Tarot Deck & Book Set for Dummies [With Book] [Paperback]

Amber Jayanti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2002

Special Edition with Rider-Waite - the world's most popular tarot deck! Tarot Deck & Book Set For Dummies provides an accessible step-by-step approach to start your relationship with tarot. Using the special abridged edition of the Tarot For Dummies book, even the most apprehensive students will quickly learn to understand the meanings of each card. Packaged with the most popular and fundamental of tarot decks - the full-size Rider-Waite Tarot.

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: U.S. Games Systems (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572813547
• ISBN-13: 978-1572813540
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #435,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A big disappointment, August 23, 2003

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exstellis (Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarot Deck & Book Set for Dummies [With Book] (Paperback)

Ms. Jayanti is big on the history of tarot cards and obviously a psychology buff. She interprets the cards as a psychologist might see Rohrschach ink blots. "I don't work with the tarot to predict the future," she says.

Tarot is a great teaching tool for substance-abuse counselors, according to this author. She lets the client do the interpreting of the cards as pretty pictures, much as a psychiatrist might ask a patient to interpret ink blots.

This author calls it a "fallacy" that some think tarot readings help you find out about your future.

To her, the cards are merely a symbol system that can assist you in understanding yourself -- and you can forget about predictive readings for others. "Lighting candles or saying prayers" to her is "just plain ignorant."

I'll take a book that tells me how to read the cards. If I want psychoanalysis, I'll go to a psychiatrist.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars this is an abridged version, November 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Tarot Deck & Book Set for Dummies [With Book] (Paperback)

Everyone should be aware that the book that comes with this set is an abridged version of Tarot for Dummies. It contains 100 fewer pages than the original and is missing Chapters 10-12, 14-17.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good for starter, February 21, 2005

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Original (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarot Deck & Book Set for Dummies [With Book] (Paperback)

I bought this book because it came with standard rider deck, exactly what I wanted and as a beginner. I have no complain for the cards, but card interpretation in the book is somewhat different from other source and I am going to buy another book 'learning tarot for beginners' to make sure I learn about tarot. The book is thinner than full dummie version, which is good enough. I would recommend people to buy the set if you never owned tarot, but suggest to read other books for deeper understanding.