Tarot: Get the Whole Story
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[edit] Tarot : Get The Whole Story: Use, Create & Interpret Tarot Spreads
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[edit] Publication details
ISBN 0738703451 Softback, 226 pages
[edit] Date of Publication
2004
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[edit] Description
Tarot: Get the Whole Story demonstrates how to create and interpret Tarot spreads for any question or occasion, including relationship dilemmas, special occasions, life changes, spiritual growth, and general advice. It also presents a variety of spreads – from small two-card layouts to in-depth ten-card ones – with detailed descriptions of positional meanings and usage tips. What makes this book uniquely useful, though, is its sample readings using many of those spreads – readings for well-known characters from history, literature, and mythology – that make it easy to see how these spreads can help you receive clear guidance in all your future readings.
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I can still remember doing my first Tarot reading. I had just bought a Tarot deck, and after carefully studying the little white book that came with it, I figured I was ready to do a reading for myself. However, that reading took hours to do since the only spread I knew was the Celtic Cross, and I was overwhelmed by it. It is an excellent spread, but it's complex and not always the best one for a reading. Fortunately, I quickly discovered that there were books filled with other Tarot spreads, ones specifically tailored for a variety of uses. Unfortunately, while those books presented a great many spreads, but typically they offered very little explanation of them – generally just a simple diagram and a short phrase for each card position.
Then I was struck with a bold idea: maybe I could create my own spreads! Indeed, a new spread can blossom from within the heart and soul of an individual Tarot reader, and, as I discovered, such a spread usually proves quite valuable to the person who created it.
So this was the path that inspired me to write a book about Tarot spreads that would address two separate, but complementary concerns: to show how to create spreads and to present a thorough explanation of a variety of other valuable spreads. The result is my book, Tarot: Get the Whole Story. It discusses numerous ways to create Tarot spreads that suit your specific needs and fit your unique style of reading, and I think you will find these techniques quite easy to use. In addition, this book is a guide to many useful Tarot spreads, which I have described in much greater detail than is typical in books about Tarot spreads, and my intention was to make these explanations entertaining as well as instructive.
This book also demonstrates the use of these spreads through sample readings for well-known fictional characters and historical figures, which makes it easy to understand the context for each of them. In addition, it discusses the process by which each spread was created (which will further clarify how to design your own spreads), and introduces other spreads that are variations of the ones for which a sample reading is provided. My sincere hope, then, is that my readers will find Tarot: Get the Whole Story to be an enjoyable experience, as well as an informative one.
[edit] Author's website
James Ricklef - Tarot and More
[edit] Reviews
- Round Table Reviews review by Beverly Forehand
- Tarot Association of the British Isles review by Clare McHale
- The Tarot Institute review by Crystal Wind
- Aeclectic Tarot reviews by Bonnie Cehovet and Kim Huggens
