New Directions in Tarot - Hardback Book - Decoding the Tarot Illustrations of Pamela Colman Smith - by Scott Martin - 9780764366307 - Schiffer Publishing Ltd

The “secrets” in this book have been known all along, and they work in all who read Tarot on a subconscious level. This insightful book delves deeply into the images Pamela Colman Smith created for the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, and reminds us of what we may have known intuitively but had not been aware of on a conscious level.

• A brand-new approach that focuses on how, in her images, Smith utilized a sense of direction, body movement, posture, gait, facial expression, and more

• Compares the Tarot Minors to technical elements of theater, including plot, conflict, elements of a play, thought/theme, dialogue, music, and actors’ positions on stage

• Provides powerful tools for interpreting the cards and discovering new meanings that the reader can make their own

• Includes thought-provoking exercises that guide the reader in the mastery of these new insights