Product Description Archetypal Tarot: What Your Birth Card Reveals About Your Personality, Your Path, and Your Potential “A fantastic book that gives deep insights into your personality, life, and journey based on your birth card.” —Theresa Reed The tarot cards associated with your birth date and name form a pattern of personal destiny. They describe the theme of your life—the challenges and the gifts. In Archetypal Tarot, popular tarot practitioner and astrologer Mary Greer connects astrology and numerology to the tarot to create an in-depth personality profile that anyone can use for self-realization and personal harmony. Greer takes readers on a personal exploration of how the tarot can be used as a tool for learning more about themselves and others. The book includes: Detailed instructions, charts, and exercises on how to determine your soul and personality cards How to determine your year card and name card The opportunities and challenges you will face Journaling and exploratory exercises Archetypal Tarot is a valuable tool for anyone wishing to learn how to use the tarot to interpret their strengths, challenges, and innermost desires. All you need is a pen and your date of birth and you can learn to cast your own tarot chart.This book was previously published as Who Are You in the Tarot. This new edition includes a foreword by Theresa Reed, author of Tarot: No Questions Asked, and a new preface by the author. Praise for Archetypal Tarot “Whether you are a learned tarot practitioner or newbie reader, Ms. Greer work will surely shed new light on intricate, and often unseen, details of the cards. Her influence in the field cannot be overstated. So, I’m delighted she here is focusing on some of the most misunderstood cards in the deck, the court cards. By seeing sides of ourselves and the energy of others around us reflected in the ‘people’ cards, we gain a deeper level of understanding to our readings. Her techniques for exploring the multidimensional layers of the cards while utilizing them to plumb the depths of one’s own psyche are clear to grasp and accessible to all. I will forever be indebted to Mary K. Greer for sharing her wealth of tarot knowledge. Her books prepared me for a satisfying lifetime relationship with tarot. I consider her a mentor I’ve never met but for whom I am certainly grateful.” -- Rachel True, creator of True Heart Intuitive Tarot"I’d like to say that this is Mary K. Greer’s most important work, but everything she brings to the field of tarot is noteworthy. She is a dedicated scholar, and her innovative way of studying these 78 cards have changed the game time and time again. For anyone on the path to self-discovery, this book belongs on your shelf. I have no doubt that it won’t be long before my new edition becomes as well-worn as the previous ones.” -- from the foreword by Theresa Reed, the Tarot Lady, author of Tarot: No Questions Asked and other books.“Mary Greer’s brilliantly detailed exploration of people’s life ‘constellations’ found in the tarot takes us deep into the world of the cards so that we may discover ourselves. Working intimately with the cards of our birth date, we do not just set up a series of structures, but instead create a vibrant dialogue with life’s possibilities.” -- Rachel Pollack, author of Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom“This book has lived at the top of the stack in my tarot library since the 1980’s. Both workbook and guidebook, it is an essential, user friendly read for those looking to pinpoint and synchronize their life with the cards." -- Carrie Paris, creator of The Relative Tarot“Greer's Who Are You in the Tarot (here republished as Archetypal Tarot) is a timeless guidebook for introspection that will broaden a beginner's understanding of the cards and deepen a seasoned reader's work with the tarot. To acclimate myself with a new tarot deck, I'll work through exercises from this book and every time I gain insights that further advance my self-awareness. This is a must-have on your personal bookshelf." -- Benebell Wen, author of Holistic Tarot More Info You are embarking on an adventure with this book as your guide. This is a magical journey, illuminated by what I call the tarot constellations. The universe that we gaze at in the night sky above us was first mapped into meaningful groups by the ancient Chaldeans, “the sky gazers,” six centuries before Christ. In the West, we identified these groups as constellations; named them for mythical beings, animals, and objects; and told stories about them that served as guides to the meaning and purpose of life. Similarly, the tarot deck is another map of consciousness evolved by our predecessors and transmitted to us, in which we now chart the journey of our Self. A semi-mythical philosopher by the name of Hermes Trismegistus described the relationship between the inner and outer universe like this: That which is above is like that which is below and that which is below is like that which is above, to achieve the wonders of the one thing. Called the Hermetic axiom, this phrase is central to all alchemical and metaphysical philosophy and the key to an understanding of the use of symbols such as the tarot. Consider, however, that the astronomical and astrological constellations are not actually connected star systems; they are imagined collections of points of light, some originating relatively near us and some far more distant, that appear related only from our personal viewing platform, which we call Earth. Because of our own inner need for personal meaning, humans throughout history have projected our own consciousness upon the night sky in the form of complex patterns and pictures. Nevertheless, the meaning we find in them is completely valid: When we gaze at the stars, we see ourselves clearly. As author Joseph Chilton Pearce has aptly said, “Man’s mind mirrors a universe that mirrors man’s mind.” 288 pp. Paperback About the Author Mary K. Greer is an independent scholar, writer, teacher, and professional tarot consultant. She has an MA in English literature from the University of Central Florida where she also first taught tarot in 1974. For eleven years, she was a teacher and administrator at New College of California in San Francisco. In 2007, Mary received the International Tarot Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Tarot Studies. She also received the 2006 Mercury Award from the Mary Redman Foundation for excellence in communication in the metaphysical field, and the 2006 Coalition of Visionary Resources award for best divination book. Mary is an ordained priestess in the Fellowship and Church of Isis. Visit her at marykgreer.com.
