DESCRIPTION

From the tarot curious to the tarot savvy, Heart’s Compass Tarot provides a guide to using the tarot as a compass to navigate life, focus creativity, inspire writing, and forge a deeper connection to the self. Heart-centered, joy-based journaling questions (How do I love? How does my life force fill me? How do I communicate? How do I enjoy my body?) connect the tarot to the student’s past, present and future. Tarot journaling, a tarot timeline, and discovering living expressions of the tarot in the present world work together to reveal personal symbols for use in meditation, dreamwork, and creation of the student’s own unique cards. Cards created by other students, heart-based interpretations of traditional and original layouts, and a selection of tarot-inspired poems and essays open the riches of the tarot to deepen self-exploration and inspire creative work. Learn to create beginning layouts, team up with a tarot companion, dialogue with your own unconscious, or even write a tarot haiku. Heart’s Compass offers an innovative template for a lifetime of tarot improvisation, deepening intuition and awakening the student to joy, wise dreams, and inner gifts waiting to be shared. This is an 8.5" x 11" book in full color.

REVIEWS

“Heart’s Compass Tarot is a guide for a life filled with the peaceful pace of one who is in touch with their own Inner Knowing and aligned with their heart’s desire. Tania is a gifted writer, teacher and translator for the language of the tarot. She entices her readers into the world of symbols, creating art, and journaling so that we can unlock deeper mysteries within each of us. This workbook will help readers to discover their inner voice, the oracle within, and how the archetypes, symbols and personalities found in the tarot are guideposts for our life’s journey. Bring your open heart and allow this workbook to show you how to uncover, befriend, and transform the stories we tell ourselves. Heart’s Compass Tarot will help you fall in love with yourself again and again.” —Jamie Della, author of The Book of Spells

“Tania Pryputniewicz’s Heart’s Compass Tarot is a generous and joyful offering for anyone interested in, curious about, or immersed in the secrets, mystery and magic of the tarot. ‘You are the oracle,’ Tania writes and then, throughout this beautiful workbook, shares with us creative and imaginative paths into working with the tarot and creating our own tarot decks. ‘The first rule of the heart’s compass approach is self-love and compassion,’ and this book resonates with those very qualities. I can’t wait to begin the work.” —Judy Reeves, author of Wild Women, Wild Voices

“Heart’s Compass Tarot by Tania Pryputniewicz offers a stunning and thorough approach to the valuable use of tarot journaling and the creative use of tarot cards to explore fully all aspects of a personally creative life. Beautifully illustrated and brilliantly organized, Heart’s Compass Tarot presents innovative, contemporary and visionary techniques and strategies to both enlarge a user’s understanding of tarot cards and to apply tarot knowledge to a wide range of pursuits. In addition to chapters on interpreting cards and card spreads, Heart’s Compass Tarot offers ways to use tarot symbolism to explore numerous creative processes including art, poetry and improvisation. Of particular value is the author’s guidance to successful tarot analysis including the creation of personal cards that can embody deeply meaningful discoveries and reflections. If the tarot is a journey of the soul, then Heart’s Compass Tarot is its indispensable guide.” —William Haigwood, author and creator of The Counterculture Tarot

“I have to admit that I am a tarot dabbler. I’m fascinated by it, always amazed by the revelations I have when I do work with the cards, but I have never been able to develop the sustained practice that would bring me more familiarity and thus, more benefit from the tarot. That is, until now. After reading the Heart’s Compass Tarot I am confident that I will become a regular practitioner. I love the workbook format, the deep and stimulating questions for journaling, the art activities, the examples of the artwork, poems, journal entries of former students and the author. I found it refreshing that the author did not dictate which deck should be used, or that one must stick to the descriptions of what the cards supposedly mean in the interpretation books that come with the cards. Readers can feel free to experience the cards in their own unique ways and are encouraged to create their own decks and instructions for interpretation. Symbols may be universal, but the interpretations can sometimes be uniquely personal. I will be using this workbook for a long time and anticipate that I will work through it multiple times over the coming years.”  —Mickey Eliason, author of Reflecting on the Teaching of Angeles Arrien: From A to Z