Tarot for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Tarot Cards

By Adam Savage

What are tarot cards? How do they work? Can you predict the future with them? Can you use them to know what other people are thinking? Will the tarot help you to find success and happiness?

There are a lot of confusing books about the tarot. Unlike them, this guide explains tarot in a concise, simple format. You can start using the tarot immediately to find money, love, better health, and any kind of success. The tarot is an essential tool if you're serious about working magic in the modern world. It will allow you to do things that others say are impossible and to better understand yourself and those around you. Taken together and practiced every day, the principles in Tarot for Beginners will change your life beyond your wildest dreams.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Adam Savage
• Release date: Aug 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370792450

Adam Savage

Adam Savage is a maker, designer, television host, producer, husband, and father. He was the cohost of all 278 hours of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel for fourteen years and host of its 2019 spinoff MythBusters, Jr., as well as several other TV shows. He also makes stuff and tells his sto­ries on his website Tested.com. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, twin boys, and two amazing dogs. Every Tool’s a Hammer is his first book.

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Tarot for Beginners:

The Complete Guide to Tarot Cards

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2017 Adam Savage

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CONTENTS

1: WHAT IS THE TAROT?

2: A GUIDE TO YOUR TAROT DECK

The Major Arcana

The Minor Arcana

Swords

Cups

Pentacles

Wands

3: HOW TO USE YOUR TAROT CARDS

Conclusion

Part 1: What is the Tarot?

What are tarot cards? How do they work? Can you predict the future with them? Can you use them to know what other people are thinking? Will tarot cards help you live a better life?

This guide will answer these questions. I will explain as simply as I can my method for using the tarot. This method has grown from over twenty years of experience with the cards. I'll provide you with tools to start using the tarot immediately, without having to memorize complicated symbols or correspondences. You can, of course, go on to deeper studies of the tarot, connecting it to astrology, qabalah, and other esoteric systems. But when beginning the tarot, it can be overwhelming. Far better, I've found, to begin with the essential concepts of the tarot. Start using it, and add more knowledge when you're ready for it.

Too many books about the occult throw you in the deep end and expect you to swim. I don't want you to drown. To guarantee this, I make no assumptions about your experience with the tarot. All I assume is that you want to learn more about it. You may still be unsure if it's for you. You may even think it's nonsense, but you'd still like to know more.

There are many books on the tarot out there. Some of them directly contradict the others. They provide a system, and suggest that is the only way to use the tarot.

The aim of this book is somewhat different. This book will guide you through the tarot, and I will give you all you need to start using it right now. But I will also provide a larger overview of how the tarot is used, its flexibility, and give you a pathway to innovate with your tarot deck. You will be able to adapt it to your particular mind and personality.

First and foremost, the tarot is an oracle. You can consult it for advice, and it will always give you an answer. It may not be an answer you immediately understand, but it will give you an answer. The wisdom it provides may be your own internal wisdom, or it may be wisdom from the universe at large. Whatever the case, it allows you to see and understand things that would otherwise be difficult.

The cards in every tarot deck are based on symbols, life events, and situations that repeat again and again throughout the universe. Some people refer to these universal experiences as archetypes. Death, for instance, is something that we will all experience. Many people fear it, and different cultures approach it in different ways. Stories are told about it, everybody has an opinion or feeling about it. One of the 78 cards in a standard tarot deck is Death. It taps into everything you know about death. But perhaps more importantly, it will expand and redefine your concept of death. And it does this not only with death, but with all 78 cards in the tarot.

The tarot has meaning because people have assigned it meaning. It uses symbols that have been experienced by