Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners - Joan Bunning

This piece is aimed at the beginner, novice or slightly interested. So I thought the best place to put it would be here. I'll probably get a ticking off, but..... To some, the Tarot is nothing more than a scam. To others it’s a very serious business indeed. Oh yes. Prime Ministers, Presidents and some of the most violent dictators in history have employed the Tarot. Celebrities and even the hoariest of rock stars are said to ask the Tarots’ guidance. People may consider them fools, but when they can afford the best that money can provide, and in some cases, obtain that which money can’t, I feel that there has to be something to it all. ...  Read the complete review

Don't buy a tarot book for beginners. Don't buy any Tarot book until you've been doing it at least a year. Otherwise you are just handicapping yourself needlessly. Think about it. Tarot reading is building up a link betwwen the cards and yourself so that you can talk to them and vice versa. This comes from practice, as you gradually find out what language they use with you, what each card or combination of cards is going to tell YOU. Why mess yourself up by faithfully learning what they tell someone else ? Seriously. I know whereof I speak. I have worked as a Tarot reader for five years, sometimes doing upwards of fifty readings a week. I ...  Read the complete review

When I bought myself a Tarot deck, I chose one that was sold with a book - A E Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot. It almost put me off for good. A reprint of a book first published in 1910, this was *not* the ideal volume for a beginner. For a start, the language is incredibly flowery and convoluted, and if you can get through the first page of chapter one, you have more perseverance than I do. "I do not think that there is a pathology of the occult dedications, but about their extravagances no one can question, and it is not less difficult than thankless to act as a moderator regarding them. Moreover, the pathology, if it existed, would ...  Read the complete review