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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
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Self-help, personal development & practical advice

TAROT FOR CHANGE

Jessica Dore

Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth

Access the transformative power of symbol and metaphor through a guide to tarot that incorporates insights from the fields of psychology and behavior change.

Symbols have been used in modern psychological work for generations, from the interpretation of fairytales to inkblot tests. Though tarot is often thought of as a tool for divination and fortune-telling, it too contains a set of symbols that hold the potential to unlock secrets of the human experience, from the esoteric to everyday life.

In Tarot for Change, Jessica Dore divulges years of hard-won secrets about how to work with tarot to better understand ourselves and live in alignment with what's precious. Dore shows readers how to choose a deck, interpret images, and build a relationship with the cards, while also demonstrating how the mythic imagery of tarot supports evidence-based therapeutic concepts like mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion. Her reflections on each of the seventy-eight cards are a vibrant tapestry that weaves together ideas from the fields of psychology, behavioral science, spirituality, and old stories, breathing new language into ancient wisdoms about what it means to be human.

This is as much a book for those who are new to tarot as it is for those who have worked with the cards for years. And it's a book for anyone interested in exploring what it means to experience joy, heartbreak, wonder, stagnation, grief, loneliness, love. A book of secrets, symbols, and stories, Tarot for Change is a charm for remembering that our problems are not new, we are never alone, and whether we know it or not, we are always in a process of change.

Jessica Dore is a licensed social worker, tarot reader, writer, and teacher. Jessica has studied and worked in the fields of psychology and behavioral science publishing since 2010 and holds a master's degree in social work. She spent six years at self-help and psychology book publisher New Harbinger Publications and two years as book reviews editor at Psych Central. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine; VICE; and Psych Central, and her unique approach to working with and interpreting tarot has been featured in The New York Times, The Cut, Vogue, Yoga Journal, and many more.

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Book Published 2021-10-26 by Penguin Life

Comments

I've long awaited a book like Tarot for Change... Jessica Dore brings you into the allegory, the storytelling, into the abstract as well the imaginal, while giving a condensed explanation of what each card has the potential to mean... This book is an incredibly important handbook for those invested in the ritual of tarot and healing. Particularly those who are hungry for change and want to break through patterns to see themselves a little more clearly, with Dore's help. I sincerely love this book.

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Tarot for Change is the very best kind of tarot book: one that contains magical hidden depths, and rewards careful readers with truly astounding wisdom and generosity. Jessica Dore combines ancient spirituality with modern psychology to share insights that feel both timeless and brand new. Tarot for Change will teach you about tarot, but also about yourself, and all the joy, heartache, and mystery of being human.

Dore offers up thoughtful life lessons inspired by the symbols and historical meaning of each card... [Dore has woven] a tapestry of ideas you're liable to return to, again and again.

UK: Hay House ; Russian: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber ; Spanish: V & R

Tarot for Change is an instant classic, a must-have for every tarot enthusiast, and a manifesto for insightful living. Jessica Dore is a lighthouse whose wisdom permeates every page and a teacher who brings to life her subject with undeniable skill and depth.

This is not so much a book as it is a collection of doorways. By uniquely cross-stitching spirituality, psychology, and behavioral science, Jessica Dore centers tarot as a practice to 'place us back into a mythic context.' Through her guidance, tarot becomes a verb, a sensitive conversation ripe with symbolism, possibility, and sacredness. Tarot for Change is a choose-your-own-adventure self-help book that eggs us on like a mischievous and wise best friend...

Jessica Dore has replicated (in wonderfully literary book form) the most expansive, juicy, intuitive, and transformative tarot session. She's integrated so much wisdom from all kinds of traditions to make the spiritual feel splendidly accessible and the universal feel warmly personal. For people who think they're not spiritual enough for tarot, Dore has created a very useful psychological framework from the card's lessons, with plenty of research and insight to back it up. For those who feel a little too woo-woo for psychology, she's presented the concepts with such artistry and soul that all will feel welcome. And that's the gift that Dore has given us in Tarot for Change: the gift of feeling more welcome to the tarot, more welcome on our healing journey, and more welcome in our own lives.

Tarot for Change won me over with its generous, practical, and gently radical advice. Dore repeatedly invokes the principles of dialectical behavior therapy (though she does not practice psychotherapy herself) and its emphasis on holding multiple, even apparently contradictory truths at once. 'Holding paradox,' she writes, 'remains the continual lesson of tarot.' No one and nothing is all good or all bad - no monster, no witch, not even ourselves.

Like all good mystics, Jessica Dore sits at the doorway between two worlds: She's both a licensed social worker and a professional reader and interpreter of the tarot... Tarot for Change isn't meant to be a manual or a how-to, exactly. It's a thought experiment, the opening of a dialogue, and a series of questions to be entertained. Change is itself a liminal space, the passage between here and there, and Dore's hope is that the book will help readers use their decks for deep exploration that's informed by both the ancient and the modern, and the mythic and the scientific.

With this practical, carefully referenced guide, Dore brings together the scientific and the arcane, two spheres long believed to be antithetical- - but increasingly less so... Even if magic is a leap too far, in 'reclaiming the imagination from the grips of doubt and rationalism,' tarot may at least allow us to imagine a better world: the first step to creating it.

Tarot for Change is a wondrously inviting book from a writer who envelops any reader - from the curious and the amateurish to the refined and masterly - into her prose and knowledge. Though this is a written document, the words are the kind that settle into the grooves of your spirit and encourage you to reconnect with the unseen in order to find new discoveries about what is seen.

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While tarot readers are fairly common online, Dore is unique in her methods, combining more traditional aspects of tarot reading with behavioral psychology. Her multi-disciplinary approach to the cards indeed adds new context to the avenues of healing and self-exploration that tarot has always offered, and the results are often exceptionally effective.