November 3, 2014

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater Tarot Tour with Giveaway #BlueLily #TarotTour

We’re celebrating the release of Blue Lily, Lily Blue with a Tarot Reading of THE RAVEN CYCLE series (past, present, and future!)

Today, we are providing a tarot card reading for the “The High Priestess” card.

Did you know that author Maggie Stiefvater designed The Raven Cycle Tarot, a Major Arcana 22-card deck inspired by The Raven Cycle series? They’re all stunning!

The Tarot Card tour will be running from November 1 – November 22, 2014. You can follow the full blog tour to see all 22 Tarot cards revealed, and have an opportunity to win a Limited Edition The Raven Cycle Tarot Deck for yourself! You can visit the This Is Teen Pinterest page daily for new links to all the tour stops.

And now, here is the reading for

The High Priestess card

(The High Priestess is card number 2, and is the guardian of the unconscious mind)

Past…

The High Priestess is a card that indicates a magical time for love and when Blue first sees Gansey’s spirit on Saint Mark’s Eve she knows that this is either because she is his true love or because she killed him. This card represents wisdom and knowledge, both of which link back to Blue’s clairvoyant familial ties. The High Priestess is the guardian of the unconscious. She is an intermediary between the subconscious and parts of the subconscious that can only be accessed through dreaming and symbols. Both Ronan and Adam understand just what kind of power dreams hold and how they might interfere with the waking world.

Present…

The High Priestess may also indicate a change in an individual’s life. For Blue this could Maura’s disappearance, for the Raven Boys it could be an unexpected figure who has brought himself straight to Ablionby, and for both parties it could be the search for Glendower coming to a close. The High Priestess suggests that a woman might learn to trust herself and avoid turning to acting like her male counterpart. A certain female character in the novel does embrace this fully. This card wants their reader to trust their instincts as not everything is what it appears to be. These might also be beneficial times for a certain two people to think and feel (*cough* Blue and Gansey and their undefined relationship *cough*).

Future…

Lastly, the High Priestess signifies that it’s best to avoid conflicts entirely and to refrain from believing that all that has been presented before you is the truth. In terms of the future, it reads that there is a coming confrontation. This could involve Glendower, a certain antagonist or romantic affairs. The High Priestess is a card that knows without knowing and so, if behavior is being forced upon one of our beloved characters that is very out of their character, they’ll know better than to begin embracing it. Someone also may willingly be keeping secrets or knowledge from someone. Perhaps Blue and her Raven Boys should wonder if they are keeping secrets or if secrets are being kept from them and if so, why? They should also contemplate if they’ve been listening to their inner selves and if they are respecting themselves as well as any higher powers that may be involved.

READ THE PROLOGUE

AUDIO EXCERPT (PROLOGUE) – Read by Will Patton, published by Scholastic Audio in 2014. Music by Kate Hummel.

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after….

There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up.

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs.

The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.

PRAISE FOR THE SERIES

“Equal parts thriller and mystery, with a measured dash of romance sprinkled on top…Maggie has woven such a unique, intriguing narrative that I struggled for comparisons..”— MTV.com

“[A] well-paced neo-Gothic thriller about a teenage fivesome’s search for the supernatural . . .”— New York Times Book Review

“Simultaneously complex and simple, compulsively readable, marvelously wrought.”— Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Stiefvater’s can’t-put-it-down paranormal adventure will leave you clamoring for book 2.”— Entertainment Weekly

“[A] tour de force of characterization, and while there is no lack of event or mystery, it is the way Stiefvater’s people live in the reader’s imagination that makes this such a memorable read.”— Publishers Weekly, starred review

photo credit Robert Severi

Entertainment Weekly has called Maggie Stiefvater, “one of the finest YA novelists writing today.” Maggie Stiefvater is a writer, artist, and musician and the New York Times bestselling author of Shiver, hailed by Publishers Weekly in a starred review as, “a lyrical tale,” and by BookPage as, “beautifully written, even poetic at times, and a perfect indulgence for readers of all ages.” There are more than 1.8 million copies of the Shiver trilogy in print. Since publication, rights to thirty-six foreign editions of Shiver have been licensed. Linger, the second book in the Shiver trilogy, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. The Scorpio Races (2011) was named to the following best of the year lists for 2011: Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, The Horn Book and Kirkus Reviews. In addition, The Scorpio Races was named a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association and a New York TimesNotable Children’s Book. Time Magazine called, The Raven Boys, Book #1 in Stiefvater’s latest New York Times bestselling series The Raven Cycle, “A flirtier kind of horror-fantasy, aimed at teens clutching tattered Twilight and Sandman paperbacks….Stiefvater’s quirky prose has ample nerdy pleasures.” Stiefvater lives in Virginia with her family.