{"id":27745,"date":"2023-02-02T01:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/?p=27745"},"modified":"2023-02-01T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T05:00:39","slug":"book-review-13-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2023\/02\/02\/book-review-13-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review \u2013 Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot by Theresa Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book <\/span>R<\/span>eview<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Twist Your Fate:<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

by Theresa Reed<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/h1>\n

Publisher: Weiser Books<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

272 pages<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/h1>\n

Release Date<\/span>: August 1, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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I kid you not, this book \u2013 Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot<\/em> by Theresa Reed, and published by Weiser Books \u2013 has sat on my desk for at least four months. I did start reading it back before \u2013 gee, was it Samhain? \u2013 I honestly do not remember. I marked a few pages that I wanted to scan and life got away from me \u2013 I had to take care of a few health issues that I had put off because of COVID and then my first grandchild was born two days after Thanksgiving Day and then there was the holidays and then I went down to see my sweet little granddaughter \u2013 my son is in the Army, so it\u2019s not like I\u2019m able to be with my immediate family the way I want to be. So this book \u2013 and a few others \u2013 have been sitting on my desk \u2013 because, good Goddess \u2013 when you have a darling granddaughter to visit, you let everything else go. And I was knitting a blanket for her \u2013 knitting in all kinds of good charms and spells as I sat all those hours. Like a good grandma witch does.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But even grandmothers and witches have other work to do and I came home to a pile of books to read and review and I picked up this book \u2013 Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot<\/em> \u2013 and started reading it again, from the beginning \u2013 and totally fell in love with it. This is one of the best books about astrology and tarot I have ever read. I know its focus is on the business and work world, but believe me, you can use its knowledge on any part of your life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, I checked out the author of the book, Theresa Reed. Her website is here ~~~>
\nhttps:\/\/www.thetarotlady.com\/<\/a> When you go there, you\u2019ll be given another link to subscribe to her newsletter, which of course I did and then you\u2019ll get a link to a PDF document, \u201cThe Power of Tarot\u201d, which is twenty-eight pages of common sense tarot talk \u2013 if you keep a tarot notebook, like I do, you might want to print this out and put it in your notebook to refer to, because it\u2019s really good stuff! Even if you\u2019ve been reading the cards for over thirty years like I have. You can never have too much knowledge.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The first part of the book is about astrology and if you know nothing about astrology, don\u2019t worry, Reed explains everything you need to know in plain and simple terms \u2013 much better than almost any other book I\u2019ve ever read. She includes great charts and anyone who has ever read any of my reviews here at Pagan Pages knows that I love charts. Also \u2013 this book is a workbook<\/em>. Hopefully you have your astrological information before you start reading this book but if you don\u2019t, you will want to get it before you are beyond page 35. If you don\u2019t know an astrologer, or there are none in your hometown, there are astrology apps you can purchase for your laptop or smartphone or you can go to a website like Astro.com at http:\/\/www.astro.com<\/a>\u00a0for a chart of your birth date. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This first chart I am sure you have seen before. It\u2019s the basic astrological wheel of the twelve houses.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So Reed then takes this astrological wheel of the houses and translates it into the business world as such:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I think this is so cool!<\/em> I wish I had known about this back when I was running my own business \u2013 any one of them \u2013 and was working to create my own brand \u2013 not that I called it that in those days \u2013 but I definitely had a public image! As an older woman who is technically retired but still freelance writes, I can still use this astrological wheel to my benefit. I\u2019m sure that you can too, regardless of your age or where you are in your career path.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The next chart is one you fill in yourself. This is important, because you will refer back to this again and again as you continue to read Twist Your Fate.<\/em> Unlike most astrology books, which focus merely on which signs your planets are residing in, Reed also wants us to note the houses they are in. This is important information!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So then you fill in this blank astrological wheel, for future reference:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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After you do all this prep work, you are ready to read the rest of the book and learn not only about yourself but what jobs are the best for you, your ideal career path, what kinds of people you might want to hire (if you\u2019re a boss), what kinds of bosses to watch out for (if you\u2019re an employee), and all kinds of other great stuff that I wish I had known way back in the day!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After talking about the signs, the elements, whether they are cardinal, fixed or mutable, Reed talks about the \u201crulership\u201d of the signs. Again, she provides a fabulous chart:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not going to explain all that business about \u201cdetriment\u201d and \u201cexaltation\u201d and \u201cfall\u201d, since she does it so much better than I ever could, but it\u2019s wicked interesting! I got the feeling that she didn\u2019t quite agree with all of this \u2013 \u201cI didn\u2019t make up the rules,\u201d Reed insists and again, \u201cI didn\u2019t make the rules!\u201d (Reed, 32,33). But it is<\/em> interesting!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I had a good time reading about myself within the confines of my astrological chart \u2013 I did learn some new things about myself, which really says something \u2013 I have been studying my own astrological chart since I first had one drawn up when I was twenty-four years old. The most recent one I had done was two years ago. What I focused on \u2013 using Twist Your Fate<\/em> as a guide \u2013 was the influence of the houses on my working life, especially my current writing career. There\u2019s a lot of tweaking that needs to be done but I may still be a success, even at my advanced age.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m really skimming through what Part One covers, since it covers so very much. But if I don\u2019t, I\u2019ll never get to Part Two, which is called \u201cTarot \u2013 Your New Business Cards\u201d. Instead of giving general meanings for the cards, Reed shares her \u201cfavorite biz or career interpretation\u201d, which I found quite innovative (Reed, 144). I have always gone to the Tarot for help with my romantic life \u2013 I never really asked the cards for help with my career \u2013 unless it had to do with interpersonal relationships on the job.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Reed goes through every single card in the 78-card Rider-Waite deck, interpreting them for the business world. They are some of the best interpretations I have ever read, anywhere<\/em>. I\u2019m telling you all right now \u2013 this section of the book is going to be one of my go-to Tarot references from now on \u2013 in fact, this entire book is going to be one of my favorite go-to divinatory references! Everything I read seemed so spot on<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, Reed includes a few Tarot spreads but guess what? There\u2019s no Celtic Cross among them! This must be a first. I really like this 3-Card Spread:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The situation: shows the energy around the question.
\nWhat you need to know: indicates the blind spots around the situation
\nAdvice: how you can get the most out your situation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always liked 3-card spreads and this one gets to the issues immediately (it also works with Lenormand cards).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The third and final part is about using your intuition. Reed writes, \u201c\u2026 astrology creates the map; Tarot shows you the detours\u201d, a statement I absolutely love. But she continues, \u201c\u2026there is one more crucial element \u2013 your intuition.\u201d (Reed, 223). She states that she has never ignored her \u201cfeeling\u201d about a situation or a person, even if she didn\u2019t have the facts to back it up. I love her story about how she became a Tarot reader \u2013 by taking her cards to the bar in which she worked. What a great idea! She gives the reader ideas on how to develop your intuition and the basics of intuition. Also \u2013 what to do when your intuition is \u201cdead wrong\u201d (Reed, 231).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Part Four is called \u201cTwist Your Fate\u201d and it\u2019s all about using your astrological chart and your Tarot information to find out what you need to know \u2013 are you going to get the job you want? What are the weaknesses you present? What are your strengths? And so on \u2013 determining how to \u201ctwist your fate\u201d so that you can use your strengths to mitigate your weaknesses and so be a success.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to end this review without mentioning the \u201cRecommended Reading\u201d list on page 247. Many of these books I have read \u2013 in fact, I own several of them! The ones I haven\u2019t read yet are going on my list of books-to-look-for \u2013 either at the library or at my favorite bookseller.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even though Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot<\/em> by Theresa Reed focuses on the business world, your career and the jobs you are seeking, the information and knowledge between its covers can be used in almost any aspect of your life. After all \u2013 even if we are not working in a traditional work setting, or we are taking time off from our career due to family issues or any other reason, or we are retired, we will always have to deal with business issues and there will always be interpersonal relationships in any setting we find ourselves. This book will definitely help you navigate the seas of the divinatory world so that you are a success in all your endeavors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot on Amazon<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Polly MacDavid<\/b>\u00a0lives in Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change, since she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the divinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has three cats who all help her with her magic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan but she gets along with a few of the masculine deities. She loves to cook and she is a Bills fan. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She blogs at\u00a0<\/span><\/span>silverapplequeen.wordpress.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span>. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a novel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Review Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot by Theresa Reed Publisher: Weiser Books 272 pages Release Date: August 1, 2022         I kid you not, this book \u2013 Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot by Theresa Reed, and published by Weiser Books \u2013 has sat on my desk for at least four months. I did start reading it back before \u2013 gee, was it Samhain? \u2013 I honestly do not remember. I marked a few pages that I wanted to scan and life got away from me \u2013 I had to take care of a few health issues that I had put off because of COVID and then my first grandchild was born two days after Thanksgiving Day and then there was the holidays and then I went down to see my sweet little granddaughter \u2013 my son is in the Army, so it\u2019s not like I\u2019m able to be with my immediate family the way I want to be. So this book \u2013 and a few others \u2013 have been sitting on my desk \u2013 because, good Goddess \u2013 when you have a darling granddaughter to visit, you let everything else go. And I was knitting a blanket for her \u2013 knitting in all kinds of good charms and spells as I sat all those hours. Like a good grandma witch does. But even grandmothers and witches have other work to do and I came home to a pile of books to read and review and I picked up this book \u2013 Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot \u2013 and started reading it again, from the beginning \u2013 and totally fell in love with it. This is one of the best books about astrology and tarot I have ever read. I know its focus is on the business and work world, but believe me, you can use its knowledge on any part of your life. Of course, I checked out the author of the book, Theresa Reed. Her website is here ~~~> https:\/\/www.thetarotlady.com\/ When you go there, you\u2019ll be given another link to subscribe to her newsletter, which of course I did and then you\u2019ll get a link to a PDF document, \u201cThe Power of Tarot\u201d, which is twenty-eight pages of common sense tarot talk \u2013 if you keep a tarot notebook, like I do, you might want to print this out and put it in your notebook to refer to, because it\u2019s really good stuff! Even if you\u2019ve been reading the cards for over thirty years like I have. You can never have too much knowledge. The first part of the book is about astrology and if you know nothing about astrology, don\u2019t worry, Reed explains everything you need to know in plain and simple terms \u2013 much better than almost any other book I\u2019ve ever read. She includes great charts and anyone who has ever read any of my reviews here at Pagan Pages knows that I love charts. Also \u2013 this book is a workbook. Hopefully you have your astrological information before you start reading this book but if you don\u2019t, you will want to get it before you are beyond page 35. If you don\u2019t know an astrologer, or there are none in your hometown, there are astrology apps you can purchase for your laptop or smartphone or you can go to a website like Astro.com at http:\/\/www.astro.com\u00a0for a chart of your birth date. This first chart I am sure you have seen before. It\u2019s the basic astrological wheel of the twelve houses. So Reed then takes this astrological wheel of the houses and translates it into the business world as such: I think this is so cool! I wish I had known about this back when I was running my own business \u2013 any one of them \u2013 and was working to create my own brand \u2013 not that I called it that in those days \u2013 but I definitely had a public image! As an older woman who is technically retired but still freelance writes, I can still use this astrological wheel to my benefit. I\u2019m sure that you can too, regardless of your age or where you are in your career path. The next chart is one you fill in yourself. This is important, because you will refer back to this again and again as you continue to read Twist Your Fate. Unlike most astrology books, which focus merely on which signs your planets are residing in, Reed also wants us to note the houses they are in. This is important information! So then you fill in this blank astrological wheel, for future reference: After you do all this prep work, you are ready to read the rest of the book and learn not only about yourself but what jobs are the best for you, your ideal career path, what kinds of people you might want to hire (if you\u2019re a boss), what kinds of bosses to watch out for (if you\u2019re an employee), and all kinds of other great stuff that I wish I had known way back in the day! After talking about the signs, the elements, whether they are cardinal, fixed or mutable, Reed talks about the \u201crulership\u201d of the signs. Again, she provides a fabulous chart: I\u2019m not going to explain all that business about \u201cdetriment\u201d and \u201cexaltation\u201d and \u201cfall\u201d, since she does it so much better than I ever could, but it\u2019s wicked interesting! I got the feeling that she didn\u2019t quite agree with all of this \u2013 \u201cI didn\u2019t make up the rules,\u201d Reed insists and again, \u201cI didn\u2019t make the rules!\u201d (Reed, 32,33). But it is interesting! I had a good time reading about myself within the confines of my astrological chart \u2013 I did learn some new things about myself, which really says something \u2013 I have been studying my own astrological chart since I first had one drawn up when I was twenty-four years old. The most recent one I had done was two years ago. What I focused on \u2013 using Twist Your Fate as a guide \u2013 was the influence of the houses on my working life, especially my current writing career. There\u2019s a lot of tweaking that needs to be done but I may still be a success, even at my advanced age. I\u2019m really skimming through what Part One covers, since it covers so very much. But if I don\u2019t, I\u2019ll never get to Part Two, which is called \u201cTarot \u2013 Your New Business Cards\u201d. Instead of giving general meanings for the cards, Reed shares her \u201cfavorite biz or career interpretation\u201d, which I found quite innovative (Reed, 144). I have always gone to the Tarot for help with my romantic life \u2013 I never really asked the cards for help with my career \u2013 unless it had to do with interpersonal relationships on the job. Reed goes through every single card in the 78-card Rider-Waite deck, interpreting them for the business world. They are some of the best interpretations I have ever read, anywhere. I\u2019m telling you all right now \u2013 this section of the book is going to be one of my go-to Tarot references from now on \u2013 in fact, this entire book is going to be one of my favorite go-to divinatory references! Everything I read seemed so spot on. Naturally, Reed includes a few Tarot spreads but guess what? There\u2019s no Celtic Cross among them! This must be a first. I really like this 3-Card Spread: The situation: shows the energy around the question. What you need to know: indicates the blind spots around the situation Advice: how you can get the most out your situation. I\u2019ve always liked 3-card spreads and this one gets to the issues immediately (it also works with Lenormand cards). The third and final part is about using your intuition. Reed writes, \u201c\u2026 astrology creates the map; Tarot shows you the detours\u201d, a statement I absolutely love. But she continues, \u201c\u2026there is one more crucial element \u2013 your intuition.\u201d (Reed, 223). She states that she has never ignored her \u201cfeeling\u201d about a situation or a person, even if she didn\u2019t have the facts to back it up. I love her story about how she became a Tarot reader \u2013 by taking her cards to the bar in which she worked. What a great idea! She gives the reader ideas on how to develop your intuition and the basics of intuition. Also \u2013 what to do when your intuition is \u201cdead wrong\u201d (Reed, 231). Part Four is called \u201cTwist Your Fate\u201d and it\u2019s all about using your astrological chart and your Tarot information to find out what you need to know \u2013 are you going to get the job you want? What are the weaknesses you present? What are your strengths? And so on \u2013 determining how to \u201ctwist your fate\u201d so that you can use your strengths to mitigate your weaknesses and so be a success. I don\u2019t want to end this review without mentioning the \u201cRecommended Reading\u201d list on page 247. Many of these books I have read \u2013 in fact, I own several of them! The ones I haven\u2019t read yet are going on my list of books-to-look-for \u2013 either at the library or at my favorite bookseller. Even though Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot by Theresa Reed focuses on the business world, your career and the jobs you are seeking, the information and knowledge between its covers can be used in almost any aspect of your life. After all \u2013 even if we are not working in a traditional work setting, or we are taking time off from our career due to family issues or any other reason, or we are retired, we will always have to deal with business issues and there will always be interpersonal relationships in any setting we find ourselves. This book will definitely help you navigate the seas of the divinatory world so that you are a success in all your endeavors.   Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success with Astrology & Tarot on Amazon   ** About the Author: Polly MacDavid\u00a0lives in Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change, since she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the divinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has three cats who all help her with her magic. Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan but she gets along with a few of the masculine deities. She loves to cook and she is a Bills fan. She blogs at\u00a0silverapplequeen.wordpress.com. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. 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