Your Tarot Toolkit: A Workbook for Building Clear, Precise, Confident Readings

by Tom Benjamin

Crafted for intermediate and advanced readers, Your Tarot Toolkit is designed to help you interpret with more clarity and confidence. Focused exclusively on the art of divination, this book moves beyond memorized meanings to discover how the cards function in the world around you. Learn to connect the tarot cards to your lived experience and to measure the effectiveness of your readings in an objective, precise way. Using a series of experiments and activities, you will deep dive into all the tools you can use to construct strong, satisfying answers to life’s burning questions. Created by noted tarot teacher and YouTube creator Tom Benjamin, Your Tarot Toolkit is a full, interactive workshop sure to take your readings and your self-confidence to the next level.

Genres: Tarot, Occult, Divination

318 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 30, 2021

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tom Benjamin’s Your Tarot Toolkit does something that few tarot books manage to do: it functions as an intermediate to advanced level tarot book without bringing in too many extraneous topics. Often, finding a non-beginner tarot book means finding a book about tarot and something else – tarot and astrology, tarot and numerology, tarot and social justice, tarot and creative writing – with the ‘something else’ really being the only point of new information for experienced tarot readers. Here, Tom Benjamin has written a book that is wholly tarot-focused that specifically caters to a readership already familiar with the usual beginner book fare – major/minor arcana structure of a deck, what a spread is, etc. – but looking to build their skills. This is a book that will be of particular interest to those giving, as the subtitle suggests, ‘clear, precise, confident readings’ – the author’s approach is very much geared toward reading to discern specific answers to specific questions so that querents leave the table (or the zoom call, or the email) feeling like they’ve gotten what they asked for. The vast majority of the book is focused on reading for others, though I’d argue that the principles – the importance of a clear question, the importance of the spread matching the question, and so on – equally apply to reading for oneself. I appreciate that the example querents are diverse (in terms of names, relationship structures, life circumstances, etc). It’s a book I’d readily recommend to readers looking to expand their skillset who feel like they’re past needing beginner-level books.

I will be posting a more detailed review in video format to YouTube on my channel Aquamarine18 Tarot & Books.

[Alana · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book brilliantly fills a gaping hole and meets a huge need in the Tarot community. Tarot is something you could spend a whole lifetime exploring and always have room to learn more -- but still, at a certain point it becomes ridiculous to say you're still just a beginner. Once you've mastered the basics, it can feel like there's nowhere to go, except to become a professional reader and/or teach Tarot basics to someone else. Tarot readers all seem to be either beginners or self-styled professionals, with no in-between. Most Tarot readers seem to not even know what else they need to master besides card meanings.

THIS IS THE BOOK for intermediate Tarot readers that will show you what you need to practice, and take you through a whole Masterclass in actually practicing it. I hope anyone and everyone who considers going pro will read this book first.

It's most valuable to me because of how practical it is, but thankfully it's also witty and fun to read, full of Tom Benjamin's distinctive personality. (He's one of my favorites to follow on Instagram.)

I also really appreciated that he used diverse names, genders, and relationships in his scenarios.

Any serious Tarot reader will thank themselves for getting this book -- and their querents will thank them too. This book has the potential to really raise the caliber of one's readings in a palpable way.

[Harry Sideris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommended intermediate to advance tarot book. Chapters around questions, spread and context are excellent (moved the needle to my practice).