A Beginner's Guide to Tarot: Get Started with Quick and Easy Tarot Fundamentals

by Kathleen Olmstead

Unlock life's mysteries and hidden paths with this quick and easy guide to tarot.For centuries, people have turned to tarot to discover more about their friendships, their careers, their love lives, and themselves. Tarot can help you forge deeper relationships with those who are important to you, understand why patterns repeat in your life, and discover how you can take hold of your future.With definitions of each of the major and minor arcana as well as easy to follow instructions for readings that you can do on your own or with others, A Beginner’s Guide to Tarot has everything you need to get started. And for those who are ready to go further, this guide also contains detailed instructions on how to create your own cards and spreads to further explore the potential of tarot.

Genres: Nonfiction, Tarot, Magick

100 pages, ebook

First published September 30, 2014

About the author

Kathleen Olmstead is the author of several Classic Starts books, including Anne of Avonlea and Moby Dick, as well as Jacques Cousteau: A Life Under the Sea and Matthew Henson: The Quest for the North Pole, both in the Sterling Biographies series.

Reviews

[Arya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the best beginner's book for tarot I've across so far.
It's written in a completely introductory style and will help beginners just get their toes wet in the waters of tarot.
It's not full of details, interpretations, and history that would most likely bore and overwhelm a beginner. It tells you the basics and lets you go off to learn more elsewhere if you still want to.
It's honestly the first tarot book I've read completely so far. It's quick, simple, and easy to understand.
I liked it and would definitely recommend it to beginners.

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very much a beginner's book, but I liked the short, to-the-point descriptions of each card. She includes some great spreads, too.

[Elizabeth Huber · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the better Tarot books.

[Andy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A useful look at some very shallow information. Not a bad book but not a super useful one for anyone but the lowest beginner level.

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good solid overview of the tarot, goes through some history, meanings of cards, and some recommended spreads. I could have done with a bit more instead of the diy section in the end. As she notes, beginners should not create their own cards or spreads, so I don't understand why there were several diy chapters. Would have liked more on reading the cards. Anyway it was a nice basic introduction, a good starting point.

[Haze · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was very basic, probably good for a beginner. I liked the chapter on keeping a journal, and some of the tarot spreads I thought were useful.

[H · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introduction into tarot reading. You can tell the author has written a lot of books for children. The language of the book and its 'how to's are easy to follow.

[Dearwassily · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very basic information; perhaps good for the absolute novice, otherwise, not very useful. Gives a handful of spreads, but more information going with them would be nice.

[Jacob · Rating 2 out of 5]

A decent, VERY brief overview. If you're looking for historical information about the creation of tarot and analysis of its imagery, look elsewhere.