What Are Some Non-Tarot Books That Are Good for Tarot Readers?

[RickInBakersfield]

Hello everyone,

 

I am looking for books that are not tarot books that would be of interest to people who read the tarot for others.

 

For example, I found a free PDF download of the book The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes online (just search around a bit and you'll find it). Its philosophy rings true with me and jives with the tarot (lots of soundbites I can use). I am not interested in Law of Attraction stuff.

 

Thanks for reading this.

 

Rick-

[Teemu]

Hi,

 

if you would like to browse on your own, there is a huge list of Sacred Texts available for free.

[RickInBakersfield]

2 hours ago, Teemu said:

Hi,

 

if you would like to browse on your own, there is a huge list of Sacred Texts available for free.

Oh, that list looks interesting.

 

Thank you for the link!

[Ix Chel]

Astrology books can help you to expand your Tarot knowledge. Understanding of the zodiac, planets and houses can add value to your readings.

 

Other books which can help is maybe Harry Potter. Harry Potter is also a person who becomes the hero. Hogwarts has 4 school departements which are connected to the 4 suits. There are many persons which you can connect to the cards. I believe that I have seen in the past an Harry Potter Tarot deck on Deviantart.

Edited October 15, 2024 by Ix Chel

[Deian]

Logically, working with Images may help... As that is what working with the cards seems to aim for, more strongly then other systems.

For that, working with dreaming(when awake) could help... Although for parts of that working with dreams when asleep also helps...

Jung should have a book on that somewhere(red book I think)... There are also some kabbalistic schools that work heavily on it, links to that somewhere in the forum. Many others work on it, for example in coursera there were free seminars on how guided visualization is used in western medicine, turns out it can have very strong effects on the physical body relatively fast, that is good to be aware of, but its in too controlled way for divination.

Can't recommend specific book, as it depends what direction one wants to approach it from. So just pointing to general topics where stuff could help. In the Five Arts it seems to be called "yin aspect of shen", inner alchemy there could work with that, depending on lineage and stuff. In the western view to kabbalah and maybe in the original one as well, its working with Binah. They have practices and stuff, more info on books about kabbalah, I think the western view to it would have more info on that... And in normal popular way of viewing it is working with dreaming/dreams/images.

 

People around the forum do use it, though, if you look in topics with readings I've seen it around, so it seems to have been develop on its own, but one can give it a push by focusing more on it and countless of books about it. Guided visualization is usually not exactly the same thing, but doesn't hurt to know about that one as well I guess, although more carefully as it can override stuff that one may need untouched.

 

There are wider frameworks the cards can fit into... Be that the Tree of Life in Kabbala, or the Trigrams and squаres in the Five Arts or others... Does it need that... Doesn't for practice. But... Its like having a very fast car, that we have decided instead of sitting in and starting the engine to push manually up a long path. Sure, at some points it will move very on point and fast, usually when the road goes down... But there is endless potential if we approach it in a more... Research based way, lets say. As 'not thinking' is great for the average cabbage, but its probably the worse advice I can imagine for people studying metaphysics/the higher arts.

Edited October 16, 2024 by Deian

[Bodhiseed]

Perhaps a book on symbols, like Penguins Dictionary of Symbols.

[geoxena]

A few books on dream interpretation from different perspectives might be helpful in learning the ways in which imagery and ideas can be interpreted.  Sorry - I don't know specific titles to recommend.

Edited October 17, 2024 by geoxena

[Rose Lalonde]

IF you're into esoteric correspondences in tarot, and specifically spiritual alchemy, there's a riveting 1946 Hungarian novel by Maria Szepes called The Red Lion (goodreads pg here). I enjoyed the first half more than the second, but still, I've enjoyed reading it twice. and I'll very likely read it again.