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This book is about exploring these symbols found in the RWS tarot deck. Paths and mountains; moon and stars these all have meanings which can apply to everyday situations...The authors also include meditations to better explore each tarot card, as well as a number of unique spreads that are quite innovative...This book is a lovely resource which I will be working with for some time to come. --Diane Saarinen, New Age Journal

Reading tarot symbols is complicatedaeach appears many times and in a variety of contexts in a deck, with many possible layers of meaning. (For example, a rose can symbolize the feminine path of emergence when appearing with the Magician, and as a style of learning that bestows unconditional love when appearing with the Hierophant.) Using Ride-Waite-Smith imagery, the Amberstones (Tarot Tips) provide both a reference manual and a course on reading tarot symbols, even introducing discussions as if speaking directly to students. Becoming a skilled tarot reader requires an odd combination of natural talent and skillafamiliarity with symbols through study is important, yet at the same time, tarot imagery was originally created to evoke an immediate, intuitively surefooted emotional response from [whoever] looked at it, whether they knew anything about tarot or not, say the Amberstones. To get in touch with both aspects, they provide exercises to help enter your inner universe and find whatever you are looking for when contemplating various symbols. Though the guide is organized thematically rather than alphabetically as most symbol dictionaries are arranged, it still works well as a reference manual. (Apr.) -Publishers Weekly Copyright A(c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

aThis book is about exploring these symbols found in the RWS tarot deck. Paths and mountains; moon and stars - these all have meanings which can apply to everyday situations...The authors also include meditations to better explore each tarot card, as well as a number of unique spreads that are quite innovative...This book is a lovely resource which I will be working with for some time to come.a -Diane Saarinen, New Age Journal Reading tarot symbols is complicatedaeach appears many times and in a variety of contexts in a deck, with many possible layers of meaning. (For example, a rose can symbolize the feminine path of emergence when appearing with the Magician, and as a style of learning that bestows unconditional love when appearing with the Hierophant.) Using Ride-Waite-Smith imagery, the Amberstones (Tarot Tips) provide both a reference manual and a course on reading tarot symbols, even introducing discussions as if speaking directly to students. Becoming a skilled tarot reader requires an odd combination of natural talent and skillafamiliarity with symbols through study is important, yet at the same time, tarot imagery was originally created to evoke an immediate, intuitively surefooted emotional response from [whoever] looked at it, whether they knew anything about tarot or not, say the Amberstones. To get in touch with both aspects, they provide exercises to help enter your inner universe and find whatever you are looking for when contemplating various symbols. Though the guide is organized thematically rather than alphabetically as most symbol dictionaries are arranged, it still works well as a reference manual. (Apr.) -Publishers Weekly Copyright A(c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Ruth Ann & Wald Amberstone teach, write, and publish about tarot on all levels, from divination to psychology to esotercism and magical practice. They are perpetual pioneers of new tarot techniques and remain lifelong tarot students. They are the authors of Tarot Tips: 78 Practical Techniques to Enhance Your Tarot Reading Skills and regular contributors to Llewellyn's Tarot Calendar and Tarot Reader almanacs.

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