Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth

日本語訳もありますが、ペーパーバックは値段が高いのと電子書籍の利便性を考慮し、原書のKindle版購入に踏み切りました。しかも破格的な安さ。そこそこ英語が読めるなら原書をトライするのもありですし、電子書籍であればいつどこにいても読み返すことができます。日本語版は２巻セットです。 内容について: アンソニーさんの「Compleat Book of Tarot」(2016)との比較。サンプルでホリスティックとコンプリート両者を読み比べたところ、コンプリートはいわばタロットの「総論」と呼べるものではないかとの印象。著者のアンソニーさんは精神科医でもあり、本書を書く上で「一冊に収まる範囲で“完全”かつ偏りのないアプローチを提供するための基本方針に従った」と言います。タロットの“必修科目”に焦点を絞り、神秘性が削ぎ落とされたことで、本書は実用的かつ総括的なガイドブックになるのではないかと。鏡リュウジ氏による訳書もあります。 これに対し、Holistic Tarotは副題にAn Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth とあるように、タロットは「個人の成長を統合的に促すツール」という視点で書かれています。コンプリートが簡潔な説明に終始しているのに対し、非常に詳細かつ包括的な情報が網羅されています。活字好きな人にとっては、この情報量は有難いはずです。装丁の問題ですが、コンプリートは余白が多過ぎるように個人的に感じました。ちなみに著者ベネベルさんの本業は弁護士だそうです。 実用的、総括的であるコンプリートに対し、ホリスティックはより深く内面と向き合えるような本と言えます。タロットリーディングをする以前に、本書を読み終えたとき、これまでの自分から脱皮し“変容”できているかも。そう期待させてくれる一冊です。

Kindleだと驚くほどの安価で超お得な買い物でした。タロットは西洋のものだしできるだけ英語でリーディングのニュアンスを学びたいと思っているので最高です。

OH MY GOD !! I simply LOVE THIS BOOK. I do own quiet a few books on Tarot but I've not found anything like this. This is truly amazing. This is quiet an achievement if I would say so myself. There are just so many reasons as to why I love this book and I would recommend it to any one who is interested Tarot. I like the contents of this book, its division and subdivision is neatly put. Chapter One - Tarot Analytics, a chapter where she tells What is Tarot? and describes her approach to tarot. Chapter 2 - A Concise History Lesson, now it is very difficult to sketch the history of Tarot and to do so more accurately is a challenge in itself. I had no idea that the earliest playing cards are said to have originated in China, Tang Dynasty, 618AD to 907AD. And where do I get the info, that's right Holistic Tarot and not only that, she beautifully describe it origins and how we have along so far with the Tarot right in the modern days. I should comment that her research on this is just flawless. Chapter 3 - Allaying Fears and Offering Theories, Oh my! this is one of my favorite chapters, as I don't think there are many tarot books that talk about this, of course not the ones I know. However, there are many people who are afraid of Tarot cards and especially with certain cards like Key 13 DEATH, Key 15 THE DEVIL, Key 16 THE TOWER and so on and really that is only because of fear resulting in ignorance. I would like to quote her here - "The tarot represents the spectrum of the human condition, the good, the evil, the light, and the dark. Do not fear the darker aspects of the human condition. Understand them. The tarot is a storybook about life, about the greatness of human accomplishment, and also the ugliness we are each capable of... So confront your fears. Start by studying the Major Arcana cards..." She discusses the various theories of how tarot works. Chapter 4 talks about Choosing Your Deck like Which deck to use? The book contains a lot of diagrams, illustrations, charts and it's neatly done. Chapter 6 a chapter dedicated to maintaining a tarot journal. Chapter 9 Cyclopedia of Card Meanings, great chapter on Tarot meanings, you have chunky paragraphs and pages on card meanings including reversals. Key words and reversal key words. Chapter 10 talks about Signifier or Significator cards. From Cutting, Shuffling lay out the cards to Tarot spreads and numerology t's all here. From Astrological association to elemental dignitaries all in this massive book.Tarot ethics to foot notes. This book is a must to own it and read it. 'Opening of the Key' to 'First Operation' all in this gigantic book. I could just go on and on. It's a great book.

Aunque es un libro bastante grueso, es de muy fácil y rápida lectura y va al punto en cada sección. Benebell Wen es muy bien organizada en su forma de exponer su método de aprendizaje del Tarot. El Tarot en general puede parecer un tema oscuro y subjetivo, pero con este libro se aclaran y aterrizan muchos puntos que lo convierten en una herramienta verdaderamente útil para conocerse a uno mismo y a su entorno, para conectarse con el Universo y alcanzar a ver un poco más allá de lo cotidiano, sin comprometer las creencias personales. Este libro basa su análisis de simbología y significados en el Tarot Rider-Waite, pero creo que no es difícil aplicar varias de las propuestas y metodologías a otras tradiciones de Tarot como Marsella o Thoth. En su página personal, la autora publica actualizaciones al texto y en su canal de YouTube hace videos que acompañan y extienden las explicaciones de este libro, con su personalidad generosa, ligera, sencilla y muy organizada. Lo cual hace a este texto aún más útil y rico como material de estudio. Sin lugar a dudas es una excelente opción tanto para los que quieren empezar a leer el Tarot, como para quienes quieren adentrarse un poco más en sus estudios.

Livro Excelente 😸💜 Já é um Clássico Contemporâneo ❤😄🤩

I started getting into tarot about February of this past year. I have been using several websites, including the author's, to learn about the tarot and it was going fairly well. However, I am a fairly methodical person and like a very structured, more academic approach, to learning things. Once I saw Wen's companion course on her website, I ordered the book. It was exactly what I wanted. She is very methodical and structured in her approach to learning tarot. I love her appendix and endnotes. When she makes a statement, be assured that it was thoroughly researched. This is not a book you just read through. It is a book that you use a highlighter with, use page markers, take notes on, buy other books, and could probably launch an entire thesis off of for a PhD program, just saying... Please don't get the wrong idea though, all of that is optional and her book isn't stuffy in the least, it's just not a "sitting at your neighbor's table throwing down the cards" sort of style. While I enjoy all of the woo-woo stuff associated with tarot, I didn't want it to interfere with learning the tarot. Wen has removed all the mystical stuff and has provided a distilled version of tarot so that after you have a very solid understanding of the tarot, you are free to use it however you want and she encourages you to do so. Her analogy to learning the violin is exactly what she provides in Holistic Tarot. That being said, I don't think this book is perfect for everyone. I started with Biddy Tarot's website and it helped me feel like I couldn't mess things up. Once I got comfortable, it just wasn't enough and Wen's approach was exactly what I needed. If you are all about intuition, you didn't enjoy school, you hate journaling/recording things, etc., then I would probably recommend looking elsewhere. It's not that you wouldn't understand her work, it's just that you probably wouldn't enjoy the process and that kind of defeats the purpose of learning tarot, in my opinion. Things I particularly like: she touches briefly on the history of tarot and then recommends other authors to pursue to further develop your understanding of how tarot developed and why it is still relevant. I appreciated this because I have since paused in the companion course and am reading a few other books on the history of tarot that are definitely drawing on the art history and history classes I took in college, making this a thoroughly enjoyable research experience for me. I like that she includes planetary references, numerology, elements, and a whole bunch of other things to create a complete rabbit hole experience that will keep me occupied for months. I had forgotten how much I had enjoyed the research aspect of being at university and this has just made me completely happy. I have expanded on the journal template she provides in the companion course and downloaded Xotero to organize my notes and other books I'm using as references while I read hers. I like that the companion course really breaks the book down into buildable chunks so that it isn't overwhelming when you receive this massive tome at your front door because it certainly isn't fitting in your mailbox. She genuinely covers everything. For those of you who do want to incorporate tarot into Craft, I would recommend checking out her online courses. She does offer a course that deals with using tarot for Craft that is inexpensive and goes in a completely different direction than her book. Bottom line: if you genuinely are interested in getting a solid understanding of the tarot AND like structure, then do not hesitate to purchase this book.

Every Tarot reader needs this book. Has all that you can possibly need in this excellently written book with depth, clarity and loads of information