As most tarot readers know, tarot has a long history. Tarot is alive. It changes as we change. Sometimes the old ways are simply no longer relevant and sometimes they just fall out of popular use. In Tarot Time Traveller, Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin provide not just a fascinating overview of tarot reading throughout the ages but also how to apply these old methods to modern needs. From Tarot Time Traveller:   You are about to take a journey through time with nothing more than a playing-card deck, a tarot deck and perhaps a Lenormand deck in your hands with the tarot time-traveller to guide you. On this journey, you will learn how to read the future as you pick up

It is January and most people already have their calendars for 2018. However, if you don’t, you might consider Llewellyn’s 2018 Tarot Calendar. Tarot readers often dream about seeing their beloved card art in a larger format. This calendar includes twelve beautiful cards at 5.5 x 9 inches. Each month features a different card from a different deck. In addition to the beautiful image, each month includes two or three luscious tidbits plus a comment about the specific image shown. Tidbits include spreads, symbol meanings, tips, journal prompts, and techniques. For example, there are short explorations of interesting aspects of the cards, such as the Empress, the 3 of Pentacles,

Lo Scarabeo’s Tarot Experience is a treasure chest of intermediate ideas, activities, explorations, and practices. If you have the basics under your belt, this book will give you lots of opportunities to grow as a reader. As a reader and as someone who owns many decks, I love using more than one deck in a reading. Each deck has its own personality and its own wisdom. Here are some ways I like to use multiple decks. Use one deck to select the significator from. In a relationship reading, use one deck for one partner, one for the other, and a third for the relationship. Use one deck to lay the initial spread and say it represents what is apparent or on the surface level

Anthony Louis’ Tarot Beyond the Basics is filled with really fascinating ideas, techniques, and practices. His application of drive theory to the four suits was particularly intriguing. Here’s what he says: Psychologists love to invent theories about what motivates people. For Empedocles, the two basic drives existence are Love and Strife, which in astrology are embodied by the planets Venus and Mars respectively. Freud expressed a similar idea when he reduced human motivation to the two basic urges: libido (sex) and thanatos (the death instinct). Jung became fascinated with the four humors, based on the four elements, and came up with four fundamental personality types. Each