Do People Who Write Books on Tarot Experienced Readers Themselves?

[RickInBakersfield]

In the Reading for Those in the Public Eye thread I mentioned that I had to reframe questions like "Does Johnny love me?" so I am not invading one's privacy.

 

I took this advice from a couple of tarot books (I won't name the writers of the books here), and it seems that a few of the experienced readers who are members of this forum said, well one said they would lose 50% of their clients if they didn't take those questions and another reader said they take those questions because it would be nice to have food & electricity in one's home lol.

 

Everything I know about Tarot comes from books that I have read. 

 

I would be interested in those books whose real world experience comes from giving face-to-face readings for real world sitter's and not just theory on tarot.

 

I suspect that just because one has a book published doesn't mean their experienced tarot readers. I want to know if they have real world experience with sitters and their questions.

 

Myself, I tend to stay away from books that have the whole psychological approach to them as I am more old school. I read with the RWS deck.

 

What is your opinion on tarot books and the people that write them? I am only interested in learning from books by those who have a background with real sitters, you know?

 

Thoughts, opinions & suggestions?

 

Rick

Edited January 4 by RickInBakersfield
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[Mister]

Oldschool, was it?

Instead of a book, a blog may do.

auntietarot.wordpress.com

 

In the 2014 section among the archives, starting from April, there is a series about predicting with the tarot. It is genuine and good.

[RickInBakersfield]

Thanks, I'll give it a look.

[Misterei]

On 1/4/2025 at 11:45 AM, RickInBakersfield said:

Everything I know about Tarot comes from books that I have read. 

Most of us start out that way.

But if we end up reading professionally ... well ... it's different than books. I got my trial by fire when I started reading on the phone lines back in the late 90s. Books did NOT prepare me for what I experienced.

 

I try to prepare my advanced students for this as best as I can. LOL if I ever actually publish the course manuals as stand-alone books, there are 2 chapters devoted to these sorts of nuances--HOW to prepare yourself for the crazy sh*t that comes up in the real world.

 

Since Tarot mainstreamed in the 2000s ... many, many sorts of people jumped on the bandwagon. Many are questionable "instant experts". Of the modern books, I focus on the historic scholarship which really HAS improved vs. all these questionable instant experts.

Edited January 6 by Misterei