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Raven E. Black never thought she'd be a Tarot reader. Missionary? Teacher? Writer? Sure. Tarot Reader? No way!
But Raven followed her path and wrote the bestselling memoir, The Reluctant Tarot Reader: Adventures in the Gypsy Trade (2011) while continuing to explore what it means to be a professional Tarot reader and healer.
With this new book of essays, The Reluctant Tarot Reader: 21 Years. 78 Lessons, we now have an additional 78 lessons that Raven has learned over two decades and thousands of clients -- with spectacular successes and stumbles along the way.
What is life, if not a matter of choice?
Whether you are about to start your Tarot journey as a student or professional reader, The Reluctant Tarot Reader: 21 Years, 78 Lessons will guide you into the often mysterious woo world of psychics, healers and the like, straight from an insider. These 78 essays are loaded with tips on how to interpret your cards, write your book, deal with a divorce or loss of a soulmate, how to use a pendulum to lose weight and help your animals, start a Tarot biz and what to do about the ongoing stress of entrepreneurial life. It will show you who to trust, who to avoid and how to continue exploring this crazy world with hope and optimism.
The Reluctant Tarot Reader: 21 Years, 78 Lessons is written by a real person who cares. A normal human who has experienced the joys and the struggles, just like you. And yes, a reluctant Tarot reader in the "biz" for over two decades.
Raw, deep, poetic and beautiful! Raven is a rebel with a true cause. ~ Theresa Reed, The Tarot Lady
This book is not for everyone. Yet for those of you who are kindred spirits, read on...
She's a gay girl in the Christian world, becoming the healer she was meant to be.
But what do you do with a psychic gift you really don't want?
Raven dreamed of being a missionary. A vet. An English teacher. Becoming a professional Tarot reader never crossed her mind. How did she go from staunch, born-again Christian and promising academic . . . to life in the woo world?
The Reluctant Tarot Reader explores what happens when you make the choice to leave your childhood church with no real plan — and how a rocky path awaits. She meets angels int disguise, including a Catholic nun who opens the door to the Tarot world.
Part II of The Reluctant Tarot Reader is divided into 4 sections of 78 stories that describe Raven's journey through the suits of the Minor Arcana:
** To Birth, To Flame
** To Live, To Heal
** To See, To Speak
** To Love, To Dream
Read compelling works such as: "How To Be Ageless", "Steps To Being A Powerful Woman", "My Anger Wears A Black Hoodie", "Reiki Love" and "Secrets from the Psychic World". Get an unflinching view into the mysterious aura of psychics, healers and Tarot readers -- straight from an insider. If it's time for you to come out of the metaphysical closet, The Reluctant Tarot Reader will light the way.
This is the story of a Tarot reader. A reluctant one.
Raven E. Black, author of the bestselling memoir The Reluctant Tarot Reader, returns with 22 short essays that illuminate how the Tarot influences every aspect of our lives: whether as a solo entrepreneur, artist/writer or a person healing childhood wounds.
The concise, clear essays in Your Words Remain: 22 Essays touch upon leaving fundamentalist Christianity and reshaping our faith, how to negotiate a private Tarot event and drawing in the ideal clients. It also discusses how and if you should leave your day job, whether a Tarot reader can actually read themselves and how to appreciate psychic children entering this world.
Your Words Remain: 22 Essays encourages any reader/healer/psychic to remain healthy, optimistic and sane while dealing with every question under the sun after two decades devoted to the practice. Tarot gives us the ability to overcome our fear of punishment and invasion from past lives by utilizing the power of our natural intuition -- and continue on our path with joy and curiosity. The Tarot is a positive, loving support for our higher wisdom and desire for a better world, as long as we approach the cards with respect.
For further essays on developing as an intuitive and how to grow a successful business, be sure to read or listen to Raven's books: The Reluctant Tarot Reader: Adventures in the Gypsy Trade, The Reluctant Tarot Reader: 21 Years. 78 Lessons and her trilogy, Love. Sex. Tarot.
Careful what you wish . . . or you may end up with your ex-wife in purgatory (aka TAINT). What is reality, after all?
From the bestselling author of The Reluctant Tarot Reader comes a story that explores love, death and what really happens after we drop the body and walk on. That, and dead ex-wives who chastise the living.
After the tragic loss of her ex-wife Beatrix, motivational author and speaker Alexandra —XaHNdra — Bellenridge is about to reach new levels of fame and fortune, thanks to top tier PR, ironclad NDAs and the protective team of Lisette, Deborah and Charles, her special forces.
Yet an ordinary day is shook by an unknown podcaster named Victoria from The Analog Mysteries, who pokes around with persistent questions about the summer of 1986 at Spirit Lake Christian Camp; specifically, the unsolved death of a girl named Wren Smith. Suicide? Murder? Victoria isn't persuaded by the DOPE method that Xandra employs with stalkers: Deny, Obfuscate, Pay, Escape.
Rather than face Victoria's inquiries, Xandra faces herself in THE LAND OF INTRACTABILITY (a.k.a. TAINT) and a cast of questionable guides after driving off a cliff during an unfortunate kombucha break.
What's done is done. Never look back is her unerring mantra, taught worldwide to adoring audiences — but apparently, the past isn't done with Xandra.
Is she alive? Dead? In a drugged up coma? Having a near death experience (NDE)?
Inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy and Sartre's No Exit, I Was Once a Person explores notions of love, death and what really happens after we drop the body and walk on.
Is a cat just a cat? From the author of The Reluctant Tarot Reader and The Last Painting comes the story of the unbreakable bond of a woman and her cats.
Long before Raven accepts her intuitive gifts, she races around America with a broken heart and an empty wallet after being rejected by the church, her sort-of girlfriend and climbing onto the wild ride of what it means to be a lesbian. When she lands in Colorado for a short-lived attempt at grad school, she discovers what's missing: a cat.
When she visits the local shelter, a tiny orange and white kitten she names Avery grabs her finger and from that moment, they forge a friendship that lasts over 20 years and carries her through numerous breakups, the death of her mother and the ever-present question, "When are you finally going to settle down?" Avery and Zoey - a tough Brooklyn street cat who joins them four years into the journey - do their best to keep Raven tethered to earth as they travel cross-country in the quest for a little peace, love and a good home.
To some, a cat is just a cat. To this crazy cat lady, her two companions are part of the great evolution and healing of her soul. And when the time comes to say goodbye to Avery, Raven faces the true test of love: letting go.
Love may find us, if we're lucky. The Last Painting asks if we have the courage to hold onto it — before time runs out.
A mysterious painting. A woman's last words, tucked behind the canvas to her great love, Katherine Crenshaw Bowman. Except the painting — You And Me By The Sea — is discovered in a thrift store thousands of miles away and given to painter Amy Scott as a housewarming present. When she discovers Jasmine Salamanca's letter and reads the first line — "I'm dying, Kat" — she overcomes her reluctance to get involved, thanks to her superstitious friend Ash, and sets off to deliver Jasmine's final act of love.
The Last Painting explores relationships in all of their painful glory: the inability of two passionate soulmates to finally unite after a torturous, years long affair — and the loves who haunt us. The journey of the characters reveals the ways we hurt each other when we think we know how the story ends. The dream of "someday" and "one day" are never guaranteed and Katherine is faced with a stunning clarity as a stranger waits on her doorstep, painting in hand.
The Last Painting is told through the differing perspectives of Jasmine, Amy and Katherine on loyalty, happiness and the desire of one's heart. Though Death appears at the beginning, Jasmine's profound influence radiates throughout the narrative as Katherine struggles to forgive herself, while creating an enormous garden in memory of her.
Raw, deep, poetic and beautiful! Raven is a rebel with a true cause. ~ Theresa Reed, The Tarot Lady
This trilogy is not for everyone — but for those who are kindred spirits, read on . . .
There are plenty of great Tarot books that teach you how to read the deck. If you've searched for a story about being a psychic / healer / Tarot reader in the modern world or where to land, once you've discovered your gifts -- you now hold it in your hands.
Love. Sex. Tarot. merges the wisdom of the bestselling memoir, The Reluctant Tarot Reader, the tenderness of Is A Cat Just a Cat? and questions of self in Home: Notes on Belonging into one bold trilogy with a new introduction from Raven E. Black.
Love. Sex. Tarot. is the definitive memoir for those who feel like this planet is not their home, yet they are destined for great things.
The soul always knows.
I needed a guide like this when starting out 21 years ago; a voice that was direct, comforting and down-to-earth; a waypoint where I could rest when the woo world was confusing and cliquey; a book that made me feel like I'd been heard. This is also for those struggling to come out of their closets, whether metaphysical or sexual. Love. Sex. Tarot. will teach you how to find wisdom, be confident and stay healthy in a world littered with burned-out healers. It will show you how to keep sane as an entrepreneur and create abundance in every area of your life. It's easier than you think. Plus, you'll laugh your butt off.
I offer you my story -- insights, anger, loves and heartbreak -- to help you along the path. Love. Sex. Tarot. will encourage you to accept yourself and walk with a sense of purpose and satisfaction. You are stronger than you think and as creative as you imagine.
What does it mean to be adopted?
We are like water. We flow in, we flow out -- discovering where we belong in a world of absolutes.
These are your parents. Your name. Your siblings. Your religion.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Before Raven E. Black became a reader of others (The Reluctant Tarot Reader, The Last Painting), she had to find out where she belonged in the world, despite the heartache and struggle of the search. Home reveals the answers she finds in the eternal questions:Who am I? Why am I here?
This is her story as an adopted child.
Chrysalis: Poems of Release explores the moment when two soulmates from completely different worlds find each other -- and yet are unable to hold onto the relationship when fear crowds in.
The years pass. Other loves arrives. And yet the one carried in the secret recesses of a heart blazes on. This is the chrysalis. This is the moment when one is truly alive.
This is when you meet yourself — in the love you can't forget.
