How to Read the Tarot is written by Nancy Garen and published by Fire Side books.
Have you ever had a reading that has cards that look totally irrelavent? For example, you ask about your financial future and the Queen of Sword turns up. What has the Queen of Swords got to do with your *financial* future? It could mean that you might be meeting a strong and reliable female who might infulence your future financially...or, it might not. For those who have ever encountered this problem (from experience, all readers encounter this sooner or later in their course of studying the Tarot), this book will answer many of your questions.
The most unique aspect of this book is that it divides all the meanings of the cards into different sections or categories. For every card, there is a list and when you encounter a card which you are confused with, you simply turn to the page in the book with the appropriate card and look under the heading (for example, in the problem above, you can look up the heading under Financial).
One of the advantages worthwhile pointing about this book is that the author has given both the Major Arcanna and the Minor Arcanna equal attention. Very frequently, most books pay lots and lots of attention to the Major Arcanna (some can write about 2 - 3 pages about the Major Arcanna) and leave only a single page per Minor Arcanna Card. True, the Major Arcanna cards are the Greater Secrets after all and are very important but the Minor Arcanna is important too and seldom gets the attention it deserves. Fortunately, this book pays attention to both parts of the Tarot.
On the flip side, this book is better used as a reference when you're really stumped or as a permanent guide, permanent guide as you use only this book and no other, simply because the meanings deviate rather terribly from the norm. When the meanings don't deviate, there are a lot more of them and it can be rather confusing when one tries to use this book alongside another Tarot Guide, one is apt to end up rather confused.
All in all, I feel this book is worth adding to one's library of Tarot Books because you never know when you're going to get stumped!
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This article is rewritten by Lysander .
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