Excellent post, Corrine. I’ve always felt that tarot cards have a strong creative component. Not only do they serve as projection holders, but I feel they can stimulate creativity (in multitudinous ways) by tapping into those hidden reservoirs of imaginative thinking. The cards are like objective observers identifying the potential of the querent.I love this about the cards and feel that embracing them as part of one’s repertoire is an excellent way to stay inspired. They feed the soul…and it works for me!
-Can’t wait to get your book! I think it’s going to do fantastically!

I’m with Lisa, great blog Corrine. My favorite and the most poetic line was, “Every time you mix the cards, the music changes. The dancers find new partners and new dance steps, and a new universe spins into existence.”
Bravo!

Thanks, Corrine, for the insightful post. So many people are unaware that the Tarot cards are a bridge between a person’s logic and a person’s intuition and the information comes from within that person, not from an outside source.

I’m looking forward to reading more about Tarot in your new book.

I’ve turned to tarot for help with my writing before. I’m glad to see someone’s written a whole book on the subject, instead of the scattered articles I’ve found online thus far. Definitely added to my reading list.

I’ve so enjoyed this post, Corrine. Your book sounds most original and interesting, and just what I might need as a friendly guide as I start my tarot journey and dust off my writing dreams.

Best of luck with Tarot for Writers!!

[...] Guest Blogging Filed under: Tarot for Writers — Corrine Kenner @ 11:27 am I’m guest blogging about tarot and creativity today, over at Kris Waldherr’s blog! [...]

The creative possbilities for using Tarot cards are probably endless. I often allow my children to choose a deck on their own, draw several cards, and then make a story out of them. For them, it’s just a fun thing to do. The best part is that is allows me to see what’s going on with them at an unconscious level. It sparks conversation about issues in their lives that we can discuss freely and without threat, because after all, we’re just discussing the story they’ve come up with,right? As a nurse who has worked with children before, it is often difficult for children to trust adults with social and family issues. I don’t expect Tarot to be used in a clinical setting anytime soon – but there’s no reason it couldn’t. Sure beats those boring (and limited) Rorschach inkblot tests!

Looking forward to more blogging!

This was a good post, Corrine! I am constantly awed and humbled by the connections of the cards; reading “between the cards” and, indeed, finding the magic there.

I’m looking forward to getting a copy of your book…maybe I can break my writer’s block!

What an interesting post! Thanks for an opportunity to win this book!

I love your deck too, btw, it’s next on my list of must-haves.

This is a very insightful post. Thanks!

I really appreciated the clarity of “the magic comes from inside”. It just opens the dialogue to a more broad understanding of Tarot. Thank you for this and for the book. We need your voice.

Tarot has been so truly amazing to me!! At first I kept it just for me and now I use it with my therapy clients. I love having them speak about what they see first and it really reminds me, like Corrine said, that it comes from within us – it is not an external force.

I totally agree with you that the tarot is a tool. As with any tool, in the hands of a craftsman or artist beautiful works can be created, but in the hands of an amateur more can be damaged with the tool than may be created. Books can provide insight into the use of tools; concepts may be visualized and ideas born, but only with practice, time and patience may the use of a tool be mastered. In providing a manual of use for the tarot, you have done a great service for those who would become masters of their craft.

Well blogged, Corrine. At times I like using something to jump start my writing and have used the Tarot to do so with inspired results. I’ll be interested to read about specific ways to utilize the Tarot as a writing tool! Congrats to Corrine on publishing Tarot for Writers and to Kris for Doomed Queens.

Fascinating subject and delightful website!
I look forward to the Wizard’s Tarot when it is released.

Excellent teaser for the book, Corrine. And thank you for talking Corrine into sharing this with us, Kris!

I read The Greater Trumps in college, and that was years ago. I should take it out and re-read it!

Well written blog as usual. I’m looking forward to reading your book and to seeing your upcoming Tarot deck.

When I was in college a friend turned me onto Tarot, although I have yet to buy my own deck I have always been fascinated as through the ages it has helped to calm and increase the knowledge of many who believe.

Those who use & collect tarots are blessed to have unlimited images at their disposal thanks to artists such as Kris Wahdherr who has drawn the connection between Tarot & Words in the very title of this blog – Corrine Kenner has taken the Tarot to a new height for us by meticulously explaining the HOW of Tarot Readings become – Story – Poem – Novel or Screenplay. I am forever grateful to Corrine for giving me an ‘advance copy’ of ‘Tarot For Writers’ at the last Studio and returning me to my writers’ daily process! For those who are unfamiliar with Tarot and the Art of Reading – ‘Tarot For Writers’is a wonderful way to learn to read and create at the same time. I know that ‘Tarot For Writers’ can both teach the cards and make daily writers of all who take ‘Tarot For Writers’ into their daily practice.

Okay, I am intrigued. Anything that can make the process of creative writing and thinking easy has me wanting to know more!

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I am looking forward to reading your book. As always very well written blog, wet my appetite for sure!!

Corrine, what a wonderful way to break out of nthe writers block (and laziness) I’ve fallen into. I love working with tarot cards, especially when i get that ‘tingle’ on the top of my head as i choose the cards from the spread. Can’t wait to read your book and to also sit down with my decks and see what creative paths I can find.

This was a great article Corrine. That’s one of my favorite parts of a tarot reading, it’s the story of my life. Sometimes I get so caught up in the day-to-day struggle of living I lose sight of the adventure that I’m on. As an artist, the cards are an inspiration in storytelling with pictures. As a Reiki Master I find them a valuable tool in my own spiritual development and growth as a person.

I like how you said “In actual practice, however, the magic always comes from inside.” That’s the best reminder I can think of about living a magical life! I definitely have to get my hands on your new book.

Excellent article! I have taken some of Corrine’s suggestions and used the cards for storyline inspirations. Using a grid I layout the cards and a story begins to unfold all by itself! By adding more cards the story becomes even more intruiging, and ideas begin to spring forth unchecked. The book is a terrific tool to jumpstart both inspiration and practice. Keep up the good work Corrine!

I know I want to be a writer and I know I have it in me but the path seems long and misty. I feel like this book is a sign and will be my map. I have been asking the universe to send me the energy and I wish that your book would reach me soon because I know it would take me forward as a writer. Corrine thank you for sharing and publishing this book for all wanna-be writers.

I too love the line: “Every time you mix the cards, the music changes. The dancers find new partners and new dance steps, and a new universe spins into existence.” It is like we really do have a part in co-creating the events of our existence. Many thanks.

Corrine,

Thank you for the insightful information about the tarot and writing. I appreciate the way you have brought the tarot to life for so many through your writing. I enjoy “playing with poetry”, and I will try using the tarot when I next sit to write. Kris, thank you for your Goddess deck, I use it when giving readings to my clients. I enjoy working with it.

I really like this way of linking Tarot and creativity. I need to pick up my cards and a notebook now!

What a lovely perspective. I am a writer of songs and I’ll give your idea for creating a try!

Great article Corrine! Tarot cards are so full of symbolism that when looked at closely, the colours and shapes also catch one’s imagination. I love the exercise where one person pulls a card and starts a story, then the next pulls a card and continues and so on and so on, this is so creative!

As a writer and also a tarot reader, I find these cards hold enormous potential for unlocking that link between the conscious and the subconscious. The more they are used the more one’s intuition kicks in.

I’m real curious about your book Corrine. Hope I can read it soon!!!! Alway like to read your posts.

I do believe that the tarot has a lot to teach people, and to focus on writers as an audience is interesting to me. Certainly the tarot does jump-start creativity and tapping into the unconscious more.

I am curious to see what exercises Corrine recommends… And, also her viewpoint of how it specifically relates to writers.

Nice guest blog, Kris & Corinne. Though, I have to admit, I am really looking forward to your Monday posts, Kris!

~Melanie

Thanks for this wonderful blog post. I am a tarot lover for about 8 years now. You have made me curious about putting it to use to help the creative writing process. Joanne

Tarot for Writers seems like a book I started writing a few years ago and I’m so excited that Corrine Kenner has written it since mine may never be complete.

Corrinne,
This is so amazing. I used to write tons of stories and scripts. Poems, songs. Now i just can’t find my muse.
I’m lost. Is it possible your book could help?
Sounds so creative. Maybe there is hope.