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Reviews of: It’s in the Cards: Excavating the Authentic Self Using the Tarot as a Guide:
Jeanne Lloyd www.starlark.com
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is working on self discovery. This book is so much more than a fortune telling book. It gives a profound and in depth look into your very soul with the archetypes represented by each of the 22 major arcana of the tarot that are connected to each age period of our individual life. Symbolism is explained and how to find your own (if you wish making your own tarot deck) This book is a workbook and a reference that I keep close by. It has given me so much meaning to the events of my life that have surfaced with a spiritual understanding behind the meaning of them. I continue to be amazed at how much there is to discover and uncover or "excavate" even now at age 70 and beyond. I wish that It had been written when I was younger.
Thank You Aine for your gift!
Linda Flowers Norton, Reiki Master/Teacher 1989, CMT, 1990, Owner of Linda Norton Pet Sitting Service and all things about healing animals!
As a Reiki Master/Teacher and a Certified Massage Therapist, I got this book, fell in love with it, and while reading it remembered you NEVER stop learning, exploring the soul through Tarot, what a cool concept, the book walks you through how to really change your life course, it reminds us of who we really are, in a wonderful bunch of moments, I have so many places in this book that I have highlighted, and as I re-read it I am learning more again, that is the beauty of Aine's writing, you can read this book, put it down and pick it up another time and learn something you didn't get the first time. I love this book and can not wait to read the next one.
Aine has amazing talents and writing is at the top of the list, she is smart, funny, and very evolved.
Anonymous, barnesandnoble.com
This book will give you an good understanding of yourself ,life and an insight to others . You will be able to relate to many subjects and 'human' growth or stagnation in this book. Its very clear how this relates to you. .It gave me understanding and knowledge to see where certain people are and learn from that for my self where I need to work on or am going. It is pleasantly written ,easy to understand.It gives you ideas and tips how to go about making your own cards. Even if the cards and making them is not for you the book is. It is a guide . The energy from Aine comes through the book. If you ever have the chance to meet Aine at a booksigning or event I can hihgly recommend it.The book does not come close to Aine's wisdom and energy. She also has a very nice website worth checking out.
From the back cover:
It's in the Cards: Excavating the Authentic Self Using the Tarot as a Guide, explores the deeper meaning of the twenty-two cards of the tarot known as the major arcana, the archetypes they symbolize, and their connection to the higher consciousness of the authentic self.
Author Aine Butler shares insight into the symbolism of the major arcana and the relationship they have in representing not only major archetypes, but developmental stages throughout and beyond a physical lifetime as well. Each card is explained in detail and then related to the stage of development represented. It's in the Cards offers information that will guide through the process of connecting to the authentic self, including:
- Finding one's purpose
- Relationships and the role they play
- Facing up to choices
- Rediscovering lost or abandoned skills and talents
- Exploring the "mid-life" crisis
- Being a co-creator
- Overcoming limitations and fears connected to aging and change
- Understanding the inner processes that affect outer events
It's in the Cards also offers instructions for creating a deck; making it an all around valuable guide to be used throughout a lifetime.
Aine Butler RMT, CHT, is a Reiki Master, a clinical hynotherapist, and an intuitive counselor. Ms. Butler is also an educator, writer, and blogger on a variety of metaphysical subjects. She currently resides in Nevada with her family. (updated)
Excerpt from the book:
I used to be a fortune teller. I started my interests as a fortune teller with astrology before moving on to the tarot. Through the use of these tools I found a way to reflect my innate ability to connect with others on deeper levels. I have always been able to "see the light" so to speak within others, and in fact the study of astrology and sun signs allowed me to put what I was seeing in others into something more concrete and translatable. This was satisfying on the level that it allowed me to make some sense out of what I was experiencing with my natural abilities to in a sense "know" things about others, but over time it became clear to me that the sun sign was only addressing the basics, not only in addressing an individual's consciousness but in addressing what I was intuiting as well. I found the same to be true in my superficial readings of the tarot.
Further study into these subjects allowed me to delve deeper, giving me richer and more detailed associations to put to what I was feeling in my relations to others; then I began to see a familiar theme unfold - I seemed to be experiencing the same or at least very similar experiences in growth and development as those I was doing readings and charts for. I came to the realization that I was learning as much about myself through the use of these tools as I was learning about others, and what I was intuiting about others. I began to see that my "special" talent was more involved with being able to remain open to the interconnectedness of all, rather than being able to see into others and read their minds and their fortunes. What I was experiencing was much bigger and deeper than the issues and fortunes of the individual and had more far reaching implications than a singular interpretation of one possible direction of and individual's life.