Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Nanci Shanderá, Ph.D., author of Your Inner Gold: Transform Your Life and Discover Your Soul's Purpose. When I was little, I would often put myself to sleep by imagining that my body was a mere cell in the body of a huge being; this being's physical body was made up of millions of other bodies like mine, making up its cellular construction. I loved picturing this huge being living on a planet—many times larger than Earth—that was part of another, enormous solar system in an equally awe-inspiring universe. I continued expanding my imagination further and further until each universe became a cell in another gigantic being. And on and on it

One of the reasons so many of us love tarot is the cards...we like to collect decks because we love the art. We love reading visual images (rather than words). In addition to the symbols, composition, and style in each of these tiny pieces of art, color plays an important role in how we respond to a card or to a spread. Interpreting color as symbol can be tricky, as not all artists use the same sort of palate. However, artists create images meant to evoke certain responses and to do that they use the rules of design and also what they know of our responses to color. I don't always consciously scan a reading for color in order to interpret it, but I do know that as a reader I do respond