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READ LIKE THE DEVIL: THE ESSENTIAL COURSE IN READING THE MARSEILLE TAROT
CAMELIA ELIAS
This book is the first in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature ‘Read Like the Devil.’ It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback, divination philosophy, and essays on method.
Camelia Elias lives up to her reputation of a cartomantic martial artist, taking no prisoners. Her cuts through misunderstandings and misinterpretations are clean, leaving the serious student of cartomancy with a sense of wonder. The aim is to establish a top-level cartomancy that gives the possibility for all the students of the Marseille Tarot to reach the level of competence where they are beyond comparison, in a league of their own.
This course book offers rigorous deconstructions and revisions of traditional approaches to reading the Marseille Tarot, establishing a unique, oracular voice that’s efficient, convincing, and poetic. The fortuneteller that emerges from these pages is analytical, deductively logical, and contextually situated. Her Read like the Devil method fuses the obvious with an incisively penetrating Zen clarity.
6×9” | B&W illustrations | 366 pp
ISBN 978-8792633668 paperback
ISBN 978-8792633675 ebook
CATEGORY
Divination
EDITIONS
Standard paperback 2020 | $28
Ebook 2020 | $18
NOTE
Textbook in cartomancy.
REVIEWS
Read Like the Devil: The Essential Course in Reading the Marseille Tarot by Camelia Elias is like taking a master class – all of her TdM teachings rolled into one place. It occurred to me that her samurai sword reading style works quite well with Marco Benedetti’s Visconti-Sforza homage deck – streamlined, minimalist, no frills and no nonsense. — SHERRYL SMITH, Tarot Heritage
Elias holds no punches when teaching. Her writing isn’t filled with unnecessary symbolism or arbitrary rules. It’s exact and level-headed. — SOL THE WITCH'
Her narrative is a blend of poetry, erudition, and irreverence. — PAUL WILLIAMNS, Vice President, Clinical Operations; Psychotherapist at NorthCare Center, Inc.
I highly recommend it to intermediate and advanced readers who are looking to take the next step forward in their divination. I’ll end with this quote, which I think sums up the book better than I can: “In divination the only thing that’s real is the question, whether from the heart or some distorted illusion of the mind. The job of the fortuneteller is to answer it, regardless.” — JOHN BECKETT, Under the Ancient Oaks, Patheos.
