Jaymi Elford

Thank you to Jaymi Elford, Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., and NetGalley for allowing me the extreme pleasure of access to an advanced reader copy of “Tarot Inspired Life: Use the Cards to Enhance Your Life” for an honest review.

While I am a tarot reading of over twenty years, and someone who finds delight in both new decks, and holding true to the old, comfortable ones I've used along the way (oracle, tarot, and rune decks), this book was quite a delight to read over. I find myself pausing and trying out several exercises and activities it encouraged/instructed. I was very pleased to see this wasn't a beginners books, and that beginning was not dedicated to laying out all the meanings of the cards which can be found in several other texts.

While I would love to give this a full star higher, there were still errors that an editor needed to catch (phrasing, and missing letters/words).… (más)

Tarot Inspired Life by Jaymi Elford

Tarot is something I have dabbled in for a number of years so when I saw this book I wanted to see what it might have to offer. I already knew that the cards are a means to trigger the mind to “see” and foretell and find out but they can also be more and this book proposes some ideas that I had not encountered before. What ideas? Well, using the cards to inspire writing and construct plots was unusual and different and might be of interest to aspiring authors. And, I liked the idea of determining intent before doing a reading then creating a spread that will give specific meaning relevant to the query. There are many spreads out there but the idea of individualizing was and is intriguing. The matrix idea of setting up patterns of cards that allow the comparison of one suit against another and also the cards of like position within a suit with others that hold the same position in another group was intriguing. I have taken cards one at a time within a deck and meditated and let them talk to me but the idea of entering the card was a new one… There were new ideas and old and all in all I found this an intriguing book that I would like to have on my shelves. What I will be trying is laying out the matrixes and picking up the journal I started long ago that first introduced me to reading tarot. I will add to it and I may also pick a card daily and record through the year the card and events that occurred during the day.

Thank you to NetGalley and Llewellyn for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars… (más)