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Super Tarot: New Techniques for Improving Your Tarot Reading
Book by Fenton, Sasha
- GenresTarotNonfiction
Paperback
First published April 11, 1991
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About the author
Sasha Fenton
154 books65 followersI’m an author, speaker and publisher. My husband, Jan Budkowski, and I run two publishing companies:
Stellium Ltd (www.stelliumpub.com) for fiction, digital and self-publishing services, and
Zambezi Publishing Ltd (www.zampub.com) for Mind, Body & Spirit titles.
I became a professional astrologer, palmist and Tarot card reader in 1974, but I tailed off my consultancy business when my writing took off. I’ve written 136 books, mainly on mind, body & spirit subjects, with total sales of around 7 million copies, and translations of some titles into twelve languages. Like an addict, I still write, most recently a trio of time travel, action romance novels – the Tudorland series (Sophie’s Inheritance, Lucy’s Dilemma and Emily’s Mistake), a gentle spell book (Spells in Focus) for our publishing company, and In Focus: Astrology for Quarto.com
I’ve taught, broadcast and lectured all over the world, and written for many magazines and newspapers. One of my favourite features was a detailed Chinese Astrology column in Prediction magazine, starting with the January 2012 issue, until the magazine sadly closed a year later. I’ve been interested in Chinese Astrology for some time, and I concentrate on making it more accessible to our western minds.
As a past President of the British Astrological and Psychic Society (BAPS), past Chair for the Advisory Panel on Astrological Education and past member of the Executive Council of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, I like to think I have contributed to the writing and mind, body & spirit communities in the UK.
More recently, Jan and I created MBS Professionals Ltd, a unique, international accreditation/certification home for Mind, Body & Spirit professionals. (www.mbsprofessionals.com)
Although I still love to write, Jan and I now spend more time in running our MB&S publishing business (Zambezi Publishing Ltd), and in our brief spare time, a spot of fly fishing in the beautiful South West of England is a great way to relax...
Stellium Ltd (www.stelliumpub.com) for fiction, digital and self-publishing services, and
Zambezi Publishing Ltd (www.zampub.com) for Mind, Body & Spirit titles.
I became a professional astrologer, palmist and Tarot card reader in 1974, but I tailed off my consultancy business when my writing took off. I’ve written 136 books, mainly on mind, body & spirit subjects, with total sales of around 7 million copies, and translations of some titles into twelve languages. Like an addict, I still write, most recently a trio of time travel, action romance novels – the Tudorland series (Sophie’s Inheritance, Lucy’s Dilemma and Emily’s Mistake), a gentle spell book (Spells in Focus) for our publishing company, and In Focus: Astrology for Quarto.com
I’ve taught, broadcast and lectured all over the world, and written for many magazines and newspapers. One of my favourite features was a detailed Chinese Astrology column in Prediction magazine, starting with the January 2012 issue, until the magazine sadly closed a year later. I’ve been interested in Chinese Astrology for some time, and I concentrate on making it more accessible to our western minds.
As a past President of the British Astrological and Psychic Society (BAPS), past Chair for the Advisory Panel on Astrological Education and past member of the Executive Council of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, I like to think I have contributed to the writing and mind, body & spirit communities in the UK.
More recently, Jan and I created MBS Professionals Ltd, a unique, international accreditation/certification home for Mind, Body & Spirit professionals. (www.mbsprofessionals.com)
Although I still love to write, Jan and I now spend more time in running our MB&S publishing business (Zambezi Publishing Ltd), and in our brief spare time, a spot of fly fishing in the beautiful South West of England is a great way to relax...
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September 5, 2021
I was incredibly lucky, when I think over it. When I was learning Tarot, as a college student, it was at a time when Mary Greer and Rachel Pollack and other absolute luminaries in the field were doing their best work. I picked up a copy of Greer's Tarot for Your Self in a feminist bookstore (remember those?) and her approach gave me a great foundation for the cards.
A lot of the newer tarot books don't have a great deal to offer--they count on the fact that this younger generation is lazy and won't bother to go look at the older stuff, writing it all off as fusty and boring. So a great deal of modern tarot books offer nothing new, shallow and canned content, but with cutesy branding.
This book falls partly into that trap--lots of padding and even so the book doesn't even come close to 200 pages. Now, I don't mean you have to write a doorstop like Benebell Wen, but this book smacks of "I have a book contract and it needs to be X pages long and so let's just use lots of tricks to make length".
That said, the exercises she offers are fun and interesting and helpful. They are designed using her interpretations of the cards, which may not match what you have already gotten as your meanings. And that's fine--the more nuances and perspectives in cards I know, the better! While they're fun, she really misses the boat in the idea of how to make the exercises replicable. She'll give you a few fake reads and say "okay how would you do this" but she doesn't offer a template for you to design your own exercises. Like she doesn't say "Okay now your turn: your imaginary client wants you to read on (list of choices of common topics) and they want to know (list of possible things)" etc. Now it's obviously not too hard for me to figure out how to do that myself, but I mean, since it's already fluffing for content, that would have been easy enough for her to do.
My other objection to this book is her spreads. I already know most of them, which is a good thing, because if I didn't, her explanations would not really have helped me. I mean, talk about a time when a sample reading would have helped?
The book is good if you're new to tarot, and if you're not, the exercises are fun, if a little easy, and the spreads are a good reminder. If you already know cards pretty well, this is a library borrow--no need to buy it for the content. If you're new, this will definitely stretch your abilities.
A lot of the newer tarot books don't have a great deal to offer--they count on the fact that this younger generation is lazy and won't bother to go look at the older stuff, writing it all off as fusty and boring. So a great deal of modern tarot books offer nothing new, shallow and canned content, but with cutesy branding.
This book falls partly into that trap--lots of padding and even so the book doesn't even come close to 200 pages. Now, I don't mean you have to write a doorstop like Benebell Wen, but this book smacks of "I have a book contract and it needs to be X pages long and so let's just use lots of tricks to make length".
That said, the exercises she offers are fun and interesting and helpful. They are designed using her interpretations of the cards, which may not match what you have already gotten as your meanings. And that's fine--the more nuances and perspectives in cards I know, the better! While they're fun, she really misses the boat in the idea of how to make the exercises replicable. She'll give you a few fake reads and say "okay how would you do this" but she doesn't offer a template for you to design your own exercises. Like she doesn't say "Okay now your turn: your imaginary client wants you to read on (list of choices of common topics) and they want to know (list of possible things)" etc. Now it's obviously not too hard for me to figure out how to do that myself, but I mean, since it's already fluffing for content, that would have been easy enough for her to do.
My other objection to this book is her spreads. I already know most of them, which is a good thing, because if I didn't, her explanations would not really have helped me. I mean, talk about a time when a sample reading would have helped?
The book is good if you're new to tarot, and if you're not, the exercises are fun, if a little easy, and the spreads are a good reminder. If you already know cards pretty well, this is a library borrow--no need to buy it for the content. If you're new, this will definitely stretch your abilities.
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