Tarot for Your Self, Second Edition: A Workbook for Personal Transformation

Somehow I am having trouble connecting with this book... I like the author and her other books but for whatever reason this one did not take my breath away...Update: I think I did not spend enough time with this workbook to really appreciate everything it has to offer. I decided to give it another try and I am updating my review to 5 Stars. Its very informative and offers knowledge I did not find anywhere else. In case you are having trouble connecting with Tarot for YourSelf at first please give it another try. I am so glad I did.

I love this book and own 3 copies. The early 1980's one I took apart and put in a binder for easy use and keep at home for privacy purposes. Later I purchased the 2002 version and the kindle version. The update let's me carry it to whatever setting I chose. The kindle one let's me share the wisdom with others when the topic if tarot comes up.It's a heart book for internalizing tarot and making it your own.

This is a terrific foundation book for people learning the Tarot and wanting to learn more than you find in the little white book that accompanies most decks. Mary takes you through how to get the most from your desk from finding your birth card to various reading techniques. She is engaging to read and makes you feel welcome in your ever expanding use of Tarot.It is a great workbook to help you explore the Tarot and find your way to reading for yourself and others. I recommend this book to every person who is either just picking up a deck or looking for more exploration into Tarot.

This lady who wrote the book is horrible at explaining and teaching. That is the sole purpose of a non fiction book. Is it not? For example in Chapter 1 she tries to teach us how to find our personality numbers and corresponding tarot card. A simple task. She uses her own info, she has a double digit number but totally fails to explain what people should do who have a single digit. Mine is 7. So is it both the soul & personality # ? EXPLAIN! I had to go online to other peoples websites to find the answer. So why did I pay so much for this stupid book! Not only this issue, but then she totally fails to list which cards correspond with which numbers! There should have been a chart or some info on how to find your card. she just tells us what her cards are. Maybe the cards are numbered but how would a beginner know this? We dont! She never explains what to do with a single digit for the personality number or which card relates to the number 7 or other numbers. It's for beginners after all. The chapter is titled "Getting Acquainted with the cards". So clearly it is for newbies. She has no clear thinking skills or talent for teaching. I'm hesitant to waste my time on the other chapters. This is a terrible first impression. I do not recommend this book. Look at other books.

Well written with lots of information as you work through the workbook. Information includes personal cards based on various other concepts such as numerology and astrology. Useful templates for building a tarot journal and working with the cards. I recommend using a traditional tarot deck with a good guidebook and symbols. I am using the Linestrider Tarot deck with the workbook and have found that it is a very simple design, lacking some of the imagery that other decks offer (I recommend the deck, but know there are some with more to the images). Combine the exercises with the appendices in the book and the wealth of information online, and you can easily delve into the world of tarot. This workbook is designed to help you connect with each card and really understand how it fits into your personal life allowing for more insightful readings for yourself and others.

This book is a must have for anyone who would like to truly get to know their cards and themselves. Go into this book with an open mind and be ready to just go with Mary's instructions. Sometimes it gets a little strange (lots of "imagining" with the cards and meditation) but if you work with the exercises, you'll learn so much faster. I originally got this from the library, but I had to have a physical copy to keep!Seriously - if you ever want to read tarot, you'll need this book.

I love this book gives you examples how to combine tarot cards and tell a story ,it has great exercises. I'm so happy with my purchase.

This book is exactly what I was looking for and I didn’t even know it! I love the visualizations and the more holistic approach to understanding the Tarot on a personal level (beyond just listing card meanings). I considered buying this on kindle because it’s cheaper but am very glad I went with the print version because I really appreciate being able to write in it.

Tarot For Your Self is a wonderful resource for reading tarot for yourself. The Prosperity Mandala, the Body, Mind and Spirit daily reading with an extended option, the three modes reading, relating to the court courts and the Horoscope, Chakra and Tree of Life readings are explained thoroughly and are very useful. I like how the emphasis of the book was on empowerment, not just energy reading. The exercises got to the heart of what you wanted to do and how to bring that about by understanding yourself and how to actively plan using the Tarot. The Five Year Fantasy reading was a combination of seen and unseen cards to include your own desire and what the Tarot energy saw in the reading. The only part of the book I would change was in Chapter 9, Becoming Conscious of What You Create in the exercise for using your Natal Chart. I ended up making a chart similar to the charts used in the other chapters to keep the Natal Astrology Chart information together for easy reference. I found you had to flip back and forth to find what each house represented, what your Natal chart was and then do the Horoscope Reading. This book is well worth getting and can be used over and over to keep tabs on your progress towards having the life you desire. The book is well referenced and has further reading information for each Chapter. I purchased the Kindle edition and worked through the book via the Tarotgeekery book club for further support.

We used this book in our Tarot Geekery group on Facebook for a two-month book study in February-March this year. We found that it was suitable for all levels though beginners sometimes felt that some of the Astrology and Kabbalah stuff was a bit too much like jumpin in at the deep end. But the beauty of this book is that it's one of the books you will want to keep for reference and return to often. Growing as a reader, you are likely to want to revisit some of the 'heavier' stuff to uncover more layers of meaning/understanding. The title is perfect because you do learn a LOT about yourself in the process of working your way through this book. Hence, it's not for the faint of heart... Spiritual bypassers beware! I hear this book will be out in a new edition so I will look forward to that because I will most likely want a 'second round' with this gem of a book in a few years to compare notes. I'm not usually keen on writing in the book but I actually loved the process of making the book itself a journal and a keepsake. Of course, you can always print pages for your own use and add to a ring binder if you prefer.

This is a good book with some inspiring ideas and different ways of looking at the Tarot making links with Numerology and astrology, and encouraging to use your intuition to interpret cards and spreads. BUT and this is something that could have easily be put right in the kindle edition that I have, there are a number of basic mistakes in the calculations of year cards. At the beginning of the book there is an example sum that does not add up, the total should be 2035, not 2036 therefore card 10 not 11 and most of the table called Calculating Year Card is out by one from the very beginning as there is a duplication of year numbers in the first section. I only found out after charting my year numbers and ending up with a year card that did not correspond with the year card I had calculated for 2013.A further criticism is that because this book was devised as a workbook in which you could enter personal information there are lines and spaces throughout which push the formatting out of line. These gaps and lines are totally redundant in this version of the book and could be edited out to make the book easier to read in the e-edition. The consequence of this de-formatting is that sentences get cut up and disconnected, headings get spread across the page or two lines, or even two pages. It would also help in the reading if everything was justified to the left rather than some headings justified to spread across the page. It helps a bit if you hold your tablet in the portrait mode but some editing would improve the layout considerably. Lastly, one of the advantages of an e book is that you can link to websites and other information, unfortunately not all the links work...It is a shame that these irritating factors are present, it interferes with the serious study this book deserves; as an e book it is not cheap and you would expect better quality of editing than is displayed here.

This is a great book,it’s written in workbook style with space to record your readings,charts and meditations (although you may need more space at times).It gives so many interesting exercises to try,so many ways to work with the Tarot and to learn about yourself. I loved the sections most on creating a Tarot profile and working out year cards ,daily readings, the Celtic cross method ,yes or no questions, clarifying options ,planning with Tarot,using crystals and Tarot.It also has a appendix covering meanings of the cards at the back.If they taught Tarot at school,this would be the textbook,a must read for those studying the Tarot.

A great great book!! The information and resources its contains are fantastic, here i learnt my soul card and year card, which has helped increase my personal growth on a massive scale, to even begin to list all the qualities, we'd be sat here all day. Quite intricate, and full of useful infornation to help you really get to know the cards and also develop your personal interpretations.. Theres bits and charts to fill if you wish, historical facts as tarot dates back years, and also plenty of useful resources and souces of information for further reading. An absolute classic!!

At last I've found such a book....I am a reader and so many if us have trouble reading our own spreads. Not anymore! Full of ideas, techniques etc. Arrived this morning & have hardly put it down. For the experienced reader who's interested in reading their own don't look any further.. Brilliant. Delighted

Being a tarot beginner, I bought several books teaching the tarot plus I've got some books that came with the decks too. This is by far the most indepth book I have found. It doesn't only focus on teaching you the meaning of the cards and how to do spreads, it encourages you to go on a real journey of self-discovery and meditation. I like Greer's focus on following your own intuition rather than just using book interpretations.Personally, I am more attracted to the symbolism in the cards and what it tells me about myself or my situation rather than the divination side of the tarot and Greer's matter of fact kind of approach suits me more than some authors who put great emphasis on ritual and divination. If I would recommend one tarot book, it's definetly this one.

As i said above a great tarot book. its worth owning. another book you can keep going back to and if like me you like to read what you have written then this book is the book to have its great value and if theres anything you dont understand in you cards this book should help you understand them better

Recieved the book about a week after ordering from world books. The book was listed as very good condition and it was. I am very happy with the condition it came in.I love the book as it has some very good excerises to help you learn tarot. Definitely recommend it

This is one of the better books I have read on Tarot cards and how to read them. I bought the kindle version and find it very frustrating as I would like to flick from one part of the book to another and this is not easily done on the Kindle. Also, I would like to make notes, you can do this with the Kindle but not as easily as it would be with the paperback.

Not a fan of miss Greer, more than likely be shot down for saying this by the die-hards, but in my opinion there are others far more advanced.

Great product

Great reading

It was delivered promptly good condition.A well written and interesting book adding to my knowledge of the Tarot

Good book only for a short time