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The Tarot of Transformation deals with life’s possibilities, hardships, and challenges in a way that encourages creativity, wisdom, and maturity.
For centuries, people have been using — and adapting — the 78 cards of the tarot to point the way in their lives. Now from psychologist, Cori, and artist, Arlenea, comes a brand new deck, not so much for telling what will be, but for helping us focus on what can be. While gently counseling readers to accept what is, The Tarot of Transformation encourages readers to get in touch with their own creativity and passion. This new interpretation, steeped in tradition but vibrating with contemporary appeal, offers new possibilities for guidance and change.
Arlenea and Cori have rendered the system of archetypes in the major arcana anew for our times — the traditional Emperor becomes the Green Man, which presents male authority not as ruler, but as an intimate, natural fathering role. The Empress is Earth Mother. The usually male Hierophant becomes a group of spiritual teachers. The Tarot of Transformation speaks to this age and its challenges. With brilliant colors and powerfully evocative symbols, Arlenea’s images are modern, cross-cultural, and visionary.
In the accompanying book, Cori draws from an eclectic blend of spiritual traditions including Buddhism, Hinduism, Vipassana meditation, and Karma Yoga, as well as psychotherapeutic approaches, such as Gestalt, Bioenergetics, and the Hakomi Method to describe the meaning of each card.
Pagan News Review by Earthmystry
This deck draws from several different forms of healing, spiritual awakening
and even psychology yet pulls them together in a cohesive, intelligent way.
I am pretty sure I recognize elements of Wicca, Reiki, Alchemy and the Kaballah
in the artwork and interpretations. This deck is not really pagan, "new age"
seems to fit it better, although it does stick to the four suits of the
traditional Tarot deck and the Goddess is thoroughly presented. The authors
have taken Tarot a step into the new millennium with this deck by expanding
on the basic archetypes in the Major Arcana, mixing and matching aspects
from many different modalities and making it work. This is a sophisticated
deck of Tarot; but it is not for the stodgy or hard core ceremonial
magician. It is much better suited to a eclectic solitary wiccan.
The deck seems to be made by and for women, whether that was intentional or
not. It has that whole "it's all about me and how I feel" quality that new
age women are drawn to. The artwork compliments the interpretations and
ideas expressed in the book beautifully. You could give this set as a gift
to almost any women you know (witch or cowan) and not need to worry about scaring them. The one thing this deck has in common with almost
every other Tarot deck is the size of the cards. Why do people insist on
making Tarot cards wider than the average human hand?
Despite the size, I fell in love with this deck, and I will use it!
