While rummaging the internet, on quite a few occasions, I ran into the name of Benebell Wen and I saw her book Holistic Tarot (appeared in 2015) listed as one of the results. For one reason of the other I never looked into the author or the book. Until a few days ago. When I did and, oh my, was my mind blown away!
I saw a book for which Benebell Wen had written the blurb, no idea which cause I look at so many, and it stuck into my mind, the name. Then, one day, when I was looking thinks online, aka. procrastinating, I remembered the name and I looked it up.
I was taken to https://benebellwen.com/ and here in the tarot section I found this abundance of free documentation, study guides, templates, videos. Mind boggling that all of that is free and everyone can just take them and learn from them! And they are really great things, very well researched and worked on.
Sadly I do not have the book and it is not easily available in Europe, but I will find it for sure, I always do.
It turns out Benebell Wen is not the real name of the author, but an alias with a special meaning to her. I will let you discover it in her About Me page.
I was impressed (and elated to have found her) by the amazing structure of the study guides and clear instructions on how a tarot enthusiast (me) can go about learning more and developing their craft.
The information on her site is so well structured and beautifully laid out that I cannot but feel that I should pay for it somehow, reward all the work that went into it. I will work to find the book though, to at least repay her like that.
I was stunned to find out that despite having all this body of work she still has a day job, so she does all this while still working. Made me feel like I can do more and not whine all day that I do not have time, that I work too much etc. etc. etc.
She even provides templates for what you need to do when you start off with your practice, how to make yourself know via social media and so on. I am telling you, a wealth of information and all for free. I kept thinking there is a catch somewhere, but I was not able to find it. And I still have so much to discover there!
I also watched some of her videos, very useful and caringly done.
What can I say, I am an instant fan and I am so grateful for all this support given to novice tarot enthusiasts! And not so novice! I wholeheartedly recommend her to any tarot enthusiast.
So happy to have found her!