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Summary: Best basic book
Review: I've been reading the Tarot for about 15 years. This is the very first book I bought and I have yet to find a book to surpass it. When I wore the book into the ground (missing cover, yellow pages, all kinds of torn and ripped), I bought a new one because I just couldn't bear to be without it. If you want to learn tarot AND you are using a Rider-Waite-Smith type deck this is the perfect book for you. It gives simple and concise divinitory meanings and reversals that let you throw away the useless booklet that comes with the deck. You'll want more complex books when you're more famillar with your deck and you want to explore the meanings more thouroughly, but this is a great basic book that you'll want to keep on hand. Oh and just one other thing- don't fall for books that promise to teach you tarot in just 10 or 15 minutes, cause that ain't gonna happen. It's worth spending time with your deck to learn it right.
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Summary: Introducing the Tarot
Review: As someone new to the study of the Tarot, I found Eden Gray's "A Complete Guide to the Tarot" to be the best general introduction to this fascinating divinatory system. Gray writes with a confident but accessible authority that makes her book very appealing.Gray devotes one or two pages to every card in the classic Rider-Waite Tarot deck, and lists possible divinatory meanings. She shows how to use various spreads of the cards in order to give readings, and she also discusses the use of the Tarot as an aid in meditation. She also explores the connections between the Tarot and other systems of occult wisdom: numerology, astrology, and the Kabalah. The book includes a bibliography for those interested in further study. Overall, I found this to be a useful and enjoyable book.
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Summary: Introducing the Tarot
Review: As someone new to the study of the Tarot, I found Eden Gray's "A Complete Guide to the Tarot" to be the best general introduction to this fascinating divinatory system. Gray writes with a confident but accessible authority that makes her book very appealing. Gray devotes one or two pages to every card in the classic Rider-Waite Tarot deck, and lists possible divinatory meanings. She shows how to use various spreads of the cards in order to give readings, and she also discusses the use of the Tarot as an aid in meditation. She also explores the connections between the Tarot and other systems of occult wisdom: numerology, astrology, and the Kabalah. The book includes a bibliography for those interested in further study. Overall, I found this to be a useful and enjoyable book.
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Summary: If You Want to Learn to Read the Tarot, then Read This Book
Review: I first bought a copy of this book back in 1989, and I've had one ever since. This is the book I learned to read the cards with. For a beginner this is a very detailed, and, as the title says, complete guide to reading Tarot cards. The book uses the Rider-Waite deck for illustations, but one can use the meanings and methods of readings with any deck of Tarot cards. If you want to learn, this is an excellent guide. If you already do read the cards, and you don't have this book, pick it up, because either way, it is an excellent reference work on Tarot cards.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I have been reading Tarot for over 15 years, and although I have read many other books, this is the one I consistently refer to. It has an excellent reference for the symbolism in the Rider-Waite deck, especially the Major Arcana. If you want to learn to read without constantly referring to a book, this is the study aid to get! My copy is lovingly tattered and worn, and when I finally lose one of the pages that have torn loose, it may be time for replacement. But, until then . . . Highly recommended for both the Novitiate and Experienced Reader. Also recommed the Connelly "Handbook for the Apprentice" for its study guides and meditations. A little too Christian bent for me, but it works.
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Summary: If you want to learn Tarot this is a must have book.
Review: I have been using this book for over two years, and I found it very useful when I started to learn Tartot.
What I like the most about this book is that has an overal description of every card (that is the Rider-Waite) and then the meaning of them in their natural position and reversed.
The rest of the book teach us different readings (Horoscope, Tree of Life, Keltic), a lovely summarized definitions of the cards in their natural position and other aspects as the Kabalah, numerology and astrology), which is fun and challenging to use when you can master the meanings of the cards (or even when you don't). If you search all amazon like me, to find the book that meets your needs, this is the book you have to buy to learn Tarot and have it for reference in the future.
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Summary: Easy to use guide
Review: I like this book. Its well worth the cheap price. It starts out with an introduction. Then, there are two pages for every card in the deck. On page that describes the card and its meaning, an a picture of the card on the opposite page. That is for the bigs ones. Then it has a page for every other card. There is stuff of how to read. There is stuff on horoscope signs and numerology. There is a glossary of symbolic terms. The tarot defined, History of the tarot, The major & minor Arcanas How to read the cards, The tarot and meditation Systems of occult though that illuminate the tarot: the tarot and numerology, the tarot and the kabalah, the tarot and astrology Its about 250 pages, semi-small print. I use this book all the time. And it is light so you can bring it with you places.
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Summary: For Beginners and Pros
Review: I started reading the Rider-Waite deck when I was 8 and this is the first guide to tarot I ever read. To this day, it's the only book I consistently refer to. For my money this is the only guide to the tarot that both beginners and seasoned readers can learn from.
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Summary: A must have!
Review: I've been studing the Tarot for many years, this is the book I first learned with and the only one I ever suggest for beginner's. I have yet to find a book that compares to it. I've bought and given away so many copies of this book I find it hard to keep on my shelf, yet I feel its "a must have." The great price makes it easy. Yet the knowledge contained in its pages is surpassed by none. The only books that come close are other editions of Eden Gray's Tarot books. Also the fact that it is an older book, then what is being produced today makes it desirable in my eye's. Yet then if you read all the review's you'll see this book is just to good to pass up, no matter your level of Tarot skill.
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Summary: One of the best introductory books to tarot reading.
Review: This book is one of the best introductory books to tarot reading (another excellent book is Joan Bunning's Learning the Tarot). The book contains a short section about the history of the tarot (mediocre - for a good intro check 'Tarot - History, Mystery, and Lore), an excellent chapter about the Major arcana, a good chapter about the minor arcana, a very good section on reading the cards with three spreads (the classical Celtic Cross, a cabalistic Tree of Life spread, and an astrological zodiacal spread), three goof sections about the connection of tarot to Numerology, Astrology, and Cabala, a section about the Fool's journey, and a short glossary of symbolic terms. I warmly recommend this book to anyone who starts studying the tarot with the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, as the book gives all the basics and puts the reader on the right track to continue from there.
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