Review by Joanna Korneluk for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e Rating:
After many years of memory development, working with imagination, creativity I checked this book in order to learn few things and trry my memory abilities on that… What was amazing for me, that this book is so easy and well written that there was no need to use memory systems tu understand Tarot, learn card’s meanings, spreads. I have read it with great pleasure. Tarot is not difficult to learn when you get this book and start reading. Highly professional advice in easy language! With that book you will explore more than only card’s meanings. You will explore yourself, you will find pleasure in Tarot readings because exaplanations make Tarot really ‘user friendly” tool.If I knew this book few years ago…Shilo Clancey Memory Development Specialistalso great fan of “The Rainbow Butterfly” book available at amazon.com
Review by for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e Rating:
The “Complete Idiot’s Guide to…” line of books is really great. Its guide to tarot is no exception. Easy to read language that a “lay” person can understand, with no hokey passages. Gives useful examples of the various spreads and how to replicate them. Also provides areas to write in your own sample readings. If you’re looking for a good resource book, this is it!
Review by Theia for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e Rating:
What I love about this book is that it discusses ways to connect with the cards intuitively and gives detailed descriptions of the traditional meanings. The intuitive treatment of the major arcana is especially good. It includes excerises in studying the imagery as well as excerises in studying the archetypes presented using familiar Greek and Roman myths and more modern movie epics like Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz.
The traditional meaning part of the book is among the best I have seen. Each card is pictured (using the Rider-Waite Deck) and a paragraph or two is written on the imagery and it’s meaning. Next the card’s interpretation is presented. The interpretations presented in the book are open-ended enough to apply to various questions, decks, layout positions, etc. but not so open-ended you feel like their just trying to write something that pleases everyone. The upright intpretation is followed by an interpretation of the reversed meaning, again, paired with imagery, only now they discuss the reversed imagery – a great way to look at the reversed meanings. Above each card there is a title that sums up the cards meaning. This helps me not lose the forest for the trees.You may be asking why I have only given the book four stars when I have so much praise. The reason is that the information on the minors (ouside the traditional meanings) is lacking, and a “complete” guide should have everything. The explaination of the suits is not bad, but doesn’t go beyond what students of tarot learn in the first few weeks. The description of the numbers is absolutely pitiful. Begining students are advised to pair studying this book with another book on minors.Overall a great addition to any tarot readers collection!
Review by Cindy Louie for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e Rating:
This book is a good introduction to Tarot. It uses an analogy we are all familiar with (Wizard of Oz) to help us understand the meaning of a spiritual journey. I think it’s insightful and delivered in an understandable format for the novice user. I have been giving readings for the past seven years and still use this as a main reference book from time to time as a refresher course.
Review by Brad Bernstein-Reppen for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e Rating:
I have always been interested in tarot, and had some readings, but never understood how it all worked together. Then I found this wonderful text at the recommendation of a friend, and I was hooked. I used it as a textbook, learned from the easy examples, and the wonderful modern arch-types. Now the CIG group has updated it with current findings, clarifications, and readings for our current times. Don’t believe me, go out and pick it up or read the chapter Amazon provides. The quality and intuitive nature of the book stands out. I’ve already bought my copy of this new edition, and I’ve made gifts to good friends who have been interested in Tarot for a long time. I couldn’t have asked for a better guide or a better set of exercises, and neither could you! I finally am starting to trust my intuition due to my start with learning Tarot with this volume. Blessed Be!
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Review by Joanna Korneluk for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e
Rating:
After many years of memory development, working with imagination, creativity I checked this book in order to learn few things and trry my memory abilities on that…
What was amazing for me, that this book is so easy and well written that there was no need to use memory systems tu understand Tarot, learn card’s meanings, spreads.
I have read it with great pleasure. Tarot is not difficult to learn when you get this book and start reading.
Highly professional advice in easy language!
With that book you will explore more than only card’s meanings. You will explore yourself, you will find pleasure in Tarot readings because exaplanations make Tarot really ‘user friendly” tool.If I knew this book few years ago…Shilo Clancey
Memory Development Specialistalso great fan of “The Rainbow Butterfly” book available at amazon.com
Review by for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e
Rating:
The “Complete Idiot’s Guide to…” line of books is really great. Its guide to tarot is no exception. Easy to read language that a “lay” person can understand, with no hokey passages. Gives useful examples of the various spreads and how to replicate them. Also provides areas to write in your own sample readings. If you’re looking for a good resource book, this is it!
Review by Theia for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e
Rating:
What I love about this book is that it discusses ways to connect with the cards intuitively and gives detailed descriptions of the traditional meanings. The intuitive treatment of the major arcana is especially good. It includes excerises in studying the imagery as well as excerises in studying the archetypes presented using familiar Greek and Roman myths and more modern movie epics like Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz.
The traditional meaning part of the book is among the best I have seen. Each card is pictured (using the Rider-Waite Deck) and a paragraph or two is written on the imagery and it’s meaning. Next the card’s interpretation is presented. The interpretations presented in the book are open-ended enough to apply to various questions, decks, layout positions, etc. but not so open-ended you feel like their just trying to write something that pleases everyone. The upright intpretation is followed by an interpretation of the reversed meaning, again, paired with imagery, only now they discuss the reversed imagery – a great way to look at the reversed meanings. Above each card there is a title that sums up the cards meaning. This helps me not lose the forest for the trees.You may be asking why I have only given the book four stars when I have so much praise. The reason is that the information on the minors (ouside the traditional meanings) is lacking, and a “complete” guide should have everything. The explaination of the suits is not bad, but doesn’t go beyond what students of tarot learn in the first few weeks. The description of the numbers is absolutely pitiful. Begining students are advised to pair studying this book with another book on minors.Overall a great addition to any tarot readers collection!
Review by Cindy Louie for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e
Rating:
This book is a good introduction to Tarot. It uses an analogy we are all familiar with (Wizard of Oz) to help us understand the meaning of a spiritual journey. I think it’s insightful and delivered in an understandable format for the novice user. I have been giving readings for the past seven years and still use this as a main reference book from time to time as a refresher course.
Review by Brad Bernstein-Reppen for Complete Idiots Guide To Tarot 2e
Rating:
I have always been interested in tarot, and had some readings, but never understood how it all worked together. Then I found this wonderful text at the recommendation of a friend, and I was hooked. I used it as a textbook, learned from the easy examples, and the wonderful modern arch-types. Now the CIG group has updated it with current findings, clarifications, and readings for our current times.
Don’t believe me, go out and pick it up or read the chapter Amazon provides. The quality and intuitive nature of the book stands out. I’ve already bought my copy of this new edition, and I’ve made gifts to good friends who have been interested in Tarot for a long time.
I couldn’t have asked for a better guide or a better set of exercises, and neither could you! I finally am starting to trust my intuition due to my start with learning Tarot with this volume.
Blessed Be!