Full Description
The Ultimate Guide to Tarot is an easy-to-use, yet comprehensive reference that introduces the tarot, providing steps on how to begin reading and options for card layouts, followed by a detailed survey of every card of the major and minor arcana.
Uncover the facts, myth, history, and mystery of the spiritual art of tarot reading. Whether you want to learn to read the cards or deepen your tarot interpretation skills, The Ultimate Guide to Tarot honors the deep heritage of tarot, while guiding you through practical techniques.
Tarot expert Liz Dean offers an overview to all of the important elements of each card, from interpreting their symbols to their links with astrology, kabbala,and numerology. The Ultimate Guide to Tarot also includes all the classic tarot spreads—Celtic Cross, Horseshoe, Star, and Astrological Year Ahead—plus, a mini-layout to try for each of the 22 major arcana cards.
Learn how to combine the three essential ingredients of a great tarot reading: knowing the meaning of the cards, how to lay them out, and trusting the intuitive messages the images often spark within us during a reading. This synthesis is the true magic of tarot.
With the authority and confidence this book offers, The Ultimate Guide to Tarot is the must-have companion for beginner readers and tarot aficionados alike.
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Contents
Contents
1: INTRODUCING THE TAROT
How to Work with This Book
How Reading Tarot Benefits You
A Note on the Rider Waite Tarot
Early Cards: Court and Clergy
Hidden Knowledge: Astrology and Kabbala
Evolution of the Tarot: Influential Decks Through History
Exploring the Deck: The Major and Minor Arcanas
2: HOW TO BEGIN
Your Cards, Your Energies: Card Attunement, Cleansing, and Protection
Using the Card Interpretations
Six Easy Ways to Begin Your Tarot Reading
3: CARD LAYOUTS
The One-card Daily Reading
Past, Present, Future
Ask Three Times: Yes or No?
The Celtic Cross
The Week Ahead
The Month Ahead
The Year Ahead
The Tree of Life
4: CARD INTERPRETATIONS: The Major Arcana
Quick-Reference Meanings
0, The Fool
I, The Magician
II, The High Priestess
III, The Empress
IV, The Emperor
V, The Hierophant
VI, The Lovers
VII, The Chariot
VIII, Strength
IX, The Hermit
X, The Wheel of Fortune
XI, Justice
XII, The Hanged Man
XIII, Death
XIV, Temperance
XV, The Devil
XVI, The Tower
XVII, The Star
XVIII, The Moon
XIX, The Sun
XX, Judgment
XXI, The World
CTG>4: CARD INTERPRETATIONS : The Minor Arcana
Quick-Reference meanings
The Suit of Cups
The Suit of Wands
The Suit of Swords
The Suit of Pentacles
Afterword
Appendices
Astrology, Kabbala, and the Major Arcana: The Golden Dawn System
Kabbala: The Tree of Life Pathways and the Major Arcana
Astrology, Kabbala, and the Minor Arcana
Chakras, Crystals, and the Major Arcana
Tarot, Chakra and Crystal Correspondences
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
