Awaken to Tarot Book Review

I love learning about new things--and Tarot has always interested me. I have had a Tarot reader read my cards a few times and have always been intrigued by the insights and interpretations. I recently had the opportunity to read and review Awaken to Tarot by Karen La Puma. Check out the book, read my thoughts and an excerpt from the book, and learn about the author.

The Tarot, a visual archetypical language that makes up all of life is a complete system of guidance and exploration of the evolutionary journey…

By Karen La Puma

AWAKEN TO TAROT, Self-Help/Nonfiction/Spiritual, Soul Source Publishing, 420 pp.

The Tarot is visual system that reveals both our True Nature and our obstacles. Introducing a new Tarot deck, made with digital collage. Through pictures, symbols, meanings, questions, processes, Kabbalah, key words, and affirmations, you can learn to:

Find ways to reflect your inner guidance.
Explore the magical journey of evolution
Blend Astrology, Numerology, and the Tree of Life with the Tarot
Discover the power and implications of the symbols of Tarot

Book Information

Release Date: November 2, 2021

Publisher: SoulSource Publishing

Soft Cover: ISBN: 978-1878203106; 420 pages; $24.95; Kindle Unlimited FREE

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3poitYX

Watch the book trailer at YouTube..

My Review

Awaken to Tarot Is a Must-Keep Guidebook. I am a true Tarot beginner. I could identify a few cards and vaguely understand some of the relationships and ideas. This book covers so much information in such an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand format. It is likely to be used as a reference guide for years to come. I did not find it overwhelming as a new learner--and I was able to use the book as a resource and follow the author's guidance to draw and consider my Tarot cards from my personal Tarot deck.

Awaken to Tarot is Only a Part of the Guidance System. While you can use your own Tarot cards and gain tips and insights from this book--the author references a set designed for use with the Awaken to Tarot "system ." I also discovered other guidebooks from the A Toolkit for Awakening series from the author as well.

Would I Recommend Awaken to Tarot? Awaken to Tarot is a book that I will use again and again as I learn more about the Tarot and the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of the practice. I love the author's writing style. She teaches so much in a way that feels comforting and enlightening. I would recommend this book for those interested in exploring the Tarot and learning about the practice.

Throughout history we have wanted to understand the circumstances of our lives and our relationships with others. We have had a profound desire to know ourselves on the deepest levels, to make sound decisions, and to receive guidance from the Divine.

The Tarot is a set of universal principles that provide a visual system which reveals both your True Nature and the obstacles to living from this Unified State of Consciousness. Tradition ally and cross-culturally these archetypes communicate all the aspects of existence. Through these rich symbolic mirrors you can receive messages about where you are at present, an external issue, a relationship, your career, and an inner psychological state—in fact all aspects of your evolutionary journey. In the following pages, you will touch on how to tap into inner guidance and awaken internal allies. This book was writ ten for you to draw assistance from the symbols of your soul’s journey as each card is like a magic talisman.

As you explore the visual symbols of each Tarot card, you are given different components that add to your understanding of its meaning. After the visuals there are: a short meaning; descriptions; key words to summarize them; reflective suggestions to go into your process; questions to ponder; and an affirmation. In the descriptions there are correlations with Astrology, Numerology, the Tree of Life, the Hero’s Journey, and the general process of evolution. I have included the Hebrew letter for each of the Major Arcana, and the I Ching’s association to the Royalty cards.

Toward the end of the book, you will learn to find your life’s path, your yearly path, some inner teachers, and sample readings for you to try. Please take what is useful for you and ignore the rest. For those of you who want to dive in deeper, there are several dense teaching chapters that I include in Part VII, “Integrating the Tarot.” Altogether these systems can assist your assimilation of each card, as their cosmic voices can exert a powerful support for you. When you use the cards, you not only have a self-reflective tool, a device to awaken intuition, but also a suggestive magnifier of the qualities you want to infuse into your life.

This book is a part of a series called, A Toolkit for Awakening, which is based on the eminent mythologist, Joseph Camp bell’s great blueprint, “The Hero’s Journey.” It is from his classic book, A Hero with a Thousand Faces (1948). This formula for spiritual evolution, presented in Chapter 83 and the conclusion, gives the structure and foundation of this series.

The stage of the Hero’s Journey that this book deals with is called “Supernatural Aids.” You are encouraged to seek helpers, animate and inanimate, seen and unseen, ancient and mod ern. You don’t have to rely solely upon your own innate powers. Magical helpers appear once you are on the spiritual path as you see abundantly in myths and fairy tales. This book suggests that the Tarot is “a supernatural aid,” for these cards are external mirrors from which you can hear your inner guidance.

Having support is one of life’s most valuable assets. I am thankful for all the support I have received. Yet because I have chosen “a road less traveled,” my deepest gratitude has been to those invisible forces—the archetypes (also called universal symbols). Exploring interrelated metaphysical systems, like Tarot, Astrology, and Numerology have given me the keys to the human journey. “Meta” means beyond, for these maps of consciousness go outside the physical to bridge existence with causality. As you play with the archetypes themselves, they become intuitive and active spiritual allies.

There is a vast array of metaphysical oracles to help you gain self–knowledge. You can delve into the many different cosmic looking glasses to muse and reflect. You can pick cards, gaze at charts and maps, throw coins, select stones, add some numbers, dream, visualize, meditate, or open a book randomly for a message, and they will become your guideposts and supportive tools that help you to see another way and wake up to the highest aspects of yourself.

My hope is that the Tarot images, the concepts presented in this book, and the series, A Toolkit for Awakening, will be a source of support for you. The empowering myth of the Goddess Warrior on the Hero’s Journey is the underlying basis of this series. Love and allowing are the ways of the Goddess. Being accountable for your time, attention and intention is how you embody the Warrior. These archetypes become your helpers and infuse higher vibrations to facilitate new states of consciousness.

My inner and outer helpers guide me and inspire me along my sacred path of expressing Divine Light.

Karen La Puma is the Author of a series of books called A Toolkit for Awakening, which are based on the Goddess Warrior on the Hero’s Journey. She is a motivational, intuitive, and spiritual counselor in private practice in the Bay Area since 1979. She is a teacher, astrologer, hypnotherapist, reiki master, inspirational speaker, and creative storyteller with a potent and timely message to empower your life.

Her latest book is Awaken to Tarot: Be Your Own Guide with Astrology, Numbers and the Tree of Life.

Visit her website at www.soul-source.org or connect with her on Twitter and Facebook.