A Beginner's Guide To Tarot: Your Guide To Spreads For Special Occasions

By Kathleen Olmstead

Unlock life's mysteries and hidden paths with this quick and easy guide to tarot spreads.

With easy to follow instructions for readings that you can do on your own or with others, A Beginner’s Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to Spreads for Special Occasions has everything you need to select and complete spreads for special occasions.

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Jul 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781443446990

Kathleen Olmstead

Kathleen Olmstead has written more than a dozen books—fiction and non-fiction—for the young adult market and her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Fireweed and Taddle Creek, among other journals. She has produced, written and directed several short films and is always working on the next one. She is a part of the Arbeiter Ring Publishing collective. Kathleen lives and works in Toronto.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Tarot: Your Guide to Spreads for Special Occasions

Kathleen Olmstead

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CONTENTS

Destiny? Do You Choose the Cards or Do the Cards Choose You?

The Ins and Outs of Asking a Question

Shuffling

Cutting the Deck

Laying Out the Cards

Birthdays and Parties

Birthday Cards

Calendar Layout

What the Year Will Bring

Wish Spread

Just for Fun

The Story Behind the Question

Storytelling with the Tarot

Tarot Characters

Homework

Design Your Own Spreads

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

DESTINY? DO YOU CHOOSE THE CARDS OR DO THE CARDS CHOOSE YOU?

There are two ways of looking at the choosing of the cards.

The first is that the card you pick is the one that is meant for you. Of all the combinations possible, this is what you are supposed to see on this particular day at this very time. Yes, this is what many people would call destiny—that the cards choose you as much