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.....

Brilliant – a very detailed and beautifully produced book. I was genuinely impressed by the quality: the photographs are excellent, the glossy paper gives it a premium feel, and the explanations are incredibly meaningful and insightful. It has truly added to my knowledge 🥰

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.

An excellent book. Very easy to understand and digest. Symbols are explained clearly and precisely. A good read for Tarot lovers.

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 .

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.

I think there are better beginner or 'ultimate' books out there, but the information on the small details in the cards is useful. It's good as an add-on for that extra information but if you're looking for a first book, I don't think this one is ideal. I'm not sure about some of the interpretations and the formatting on the Kindle edition isn't perfect.

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!

Je ne peux pas recommander plus chaleureusement ce livre qui fait plaisir à tenir entre ses mains. Images nettes et belles. Papier glacé. Couleurs justes. Explications pointues et fascinantes. Livre en anglais.

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

Great book to lear tarot if you interested. Very easy to use and very descriptive.

If you are using "The Rider Tarot Deck", this book would be the perfect guide!

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.