Series Volume Number8
Table Of ContentContents Preface / xvii Chapter One:Why Learn the Tarot? / 1 Chapter Two:Where Did the Tarot Come From? / 11 Chapter Three:Will the Real Tarot Please Stand Up? / 19 Chapter Four:Deciding How to Use the Cards / 27 Chapter Five:Associations and Correspondences / 35 Chapter Six:Reversals and Dignities / 61 Chapter Seven:How to Ask a Question of the Tarot / 71 Chapter Eight:How to Read What Is Written in the Cards / 75 Chapter Nine:Laying Out the Cards to Do a Reading / 85 Chapter Ten:The Major Arcana / 109 Chapter Eleven: The Numbered Pip Cards / 161 Chapter Twelve:The Court Cards / 249 Conclusions / 289 The Psychological Value of Reading the Tarot / 290 Appendix / 291 The Two Zodiacs / 291 Recommended Reading / 295 Tarot Books for Beginners / 295 Intermediate to Advanced Tarot Books / 297 Special Topics / 297 History and Origins of Tarot / 298 A Few Internet Resources / 301 Bibliography / 30
SynopsisComprehensive and easy to use, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot contains everything you ever wanted to know about tarot. Join Anthony Louis as he explores tarot history, shares card meanings and spreads, and provides detailed guidance that educates and inspires, whether you're a beginner or an advanced reader. Discover basic reading techniques for a wide variety of systems, including Marseilles, Rider-Waite, and Thoth. Identify the meaning of associations, correspondences, reversals, and dignities, and experience the ways that tarot interacts with astrology and personal spirituality. Combine tarot reading with Kabbalah, numerology, Jungian psychology, journaling, and storytelling while exploring card selection, creativity, tarot ethics, and specialized spreads. Focusing on the use of tarot for insight, empowerment, self-understanding, and fortunetelling, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot provides centuries of accumulated wisdom that will enable you to make optimal use of one of the most powerful spiritual tools ever developed.
LC Classification NumberBF1879.T2L6825 2016