“If I had to describe The Modern Fortune Teller's Field Guide in a single word, that would be ‘necessary’. Tom Benjamin’s work touches poignant subjects that most shy away from, in both divination and life, and offers technique, encourages skill development through self-awareness and, above all, gives back legitimacy to prediction in a world in which it’s treated like a dirty word.”
—María Alviz Hernando, author of Tarot Tableau Revolution
“Tom Benjamin’s The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide dismantles tired stereotypes and reframes fortune telling as an act of truth-telling, resistance, and liberation. This book offers an ethical framework for reading today, while highlighting that modern fortune telling draws on Romani and other often-erased or appropriated BIPOC divination traditions. With humor, humility, and a refreshingly iconoclastic voice, Benjamin invites readers to embrace the discomfort, curiosity, and power of this work with an aim to be a more effective and grounded reader.”
—Jezmina Von Thiele
“This is not your grandma's tarot guidebook. It's a bold and much-needed step towards a new era of divination. It shook me up and rewired my brain in the best possible ways. This is a must-read for any cartomancer who is serious about walking a path of authenticity, compassion, and real-world impact.”
—Liz Worth, author of The Power of Tarot and Going Beyond the Little White Book
“In a modern tarot landscape where 'fortune telling' is taboo, The Modern Fortune Teller's Field Guide is a searingly insightful, rigorously considered, and delightfully witty love letter to fortune telling as truth-telling. Tom Benjamin reveals the liberatory potential of fortune telling as a practice that inherently resists oppressive power structures and reconnects us with our capacity to interpret the future and contact the Divine. This book will challenge your preconceptions, shore up your foundations, open your mind and heart, and make you a more skilled, courageous, and truthful reader. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, The Modern Fortune Teller's Field Guide is an absolute necessity for tarot readers and diviners of all levels. People say that about a lot of books, but in this case, it's true. I wish I'd had this guide at the beginning of my tarot journey, but I'm so grateful to be learning from it now, twenty-something years later. I love this book!”
—Charlie Claire Burgess, author of Radical Tarot, Fifth Spirit Tarot, The Gay Marseille Tarot, and Queer Devotion
“If you're in love with the tarot but find your practice needs some shaking up, The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide is just the jolt that will wake up your readings. Tom Benjamin's real talk will have you confronting any comfortable notions you have about divination and turn your practice inside out and possibly even upside down (and I don't mean reversals). Like a trickster friend who calls you out to get you thinking, Tom's humorous and engaging writing and the unique exercises he gives throughout will open your eyes to fresh new ways of working with the cards. If you're willing to let go of those pearls you're clutching, you'll find deep wisdom in this book and most assuredly will never see fortune telling the same way again.”
—Madame Pamita, author of Magical Tarot, The Witch's Guide to Animal Familiars, Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft, and The Book of Candle Magic
