It’s In The Cards is a revelation that routs other authors who perpetuate fallacies about card history: For example, research demonstrates that Tarot began as a depiction of everyone’s life journey using symbols of virtues to cultivate and vices to avoid, slyly made into a game to incline tyrants to act humanely through repetition of play.
Card decks’ historic popularity and persecution fascinate, and misinterpretations of card meanings illuminate: The Hermit was initially Father Time, The Hanged Man a traitor,; and The Tower in early decks depicts once-prolific European “Witch Towers” where accused were imprisoned, tortured, and executed. Details of cards that were dropped from early Tarot decks enchant, and meaning-drift is clarified in context of political intrigue and societal change.
Lady Passion explains upright and reversed Tarot-card meaning differences, and divulges the three-way trick readers use to interpret 36 Lenormand cards at once. She teaches step-by-step how to read cards in traditional patterns, from simple 1-card “Yes/No” pull-answers through the classic 10-card Celtic Cross and 12-card year-at-a-glance layouts that predict monthly probabilities to anticipate or avert. She illustrates the evolution of the oldest surviving Tarot trumps compared with their modern variants, and imparts the importance of heeding omens and deity input in tandem with intuition and card-meaning familiarity.
How To Tarot Like A Pro includes ways to ensure successful client consults in-person, and by mail, phone, and email. The Lady’s true examples of confidential readings and their outcomes are inspiring, and her options for decorating a “div nook” are creative and budget-brilliant. She provides an extensive list of 2-card spells to avert many ills and manifest desires.
Lady Passion’s easy, fun exercises enhance readers’ psychic abilities: Whether practiced alone or with friends in person or remotely, they enable the reader to know past, present, and future. Her captivating bibliography and comprehensive index seal the deal.
It’s In The Cards reveals that the Tarot’s sequence of trumps is structured around 3 of the 4 Pagan Cardinal Virtues — Justice, Strength, and Temperance — and solves the mystery of why Prudence is missing.