book recommendation for learning cards intuitively

I like 'The Complete Tarot Reader: Everything you need to know from start to finish' by Teresa Michelsen.
This book teaches you how to actually read the cards without any spoonfeeding in the form of card meanings.
In here you'll find elements, numerology, reversals, dignities, phrasing questions etc... Take what you want and ignore the rest.
What this book won't give you are lists of card meanings but it does show you how to get your own.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Ta...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266159778&sr=8-1

Sulis said:

What this book won't give you are lists of card meanings but it does show you how to get your own.

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And THAT is what you need, to be a "real reader" !!!!

I was just reading the book "Clairvoyance - Insight is only a daydream away' by Lynn Willoughby and there is a small section on using tarot cards as a springboard for intuitive insight.
The book mainly consists of excercises that build on each other. I was just trying her method with a tarot card yesterday and got interesting results.

Thanks gregory, I will give that a try now (no title)!

The card meanings that stuck with me the most are the ones I learnt from experience. In the beginning I pulled a card every day and made a note of it, then later I compared it to what happened during my day.

Eventually when I pulled certain cards for the day, I knew that I needed to brace myself for trouble!

I am now doing this again with different decks where I use the card image as my pc desktop background for the day.

I also remember some of my first full Celtic Cross readings and can relate to what the cards meant in hindsight (and at the time).

That's a good idea about using a card image as a PC background....

Ang x

I've now got a pic of a very fat Magician as my desktop....

Maybe I need to adjust the size a little....

Ang x

I am glad I could contribute something!

At the moment I am using the images from The Fey Tarot, you can find all of them on the illustrator's website www.mara-aghem.com (Tarocchi delle Fate).

There's a book called "The Intuitive Tarot: A Metaphysical Approach to Reading the Tarot Cards" by Richard Gordon and Dixie Taylor. I haven't read it so I can't give my opinion on it, but you can "look inside" on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-Tar...p/0931892848/ref=pd_sim_b_5#reader_0931892848

Sulis said:

I like 'The Complete Tarot Reader: Everything you need to know from start to finish' by Teresa Michelsen.
This book teaches you how to actually read the cards without any spoonfeeding in the form of card meanings.
In here you'll find elements, numerology, reversals, dignities, phrasing questions etc... Take what you want and ignore the rest.
What this book won't give you are lists of card meanings but it does show you how to get your own.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Ta...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266159778&sr=8-1

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Thanks Sulis,

This one is on my short list to buy!

Teresa's book is great. Chunky enough to give you stuff to grow on, but flexible enough to be useful for any deck and any style of reader.