Holly Posted January 22, 2023 Posted January 22, 2023 Hi. Haven't been in here in a while. Anyway, there's this beginner's book I had maybe around 25 years ago that was really cool. It had neat spreads (Celtic Cross, something with a tree, a category spread, a year spread and I think a month spread). It had 25 categories or so (things like: love, career, etc. ) and after you would lay out your cards, you could read the meaning of each card by the proper category. It also told you stuff like what astrological sign a card was associated with and what season. Soooo..... I was hoping someone in here knew the title. I haven't seen it since.
DanielJUK Posted January 23, 2023 Posted January 23, 2023 I can't be sure but my suggestion is Fortune Telling by Tarot Cards: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Tarot by Sasha Fenton
Holly Posted January 23, 2023 Author Posted January 23, 2023 Thanks, DanielJUK! I checked it out and it turned out to not be it, but I did find it. Apparently it's this book. Tarot Made Easy And apparently the author's written some other tarot books, which I didn't know. Thanks!
Misterei Posted January 23, 2023 Posted January 23, 2023 49 minutes ago, Holly said: Apparently it's this book. Tarot Made Easy LOL I had that book back in the day! I liked it b/c it gave meanings for nearly every context. At the time (like 30 years ago) no other books did that. I ended up giving it away b/c over the years I found I disagreed with many of her meanings ... but I also appreciated it at a certain time in my learning curve.
DanielJUK Posted January 23, 2023 Posted January 23, 2023 8 hours ago, Holly said: Thanks, DanielJUK! I checked it out and it turned out to not be it, but I did find it. Apparently it's this book. Tarot Made Easy And apparently the author's written some other tarot books, which I didn't know. Thanks! So glad you have found it again and it might help others here. Like @Misterei said, at the start you frequently use the meanings and then you start to think, I am not sure that I agree with this! You grow with it but it's a good foundation 🙂
Holly Posted January 23, 2023 Author Posted January 23, 2023 Yeah, I'm glad I found it, too. It was pretty great. I loved the categories! And the spreads, too! Most things seem to stick with Celtic Cross. This had that, but other really cool ones, too.
Emily Posted January 29, 2023 Posted January 29, 2023 I still have this book. I'm having a renewed interest in tarot after a good few years away and was looking at this book yesterday on my bookshelf. I was just about to dash upstairs just to check 🙂 but from the link, it is the same one. I've had it years and never really looked at it properly.
Guest Posted January 29, 2023 Posted January 29, 2023 I had it, but sold it to someone who might appreciate it more. Some of the interps were really out there. Then again, I was judging the meanings through an RWS lens, though this is because these were the illustrations the book used. Who knows, they may have made more sense if a different system were referenced.
gregory Posted January 29, 2023 Posted January 29, 2023 I have it; I left it in my other home last time I was there, and don't miss it AT ALL. IIRC I found it overly simplistic and prescriptive.
Misterei Posted January 30, 2023 Posted January 30, 2023 On 1/29/2023 at 8:40 AM, Akhilleus said: … Some of the interps were really out there … I was judging the meanings through an RWS lens, though … Who knows, they may have made more sense if a different system were referenced. On 1/29/2023 at 8:44 AM, gregory said: I have it; I left it in my other home last time I was there, and don't miss it AT ALL. IIRC I found it overly simplistic and prescriptive. This is the curse and blessing of the detailed contexts. OTOH it taught me a LOT about how context is everything when reading cards. OTOH to get to that level of specificity … it’s really just that writer’s opinion. Which many times I have my own different opinion. It’s funny how we grow into and grow out of books and decks sometimes.
gregory Posted January 31, 2023 Posted January 31, 2023 15 hours ago, Misterei said: it’s really just that writer’s opinion Exactly this, That was what made it a bit of a boring read - I have so many better books !
Misterei Posted January 31, 2023 Posted January 31, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, gregory said: Exactly this, That was what made it a bit of a boring read - I have so many better books ! @gregory Well we're wandering off topic ... but I can see there are books I would have liked as a young reader ... that now I have no use for. Alas there were so few books back in my day! I basically memorized Eden Gray's Tarot Revealed and that was that. I remember very little of Tarot Made Easy ... other than it teaching me to take cards according to context. That one piece of wisdom stayed with me even as everything else in the book faded away. I read various books over the years but my book collection is WAY SMALLER than my deck collection. Even buying books on TdM when I decided I didn't know that system as well as I liked ... Ben Dov did it for me. I have 2 others on kindle and pdf ... but I suppose even 4 decades later ... I still have my original learning style. Read one book I love, memorize it like it's the "bible" ... and that's that. After 44 years study I'm down to books on history or for research. Most books on meanings or how to read just irritate me now ... although I do have my small collection of books I love and kept. Edited January 31, 2023 by Misterei
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