Tarot & oracle card reading
Book - 2025
"Tarot & Oracle Card Reading For Dummies gives you the tools and expertise you need to become the savvy card reader you've always wanted to be. Inside, you'll find complete information on the meanings of the 78 tarot cards as well as insights into working with oracle card decks of all kinds. You'll also explore tarot's shift from a playing card game to a deeply engaging tool for fortune telling, psychological reflection and relativity boosting. If you're brand new to card reading, never fear! This book offers a step-by-step guide for understanding your deck, nailing the basics, and divining for yourself and others. With fun and easy to use exercises for interpreting the cards, you'll be able to do it b...lindfolded! Okay, not blindfolded, but definitely with ease. With this fun Dummies guide, you'll become a master soothsayer in no time."--
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2025]
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781394329977
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Getting Started with Tarot and Oracle Reading
- Chapter 1. Introducing Tarot and Oracle Card Reading
- Defining Some Key Terms
- Recognizing the Unique Gifts of Tarot and Oracle Cards
- Shuffling the fates
- Sparking your imagination
- Telling stories
- Serving Diverse Definitions of Divination
- Predicting outcomes
- Exploring your psyche
- Kickstarting creativity
- Pondering the mysteries
- Choosing Your Deck(s)
- Considering the classic
- Responding to the art
- Observing oracle decks
- Growing your collection
- Chapter 2. Tapping into (Just Enough) Tarot History
- Dispensing with the Myths
- Understanding the value of a good story
- Cataloguing a few favorites
- Exploring Tarot's Roots
- Meeting tarot's ancestors
- Bringing on the trumps
- Heading to France
- "Discovering" Tarots Secret Wisdom
- Linking the tarot to the "primeval world"
- Meeting the first (known) tarot reader
- Thriving among the magicians
- Rebirthing Tarot for the Modern Age
- The Rider-Waite-Srnith (RWS)
- The Book of Thoth
- Expanding the scope of tarot
- Chapter 3. Touring the Tarot
- Understanding Tarot's Structure
- The Major Arcana
- The Minor Arcana
- The court cards
- Recognizing the Three Big Schools of Tarot
- The Tarot de Marseille school
- The Rider-Waite-Srnith school (RWS)
- The Crowley Thoth Tarot (Thoth)
- The fourth school: No school at all
- Chapter 4. Becoming a Reader
- Knowing Yourself Is the Key to Success
- Predicting the future… or not
- Understanding the source of information
- Identifying your divinatory goals
- Tackling Troublesome Topics
- Dealing with ethical dilemmas
- Acknowledging biases and prejudices
- Defusing difficult readings
- Practicing Is the Other Key to Success
- Reading as often as you can
- Recording your readings
- Learning from mistakes
- Divinatory ambiguity
- Trying new techniques
- Part 2. Mastering Card Reading Basics
- Chapter 5. Shaping Your Practice
- Caring for Your Deck
- Discarding unhelpful superstitions
- Considering practical issues for your deck's well-being
- Creating a Liminal Experience
- Experimenting with aesthetics
- Engaging the senses
- Accessorizing the oracle
- Enacting rituals
- Striving for authenticity
- Finding space, making time
- Divining for Others
- Caring for the querent
- Recognizing challenging querent styles
- Chapter 6. Nailing the Mechanics of a Reading
- Forming Useful Questions
- Categorizing readings
- Having no question
- Being careful what you ask
- Mapping a Spread
- Selecting a spread
- Sticking with single cards
- Upgrading to a larger spread
- Shuffling the Cards
- Riffle
- Waterfall
- Wash
- Drawing and Laying Out the Cards
- Drawing cards
- Observing the cards face up
- Creating focus and drama with cards face down
- Chapter 7. Selecting a Tarot Spread
- Understanding the Benefit of Using Spreads
- Fiddling with Fun-Size Spreads
- Wielding the Workhorse Spreads
- The Three-Card spread
- The Foresight and Action spread
- The Crossroads spread
- The Relationship spread
- The Hero's Journey spread
- The Horseshoe spread
- The Year Ahead spread
- The Seven Chakras spread
- The Wisdom of the Elements spread
- The Celtic Cross
- Designing Your Own Spreads
- Part 3. Exploring what Tarot Cards Mean
- Chapter 8. Making Connections
- Working with the Equation of Meaning
- Your Question
- Narrowing down possibilities
- Asking for advice versus prediction
- The Card's Position
- Taking direction
- Making sense of contradictions
- Getting topsy-turvy with reversals
- Official Meanings
- Zoning in on the deck you're using
- Contemplating the traditional meaning
- Puzzling over esoteric symbols
- Your Intuition
- Connecting the dots
- Reading between the images
- Making the call
- Making peace with uncertainty
- Deciphering the Pips
- Pairing number with suit
- Slower, faster, less, and more
- The face cards rule the reading
- The suits
- The Marseille suits
- Pure intuition
- Chapter 9. Doing Tarot Readings Step-by-Step
- Reading in a Nutshell
- Sample Reading 1. Predicting with Tarot
- Sample Reading 2. Guidance Reading
- Sample Reading 3. Hybrid Approach with Reversals
- Chapter 10. A Treasury of Tarot Card Meanings
- Unlocking the Cards' Meanings
- Making sense of the meanings
- Tracing the history
- Regarding the esoteric
- 0. The Fool
- I. The Magician
- II. The High Priestess
- IV. The Emperor
- V. The Hierophant
- VII. The Chariot
- VIII. Strength
- IX. The Hermit
- X. Wheel of Fortune
- XI. Justice
- XII. The Hanged Man
- XIII. Death
- XIV. Temperance
- XV. The Devil
- XVI. The Tower
- XVII. The Star
- XVIII. The Moon
- XIX. The Sun
- XX. Judgement
- XXI. The World
- Ace of Wands
- Two of Wands
- Three of Wands
- Four of Wands
- Five of Wands
- Six of Wands
- Seven of Wands
- Eight of Wands
- Nine of Wands
- Ten of Wands
- Page of Wands
- Knight of Wands
- Queen of Wands
- King of Wands
- Ace of Swords
- Two of Swords
- Three of Swords
- Four of Swords
- Five of Swords
- Six of Swords
- Seven of Swords
- Eight of Swords
- Nine of Swords
- Ten of Swords
- Page of Swords
- Knight of Swords
- Queen of Swords
- King of Swords
- Ace of Cups
- Two of Cups
- Three of Cups
- Four of Cups
- Five of Cups
- Six of Cups
- Seven of Cups
- Eight of Cups
- Nine of Cups
- Ten of Cups
- Page of Cups
- Knight of Cups
- Queen of Cups
- King of Cups
- Ace of Pentacles
- Two of Pentacles
- Three of Pentacles
- Four of Pentacles
- Five of Pentacles
- Six of Pentacles
- Seven of Pentacles
- Eight of Pentacles
- Nine of Pentacles
- Ten of Pentacles
- Page of Pentacles
- Knight of Pentacles
- Queen of Pentacles
- King of Pentacles
- Part 4. Embracing Oracle Cards
- Chapter 11. Approaching Oracle Systems
- Meeting the Mysterious Oracle Cards
- Defining divining
- Understanding the anatomy of an oracle deck
- Appreciating the Approachability
- Acknowledging their foibles
- Marveling at their strengths
- Selecting Your Oracle Deck(s)
- Considering your options
- Choosing your deck(s)
- Creating an Oracle Card Library
- Getting Comfortable Working with Oracle Cards
- Diving deep with your deck
- Becoming a "page"-of-all-trades, master of… all!
- Chapter 12. Divining with Oracle Cards
- Doing Your First Oracle Reading
- Cultivating an Oracular Mindset
- Opening to information
- Gleaning insights from the process of creating oracle cards
- Finding Unexpected Ways to Work with Oracle Cards
- Blending oracle cards with tarot
- Enhancing interactions
- Creating Your Own Oracle Cards
- Thinking about your theme
- Assembling the images
- Printing professionally
- Assigning meanings
- Taking your deck for a spin
- Chapter 13. Selecting an Oracle Spread
- Maximizing Your One-Card Pulls
- Beginning your day with divination
- Embodying the archetype
- Exploring New Layouts
- The Body, Mind, and Spirit spread
- The Heart to Heart spread
- The Do's and Don'ts spread
- The Dialectical Reasoning spread
- The Messages from the Four Directions spread
- The Metamorphosis spread
- The Sacred Gifts spread
- Part 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 14. (More Than) Ten Behaviors That Limit New Readers
- Expecting Clairvoyance
- Heeding Unhelpful Taboos
- Giving Your Deck Human Feelings
- Disqualifying the Reading
- Over reading a Card
- Not Engaging with the Querent
- Engaging with Unkind Skeptics
- Reading without a Spread
- Turning to Others for Answers Too Quickly
- Buying Too Many Decks Right Away
- Growing Too Fast
- Going It Alone
- Chapter 15. Ten Lessons I Learned at the Table
- If You Read It, They Will Come
- They'll Ask You Anything
- Stay Nimble
- You Can't Control What People Hear
- All Your Knowledge Comes into Play
- Some People Have Tarot Trauma
- They'll Show You Things You've Never Seen Before
- Sometimes, They Just Want to Talk to Someone
- Your Readings Have Value
- It's Very Rewarding
- Index