Brotherhood of Light Egypt Tarot deck Review
Written by Misha
Designed by Vicki Brewer
Published by U.S. Games
ISBN: 1-57281-656-2
U.S. Games has redesigned this deck in full color. The original deck was published in 1936 in black and white. Even though this deck has the standard 78 cards it is far from being a traditional deck. This deck is definitely not for beginners, does not follow the traditional Rider Waite and has its own meanings and interpretations. It was designed as a companion to the book The Sacred Tarot by C. C. Zain. The little white book that comes with this deck only gives a short interpretation and explanation of the cards. If one wants to fully learn this deck buying the book is a necessity. The deck incorporates everything into each of the 78 cards from Kabala, astrology, alchemy, magic, numerology, even Free Masonry. There are also things that are not included in the LWB, which are the correlations between each major arcanum and its associated herb, gem, mineral, Hebrew, Egyptian, and Roman glyph, as well as the correct numerological and astrological associations.
The four suits used for the minors are scepters, swords, coins and cups and have no scenes depicted on them. So if imagery is wanted that won’t be found with this deck. They are grouped together by number rather than suit. The court cards do have Egyptian illustrations on them and are called Horsemen, Youth, Queen and King.
Once the time is taken to learn the deck and get familiar with all that it includes I can see it being a nice change to do readings with. As I said this is not a deck for beginners to learn tarot with. I am writing this review keeping in mind that I do not have the companion book and therefore am unable to determine how hard or easy it would be to learn the deck. I think redoing this deck as a kit with the full book included would have made this a better option for every level reader.
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Psychic Protection For Beginners: Creating a Safe Haven for Hame & Family
Review Written by Misha
Author: Richard Webster
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Released May, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7387-2060-9
People hear the term psychic protection and think immediately that they aren’t in the psychic field so they don’t have any need for it. This is for everyone, regardless of what you do for a living because we all go through struggles and hardships. The Introduction of the book discusses this and explains how everyone uses protection at some point in our life.
All of us from time to time feel overwhelmed and drained from life. We experience this from our jobs, family, bills, friendships and from just everyday life. Regardless of what type of negative situation or emotion we are going through there is one thing in common with all of them, it drains our energy. It doesn’t just drain our physical energy where we feel exhausted and need sleep, but it also drains our spiritual energy. During these times we become more vulnerable to allowing negative things to affect us without even being aware of it. We end up in what is a domino affect where slowly one by one every aspect of our life seems to somehow be affected.
Psychic Protection For Beginners is just as the title states. It gives very basic and simple ways to protect yourself, your loved ones, your home and also gives you ways how to rid yourself of the negative affects that you are experiencing. The book talks not only of the different ways one can protect themselves it also explains things you can use to protect yourself. From Talismans, Amulets and Charms (Ch. 2); Scents, Perfumes and flower essence (Ch. 3); to Crystals and Gemstones (ch. 4).
This book is great because it touches on a variety of ways and things to do so that you can see what works or won’t work for you. Then once you are aware of this you can expand on the specific ways that you are comfortable with and which will work for you. You might even be surprised that something you already do is included in this book and is a technique used for protection. For instance crossing your arms and legs or even your fingers are things we do instinctively without even thinking about it. Are you aware that even taking a shower or a bath can be used for protection as well as cleansing (not just physical cleansing)? The book is written in simple easy to understand language without elaborate technical terminology and it can be done by anyone.
You will also learn simple ways in which to strengthen and protect your aura, learn about your chakras, how to do a house blessing, even meditation protection which is chapter 11. It can be confusing and overwhelming when starting to look into how to do this. It can also become expensive buying books on each subject or items for things that you aren’t comfortable working with. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is a beginner or just wants easy, simple, basic things for everyday use for themselves and their family.
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