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Tarot for Beginners - Review by Michele Jackson

This book is one in a series of beginner books on occult subjects such as Runes and Dowsing.

Illustrated with the IJJ Swiss Tarot deck, it assumes the reader knows nothing about the Tarot

and provides a short course in what the Tarot is and how to read the cards. While it defines and

explains its subject on very basic terms, it does cover all the key points a beginning Tarot reader

should know. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the cards, covering topics such as where to get a

deck of tarot cards, how to take care of them once you have obtained them and the structure

of a Tarot deck. Chapter 2 covers the Major Arcana. Chapters 3 - 6 cover each of the Minor

Arcana suits and Chapter 7 provides spreads and a sample reading. There is a short quiz at the

end of each chapter, though I would not assume I had mastered the material in the chapter just

because I could answer all the quiz questions correctly. The questions are too few and too

obvious to be a real test of your knowledge. There is also no answer key, so you can't really tell if

you got the questions right or wrong. The book also glosses over or skips entirely some key ideas,

such as correspondences and Tarot history. On the other hand it's charm lies in it's simplicity.

You could easily read this book in less than two hours and come away with a good introduction

to the Tarot. It is nicely illustrated and the pages are well laid out and quite attractive. It provides

both upright an reversed interpretations written in a crisp, no-nonsense style. It is also a bargain

at $5.99. You will need more than this book in order to learn to read, but if you are just thinking

about learning to read and want to know a little more about it before you invest money in a deck,

this book could be just the ticket. It would also be useful to someone who has a deck and book

already, but are bewildered by the volume of information provided in many beginner books. It

provides a nice overview that you can use as a base to branch out from.

Tarot for Beginners

Author: Krystyna Arcarti

ISBN: 0-340-59550-7

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Excerpt

The other thing to remember when using the cards is the way they lie together. I always say to

people that your life is like a book, and while we may look at a couple of pages or more, it is the

overall story that is important, and not necessarily the individual pages, so look at how the cards

relate one to another, and read them as a whole, not as a series of cards which may seem

disjointed.