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Unlock your intuition with this beautifully illustrated full-color beginner's guide to tarot, featuring all 78 card meanings, practical spreads, and expert guidance to help you read with confidence from your very first deck.Author Francesca Matteoni offers an inviting introduction to the timeless art of tarot reading, accompanied by vibrant illustrations from Morgana Fenwick. With growing global uncertainty everywhere, tarot and other forms of mysticism, divination, and self-reflection are seeing a notable re-emergence. Tarot reading is an opportunity to better understand a particular situation and the world around us.Designed for beginners yet rich enough to grow alongside your practice, this beautifully illustrated guide explains the symbolism, meanings, and interpretation of all 78 tarot cards, making it easy to build confidence one reading at a time. Moving beyond memorized keywords, Get Tarot! encourages readers to trust their intuition while exploring the Major and Minor Arcana, learning practical tarot spreads, and developing meaningful personal reading practices. A full-color beginner's guide to tarot reading that features beautiful illustrations, practical spreads, reading techniques, and moreGuides readers through five sections: Major Arcana, Minor Arcana, the Court, practice exercises and guided questions, and instructions for creating spreadsEncourages intuitive, confidence-building tarot practice and inspires self-discoveryA perfect companion for new tarot readers, witches, and spiritual seekers Begin your tarot journey with a guide that transforms curiosity into confidence through intuitive tarot practice.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.

Sombra escrita recopila lo mejor del panorama lírico actual de Italia. Una selección cuidadosa que tiende puentes entre autoras consagradas y voces nuevas y, sobre todo, entre las poetas italianas y las lectoras hispanohablantes.Esta antología es, en palabras de Stefano Strazzabosco, una fotografía de la poesía italiana actual, «la mejor que pude capturar». Una mirada amplia en cuanto a las generaciones, las temáticas y la riqueza lingüística de lo que las poetas italianas dicen a día de hoy.Sombra escrita es, además, la novena entrega de las Sombras, un proyecto que Vaso Roto comenzó en 2017 y bajo el que publica colecciones de poesía contemporánea, siempre escrita por mujeres, siempre firmada por diecisiete autoras, cada vez de un país distinto, y siempre con la misma vocación: poner el foco en las voces de las poetas, sacar a la luz aquello que durante tanto tiempo ha estado condenado a permanecer en la sombra.

Who are shamans? What do they do? Healers. Masters of secret and sacred elements. But do we really know their stories? We hear about them from researchers, poets, ecologists and spiritualists, during an era in which re-establishing a conscious contact with our world is essential. This 50 card oracle deck depicts real Shamans (both famous and lesser known), sacred plants, animals, and the places that inspire them – all explained in an accompanying full coloured booklet.

Each tarot card is an invitation to explore a new world, and perspective. In this deck the reader not only explores 78 Rider Waite Smith tarot cards, but also the evocative landscapes they each inhabit. Dream and fantasy surround every Arcanum with more parallels to our everyday life than we can imagine. The RWS deck is complemented by a comprehensive manual providing guidance for tarot readers, old and new, as well as instructions for how to read the Tarot Landscapes.

Discover the sacred wisdom of 50 animals through this unique divination package of 50 cards and a 112-page book.From our earliest beginnings, animals have been a significant part of our lives. They help us, inspire us, sometimes frighten us, but also protect us. In this dynamic oracle you will find 50 animals - from the land, water, and air - that are considered sacred in various cultures around the globe. Through symbolism and folklore, the cards present the ancestral wisdom of animals and how they can guide us today.This dynamic package includes a 122-page book that describes the origin of each animal's sacred nature along with a chart that lists its element, where it lives, zoological information, symbols associated with it, and a brief charm to ask the animal for advice or guidance. Each of the 50 cards features a message specific to the animal represented. The illustrations are created with the scratchboard technique; using a black board, the artist scratches the surface to create a relief effect, which brings each creature to life.Untamed Spirit is sure to attract all those interested in divination, totem animals, and the wisdom of nature.

In the fascinating world of Tarot cards, this deck has something more to offer, both to complete beginners and to expert readers.Every Major Arcana introduces the readers to a famous witch and in the Minor Arcana, witches as well as their tools and animals are divided into categories that correspond to the four elements of fire, water, air and earth.The witches found in the deck are aged savages, ancient fairies, fallen goddesses, nocturnal creatures, lords of chaos and explorers of cusps. They come from the various traditions the world over, to gather beyond the mist and under the moon.