I loved Tarot for Creativity by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi! This book is such a wealth of information for anyone looking to spark their creative energy or dive deeper into tarot. Chelsey’s writing is so approachable and the way she connects tarot to the creative process is genius, and her prompts and exercises are inspiring and easy to follow. This book is great for newbies (like me) and is packed with fresh ideas and insights to help you tap into your imagination. I haven’t made it all the way through the book yet because there is so much to learn, but it has become my go-to whenever I need a creative boost or just want to feel more connected to my intuition. Highly recommend! Thank you to Chronicle and Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

If you’re into tarot or just need some creative inspo, this book’s for you! A great guide to using tarot in your art and life. Simple, easy, and full of creative energy—highly recommend! 🌟🌟🌟

This was an incredible book to learn about how to use tarot to handsss your creativity. I really enjoyed the prompts and ideas in this book.

Tarot for Creativity by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi was very informative. The production quality was good and I enjoyed the layout. Very good for beginners.

I was super excited for this book but there was some very odd choices made. The decision to write card descriptions based on one deck but include a very bland & boring deck as the imagery is one.

Then, the layouts were all a variation on the same thing. Find the card that represents <<whatever>> and then use the next 3 or 4 following it for your reading. 😬 It felt like they were just trying to boost the page count.

Two months later and now I own the book. Do I buy too many of my Netgalley books? Hmmmm, question for another day.

This one was right up my alley. To start, I really liked another book by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi: The Tarot Spreads Yearbook. At first glance, I thought it was lightweight. Happily I was wrong.

With this book, it was love at first sight. The tarot and creativity just go so well together. This book is healing, thoughtful, inspiring, multi-faceted. Those of us on the creative path know that it is fraught with emotional peril -- CPM acknowledges this, gives us a little push when needed, a little pat on the back when called for. Like a wise best friend/aunt type of advice. Even if you were not interested in tarot, the prompts alone in the book are enough to pull you through any weeds in the garden of creative process.

And lastly, I have studied tarot off and on for decades and I still love to hear someone's take on what the cards mean. The best ones resonate with you while also giving you a little insight you didn't have before. This is one of the best ones.

My new favorite tarot book - I will definitely be suggesting this to our customers! This is good for beginners or advanced tarot readers. I was so pleased with the originality - this is a unique tarot book in a sea of typically mediocre books with recycled material. The original tarot spreads are great, the activity prompts for each card are wonderful, the interpretations are more nuanced than usual. It's also a visually pleasing book, and it has a good weight. An excellent gift for others or for yourself.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this title.

As I continue to learn and grow my practice with reading cards, this was a newer concept to me that I enjoyed.

Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the free copy in exchange for a review!

If you are into anything creative or tarot-related, this book is perfect for you. I LOVED this book - I am a huge creator and I love using tarot in my everyday life, I want to start using tarot in my creative endeavors and this book was the perfect starting place for learning all about tarot for self-reflection. I would highly recommend this book for artists or lovers of tarot.

This title is a fun new approach to using tarot in a person's life. I like to do tarot readings not only for daily life readings, Having a new approach and a method of deepening my relationship to art and creativity is very fun and I recommend it for people who find themselves getting in a creative rut.

I thought this was a unique approach to the world of tarot. There's a page for every card in the deck and every description is easy to understand for even the most amateur of card readers. I really enjoyed the artwork in the book and I look forward to purchasing it for my personal collection!

I loved the content I read, but the two-column format just didn’t work well for reading the book electronically. I got the paperback, and I anticipate it will go much better.

Publishers, *please* consider accessibility, especially if you’re going to release books electronically in two-column format. Many of us who are neuroatypical cannot process text when there’s more in peripheral vision, and we don’t have the bandwidth for pinch-out, read, pinch-in, scoot over, and pinch-out on every single page.

This book is specifically written for people who have (or want to own) a deck of tarot cards and who will use their deck in combination with this book to spur or unlock their creativity. And it’s a fantastic, comprehensive, and thorough book for this purpose!

Tarot is a deck of divining, fortune-telling cards. There are 22 Major Arcana cards (Tower, Fool, Hermit, Lovers, Sun, Moon, Devil, Magician, etc.) plus 56 Minor Arcana cards in 4 suits (cups, swords, wands, and coins) numbered from Ace to 10 plus 4 face cards (Page, Knight, King, Queen).

Tarot decks have been around for centuries and the artwork and interpretations have been updated over time. For example, the gender-neutral “Hanged One” now replaces the traditional “Hanged Man” in the deck the author pictures throughout.

In this excellent resource, every card has a lengthy description and interpretation through a creative lens. More than this, there are prompts and card layouts throughout that can be used for readings, with helpful insights often in a more positive interpretation than you’d see in the movies or TV shows.

From the book: “As creative prompts, the cards help me explore the energy, themes, and cast of characters involved in my writing projects…. I’ve seen artists use the Major Arcana to promote tone and theme in their work, dancers to turn to the body language of each Major Arcana character to inspire movement, and songwriters use the Major Arcana to set the mood for their compositions.”

The author goes above and beyond to offer fresh and directed guidance and interpretations. In her words, “In my opinion, the tarot is at its weakest when we chalk its symbolism up to rehashing religious tropes without entertaining what lies beyond the loudest parts of the cards.”

After exploring all the individual cards, the author offers 4 exercises for each suit, a sample reading for creativity, and 5 ideas for journaling or blogging with your Tarot deck. I particular like the idea of drawing a card in the morning or evening and reflecting on that card in your journal. For example, you’d read the page about the card’s iconography and creative meanings, then ask yourself:
- What does this card remind me of in my life right now?
- What action does this card inspire me to take?
- What does this card inspire me to let go of?
- What’s the biggest lesson I can learn from this card?

I have a non-traditional Post-Modern Tarot deck (called PoMo Tarot) in which swords are guns, wands are TVs, the magician is replaced with the expert, etc. and since the iconography is also different, I may just need to get a new deck to go with this terrific new resource.

Highly recommended for creative people who are open to Tarot.

Love the combination of using tarot to help inform/inspire creativity. I am super exited to try and incorporate these practices into my daily tarot practice when I want to flex my creative juices but don't want to delve into a big project.

This book is a fresh take on tarot that we haven't seen before. Each card focuses on the creative mind and how you creative life is reflected in tarot. Each card is complete with an explaination and reflection question. The set up lends itself well to an artist looking to create both a tarot and art practice. It is a great way to start your art practice each day and offers a new focus as one is creating.

Tarot for Creativity is so fun! I loved this approach to Tarot reading it is spontaneous and interesting. I enjoyed the fresh approach and the knowledge you can be creative in his you choose to do a tarot reading and the book definitely inspired creativity. I highly recommend it!

What a fun approach to tarot! I have some experience reading the cards, so I used my favorite deck and played with some of Chelsey's ideas. I am not sure this would work as well for readers who have not learned tarot in the past, but for me it was a great read.

I loved this book. It's a fantastic guide that blends the wisdom of tarot and the creative process. It offers a fresh perspective on how tarot can be used as a tool for unlocking inspiration, overcoming creative blocks, and enhancing artistic expression. The exercises and prompts are practical, having you explore your own creative potential in new ways. This book is a valuable resource.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing an advanced copy of this book!

This is a fun new way for people to use their tarot cards in creative pursuits. I can see myself using it when I need those creative juices flowing. The layout was well done with each card getting its own page. I recommend this book for people who are not brand new to tarot cards, but also not too set in their own ways of reading tarot. Some of the prompts seem a little generic, but I can see the author trying to hit all creative activities and making them very broad. Overall a well done and unique concept to insert creativity into tarot.

Thanks to Chronicle Books and Netgalley for this copy in exhange for my review.

So I picked this up on a whim, always looking for good prompt books for when I'm hitting my head against writer's block, and was deeply intrigued about the use of tarot. The set up and spreads are easy to follow and the prompts given for each tarot is extremely unique. I really enjoyed this book and plan on using it in the future.