The Ultimate Guide to Tarot A Beginner's Guide to the Cards, Spreads, and Revealing the Mystery of the Tarot

by Dean, Liz

• ISBN13: 9781592336579
• ISBN10: 1592336574
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-05-15
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press

Summary

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.

The Ultimate Guide to… series offers comprehensive beginner’s guides to discovering a range of mind, body, spirit topics, including divination, crystal grids, numerology, witchcraft, chakras, aromatherapy, and more. Filled with beautiful illustrations and designed to give easy access to the information you’re looking for, each of these references provides simple-to-follow expert guidance as you learn and master your practice.
 

Author Biography

Liz Dean (London, England) is a professional tarot reader and Angelic Reiki™ Healer at Psychic Sisters in Selfridges, London. A best-selling tarot author, Liz had studied divination for over 20 years. Liz is the author of The Golden Tarot (over 300,000 sold worldwide), The Ultimate Guide to Tarot, The Ultimate Guide to Tarot Spreads, The Victorian Steampunk Tarot, Fairy Tale Fortune Cards, 44 Ways to Talk to Your Angels, The Tarot Companion, and Tarot Made Simple. Liz is also one of the “Tarot Masters” included in Kim Arnold's eponymous collection of 38 essays. She is also a former co-editor of the UK's leading spiritual magazine, Kindred Spirit (2011–2013), and an award-winning poet. 

Table of Contents

<FMH>Contents
 
<TOC-CTG>1: INTRODUCING THE TAROT
<TOC-A>How to Work with This Book
<TOC-A>How Reading Tarot Benefits You
<TOC-A>A Note on the Rider Waite Tarot
<TOC-A>Early Cards: Court and Clergy
<TOC-A>Hidden Knowledge: Astrology and Kabbala
<TOC-A>Evolution of the Tarot: Influential Decks Through History
<TOC-A>Exploring the Deck: The Major and Minor Arcanas
 
<TOC-CTG>2: HOW TO BEGIN
<TOC-A>Your Cards, Your Energies: Card Attunement, Cleansing, and Protection
<TOC-A>Using the Card Interpretations
<TOC-A>Six Easy Ways to Begin Your Tarot Reading
 
3: CARD LAYOUTS
<TOC-A>The One-card Daily Reading
<TOC-A>Past, Present, Future
<TOC-A>Ask Three Times: Yes or No?
<TOC-A>The Celtic Cross
<TOC-A>The Week Ahead
<TOC-A>The Month Ahead
<TOC-A>The Year Ahead
<TOC-A>The Tree of Life
 
<TOC-CTG>4: CARD INTERPRETATIONS: The Major Arcana
<TOC-B>Quick-Reference Meanings
<TOC-B>0, The Fool
<TOC-B>I, The Magician
<TOC-B>II, The High Priestess
<TOC-B>III, The Empress
<TOC-B>IV, The Emperor
<TOC-B>V, The Hierophant
<TOC-B>VI, The Lovers
<TOC-B>VII, The Chariot
<TOC-B>VIII, Strength
<TOC-B>IX, The Hermit
<TOC-B>X, The Wheel of Fortune
<TOC-B>XI, Justice
<TOC-B>XII, The Hanged Man
<TOC-B>XIII, Death
<TOC-B>XIV, Temperance
<TOC-B>XV, The Devil
<TOC-B>XVI, The Tower
<TOC-B>XVII, The Star
<TOC-B>XVIII, The Moon
<TOC-B>XIX, The Sun
<TOC-B>XX, Judgment
<TOC-B>XXI, The World
 
CTG>4: CARD INTERPRETATIONS : The Minor Arcana
<TOC-B>Quick-Reference meanings
<TOC-B>The Suit of Cups
<TOC-B>The Suit of Wands
<TOC-B>The Suit of Swords
<TOC-B>The Suit of Pentacles
<TOC-A>Afterword
<TOC-BMH>Appendices
<TOC-BMH-1>Astrology, Kabbala, and the Major Arcana: The Golden Dawn System
<TOC-BMH-1>Kabbala: The Tree of Life Pathways and the Major Arcana
<TOC-BMH-1>Astrology, Kabbala, and the Minor Arcana
<TOC-BMH-1>Chakras, Crystals, and the Major Arcana
<TOC-BMH-1>Tarot, Chakra and Crystal Correspondences
 
<TOC-BMH>Acknowledgments
<TOC-BMH>About the Author
<TOC-BMH>Index