Tarot Notes
🔗 http://tarotnotes-majorandminor.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-by-zanna-playing-card-oracles.htmlAna Cortez is co-creator and author of The Playing Card Oracles, A Source Book for Divination, published by US Games Systems, and The Teacher Within, Enraptured Ranting and Other Tales. She has been practicing and studying various systems of divination and self-knowledge for 30 years. Ana has studied energy healing from the shamanic traditions as well as with Dr. Eric Pearl. She writes a blog, teaches Oracle Reading and dreams of her next visit to the Brazilian jungle. Her website is http://www.anacortez.com
<p><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">This coloring book version of the best-selling “whine-stopper” children’s story was designed for kids to enjoy reading the rhyming, as well as being able to illustrate their own version of Peter’s nocturnal adventure into the woods.</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">Peter’s mother warns him that if he doesn’t stop whining and crying, he’ll have to go live with the Whimper-Whineys. His adventure continues as he later hops into the woods and finds lots of frightening Whimper-Whineymen! He discovers that the Whimper-Whineys are very ill-mannered and rude, and that everything is sour in Whimper-Whineland. He decides his mother was right. If only he can get back home!</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">According to a recent critique, “I cannot imagine any parent or guardian not wanting to read this book to their child! ... Parents everywhere applaud you!”</span></p>
Ana Cortez and her father, C.J. Freeman, created the Playing Card Oracles together. Their decades of work began when C.J. began intuitively painting the 52-card deck to find startling and unusual imagery coming through. He then began writing stories for the characters and researching playing card history to find clues to what was appearing. His daughter became involved initially in the early 80's and together they completed the book around 2002. C.J. drew and painted Oracle images for the 52-card deck for nearly 30 years, to complete a very large body of original and provoking work. The image on the cover of the book came from a lucid dream conversation with "The Oracle" shortly before publication.
<span style="color:#5b0277;font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;line-height:20px;"><strong>“The book that you (Ana Cortez) wrote and he (CJ Freeman) brilliantly illustrated and essayed is one of the favorites in my personal library.”</strong></span><div><span style="color:#5b0277;font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;line-height:20px;"><strong>--Stuart Kaplan, Chairman of U.S. Games Systems, Inc.</strong></span></div><div><span style="color:#5b0277;font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;line-height:20px;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">I found this book to be well written, well researched, and presented in a manner that anyone, from any background, could follow. Is this system different from other playing card systems? Yes, it is. It is a system unto itself. Go into this world with an open mind and an open heart, and you will do well. In the end, you will be able to read playing cards as a form of divination, and be able to work with your results. The wisdom and vision within this book is phenomenal. Take a look and see what you think! --Bonnie Cehovet, Author and Tarot Grand Master<br /></span></div>