Benebell Wen

Wen, at a book signing

Benebell Wen (born September 24, 1981) is a New Age author, professional tarot reader, and corporate attorney practicing law in the San Francisco Bay Area.^[1] She is a certified tarot master through the Tarot Certification Board of America.^[2]

Her book Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth, published by North Atlantic Books, asserts that tarot symbology is used to tap into subconscious knowledge.^[3] Wen takes a stance against using tarot for fortune-telling purposes^[4] and espouses a more analytical and scholastic approach.^[5] As a Taiwanese American^[6] and I Ching practitioner,^[2] the integrative approach to tarot that Wen espouses combines the theory of Qi energy^[7] and East Asian metaphysical principles to tarot reading.^[8] Holistic Tarot won the Tarosophy Awards of 2014 for Best Mass-Market Book^[9] and has been cited as an essential treatise on tarot studies.^[10]

Wen is the eldest of three daughters born to Taiwanese immigrants.^[11] She grew up in Vestal, New York and graduated from Vestal High School.^[12] From a young age, Wen gravitated toward the esoteric, learned cartomancy, and eventually tarot.^[13] She then went on to attend Binghamton University,^[14] graduating with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Rhetoric. Wen also attended the Santa Clara University School of Law and is licensed to practice law in New York and California.^[15] Wen now resides in Castro Valley, California.^[16]

Bibliography

• Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth. North Atlantic Books. 2015. p. 896. ISBN 978-1583948354. 
• Wen, Benebell (Spring 2013). "Tarot and the Diasporic Asian Identity". ATA Quarterly (American Tarot Association) (39): 8–10. 
• Wen, Benebell (Summer 2013). "Myth of the Divination-Fulfilling Prophecy". ATA Quarterly (American Tarot Association) (40): 7–9. 
• Wen, Benebell (February 3, 2014). "Poets and the Tarot". Best American Poetry (New York). Retrieved April 11, 2015. 
• Wen, Benebell (February 4, 2014). "Mythology and Metaphor: The Kinship of Poetry and Tarot". Best American Poetry (New York). Retrieved April 11, 2015. 
• Wen, Benebell (February 5, 2014). "Using Tarot to Understand Literature as States of Consciousness". Best American Poetry (New York). Retrieved April 11, 2015. 

References

External links

• Benebell Wen official website
• Benebell Wen at Library of Congress Authorities, with 1 catalog records