The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot (Ultimate Guide to the Tarot)

A beautiful book to hold as it is gentle on your hands. Based on the Raider Waite Tarot, absolutely all illustrations are in full colour. Lovely to look at and handle, the entire book is of a soft gloss, easy on the eyes which enables continued reading. The authors prepare you before you start reading the two page meanings of every card. The interpretations of the Minor and Major Arcana, Interpretations of the Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles, alone and in association with Fire, Water, Air and Earth. They give you a feel for what a card could stand for. They say to remember the symbolic nature of the images and not to take everything at face value. To feel the warning or motivation of a card, that clues are often in the background, to observe colour, that a card without a human figure has something to tell us, that Court Cards represent developed personalities, Ten different Ways of using a Single Card, and much, much more. They have thought of everything! The authors have put in tremendous effort in explaining every little bit of every card. As every card has two pages, the left page has explanations of the card, for example, The Page of Pentacles: what the colour of the card could mean, what the pose of the man signifies, what the colour of his red headgear and green garment means, what the landscape, the arable land, mountains and trees mean, the pose of the man, the reverence displayed by the same man holding the large coin, leaving no detail out. On the right is the card itself, with: The Basic meaning, Spiritual experience, As the card of the day, As a prognosis/tendency, For love and relationships, For success and happiness, all are explained in an easy, uncomplicated way. Then, the overall meaning of the card. All, very concise to minimise overload. The authors have written it in a way, that by the time you have finished exploring an individual card, you have a story, so the next time you see the same card, you don't have to figure it out all over again!! You remember, because it became a personal experience being introduced to the Page of Pentacles. Usually, one does not forget personal experiences. The short, concise explanations, have spaces in between, so you can stay focused and don't get fed up reading it. The layout of the individual pictures within each card, i.e. the red headgear, the green garment, the trees etc., with their explanation, are pieces of the same puzzle. When you have put the pieces of the puzzle together, you have The Page of Pentacles. This goes for every single card. All, in beautiful, soft colouring, clear to read, gentle on your eyes for sustained reading and an overall ‘clean’ appearance of every page you turn! I have collected many Tarot books some of which I can say, the information on every card was just thrown together and you wind up with an ugly black and white picture, sometimes very small, sometimes smudged, with a paragraph that is a page long and torture to read! The RW Tarot book is out of this world! A great deal of thought and effort has been put into it to ensure the reader’s attention isn’t lost and that boredom doesn’t set in. After reading something, you are not left with more question marks than when you started. The attention to detail is superb, as is the choice of paper, colour, blue subtitles with black text and the spacing which matters so much! Everything is geared towards making this book user friendly and a joy to work with. I highly recommend this book for the novice as it would also be a very good companion for the pro. I have bought this same book for my husband so he has his own copy. I take my hat off to the authors!! Not to forget the exceptional service from Amazon. I ordered this book just after midnight, (early Monday morning), standard delivery and the book arrived around lunch on Tuesday. I was pleasantly shocked!! Thank you to all the little ‘elves’ at Amazon and the other delivery people who made this happen...... Without them, there would be no joy in internet shopping.....

Very pleased with this book give plenty of information on the cards nice quality paper coloured pictures of the cards and a breakdown of the symbols with each card explanation.

Perfect accompaniment for a course I’m doing . The coloured images are ideal and will be a great help to me . Lovely quality book , feels nice to hold too .

Very hard to follow... However good quality but rather complicated

If you plan on buying just ONE tarot book, then this must be your choice without a single doubt. It's good both for beginners and professionals and as a teacher on Tarot I cannot thank enough the simplicity and awesome content in this book.

Beautiful book with glossy pages, gives it a nice feel. Very handy highlighted symbols on each card explained, including a more in depth look. Great if you want to learn about the Rider waite style tarot cards, as every little symbol is mentioned, even ones that may have be overlooked upon a simple glance at the cards.Great quality book, well worth buying!

I think this book is great. I teach tarot and the way in which the details of the R-Waite cards are depicted within this book is excellent for helping those just starting out to interact with the cards and to bring the mamouth task of learning the 78 cards down to useful chunks.

Good book, slightly bigger than I was expecting but a very nice read. I really like the book.

Echt een geweldig en overcompleet boek met super uitleg over de symbolen in de rws kaarten en verdere informatie, echt de ultieme gids🙏🤗♥️😍

Amazing to get all the basics and learn more about the tarot

After consulting with many reference books, I decided to get the Rider Waite deck which has more in depth symbols included on each card. This guide book contains exactly what its title promised: it details the positive and negative (advice/ warnings) aspects of each symbolic object, numbers and colour on each card. You will appreciate this book if you are interested in the spiritual and symbolic interpretations of the RW tarot deck. This book isn't meant for every day spell it out interpretations on spreads, as there are only a few sentences in advising "for success and relationship" on each card. This book will help readers develop intuitive skills to interpret each card using Tarot's symbolic language without the need to keep looking up a reference book. e.g. the colour grey represents neutrality, but can also mean being indifferent, apathy.

For beginners it's really useful to have the basic tips about each card. It provides some general hints about tarot interpretation, the main meanings of things like colours and other key terms. Furthermore it gives ten key-symbols for each card. I guess for more skilled tarot users this book might be too simple, but for me it was fine and good to help me in my reading practice.

The book is great, it explains the symbology rigorously. I really liked it, the illustrations are in color which helps a lot. Beautiful book.