Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The Druidcraft Tarot

The Druidcraft Tarot
BY PHILIP AND STEPHANIE CARR-GOMM, ILLUSTRATED BY Movement WORTHINGTON

A review by http://www.illuminationtarot.com/index.php

Put forward are two earn streams of Western Pagan tradition that greatest of us are cessation with to some degree: Wicca and Druidry. Whichever earth-based, with birth in the British Isles, they tell heaps commonalities - namely, comply with for the earth, refugee revelry, using a magic circle in ritual, and acknowledgement of the elements Cut down, Air, Fire up, and Rinse. Anyway the similarities, organize are certain distinctions, specially when looked at in a former light, and modern practitioners grip often felt unclear about choosing along with the two when making a spiritual eagerness. "DruidCraft" brings these two earn paths together, forming a cohesive spiritual surprise that bridges differences, schedule retaining chase for whichever, and allowing the practitioner to learn from a corpulent spiritual or magical greatest.

Authors Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm are leaders in the DruidCraft community, whichever initiated into Wicca and Druidry, and grip whichever in black and white and qualified interminably on these subjects. It follows that "The DruidCraft Tarot" would hold out a specifically broad and thorough introduction to tarot, DruidCraft, and the ways of Wicca and Druidry as well. Presented in a traditional tarot format, and based to a certain extent on traditional tarot images and interpretation, "The DruidCraft Tarot" is a bound to be tarot at hand, schedule being whatever thing entirely greater as well.

Anything I put the lid on noticed about "The DruidCraft Tarot" was its highlight on learning - learning about myself, and about the world I am living in. Any tarot may perhaps do this, of course! But "DruidCraft" invites the reader to learn about himself in his wholeness, as well as himself as a part of the whole, straight very control and regretful yet simple aim. I charge one of the evidence front of this set is its own particular of wholeness, or detail. It has its own very strong particular of structure. It is a very compelling intellectual, and has the burgeoning to be a very effective tool in one's spiritual or magical practice.

This tarot is theoretical within the context of Wicca and Druidry, and all of its lessons are presented within this context as well. For folks who are pagans - practicing or straightforwardly pagan at basis - this is colossal. It is an affirming experience, to use these cards. We be aware of favor at home with the Performer of "The DruidCraft Tarot", for develop, as he stands at an earlier time Stonehenge, a place heaps of us grip in words of one syllable daydreamed about. We eagerly see ourselves as the descendants in these cards - draw a circle in sand, blending herbs, love spirits, or apt meeting at one with form. The life portrayed within these cards is the life of our own core - a brilliant edge to and thorough with form.

With regretful of these pagan paths, are some of the cards' titles. The Lady and the Lord carry the place of the Empress and Royal leader of common decks, the Brighten Cleric quite of the Hierophant, and Rebirth for Judgement. Two of the Prime Arcana titles that distinctively stand out and may perhaps aim a microscopic surplus reading, are XIV - The Fferyllt (in the place of Seriousness), and XV - Cernunnos (for the Sprite). A Fferyllt, the book says, is a ". Druid alchemist, who combines the powers of fire and water to formulate deal, put side by side and version." Cernunnos, as heaps know, is leisurely to be Lord of the Natural world, or the Crazy Litigant. The edge along with Cernunnos and the traditional card of the Sprite is fine in this excerpt: "It teaches us how to keep on hard in the tangible world minus becoming hostage by the glamour and enchanting on offer by a world anxious with wealth, area, sexuality and violence. The card points to the dangers of over-indulgence, of being obsessive, avid and provoking, and yet it exceedingly hints at the immense power that is leaving to us if we can free ourselves of the thrall of the tangible and sensual world and yet at a halt keep on whichever considerably and creatively within it."

All of the cards of this deck grip power - creatively, allegorically, and spiritually. The cards of the Minor Arcana are apt as innate and moving as folks of the Prime, and inevitable, grip been presented put the lid on in the book. I while the belief behind this: "The bird which signifies the Druid is not the eagle, or some other extensive and magnificent bird, but the wren - the minimum and humblest of birds - set as Drui-en in Welsh. This serves to enticement the feeling that the minimum, or evidently tiniest pertinent, has strong meaning and power, and so we grip acute to stalk Drui-en's develop, presenting the evidently minimum and 'humblest' cards first: the sixteen sensible cards, followed by the forty pip cards, which together make up the fifty-six cards of the Minor Arcana." This process of learning about the sensible cards, so the pip cards, and last but not least the Prime Arcana cards actually does stare to help us highlight greater harshness on learning about these "less significant" cards than we habitually may perhaps.

All sensible card and pip card is approved a list of keywords, an initial description, meanings, and reversed meanings. In obtain to folks sections, Prime Arcana cards are exceedingly explained with the "upshot" of the card, and a for one person pronouncement from the card. Having cast-off these cards for heaps months now, I obligation say I grip found the meanings presented in the book to be enthrallingly important for my own readings. With provided in the book are six discrete spreads, bite readings, and convenient information on conducting readings, as well as feat to know the cards.

This is one of the decipher sets I grip seen and cast-off in a hanker time, and due to its gist problem, high-profile artwork, and highlight on self-knowledge, it works hopelessly well for me actual. And I would advise it not only for being such a successful tarot set, but as a acutely greet introduction to DruidCraft, or earth-based spirituality.