Did you know that tarot cards can have a rich and varied life outside of divination? They certainly do when you combine them with expressive arts activities such as writing, making art, and crafting.
In this book, you’ll learn how mixing tarot into the creative process is a fun and powerful way to stimulate your imagination. After all, each card is itself a mini artistic masterpiece, packed with symbolism and meaning. This makes them natural tools for developing self-awareness and personal transformation.
Whether beginner or advanced, if you have an interest in tarot you will find much to enjoy in this book. The nearly 100 activities and exercises will add quite another dimension to your experience with the cards.
This book will also be useful if you are a mental health professional or art teacher who uses the expressive arts in your practice. Inside, you will discover a wealth of creative and therapeutic ideas regarding how to incorporate tarot into the work you do with clients or students.
Very well written self help book. I enjoy the exercises in the book. It is neat how one can take tarot cards and use them for therapy. Love this book. Brilliant.
Tarot in a New Light! Wow! This is a totally different tarot book~full of exercises that really make you think! Im still working in it and I am thrilled to have something new to stretch my knowledge of tarot. Usually I comment to myself “you don’t need another tarot book” but this book I highly recommend to anyone working with the tarot, whether you are new to tarot or have been reading tarot forever! Thankx Andy! ps….I cant cut up any tarot cards but AI can certainly run off copies!!!
Gettin’ Busy with Tarot Andy Matzner, a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and Tarot reader, has written an excellent book of exercises and activities that allow you to dive deeper into your Tarot deck. For folks new to Tarot, it’s a great learning experience. For the more advanced, it opens the door to new levels of understanding.And some of this stuff is super fun, too.In the introduction, Matzner recounts his discovery of Tarot and the power of using it in combination with creative expression. He found there is a therapeutic aspect that can deliver self-awareness, personal insight, and positive growth.The introduction has quite a bit of information that you don’t want to miss such as an explanation of the categories, using the book, as well as tools and materials you’ll need.The exercises and activities are listed in three categories: 1) Conversation StartersHere, the cards show you how to get a dialogue started with another…