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Summary: Everything you need to get started reading!!!
Review: This book is the one and only book you need if you want to learn the tarot!!! The best part about the book is that it gives you lots of different exercises that really help you get to know your cards and develop your own personal interpretations...not just memorize some list of meanings. Although they do outline in detail the main topics adressed in each card, the authors continually help and encourage you to draw your own meanings from individual cards and entire spreads. I've been reading for several years now, and I ALWAYS carry and use this book when I know I'm doing a reading for someone. I've recommended it to many friends as well. Don't hesitate!!!
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Summary: Uncomplicated, insightful
Review: This is a great book, a great starter how-to manual! It makes Tarot accessible. Although I've been "trying" to read the cards for years, I'd never bothered to read more than the Little White Books that came with the decks I'd collected. THIS book showed me how much more one can get out of Tarot. The only flaw I've found so far is that they throw the Celtic Cross at you without enough preparation, before explaining what each position in the spread is all about...if I were an absolute newcomer to Tarot that would probably have intimidated me. If you have not been exposed to Tarot much before, maybe that's a section you should skip and come back to. But I must give the book 5 stars because of how much it's helped me. Don't let this be the ONLY book you read, but I do think it's a Must Read for beginners. :)
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Summary: The Complete Idiots Guide to The Tarot
Review: This is the best book on Tarot that I have ever seen. Arlene and Lisa present the tarot in a way that is funny and imaginetive. I am proud to say that I am one of Arlenes students at Pierce College. Arlene, and I'm sure Lisa is to, is an amazing person to be around. Not only is this book easy to follow, it also is humerous. For each of the cards Descriptions they also include an archetype. For example Temperance's archetypes are Penelope (From Homer's, The Odysse), Aunt Em, Hillary Rodham Clinton and your dog. See what I mean?. Anyway, get this book, and if you live in the Seattle-Tacoma area look up the Lakewood Mall branch of Pierce College and sign up for Arlene's class.
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Summary: You've Got To Get This!
Review: This is the best book on Tarot that I have ever seen. Arlene and Lisa present the tarot in a way that is funny and imaginetive. I am proud to say that I am one of Arlenes students at Pierce College. Arlene, and I'm sure Lisa is to, is an amazing person to be around. Not only is this book easy to follow, it also is humerous. For each of the cards Descriptions they also include an archetype. For example Temperance's archetypes are Penelope (From Homer's, The Odysse), Aunt Em, Hillary Rodham Clinton and your dog. See what I mean?. Anyway, get this book, and if you live in the Seattle-Tacoma area look up the Lakewood Mall branch of Pierce College and sign up for Arlene's class.
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