Book Review: Mastering the Tarot, by Eden Grey

Mastering the Tarot is written by Eden Grey, who wrote a few other books about the Tarot but I found Mastering the Tarot be more accessible than the other two. This is the book which I learnt the Tarot from and after seven years, I still refer to it.

Mastering the Tarot is a rather traditional book, beginning with the Minor Arcanna Cards grouped together by the numbers rather than by suits. Every Minor Arcanna Card has a brief description on the card followed by the meanings of the card when it is upright and reversed. For the Major Arcanna, the author goes a little more indept, studying the symbology in each card presented. All the cards in the books are the Rider Waite Cards and the meanings conform closely to the cards, mirroring Rider Waite's original interpretation for the cards.

While this book not particularly detailed, it is quite suitable for beginniners to the Tarot or for those who want more meanings than the little book that comes with Tarot Cards but want to avoid long winded sentences of the more advanced guide books.

The book also teaches the basic spreads such as the Celthic Cross spread. What struck me most about this book was that the author covered a bit about the ethics of reading the cards, how a reader should present readings to the querent and how readings should be worded. This is a section I have not yet seen in the books that I have gone through and this, I feel, is something that every card reader, whether reading for other people or otherwise, should know.

This definitely is a book worth reading, and keeping.

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This article is written by Lysander .