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Don't forget to read Rachel Pollacks "78 degrees of wisdom"! It is THE classic textbook, a plain and simple fusion of the psychological approach and more esoteric cabbalistic thoughts. It doesnt only give you plausible meanings of the cards, more importantly, it shows you how to work the tarot, how to twist a story out of the cards.
And it prepares you for the heavier textbooks like Paul Foster Case, The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, Aleister Crowley, "Book of Thoth" (difficult but coupled with DuQuettes "Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot" it grows to one of the most important books on the subject ever) and Robert Wang, "The Qabalistic Tarot". All necessary in the long run.
In the meantime, if you want a really, really easy read, I can recommed Juliet Sharman Burkes short book Beginner's Guide to Tarot (comes with an ok deck by the way). I was impressed by the way she manages to keep it simple (no cabbala or gematria here) without becoming superficial.
Don't forget to read Rachel Pollacks "78 degrees of wisdom"! It is THE classic textbook, a plain and simple fusion of the psychological approach and more esoteric cabbalistic thoughts. It doesnt only give you plausible meanings of the cards, more importantly, it shows you how to work the tarot, how to twist a story out of the cards.
And it prepares you for the heavier textbooks like Paul Foster Case, The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, Aleister Crowley, "Book of Thoth" (difficult but coupled with DuQuettes "Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot" it grows to one of the most important books on the subject ever) and Robert Wang, "The Qabalistic Tarot". All necessary in the long run.
In the meantime, if you want a really, really easy read, I can recommed Juliet Sharman Burkes short book Beginner's Guide to Tarot (comes with an ok deck by the way). I was impressed by the way she manages to keep it simple (no cabbala or gematria here) without becoming superficial.