Tarot Card Combinations

by Dorothy Kelly

Book Overview

Tarot Card Combinations is a unique, comprehensive, and highly practical presentation of interpreting the tarot that has helped thousands master the ancient divination.

Dorothy Kelly's easy-to-understand approach shares everything one needs to know to unlock the story presented when the cards are drawn. Like other tarot reading guides, basic tarot definitions of the major and minor arcana are included, as well as explanations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578632935
• ISBN13: 9781578632930
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book but for Advance Reader

This book will be surely difficult to digest for anyone looking understand the Tarot structure and system of combination without a little background knowledge on the Tarot themselves. But this book go in great details on the meaning of combinations of cards including reverse cards which I've particularly appreciated. Will surely recommend this book as the author Dorothy Kelly has put a great effort to enlightened the readers on each topic.

Learn the system, not card meanings!

This book was very useful to me because I was able to learn the logic behind how to put cards together which actually is the purpose of the book! those looking for a combinations "dictionary" will be dissapointed, the goal of the book is help you understand how cards mix and combine, after that, maybe you go back to the book just once in while for reference. This book can be used in parallel with other books by begginners which are studying card meanings and symbolism, the book offers 12 keywords for each card (6 upright and 6 reversed) might be consider very simple words, but once again the goal of the book is to teach a thinking system not card meanings. The only part I disliked of the book was that samples seemed very redundant to me, but understand that authors must think in readers of many levels of comprehension, anyway a very useful book.

With explanations for hundreds of combinations

Tarot Card Combinations by Australian tarot expert Dorothy Kelly is an informed and informative guidebook to interpreting the mystical tarot cards, including basic tarot definitions and layouts, as well as advanced information concerning the nuances of how cards relate to and interconnect with one another in revealing the whole of their meaning. Simply illustrated and demonstrated using the Waite tarot deck, and enhanced with explanations for hundreds of combinations of 2, 3, 4, or even 5 cards, Tarot Card Combinations is a superb and strongly recommended resource for any tarot practitioner whether novice or expert.

A good second book on tarot

This is not a beginner's first book, but rather second book.Most books I know give more or less detailed description of each card, a couple of spreads, and maybe a few examples.For a tarot beginner who does not yet have a lot of experience, a book of that type does not give enough examples of how to interpret a few cards together.And that's where this book fits in - it gives a lot of tarot cards combinations (with both straight and reversed cards) and their meanings.A previous reviewer wrote that only keyword meanings of cards are given and that the way the combinations meanings are not explained.The first issue is, in my humble opinion, a minor issue *if* the book is not used as one's first tarot book.The second is, in my opinion, a good challenge for the reader - figuring out the way the meaning was reached makes for a better studying.

a lot to get through, but worthwhile!

This is a bigger and more detailed book than I expected, but I'd rather have more than less. It will be most helpful in learning the combinations (or at least basic ones that you can use and learn in order to apply to other ones as you go). I think it is very useful and a great reference for any tarot reader who (like me) is having a hard time connecting the cards, and reading with their associations to one another rather than one by one - a much more complete picture emerges.

Best Tarot book on the market!

This book has become my teaching guideline for all of my Tarot classes! Students love it! It is simple, to the point, and gives a modern way of looking at the meanings of each card that fits our world today.