a review by Solaris, CPTR

This is a tarot book that doesn't have the key words and explanations section at the beginning or in the index. The author wrote this book for advanced readers who want to take tarot to another dimension. Past-Life and Karmic Tarot has 25 spreads, each of which is a chapter containing a sample reading. Card meanings are discussed in relationship to their positions in the spreads instead of as a section on just key words.

The author discusses suits as being Wands and Earth-feminine, and Fire and Air-masculine. The Constellation Wheel Spread adds Draco, Pegasus, Cetus and Ursa Major to the planets. Draco is House 8/Scorpio, dealing with temper and determination. Pegasus is House of Self, Air/Earth dealing with managing hopes, fears and dreams. Cetus is House 2/Aries, Water/Air dealing with adaptability. Ursa Major is House 5, Water/Fire dealing with the home. A bonus to this book that will take an intermediate reader to an advanced level is Edain McCoy's chapter on Entering the Tarot Cards and How to Self Regress to the influencing past life.

This is not a tarot book that will be an easy overnight read. Past-Lives and Karmic Tarot ( ISBN 073870508X) is a serious work, one that if practiced, will give you a whole new dimension to using the Tarot. You can take your past-life knowledge and turn it into positive action. Positive action creates wisdom and wisdom can untie karmic bonds. Our spirits intertwine with all others, and what moves one thread on the web vibrates throughout the entire web and affects all of us.

Whether you believe in past-lives and karma or not, this tarot book can help you gain the ability to view past lives through the cards. Once informed of a past-life's possible influences on your present question, and with the cards to view in the present in front of you, you will see explanations as to how you got to where you are now, and who and what influenced you along the way. For those of us who feel that seeing is believing, the tarot cards, with the spreads in this book, will lay out a picture of where you might have been and who and what might have been the influencing factors then who are surrounding your present question. Edain McCoy accomplishes the art of transformation through past-life information with the aid of the Tarot in her spreads in this book:

The Growth Over Three Lifetimes Spread uses three rows of four pairs of cards--Physical, Astral, Mental, and Spiritual. These three rows may be past present, future or two past lives and now, or three separate past lives. Cards to look for in same the row or in pairs are Judgment and Hanged Man-indicate karmic balance has been reached; Hierophant and Moon -- secrets, hidden things and false friends; and Wheel and Death-fluctuating highs and lows and profound change. The Elemental Spread uses directional positions.

The Feng Shui Spread will prove useful in ferreting out information about where you got or if you had wealth, what your reputation may have been, when/where/who you had relationships with, and your career in that lifetime.

If you are serious about exploring past lives, (once in awhile a reader will get a querent with such a question) and want to explore them in depth, this book is for you. Read through and try the spreads. You won’t be disappointed and your perspective may shift. I recommend adding Past Lives and Karmic Tarot to the collections of advanced and professional readers.

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