Description
Tarot for the Magically Inclined: Spells and Spirits to Stack the Deck in Your Favor.
Take tarot beyond prediction and into practical magical work. Rather than treating the cards only as a way to ask what may happen next, Chanek looks at how tarot can become an active part of spellwork, ritual, meditation, talisman-making and spirit communication.
The book begins with the foundations, making it suitable for readers who already know tarot as well as those beginning to connect their card practice with witchcraft or ceremonial magick. Chanek places tarot within a wider occult framework, discussing its relationships with the four elements, the Qabalistic Tree of Life, zodiac signs and planetary correspondences. From there, he moves into practical methods for bringing the cards into magical workings.
Readers are shown ways to create tarot talismans, use cards within guided meditation, develop ritual tools, write tarot-based spells and intentionally “stack the deck” as part of magical practice. The book also considers working with spiritual beings, including angels and demons, alongside approaches that treat the Major Arcana as spirits with whom the practitioner may build a working relationship.
More than ten original tarot spreads are included, giving you structured ways to put the ideas into practice while leaving room to adapt them to your own tradition, beliefs and methods. This makes the book particularly useful for people who already read tarot but feel ready to move beyond interpretation alone. A familiar deck can become part of altar work, spell construction, devotional or spirit practice, meditation and intentional magical action.
You might use the book alongside a dedicated working deck, selecting cards that symbolise the condition you wish to encourage, placing them on an altar during spellwork, incorporating them into a talisman, or using a spread before ritual to clarify your intention and the influences surrounding it. As with any spirit-based practice, work within the boundaries of your own tradition and experience, and approach unfamiliar systems respectfully rather than treating spirits or cultural practices as interchangeable.
Written by tarot author and Gardnerian Wiccan High Priest Jack Chanek, who also holds a PhD in the history of philosophy, Tarot for the Magically Inclined offers a thoughtful bridge between divination and practical magic. It is especially well suited to witches, occultists, tarot readers and magical practitioners who want their cards to become an active part of what they do rather than something brought out only for readings.
Paperback, 264 pages. Published by Llewellyn.
