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The Feng Shui Tarot deck combines the traditional elements of tarot with the ancient Chinese wisdom, spiritual belief, and principles of Form School Feng Shui (balancing environment, surroundings, materials, and colors.) Feng Shui is based on the philosophy that the flow of energy (or "chi") can be directed in certain ways by optimal placement of iterms large and small to balance yin and yang, thus creating a more favorable environment for the people in that space. This remarkable deck is designed to give a tarot reading with the meanings of the cards delineated by beautiful visual images of Feng Shui.
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Buy the Cards and the Book.......2007-05-16
I own this tarot deck and the companion book. You really need both to understand the deck. The school of feng shui (wind-water) that this deck focuses on is the form school. You can't feng shui your home or garden with the cards. It simply uses symbols common in feng shui---like the 4 celestial animals. If you love Asian styled art, you'll love this deck. If you ever felt slightly uncomfortable owning a tarot deck that had creepy images of the death card and the devil card, you will truly enjoy this deck because it has artistically drawn images of "transition" and "materialism." The cards are well made and fun to shuffle. This would make a nice gift for people who enjoy and/or collect cards.
A unique spin on the traditional tarot card deck.......2007-01-06
The Feng Shui tarot deck is an innovative reinvention of the traditional Tarot. The cards are full of color, life, and personality and are ideal for any card collector or reader who wants another deck, for other dimensional possibilities. The deck's only drawback (for me, at least) was the lack of human subjects. The cover of the deck package shows what seems to be the Yellow Emperor, but there are fewer famous heroes / beings and people in the deck than I would have liked. However, this is just a personal preference. The artwork is top rate, the cards are sturdy and attractive, and the deck will please diviners and fans of feng shui alike.
...er, there IS a book to go with this deck -.......2005-09-20
(See subject.) Why is it not listed here??!? It is called "Feng Shui Tarot" by Eileen Connolly and Peter Paul connolly.
[I have found it here at Amazon it if you serch for Books / Feng Shui Tarot - but no link to it / them from here, and no picture or review]
US Games System has published it a few months ago. - So it may have just been available to the previous reviewer by June...
Eileen Connolly actually finished it within the year of the deck's publication and US Games sat on it for two years. It is available through their site, why not here? It EXPLAINS much of what is new and different and seemingly inscrutable, written both by Eileen Connolly and Peter Paul Connolly her son, the artist of both her decks.
The book also applies to ALL Tarot decks and gives new insights into all the cards from a non-religious-seeming perspective, a common barrier to Connolly's work for some students.
The deck is as beautiful and original as it is thought out and balanced. The book is a thoughtful eye-opener as well, integrating the concepts of 'Western' Tarot with 'Eastern' five element symbology, a treat for a true student of Tarot and / or Feng Shui. My only complaint it that it is too short! Yet that also makes it easy to carry with the deck.
Artistically beautiful, but..........2005-06-11
There's no book, other than the tiny white one that provides no clue on nearly all hundreds of symbols employed on the cards. Since many of them aren't related to the feng shui but were adopted from Chinese mythology, we're left poorer on both counts. Gorgeous to look at, it's clear some publisher decided to go with the deck without paying the designers to do the book--and provide the clues to their very original work. Too bad.
With its beautiful images inspired by Feng Shui symbols.......2001-11-12
Peter and Eileen Connolly have artfully collaborated to produce a tarot deck that superbly combines the traditional elements of tarot divination with an ancient Chinese spiritual wisdom embodying the principles of Form School Feng Shui (balancing environment, surroundings, materials, and colors). This unique tarot deck is based on the Feng Shui philosophy that a "chi" or flow of energy can be directed in certain ways by the optimal placement of large or small items to balance yin and yang, thereby creating a more favorable environment for people living or working in a particular space. With its beautiful images inspired by Feng Shui symbols and Chinese art enhancing the tarot experience, Feng Shui Tarot is a very highly recommended addition students of metaphysics in general, and to any tarot reader's collection in particular.
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The places in which we live, work, and play express an energy that affects our internal harmony. The Eastern discipline of feng shui enhances well-being by ensuring that energy is positive and free-flowing. The Feng Shui Deck brings these ancient lessons into a unique, protable format and suits novices as well as thsoe who are adept at the art.
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Start your day with the Feng Shui deck.......2004-06-02
A friend of mine gave me Olivia Miller's Feng Shui deck when I moved into a new home in Boston. Initially, I was drawn to the suggestions for harmony in each room. The table of contents provided me with an easy reference for each area of my home, and the explanation on every card was clear and concise. Although I have other books describing the principles of Feng Shui, this deck is the one I return to again and again because it is so easy to use.
After a few weeks, I found that I was drawn to the I Ching hexagrams on the cards. I shuffled the deck and placed it on my kitchen windowsill. Each morning I randomly draw a card and spend a few minutes meditating on the hexagram and the question on the card. The constantly changing nature of life is reflected beautifully in the cards, and I head off to work every morning with healthy, peaceful, and joyful energy.
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Great for beginners.......2002-02-28
This deck is great for beginners or for those who simply don't have time to sit down and read a book about feng shui. The deck makes it easy to get started and apply basic principles in your home section by section. For people who already know some basic stuff I can see where this deck wouldn't be that helpful. I happened to really like it though. It's a great kickstarter.
disappointing.......2000-03-07
contains generic 'band-aid' responses. for those who have read even 1 book on feng shui, this seems useless. i want to give mine away,not to recommend it, just to get rid of it. im just not pleased.
I thought it was a joke... especially the tape!!.......1999-11-01
I have studied Feng Shui for quite a while. I am not sure WHY they even included the tape, which basically says nothing....
easy to use.......1999-03-04
I was confused until I used the Feng shui card system. I got results immediately. I think everyone should try it or give it to a friend.
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The Madness of Crowds.......2007-09-20
This book is one of the best I have read on the Bull Market. He takes Galbraith as his foil and expresses his profound discontent with Galbraith's unilinear formulation of govt. inactivity and outright stupidity. As Sobel argues, the The Great Bull Market was a product of a particular world view that grew up in the easy-money days of the 1920s. Parts of this world view were:
1) A notion that everyone should and could get rich
2) that hard work and risk as a pre-requisite for gaining wealth was a thing of the past -- indeed, inside the large brokerages it was loudly spoken that such older ethos' were not part of modern Wall Street.
3) supplanting risk and hard work was an ethos of power elites that scrathed each other's back. And that was assumed to be part of the normal healthy business processes.
4) There was a general overall lack of attention to detail and people working through the risks of financial euphoria.
In addition, unlike Galbraith, Sobel says that the powers that be actually made good choices, that the falls were really not as bad as they were made to look at the time.
It is a well written and cogent analysis of this exciting time.
Into the heads of the manic crowd.......2002-10-12
While many stock market books have lots to say about parallels in financial history, this one is very different. The Great Bull Market is not really about the stock market at all. It's about the factors that led to the market mania of the late 1920s. Changes in social patterns, dramatic changes in the economy and living standards and a liberalisation of financial laws all led to the belief that life had really changed for everyone for the better.
Of course, there are wider things to consider than the rather simplistic and sometimes left-wing views put forward here. Even so, The Great Bull Market does take you away from the now perfunctory trawl through margin statistics and takes you into the heads of those who were actually parting with cash. For that it's a great read.
A ride on the wild bull.......2000-07-25
The market could only go up. Margin requirements were minimal. Investment in equities, seemingly ANY equities was a risk-less, rock solid path to fortune. Why buy one of the new electronic phonographs, or a refrigerator, on "time" (credit) when for the same amount of money, one could buy equities on margin, gain immense leverage, and be "guaranteed" to make the money back many times over, and be able to buy many more luxuries.
According to Mr. Sobel, this was, in a nutshell, the mentality of the average investor. Investment houses and financial institutions fueled the fire by making margin cheap and easy. Ultimately, stock prices were held up by nothing. Tremors of instability began to ripple through the market as the impending crash approached, often dismissed as buying opportunities. Ultimately, reality set in, and the unthinkable happened.
Are things different today? Yes and No. More safeguards would seem to be in place, however valuations of today make those of the 20's look miniscule. While a direct comparison is difficult to make between the period covered in the book, and the market of 2000, there are lessons to be learned. "The Great Bull Market" provides a fascinating account of the crash and the events that led up to it. A must read for anyone feeling a little jittery about the climate on Wall Street today!
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Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben Bernanke has gathered together his essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating.
This broad view shows us that while the Great Depression was an unparalleled disaster, some economies pulled up faster than others, and some made an opportunity out of it. By comparing and contrasting the economic strategies and statistics of the world's nations as they struggled to survive economically, the fundamental lessons of macroeconomics stand out in bold relief against a background of immense human suffering. The essays in this volume present a uniquely coherent view of the economic causes and worldwide propagation of the depression.
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Very Simple Steps.......2007-09-06
Anyone can spin a story about anything using the various mumbo-jumbo parts of mainstream economics. Bernanke here has decided to ravage the gold standard. Suffice to say, it is extremely tedious, banal, and antithetical to common sense.
Ludwig Von Mises predicted the Great Depression in 1919.
Here's two easy steps to understand the real cause of the crash.
1. Read Murray Rothbard's America's Great Depression
2. Google "Benjamin Strong", the first Federal Reserve chairman who served until his death in 1928. Bernanke does not mention Strong at all. You will find almost all the answers in Strong's tenure. For the severity and length of the recession, please read Jim Powell's "FDR's Folly".
Bernanke and his coauthors follows Friedman but not Smith or Keynes.......2007-08-13
Bernanke is ,unfortunately,ignorant of the preventive medicine approach to Bubbles and Depressions first postulated by Adam Smith in 1776 in the Wealth of Nations and then reapplied by J M Keynes with the additional analytic conclusion emphasizing the importance of clearly differentiating between tolerable security (risk)and uncertainty.
Smith made it straightforward and easy. There are four categories of borrower to whom commercial and Wall Street investment banks can make loans available to-the prodigals,projectors,imprudent risk takers,and the sober people.The task of money and banking policy is to prevent loans from beng made to the prodigals,projectors(Keynes's speculators of chapter 12 of the GT,1936),and imprudent risk takers(dealt with by Keynes in chapter 11 with his lender's risk versus borrower's risk distintion).Economists don't seem to get it.Neither do Fed chairmen.Allow the capital markets to be dominated by leveraged buyouts and hedge fund speculators guarantees that the inevitable bubble will be created.The only question that remains is whether or nor some type of bailout will prevent a panic and crash.This type of money and banking policy allows the problems to be created and then attempts to prevent the problem from mushrooming into a serious recession or depression.
Smith's advise to Bernanke and his coauthors would be to, first, fix the rate of interest permanently a little bit above the prime rate and then maintain it at that level for the long run and ,second,only permit loans to be made to the sober people.Otherwise,periodic financial crises will occur. It's as simple as that.None of the essays deal with the fundamental goal of banking policy-Prevent the problem from arising in the first place.Of course,if you believe in the Efficient Market Hypothesis fairy tale, where all price changes in financial markets are normally distrbuted,as does Bernanke,no problem is supposed to occur.But they do.
Don't Believe the Hype! A commodity standard is the solution, not the problem!.......2007-08-09
The Federal Reserve made the Great Depression almost inevitable when it inflated the money supply. The Fed inflated the money supply before it contracted it. With a true, pure gold standard, this initial inflation never would have been possible. Everything else about the contraction, corrections, tariffs, etc. would have been a moot point, and we wouldn't have had a great depression. Serious recession with some of the other bad decisions, maybe, great depression, nope.
To claim that the gold standard caused the great depression is shady, lawyerly logic indeed--no matter how many reams of mathematical data you distort to fuzzy the matter, it just doesn't jibe.
It all began with rampant inflation (increasing the money supply, ie printing or creating more paper money without a corresponding increase in gold, silver, or real goods and services. As more goods and services aren't created at the same instant new money springs into existence, prices should rise in proportion to the newly created money, but most people don't realize this is what is happening. They mistake the extra money for wealth (additional goods and services, or shifts in demand), and make illusiory assumptions/decisions that are later corrected.) It all began with rampant inflation by the Fed--the primary occurence a gold standard prevents. Period.
Most everything else is just goobley-gook by the rich to keep the poor duped and ignorant, and by corrupt social engineers who fancy themselves do-gooders. There are problems with gold standards, especially when some countries have honest gold standards, others countries don't, and their currencies and goods are exchanged freely, BUT these are far outweighed by the problems and wealth redistribution to the rich created by fiat money systems. Period.
It serves the ultra-wealthy, and proponents of big government and socialism and collectivism, to dupe people about currency reform. Saying the gold standard caused the great depression is like saying raw vegetables cause heart attacks, or breathing clean mountain air causes lung cancer. To claim that the very thing which would have prevented a great depression is the cause is extremely audacious, and supremely sinister, but hardly surprising.
When you are on a gold standard, and you inflate the money supply (ie, create more dollars out of thin air, or simply print more), of course there is a run on gold. This is what the gold standard is supposed to do! The gold standard will prevent governments from printing additional money, by calling their bluff (ie, making them honor their commitment to exchange each dollar for a fixed weight (not monetary value, but weight) of gold). If the government keeps printing, people keep redeeming money, they run out of gold, and the scam is up. In an honest gold standard, this isn't attempted, people know the gold is there, and they simply use the money for its intended purpose--to store value and trade.
When money isn't tied to gold or a commodity, the government prints more, spends it, and each citizen holding money is taxed because their money is reduced in value so that the new money has value. No tax collectors are needed, but this is a bad way to tax because altering the money supply distorts the price signal that is the backbone of the marketplace. The crafty can speculate against these distortians, picking the pockets of honest working class people who, without realizing it, are paying a hidden currency tax.
If banks hadn't commited fraud by circulating money not backed by assets, they wouldn't have failed. The massive banking collapse was fraud being realized, and the accounts being cleared. It sucks that so many middle class people took it on the chin, but the lesson is that we need honest banking in which more money cannot be created out of thin air, and contracts are honored, and liabilities on the ledger cannot be magically converted to assets, and pyramided ad fraudem. One more time: If the Fed hadn't inflated the money suppy, there wouldn't have been a depression. If there had been a pure gold standard, the Fed wouldn't have been able to balloon the money supply. Period. To simply begin halfway into the story by starting with the contraction is unfathomably dishonest.
Countries can get screwed just like people in this system, especially those countries with honest money who can't print it out of thin air like non-gold-standard countries. If they aren't aware how much new money is printed, their imports/exports can suffer, and they end up conducting transactions for depreciating paper currency that ultimately screws them by declining in value faster than they realized, fall prey to gold speculation or price instability, etc. But placing primary blame on the gold standard is absurd. Its like saying the guy that left his house unlocked is guilty of felony robbery when all his possessions are stolen. The thief is the problem, not the gullible or un-streetsmart homeowner -- though he should certainly be wiser and limit his interactions with criminals (fiaters). The corrupt money was the problem, not the honest money. THe fiat system of currency printing was the problem, not the gold standard.
"Undercapitalized". What a cozy euphamism. You mean a bank that fraudulently pryamided assets, misrepresenting time deposits as demand deposits?
In an honest gold standard, a disastrous contraction of the money supply is not a worry, as it is never inflated disastrously, so a house of cards is never created in the first place.
Roosevelt saved the banking industry. What a hero! In English, he perpetuated the fraud, and shifted the cost for all the banks' fraudulent contracts it couldn't honor immediately, but should have been forced to long term, to the people. Then he allowed the fraud to continue. Robin Hood in reverse. What a role model!
All the rest is expected. After the correction, inflation was much more modest, meaning intervention in the marketplace via distorted price signals was much more modest, meaning citizens not machinated by corrupt currency did what they will usually do--busted butt and created prosperity.
Many rigorous economic studies churn numbers, and then try to assign causes or meanings to those numbers, without truly assessing/considering what the numbers mean in terms of actual human behaviour, especially in terms of fundamental causalities that lead to the data. This is one of Rothbard's main problems with conventional economics.
Read Rothbard's book for a real explanation of the Great Depression much more elegant and less scathing than mine. As long as propaganda like this masquerades as truth, the common man's freedom and standard of living will continue to decline.
At least he start out right.......2006-04-24
Overall Bernanke does a good job at looking at different theories, but his theories on the dangers of deflation have been refuted by many authors. It is too bad that this theory clouds his vision, or else his treatment of the depression would have a lot more authority.
For the economist, I would highly recommend "America's Great Depression" by Murray N. Rothbard. He is by far the most thorough in his treatment of the period, delivering the most compete and well founded theory for the cause of the Great Depression, too bad Bernanke hasn't read it.
Rigorous and Authoritative. The Best Book on Great Depression Economics.......2006-03-23
Bernanke rigorously explains the economics of the Great Depression - the holy grail of economics. For a long time there were different theories as to what caused the Depression, but recent rigorous economic studies, especially from an international perspective, have provided massive data explaining what happened.
The Federal Reserve caused the recession when it constricted the money supply again and again, in part due to the constrictive gold standard. The gold standard caused a run on the gold supply, followed by further Fed tightening of the money supply to defend the currency, leading to widespread bank panics, which constricted the money supply further due to the sharp drop in bank loans and the loss of consumer confidence in the financial services industry, which was hardly regulated.
Bernanke first shows that the countries that abandoned the gold standard the soonest, such as Britain, were the ones that recovered the quickest. The countries that clung to the gold standard the longest, such as France, were the ones that suffered the longest. The countries that were not on the gold standard - perhaps using the silver standard - avoided the Great Depression!
The economic crisis was made worse by the massive banking collapse. Thousands of undercapitalized banks went insolvent, and thousands of people lost their savings. Bank panics swept across the country. Other banks refused to make new loans for fear of loan default. The banking crisis resulted in a further contraction of the money supply. The banking industry completely collapsed at the end of Hoover's presidency.
Sticky wages also contributed to the depression, although not as much as Keynesians think, according to Bernanke. Hoover and FDR may have made this worse by trying to maintain and increase the spending power of workers, although the counter argument is that this increased worker spending power increased spending and demand. The book examines many other factors too numerous to list in this review. This is the best book on the economics of the Great Depression.
Once taking office in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt quickly removed America from the disastrous gold standard and saved the collapsed banking industry. Recovery followed. According to Bernanke, industrial output in America grew 5% per quarter from 1933-37. Per quarter. Real wages grew substantially. Productivity grew substantially. Unemployment dropped.
Bernanke says that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal era of 1933-37 achieved strong economic growth by several different measurements. FDR reversed the contraction in 1933, so technically the depression ended in 1933. GDP grew over 50% in four years. This period of high growth was interrupted by a severe recession in 1937-38, which was followed by more high growth. According to Bernanke, "Quarterly growth rates for manufacturing employment, hours, and input in 1938-40 were 1.8, 2.8, and 4.9 percent, respectively."
I used a pencil to highlight the conclusions in this book. A massive amount of rigorous economic data is included, so only an economist will understand everything, but anyone can understand the conclusions. Bernanke inserts summary sentences so anyone can understand the conclusions. Highest recommendation.
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