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The Fortune Teller's Deck: Predict Your Future With Playing Cards

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I'd always thought that fortune telling was interesting and wanted to learn more about it. I received much more than I expected when I bought "The Fortune Teller's Deck." I discovered that fortune telling with playing cards was interesting, accurate, and much simpler than using tarot cards. I'd tried to learn how to use tarot cards in the past but was always daunted by the task of memorizing so many card meanings. A deck of playing cards is much smaller than a tarot deck and, as a result, is easier to grasp. Jane Lyle offers her readers some of the most in-depth analysis' of the cards that I've seen (and by now, I've read several books on the subject). She includes keywords for each card so that they're easier to memorize and shares with her readers many different spreads. In my readings, the Star of Fifteen has been the most accurate. I definitely don't regret purchasing "The Fortune Teller's Deck." In fact, it's one of the best purchases I've ever made, and I recommend that anyone interested in fortune telling buy it.

The book is easy to follow if you've never used tarot cards before. The deck is beautifully done. Definitely not a playing deck. The explanations in the book are easy enough for any beginners to start with. I wish the book was longer as the bits & pieces about the history of the older spreads were very intriguing.

I am very impressed with this deck of "Playing Cards" --which can be used as "Tarot" cards and the descriptive book, which explains their meanings. The standard playing card decks used today derived from "The Tarot," so this deck is charged with centuries of "fortune telling" experience and history.

The deck is quite beautiful--with an Antique effect and an obvious "reversal" clarification mark (outline symbol) on each card--with the reversal meaning of each card listed in the book, also. The back of the cards are very pretty, as well.

The lovely, well-written book provided with the deck is loaded with information about each card, with great descriptions of each card, full-color illustrations of the cards, instructions for various layouts of the cards and instructions for interpreting the cards.... this is not a typical, tiny little booklet, which usually comes with a deck of Cards--it is a full-sized book (160 pages) and is packed with information!

Coincidently, I had just discovered another book which can be used, easily, with this deck, although the book provided with this deck has a lot more information.... however, if you want to start with a very simple, easy to remember format, you can purchase this set and begin with the simple correspondences listed in ISBN # 0312265093 ("Doktor Snake's Voodoo Spellbook: Spells, Curses and Folk Magic for All Your Needs" by Doktor Snake), then work your way up to the full descriptions / correspondences depicted in "The Fortune Teller's Deck: Predict your future with playing cards," by Jane Lyle.

I am very excited about this Book & Card Deck set, because I was looking for a "standard playing deck" to use with Doktor Snake's book, mentioned above....and I happened-across this great Book/Card Deck set--which is much more impressive than most standard decks, artistically / aesthetically.

I have been using Tarot cards since 1990 and I have added this book/deck set to my "Favorites."