The first and last book you will ever need for any deck of cards. Step by step guide to layouts and questions along with a comprehensive chapter on common symbols. The planetary influences and Zodiac symbols add to an information rich resource that will be invaluable to any reader, learner or advanced. This comprehensive guide encourages you to mix things up and try different uses for your cards that will inject that wonderful air of excitement when delving into the mystique of divination cards.With chapters covering spells/affirmations and the all important timing layouts you can work your way through this book and at the same time gain intimate knowledge of your own cards leading to exceptional reading skills but we don't stop there. Use your cards for chakra healing and development along with spiritual development exercises. Tree of Life Spread for ongoing personal development is complex and in depth, you would have to go far to find a more interesting layout that could easily take you a month to work through. Learn about Horary Rolling layouts and much more to encourage you to explore your cards fully and discover/develop a skill set that sets you apart from other readers.
This is a little book showing you how to look for hidden patterns in layouts or across different spreads, this takes you beyond card interpretations and into the realm of ghost cards, spirit cards, echo cards and more. Using these tools improves reading accuracy and relevance out of sight by giving you the tools you need for direction and insights into personality or character that sit as undercurrents in life events and situations. Learn how to use the major arcana as a tool for spiritual growth or create spells using the tarot deck to bind you to a desired outcome.
This book can be used as a stand alone inspiration/divination book. With over 260 possible messages for a daily quest or to find answers to serious questions. Flip the book to any page or choose a page and go from there, either way there is nothing flip about the content. The symbols are specific enough to give accurate and clear responses to virtually any question. You can use them as a progressive reading tool to build a story for divination purposes or you can use it to focus on self development.
Enter undaunted the world of Dorothy Dunnett's first chef-d' vre, The GAME of KINGS. Exhaustively researched, this compilation follows the book page-by-page, providing useful translations, illustrations, lost definitions, and historical facts to faithfully shed light on the story. Designed to elucidate the mid-16th century for the 21st century reader, the Guide enriches one's experience of The Lymond Chronicles, providing deeper understanding and an appreciation for the discernment, subtlety, and scope of Dorothy Dunnett's extraordinary writing."
Dorothy Dunnett has earned worldwide acclaim for the masterful blending of historical fact and imagination in her two series of novels set in brilliantly reconstructed fifteenth- and sixteenth-century landscapes. The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II is an encyclopedic resource that completes and expands the reach of the first Companion in documenting the historical and literary riches of Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolo novels. In this second guide, Elspeth Morrison not only covers the final three Niccolo novels for the first time, but also provides a wealth of additional information about all of the earlier novels and highlights the links between the two now-completed series. Once again, she illuminates the real figures and events and the cultural and literary allusions Dunnett weaves into her works, translating foreign phrases and offering up fascinating background details, from the history of golf and the argot of galley slaves to the uses of puffins and polar bears. Together with the first Companion, The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II provides a complete and essential guide to the world of Lymond and Niccolo.
The perfect reference to compliment the beginner, novice or a reader looking to deepen their understanding of the cards. There are a variety of layouts to suit self readers as well as the more traditional spreads, a glossary of symbols including planets and the zodiac. Easy to find information with a text book layout makes this one of the most comprehensive tarot guides available. Card descriptions are modern and easy to understand with a few exercises which give the feel of a course. Leaving no stone unturned, discover hidden meanings and mystical beginnings, all part of this complete tarot learning package.
If you love Lenormand cards this is the ultimate guide for you. Not only are there general card descriptions but also every possible card combination for a quick and easy guide, including the variations depending on which card was laid out first. This is the first and last book you will ever need for these wonderful cards. The layouts from a full 36 card (Mlle Lenormand style) to smaller spreads including the freedom spread and special 3 card spreads. Lenormand cards are small and with this book in your phone or device, you can get information on the go. Simply click on the contents to be instantly on the page you need.
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was America’s first internationally famous female foreign correspondent. Born outside of Buffalo, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914 and honed her writing and interviewing skills in the women’s suffrage movement before heading for Europe as a freelance journalist. Reporting from Vienna, Budapest and Berlin during the rise of Nazism, she was the first western journalist to be expelled from Germany by Adolf Hitler after denigrating him in a profile. Her later columns in the Ladies’ Home Journal and radio broadcasts for CBS (published as Listen, Hans) made her, next to Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential woman in the United States. Thompson was married three times: her second marriage was to the American novelist, Nobel Prize-winner, and alcoholic Sinclair Lewis; her third and happiest, to Czech artist Maxim Kopf. She also had several lesbian relationships. Avidly interested in everything from sustainable farming to the fine arts, she divided her later years between New York City and her farm in Barnard, Vermont. “A skillful exploration of the life and personality of the formidable foreign correspondent” — New York Times “[readers] will be pleased to meet a fascinating, driven and indomitable woman who richly deserves this fine biography” — Thomas Griffith, New York Times “Sensationally good ... Kurth’s vividly detailed and dramatic portrayal of Thompson’s life fully compensates for the memoirs she planned but never lived to write. Here was a one-of-a-kind incarnation of energy, honesty and commitment; a woman we must not forget.” — USA Today “Kurth guides us through the tumultuous complexities of the time-the rise of Nazism in Germany; isolationism in America; the Second World War; the establishment of Israel and other issues that Thompson took over as her personal battleground. His daunting task is to show us a mind at work, and he pulls it off.” — Washington Post “In a day of dime-a-dozen pundits jabbering on the talk shows, Thompson’s diligence and influence are worth recalling. Mr. Kurth’s compulsively readable account allows us to re-live an age and do just that.” — Wall Street Journal “Kurth has a surprising grasp of Thompson’s emotional makeup, strictly avoiding the kind of supercilious or paternalistic attitude that such a character invites in male authors. His biography is insightful without being sentimental, warm without being sycophantic.” — Toronto Star “An important asset of this big, solid book is author Kurth’s prolific use of Thompson’s own words. She left 150 file cases of published and unpublished writings — chunks of private thoughts and musings on her three husbands and her own sexuality one would have expected her to burn... Kurth has battled through this paper blizzard and emerged with a clear-as-ice-water picture of a turbulent, complex personality.” —Baltimore Sun “Peter Kurth, author of the haunting Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson, proves once again that he is the equal of Stefan Zweig as a biographer of women. His fairness, his control of his material and his eye for the revealing quotation are such that he makes us empathize with Miss Thompson even when we feel like strangling her.” — Washington Times
