Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards Paperback – Illustrated, June 13, 2017

Beloved literary iconoclast Michelle Tea reinvents tarot for a brand new era on this information to utilizing the Tarot as a twenty-first-century instrument for connecting with our larger selves.

Lengthy earlier than Michelle Tea was successful 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 fame as a author grew, she stopped publicly studying the Tarot, although she by no means stopped doing it privately. Primarily based on over twenty-five years of expertise and a deep and abiding love of the playing cards, Fashionable Tarot brings the complete power of Tea’s distinctive perception, inviting pop sensibility, and depraved humor to bear on the custom of the Tarot in an interesting journey via the playing cards that teaches us how you can use this custom for radical self-growth.

Whether or not you’re a dyed-in-the-wool seeker or a digital-age skeptic—or a little bit of each—the ability of tarot is open to you. Fashionable Tarot doesn’t require you to consider within the supernatural or to focus narrowly on utilizing the tarot as a divination instrument. As a substitute, it presents fiercely insightful descriptions of every of the seventy-eight playing cards within the tarot system (each totally illustrated by Amanda Verwey) and specifically designed rituals to information readers on a path towards transformative private progress.

Grounded in Tea’s many years of tarot knowledge and private expertise, this can be a information that freshmen will fall in love with and skilled readers will study from anew. Together with her trademark one-of-a-kind perception and wit, Tea reveals how tarot presents moments of deep, genuine connection throughout a time when “connection” is ubiquitous however hardly ever delves beneath the floor—and the way the affirming and private nature of the Tarot presents a religious expertise that’s light, particular person, and aspirational.