"Six of Swords in The Shipping News"

mary ventura

What an interesting article. I read about 1/4 of Shipping News and found it to depressing to continue. There are times when I just don't want to read a sad, sad novel, and other times I can handle it.

I really liked the way she connects tarot cards to the different themes and plot lines in this very complex novel. I'm only about a year into studying tarot, and articles like this help me with taking individual cards and weaving them into a story. It inspires me to add another technique to my studies -- doing "reverse readings", where I take a story, a situation, or a series of events in my life (or in the life of family / friends) and choose the cards that would represent these situations. This gives me a different way to explore the many ways the cards can be read.

Mary V