Tarot: An Illustrated Notebook

by Dennis Fairchild

Book Overview

This ingenious parchment journal delivers a lot of Tarot at a stunning value. A full deck of 78 compact, colorful Tarot cards is printed on perforated sheets bound into the front of the journal. They... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762413549
• ISBN13: 9780762413546
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

No cards

According to the reviews, it should have been a small deck of tarot cards and the book. All I got was the book and I was charged more than the list price on the back of the book😡

Wish I could return

Very used. Full page journal entries inside and no cards included.

adorable

a sweet little deck!

GREAT!!

These cards are great! They are small and compact, so you can take them with you on trips and such, and they are very accurate! It comes with a little guidebook, and really it's all you need! The art is really cool, and may inspire you for some tattoos even! Great little deck of tarot cards! Take it from a real witch-this are great cards!

Great Book

The book was simple and amazing. If you want easy reference that blatantly gives you the meaning of the cards, this is the book for you. However, if you do not already own a set of tarot cards, buy a set because the set given has cards about an inch high. The book is fantastic though and gives a simple explanation of each card and has a simple layout and basic information about tarot. Whether you're a beginner or can't quite remember all the meanings, I highly suggest this book.

I'd recommend this

I found this book to be pretty helpfull since it was my first time dealing with tarot readings and the instructions on how to conduct a reading were real simple. The tiny deck of tarot cards are actually hard to handle since they are so small but overall I would recommend this book for beginners.

More than it seems...and the price is right

When you consider how much blank books are going for these days, this book is a bargain even though it's paperback. It has a page for every tarot card, with a brief meaning, and plenty of blank space where you can write your own personal notes about what that card means to you. In addition, though the blurb doesn't even mention this, it comes with a miniature version of the "Tarot Nova" in cardboard, which you can "tear along the dotted lines" and then you have a little tarot deck. It's quite small, so it might not be of much use except as a conversation piece. Or, you could get a box/pouch/etc. and carry this deck in your purse in case you feel the urge to do a spur-of-the-moment reading in the coffee shop.

Adorable and usable!

If you don't feel compelled to get a traditional, serious, Rider-Waite-ish deck, and you have decent eyesight, this is a charming (and cheap) Tarot deck. A small hardback interpretive booklet dwarfs the little box of cards attached to it by a black ribbon. The cards are exactly the height of a nickel, perfectly reduced versions of the Nova deck. They have sharp graphics, attractive colors, and a homey presentation of the conventional Tarot cards and their meanings. They come printed on one long accordian-folded strip, perforations between each, but I recommend cutting them apart with scissors to avoid the fuzzy paper bumps left by perforations. It's more fun than a chore, because it gives you a chance to examine and bond with each card. My quibbles, like the deck, are small: 1) Watch out. It's so easy to lose things this size! 2) You can read the numbers, but the names of the suits and major arcana are too small to make out clearly. However, the corners are color coded--blue for cups, green for pentacles, etc--and there's normally a recognizable cup or sword or whatever in the graphic. 3) The booklet's interpretations remind me of cheap newspaper horoscopes and all start sounding the same to me; I think half of them tell you to take a break or reconsider your options or be alert for new opportunities. I prefer Tarot books to tell you the fundamental Idea underlying each card and keep advice to a minimum. E.G I'd say, "Six of swords: the Journey to Avalon. Transition, new horizons, visionquests"; or 4 of Pentacles: the Miser. If upright, frugality, if reversed, Scrooge" rather than "To achieve security and happiness you've got to plan your goals carefully" for the 6 of s. and "Manage your money with firm ethics. Respect those in power but do not accept intimidation" for 4 of p. I personally would not be able figure out the gut meaning of each card, if I had to learn from this book. The pictures themselves will teach you better--which is, in my opinion, the best kind of deck!I choose my decks for their looks, so let me finish with a visual description. The cards are black background with a whimsical "Mexican folk art" style: 6 of S. is carried aloft by a hot air balloon, for example, and 4 of P. are held by a small pig. 4 of c. is a typical blending of traditional iconography with the deck's sense of humor: a figure is lounging at the base of a tree, contemplating 3 cups with a pensive frown, but the 4th is a shiny red apple dangling enticingly in front of his face--only very close inspection reveals the green worm sticking out! There are several inspired and original adaptations: Judgement as a butterfly holding a key, or the hermit sporting a snail shell on his back, or the 3 of S. as the heart-shaped root of a plant whose leaves being snipped off by the swords. The devil, always a troubling card, is for once neither too hideous to bear looking at nor so censored the meaning's obscured: a tiny dancing