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Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards

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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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperOne; Illustrated edition (June 13, 2017)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062682407


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 06


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #54,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #159 in Witchcraft Religion & Spirituality #171 in Tarot #1,390 in Personal Transformation Self-Help


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    • Personable, feminist, modern, and relatable
If you use the "look inside" tool on Amazon, you can read a few pages from this book and get a feel for what a wonderful writer Michelle Tea is. When I read what she has written, it feels like I am having a conversation with a very cool and worldly friend. What I love: Each card is described in multiple ways. It can be a symbol of events, of a person, of your emotional life, and so on - Michelle covers it all. The thing I love the most is how she gives a little anecdote from her life about every card. She tells a story when she was too eagerly and passionately into her progressive thinking and was a complete jerk to other people, playing fast and loose with what it meant to be a feminist - she said this is when she embodied the knight of swords card. Each story she tells puts the card into a context that I can remember and understand. She also makes it clear that the cards are meant to enhance your intuition and be a tool for reflection - while she does think magically, she doesn't impose magical thinking on the reader if that is not their intent. What I don't love: This book only covers the meaning of upright cards. I am a novice in tarot and I don't know if having upright and reverse cards is always necessary or if it complicates things. I would have liked her to describe the reversed meanings of the cards as well, however I can use this book as a guide in my daily practice and intuit my own meanings. Would I recommend this to a friend interested in tarot? Oh yeah! I think this is a great tool and really enjoy the author! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2019 by Apple
    • This is someone you'd like to hang out with.
Wise ass interpretation of the tarot with an emphasis on the wise part. Light on speculative metaphysics and heavy and hard on practical things we tend to do that short circuit our sure fire attempts at happiness. A great guide for your own referral and a wonderful read on its own. I can't think of any other books on the Tarot I'd day that about. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2024 by David Brooks
    • First tarot book
This is my first book about Tarot and I’m so glad I picked it! It describes each card in a way that makes sense and therefore is easier to remember. She includes examples for each card which helps illustrate how they apply to real life. I’m sure this is a book I will keep coming back to as I learn tarot. Also, as a lesbian I appreciate the LGBTQ references! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2024 by Rachel
    • A lot of personal anecdotes
This book has been a really great tool for helping me learn to read tarot cards, has lots of good information. I could do with less personal anecdotes though, in certain areas it becomes difficult to Cypher through the personal stuff and get to what I am looking for.
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2022 by Zushi
    • 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 swords are brainy, mental, quick, tactless, painful and are ruled by the element Air. They're like that brilliant professor you had in grad school, the very one you hoped to be critiqued by, who stepped into your studio wearing an impeccable, avant-garde outfit only he could carry off and proceeded to rip your work to shreds. The worst part - he was right." The descriptions can be used with any deck, but she uses the illustrations on the Rider-Waite, which most other decks start from. There are no lay-outs, just the meaning of each card and encouragement to come up with your own story as you study what comes together, intuition often giving surprisingly true results. Tea often assumes you might choose one card from the deck for work on yourself. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2017 by Porter
    • Wonderful Book
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This book really helped me in simplifying my card reading. Very sturdy, love the book smell from the pages. It has a clear and concise content list. While I would like to see a bit more color or art to the book, it's still very well done. Book is a bit thick.
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024 by Desmond Lott Desmond Lott
    • Michelle Tea presents a great guide to the Tarot with 'Modern Tarot
Michelle Tea presents a great guide to the Tarot with 'Modern Tarot.' Her introduction discusses the background she has with the cards and her personal use. The balance of the book is devoted to the variety of readings and meanings that, to her, are evoked from the imagery - and often, a personal anecdote or experience pertinent to the card's message. In addition, with each card, a short description of a ritual is included - on some scale of hokey to interesting/insightful. She works within the symbolism and art of the standard Rider Waite deck, but with a keen eye towards queer identities: rather than ascribing conservative / traditional meanings to all the cards - historically quite gendered - she is open about the fluidity of cards' meanings, and acknowledges the shortcomings of traditional interpretations. She does not cover reverse / inverted meanings, but that's no big deal. Nor are different spreads covered (3, 5, etc). Overall, this is an excellent, thoughtful, sensitive, and nuanced guide to reading the cards and is well suited for beginner and advanced tarot reader looking for a thoughtful guide to the deck. I would recommend it in conjunction with the Biddy Guide to the Tarot for a complete walk through of the symbolism and meaning behind different cards ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2017 by Leah Berk
    • My Favorite Tarot Book
I am loving this book SOOO much! I've just started learning, and I've got three other books to help me learn, and this is my favorite. There are so many books out there on how to learn tarot, and most of them are like dry textbooks. This book is not at ALL like that! It's like... if my sister decided to write me a series of letters to help me learn tarot. You can tell it's written by a REAL PERSON who's also a smart and caring person. She's cool and honest and lighthearted; I like her. So glad I bought this book; it is SO readable--and I've received so many insights. I love this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018 by Angel Honolulu

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