“The intelligent writing and distinctive, illuminating interpretations of each of the 78 tarot cards, plus the exquisite nautical illustrations by Eason, make this title a stand-out.” —Library Journal

“Does the world really need another guide to reading tarot? Well, if it’s Melinda Lee Holm’s Your Tarot Guide: Learn to Navigate Life With the Help of the Cards, then the answer is absolutely yes! …All that you need to navigate the wisdom of the tarot is held within these pages.” —Musing Mystical

“Life can be confusing. It doesn’t have to be. Tarot can provide direction and support, especially when you feel lost. In Your Tarot Guide, Melinda Lee Holm compares Tarot to a compass, a reliable tool to help you navigate the roughest terrain. This beautifully illustrated book contains everything you need to get started on your Tarot journey. Beginners and adepts will appreciate Melinda’s straightforward delivery, in-depth interpretations, and practical spreads. Her masterful teaching will help build Tarot confidence, so you can take the wheel and create your own fortune.” —Theresa Reed, author of The Cards You’re Dealt: How To Deal When Life Gets Real

“With a lyrical yet gently straightforward approach, scholar and practitioner Melinda Lee Holm offers a quintessential guide to Tarot as practical tool, a method of navigating our modern day-to-day. Accompanied by intricately cinematic illustrations by Rohan Daniel Eason, Your Tarot Guide anchors the mystical arcana with historic overview and concrete meaning. The result is ultimately both poetic and pragmatic, magickal, matter-of-fact methods of utilizing this centuries-old divinatory tradition to map our contemporary lives.” —Jessica Hundley, author and editor of The Library of Esoterica encyclopedia series

About

Melinda Lee Holm is an author and tarot scholar with over thirty years of experience in the magickal arts. She is the author of Your Tarot Guide, Tarot of Tales, Your Magickal Year, and Elemental Power Tarot, as well as the co-author of Divine Your Dinner. Her work has appeared in Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, SheKnows.com, HelloGiggles.com, and The Numinous. Melinda has read tarot for people all over the world including GZA of Wu Tang Clan and Buddhist leader Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Khyentse Norbu).  She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside Palm Desert Low-Residency program. Melinda has been featured in Vogue, InStyle, WWD, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Hollywood Reporter. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and tiny perfect dog.

Books

Your Tarot Guide: Learn to navigate life with the help of the cards

Uncover the meanings of the cards to interpret the past, present, and future with this inspiring guide from expert tarot reader Melinda Lee Holm.

In this essential handbook, expert tarot reader Melinda Lee Holm shares her method of understanding tarot as a language and a tool for navigating life. With her guidance, you’ll gain the fluency you need to read the map provided by the cards. Beginning with the basics, you’ll find out about the deck structure and suits, the history of tarot, and how to choose your deck. Learn about different spreads (patterns of cards chosen for a reading) and discover how the cards combine to tell stories and provide direction. The book also includes a dictionary of the meaning of each of the 78 tarot cards and the different ways they can function. With their symbols and richly detailed scenes, Rohan Eason’s stunning illustrations provide visual clues to the meanings of the cards. Whether you are a complete beginner or would like to add further depth to your readings, this unique approach to tarot will help you to gain insight into your past, present, and future, and find the wisdom and answers that you need.

Tarot of Tales: A folk-tale inspired boxed set including a full deck of 78 specially commissioned tarot cards and a 176-page illustrated book

Discover a new approach to tarot with this folk-tale inspired deluxe boxed book-and-card set from tarot expert Melinda Lee Holm and lavishly illustrated by Rohan Daniel Eason.

Folk tales have brought us invaluable lessons on life for thousands of years. With The Tarot of Tales, veteran tarot reader and author Melinda Lee Holm and illustrator Rohan Daniel Eason invite you into their magickal world of art and prose where your readings become personalized fairy tales told by the cards in narrative form. The meaning of each card is told in five different ways—one for each of five possible positions given in the accompanying full-color guidebook. Lay out the cards, find the corresponding passage for each card and position, and link them together to read the tale told to you by the Tarot. Presented in their own compact box for easy storage, the 78 cards provide richly detailed illustrated scenes that allow you to step inside your own personal storybook, one that changes to bring you the wisdom you need when you need it. Tarot is a language: let it tell you your story.

Your Magickal Year: Transform your life through the seasons of the zodiac

Establish a magickal spiritual practice and conjure the life you desire one day at a time with this excellent grimoire.

Your Magickal Year is like always having a wise witchy friend by your side. Within these pages you will find all you need to know to help you live your best magickal life, even if you are a complete novice in the metaphysical arts. Tarot priestess Melinda Lee Holm details the core guidance you need to align your life with the natural flow of energy in the Universe. She gives you the basics of magick, simple Tarot spreads that anyone can master and learn from, rituals to follow for each full and new moon, and a guide to key astrological dates, including the sun’s and moon’s transits through the signs, moon cycles, the solstices and equinoxes, and other major astrological events. You’ll also learn how to personalize your rituals for your specific needs and discover tips on integrating magickal intention into everyday life through food, personal care, and more.

Elemental Power Tarot: 78 cards and 64-page illustrated book

A unique approach to tarot with symbol-rich scenes based on the five elements—fire, water, air, earth, and spirit—translating the cards’ divine wisdom into actionable guidance.

Tarot and magick opened Melinda Lee Holm’s life to endless possibilities and she’d like to help you open yours in the same way. Through unique imagery and elemental card interpretations, Melinda, a tarot priestess, creates a most personal, integrative experience of self-discovery. Eliminating human figures entirely, the cards in the Elemental Power Tarot present symbol-rich scenes that invite the user to step in and explore for themselves. The objects and scenes of the cards feel as accessible as they do magickal. You'll learn what it is like to inhabit the garden of The Empress or to reach out and grab the Ace of Swords. Rohan Eason’s expressive illustrations hold a treasure trove of symbols that offer visual clues to the wisdom of the cards. The accompanying guide book contains Melinda's philosophy of Tarot, card meanings, and her elemental system of interpreting cards and spreads, including an apothecary item for the major arcana cards, embodying a real Earth element solution.

Divine Your Dinner: A Cookbook for Using Tarot as Your Guide to Magickal Meals

Everything is made of energy, even food. Especially food. This tarot-cookbook mash-up brings together magick and 78 recipes to transform everyday energy into something extraordinary.

With a flick of the wrist and a shuffle of your favorite tarot deck, you’re on your way to a life of kitchen witchery. In Divine Your Dinner, tarot priestess Melinda Lee Holm and chef Courtney McBroom have conjured up a feast for the mind, body, and spirit.
Each of the 78 recipes in this cookbook interprets a specific tarot card and its energy. Pull a card—at random or with intent—from your deck, flip to the card’s corresponding recipe, and you’ll find magickal ingredients to infuse your meals with spiritual energy from the Tarot.

Writing

Tarot of Tales: A Folk-Tale Inspired Deck
Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, Spring 2024

Easy Magickal Self-Care Rituals for the Summer Solstice
SheKnows.com, June 21 2022

A Love Letter to Children Who Had to Cut Ties With Their Mothers
HelloGiggles.com, May 9 2019

Countering the Bootstrap Myth: How I Went From Foodstamps to Founder
HelloGiggles.com, October 11 2019

Monthly Taroscopes
The Numinous, June 2018-February 2019

Events

Upcoming

Free Tarot Readings, Live!

October 30, 2024
6-8pm
UCR Palm Desert Center
75080 Frank Sinatra Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211

Join author and tarot scholar Melinda Lee Holm for a live session of her popular Instagram series, Free Tarot Readings. Melinda will present a brief overview of tarot cards and their use followed by a Q&A, then invite attendees to join her on stage for personal readings in front of a live audience. 

Author Talk and Signing

Tuesday, December 17 2024
5-8pm
Watkins Books
19-21 Cecil Court
London WC2N 4EZ

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Past

Meet Melinda Lee Holm,
Watkins Books, London

June 25, 2024
12-3pm
Watkins Books
19-21 Cecil Court
London WC2N 4EZ

Author and tarot reader Melinda Lee Holm will be at Watkins Books offering short tarot readings and signing copies of her books and tarot decks.

Melinda is the author of Tarot of Tales, featured in Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine, as well as Your Tarot Guide, Your Magickal Year, and Elemental Power Tarot. This is her first appearance at Watkins. She lives in Los Angeles.

Watkins Books is London’s oldest and largest esoteric bookshop. It was established in 1893 and moved to its current home on Cecil Court in 1901.

Arts & Letters: Spooky Soiree With Melinda Lee Holm 

October 11, 2023
6-8pm
UCR Palm Desert Center
75080 Frank Sinatra Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211

Join us in a spooky season celebration with Melinda Lee Holm, author of Tarot of Tales, Your Magickal Year, and Elemental Power Tarot. Her latest work is the popular Your Tarot Guide. 

Melinda will be in conversation with Tod Goldberg, along with a guest appearance by her frequent collaborator, illustrator Rohan Daniel Eason. There will also be a book signing and tarot readings.

“Your Tarot Guide”
Book Signing, Talk, & Tarot Readings with Melinda Lee Holm

October 6, 2023
7-9pm
Philosophical Research
Society
3910 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Join Melinda Lee Holm, author of Tarot of Tales, Your Magickal Year, and Elemental Power Tarot, to celebrate the release of her newest work, Your Tarot Guide.

The celebration includes a book signing, author Jessica Hundley (The Library of Esoterica) in conversation with Melinda Lee Holm and her frequent collaborator, illustrator Rohan Daniel Eason (Your Tarot Guide, Tarot of Tales, Elemental Power Tarot, Your Magickal Year), and tarot readings with Melinda followed by a courtyard reception with music and visuals from Fascinated By Everything.

“The Secret Teachings of All Ages” Book Launch with TASCHEN and special guests

March 18, 2023
7-10pm
Philosophical Research
Society
3910 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Join Jessica Hundley and Nic Taylor in conversation with Matthew Weiner, James Fauntleroy II, Melinda Lee Holm, and Stephen Reedy followed by a lounge reception with projections and music by DJ Chris Holmes and food and refreshments from Ghia and Misha's Kind Foods.

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