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by Astro Pittman (Author)
Tarot does not have to predict your future to help you change it.
The Therapeutic Tarot reimagines all 78 Rider-Waite-Smith cards as practical tools for reflection, emotional insight, recovery, and meaningful action. Rather than treating the cards as supernatural authorities, it approaches them as symbolic mirrors-tools for recognizing patterns, exploring possibilities, and reconnecting with agency, belonging, purpose, and choice.
PREMIUM HARDCOVER COLOR EDITION
The definitive experience-full color, lasting durability, and exceptional professional presence.
Combining vivid Rider-Waite-Smith imagery and full-color design elements with durable hardcover construction, this edition presents the complete framework in its most visually rich and enduring form. It is ideal for immersive study, long-term clinical reference, libraries, graduate coursework, classrooms, collectors, and readers who want The Therapeutic Tarot at its fullest expression.
For readers who want no compromise between visual depth and lasting durability.
Grounded in DBT, ACT, CBT, MBCT, Narrative Therapy, Healing Centered Engagement, harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and recovery-oriented practice, this book bridges contemporary behavioral health with the enduring language of image, metaphor, and story.
Written by a therapist, clinical social worker, addiction specialist, educator, and community advocate, The Therapeutic Tarot is trauma-informed, inclusive, non-pathologizing, evidence-informed, and accessible to readers at every level. No prior Tarot experience-and no particular spiritual, religious, or metaphysical belief-is required.
INSIDE YOU'LL FIND:
- Therapeutic upright and reversed interpretations for all 78 cards
- Full-color Rider-Waite-Smith imagery throughout
- Guided inquiries, journal prompts, worksheets, affirmations, and structured reflection exercises
- Practical applications for emotional regulation, resilience, psychological flexibility, identity, recovery, meaning-making, and personal growth
- Queer-affirming, BIPOC-affirming, disability-affirming, and justice-oriented interpretations grounded in dignity and agency
- Therapeutic spreads and tools for clinicians, counselors, social workers, peer specialists, coaches, educators, and facilitators
- Ethical guidance for responsible personal and professional use
- A comprehensive field guide connecting every card with therapeutic concepts, modalities, developmental themes, and recovery pathways
- An expanded glossary, extensive references, and a detailed index
Here, recovery is understood broadly: not only as recovery from addiction, trauma, or mental health challenges, but also as healing from shame, grief, disconnection, limiting beliefs, harmful narratives, and experiences that diminish our sense of agency, belonging, or purpose.
Whether you are a helping professional seeking innovative reflective tools, an experienced reader wanting greater psychological depth, or a newcomer looking for structure without dogma, The Therapeutic Tarot offers a grounded path from insight to practice-and from surviving toward flourishing.
The power isn't in the cards.
It's in the person holding them.
