Cannot go wrong with Rachel's Tarot Wisdom, or Magical World of the Tarot ~ 4-fold something of the universe. Joan Bunning's online course is where I started officially years ago. Mark McElroy's books are fun and very useful. Tarot plain and simple is good. Every book will be useful in some way - even if you end up just cutting out the pictures to make scrap books!!
There is no one best book for beginners - we all learn and retain information in different ways. That's why books are traded around in here all the time. And although words in books remain the same on the pages, WE grow and change, so a book that was so-so one year will suddenly become a gold mine later on. Or vice versa. That's the nature of this game.
did that help any?
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oh yeah - 21 ways to read a tarot card is really good too.
Oh - just found this (would help if I actually read through a thread before responding I suppose:
There’s this great one…I forget the title (it’s been in print for years)…
It’s a short book, only containing 78 pages.
Its not bound, so you can put the pages in any order you want and it changes the whole book! Its really cool!
And when you read it, it will create questions in your mind – and you research those questions and learn all kinds of new stuff!
I hope you can find a copy…it really is the only one you'll ever need.
That Umbrae guy - quite a character. I'm waiting for someone now to ask him which 78-page book author he likes the best. All things being equal, which they're not, I'm voiting for International Icon. You totally cannot go wrong with that one for teaching. I mean, learning. Once you get your feet wet, I mean really really really wet, then you can branch out.
It always amazes me when a "teacher" will turn and say, "So do you have any questions?" and all you are is questions. So many you don't know where to start. So - get a simple unaffected deck (II) or Rider and begin. After a while the questions will line themselves up nicely and you'll be an official "tarotnut" like the rest of us. Then you put up that big collection of books in the Trading Thread for the next newbie who finds this forum.
