Greer - Who are you in the tarot?: discover your birth and year cards and uncover your destiny

Mary Greer invites you into the inner treasury of tarot to adorn yourself with the jewels that are already yours. A wonderful resource for all lovers of tarot.

Caitln Matthews, author of The Arthurian Tarot

Once again, Mary Greer makes an important contribution to the field of tarot. Her work is always comprehensive, practical, inspirational and accessible. She is an outstanding teacher and practitioner of tarot symbology.

Angeles Arrien, cultural anthropologist and author of

The Tarot Handbook: Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols

Mary Greer takes tarot to a new level of understanding and application of the all-important archetypes that live within us all. As you further yourself on this wisdom path, this work is a great opportunity to know yourself and ultimately embody your apotheosis.

James Wanless, PhD, creator of The Voyager Tarot

and author of Way of the Great Oracle

Mary Greer's brilliantly detailed exploration of people's life constellations found in the tarot takes us deep into the world of the cards so that we may discover ourselves. Working intimately with the cards of our birth date, we do not just set up a series of structures, but instead create a vibrant dialogue with life's possibilities.

Rachel Pollack, author of Tarot Wisdom

Who Are You in the Tarot? is a deep exploration of this brilliant insight into tarot. This is a valuable resource book for tarot advocates of all levels of study. I quite enjoyed the thoroughly engaging exercises that are dotted along this journey. There are also helpful spreads, charts and lists for easy reference. Bravo Ms. Greer, you have again improved tarot literature.

Nancy Antenucci, author of Psychic Tarot

Who Are You In the Tarot? is a powerful exploration of the soul! After over four decades of serving as one of the most significant tarot pioneers of our century, Mary K. Greer continues to forge forward with ideas and techniques that make tarot easily accessible to everyone. Understand your own personal tarot mandalayour personality blueprint and the knee-jerk patterns that impact how one's very DNA responds to situationsso that you can better understand why you react and create the situations you live each day. Find meaning in experiences, begin to understand the psyche, and interact with the soul on a conscious level that can change your approach to the present so you can create better tomorrows.

Donnaleigh de LaRose, Educational Tarot Radio Podcast Host

Who are you in the tarot? With Mary K. Greer's latest book, it's easy and fun to find yourself in a deck of tarot cards. In just a few simple steps, you'll glean new insights into your own personality, and you'll discover useful information to add to any tarot reading. Mary's system isn't just entertainingit's also astonishingly accurate. Her descriptions, her scholarship, and her sense of history all bring new life to Pamela Colman Smith's timeless illustrationsand to the essence of the tarot itself. Whether you're a beginning tarot enthusiast or a seasoned professional, Mary's expert guidance will help you make connections you've never dreamed of.

Corrine Kenner, author of Tarot and Astrology,

Tarot for Writers, and Wizards Tarot

In this significant uplift to Tarot Constellations, Mary K. Greer offers a comprehensive workbook to engage your whole self in the Tarot. In providing a range of tools based on your own name and birth information, through numerology, correspondence and astrology, this book gears tarot to lifeyour life. My own copy of Constellations is worn thin with use and referenceI expect no different from Who Are You in the Tarot.

Marcus Katz, author of Tarosophy,

co-director of Tarot Professionals and co-founder of

www.Tarot-Town.com, the social network for those who simply love tarot

Whenever I teach tarot, I like to introduce new students to Mary Greer's system for discovering their personal cards, like their Personality, Soul, and Year Cards. It makes the tarot come alive for them immediately, in a very intimate way. We've been waiting for Who Are You in the Tarot? for a long time! This expanded version of a beloved classic will facilitate a deeper exploration of our own destinies, whether we're newcomers to the tarot or old hands at it.

Joanna Powell Colbert, creator of the Gaian Tarot

Mary Greer is a tarot scholar and a gifted reader of the cards. In Who Are You in the Tarot? she takes numerology a step further by reducing your birth date and given name not only to a number but to a series or constellation of tarot cards that speak of your destiny or life direction. While acknowledging the irrational nature of this endeavor she is wise enough to recognize that this irrationality is actually its strength. The system and the tarot constellations that it forms allows us to step past our separateness and to see ourselves as a part of the universal whole, with a life path determined by the Soul of the World and not just our egos.

Robert M. Place, author of

The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination

and creator of The Alchemical Tarot

Over the past decade or so, Mary Greer has built on an already stellar reputation among the leading writers and teachers of tarot in our time to become one of those rare figures whose work will redefine the tarot for generations to come. This latest addition to her already substantial list of must-read books explores a neglected dimension of the cards in a manner that is deeply rooted in traditional tarot lore but builds on that lore in startling new directions. Highly recommended.

John Michael Greer, author of

The Art and Practice of Geomancy

First published in 2011 by Weiser Books, an imprint of

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

665 Third Street, Suite 400

San Francisco, CA 94107

www.redwheelweiser.com

Copyright 2011 by Mary K. Greer

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.

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Parts of this book were originally published in Tarot Constellations by Mary K. Greer

(North Hollywood, California: Newcastle Publishing Co., 1987).

ISBN: 978-1-57863-493-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

Cover design by Jim Warner

Cover Illustrations from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck reproduced by permission of U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902 USA.

Copyright 1971 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Further reproduction prohibited.

The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck is a registered trademark of U.S. Games Systems, Inc.

Interior by Kathryn Sky-Peck

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In memory of my parents

Rita Alice West Greer

and

John Cox Greer

who encouraged me to follow

my own destiny.