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The Tarot Revealed: A Modern Guide to Reading the Tarot Cards

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I've been reading Tarot for a long, long time, and this is the book I always come back to. This was the one that helped everything "click" into place for me, it is a wonderful book for beginners, and I still refer back to it periodically to refresh myself on the meanings of the individual symbols on eash card, or to consider alternative interpretations. Of the three Eden Gray tarot books, this is my favorite, but all three have merit and are worth buying.

This book has a very short description of each card's divinitory meaning and an even shorter description of the card reversed. This brevity is appealing to a person who wants to begin reading cards immediately, however it has the drawback of giving limited interpretations which can lead to inaccuracy in some circumstances. It also makes memorizing the meanings very difficult, since it does not tie the meaning in with the pictoral representation of the card. In its favor, at least it does mention the reversed cards, which not all references do. It also has a short glossery of the symbolism used in cards. All in all, though, for any beginner who really wants to learn the tarot, I'd say Joan Bunning's book is 10 times better than this.

a simple and easy way to read Tarot cards! I loved it!...Step by step,easy to read and understand instructions are important especially for those of us just learning Tarot!

This book coupled with a good pack of Tarot cards can turn anyone into a Tarot reader in minutes. This book has information on the past of tarot, different spreads to use with them, the meanings of every card, and a full page illustration for each of them. I use this book with Albano-Waite cards, and the pictures match perfectly. TAROT REVEALED is a must-have for any person interested in reading the Tarot.

If you are using the Rider-Waite deck, this is a good beginning book to have. When I first reviewed this book, I'd only been studying the tarot for a few months, but Eden Gray's book gave me a remarkable amount of insight in a very short time. When I went to a local metaphysical bookstore to purchase my first tarot deck (Rider-Waite, btw), I asked the owner of the store which tarot book she recommended. She bypassed all the elaborate-looking and more expensive books she had for sale, and calmly handed Eden Gray's book to me. (I double checked after she walked away -- she had picked out the least expensive book). I think the bookstore owner's endorsement said it all. I have since read several other books, but for my readings I kept coming back to the interpretations I learned in this book. The store owner said that Gray's book would get me started, then after that, I should use my own intuition. Reading bigger and better books is great exercise for the left brain, but is that really why you are interested in the tarot?

I've only been studying the tarot for a few months, but Eden Gray's book gave me a remarkable amount of insight in a very short time. When I went to a local metaphysical bookstore a few months ago to purchase my tarot deck, I asked the owner of the store which tarot book she recommended. She bypassed all the elaborate-looking and more expensive books she had for sale, and calmly handed Eden Gray's book to me. (I double checked after she walked away -- she had picked out the least expensive book) I think the bookstore owner's endorsement says it all. I have since read three other books, but for my readings I keep coming back to the interpretations I learned in Eden Gray's book (plus, of course, my own intuition).

This is by far the best book to learn the Rider Waite Tarot ! Well worth the price ! It is prefect for the beginner. Study this book daily with Your deck and You'll be on Your way to a basic understanding of the Tarot.

I've bought this book having heard good recommendations on Eden Gray's books and having read the cards (using the Rider deck) for over a year.

Each minor arcana cards is explained in two pages-one with the card's picture, and another containing mainly white space, half a dozen lines that describe the card and shed a *bit* of light on it's meaning, and six lines to explain it's meaning upright & reversed usually with a few keywords.

This will pass for someone who just wants to start quickly, but is shallow. The extensive fillers (why give a whole page for each card's picture ? the reader is supposed to have the deck at hand and a verbal explanation is included. They could at least put the picture and text on the same page, as in 'Mastering the Tarot').

In contrast, the major arcana are well explained, and the glossary of terms is a small gem. I think those two sections do an excellent job of getting a newcomer on track quickly.

The two spreads explained - each with an example - are as good as the major arcana section, though I think that the Tree of Life spread could be replaced with a spread more appropriate for newcomers.

All in all I think this book is good for people with no knowledge of the tarot who want to *start* reading with a deck quickly and painlessly.

But I think that for anyone who wants to go beyond the very basics should start with a better book, e.g. Joan Bunning's Learning the Tarot, rather than this book.

This book inspired me to buy a Rider-Waite deck! I started learning tarot with non-traditional decks like Motherpeace and the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, and I picked this book up to see what the old standby Rider-Waite was all about. Gray's simple, clear explanations shed new light on my readings with other decks, and the Rider-Waite illustrations convinced me that this deck merits its status as the "standard" for tarot.

Gray explains the Minor Arcana in very useful detail, and the concise discussion of reversals was especially helpful to me. The information about how to do readings for other people is also quite practical. The section on the Majors seems a bit skeletal to me, but there's definitely enough to get you started.

This is an all-over good read as well applicable to any tarot deck in a very general way.