The neat thing about The Contemplative Tarot is that you can read it in order - and it has the line of a narrative arc to it, almost making it a little novel in some ways - or you can simply shuffle the deck you have, pick a card, and then flip to the corresponding chapter to read more about it. Thus, each chapter is broken down into a reproduction of an image of the card being talked about, an applicable Bible quote, Muller’s ruminations on what each card might mean, and a series of prompts for the reader to think about as they gaze at the card in their hands. The book looks at all 78 cards of the tarot deck and offers ways of looking at each card in a way that Christians can meditate on each. However, having now read this book, I can contend that it may prove to be very useful to some readers and may be a resource that they can consult again and again. The book purports that reading the tarot deck can be a therapeutic experience and, what’s more, the tarot deck has links to Christianity. So you could imagine my cynicism when Brittany Muller’s The Contemplative Tarot crossed my writing desk. Suffice it to say, that deck quickly gathered dust - I think its fate was that it was consigned to being placed in one of my parents’ yard sales, though I’m not exactly sure. I quickly realized that if I wanted to get any good at offering any divine interpretations, I would have to memorize what all 78 cards in the deck would mean to have any inkling of how to read into it. I was terrible at telling people’s futures. Well, as it would happen, things didn’t turn out that way. I was excited! Now I could see into the future and tell people what was going to happen to them, and maybe charge a pretty coin for the pleasure. Accompanying this gift was another present: a book on how to read the cards and tell fortunes.

When I was a teenager, I got a deck of tarot cards for my birthday. I have a story to tell if people would allow me the indulgence (as usual).

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