The Templar Tarot Mysteries

About the Book

The Templar Tarot Mysteries is not your usual Tarot card book. It collects for the reader the various theories about the Knights Templar as they apply to the symbols in the Templar Tarot deck. This information will give the tools necessary for seeing the Tarot for what it is: a series of closely held spiritual lessons hidden during a time of persecution.

It is the belief of the author that no one person, or group invented the Tarot or was responsible for the spread of the cards. Many people, some unwittingly, left their imprint in the cards or changed them in unforeseen ways.

The book includes a series of fictional tales and parables linked to the Major Arcana cards. They show the various complex worlds that touched and influenced the Tarot.

The name 'Tarot' may not have been attached to the collection of pictorial cards when the concept was first initiated. No one even knows with certainty where the name comes from. By delving deeper into the art depicted on the cards the reader can uncover his or her own truth or path to enlightenment.

It is not the destination that matters, it is the journey.

About the Author

Daria?s first novel, Defenders of the Universe (Houghton Mifflin 1993), a middle grade adventure, was listed in the 1994 edition of Children?s Books of the Year and was nominated for the Oklahoma Sequoyah Children?s Book Award of 1995-96, the Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award of 1995-6 and for the 1997-98 Utah Book Awards. It?s listed in the Sixth Edition of Best Books for Children. Glory Song (Templar Books 2001) is a young adult medieval adventure. Daria wrote the background/instructional booklet for the The Templar Tarot (Inspire by Design, 2001). Daria has read tarot cards for many years and she is a member of SCBWI and the Author?s Guild.