How to Use Tarot Spreads

by Sylvia Abraham

This easy-to-use tarot guide features over three dozen spreads for answering questions about romance, career, finance, and more. Sample readings from the author's practice illustrate how to put the cards together to see the overall theme of a tarot reading. Perfect for beginners, this book also includes a list of upright and reversed card meanings and keywords for all seventy-eight cards.

Genres: Tarot, Reference, Divination, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Metaphysics

280 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

Reviews

[Rachel]

Not my favorite tarot "how to" book, but perhaps a good beginning book. Unfortunately, did not feel that this was grounded in any particular tarot tradition/ school, and thus feared it was without tether to a broader school of thought.

[Delacey]

So this book has been part of my tarot book collection for many years. And I used it a bit at the beginning of my tarot journey, but stopped. I revisited it recently for a project and I realized WHY I stopped using it back then. The spreads themselves seem good when you look at the title and the layout. However, once you start examining the position questions in the layout.... some were not appropriate for most users, seeming random, too specific (eg in the All About Me spread, one position asks "why do I feel victimized?" really so someone doing this reading must feel victimized which is just weird to present that as a standard) too many positions worded as yes/no statements. Likewise, her sample readings had some weird interpretations, with some big jumps in WHY that the cards didn't seem to support. Overall, I didn't find this book overly useful for personal reading use or for my project, so can't recommend the book.

[Sarah]

Some interpretations of cards don't match up with conventional wisdom, but an intersting array of spreads and examples.

[Beate]

Great reference book that I use all the time.

[Tori]

Cute little book for tarot. Doesn't have a lot of spreads, the ones that it does aren't the most practical for me. Still useful.
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[Tom L]

This is another of my "go to" books whenever I'm trying to figure out which spread to use or how to answer a question.