Inner Stillness: The Book of Cards

Stillness does not live at the top of a mountain.

Inner Stillness is the companion book to PlayTarot's Inner Stillness Tarot: the 78 cards of the classic tarot dressed in the skin of a home. Not a magazine house, a lived-in one: the slanting morning light on the floorboards, the curtain that breathes, the cup going cold because nobody is in a hurry, the door ajar on a room you cannot see whole. Silence here is not an escape: it is the place where you start hearing what matters again.

Each of the 78 cards appears in full color, with three layers of reading. The reading of the image walks through the symbols one by one. The Bridge distills the card's essence and ends in a question. The Light and Shadow keywords are there for quick reference. Anyone who knows traditional tarot will recognize each archetype under the new skin: The Fool is a door flung open to the morning, and The Tower is a wall that cracks.

Inside:

• Tarot as a symbolic language, with no mystery and no prediction

• How to read the cards: the right question, looking before reading, light and shadow

• Three spreads, from one to five cards: Inner Spark, Inner Compass and Inner Elements

• The 22 Major Arcana, from The Open Door to The House Aglow, and the 56 Minor Arcana in four household suits: Pitchers, Windows, Candles and Loaves

• A glossary with each card's essence in a single line

A deck inspired by the everyday spirit of Zen and the beauty of simple things, used as a vocabulary for the inner life, not as a religious practice.

The house crossed here is the one inside you, and no card walks it on your behalf.

Not your future. Your reflection.