Review:  The Healing Tarot: 78 Ways to Wellness

Juno Lucina (Author), Monica Knighton (Illustrator)

ISBN-10:0764343920

How do we heal? Here find a spiritual study of what each Tarot card says about health from an Astrological, Qabalistic, Archetypal, and Traditional perspective. 78 whimsical black and white card illustrations focus upon the lessons Tarot offers about health, diet, fitness, and wellness. A companion guide details upright and reversed meanings.  For any experience level.

This deck is published by Schiffer Books and comes in a sturdy red box that looks like a First Aid kit. The lid has a magnetic closure.  This is a black and white deck of 78 tarot cards and companion book created to answer the question: “How then do we heal?” The question of why this deck was created in black in white is addressed on page 11 of the companion book:  “…sometimes we have to return to the original form itself to see things obscured by all those colorful options.”  The card backs can be used upright and reversed.  The images on each card are line drawings and are really interesting to see with many details to be found.

You will find extensive information in the companion book with topics such as:  Medical Astrology and Tarot, Well Placed vs. Poorly Placed Cards, An overview of The Qabalistic Tree of Life, Explanation of the cards being done in black and white and the question: How Then Do We Heal? There are 4 chapters:

Chapter 1 The Major Arcana:

Each Major Arcana is described as “A Spiritual Perspective”, “A Spiritual Wasteland”, “Astrological Connections”, “Traditional Interpretation”, “Upright Meaning” and “Reversed Health Meaning”. Each card has a grayscale image in the book.  There are also chapter end notes and an illustration of Medical Astrology and the Major Arcana.

Chapter 2 Court Cards:

On these pages you will find a smaller image of the card and the “Traditional Interpretation” at the top of the page. Specific Body Imbalance and Reversed Health Meaning are included on the one page provided for each Court Card.

Chapter 3 The Minor Arcana:

These pages provide a small image of the card with “Traditional Interpretation”, “Upright Health Meaning” and “Reversed Health Meaning”.

Chapter 4 Tarot Spreads For Health And Healing

There are three illustrated spreads:

Acute Illness Spread

Healthy Zodiac Spread

Diet/Fitness Spread

This deck is not for beginners – in my opinion you should have a grasp on tarot before working with this deck. You can use the information in the companion book for any tarot deck and although it’s a healing deck, it provides tons of insight about tarot.  For anyone who has an interest in using tarot in a more holistic way, this deck will serve you well.  There’s a lot of information to absorb here in this kit but for those who have been waiting for a deck to use for the purpose of healing its well worth the learning process.  You can also read additional information on the Face Book Page.

https://www.facebook.com/TheHealingTarotDeck

There is a website with an overview of the cards and card images:

http://thehealingtarot.com/