Tarot & Magic

by Donald Michael Kraig

a review by John Gilbert

Over the past seven years, I've watched Donald Michael Kraig mature into a wonderful and effective teacher at tarot conferences around the country. He's been a best-selling author for Llewellyns longer than I can remember. His Modern Magick is not only a Llewellyn best-seller, it's widely referred to as the magician's bible. In his latest book, Tarot & Magic (ISBN 07387-0185-8) published by Llewellyn, Don combines his best-selling way with words and his master teacher skills to produce a truly remarkable tarot book for beginners and experts alike.

If you know nothing about magic, you'll find this book to be invaluable in helping you create talismans, amulets, spells and performing effective magic. If you're a master magician, you'll find ways to improve your skills and methods for teaching others to do magic quickly and competently. If you know next to nothing about tarot, you'll find this book a great tool for learning all about your cards. I dare say even tarot experts will learn a thing or two as well.

You'll learn how to use tarot cards as magic and to create magic rituals, talismans and amulets. You'll learn how to use the tarot in pathworking and astral travel. You'll learn how to dance the tarot and help your clients do the same thing. We're not talking polka here, it's more like walking through one card and into another. You'll even learn a little basic ceremonial magic.

There's no hocus pocus here. Don's no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is approach to magic is easy to understand and even easier to replicate. he doesn't ask you a memorize a lot of things. Rather he asks you to understand the process and then create your own magic. There's one caveat: You can probably read this book several dozen times and get very little out of it. Or, you can follow his instructions, create your own rituals and be doing magic before you finish the second chapter. You'll have the same opportunity for the next seven chapters.

I've been creating spells, talismans and amulets for years. I've been pathworking and astral traveling for years. I've taught hundreds and hundreds of people how to do these things. I've learned a lot from this book and my next class will be using it as their textbook. That's how much I value Tarot & Magic by Donald Michael Kraig. I recommend it to you without any reservation whatsoever. Now I've got to do a divination to see if my planned talisman will have a positive effect or not. That's one of Don's suggestions I really, really like.

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