Tarot Workshop: An Introductory Guide to Tarot

by Suzanne Corbie

In this special double-disc workshop, experienced tarot teacher and author Suzanne Corbie presents an introductory guide to learning tarot in which beginners are encouraged to work with their own intuition and feelings. Presented in her fun and easygoing style, with music by Kevin Kendle and Llewellyn, Suzanne covers both the Major and Minor Arcana tarot cards. It is an easy-to-understand and no-nonsense guide that enables you to quickly learn how to work with tarot cards and give readings for yourself and others. Suzanne has read and studied the tarot for over thirty years and has taught it for the last seven. She regularly teaches classes and workshops in tarot all over the United Kingdom.

Genres: Tarot, Audiobook

Audio CD

First published July 1, 2013

Reviews

[Friday Gladheart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picked this up just to stay sharp. I didn't expect to find a lot of new materials (I've been a professional tarot reader since 1990) but was delighted to find the author bringing fresh insights and new ideas that really helped improve my skills.

[Sarah]

I found this workshop helpful and informative.

[The Loracular · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tarot Workshop: An Introductory Guide to TarotSuzanne Corbie

I purchased this audiobook from Audible (who listens to CDs in 2020?) while I had excess credits. It is a mere 2 hours long. Suzanne Corbie has a fine voice for narrating her own work. The background music and style of presentation was nearly that of guided meditations and I think that might have been the problem. This would have been better as serious of actual guided meditations with slower pacing so the listener wasn't encouraged to:
*look at a tarot card for about 1 minute while the author discussed it
*then close their eyes and visualize while Ms. Corbie continued speaking
*then open their eyes and quickly absorb more information and move on.
(~2 minutes per card process, one right after another)

If you are looking for a true introduction to the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.. and you do NEED to have your own copy of a Rider-Waite-Smith deck for this book to be helpful.. I think it is worth purchasing. More experienced tarot readers though can probably benefit more from simply practicing with tarot + mindfulness/meditation exercises on their own.

[Bunny Cakes · Rating 3 out of 5]

This felt more like a guided meditation than an introduction to tarot.

[Silas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rather than an in-depth exploration, this was more of a quick exploration of all of the cards of the Tarot, with a little meditation at the end. If you go into this with the expectation that the narrator will be guiding you through each card, and nudging you to consider your own interpretations of the cards in light of some fairly traditional interpretations, this can be an enjoyable, somewhat short seminar, and a good refresher if you have lapsed in using the tarot.

[Lana Kay · Rating 2 out of 5]

It MIGHT be because I'm already an experienced reader but I find her teaching style annoying. Did she really have to go through the feeling and visualization for every single card instead of focusing more on delving deeper into the meanings and symbolism. I was looking for more tarot books to recommend to beginners, this won't be one of them.

[Lisa Butterworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really love Tarot as a form of narrative therapy, or as a vehicle for considering archetypes and meaning making. And this book is super useful in helping to understand the archetypes without being off-putting, dogmatic, or too woo woo.

[Dodie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a interesting way to look at learning Tarot cards. The first have looks at the majors and some spreads are discussed.

The second half discusses the minors and some techniques you can use.

The last few chapters the whole deck is used and there is a meditation.

[Melissa Bishop · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book to be wonderfully informative. It gives good, solid, basic information. There is always a waiting list in the elibrary of people waiting to check it out.

[Jillian · Rating 4 out of 5]

This could have been slowed way down and expanded upon but I did enjoy this on audiobook. I would take a course with this author if I could!

[zarkmoon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unlistenable audio book. The narrative is lost in a distracting wash of undulating synthesizer/keyboard chords.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I didn't agree with a lot of what was said in relation to the meaning of each card, I set aside my own thoughts to better understand what specific cards can mean to other people. My rating does not reflect those differences of opinion, as that seems to be the point of the lesson.