Inner Child Tarot Card Reviews
Dawn Baumann Brunke
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Adapted from traditional Tarot format (with 22 major arcana and four suits of minor arcana -- in this case, wands, hearts, swords and crystals), the bright, vividly illustrated images on these lovely cards are drawn from a wide variety of children's fairy tales, myths and fables. As such, these are one of the few Tarot decks that might be used with children (instructions included). At basic levels, the cards encourage storytelling, though older children may learn to discern pattern levels and meanings within each card.
For adults, the cards are designed to reawaken the child within via some of the most potent archetypes of our inner world -- from Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother to Aladdin, the Big Bad Wolf, and a host of enchanting animals, fairies, elves, plants and other messengers of nature.
I was fascinated by the imaginative transformation of traditional Tarot images to Inner Child archetypes. Death, for example, becomes Sleeping Beauty; the Hanged Man is Jack in the Beanstalk; and The Wheel of Fortune is Alice in Wonderland riding on a merry go round. While these may not seem immediately apparent, Isha and Mark Lerner's text is perceptive and wonderfully insightful in clarifying how the pieces do fit together.
Also included are some interesting layouts, many based on children's games, along with some intriguing analogies (how, for example, the ten squares of hopscotch parallel the ten energy centers in the Hebrew Tree of Life.) The playful, reflective images rendered so beautifully by Guilfoil's illustrations yield a Tarot deck that is fun, elegant, and powerful.
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