Fortune Telling by Tarot Cards: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Tarot

by Sasha Fenton

Overview

Discover fresh and modern interpretations of each card and gain insights into your inner self and your future.
 
This accessible and easy guide teaches you how to unlock the secrets concealed within the tarot. An outstanding tarot reader for over forty-five years, Sasha Fenton brings her professional expertise to help beginners learn to read tarot for themselves and others. Her no-nonsense guidelines, combined with your own intuition, make reading the cards easy and fun.
 
Fenton provides fresh and modern interpretations of each card, including their positive and negative implications, and what they mean when they are dealt in reverse. She includes multiple suggestions for spreads—from the simple to the complex—that can be used for general readings as well as focused readings to provide clarity and to resolve specific questions. Unique to this tarot guide, Fenton discusses how to link card interpretations together to create a full narrative in a reading.
 
Included are tips and advice for purchasing and handling tarot cards, along with a brief history of their origin. Fenton includes a discussion of failed readings to help you understand why things sometimes go wrong and what to do about it.
 
This book gives the beginner an ideal introduction to the tarot, and before long you will be ready to explore your inner self and your future, and that of others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571747679
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	575,739
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Born in Bushey, near London (UK), Sasha Fenton became a professional astrologer, palmist, and tarot card reader in 1974. She has written 127 books, mainly on mind, body, and spirit subjects, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies and translations into 12 different languages. Sasha has written articles for every national newspaper and major magazine in Britain and many overseas publications as well.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part 1 Tarot and Fortune Telling

1 The History of the Tarot 3

2 Guidelines, Ritual, and Procedures 7

3 The Arcanas 15

4 The Court Cards 19

Part 2 Card Interpretations

5 The Major Arcana 27

6 The Suit of Cups 77

7 The Suit of Wands 93

8 The Suit of Coins 109

9 The Suit of Swords 125

10 Linking Cards 141

Part 3 Reading the Cards

11 Preparing the Peck 151

12 General Spreads 155

13 Focused Spreads 167

14 Timing Events 179

15 The Energies of the Cards 183

16 Failed Readings 187

Conclusion 193

Appendixes Quick Card Lookup

Appendix 1 Quick Clues to the Major Arcana 197

Appendix 2 Quick Clues to the Minor Arcana 201

Appendix 3 Cards Categorized by Concept 207

About the Author 213