The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

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There’s a generalization about spies with the Queen of Wands that says spies don’t actually seek out information, it just happens to find them, and that spies only do the job because it’s exciting (which falls apart if you think about people who spy because they want a fascist regime taken down… it’s all about the thrill babey! There’s divination by the shapes of clouds, the shapes of the facets of gemstones, the entrails of a sacrificed pigeon or rabbit.

A hip, accessible, and practical guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration in the tradition of The Secret Language of Birthdays and Steal Like an Artist . Crispin’s interpretation of each card focuses on its relationship to the creative process—touching on burnout, creative block, hyperfocus on passion projects, and more.The final chapters discuss reading the cards, various ‘spreads’–how to lay the cards out–and how to interpret them. Crispin is wonderfully intelligent and has a pragmatic approach to tarot that’s accessible for many, especially those who don’t feel comfortable identifying as spiritual or interested in divination or the occult. This idea is the center of this book so each and every card is compared to storytellers – artists, actors, authors, and so on.

You can imagine Crispin sharing her stories with you personally and get drawn into her unique perspective and personality. But for daily card draws, for creativity questions, things of that nature, it’s pretty easy to read for yourself. And The Creative Tarot was a perfect first book on the topic for me to figure out how the cards can be useful for me.As a tarot reader, the book provides insight clearly that you might spend weeks, months, or even years to come up with on your own. That intellectuals of the 1930s and 1940s who supported Stalinism and totalitarianism didn’t really know what totalitarianism was. I picked this up based on Heidi The Hippie Librarian's review, as well as on the strength of the title, 'A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life. One card represents you and tells you who you are as the protagonist; others say what’s happening to you, what did happen to you, what will happen. Since the book’s not about your common understanding of the cards, it’s not afraid to hash out some truths – the Lovers as a terrible card, for example.