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Strengthen Your Witchcraft Through the Cards
Immerse yourself in the magic of tarot as Lilith Dorsey introduces you to the many ways it can complement your witchcraft. Taking you beyond simple card meanings, this book offers culinary recipes, immersive meditations, effective spells, engaging crafts, insightful spreads, and much more. With hundreds of tips and activities, this extensive guide is full of inspiration for every magical practitioner.
Explore important symbolism with two art samples for each card, one from the classic Tarot Original 1909 and the other from one of several modern Rider-Waite-Smith-style decks. Discover ways to combine tarot and magic with an extensive array of correspondences, including crystals, herbs, animals, astrology, and musical notes. Lilith also provides step-by-step instructions for making altars, shrines, and crystal grids to help empower your deck and your life.
Drawing from decades of experience as a diviner, anthropologist, and priestess, Lilith provides a myriad of ways to weave card energies into your magic.
Includes words of wisdom from notable tarot authors and professionals Courtney Alexander, Bernadette Montana, Dorothy Morrison, Mat Auryn, Deborah Lipp, and Andrieh Vitimus
Contents
Contents
Spells and Recipes—xiii
Card Spreads—xvii
Foreword by Silver RavenWolf—xix
Introduction—1
Chapter One: Into, Around, and Deep Down into Tarot—9
Chapter Two: The Fool—19
Chapter Three: The Magician—27
Chapter Four: The High Priestess—35
Chapter Five: The Empress—43
Chapter Six: The Emperor—51
Chapter Seven: The Hierophant—57
Chapter Eight: The Lovers—65
Chapter Nine: The Chariot—73
Chapter Ten: Strength—81
Chapter Eleven: The Hermit—89
Chapter Twelve: Wheel of Fortune—97
Chapter Thirteen: Justice—105
Chapter Fourteen: The Hanged Man—113
Chapter Fifteen: Death—121
Chapter Sixteen: Temperance—127
Chapter Seventeen: The Devil—133
Chapter Eighteen: The Tower—141
Chapter Nineteen: The Star—149
Chapter Twenty: The Moon—157
Chapter Twenty-One: The Sun—165
Chapter Twenty-Two: Judgement—171
Chapter Twenty-Three: The World—177
Chapter Twenty-Four: Wands—183
Chapter Twenty-Five: Cups—189
Chapter Twenty-Six: Swords—195
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Coins—201
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Choosing a Deck—207
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Your Cards and You—215
Chapter Thirty: Tarot Altars and Shrines—225
Chapter Thirty-One: Crystals, Herbs, and Gardens—239
Chapter Thirty-Two: Tarot Questions and Spreads—253
Conclusion: The End and the Beginning—267
Recommended Reading—269
Bibliography—271
Contributor Biographies—273
