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A Little Bit of Tarot: An Introduction to Reading Tarot
Everything you need to know to understand and enjoy tarot cards.Tarot cards have been used through the years as a method of divination that can offer nuanced, personal readings. In this accessible guide, Cassandra Eason introduces the tarot to beginners, from your first reading and suggested ways of laying out the cards to their individual meanings. She also provides real-life examples, lays out the most important spreads, reveals what psychic protections to take when doing divination, and more.
130 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 6, 2015
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February 18, 2016
Although Eason praises the Rider-Waite deck, it can be referenced in conjunction with any 22 Major/56 Minor Arcana deck. This book offers a thorough breakdown of each card, as well as tips for reading, several different spreads to learn, and real life examples paired with each spread so you can get an idea on how to relate the cards to one another. I find this book is an extremely useful resource for people just beginning to read tarot, and even now I keep it by me during all readings to reference.
January 25, 2022
Eh. Would only recommend if you're in high school doing tarot at a slumber party. Doesn't have enough substance.
June 5, 2019
Didn't really care for this one in comparison to the previous book on Tarot reading. The authors focus on the possible meanings of each card seemed to general and vague to offer any significance. It also lacked a discussion of what the cards contain within them, which I know is difficult to achieve when there are so many varieties with different depictions on the same cards, but I still feel using a commonly used deck to analyze illustrations of the card would be helpful in understanding how she was able to come to that conclusion of the cards meaning. I would definitely recommend Tarot for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards over this one.
September 7, 2023
As someone who has been studying tarot for years, this book really did it for me! It’s layout helped me understand and memorize each card even better. The only thing I wish it did have was pictures for the cards.
December 23, 2019
Really solid introduction to tarot. I had no knowledge of tarot prior to reading this and it really gave me a good base understanding. At times however, the explanations of the meanings of each card felt a bit too vague. Nicely structured.
February 17, 2019
This book was perfect! I got my first tarot deck last Christmas, and I've been using apps, watching videos, and reading articles from people who have done it for a long time through out their lives.
"A Little Bit Of Tarot" by Cassandra Eason covers so much about tarot, mystics, your tuition and psyche. She provides awesome prayers for tarot readings, and blessings for your tarot deck. She explains there really is no right or wrong way to do tarot, as in laying out the cards for a reading, it's all just based on what your sixth sense tells you to do. She explains and teaches what the true meaning of tarot is, and goes through each of the cards and on what they mean. She shows you on how to set up the cards in a way that's easy and quick. If you're a beginner with tarot, I highly recommend this book!
"A Little Bit Of Tarot" by Cassandra Eason covers so much about tarot, mystics, your tuition and psyche. She provides awesome prayers for tarot readings, and blessings for your tarot deck. She explains there really is no right or wrong way to do tarot, as in laying out the cards for a reading, it's all just based on what your sixth sense tells you to do. She explains and teaches what the true meaning of tarot is, and goes through each of the cards and on what they mean. She shows you on how to set up the cards in a way that's easy and quick. If you're a beginner with tarot, I highly recommend this book!
January 9, 2023
Como o próprio nome já diz, é um guia prático. Para aqueles que já tem experiência, confesso que não agrega muito. Entretanto, é um ótimo livro introdutório, pra quem está iniciando os estudos de tarot.
Ele tem como base o tarot de Rider Waite, um dos modelos recomendados para iniciantes e, particularmente, o meu preferido. É um livro dinâmico e de fácil entendimento. Se eu tivesse um livro desse quando era adolescente, teria facilitado muito meus estudos.
Para quem tem curiosidade de entender um pouco ou de começar a estudar mesmo, começar com um livro como esse séria ótimo.
Ele tem como base o tarot de Rider Waite, um dos modelos recomendados para iniciantes e, particularmente, o meu preferido. É um livro dinâmico e de fácil entendimento. Se eu tivesse um livro desse quando era adolescente, teria facilitado muito meus estudos.
Para quem tem curiosidade de entender um pouco ou de começar a estudar mesmo, começar com um livro como esse séria ótimo.
November 16, 2021
As a Tarot lover and reader myself, this one is too light of an intro and a bit repetitive. There’s other guides that definitely are worth more when it comes to information specially a beginners guide.
September 24, 2022
I expected a little bit more or different from this introduction to tarot. I am a very visual learner so one miss for me was to not have any pictures of tarot cards from eg the Waite deck included. I also felt the descriptions and meanings of cards could have picked up the traditional imagery and symbolism more.
The book basically lists each card and gives the interpretation of the author with room to see what resonates for you. With the style in which the cards are run through though, the descriptions aren’t very memorable and it may be of more use as a reference book to pick up if you feel unclear on your interpretation or if the guidebook that came with your cards doesn’t quite work.
As a read-from-cover-to-cover it’s trickier.
I do appreciate the few ideas for spreads but even those are kept very highlevel and details as to how to read are light at best.
I’ve gained a little experience with cards in the past year and felt like reading this was not particularly helpful unfortunately.
The book basically lists each card and gives the interpretation of the author with room to see what resonates for you. With the style in which the cards are run through though, the descriptions aren’t very memorable and it may be of more use as a reference book to pick up if you feel unclear on your interpretation or if the guidebook that came with your cards doesn’t quite work.
As a read-from-cover-to-cover it’s trickier.
I do appreciate the few ideas for spreads but even those are kept very highlevel and details as to how to read are light at best.
I’ve gained a little experience with cards in the past year and felt like reading this was not particularly helpful unfortunately.
August 25, 2023
Normally I would say that this series of books would be good for beginners because they always tend to give a very good overview of the given topic. I finally got around to reading this book after having practiced tarot reading for over a year. I've been getting the meanings for the tarot cards in my readings from the books that come with the decks of cards and so I've been getting a lot of varying descriptions of the meanings behind each card. After reading this book I can say definitively that this book gives a very basic and somehow also comprehensive view of each card. The descriptions in this book coincided very clearly with the varying descriptions I've heard before. So if you're wanting to practice tarot I think this is a very good book to read even if you've been practicing for a little while this is a good one to have on your shelf.
March 31, 2023
Great beginners guide to tarot. I wanted to read through fully before using it a a reference to go back to. My stepmom and I have been interested in doing some tarot together and I will definitely bring this book with me while I still learn it. That said, it seems the author may have some tunnel vision of her own specific practices in these “Little bit of…” books based on what those more involved in these practices already, have to say.
April 11, 2020
I understand that the point is to be a small book but the card meanings didn’t have any descriptions of what it’s picturing (or pictures for that matter), I’ve found with other books, websites and podcasts that explaining the symbolism helps you learn the cards much easier, rather than ‘this means this’ with no explanation why.
The ‘real life’ readings were helpful examples.
The ‘real life’ readings were helpful examples.
February 18, 2022
This book gave a good introduction to various layouts to use cards with. However, I wanted more details on the general meanings of the cards. This book mostly introduced how to use the tarot in reference to myself and how the cards may represent people, which was fine, but not exactly what I was looking for.
June 7, 2024
o fato da autora tentar muito fazer com que o significado de TODAS as cartas fosse positivo me irritou muito. senti que, assim, ela criando interpretações próprias, ao invés de seguir a interpretação real dos arcanos. além disso, é tudo muito raso (como esperado de um manual prático, mas chega a ser raso até demais). um ponto positivo foi os métodos de tiragem, que pretendo testar algum dia.
January 22, 2025
I read this little guide almost every day, or as often as I pull tarot cards. I use it as a companion to the guide that came with my deck, and I love getting a different perspective on the cards. Eason also breaks this down so that you can see and understand how the suits, numbers, and major arcana are separate entities themselves.
April 6, 2021
While I think this is a good book for beginners, and liked the encouragement of using your intuition for the card meanings and figuring out what you personally see their meaning as, the gender normativity was annoying and unnecessary.
January 11, 2019
Absolutely fantastic resource for those learning the Tarot. Really liked this one better than any other tarot book I own.
January 23, 2019
Great tips and great explanations. It really removed a lot of confusion I had about tarot in a very gentle way.
November 8, 2019
It wasn’t bad. Very basic meanings. I did like the spreads though.
April 11, 2020
Great resource for those who want to learn about Tarot without being told lots of rules and restrictions. If you want to remain an intuitive reader. This book is great for you!
April 19, 2020
Informative, educational and entertaining. Divides the cards by types and sections and explains what they all mean.
April 26, 2020
Tiny book but has all you need.
September 27, 2020
Good book for those who do not know anything about Tarot. A little too basic for me, but maybe something I reference in the future.
November 21, 2021
This was a helpful book, especially for the Major Arcana. It seems like she strays a lot from the traditional interpretations of the cards, however, which is confusing for beginners.
February 23, 2022
I love this series!!!
April 7, 2022
I think this a great introduction to reading tarot cards. I'm still really new and found this book to be very clear and helpful.
November 17, 2022
as someone who has only recently started to dabble in tarot reading, this was a helpful guide.
May 8, 2023
Good spreads to learn from and tips about each card.enjoyed the book.
December 31, 2023
It's a good intro. It's right in the title that it's "A little bit." Other reviewers are expecting too much from a 212 page book. It's got a good brief explanation for each card.
October 15, 2024
Introdução bem direta ao ponto, entrega o que propõe. Também é bom para consultas rápidas creio eu. Se vc já tem mais embasamento não agrega muito.
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