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Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More: Get Your Questions Answered
"Conversational, friendly, and fun, makes your book accessible to all levels of readers."
Despite what you may have heard about tarot reading, you don't have to be psychic to do one. There are a few simple things you need to know to start doing readings for yourself and your friends in no time.
(Table of Contents below)
This book includes spreads that answer a variety of useful questions:
- Simple spreads for beginners, including the one- and two- card spreads.
- Popular spreads like Horseshoe and Celtic cross.
- More specific spreads like "Does he love me?" and "How to get my ex back".
Spreads are easy to accomplish and include helpful pictures to give people more of an idea of what to focus on.
But this book is not only about spreads, it provides great advice with EXPLANATIONS AND EXAMPLES that show how something should be done and clarify what many people might have been doing wrong; e.g. framing questions correctly.
Stories in the book are very relatable and show real people; how they are often not even aware of small items that actually create their problems. And the real life sample readings tie together everything that has been said.
There is a free bonus to get less-experienced readers started; simple explanations of the cards and what they stand for as a free download from the website.
What other Tarot readers say about this book:
"I really liked the book. You explain the layouts and how to tweak them very well and make it sound fun and simple."
"A really well written book that lays out a wonderful starting method with clear explanations."
"An excellent book for anyone curious about tarot cards to pick up."
"I love that you make this simple enough that someone who is just starting can easily create a spread."
Just to give you a taste, here's the Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Good Tarot Spreads are Those That Make You Think
What You Need to Know to Read Tarot Cards Yourself
Chapter 2: Popular Easy Spreads
Card of the Day Spread
Pros and Cons Spread
Past, Present, Future Spread
Chapter 3: More Rewarding Popular Spreads
Horse Shoe Tarot Spread
Celtic Cross: Probably the Most Common Spread
Chapter 4: Love and Relationship Spreads
You Met Somebody
Problems in a Relationship
Finding Love
Relationship Advice
How to Get Your Ex Back
Does He Love Me
How to Move On
Chapter 5: Money and Career Spreads
How to Save Money
How to Make Money from Home
How to Find a Job
Chapter 6: Self-Improvement Spreads
Work-Life Balance
How to Deal With Stress
How to Be Happy
Chapter 7: Putting it All Together - Real-Life Example Readings
3-Card Spread Example
Love Reading Example
Career Reading Example
Celtic Cross Reading Example
Horse Shoe Spread Example
Despite what you may have heard about tarot reading, you don't have to be psychic to do one. There are a few simple things you need to know to start doing readings for yourself and your friends in no time.
(Table of Contents below)
This book includes spreads that answer a variety of useful questions:
- Simple spreads for beginners, including the one- and two- card spreads.
- Popular spreads like Horseshoe and Celtic cross.
- More specific spreads like "Does he love me?" and "How to get my ex back".
Spreads are easy to accomplish and include helpful pictures to give people more of an idea of what to focus on.
But this book is not only about spreads, it provides great advice with EXPLANATIONS AND EXAMPLES that show how something should be done and clarify what many people might have been doing wrong; e.g. framing questions correctly.
Stories in the book are very relatable and show real people; how they are often not even aware of small items that actually create their problems. And the real life sample readings tie together everything that has been said.
There is a free bonus to get less-experienced readers started; simple explanations of the cards and what they stand for as a free download from the website.
What other Tarot readers say about this book:
"I really liked the book. You explain the layouts and how to tweak them very well and make it sound fun and simple."
"A really well written book that lays out a wonderful starting method with clear explanations."
"An excellent book for anyone curious about tarot cards to pick up."
"I love that you make this simple enough that someone who is just starting can easily create a spread."
Just to give you a taste, here's the Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Good Tarot Spreads are Those That Make You Think
What You Need to Know to Read Tarot Cards Yourself
Chapter 2: Popular Easy Spreads
Card of the Day Spread
Pros and Cons Spread
Past, Present, Future Spread
Chapter 3: More Rewarding Popular Spreads
Horse Shoe Tarot Spread
Celtic Cross: Probably the Most Common Spread
Chapter 4: Love and Relationship Spreads
You Met Somebody
Problems in a Relationship
Finding Love
Relationship Advice
How to Get Your Ex Back
Does He Love Me
How to Move On
Chapter 5: Money and Career Spreads
How to Save Money
How to Make Money from Home
How to Find a Job
Chapter 6: Self-Improvement Spreads
Work-Life Balance
How to Deal With Stress
How to Be Happy
Chapter 7: Putting it All Together - Real-Life Example Readings
3-Card Spread Example
Love Reading Example
Career Reading Example
Celtic Cross Reading Example
Horse Shoe Spread Example
- GenresTarot
97 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 15, 2013
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About the author
Ian Eshey
29 books1 followerIan Eshey is an entrepreneur, software consultant and tarot enthusiast. His published work includes two non-traditional books on tarot: "6 Short Stories: Learn Tarot in a Day" and "Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More: Get Your Questions Answered".
Beside being aboard a sailboat somewhere on Mediterranean any time he can or occasionally competing in long-distance swimming, he's an avid reader of evolutionary psychology and of books on modern communication skills. Ian is also rumored to grab a Sci-Fi novel now and then, just to end up reading the complete works of the author - if the book was any good.
Beside being aboard a sailboat somewhere on Mediterranean any time he can or occasionally competing in long-distance swimming, he's an avid reader of evolutionary psychology and of books on modern communication skills. Ian is also rumored to grab a Sci-Fi novel now and then, just to end up reading the complete works of the author - if the book was any good.
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August 9, 2014
Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More attempts to demystify spreads and show the reader how to harness the power of a good spread. Eshey uses the introduction to frame the rest of the book. He explains his philosophy and how a reader can get the most out of the book. The rest of the chapters break down various spreads by theme. He starts out with many of the most common spreads readers use, and then delves into spreads used for love, money and other topics.
This book is a great beginner’s guide to spreads. Eshey takes the time to delve into some popular spreads that can often confuse new readers. He shares the layout of what that spread looks like, then he breaks each position down into what it asks and gives you a example from his real life. There is a wide variety of spreads and examples from Eshey’s own life in this book.
What I didn’t like about Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More is that sometimes the stories Eshey uses doesn’t add up and really seem to answer the question that the querent gave at the beginning of the “session.” Many of the stories, don’t give a specific card and how that card relates back to the position of the spread. I also found that in Chapter 2, his image for the “Card of the Day” spread doesn’t seem to align with the description. This threw me off a bit…
Other than the stories being a bit too fitting and not using actual cards, I liked the book. The introduction was were I got my biggest bang for my buck with how Eshey describes his take on the purpose of spreads and how to get the most out of them. He includes many key tips for getting the most out of a spread and I was impressed how he distilled the purpose of the Major, Minor, and Court cards with ease.
Bottom Line: If you are new to Tarot and want to understand spreads and see how they can work for you, then you’ll like this book. Eshey’s philosophy of “people like to play,” so “make an experience interesting, you get more and more immersed in it. It really is as simple as that.” I think that beginners and advanced Tarot enthusiasts alike can find insights from this Ian Eshey’s Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More.
This book is a great beginner’s guide to spreads. Eshey takes the time to delve into some popular spreads that can often confuse new readers. He shares the layout of what that spread looks like, then he breaks each position down into what it asks and gives you a example from his real life. There is a wide variety of spreads and examples from Eshey’s own life in this book.
What I didn’t like about Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More is that sometimes the stories Eshey uses doesn’t add up and really seem to answer the question that the querent gave at the beginning of the “session.” Many of the stories, don’t give a specific card and how that card relates back to the position of the spread. I also found that in Chapter 2, his image for the “Card of the Day” spread doesn’t seem to align with the description. This threw me off a bit…
Other than the stories being a bit too fitting and not using actual cards, I liked the book. The introduction was were I got my biggest bang for my buck with how Eshey describes his take on the purpose of spreads and how to get the most out of them. He includes many key tips for getting the most out of a spread and I was impressed how he distilled the purpose of the Major, Minor, and Court cards with ease.
Bottom Line: If you are new to Tarot and want to understand spreads and see how they can work for you, then you’ll like this book. Eshey’s philosophy of “people like to play,” so “make an experience interesting, you get more and more immersed in it. It really is as simple as that.” I think that beginners and advanced Tarot enthusiasts alike can find insights from this Ian Eshey’s Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More.
January 25, 2014
The book, Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More: Get Your Questions Answered by Ian Eshey, allows readers to experience and understand the simplest Tarot spreads and would be very helpful for the Tarot beginners. This is for those who have learnt the meanings of Tarot Cards and would like to learn how to do the spreads and connect the cards together making the short story.
You have to be open to simplicity and not have too high expectations as this a fantastic book for those beginning their journey into Tarot.
I would certainly recommend this book for the Tarot beginner.
You have to be open to simplicity and not have too high expectations as this a fantastic book for those beginning their journey into Tarot.
I would certainly recommend this book for the Tarot beginner.
October 9, 2013
Really enjoyed, nice job for the new reader.
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