Janina Renée is an American New Age

New Age

The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...

 author.

Biography

Renée is a scholar of folklore

Folklore

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

, psychology, medical anthropology, the material culture of magic, ritual studies, history, and literature. She continues to work on multiple books. In various research projects, Renée continues to explore the ways that folk magic and medicinal techniques can apply to challenges people experience today. Specific topics include the modulation of Asperger syndrome

Asperger syndrome

Asperger's syndrome that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development...

 and of neuro-sensory processing problems.

Published works

• Tarot Spells with Robin Wood
  Robin Wood (artist)
  Robin Wood is an American artist specializing in game art and fantasy. She is best known for her portraits of characters from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, the Robin Wood Tarot Deck and the cover art for several of Scott Cunningham's books on neo-Paganism.- Biography :Robin Wood...
  
   (Llewellyn
  Llewellyn Worldwide
  Llewellyn Worldwide is a New Age publisher, currently based in Woodbury, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. Llewellyn's mission is to "serve the trade and consumers worldwide with options and tools for exploring new worlds of mind & spirit, thereby aiding in the quests of expanded human potential,...
  
  , 1990, 2001)
• Playful Magic (Llewellyn, 1994)
• Tarot: Your Everyday Guide (Llewellyn, 2000)
• Tarot for a New Generation (Llewellyn, 2001)
• By Candlelight: Rites for Celebration, Blessing and Prayer (Llewellyn, 2004)

Awards

• 2001: Coalition of Visionary Resources award for best Self Help book,Tarot: Your Everyday Guide
• 2002: Coalition of Visionary Resources award for best General Interest Title), Tarot for a New Generation