The Mysteries of Tarot
by Kirsten Weiss
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GENRE: Contemporary Mystery/Suspense
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BLURB:
The Mysteries of Tarot: A Work of the Imagination
How
to Read the Cards for Transformation
When
Tarot reader Hyperion Night sent his manuscript, The Mysteries of Tarot, to a
friend to edit, it was a simple guide to reading Tarot. Hyperion couldn’t
anticipate that his editor’s notes would evolve into a murder mystery, or that
his friend would go missing. Shockingly, the annotated manuscript eventually
made its way back to Hyperion, who forwarded it to the authorities.
Now
this astonishing Tarot guide is available as a book. The Tarot guidebook
features:
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Tarot basics―How to manage different interpretations of cards in a spread, how
to read court cards, and a clear and simple method for dealing with reversals.
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Detailed card breakdowns― Keywords, flash non-fiction narratives, and a deep
dive into the symbols of each of the 78 cards of the Major Arcana and Minor
Arcana.
•
Questions to apply to the cards for transforming your life―Insightful questions
for each card to help you dig deeper into your Tarot reading practice.
Bonus
feature: the guidebook also includes his editor’s comments on the more esoteric
and philosophical interpretations of the Tarot, as well as his notes on the
baffling mystery that engulfed him.
Gain
deep insight from the cards, transform yourself, and solve The Mysteries of
Tarot with this work of experimental fiction that’s part Tarot guidebook, part
murder mystery.
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Excerpt One:
The Moon
Messages from the unconscious. Mystery. Confusion. Dreams.
Illusion.
Last night, I dreamt of a departed aunt I’d had a
contentious relationship with. She walked down the hallway of my apartment and
sat beside me in the living room.
Suddenly I remembered she was dead and understood I was
dreaming. But instead of the dream ending, like it usually does when I become
aware, we talked—the kind of talk we’d never been able to have when she was
alive. She apologized for some things she’d said and done and helped me
understand why she’d said and done them. And her reasons weren’t awful. They
made a lot of sense.
I apologized too, because I hadn’t been innocent in the turn
our relationship had taken. We forgave each other. I woke up feeling lighter.
Free.
The Symbols
I’m still not sure if it was “only” a lucid dream or a
visitation from my relative. I don’t know if it matters. It was all very lunar,
very moonlike. And not just because the Moon card can represent dreams. Moons
with their waxing and waning also represents illusion and confusion, messages
from the subconscious crawling up out of the muck like that lobster creeping
from the water in the card. A dog and a wolf, representing the refined
conscious and the more primitive subconscious, howl at the moon’s light.
And all of those things had been at play in my life. I’d
created a false—or at least incomplete—story in my mind of the cause of my
estrangement from my relative (illusion/confusion). But the truth bubbled up
from my subconscious in last night’s dream. If it hadn’t, I’d still be carrying
that burden.
What Does This Card Mean for You?
When the Moon card appears in a Tarot reading, it suggests
we may not be seeing things clearly. But the truth is out there — or in there,
as the case may be.
How can you bring your subconscious impulses or knowledge
into conscious light? The road between the two towers in the card is long,
dark, and winding. Have patience. Be brave.
Notes: The Moon
44 As to The Moon, I feel like I’m swimming in it. At first
my father’s death seemed like an accident, a fall from the balcony outside his
bedroom. He’s been drinking more than usual lately. But the servants swear he
wasn’t drinking that night. And the balcony railing is low. He could have
fallen by accident.
I keep replaying our last conversation. Had he been thinking
then of taking his own life? Was that why he’d come to see me? Because he knew
I’d been a failure when I’d tried my hand at self-deletion? Maybe he wanted me
to talk him out of it?
I don’t understand. But I’ll try to keep up with the daily
edits, where I feel I have something to add. I need to keep my mind busy. -T
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There’s just something intriguing
about a deck of Tarot cards. Is it the arcane symbolism? The gorgeous art? The
whiff of the occult?
Initially, my interest in the Tarot
was casual. I was a college student, and somehow I got hold of a deck. Later, I
began to study the cards in earnest. This opened up a rabbit hole of western
esotericism. Tarot is connected to Neoplatonism, alchemy, Grail quest, and
more. And each of those is connected to other, deeper strands of magical and
mystical thought.
But I confess, my interest was
never wholly academic. The cards can be useful. At a low point in my life, I
had a Tarot reading that gave me hope, something to look forward to. (And
remarkably, the predictions came true).
My fictional Tarot reader, Hyperion
Night, says Tarot is an amazing tool for self-development. The cards depict
archetypes from our universal unconscious. They allow us to tap directly into
our subconscious and superconscious knowledge. The psychologist Carl Jung did
most of his work with synchronicity and archetypes around the I Ching
and alchemy, but he wrote about Tarot too.
Now, over thirty years after
picking up my first deck, I’ve written The Mysteries of Tarot, a book of
experimental fiction that’s part Tarot guidebook, part murder mystery. It’s a
sort of addition to my Tea and Tarot cozy mystery series, and ostensibly written
by my fictional Tarot reader/amateur sleuth, Hyperion Night.
The premise is Hyperion’s sent off
his Tarot manuscript to a friend for editing. But when he gets the edits to his
guidebook back, Hyperion discovers a murder mystery woven through the comments…
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Kirsten Weiss writes laugh-out-loud, page-turning mysteries, and now a Tarot guidebook that’s a work of experimental fiction. Her heroes and heroines aren’t perfect, but they’re smart, they struggle, and they succeed. Kirsten writes in a house high on a hill in the Colorado woods and occasionally ventures out for wine and chocolate. Or for a visit to the local pie shop.
Kirsten is best
known for her Wits’ End, Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum, and Tea &
Tarot cozy mystery books. So if you like funny, action-packed mysteries with
complicated heroines, just turn the page…
You can find
Kirsten at www.KirstenWeiss.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/SBPM_Museum
Buy links – The
Mysteries of Tarot:
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C18BKGXB
Barnes &
Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-mysteries-of-tarot-kirsten-weiss/1143066958
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Kirsten_Weiss_The_Mysteries_of_Tarot?id=Thq3EAAAQBAJ
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-mysteries-of-tarot
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6447194167
Author Website:
https://bit.ly/tarotmysteries
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