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The Big Book of Tarot

How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth
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The Big Book of Tarot by Joan Bunning is a comprehensive beginner's guide that offers step-by-step lessons on working with tarot cards for personal insight and guidance. The book simplifies the complex esoteric system of tarot into clear, manageable lessons that start with the basics and progress to more advanced concepts. It includes detailed information on each card from the Rider Waite deck, covers how to interpret reversed cards, and provides practical advice on various tarot spreads, making it useful for both novices and experienced readers.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for individuals new to tarot who seek an accessible and structured introduction, as well as for more experienced readers looking for an in-depth reference resource. It fits readers interested in self-help, personal development, and esoteric tools for self-reflection.

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Offering "a complete course on how to use the tarot cards for personal guidance, the author communicates the basic depth and beauty of each card and shows how the cards trigger psychological projection, enhance intuition, and improve communication with the Inner Guide"--

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A complete beginner's course with step-by-step lessons on how to work with tarot cards for personal guidance.

Joan Bunning's Learning the Tarot-An Online Course has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide discover the personal value of the tarot. Drawing on the material offered in this popular online course and from her previous books, Joan has created a complete guide to tarot for beginners, which serves as a handy and in-depth resource for more experienced tarot card readers as well.

While there are countless books devoted to tarot, what sets Joan Bunning's book apart is her ability to take a rather complicated esoteric system and break it down into clear, manageable, and easy-to-learn lessons. These lessons cover the basics and then move gradually into more advanced concepts.

The book includes:

  • Lessons on how to consider one card by itself, how to look for card pairs, and how to create the "story" of a reading
  • Contains two pages of information for each card including a picture from the popular Rider Waite deck, a description, keywords, action phrases, and suggestions for cards with similar and opposite meanings
  • How to work with reversed cards to give tarot readings a natural flow of high points and low points without abrupt transitions
  • Practical insights on how to work with and interpret a wide variety of tarot spreads

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781578636686

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 July 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Weiser Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 499g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Joan Bunning received her B.A. in Social Psychology from Cornell University and has worked as a writer, editor and computer programmer. Since 1995, her "Learning the Tarot" website has helped thousands of people worldwide discover the personal value of the tarot. She lives in Virginia with her husband, two sons and two dogs.

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