Anyone
can read the tarot, but not everyone wants to take the time and energy to study
the cards and develop knowledge through long hours and many practice readings.
Shannon
MacLeod has put it all out there for you, making it simple to throw the cards
out and quickly put words to your spread.
Her
book, Celtic Cross Tarot Spread: Cutting to the Chase, introduces three
spreads—the Celtic Cross, Three Cards, and One Card, with positional
explanations and instructions on how to use the book to translate the cards
into a reading.
The
remainder of the book is devoted to the 78 tarot cards. She provides the
meaning of each card, upright and reversed, in each position of the Celtic
Cross.
Shannon
approaches the whole with a pinch of humor.
I do
have some negative feelings on this whole aspect of “Painting-by-Numbers”
method introduced by this book. To me, it takes away from the tarot as a whole.
Tarot is meant to be explored by the individual and embraced by the intuitive
connection the cards can provide. You are the artist and the Tarot becomes the
tool.
With
that said, I do think people will like this book. Especially someone who wants
to just throw a few cards from time to time and see what happens. Not everyone
wants to be a tarot reader. This book will give you the means to cast a quick
reading and get a little meaning out of the cards pulled. And who knows, it may
lead you down the Tarot Journey, a road you may not have taken otherwise.
Tarot Spreads & Layouts by Jeanne Fiorini
The Tarot Playbook by Lynda Cowles
Gaining Archetypal Vision by Toni Gilbert
