The New Complete Book of Tarot: A Step-By-Step Guide to Reading the Cards

by Juliet Sharman-Burke

Book Overview

For over twenty years, The Complete Book of Tarot has been one of the most popular and most used guides for the art of reading and understanding the tarot. Now, for the first time, Juliet Sharman-Burke has revised and expanded the original text, and the book has been reillustrated throughout with the Sharman-Caselli tarot. The resultant book, The New Complete Book of Tarot , will guide a new generation through the cards to a working knowledge of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031236346X
• ISBN13: 9780312363468
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Griffin
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The best I've ever found.

I have had a copy of "The Complete Book of Tarot" for years and years and years (maybe 10, maybe 15). It's worn, spine split and very much loved. I was looking for another copy for a friend when I found the "New" version. I bought us both a copy and I am so glad I did. This book is hands down the best tarot book I've ever owned. The revision loses nothing from the original and adds beautiful illustrations, a heartier spine and page marking flaps. Both this edition and the original are objective, concise, vivid and thorough. If you could only have one tarot resource this should be it.

Good Tarot Guidebook

This is a very helpful step-by-step guide to reading the Tarot for beginners. This book is illustrated with cards from The Sharman-Caselli Tarot Deck, and is an ideal companion to that deck. This book was also sold as part of a kit, The Complete Tarot Pack. The book starts with an introduction, a brief history of Tarot, and how it works. It is further divided into four Parts. Part 1 to 3 consists of a study and description of the tarot cards. Each part include a subset of Major and Minor Arcana. Major arcana are given 2 or three pages, including a full image of the card, while minor arcanas are given half a page each. Each symbol on the cards are explored, and the meaning of the card is explained. I found that this way of studying the cards makes it easier for me to decipher their meaning in the future on my own. Part 4 includes a brief explanation on how to read the cards and four layouts: The Five-cards Horshoe, The Celtic Cross, The Star Spread and the Three of Life. These are explained with an example spread. The example are helpful, but I would have loved a more detailed explanation of these layouts. Also by Juliet Sharman-Burke: The Complete Tarot Pack, The Sharman-Caselli Tarot Deck, My Tarot: Colour Your Own Deck, and The Mythic Tarot