Question by Ladyswan: I would like to learn tarot. What are some good books and resources on taro?
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Answer by I’m just me
I ran across this website when I myself read cards. It’s an excellent website on the tarot.
http://www.learntarot.com/
What do you think? Answer below!
The first thing to do is get a good tarot deck. This can be tricky. I have a video offering some tips on how to choose a deck. You can see this video on my website at Cassy’s Tarot. One of THE best tarot decks available today is The Pictorial Key Tarot. (Not the old book. The deck.) This deck is by Lo Scarabeo, and it is published by Llewellyn. This is my all-time favorite deck of choice, because it has great imagery, fantastic symbolism, and it offers the student and the professional alike some great visual stimulus to gain access to your intuition. The next thing I would suggest is to get a journal notebook, spend some time looking at the deck and handling the deck. Look at each card individually, and jot down any thoughts that come to you. This practice can take days, even weeks. That’s okay. Tarot should be approached in a relaxed state and with an open mind. Don’t rush yourself. In fact, in my book, I urge people not to rush themselves. Next, there are many good books available, but there are also some really good videos available. Some of them are free. They will give you some really good beginning insights. You will find that most people in the spiritual, psychic, paranormal communities are more than willing to offer help whenever possible. I have a series of free videos coming out myself, but for the sake of this answer, I will post about other people who are really good and really quite nice.
You’re going to need a good deck. The deck I recommend to beginners is the Rider-Waite-Smith deck—aka Rider deck, aka Rider-Waite deck. There are several variations of this deck, so I’m going to include the ISBN numbers that you can type in at most of the online stores that have them. The version I like best has the ISBN number of 0-913866-13-X. The only other version I like has the ISBN number of 978-0-88079-686-6. The latter deck has more of a bluish or greenish hue to it though. Other than those two decks I do not like any other variations of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.
As with books there are some great ones out there, but there are some awful ones as well. Most books seem to reference the Rider-Waite-Smith deck so it’s probably best to get that deck in order to go along with the many books out there. The best book I’ve found to help those just starting out is called “Power Tarot” and the ISBN number is 0-684-84185-1. This book has many definitions for normal areas of concern—work, romance, finances, etc. I’ve found that this book tends to help others a lot more because many other books give keywords as definitions of the cards.
There are some really good books out there, and I normally suggest almost anything by Mary K. Greer—depending on what the book is about and if it strikes an interest in you. Tarot is a wonderful tool, but know that you’re not going to learn how to read on your own in a matter of minutes or days. Tarot normally takes people years and years of study, and any good reader will tell you that they learn things all the time. Hope that helps!