Parker’s Pages: Every Little Thing You Do is Magic

This week we’re taking a look at a book that’s a bit out of my normal reviews here in Parker’s Pages. This one is an interactive Tarot card guide called Every Little Thing You Do is Magic by two Seattle artists, Callie Little and Moorea Seal. While doing my usual rounds of the local bookstore, I came across this guide while digging through the store’s collection of Tarot decks and just knew I had to have it.

A little-known fact about me is that I love love love Tarot. My collection includes ten standard Tarot decks and four decks of all different sorts of Oracle cards, all with various art styles and companion guidebooks. While I don’t do readings as often as I did in my college days, I still enjoy pulling out a deck and seeing what the cards have to say from time to time. Sometimes, even just seeing the art on the faces of my cards is enough to pull me out of a funk.

I don’t consider myself particularly spiritual; rather I view Tarot as a conversation with the cards I pull or a way to interrogate how I feel or think about a situation in my life. Tarot has always allowed me to take a problem or question I have and make it something more tangible, something I can see from outside of myself rather than raging internally and overthinking.

Every Little Thing You Do is Magic (paperback copy)

The Evergreen Echo

That’s why I adore this book by Little and Seal. For experienced Tarot users and Tarot beginners, this guidebook offers a new way to approach your deck. With descriptions for each card, a guide to numerology, and a list of the associated gems, songs, and scents for each card, Every Little Thing You Do is Magic is a complete and holistic guide for reading Tarot. It also includes descriptions for inversed cards and some suggestions for card spreads. My go-to spread is one that Little and Seal call “Theme. Message. Guide.” This simple three-card spread often helps me get out of a situation where I feel stuck. One card tells you the overall theme of the situation you’re in, the second is a message you need to hear, and the third tells you what energy you need to move forward.    

Something unique about this guide is the many interactive pages throughout. With well over thirty pages dedicated for the reader to answer questions, write down their feelings, or even draw in response to a prompt, we get more than just a lesson in Tarot—it offers a full experience. Each interactive element is designed to foster personal growth through Tarot, urging you to consider your mood, your body, and your wants and needs. What I particularly enjoy about this function is that it makes you consider not just how to use Tarot, but why you are using Tarot. What answers are you seeking? What feelings are you validating? What do you need from your Tarot deck and how can you foster it?

This guide is also friendly to people not only beginning their Tarot journey but beginning their spiritual journey as well. By no means does this book force your view one way or another, but it offers a lot of space for considering how different oracle tools might work (or not work) for you and your practice. This can include numerology (as I mentioned above), the elements, stones, universal and divine energies, and so forth. And there’s also a lot of space for those (like me) who don’t necessarily use Tarot for spiritual reasons. Like an interactive therapy guidebook, Every Little Thing You Do is Magic can be used simply to consider how you think and why you think that way.

Every Little Thing You Do is Magic is a complete package for me, and it’s everything I could want in a Tarot guidebook. With information on each card and its associations, interactive elements made to help you think about Tarot in a new way, and some downright gorgeous artwork throughout, Little and Seal have brought Tarot to life with their work.

My on-the-spot Tarot spread

The Evergreen Echo

And, as a sign off, I decided to pull a card just for this article out of my favorite deck, The Marigold Tarot by Amrit Brar. XIX, The Sun. In the words of Little and Seal, “Wholeness, attainment, and success are shining upon you.” When I pull the Sun, I think of clouds finally parting and light filling a room. When the Sun shines, truths are revealed and the path forward is made clear. I think this is a perfect card for this book, as a guide and as a path forward into learning more about Tarot.