Llewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot: A Comprehensive Guide

Comprehensive 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.

ISBN-13: 9780738749082

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide LTD.

Publication Date: 08-08-2016

Pages: 336

Product Dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

Series: Llewellyn's Complete Book Series #8

Anthony Louis (Conn.) is a physician and psychiatrist. Astrology has been his avocation for more than 30 years and he has authored five books on the topic. He has lectured internationally on horary astrology and has published numerous articles in magazines such as American Astrology, The Mountain Astrologer, and The Horary Practitioner. Visit him online at TonyLouis.wordpress.com.

Table of Contents

Contents
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

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