Tarot Affirmations

Take the Universal Waite Tarot, print five affirmations on every card alongside the familiar image, and you have Tarot Affirmations: seventy-eight large-size cards positioned as tools for self-transformation as much as for reading. Dr. Sally Hill, credited as creator, brings a specific background to the project: she is a psychologist and psychotherapist whose clinical focus is dreamwork and spirituality, which gives the added text a therapeutic grounding a purely decorative affirmation deck would lack. Grafting fixed text onto Rider-Waite-Smith-derived art is a real trade. Those images already carry decades of open-ended symbolic reading built up around them, and printing a specific affirmation onto the card narrows that openness toward one message chosen in advance. It suits readers using tarot as a self-help or journaling practice, who will welcome having the interpretation already on the page. Readers who prize ambiguity and want to arrive at their own meaning may find the affirmations get in the way instead.