Mystic Ways Books

Tarot for Chris­tians: Lessons from Christ’s Fool

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The main char­ac­ter of tarot’s first card is The Fool, and Tarot for Chris­tians is the adven­ture of that inno­cent wan­derer. THE FOOL is a sim­ple trav­eler through the deck, grow­ing and learn­ing, expe­ri­enc­ing and living.

The author — a retired arch­bishop of the Old Catholic Church — brings his knowl­edge of meta­physics and tra­di­tional sym­bol­ism to these mis­un­der­stood “flash cards.” Each of the major cards in the deck is a sta­tion on the Fool’s jour­ney. The arch­bishop explains his take on each of the major cards with humor and eager antic­i­pa­tion of the wis­dom to be found in the images.

The Fool’s adven­ture is a med­i­ta­tion on life, not an attempt to peer into the future. It is a les­son for today, not tomor­row. Tarot for Chris­tians is the lov­ing and per­sonal jour­ney of Christ’s vagabond, and he wants us all to join him.

“It had me after the first para­graph of the intro­duc­tion! Finally a text on the mys­ti­cal tarot for Chris­tians. It is insight­ful and easy to read, and it made me laugh out loud.“
–Agatha Cassella

Tarot for Chris­tians (back cover)

• Phi­los­o­phy : Meta­physics (PHI013000)
• Self-Help : New Age (SEL503000)
• Body, Mind & Spirit : Tarot (OCC024000)

Open Library library card.

Dr. Wag­ner is a proud mem­ber of the Authors Guild. He is the Coad­ju­tor Emer­i­tus — as an arch­bishop — of the North Amer­i­can Old Catholic Churches and a past pres­i­dent of the World Con­fer­ence of Old Catholic Churches. He was writ­ten exten­sively on mys­ti­cal and New Age top­ics, espe­cially on how they jive with mod­ern chris­t­ian spir­i­tu­al­ity and reli­gious prac­tices. His views on reli­gion — some­times con­tro­ver­sial — try to keep the tyranny of orga­nized reli­gion in check while empow­er­ing indi­vid­u­als to be the best adher­ents their con­scious allows. He rails against church abuses and sup­ports indi­vid­ual seek­ers every day, some­times to the con­ster­na­tion of reli­gious lead­ers (the ones in the fancy robes). Yet, Dr. Wag­ner has the wattage. He is a retired arch­bishop and holds both a Mas­ter of Lib­eral Arts and a Doc­tor of The­ol­ogy. His cre­den­tials as an arch­bishop are vastly stronger and bet­ter doc­u­mented that the cur­rent pope and most of the Roman Col­lege of Car­di­nals. His bot­tom like: if you are a cleric who doesn’t care for the church’s mem­bers, Dr.

Thanks for sup­port­ing Dr. Wagner’s ministry

It has been so hard over the past few years. He devel­oped chronic pan­cre­ati­tis fol­low­ing and acute ver­sion of that con­di­tion cou­pled with a heart attach and stroke. He refuses to whine or grum­ble (at least not about that). The office at Mys­tic Ways Books objects to this atti­tude because it’s like Dr. Wag­ner is try­ing to run up the score­board. He reminded me that pan­cre­ati­tis is just one more log on the fire. He started with Hodgkins are the advance age of five:

“You try going to your first day of kinder­garten bald from the chemo. You gotta look tough. In con­trol. Macho. I didn’t exactly pull that off, but sev­eral kinder­gar­den “bul­lies” sort of adopted me while I recovered.”

The arch­bishop — now retired — con­tin­ues to work with oth­ers, qui­etly and through his books.

He retired for health rea­sons, hav­ing spent five months in the hos­pi­tal in 2010. Because of that, he is no longer able to book pub­lic speak­ing events. Some days are great. Oth­ers… let’s just say that you don’t want to count on him being at your event with bells on. 

Thank you for sup­port­ing him. Tarot for Chris­tians was entirely writ­ten after the long hos­pi­tal stay. He will deny it but fac­ing the call to those heaven lights has changed him. Noth­ing can make him more mel­low! But has more deep insights than ever before, and they are pre­sented in his typ­i­cal easy-to-read style. If you pick up this book, it’s hard to put it down.

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