Tarot & Divination

“For forty years,” writes Neil Gaiman, “Rachel Pollack has been one of the finest writers and thinkers about Tarot, and A Walk through the Forest of Souls feels like a distillation of everything she has been trying to get us to see. A must for people who want the Tarot in their lives or just for people like me who want it in our stories.”  
 
The author of beloved Tarot classic Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom presents a magical journey that illuminates Tarot’s many hidden meanings, leading readers on an exploration of their own spiritual and personal path. In over 350 illustrations, selected by the author, Pollack presents samples of Tarot cards ranging from the 15th-century Sforza to contemporary decks. Taking advantage of the Tarot’s most distinctive feature—its artistry—this book creates a breathtaking overview as we walk with Pollack through the landscape of Tarot. In words and images we’re shown how to explore unknown territory—in ourselves and in the world outside us, and in the sacred mysteries and riddles of existence.
 
Using symbols and myths to illuminate the hidden mysteries and spiritual truths of the Tarot, Rachel Pollack explores the connections and relationships between Tarot and such wide-ranging subjects as mythology, mythography, folklore, Kabbalah, divination, quantum physics, time travel, and more. A Walk through the Forest of Souls is a dazzling journey through the mysteries of Tarot—suitable for Tarot masters, but accessible to newcomers, too.
 
This book was previously published in 2002 under the title Forest of Souls: A Walk through the Tarot. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated by the author.

Featuring detailed card interpretations, reversed meanings, a variety of card layouts, tips for reading under pressure, and full-color illustrations, this comprehensive book is a one-stop resource for everyone from beginners to those who want to read professionally. Drawing on decades of experience, Paul Fenton-Smith presents a deep dive into the symbols and meanings of all 78 cards. Explore new ways to combine traditional interpretations with your intuitive impressions. Learn how to answer questions with confidence and accuracy. This must-have book also provides charts and correspondences as well as guidance on matters of career, health, relationships, and more.

The tarot is an ancient art, dating back at least to the mid-fifteenth century, and reading the tarot is a skill that can be learned and ultimately mastered. While there are many books and decks for the advanced tarot enthusiast, there is very little to guide and teach those who are new to the cards.

The Beginner's Guide to the Tarot fills that void-this is a book and card set designed specifically for the novice. In the fully illustrated 192 page book, noted tarot expert Juliet Sharman-Burke leads the reader through the cards and suits, the Minor and Major Arcana, and the major layouts for the compete 78 card deck. The book is packed with a newly designed and illustrated deck which draws upon both traditional and modern tarot iconography and is rendered in a clear, distinctive style. Also included is a printed chart for the reader to consult when laying out the cards.

“The Book of Tarot by Danielle Noel is not just a book- it is a work of art. Harness the power of your intuition with this deeply beautiful, sacred, modern guide to using tarot."Rebecca Campbell, best-selling author of Light Is the New Black and Rise Sister Rise

More than a guidebook, The Book of Tarot offers a space in which to set goals and intentions with clarity and purpose. It also serves as an accessible introduction to the Tarot’s many uses, from mystical touchstone to practical resource. In this beautifully designed, easy-to-navigate book, Danielle Noel instructs readers in using the Tarot as a tool for self-understanding, meditation, and soulful introspection.

Now a classic in the field, used by students of the Golden Dawn as well as by those who want to understand Crowley's tarot. This is the definitive study of the Egyptian tarot and is used as a key to all Western mystery disciplines. Color plates of eight cards.

The individual cards of the Major and Minor Arcana are delineated, as are numerous basic spreads, including seven esoteric spreads rarely found in print.

There has never been a better time to embrace the unknown - and the Daily Oracle is all you need to help you do it. With deep wisdom, cosmic insight and a wicked sense of humor, this magical advice-giver offers its readers refreshing insight and guidance on how to navigate all and any of life's curveballs - from everyday decisions to sticky spots to real-deal challenges. Designed to be opened at random onto one page every day, this beautifully designed book will act as your motivational call-to-action, helping you to thrive in this new age!

Anyone can practice divination. You don't need to be psychic, or believe that a higher power controls the cards. Anyone can learn to predict the future using the methods described in this book. Learn how to choose the methods that works best for you, and ask the right questions so you get accurate answers. Discover the secrets of a wide variety of methods, from Tarot cards and the I Ching to crystal gazing, palmistry, and even reading signs and omens in the world around you.

The real value of divination is in planning and prevention. If you like the answers you receive, continue on. If it looks like trouble ahead, adjust your course of action and see how your new plan affects the outcome. In this way you can use divination to fine tune your future and start living the life you've always dreamed of.

Discover a simple practice that yields life-changing results. With just three dice, you can receive answers to basic questions or initiate a deeper interpretive journey. Based on elemental forces that have been consulted by healers and sages for thousands of years, this dice oracle will inspire you to see yourself and the world with a whole new perspective.

This book shares instructions and rituals for using the oracle with dice or other divinatory tools. You will also find a list of meanings for every possible elemental combination, and explanations of how Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Sun, and Moon manifest in this divination system. When you explore the oracle's patterns and correspondences, you gain insight into the challenges and concerns that we all face. Integrate the power of the elements as you make your way through the magic and mystery of life with Elemental Divination as your guide.

“Meg’s masterful prose takes you on an experiential adventure where you can channel the essence of the cards and see how they apply to your life. With Finding the Fool by your side, you’ll be well-equipped as you walk the tarot path to self-discovery.” —from the foreword by Theresa Reed (The Tarot Lady), author of Tarot—No Questions Asked
 
Finding the Fool is a tarot resource and study guide that goes beyond standardized, traditional interpretations, opening the door for readers of all genders, identities, and experience levels to build a unique and personal relationship with the cards. For Meg Jones Wall, the path of the tarot is bigger than what can be found in only one deck, one way, or one teaching. Breaking through barriers to show up as who you truly are—that is the radical journey to self-discovery and transformation, and this book serves as a companion and guide along that journey.
 
With clear, inclusive, and contemporary explorations of every card, Finding the Fool provides a supportive road map for a deeper relationship with the tarot, and with the following tools, allows you to tap into your inborn wisdom:
 

• astrological and numerological correspondences for all 78 tarot cards
• methods for creating personal definitions that resonate
• spiritual and creative practices to use with tarot
• journal prompts for personal insight and study
• brand-new tarot spreads for the major arcana and beyond
• resources for further exploration

 
A powerful companion for readers of all levels,Finding the Fool will allow anyone to create a personal, lasting, authentic relationship with the tarot.

Discover what your future holds!

For centuries, mystics and clairvoyants have used Tarot cards to predict the future. But no special power is needed to read these cards with How to Read Tarot.

This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to interpret and understand the meaning behind Tarot cards. You'll find everything from explanations of each card in the deck to how to use the Tarot for your own gain. The more readings you do, the better you will become at sensing what the Tarot cards are communicating. The truth is in the cards--if you know where to look.

Here is a simple and practical guide to interpreting the symbolic language of the tarot. How To Read the Tarot provides an interpretive structure that applies to the card numbers of both the Major and Minor Arcana. Readers will learn five common tarot spreads designed to answer common questions about love, money, health, and more. For more insight, there's a handy symbol dictionary for interpreting hundreds of tarot symbols.

Move Beyond Divination and Into Empowerment with this Beginner-Friendly Guide to Proactive Readings

This innovative book shows you how to become an active participant in your tarot readings by consciously selecting the cards that will fulfill your intentions. Intentional Tarot encourages you to engage with your life's purpose and strengthen your sense of self as you perform readings. With this new approach, you'll learn to get "off book" and add a proactive element to your practice.

Author Denise Hesselroth shows you that divination is only the first step―once you have the information from your reading, what will you do with it? She presents effective techniques and spreads from both traditional and intentional reading methods, making it easy to discover which ones work best for you. Designed with different learning styles in mind, Intentional Tarot provides everything you need to understand the cards, develop your personal style, and take action for a successful future.

This beautiful, four-color handbook is richly illustrated with every card from the Rider-Waite and Crowley Thoth decks and offers detailed explanations of both classic decks. Susan Levitt welcomes beginners to tarot with engaging and accessible instructions for understanding tarot symbolism, card spreads, numerology, court cards, and other tarot topics.

Kitchen Table Tarot is a book about real life tarot reading for real people. With down and dirty advice from Melissa Cynova, this book tells it like it is and helps you read the cards for yourself and others.

Learn how to give amazingly accurate and insightful tarot readings with little or no guesswork. This revolutionary guide, written by a tarot master with thirty-two years of experience, reveals a simple, proven system that makes reading cards in a spread nearly as straightforward as reading words on a page.

The Language of Tarot presents an innovative system that treats tarot as a science. Author Jeannie Reed discovered that when the same two or three cards appeared together, it always meant the same issue in a client's life. This amazing book reveals what she learned, translating each combination for you and supplying examples that support each lesson until you are fluent in the language of tarot.

Tarot cards can offer nuanced, personal readings even for beginners, helping us face the future, solve present-day problems, and better understand ourselves. Cassandra Eason opens a window onto the world of tarot, from choosing the right pack to interpreting the cards. She lays out the most important spreads, suggests intuitive methods for choosing cards, reveals what psychic protections to take when doing divination, and more.

Have you ever wondered what fate has in store for you? Since the fifteenth century, Tarot cards have been used as a tool for divination, and a way to shed light on life's questions and challenges. With an introduction to the 78 cards and their symbols, advice on choosing your deck and tips on how to prepare and read your cards, The Little Book of Tarot has everything you need to give you your first glimpse into the misty realms of the future... What message will the cards hold for you?

This book covers everything about tarot and includes references for readers who want to go deeper into a particular topic. History, various types of tarot, associations and correspondences, reversals, dignities, spreads, reading tips, card meanings, and activities. Author Anthony Louis provides the information with clarity and style.

Discover the Fascinating History and Divinatory Power of the 20th Century's Most Popular Tarot Deck

Originally published in 1909 to little fanfare, the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot went on to become the bestselling tarot deck of all time. This complete guide shares the compelling story of the deck's creation, a complete analysis of what each card means, and 78 spreads to help you integrate each card's unique spiritual energy.

Discover how artist Pamela Colman Smith and occultist Arthur Waite combined their knowledge of astrology, Kabbalah, metaphysics, mythology, and theater to realize their profound vision. Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot delves deeply into the roots of these influential cards, exploring how Waite and Smith brought together an enchanting set of esoteric symbols and formed a magical deck that has guided, inspired, validated, and challenged the countless readers and seekers who have sought its wisdom.

Discover fun and easy ways to use the tarot cards with this handy, full-color guide. Llewellyn's Little Book of Tarot is your ideal introduction to using the 78 cards to enhance your life and build a successful divination practice. You'll find an impressive collection of activities, tips, and prompts that allow you to go at your own pace and explore what reading style works best. Tarot expert Barbara Moore provides a thorough interpretation of each card, explaining the most important elements of it. She also presents sample cards from a variety of decks, helping you understand how tarot symbols and imagery appear in different artists' work. You'll even delve into divination techniques outside the cards, such as bibliomancy, meditation, and more.

Empower your intuition, dive into your dreams, and get to the heart of the matter with this fantastic guide to creating a marvelous, magical tarot practice. Bestselling author and tarot expert Sasha Graham shows you how to bring tarot into daily life with easy-to-use exercises, spreads, and prompts. The Magic of Tarot opens your eyes to a richer, more enlightened style of divination. Sasha encourages you to flex your intuitive muscles, confidently use tarot magic and spells, and perform readings for other people. She also walks you through all the card meanings, introduces you to dream and shadow work, helps you interpret colors, numbers, and patterns, and so much more. This book lets you fearlessly jump in and enjoy magical experiences that you'll never forget.

Unlock your powers...

Looking for an enchanting love potion? Want to create your own sacred space and promote good energy? The Modern Guide to Witchcraft helps you harness your own inner power so you can shape your destiny.

With the help of spellcraft expert Skye Alexander, you'll tap into your own magic and create incantations, potions, and charms. As she carefully guides you through each step of these witchcraft practices and details ways of personalizing them to your specific situation, you'll gain confidence in your own knowledge and inner force.

Once you learn to harness your natural talents as a witch, you'll discover that a whole new world of possibilities exists.

Learn how tarot cards can unlock the secrets of the past, present, and future in the latest book of the Modern Witchcraft series.

For centuries, witches have used the tarot to seek insights into the past, present, and future. Today, a new generation is discovering the wonder of divining through the cards. Expert tarot reader Skye Alexander shares the many meanings of the cards within the Major and Minor Arcana.

Featuring twelve of the most popular spreads and easy-to-follow explanations of how tarot readings can be interpreted, The Modern Witchcraft Book of Tarot is the essential guide for successful, insightful tarot readings.

This mysterious book is a do-it-yourself divination tool. Ask a yes-or-no question, and find your answer within.

An empowering and easy to use guide to understanding and mastering oracle card readings. Oracle Magic starts at the beginning with choosing and bonding with a deck. It then moves on to developing intuition and decoding messages. Finally, it takes a deeper dive with oracle spells, healing guidance, and reading for others. Throughout the book there are activities and practices the reader can do with their own cards. The result is an experiential book that is fun to work with, but still contains opportunities for deep work and spiritual and intuitive development. Ultimately the aim of this book is to empower the reader to do more with their oracle cards than just pick a card, read a message, and never think about it again (something we are all guilty of).

Oracle Magic makes it easy to use with any oracle card deck, as the author focuses more on intuitive reading rather than meanings. It helps the reader to go on a deeper journey with the cards, develop their intuition and gain more confidence, clearer guidance and a deeper trust not only in their ability to read cards, but also within themselves. 

Picture your fate, forecast your future and transform your fortune

An illustrated guide to the world famous Original Rider Waite Tarot - the most popular deck in the world.

Unlock the secrets of the tarot with renowned scholar of the occult, A E Waite. Featuring the original card artwork by Pamela Colman Smith, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is an insightful card-by-card analysis of the 78-card Rider Waite Tarot deck featuring both regular and reverse meanings. This illuminating book is the ultimate guide to mastering the art of tarot.

Beloved by nearly half a million Tarot enthusiasts, Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom forever transformed the study of Tarot. This much-anticipated follow-up to Pollack's classic guidebook will inspire Tarot aficionados and inform a new generation of Tarot students. Enhanced by the author's personal stories and insights gained over the past three decades, this book on tarot invites you on a fascinating and fun adventure.

Offering an abundant array of new ideas mixed in with enlightening discussions about Tarot's checkered past, this tarot guidebook features innovative ways to interpret and use Tarot, and a wealth of original spreads to try for yourself―including spreads for predictive, psychological, magical, and spiritual readings. All seventy-eight cards are explored from fresh angles: history, art, psychology, and a variety of spiritual and occult traditions, using cards from seven diverse decks so you can easily contrast and compare. No matter where your starting point on the path of personal discovery, this tarot book will prove a trusted companion for your journey.

Scrying for Beginners is for anyone who longs to sit down before the mirror or crystal and lift the rolling grey clouds that obscure their depths. Scrying is a psychological technique to deliberately acquire information by extrasensory means through the unconscious mind. For the first time, all forms of scrying are treated in one easy-to-read, practical book.

A top tarotist's secrets to personal growth, one card at a time. The two volumes of Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom have inspired a whole generation of tarot students. It has often been described by readers, booksellers, and teachers as the "Bible of tarot readers." It is also often cited as one of the landmark books in modern tarot, and it helped to launch the "Tarot Renaissance" of the 1980s. The two texts-one for The Major Arcana and one for The Minor Arcana--appear together in this volume, which is a reissue of the 1998 edition first published by Thorsons.

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom draws on mythology and esoteric traditions and delves deeply into the symbolism and ideas of each card. It also gives the cards a modern psychological slant based on the pictures rather than a system of occult symbolism. This endlessly useful reference tool provides a concise history of tarot, introduces common spreads, and is a clear and readable book for both the beginning and advanced tarot student.

A Guide to the Herbal Tarot

Create meaningful change and live the life you've always wanted with Ailynn Halvorson's unique tarot apothecary approach. By combining the wisdom of tarot, aromatherapy, meditation, and everyday ritual, you can build a magical practice in alignment with your soul. Ailynn shows you how to harness the power of numerology to discover which cards reflect your true identity and what challenges to expect in the coming year. She also helps you embrace powerful tarot archetypes with plant allies, crystals, and altar decorations that support your goals and allow you to grow. With Ailynn's practical guidance, you can make customized mantras, essential oil blends, and teas to nurture a desired shift in your personal energy. This book teaches you strategic skills you can use to honor your own magic, take back control of your life, and achieve the transformation you've been seeking.

Starting with the basics choosing the best pack, understanding the deck and its structure, asking the right questions this comprehensive guide to working with Tarot provides all the information needed to do a full reading. On colorfully, sumptuously illustrated pages unfold the mysteries of each cards symbolic meaning. From the Magician to the Fool, the Lovers to the Hermit, every beautifully presented entry features a picture of the card, as well as keywords and phrases, astrological affinities, and a full interpretation. In-depth advice on laying out spreads for every day, relationships, revelations, and destiny help unlock the secrets of the past, present, and future. With everything from historical background to smart tips for developing skills and knowledge, this truly is the Tarot bible newcomers can depend on!

Tarot expert Leeza Robertson has discovered that for a majority of tarot readers, the court cards are the most challenging cards to work with. But once you become familiar with these enigmatic figures, you can turn them into friends and allies that provide powerful insights and advice. With stories, explanations, simple exercises, and meditations, this book explores the many facets of pages, knights, kings, and queens to help beginning and novice readers deepen their journey through the tarot.

Five astonishing tarot readings for untangling life's messiest problems from Melissa Cynova, author of the bestselling book Kitchen Table Tarot

Author Melissa Cynova noticed that clients often turn up for readings with extremely complicated problems. She developed the five readings in Tarot Elements as a program for hitting the reset button on life. Whether you're reading for yourself or for others, this book can help you work with any tarot deck to clarify complex issues, unstick the stuck parts, and move forward to a better place.

The five elements are powerful factors in assessing which areas of life need the most attention. Tarot Elements shows you how to use the elemental structure that shapes tarot to focus on one aspect of a problem at a time and resolve the tangled issues that are holding you back. The earth reading is about home. Air is about mind, fire is about body, water is about heart, and the spirit reading is about your soul and your spiritual practice. With hands-on exercises, sample readings, and fascinating insights, this book invites you to pick up your cards and begin the process of transformation.