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Tarot Basics (Book & Gift Set, Book & Cards)

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I'm new to tarot reading and this book was very informative and insightful for me. It goes through the basic fundamentals of tarot reading, including pictures of the different (types of) cards and their meanings/interpretations. I found the short description of the 200-year old history of tarot cards very interesting, as well as the aspects of tarot in other forms of astrology. Tarot Basics also includes 15 different lay-outs for tarot readings from the simplest to the more insightful types and includes interpretations/analysis for all of the 78 cards in a tarot deck. Reading this book made me want to run out and buy my own deck of cards and start conducting my own readings! Great for a beginner like me. Enjoy!

This has to be one of the nicest and most attractive Tarot card/book sets available, and features beautiful color graphics & packaging. The only defect for me(personaly)is the card images themselves- they are done in a sort of primative, kindergarden-art type rendering(similar to the Barnes&Noble Tarot set by Johnthan Dee). I believe it actually could have been perfect if the card images were rendered in a more relistic vein, or simply printed copies of the classic "Marseille" deck. Even the card backs are beautifully printed to match graphic patterns on the package. Just feel it could have possibly been better, but still it's a very nice set. Available at some Barnes&Noble bookstores.

I recommend Tarot Basics definitely for the Beginning Tarot Initiate for its clarity of meanings for each of the major/minor arcana cards and the three different decks in the book. This actually gives the Beginner first sensitivity to each of the images of each of the decks. 3 of the decks are Crowley's Book Of Thoth;Rider-Waite; and The Marseilles decks(one is in the book and the other is the 78 card deck in the set which is a collage interpretation of this classic deck.) I have tested the deck provided as I am very familiar with Marseilles Deck by 1000's of readings to be very comfotable with this deck in at least 4 spreads..

I really didn't garnish a single bit of information from this book. It has almost nothing to do with the fundamentals of traditional tarot, and fails to offer up some kind of unique alternative. I read this entire book cover to cover and came away knowing just about what i started with before i opened it: Nothing.

This book is an attempt to introduce a new-age appeal to tarot and drag it away from it's "fortune-teller" (as the book describes it) roots, Basing the reading souly on a persons psychological reaction to the card instead of the traditional teachings of energy & spirit.

If you want to learn tarot, don't buy this book. Get Learning the Tarot or goto the website of the same name. This book is useless, tries to fraud the essence of tarot, and doesn't even properly explain the point it's trying to convey. Avoid it and if you accidentally get to close, walk, don't run, away.

This was given to me as a gift set by my father. They go with the popular yellow press hype that Crowley was a black magician. They comment that his interpretation of Tarot is still valid; nonetheless, such a claim (ad hominem) doesn't really help anyone seeking quality material, as any man in his personal life is not equivalent to his public or work life. Perhaps it is not so unfortunate then, as anyone who reads Tarot is going to be seen as a Satanist anyway. And this read does open up choices for Tarot and gives three explanations for each card - Arthur-Waite, Thoth and their own. I also like that the cards are longer and not as wide as others. The artwork is ok - a good practice deck. You'll have to look up whatever paraphrases are out there for the minor arcana (for example, 5 of pentacles = financial strife...5 of anything is usually strife of whatever element it is), and/or you can create your own.

This set was a waste of money for me. I couldnt follow any of the meanings of the cards, not by what the book was saying. I am prolly just stupid. But I personally like the recipie card deal.