The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot
HEY! SMART GIRL! YES, YOU! Are you tired of vague, new agey fortune-telling? Readings that say, maybe you'll meet Prince Charming or maybe you'll get a dog? Do you want to know the future without checking your third eye or contacting your inner goddess? Then you need The Smart Girl's Guide to...
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HEY! SMART GIRL! YES, YOU! Are you tired of vague, new agey fortune-telling? Readings that say, maybe you'll meet Prince Charming or maybe you'll get a dog? Do you want to know the future without checking your third eye or contacting your inner goddess? Then you need The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot!Every tarot tells a story. This book will tell the modern user how to read that story, using language and examples relevant to contemporary life. Tarot can provide a glimpse into the future and help to clarify one's choices. Just like therapy, but a lot cheaper. The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot provides a sharp, funny, fresh update of those old, stuffy, mystical tarot guides, unmuddling the meaning of the tarot for the general reader, and making readings more fun, diverting, and accurate.The Smart Girl's Guide not only clarifies the archaic meanings of the cards, but it instructs the modern reader in how to interpret them, allowing her to be her own mystic--- because, let's face it, who knows your twisted psyche better than you?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312323547 (0312323549)
Publish date: October 8th 2004
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Pretty easy to read, common vernacular that is typically pretty clear and if the author doesn't know, she'll tell you and give you another example that will help you understand in your own way.Does a good job of bringing tarot into the 21st century with her examples, meanings, anecdotes and overall ...
This book was amusingly written. I'd say it makes a good supplement to books about tarot, but it shouldn't be the only one. It's best used to decipher the meanings of individual cards rather than learning different layouts. The author primarily draws upon her own experience to describe what each car...