Features
- Cover Type: Paperback
- Published by: U.S. Games Systems
- Edition: Paper Card Deck Edition October 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1572813547
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572813540
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Book Dimensions:
8.2 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Book Description
Special Edition with Rider-Waite - the world's most popular tarot deck! Tarot Deck & Book Set For Dummies provides an accessible step-by-step approach to start your relationship with tarot. Using the special abridged edition of the Tarot For Dummies book, even the most apprehensive students will quickly learn to understand the meanings of each card. Packaged with the most popular and fundamental of tarot decks - the full-size Rider-Waite Tarot.
Reader Reviews
Ms. Jayanti is big on the history of tarot cards and obviously a psychology buff. She interprets the cards as a psychologist might see Rohrschach ink blots. "I don't work with the tarot to predict the future," she says. Tarot is a great teaching tool for substance-abuse counselors, according to this author. She lets the client do the interpreting of the cards as pretty pictures, much as a psychiatrist might ask a patient to interpret ink blots. This author calls it a "fallacy" that some think tarot readings help you find out about your future. To her, the cards are merely a symbol system that can assist you in understanding yourself -- and you can forget about predictive readings for others. "Lighting candles or saying prayers" to her is "just plain ignorant." I'll take a book that tells me how to read the cards. If I want psychoanalysis, I'll go to a psychiatrist.
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