Tarot Card Combinations Book Rebiew

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Tarot Card Combinations

This book tackles the difficult subject of how to read cards in combination. As such it is a useful

reference. The author provides and explains a method of how to deduce what various cards mean

in combination for yourself. After explaining how to do it for yourself, she goes on to do a great

deal of the work for you. The task is a daunting one, particularly when you take reversals into

account, which the author does.

Part 1 is a nice short introduction to the Tarot with some good

practical advice on how to learn to read and how to read cards in combination with each other.

Part 2 deals with the Major Arcana. To start you are given several short interpretations for the

Magician and the High Priestess, both upright and reversed. You are then given interpretations for

these two cards together as follows: The Magician upright with The High Priestess upright, The

Magician reversed and The High Priestess reversed, The Magician upright and The High Priestess

reversed. We do the same with the Emperor and Empress, The Hierophant and The Lovers all

the way through to The Fool and The World. Next we take a strange leap to combinations of The

Magician and The Hierophant, followed by combinations of The Fool and Justice, followed by

combinations of Justice and The Devil, followed by combinations of The Sun and The Lovers.

There is probably some method to this, but just what that method is escapes me. Part 3 does the

same thing with the Minor Arcana by suit, including the Court Cards. Part 4 has Random

Combinations of the cards and this section is where we find combinations of all the Majors and

the Minors. It starts by combining 2 upright cards, then one upright and one reversed, then 3

upright etc., etc., out to combinations of 4 upright and reversed cards. Part Five provides some

spreads and finally, there is an Index (a real necessity in this book), where you can look up The

Devil Upright, for example, and find all the pages where this card appears, though you still have

to go through them one by one to find, say, The Devil upright and Judgment reversed. There is

no guarantee that you will find the combination you are looking for at all as all combinations

could not possibly be covered. Things also get a little shaky when we get to the 3 and 4 card

combinations. The 7 of pentacles, The Chariot, 2 of wands, Ace of wands combination is

interpreted as "Business journey (trip) is accomplished; new work begins. Trade movement project

starts. Plans to relocate are successful, change is near." Not very clear in my opinion, but keep in

mind that these are just suggestions and alternate interpretations are certainly possible. Aside from

providing a method for reading combinations, this book could be used as a jumping off point to

get the ideas flowing. I think there is a bit more here than was necessary for illustrative

purposes, but, a noble attempt, nonetheless. There is some good information in this book, as long

as you are not expecting to find all possible combinations.

Tarot Card Combinations

Author: Dorothy Kelly

ISBN: 0-87728-829-1

Excerpt

It would be impossible to demonstrate every combination of cards that could exist, as the

possibilities are endless. The point of working with these combinations is to show you a variety of

common, easy-to-read combinations so you can get acquainted with interpreting and linking

cards. The tarot cards tell their own story, and this book will help you learn how to discover that

story.

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