Product Description

In this groundbreaking book, Ly de Angeles shares her own original ideas on the nature of prophecy and using tarot to predict the future. Exploring quantum physics, free will, and fate, de Angeles poses a bold new theory, suggesting tarot can have an impact on your reality ...and your future. She also introduces Time, the god of tarot, and reveals insightful correlations between tarot and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, astrology, and the four elements. Sprinkled throughout are exercises and personal case histories that illuminate these complex ideas.De Angeles also offers guidance for putting theory into practice, along with card interpretations and sample spreads. There's advice for handling the deck, timing events and giving accurate readings. Also included are tips for going professional: setting up a space, maintaining confidentiality, reading objectively and responsibly, communicating bad news, staying safe, avoiding burnout, and much more. A professional tarot reader for thirty years, Ly de Angeles relies on word of mouth and her own reputation to bring in clients. She has been teaching the concepts in this book for over two decades. A Witch since the age of seventeen, de Angeles currently belongs to the Coven of WildWood Gate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #504634 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

Customer Reviews

warning: this book will rewire your brain
I remember the first time I read Robert M. Pirsig's 'Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' - how that book affected me like a benign neutron bomb, rewiring my perceptions of the world around me. Ly De Angeles' 'Tarot: Theory and Practice' has done the same thing. Her ideas, concepts and visions of Tarot - 'the God of Time' - reach to the deepest levels of the mind (and the soul).

I don't think there has ever been such a book about Tarot in existence before - and we owe a great debt to the author for taking on a challenge which she had always avoided in the past. It is possibly her masterpiece -brilliant, challenging, wise, affecting, mind altering.

Even those who could not care less about Tarot as a divinatory system, as a conduit for prophecy, would learn a great deal about the universe and its workings from this extraordinary teacher.

Those who do care might be offended or even totally outraged at De Angeles' percieved 'audacities' - taking their cosy 'territory' and opening it up to profound and vivid speculations. This is no 'sweetie wifie' volume or flat earth Orthodox primer. It is fresh, exciting and - a great bonus - highly readable. Ms De Angeles' humanity and compassion is there upon every page.

It is an intense book, and worth taking in relective stages to read. But the journey is perhaps one of the most valuable you could ever make.

One of best books ive read
You will never view tarot same again after reading this great writer.
Ive read one or two of her other books explanation of how the tarot is more than
a deck of cards. Yes it shows basic meanings but shows what i believe that there isnt just a tarot reader. Ly de angeles a witch explains how its impossible to not see psychically when using tarot.Mentions things like health of the reader burnout
when we should or shouldnt read.Things that are often not discussed by many writers.
This book is written showing the tarot as a life journey for yourself.
Nice one Ly hope you write another similar.A must for working psychics and wiccans
or pagans.

Disappointing...
And maybe somewhat opportunistic. The book uses the Llewellyn deck, but rarely makes any reference to the fact - the only reference I can find on a quick scan is in the overview of the Tarot deck on the page for The Horned One. The significance of this is that the Llewellyn deck's major arcana are thoroughly based in Welsh tradition and mythology. It feels as though the publishers foisted the deck (published the previous year to this book) upon the book: the Llewellyn deck has many important details that are completely ignored by the book.

In the introduction, the author says that she has been reading Tarot for thirty years and teaching for twenty years and that until now she saw no reason to add to the plethora of Tarot books. I'm afraid this book feels like she has simply published her notebook without trying to make it into a coherent book. She jumps from metaphysical theory to personal anecdote in less time than it takes to shuffle a deck.

Although she relies on it heavily, she gives little explanation of the Tree of Life, and especially no explanation of why she numbers the sephiroth in reverse, a concept I`ve never before come across. A third of the book is taken up with her overview of the cards, sometimes just a couple of lines of text recycling what a Little White Book might say, accompanied by a monochrome photograph of the card. Unfortunately, the Llewellyn deck doesn't easily lend itself to monochrome representation: the result is that an awful lot of detail is lost.

I've only read this book once - I intend to put it to one side and return to it in a few months' or a year's time - but I can honestly say that there are far better books available.