I owned this book before and then sold it so delighted to buy it back again as I found it hard to to live without! You don't have to own the Thoth tarot, which is used to illustrate the book, to benefit from the excellent advice and tarot descriptions. I have always felt that tarot was designed to to point you towards light and homeless and then struggled when I came across cards like the three or 5 of swords or the seven of pentacles which in the Barbara Walker tarot is called failure. But but this book will help you work with these more challenging cards and see them as opportunities for overcoming tendencies towards negative thinking about sorrow or defeat or failure. There is also an excellent section about tarot constellations where she ties in in the four minor arcana cards with one or two of the Majors, and illustrate them as a constellation of cards that work together. I also especially like her affirmations for the major cards which in some books can be a little bit contrived but which here are a helpful tool for working with the cards. If you were serious about using tarot as a tool self development and don't already have this book I can't imagine that you would ever regret buying it and reading it.