This pensive and unexpected volume will resonate with New Age fans and open-minded Christians alike. The blend of Christianity and the esoteric results in a refreshingly unconventional outing, and the research into tarot’s origins as a card game influenced by Christian and ancient pagan traditions, as well as its eventual evolution into a divinatory device under Napoleon Bonaparte, adds enlightening historical context. Muller also tackles the minor arcana, suggesting that the ace of pentacles calls for appreciating creation, while the five of cups brings to mind the inevitability of sin and largesse of God’s mercy. You can find her often on Instagram and sometimes on Twitter. Her interests include tarot, art, theology, saints, contemplative Christianity, and finding God in unlikely places.

The boy depicted on the sun card, Muller proposes, is reminiscent of God’s choice to incarnate himself as the “innocent babe” Jesus, rather than “a warrior or a king,” with the sun reflecting the warmth of God’s love. Brittany is a writer and mother who, in between hanging out in Central Park with her kids and cooking dinner, spends a lot of time thinking about God. Examining the death card, she quotes from Corinthians and posits that the card reminds Christians of the hope promised by life after death, and that the river illustrated on the card evokes rebirth through baptism. She posits that tarot cards can be used as a “tool to facilitate inner knowledge, inner growth, and inner transformation” by prompting prayerlike reflection, and to that end she draws spiritual lessons from each card by putting them in conversation with the Bible. This insightful book will help you to see both the cards and Christian spirituality in surprising new ways. “To use tarot in a contemplative way is to marry prayer with art,” contends Blessed Vigil blogger Muller in her delightfully unusual debut. The Contemplative Tarot by Brittany Muller is an insightful and thorough book on the topic of Tarot from a Christian P respective. In The Contemplative Tarot, author Brittany Muller draws deeply on Christian tradition and theology to create a tarot practice built on spiritual reflection, prayer, and worship. Brittany Muller helps us to find God’s beautiful and loving presence in one of the most fascinating, yet misunderstood, elements of the western inner tradition: the Tarot.

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