Book excerpt: Release Mental Clutter and Elevate Your Readings With kindness and deep insight, Chanda Parkinson presents a fresh perspective on learning and working with tarot cards. She teaches you how to combine the power of tarot with the art of meditation to deepen mindfulness, cultivate intuition, and unlock your inner wisdom. Chanda explores the major arcana in depth, showing you each card's correspondences, overall theme, related meditation, and more. She then guides you through the minor arcana suit by suit, sharing meditations and number meanings according to wands, swords, pentacles, and cups. Chanda also supplies meditations for the court cards so you can easily connect them to people in your life. Based on the classic Rider-Waite-Smith system, this beginner-friendly book features card art from various decks as well as exercises and journal prompts designed to help you improve relationships, solve problems, and understand yourself on a deeper level. Now you can develop a rich, powerful relationship with the tarot through meditation. "Chanda Parkinson offers a truly fresh perspective on working with and learning the cards. With kindness and insight, she guides us through experiences that combine the power of tarot and of meditation to deepen mindfulness, cultivate intuition, and unlock our inner wisdom." ?From the foreword by Barbara Moore, author of The Steampunk Tarot