and colour. This would be a skilful volume if you accept just started reading tarot and need some more guidance and insight in working with the cards, but not necessarily equally a complete beginner'southward book to acquire the meanings, unless you take something else to fall dorsum on, such as Esselmont'due south website.

Nevertheless, Everyday Tarot is a useful book to add to your drove. This books gives good exercises when it comes to everyday life and creating both short term and long term goals to employ the tarot. Esselmont focuses heavily on the personal intuition, but likewise requite applied insight to tarot use. She suggests to let the cards to be used every bit a tool, not equally excuses or a way to avert taking responsibleness. "The key to using the Tarot in your decision making is taking ownership of your future and claiming your gratis will," she writes.3 Esselmont shows that the tarot tin be fun and useful in a our day to twenty-four hours life, which doesn't make it any less mystical but more than attainable to those who idea learning the tarot is also complicated. The only fashion to acquire is to practise and enjoy the ride.