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Review: Tarot For Your Self (35th Anniversary Edition)

Review: Tarot For Your Self (35th Anniversary Edition)

Last updated on: September 13, 2019 at 6:37 pm by Mat Auryn

Review: Tarot For Your Self (35th Anniversary Edition) 2019-09-13T18:37:55+00:00 Mat Auryn

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Tarot For Yourself By Mary K. Greer

Today there’s an endless sea of tarot books. This is both amazing and overwhelming for those just starting out to learn about tarot, specifically the Rider-Waite-Smith deck and its countless derivatives. However, there are few books that are titans in this category with such a huge historical impact. Tarot For Your Self: A Workbook for the Inward Journey by Mary K. Greer is hands-down one of them. When I first began using tarot early in High School, I relied on “The Little White Book” that came with the deck. This led to a lot of vagueness and confusion about what my readings for others meant. Likewise, I could never interpret my readings for myself clearly. I tried a few other books and they just led to more confusion. Then I finally got my hands on Tarot For Yourself, which then became my tarot Bible and helped me to connect with the cards on a personal level with clarity. It’s still the first book I recommend to people asking which book they should read to learn tarot.

Tarot For Your Self was one of the first books (if not the first book) to take a look at the tarot as an introspective spiritual tool, an idea that is not only popular now, but taken as a given. Throughout the book you’re not only taught about the tarot and its meaning, but you’re also given exercises and asked introspective questions based on the card and its meaning. Through this method the tarot begins to unlock for you as a reader, as you begin building a personal connection with the cards and increase your understanding of what that card means in divination. Greer brought an intuitive approach to the tarot without neglecting or dismissing its rich esoteric symbolism or the “traditional” cartomancy of tarot readings.

The 35th anniversary edition of Tarot For Your Self presents this influential classic in a new beautiful cover with “french flaps.” It includes the 20th year preface as well as a new 35th anniversary preface. Also included is a new introduction by Benebell Wen where she shares her own experience with this tarot classic and its influence. If you’re looking to learn how to make tarot truly a tool that feels personalized, this is the book for you. It’s one of those books that everyone who reads tarot should own, period. In fact, if you bought and owned only one tarot book, this is still my recommendation.

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About Mat Auryn

Mat Auryn is a witch, professional psychic, and occult teacher throughout the New England. He is the author of 'Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide To Meditation, Magick, and Manifestation'. He is a High Priest in the Sacred Fires Tradition of Witchcraft. As a psychic witch, Mat has had the honor and privilege of studying under some of the most prominent witchcraft teachers, elders, and witchcraft traditions. He runs the blog For Puck’s Sake on Patheos Pagan, is a content creator for Modern Witch, has a column in Witches & Pagans Magazine entitled 'Extra-Sensory Witchcraft', and a column in Horns Magazine. He has been featured in various magazines, radio shows, podcasts, books, anthologies, and other periodicals. You can read more about the author here.

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