Good mornign, pornies! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I just finished reading Fearless Tarot: How to Give a Positive Reading in Any Situation, by Elliot Adam, a book that made me re discover this tool that has been helping me for several years now. Although I don't see tarot cards as something evil, negative or dangerous, this book makes you think again about several meanings. Thanks to the publisher for sending me a review copy!
- Print Length: 336 pages.
- Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (October 8, 2020).
- Publication Date: October 8, 2020.
- Genres: Divination, Magic, Paganism, Tarot, Witchcraft.
- Rating: 4 / 5 stars.
Transcend your fear of negative cards with this beginner-friendly guide to the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot. Using his engaging and easy-going style, Elliot Adam teaches you how to move through the shadows and into the light no matter what card you pull.We’ve all been there: hoping for the best as we draw a card…but oh no, it’s the Devil! This book shows you that fear won’t prevail—every card can become something positive. Elliot helps you find the courage to tackle any reading by explaining both upright and reversed meanings in a constructive way. His approach features unique spreads and interpretations, and he encourages you to use your inner wisdom to start an uplifting dialogue with your deck. Fearless Tarot provides everything you need to read tarot without fear.
This is book follows the format of a basic reading on tarot cards and their meanings, the focus in how to make the readings positive and healing oriented. You don't get a history or personal narritive about this deck, but new meanings and different sides to the ones you already knew, along with a few new readings spreads, along with suggestions and advice on the matter.
There were cards that surprised me, such as the infamuous 4 and 10 swords, along with the Devil, The Tower and 8 of Cups, among others. Adam makes a great work at finding a silver lining to each of the cards.While some of the meanings seemed a bit of stange due to my own opinions of their messages, but there's enough room to accomadte both in.
I did have a bit of a hard time with the long descriptions. Some of them felt longer than they should have been, at least for me, which made some of the segments loose their impact. I've always found it strange that the reversed meanings of th card are shorter than those for the upright card, and this book is one of those cass. While there is a bit of perosnal information here and there, most of the time to get to know meanings and their examples.
I would say Elliot Adam did a great job with Fearless Tarot: How to Give a Positive Reading in Any Situation, even more being his debut as a published author. It is innovative, interesting, atractive and easy to follow. It doesn't matter if you know about it or not, as I said at the beginning, but how open you are to learn something new.
About Elliot Adam:
Elliot began his professional tarot career at the age of 16. At the age of 20, he opened his own tarot shop, Athena’s Oracle, in Milwaukee. He received a Doctoral Degree in Classical Oboe before deciding to return his attention to his spiritual business roots. Elliot established his website, ElliotOracle.com and has since attracted a substantial international clientele including Hollywood scriptwriters, high-profile journalists, actors, doctors, and entrepreneurs. His success is rooted in his unique descriptions of traditional tarot symbolism as vehicles for personal empowerment.
Elliot’s Card of the Day blog has attracted a huge following and is currently among the first tarot definition search results on Google (especially for reversals). He’s currently completing a book based on his popular tarot interpretations and believes in taking tarot out of the realm of fear and into a place of understanding and empowerment. Elliot’s business, ElliotOracle.com, offers tarot readings for clients. Tarot is a language of pictures depicting universal archetypes. Twitter. Instagram. Youtube. Yelp.
Have you read this book? Would you recommend it or not? Let me know in the comments! Kinky regards, K!
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