Illustrated with the Morgan-Greer Tarot deck, this book approaches the tarot cards as allegory for explaining the subtle forces operating in the universe.
Offering a comprehensive understanding of the Tarot, its history, and its significance, this book also provides a complete home study program for the reader interested in expanding his or her powers of interpretation.
More than a guidebook, The Book of Tarot offers a space in which to set goals and intentions with clarity and purpose. With both clarity and warmth, seasoned practitioner Danielle Noel instructs readers in using the Tarot as a tool for self-understanding, meditation, and soulful introspection.
Comprehensive and easy to use, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot contains everything you ever wanted to know about tarot. Join Anthony Louis as he explores tarot history, shares card meanings and spreads, and provides detailed guidance that educates and inspires, whether you're a beginner or an advanced reader. Discover basic reading techniques for a wide variety of systems, including Marseilles, Rider-Waite, and Thoth. Identify the meaning of associations, correspondences, reversals, and dignities, and experience the ways that tarot interacts with astrology and personal spirituality. Combine tarot reading with Kabbalah, numerology, Jungian psychology, journaling, and storytelling while exploring card selection, creativity, tarot ethics, and specialized spreads. Focusing on the use of tarot for insight, empowerment, self-understanding, and fortunetelling, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot provides centuries of accumulated wisdom that will enable you to make optimal use of one of the most powerful spiritual tools ever developed.
Joan Bunning's The Big Book of Tarot offers a complete course on how to use the tarot cards for personal guidance. The author communicates the basic depth and beauty of each card and shows how the cards trigger psychological projection, enhance intuition, and improve communication with the Inner Guide. While there are countless books devoted to tarot, what sets Joan Bunning apart from every other writer on the subject is her ability to take a rather complicated esoteric system and break it down into clear, manageable, and easily learned parts. The lessons Bunning offers cover the basics and then move gradually into more advanced concepts. Exercises and sample responses for each lesson help you learn and practice. The book includes: Lessons on how to consider one card by itself, how to look for card pairs, and how to create the "story" of a reading A convenient reference section that contains two pages of information for each card including a picture from the popular Waite deck, a description, keywords, action phrases, and suggestions for cards with similar and opposite meanings An exploration of the meaning of reversed cards and how to work with them to give tarot readings a natural flow of high points and low points without abrupt transitions Practical insights on how to work with and interpret a wide variety of tarot spreads Note to the Reader: This book consists of material drawn from the author's many previous books as well as new material.
A complete beginner’s course with step-by-step lessons on how to work with tarot cards for personal guidance. Joan Bunning’s “Learning the Tarot—An Online Course” has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide discover the personal value of the tarot. Drawing on the material offered in this popular online course and from her previous books, Joan has created a complete guide to tarot for beginners, which serves as a handy and in-depth resource for more experienced tarot card readers as well. While there are countless books devoted to tarot, what sets Joan Bunning’s book apart is her ability to take a rather complicated esoteric system and break it down into clear, manageable, and easy-to-learn lessons. These lessons cover the basics and then move gradually into more advanced concepts. The book includes: Lessons on how to consider one card by itself, how to look for card pairs, and how to create the "story" of a reading Contains two pages of information for each card including a picture from the popular Rider Waite deck, a description, keywords, action phrases, and suggestions for cards with similar and opposite meanings How to work with reversed cards to give tarot readings a natural flow of high points and low points without abrupt transitions Practical insights on how to work with and interpret a wide variety of tarot spreads
The Tarot has always been shrouded in mystery, with images and symbols often eluding interpretation. Now you can unlock the Arcana to study the basics and beyond! Gain understanding regarding symbolism and how the Tarot works to read reversals, set the mood for readings, and to explore your spiritual quest. Discover your relationship with the seven deadly sins and healthy virtues, determine and weigh your options, and examine dream interpretations. Consider your path through different layers of understanding, including astrological influences, numerology, mythological connections, philosophical relations, and evaluate Court card psychological dimensions. Work with powerful, self-reflective spreads unique to this book and review sample readings for major events broadcasted in the news and media. Learn fundamental history, debunk old-time myths, and discover the religious views on divination and the counterargument to its biblical objection. There is much to learn when you unlock the Arcana. Here's the key.
Discover fun and easy ways to use the tarot cards with this hardcover, full-color guide. Llewellyn's Little Book of Tarot is an ideal introduction to using the 78 cards to enhance your life and build a successful divination practice. You'll find an impressive collection of activities, tips, and prompts that allow you to go at your own pace and explore what reading style works best. Tarot expert Barbara Moore provides a thorough interpretation of each card, explaining the most important elements of it. She also presents sample cards from a variety of decks, helping you understand how tarot symbols and imagery appear in different artists' work. You'll even delve into divination techniques outside the cards, such as bibliomancy, meditation, and more.
"Most tarot books present card-by-card interpretations, as well as instructions on how to read spreads. There are many books on the tarot as a pathway to the inward journey. This book takes the next logical step inward by presenting the art of reading in a workbook format and helps the reader learn to interpret the cards intuitively. This book teaches by example, presenting the basics of intuitive tarot reading-reading without any questions, any backstory, nothing to go on-and filled with exercises to hone intuition and sharpen interpretation skills"--