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Two Books for March


Grizabella

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I'm creating a category I'm just calling "Books" because I really still love old-fashioned books that a person can hold in one's hands.  I haven't bought Tarot books much in a year or more but every so often I find one or two (or more) that really interest me. I found that when I belatedly got all excited about Bennebel's Holistic Tarot, I was a real late-comer so I might find that the ones I just got , everyone else has had since last year, but I'm going to do it anyway.  If anyone wants to post on the threads in this category, I'll be happy but if I'm posting about "old news" and it doesn't spark comments or chat about the books, that's okay too.  

 

For this month, I found two books that really intrigued me.   They're called:

 

  • The Modern Fortune Teller's Field Guide by Tom Benjamin
  • Tarot Tableau Revolution by Maria Alviz Hernando

 

The first one is really wonderful. I feel so much better now that I've started reading it.  For a very long time---in fact, since AT shut down, I haven't felt like I was a good fit for another forum but I really miss socializing and being a reader doing my "fortune telling" the way I've always done it.. Living up here in this very small RV park, and since I have considerable  health and mobility problems that keep me home and not very active anymore, socializing online is important to me.  Even though there were the newer ideas people were insisting had to be done by their preference of what "fortune telling" should and shouldn't be on AT there were plenty of other old style practitioners mixed in so I just didn't really feel out of place and I did my "thing" and didn't really pay that much attention. (I've often thought of myself as being oblivious to the obvious.)

 

This book is one I really recommend if you haven't read it yet and you like books.  Newer style readers of cards and other divination tools might find it interesting and us old style folks can learn and appreciate it a lot, too.  But the only little criticism I have about it is his swearing.  I don't think it's necessary but I still enjoy and look forward to reading the book.

 

.I think Daniel may have posted something to me about the second book when I was so excited about Tarot Tableau In Benebell's book.  I'm looking forward to seeing what Maria has to offer about this method in her book. 

 

 So there are my two books for this month.  Does anyone else have them?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Libra 58

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Both books are available to buy here in Sweden, but in English. If they would have been translated into Swedish I might have bought them.

I already have tarot books in English but I have almost never looked into them, it´s hard to understand everything to 100 %.

I have a lot of tarot books and I love to read in them.

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Grizabella

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You're so fluent in English that it's hard to imagine you'd have trouble with written English, and yet I took a year of spoken French in high school and then I moved to a different school where all they offered was mostly written French and I was lost.  The French teacher walked over to me and said something to me that I didn't understand, then told me in English to conjugate a word.  I was totally lost and intimidated to think I'd have to dive in and try to catch up and immediately went to the office and changed to something else.  LOL

 

I decided to learn Spanish once, too, but got intimidated by the fact that Spanish gives genders to things like tables and chairs and things.  I couldn't imagine how on earth I could not only learn the language but then also learn genders of everything.  I admire you that you can master even as much of a second language as you have. 

Luna

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I am late to this discussion, but thought I'd post anyway. 🙂  Griz, I think this is a wonderful idea and glad you started it!  I do have many Tarot Books, but haven't bought a *new* one for myself in many years.  I did however, recently purchase the newest Lenormand Book that was written by Rana George.  (see picture below).  It is her 2nd edition and I had the 1st edition for awhile too.  Rana used to be on AT as well and this is how I got to *know* her (like I did - you, Grizabella) and she is an awesome person.  I have not gotten far into the 2nd edition yet, as it has been a busy time for me.  But I do recommend it to anyone who is learning about Lenormand reading.  

 

I do tarot, lenormand and oracle cards, as well as playing cards in my readings but mostly tarot and lenormand.  My first ever tarot book that I purchased was by AT's "Tarot Bear" and that was my *bible book* for learning tarot for years.  So much so, I wore the poor book out reading and re-reading it, that I had to invest in a 2nd copy of the same book.  😄 But I still have my first one too.  Tarot Bears name is John Mangiapane and he has a few tarot books out there.  I don't recall buying the others, but I still use this first book titled "Its All in the Cards".  That book taught me a lot! 

 

I hope others will add to this thread too, Griz, so keep us posted on your books as you buy and go through them.  

 

 

 

 

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