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INCLUDES A FREE COPY OF THE MINI MA'AT TAROT DECK!

Description

The Ma'at Tarot Workbook will guide you, card by card, through the 78 images of the groundbreaking Ma'at Tarot deck by Julie Cuccia-Watts.

You'll decipher dozens of symbols that speak directly to your subconscious mind. You'll learn how the Major Arcana cards were designed to fit the eight solar holidays on the wheel of the year. You'll find Minor Arcana cards that mirror the phases of the moon. And you'll discover firsthand why tarot enthusiasts at Aeclectic.net named the Ma'at Tarot one of the top three decks of 2006.

As an added bonus, the full-color workbook even includes a free miniature version of all the cards — a “Mini Ma’at” tarot deck that you can use for practice readings.

Product Details

• Printed: 47 pages, 8.5" x 11", coil binding, full-color interior ink
• Download: 1 documents (PDF), 6291 KB
• ISBN: 978-0-9755-5103-5
• Publisher: New Moon Trading Company
• Language: English
• Country: United States
• Edition: First Edition

Behind the Book

I’ve admired Julie’s work ever since I first met her at a Chicago tarot conference in 1999. That’s where she displayed the 22 life-sized oil paintings that made up her Blue Moon Tarot.

I’d heard of her even before that, of course, because she also created the widely renowned Ancestral Path tarot deck published by U.S. Games … but the Blue Moon was like nothing I’d ever seen before. Julie had aligned all of the Major Arcana cards with solar and lunar events on the Wheel of the Year — specifically, equinoxes, solstices, and full moons. Over the next few years, Julie’s Blue Moon system grew into a full 78-card deck, which she named the Ma’at Tarot.

The Ma’at Tarot is a beautiful deck, in and of itself, and you can read the cards just as you would read any ordinary tarot deck. What ultimately makes the deck so special, however, is the fact that it’s based on a foundation that completely revolutionizes our traditional way of thinking about the cards.

The Ma’at Tarot is directly linked to one of the world’s most popular astrological tarot decks, the Thoth Tarot by Aleister Crowley. Thoth was the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom. His wife Ma’at was the goddess of justice.

Crowley designed the Thoth Tarot based on the principles of solar astrology. Fascinated by his system, Julie designed the Ma’at Tarot as a feminine counterpart to the Thoth, but she based her work on lunar astrology.

The switch is ingenious — and it’s fitting. In myth and legend, the sun is usually assigned to male gods, while female goddesses are linked with the moon.

It’s a fairly radical change, but the workbook explains it all in plain English, with full-color illustrations of each card, and charts that clearly define their placement on the Wheel of the Year. It’s the workbook I wish I’d had when I started studying Julie’s system, back in 1999 … and it’s a useful supplement to the comprehensive guide that Julie wrote to accompany her cards.