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Tarot Reflections

 April 01, 2003

Beth Russell has been studying the Tarot for over seven years.  She is interested in goddesses and herb/herbal healing. 

She works at the Ohio State University Mershon Center and resides in Columbus, Ohio with her four cats (Isobel, Zoe, Rosa and Ray, pictured above).

Celebrating the Tarot (CTT) began in 1998 with its first journal of 14 pages.  Now here is Issue 11 in 2003 with 46 pages!!!  A smashing success!!  Each issue has a specific theme.  Issue 11 focuses on how gratitude can be an important aspect of our spiritual path and how the tarot can help.  This theme is especially relevant and helpful in current times.  Many of us need to be reminded of the power and blessing of gratitude. 

Showing how to use the tarot as a path of spirituality and enlightenment is always the backdrop of CTT.  Interesting and in-depth interviews with many of the "beacons" of the tarot community today are a great benefit included in each issue (this issue featured an interview with Arnell Ando and past issues included Rachel Pollack, Mary K. Greer and Michele Jackson, to name a few). 

I really LOVE this newsletter!  Reviews of books (new and old) and decks (also new and old) are included -- if a book/deck needs another look (perhaps at a later time), no problem.  The openness and acceptance of many views and offerings in CTT is one of its major strengths.  There is professionalism and experience, new ideas and history – really something for everyone.

There are articles by Mary Greer, Diane Wilkes (a regular contributor), Sandra Thomson and more.  Can you tell?  It feels me with awe (and gratitude!).  To see new decks (many of the cards will be shown although the quality of the reproduction is often not great) and new books reviewed from different perspectives is really helpful (and upon more than one occasion -- costly  --amazon.com here we come!).

This tarot community keeps many of us going in the "mundane" world  -- moving forward, seeking knowledge, validating our study of tarot -- secure in the knowledge that we are not alone.  Newsletters such as CTT are a true blessing, helping to unite the tarot community and welcoming all seekers at every level of knowledge.  True commitment and seeking are the only requirements.  It would be wonderful if CTT could be published on a regular (perhaps quarterly) basis.  Time and financial commitments would be needed for this.  I can only guess at the time commitment needed to obtain publisher permissions, scanning the cards and book covers, finding the self-published decks, etc 

So speaking of gratitude, thank you Celebrating the Tarot -- I am grateful.

Celebrating the Tarot is published by Geraldine Amaral. Complimentary copies are available, or you may subscribe for $20.00 per three issues. Geraldine offers additional Tarot-related content on her Tarot Celebrations website.

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