The Ultimate Guide to Tarot: A Beginner's Guide to the Cards, Spreads, and Revealing the Mystery of the Tarot (Volume 1) (The Ultimate Guide to..., 1) Paperback – May 15, 2015

Love this Tarot book. Nice and big and legible. Has all the meanings for all the cards Has full description of the cards. right side up and reverse. Has beautiful pictures and a nice introduction and explanation of how to use the book. Has nice tarot card spreads. For the major arcana. Lots more. If you are in need of a tarot book check this out and if you purchase, you will not be sorry and think it is just another tarot book I have lots of tarot books beside this one. I really like it for its simplicity of the write ups.

I love how big and bright this book is. The pictures are beautiful. I am a beginner and learning tarot slowly. This book has been great - I'm starting by only using the major arcana cards as suggested. I like it because I'm learning the major arcana first and then will add back in the minor arcana. This has allowed me to get comfortable pretty quick using a smaller deck. Less overwhelming. The beginning of the book has a ton of history and useful information and tips. Very happy with my purchase.

I have been learning Tarot reading for a few years now and read many books on the subject. I have to say this is my favourite book, it gives possible options in order to understand every card and usually it’s very accurate . The book is very informative and teaches everything you need to know in order to start reading the cards. I started learning Tarot with this book and I still turn to it when I do my readings.

I was afraid to buy it because of all reviews photos showing a very bad quality, that pages are falling out and you have a book that falling apart… As you can see on my photos the quality is great and I don’t have this issue with pages! The book is amazing, very good information and perfect quality! I enjoyed reading it and I would recommend it 100% if you want to learn tarot! Here you will find everything what you need to know. The real ultimate guide to tarot for sure!

I got this with a few others for a research project and found this to be one of the better volumes on the subject. It's well-written and covers all the basics while also diving deeper than most beginner texts, and I'm finding it very useful. We had one fail to deliver, bought a replacement and had it damaged, bought another and it had the same damage, so I do think that this is best grabbed in a bookstore if you can find it. I got a perfect copy in the local store and I'm loving it. This one's a keeper.

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I'm new to reading tarot cards and have signed up for a class next month, but I was eager to start learning now. I'll be honest...I judged this book by its cover! I was drawn to the bold colors and pictures of the cards on front. But inside is even better! The author gives some history on tarot up to the current deck that most people are familiar with - the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. The book features sections for the major and minor arcana cards. Each individual card gets its own section with detailed descriptions of each card's image, meanings, and how to interpret them during a reading. Sample spreads are provided throughout the book, from simple to more complex. I've learned so much already, and just love looking at this beautiful, colorful book. I purchased a similar book around the same time (which I also love) but if you can only buy one, I recommend this one!

My first books on the Tarot (over 40 years ago) were those by Eden Grey. These were followed by Eileen Connoly's three "Handbooks" (to this day, probably my favorite of the dozens that I have read). Hajo Banzhaf's "Tarot and the Journey of the Hero" is quite possibly the most enlightening book on the Major Arcana that I have ever read. Why do I mention all of these other books? Because as much as I love every one of them for how they have helped me understand the Tarot, if I was to recommend a single book to a beginner who wanted to start on a meaningful journey into the Tarot, it would be this one.There's no way around it - if you want to achieve meaningful results with the Tarot, you have to commit to learning the 78 meanings (156 if you use reversed meanings), and this takes time. But with the excellent descriptions of the cards themselves, and especially valuable discussions of the symbols contained on the cards, I believe the time can be condensed, and a deeper understanding of the cards obtained using this book than any other single book that I have read. Even for someone who first learned the cards 40 years ago (and whose memory is not quite what it once was), this book provided an excellent "refresher" - and provided some new insights that I had not read before.Note: This book is very closely tied to the Rider/Waite/Coleman Tarot deck (and is illustrated with the Universal Waite deck). Although there are many different Tarot decks available (I have about a dozen), I HIGHLY recommend using one of the Waite decks for study with this book.