Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I've read a lot of books on Tarot in the last 15 years and this one is the best one I've read. I like that it covers albeit briefly a few of the original "cultists" of the cards; it explained why some Major Arcana cards look the way they do. I wasn't able to get that information from other books. I also like that it has several layouts to try as well as a different way of interpreting what's on the card.
The only reason it has four stars instead of five is that the author references the Rider-Waite deck, which I really don't like.
If the author used a different deck to reference like the Thoth deck, for instance , there would be five stars. Whenever I teach classes on Tarot, this will be required reading.
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For learning the road to Knowledgeable, Spiritual and Sacred meanings of the Tarot. So just add this to your collection. Sit back and enjoy the journey as your inspired and enlightened with the wealth of knowledge in " Genius of the Tarot". One person found this helpful. Explains simply how to interpret and read. This book interest me very much because of the mind mapping that leads to new openings of thinking and new insights for the professional tarot reader. This book has shown me new paths about this ancient road of sacred knowledge.
I really liked this book. It was very informative and very helpfull. I would recommend it to any and everybody. Most of us who have tried to learn the art of reading Tarot cards by studying a book will recognize the five stages of such an approach apologies to Dr. Kubler-Ross, but I think she'd understand: Anticipation - I'm going to learn to read Tarot cards! Exhilaration - I know I'll get it if I study properly! Bewilderment - how many definitions for each card?
And reverse meanings, too??
Frustration - above, below, before, behind, crosses and covers the seeker - what?? I'm never going to learn to read Tarot cards. This is an exaggeration, of course. I'm sure there are hordes of people out there who have figured out a system for understanding the cards by reading books about it. I'm just not one of them. But now that Vincent Pitisci's Genius of the Tarot has made its appearance, there's a tremendous new resource available for everyone interested in Tarot, whether a beginner or seasoned reader.
Like all of the instructional books, Genius of the Tarot gives a definition for each card, illustrates different spreads, and includes examples of readings.
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Unlike other Tarot book writers, however, Mr. Pitisci confines each definition to one word or a very short phrase, adds a concept to clarify each card, and explains the flow of a spread as well as its interpretation. He eliminates reverse meanings with an explanation of why they are not necessary.
This book is filled with light. However, seasoned Tarot readers will also find much to ponder here, as Pitisci tilts the usual perspectives and unearths new meaning in well-traveled territory.
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A worthy addition to any Tarot library, likely to teach new tricks to even the most experienced readers. Covering the traditional aspects of the Tarot, Genius of the Tarot will provide you with a solid, well rounded understanding of the Tarot, while also revealing perspectives of the cards and their applications never before put into print. The author delves into the tricky notion of definingthe cards and their application with multiple definitions from traditional to intuitive.
Genius of the Tarot also has over 65 pages showing nine sample readings, fully illustrated and clearly formatted using three specific card spreads. Genius of the Tarot also explains the parallels between card spreads and mind maps, showing them as being the same application, greatly enhancing your understanding of a card reading and it's ability.
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The book also offers other unique insight such as a three dimensional card spread, various levels of card reading and their purpose and life in the 18th century as a card reader. In the last chapter, "Conversations with the Cards" the author has conversations with the Tarot as five of these cards come to visit him and speak their mind showing you a cards many faces. Whether you are familiar with the Tarot or just starting out, what you find in this book may surprise you.
It is certain to result in an enriching new awareness and greatly enhance your intuitive capabilities with Tarot cards. Fully illustrated with the Universal Waite tarot deck from U. It speaks all languages and sees all perceptions. The genius of this concept is it's randomness applied to our questions. The randomness of seventy eight cards placed into sections of a card spread to create intuitive ideas.
How can you associate this random card to a question? How can it modify it, change it, expand it. Make it better in some fashion? What attributes does it have that can be applied to a question? Today we call this method of finding answers for a future result mind-mapping. The genius mind thinks this way naturally.
Others simply have to learn it. If we define what is being done when doing a card reading, it would be the same definition of what is done when performing a mind-map. If a process looks at a question in sections, visually, in a pattern, attempts to find constructive answers from this visual pattern, adds random ideas to the sections of the pattern to help modify preliminary answers for a new insight or answer, and does all this for the ultimate purpose of finding a possible future result, it is a mind-map. It is also a tarot-card reading.
Mind-mapping and the creative thinking process of genius minds has only recently been recognized since the 's as a psychological study.
Divination with Tarot cards has been recognized since the 18th century. Before that, it's origin and purpose is unknown. Genius of the Tarot will cover the basic traditional aspects of the cards and their use in card reading. But this book will also attempt to put a unique luminosity on card definitions and their applications in card spreads.
Genius of the Tarot will try to free up card definitions and allow you to shift meanings to give specific answers to questions asked. It will show you traditional meanings to each card as well as intuitive ways of seeing the cards meanings. The following pages will attempt to stay out of the trap of using strict definitions for each card. The paradox of Tarot definitions is the more you define something, the more limited it becomes. The more exact it becomes.