The Tarot Handbook: practical applications of ancient visual symbols | Angeles Arrien

The Tarot Handbook: practical applications of ancient visual symbols | Angeles Arrien | Extraordinarily Insightful & Useful for Everyone

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	The Tarot Handbook: practical applications of ancient visual symbols Angeles Arrien Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam, 1997 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In this updated edition of The Tarot Handbook, Angeles Arrien takes tarot beyond the limits of the fortune-telling realm and shows us how this time-honored application is both a visual and symbolic map of consciousness and a source of ancient wisdom.

Fantastic Book!

This book is a perfect companion for learning the Crowley Tarot. Very detailed & organized. I use it everyday & recommend it to anyone else wanting to learn this deck.

Extraordinarily Insightful & Useful for Everyone

I have fouind this masterful work by Angeles Arrien to be of the highest quality and a useful tool for understanding aspects of our changing selves on multiple levels.

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FANTASTIC

FINALLY A BOOK THAT CAN EXPLAIN THE THOTH DECK, I REALLY LIKE HER PRACTICAL APPROACH AND HER DOWN TO EARTH UNDERSTANDING

Not The Book of Thoth

This book offers a very high level of detail on the Thoth tarot while also being very readible. I originally purchased this in the hopes that it would be something along the lines of Crowley's "Book of Thoth for Dummies". Anyone who's ever spent much time with Crowley's works would understand the common complaint that they are far from being comprehendible to the average person (at least without significant effort). I should note, then, that this book did not satisfy my intention. There is next to no connection to Crowley's stated definitions of the cards and very little in the way of association with the Qabalah. Students of (esoteric) Western Mysteries may be a little disappointed in this sense.

That said, for anyone who is not necessarily interested in Crowley, the Golden Dawn, Qabalah, Hermetics, etc (my guess is that this would be the majority), and just wants a practical book to go along with the Thoth deck, I see no reason not to recommend this. The descriptions of each card are well fleshed-out and do remain in the spirit of the fundamental interpretations of the 72 cards. There are a variety of spreads taught from the book and so I do believe most folks will get a lot out of this.

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