The True Nature of Tarot: Your Path to Personal Empowerment

Diane Wing

Jan 2010 · Loving Healing Press

About this ebook

Get Better Results by Increasing Your Psychic Sensitivity!
"The True Nature of Tarot" dispels the myths and negative connotations that surround the tarot by sharing the personal experiences of the author, Diane Wing, a tarot reader with 25 years of experience. Tarot is discussed as a tool of enlightenment and understanding. Diane Wing shares intuitive techniques for reading that take you beyond the conventional card meanings and deep into tarot as a tool to channel energy and increase psychic sensitivity:
Develop your own style of reading tarot, from choosing your deck to pulling information from the cards. Learn how a reading is experienced from the perspectives of both the reader and the inquirer. Understand the variables that impact the accuracy of your reading. Discover ways to increase the amount of information pulled from the tarot. Become expert at grounding and centering to maximize your energetic stability on a daily basis. Learn powerful spreads that give you ways to see interactions between the cards. Increase your awareness of the ethics of imparting information.
Acclaim for The True Nature of Tarot
"The True Nature of Tarot encourages readers to learn and explore the art of tarot. Wing provides readers with insight into the world of tarot in easy to understand terms. After reading this book you will have a desire to practice the tarot! Thank you Diane."
--Robin Marvel, author of "Awakening Consciousness: A Girl's Guide"
"The True Nature of Tarot will open the eyes of the reader on how one can utilize the knowledge obtained through the tarot in achieving higher spiritual awareness and growth."
--Tracy Griffin, human performance professional, Griffin Consulting, Toronto, Canada
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Ratings and reviews

The True Nature of Tarot is written by Diane Wing who has been in the business of helping people reach their full potential for almost three decades. Diane is a tarot reader, Reiki master, teacher, personal transformation guide, and lifetime student of metaphysics. She also holds a masters degree in phychology and uses her tarot reading skills to help people achieve harmony in their lives. It has been a pleasure working with DianeWing, she is a wonderful person as well as author. Tarot card reading was in my life all throughout my childhood. I do not practice tarot reading but know it’s not evil. I have family and close friends that practice tarot reading. It’s actually a very interesting subject. The True Nature of Tarot is an easy to read and understand book. If you are just learning how to do tarot readings this would be a great book because of its easy to understand content. The True Nature of Tarot is helpful to those looking to start building their own tarot reading style. She guides you through the tarot reading process with a step-by-step through to the tarot reading process. The process is explained professionally yet with simplicity, which is perfect for beginners. She also fully explains the danger signs of as well as the full meaning of each card in the tarot deck. Since I grew up around tarot cards I am very open-minded to tarot readings and if used in a proper manner are not bad. My mother reads tarot cards, has for year. She has explained them to me but I have never understood much until I read Diane’s book. She has an expert way of explaining them, yet she keeps it simple and easy to understand. If you are interested in starting out or are a card reader already, there is much that can be learned from The True Nature of Tarot Reading.

The True Nature of Tarot is just that, a personal account by the author with her own interpretations. I do feel Tarot is misunderstood and greatly misrepresented as ‘satanic’, often by those with ‘tunnel-vision’ feelings. I know I have received a few looks from strangers when I have my cards out. (I’m a big fan of The Halloween Tarot by Kipling West.). I did like how Diane compared the use of Tarot with that of a computer programmer as both can be used for good or bad. Most often in computer programming, the work is for the better and not considered a bad thing. (After all, how many of us rely on technology in our life?) Diane does offer a few things that I have not encountered in previous tarot books, such as the deck overview, a few good grounding techniques and her discussion on the energy field. However, the interpretations or card meanings lack any uniqueness from the summary insert or other books I have personally encountered. Granted what does make each card or reading unique is the person reading, their own interpretations as well as their own beliefs. I also feel the claim on her book “Your path to personal empowerment’ is misleading as this book is more geared to providing tarot spreads for others, not a personal reading for the self. I was disappointed as I know of many, like myself; enjoy utilizing tarot for our own personal daily insight. As someone that understands personal boundaries and ethics, it is good that it is brought up, but I personally feel that it also comes down to common sense, courtesy and respect that a person does not just blurt things out or share information with another person. For the novice that would like to attempt tarot readings for friends and family, this would be a good start. For a one hundred and seventy-eight page book, only forty-four of those pages offer the information the author wishes to impart on the reader. However, I do not see anything that would make this book stand out from the others I have encountered and purchased.

"The True Nature of Tarot" is the revised and expanded version of the 2003 "The Nature of Tarot." Diane Wing, the author has an extensive background in psychology and metaphysics. She has been reading tarot cards for over twenty-five years. There is a common belief that tarot cards are to be used for reading a person's future. Wing dispels this idea and recommends that they be used as a tool for enlightenment. She states, "A tarot deck provides a pictorial journey of the self to foster connections with the Universal Energy and Higher Self." This allows the person being read for to gain insight into what they are experiencing. It can also help them to direct their psychic abilities. She has a very interesting discussion on how the use of tarot cards has been associated with evil. Personally, I was raised with this idea, however, my experience with tarot card readers who had integrity taught me otherwise. The intent of the card reader determines whether or not the use of the cards is good or bad. If the reader wants to try to control or manipulate the person being read for, then their intent is bad. This idea also applies to other areas of our lives where we place our trust in someone to give us guidance. Wing offers ideas on to how to tell if a card reader is legitimate. She makes it very clear that if the reader predicts something bad will happen, that they can fix for a price, they do not have the right intent. As spiritual beings, if we do learn something that we are not comfortable with, we can use that knowledge to make choices to change this. Having had some incredible experience with Tarot card readings, I have been very interested in how the process works. "The True Nature of Tarot," lays everything out for both the card reader and the person being read for. From beginning to end, Wing offers advice in how to prepare for the reading, do the reading, and gain insight into interpreting the cards. She also does an extensive review of the meaning of each card. From my experience, "The True Nature of Tarot" provides the most extensive, yet easy to understand review of the tarot card reading experience. I also feel that the author's explanation of how the cards should be used will help the reader gain understanding into how they can empower their lives by using the cards. Whether you are a novice or an experienced card reader, "The True Nature of Tarot" is a must read for people who have an interest in tarot cards.

About the author

Author, teacher, personal transformation guide, and intuitive consultant Diane Wing, M.A. enjoys exploring the mysteries of life and the way that people experience themselves and the world around them. Wing's books create a transformational experience for the reader while incorporating a bit of the unexpected. Many say that her fiction has a sense of Karmic justice rendered within the realm of the unknown and that her non-fiction brings about a heightened awareness of the self and the world to enhance understanding of our own internal transformations. Wing sees connections between things that seem disparate to others and can help you see their significance in your life. She's an idea person who helps you shift your perspective to see yourself and your life in a whole new way and is a master at bringing magick into the everyday. She wants to live in a world where people feel inspired and motivated to evolve beyond their current way of being. As a Perspective Changer and Blockage Buster, she's a wiz at helping people find their Inner Magick to help them be happy in the present while creating their ideal future. To that end, Diane Wing created a body of work focused on knowing the self at a deep level in order to build self-trust and self-confidence. Her books, both dark fantasy fiction and enlightening non-fiction, hold lessons based in Universal and Magickal Law and energetic consciousness. Her games, Pathways and Insight Stones(R), are systems of metaphysics designed to facilitate self-discovery, develop intuitive ability, and to enhance self-awareness. The emphasis of her school, Wing Academy of Unfoldment, and of her radio show, Wing Academy Radio, helps students and listeners learn ways to take metaphysical and personal development concepts and apply them to everyday life in their own distinct way. It's about going deeper and seeing the patterns of your life. According to Diane Wing, "Ever since I was little, the world felt magickal. [I use magick with a "k" to differentiate the magic of an illusionist or stage magician from the magick that includes your intuitive abilities and tapping into the flow of the Universe). The world was beautiful and mysterious, filled with things to learn and experience. The path led me to become a lifetime student of metaphysics, mysticism, magick, and spirituality and to achieve a Master's degree in psychology...and it all shows up in my writing. You never know what's waiting around the bend. "The world still feels magickal to me; every act of nature, every energetic exchange, every new discovery is perceived through the eyes of wonder. I now understand that self-knowledge is the key to all magickal operations; the discovery of our own Inner Magick is essential to living in concert with the Universe. We are the Magician, as in tarot, orchestrating and creating life in accordance with our true self." Diane is an avid reader, bibliophile, lover of trees, and a lifelong learner. She's also pet parent to a sweet little Shih Tzu. Find out more at www.DianeWing.com