The 2-Hour Tarot Tutor: The Fast, Revolutionary Method for Learning to Read Tarot Cards in Two Hours...

by Wilma Carroll

Book Overview

Provides a quick and easy introduction to using Tarot to predict the future, with simple-to-follow instructions, sample readings, worksheets, special spreads, and more to help readers develop the techniques, skills, and insights into the Tarot. Original.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425196186
• ISBN13: 9780425196182
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Say What You See

"Reading Tarot cards is really very easy. All you have to do is look at the cards and see what you say. By simply looking at the cards, you are making an intuitive connection with them. The cards speak in a language of symbols. If you look at the cards, the images actually do talk to you." - From the book With Wilma Carroll's radical method for reading Tarot cards, there is no memorization of meanings or years of study. Her simple advice? Say what you see. Can it really be that easy? Well, it depends on whom you ask. Many Tarot readers and authors advocate memorizing meanings-including reversed ones-even if those meaning are self-generated through experience and personal symbolism. Others advocate strict adherence to a tradition such as the Golden Dawn where every meaning, astrological association, and dignities are laid out for the reader. Carroll, a psychic and metaphysician, maintains that "thinking" breaks the spontaneous stream of symbols flowing through intuition. Yet, she also maintains "...Tarot cards are a focusing tool that keeps the mind from wandering. When the attention is fixed and the reader is concentrating, psychic energy flows. As the reader focuses on the cards, the symbols being to stimulate her subconscious mind." The first 43 pages of The 2-Hour Tarot Tutor show the reader, through examples and worksheets, how the author taught individuals unfamiliar with the Tarot to read the cards for themselves and others. Using the Celtic Cross spread for several case histories, we get a peek inside the trepidation that beginning readers often feel-and the triumphant feelings of accomplishment when their readings turn out to be amazingly accurate. While the first two sections of the book can, indeed, teach individuals to read the Tarot in 2 hours (provided they actually perform the exercises), the book title is somewhat misleading. The majority of the book, while building upon the simple foundation of "say what you see", is full of mystical meat that could overwhelm total novices. Carroll shares some bona fide psychic secrets for gleaning important information from the cards while also providing an excellent crash course in numerology, performing timing readings, and interpreting complex spreads. For example, her advanced Seven Sisters Spread uses 21 cards and her advanced Horoscope spread uses 39 cards. However, using Carroll's method for reading the Tarot-and following along with worksheets based on actual readings-even these daunting spreads becoming manageable and doable. In the 2-Hour Tarot Tutor, the author gives thorough answers to questions such as: * Will following a special diet enhance my intuitive/psychic faculties? * What can I do to develop my intuitive/psychic faculties? * What is the difference between the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana? * What do the four suits of the Tarot mean? * Where do Tarot cards come from? * How should I read reversed/inverted cards? * Do Tarot cards require special care? Although Carroll

Take it from a pro...

I've been reading Tarot for several years now and have my own private practice as a professional reader. I am constantly buying new books on the Tarot as the come out to see what is out there and to occasionally get a new perspective. The simplicity of the method taught in this book is ideal for not only beginners, but also for experienced readers stuck in a rut. It does not depend on memorization or intense analysis of the symbolism in the cards but instead instructs you to read what you see. Period. The anecdotes and the sample spreads are very helpful and she has some interesting and insightful meanings of the cards as well.

Fast track to learning tarot

I was *very* skeptical about this book at first. But if you give it an honest and sincere try, it's amazing how fast and how much you can really learn. Using the Rider-Waite or Universal Waite deck, the book focuses on getting you to pay attention to the images and intuitively respond to them. It's that attention that quickly helps you understand the meanings of the cards without a lot of memorization. I wouldn't use it as my only tarot book, and I don't because it really is a basic introduction. But if you use this book first, you may find - as I did - that any other tarot book you refer to will be much more accessible and effective.

I learned to read tarot with this book

It was a very good choice. I had no knowledge at all on how to read cards, just the interest. So this was my first book on this topic and it worked for me. It took me more than two hours, because you have to learn the meanings and practice, but I found it very useful.

An excellent first book on tarot...

I bought this book knowing just a little about tarot and the meanings, but very interested in a more intuitive approach to reading. The book uses the Rider-Waite deck and even requests that the reader do so as well (just to make it easier to follow along, but not required). Rather than relying on stock meanings and trying to tie them into the other cards, Carroll asks you to just go with your intuition (which makes sense if you believe that the tarot is a window into the subconscious)and "say what you see". Although one may want to eventually learn the actual meanings, this is an excellent way to get the ball rolling and start reading in two hours.