Mindful Tarot

LISA FREINKEL TISHMAN, PhD (Springfield, OR), began studying the tarot as a graduate student at Berkeley in the late 1980s. An award-winning teacher, Zen Buddhist minister, and certified mindfulness educator, she is a former humanities professor and dean at the University of Oregon (UO) and founding director of UO s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program. Lisa is now an interfaith chaplain at Sacred Heart Medical Center.www.CalyxContemplative.com

Wise, eloquent, yet easy to read, Mindful Tarot will stay with you long after you close its pages and start flipping cards. Sasha Graham, author of Llewellyn s Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot

• CONTENTSList of Images xiPreface: A Life of Largesse xiiiPart One: From Mantic to Mindful TarotChapter 1: This Is All There Is 3Chapter 2: Cartomancy and Mindfulness 13Chapter 3: The Wheel of Life 25Chapter 4: Learning to Drop Anchor 37Chapter 5: The Four Suits and the Boundless Abodes 53Chapter 6: The Trumps: All or Nothing 73Chapter 7: The Daily PULL: Pausing, Unknowing, Looking, Leaning In 89Part Two: Reading the CardsChapter 8: The Trumps 1150 • The Fool: Beginner's Mind 118I • The Magician: Alignment 120II • The High Priestess: Unknowing 122III • The Empress: Unfolding 125IV • The Emperor: Structure 127V • The Hierophant: Holding Truth 130VI • The Lovers: Becoming Whole 133VII • The Chariot: Harnessing Desire 136VIII • Strength: Facing What Scares Us 138IX • The Hermit: Waiting for Light 141X • The Wheel: Turning Over 144XI • Justice: Making Right 148XII • The Hanged Man: Renunciation 151XIII • Death: Rising and Falling 154XIV • Temperance: Reconciliation 156XV • The Devil: Enfettered 159XVI • The Tower: Ignition 162XVII • The Star: Faith 164XVIII • The Moon: The Depths 166XIX • The Sun: Restoration 169XX • Judgment: The Trumpet Call 172XXI • The World: Letting Go 174Chapter 9: The Pips 179The Aces: Gift 184The Twos: Reflection 193The Threes: Synthesis 202The Fours: Stability 211The Fives: Perspective 220The Sixes: Recognition 229The Sevens: Steadiness 238The Eights: Surrender 247The Nines: Culmination 256The Tens: Going Beyond 265Chapter 10: The Courts 275The Pages: Care 277The Knights: Compassion 286The Queens: Cheer 294The Kings: Calm 302Works Consulted 313Acknowledgments 311