The Ultimate Guide to Tarot: A Beginner's Guide to the Cards, Spreads, and Revealing the Mystery of the Tarot

✍ Scribed by Dean, Liz

• Publisher: Fair Winds Press;Rockport Publishers
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Ultimate Guide to Tarot is the definitive beginners guide for those looking to divine their future, or simply looking for a new, unique hobby.

Uncover the facts, myth, history, and mystery of thespiritual art of Tarot-reading. Whether you want tolearn to read the cardsor deepen yourTarot interpretation skills,The Ultimate Guide to Tarothonors the deep heritage of Tarot, while guiding you throughpractical techniques.

Tarot expert Liz Dean offers an overview to all of the important elements of each card fromsymbols, tolinks with astrology,kabbalaandnumerology.The Ultimate Guide to Tarotalsoincludes all the classic tarot spreads- Celtic Cross, Horseshoe, Star and Astrological Year Ahead - plus, a mini-layout to try for each of the 22 major cards.

Learn how to combine thethree essential ingredientsof a great tarot reading: knowing the meaning of the cards, how to lay them out, and trusting the intuitive messages the images often spark within us during a reading. This synthesis isthe true magic of tarot. With the authority and confidence this book offers,The Ultimate Guide to Tarot is themust-have companion for beginner readersand tarot aficionados alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
INTRODUCTION
I. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
CHRISTMAS-GREETINGS
I. DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE
II. THE POOL OF TEARS
III. A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE
IV. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL
V. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR
VI. PIG AND PEPPER
VII. A MAD TEA-PARTY
VIII. THE QUEEN'S CROQUET GROUND
IX. THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY
X. THE LOBSTER-QUADRILLE
XI. WHO STOLE THE TARTS?
XII. ALICE'S EVIDENCE
II. THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
PREFACE TO 1896 EDITION
I. LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE
II. THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS
III. LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS. IV. TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEEV. WOOL AND WATER
VI. HUMPTY DUMPTY
VII. THE LION AND THE UNICORN
VIII. IT'S MY OWN INVENTION --
IX. QUEEN ALICE
X. SHAKING
XI. WAKING
XII. WHICH DREAMED IT?
III. SYLVIE AND BRUNO
PREFACE
I. LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES!
II. L'AMIE INCONNUE
III. BIRTHDAY-PRESENTS
IV. A CUNNING CONSPIRACY
V.A BEGGAR'S PALACE
VI. THE MAGIC LOCKET
VII. THE BARON'S EMBASSY
VIII. A RIDE ON A LION
XI. A JESTER AND A BEAR
X. THE OTHER PROFESSOR
XI. PETER AND PAUL
XII. A MUSICAL GARDENER
XIII. A VISIT TO DOGLAND
XIV. FAIRY-SYLVIE
XV. BRUNO'S REVENGE. XVI. A CHANGED CROCODILEXVII. THE THREE BADGERS
XVIII. QUEER STREET, NUMBER FORTY
XIX. HOW TO MAKE A PHLIZZ
XX. LIGHT COME, LIGHT GO
XXI. THROUGH THE IVORY DOOR
XXII. CROSSING THE LINE
XXIII. AN OUTLANDISH WATCH
XXIV. THE FROGS' BIRTHDAY-TREAT
XXV. LOOKING EASTWARD
IV. SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED
PREFACE
I. BRUNO'S LESSONS
II. LOVE'S CURFEW
III. STREAKS OF DAWN
IV. THE DOG-KING
V. MATILDA JANE
VI. WILLIE'S WIFE
VII. MEIN HERR
VIII. IN A SHADY PLACE
IX. THE FAREWELL-PARTY
X. JABBERING AND JAM
XI. THE MAN IN THE MOON
XII. FAIRY-MUSIC
XIII. WHAT TOTTLES MEANT. XIV. BRUNO'S PICNICXV. THE LITTLE FOXES
XVI. BEYOND THESE VOICES
XVII. TO THE RESCUE!
XVIII. A NEWSPAPER-CUTTING
XIX. A FAIRY-DUET
XX. GAMMON AND SPINACH
XXI. THE PROFESSOR'S LECTURE
XXII. THE BANQUET
XXIII. THE PIG-TALE
XXIV. THE BEGGAR'S RETURN
XXV. LIFE OUT OF DEATH
V. VERSE
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
PREFACE TO THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
FIT THE FIRST
FIT THE SECOND
FIT THE THIRD
FIT THE FOURTH
FIT THE FIFTH
FIT THE SIXTH
FIT THE SEVENTH
FIT THE EIGHTH
EARLY VERSE
MY FAIRY
PUNCTUALITY
MELODIES
BROTHER AND SISTER
FACTS
RULES AND REGULATIONS
HORRORS. MISUNDERSTANDINGSAS IT FELL UPON A DAY
YE FATTALE CHEYSE
LAYS OF SORROW, NO. 1
LAYS OF SORROW, NO. 2
THE TWO BROTHERS
THE LADY OF THE LADLE
CORONACH
SHE'S ALL MY FANCY PAINTED HIM
PHOTOGRAPHY EXTRAORDINARY
LAYS OF MYSTERY, IMAGINATION, AND HUMOUR, NO. 1: THE PALACE OF HUMBUG
THE MOCK TURTLE'S SONG
UPON THE LONELY MOOR
MISS JONES
PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND
PUZZLES
SOLUTIONS
PROLOGUES TO PLAYS
PROLOGUE TO LA GUIDA DI BRAGIA --
PROLOGUE
PROLOGUE
PHANTASMAGORIA
ECHOES
A SEA DIRGE
YE CARPETTE KNYGHTE
HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING
MELANCHOLETTA
A VALENTINE
THE THREE VOICES.

✦ Subjects

Occult;Tarot;Nonfiction;Spirituality;Reference;Witchcraft;Divination;Religion;Wicca;Philosophy;Metaphysics;New Age