Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance and Growth

Aside from the Little Red Tarot's guide "All of Our Stories", I rank this as the best tarot guide I've come across. I love the artwork and the essay for each card that leads you into a mindset of self-care and positive change. You don't need a Rider Waite deck (the full-page card artwork covers that!) and I find the book works well with any deck available. For those who value tarot as a way to look inwards, there is nothing better available on Amazon.

I really like this book- her background in psychology and social work feeds into her unique exploration of the tarot. If you like using your tarot cards as a tool for introspection, this book is for you!

Great emotional education. A different prism through which life can be understood.

This book arrived in new condition however it is missing pages 53-86.

I love a Tarot book as it is always interesting to hear what other Taroists can bring to the table. Tarot for Change starts out promising, there are some fairly interesting insights into the Major Arcana. However, by the time it hits the Minor Arcana, it very quickly slips into essay form. The author sets out to prove their hypothesis by endless quotes from other sources, references to psychologists no one has ever heard of and endless acronyms for various psychological therapies, and yet none of them quite fit. The tone is didactic and academic which is odd because the tarot is an intuitive tool. Above all, it lacks heart, you almost feel the author is using the Tarot on which to hang their psychology thesis. The section on using the Tarot is short and I'm not really sure people need to be told how to shuffle cards. If you're looking for a Tarot book with heart and soul, choose one by Mary K. Greer, Rachel Pollack or Ellen Goldberg.Disappointing.

I don’t write reviews. Usually. But this book had such an impact on me, I had to. I’ve read many books on tarot, most of them are good, some are great, while some others are a journey into spiritual awakening as much as a self-help guide. I would put Tarot for Change in the same category of books as Rachel Pollack’s books (the one that comes to mind is « A Walk through the Forest of Souls »). That’s how high esteem I have in Jessica Dore’s Tarot for Change book.

Un pasticcio di spiritualità e pseudo psicologia senza né capo né coda. Se volete leggere un testo competente su psicologia e tarocchi, leggete "Gli arcani della vita", di Claudio Widmann. Restituito

I've had my tarot cards for over 50 years and I was curious about this book, and it had good reviews (why?)I have also been an art therapist and worked for many years in acute psychiatry (now retired).The author just used the framework of the tarot cards to hang her own philosophies of psychiatry/psychology/therapy on. It was truly awful to read for me, and was without any spiritual or kind human emotions, although I can see she worked really hard on the 'hanging'.I felt that she used a popular theme just to sell more of 'her', and even though I can perceive that she is essentially a helpful person, she has a lot to learn.I don't read the cards for money and never have....only for friends.They are amazing and I would give a free reading to the author if she so desired. Much love, and keep writing but please don't use other, age old sources to push your own.

This is one of the best tarot books, if not the best one at all, I read in the last years.Highly recommended for all those interested in tarot !

I've been reading Tarot since I first learned to ride a bike and over the past 40 years I've read many books on the cards. I usually go back to Waite's fundamental book (The Pictorial Key) and to the works by Eden Gray and Rachel Pollack. It really takes a lot for me to be taken aback by anything new being published on Tarot cards. And then enter this book..... Tarot For Change.I was absolutely shocked and amazed by how much I love this book. It's absolutely incredible. The author did an amazing job synthesizing Tarot, theories of psychology, and linking them with modern/current methods of behavioral and cognitive studies. This book has blown open my Tarot practice and brought in fresh new perspective for which I am grateful.I also have this book for Kindle on my phone for reading while traveling and on Audibles for when I'm driving about doing errands. There is SO much to absorb over the course of multiple readings of this title. I truly recommend this book to anyone looking for a modern and relevant practice of Tarot that's based on applicable methodologies and not just woo woo and unicorns.