Phoenix Rising
Lee said:I just came across a very interesting-looking book. It's called "Personal Prophecy," by Deborah Leigh. I ordered it from Amazon, and then I found the publisher's website, where you can actually read the entire book online:
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595291953
If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Browse Before You Buy," you can page through the entire book, if you have some free time!
It's a very well-worked-out system of reading playing cards. The author claims to have inherited the system from her grandmother. The card meanings seem to be derived from the types of meanings one can find in older sources, but they've been given a modern psychological depth. They don't seem to have anything to do with number+suit methods. And unlike several online sites that deal with playing card divination, the meanings have nothing whatsoever to do with RWS-derived meanings.
What really sets the book apart is that the author really goes out of her way to not only teach the meanings, but to teach how to learn the meanings and the layout system. The book is set up as a course with several levels, and she goes through each card step by step and tries to lead you to feel the card's meanings rather than simply knowing some keywords on an intellectual level.
The book also has a large dollop of self-help, self-empowering, self-motivating material in it, which is really unusual when combined with what are basically fortune-telling-type meanings. I also like the author's extremely friendly and encouraging tone.
When I get the book, I think I may actually go through the entire course as presented in the book. I have high hopes that this particular system will stick with me, unlike other systems which are always somehow unsatisfying.
Anyone who takes a look at the book online, please let me know what you think!
-- Lee
P.S. The author has a website of her own where she is known as the Psychic Love Doctor!
http://www.psychiclovedoctor.com/
Hey Lee
Took a look at that website, and a squiz through the book..will experiment with those meanings, in a separate pack, along side the Hedgewytch method I'm also looking at, so when I do my daily readings, I'll do the hedgewytch with one pack, and the "Personal prophecy" meanings with another deck(good thing about playing decks they're cheaper) I just want to find the easiest method to learn and read. I find using the number+pip method can be a bit repititive in meanings, and I don't necessarily agree, that black cards are all bad. See how it goes.