This tarot deck is absolutely beautiful. It's the most beautiful deck I've seen so far. The pictures are dreamlike and full of symbolism. They have definite Indian and Native American influences - some of the pictures are clearly taken from a Native American setting, and the Indian influence is also clearly apparent, as in the Tower card, which is renamed Kali. I would definitely recommend this deck because of the pure beauty of it.
But if you're going to use this deck, I would suggest not using the meanings in the book that comes with it, but instead use more traditional meanings for the cards. A lot of the card meanings in the book bear only a passing resemblance to traditional… Read more
The author of this book does not seem to want to make himself liked by the teenagers who are reading his book. The whole book is very condescending towards teenagers, implying that teenagers are immature, naive, lazy, selfish, and ignorant. This doesn't seem to me to be a good way of getting your readers to listen to what you have to say. And what he has to say is not necessarily of much value. He makes statements that are dubious at best, such as that choosing someone to date is as random as choosing what to have for lunch. He is also very focused on monetary success and how to dedicate your life to making money, which, while it has its place, is not necessarily what everyone wants to… Read more
Journal writing is an area I've been interested in for quite awhile, and I've read several books on the subject. I was disappointed by this book. It spends a lot of time categorizing different kinds of journals, such as the log journal, the unsent letter journal, and the cathartic journal, but I couldn't fit my journal writing into any of the categories and thought that a better approach might be to combine several of the approaches into your journal, an idea which is only mentioned briefly near the end of the book. Such rigid categorization goes against my idea of what a journal should be - in addition to the many categories of journals, there is a section on setting up a journal schedule… Read more
