Benebell Wen

lawyer, author, artist and diviner.

Benebell Wen is a successful lawyer by trade, as well as an accomplished author, artist and diviner by calling. She has published several important books focussing on the history and practice of divination, a tarot deck of her own design and creation, and offers personal tarot readings and online practice courses. She is one of the leading voices on modern divination and offers many of her insights, book reviews and related news on her blog at benebellwen.com.

Selected Works

• Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books 2015, ISBN: 978-1583948354 – is your lifelong companion and reference book to using the semiotics of tarot for accessing your subconscious knowledge, creative intuition, and to gaining a deeper understanding of both the microcosm and macrocosm

• The Tao of Craft: Fu Talismans and Casting Sigils in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books 2016, ISBN: 978-1623170660 – is about exploring the rich historic and cultural context of Chinese Taoist-based talisman crafting. May our histories teach us how to blend Old World magic into everyday modern life.

• Spirit Keeper’s Tarot. s.l.: self-published, limited print run and private order only – is a hand-illustrated 78-card tarot deck (with 2 additional versions of Key 0, for a total of 80 cards) inspired by late Renaissance woodcut prints, with symbology based predominantly on medieval European alchemy, Hermeticism, Zoroastrianism, astrology, the Kabbalah, Abrahamic angelology, Egyptian mythology, Sufism, and late Renaissance Christian mysticism.