Tarot Workbook

By Brett Almond View Profile
First off, what many will want immediately to know is that this book is not a duplication of the book that comes with the "Beginners guide to Tarot (Sharman-Caselli) - CARDS AND BOOK SET". It is something extra and different and can be purchased in addition.

When I was part of an advanced study group for Tarot, I did, over a number of years, spend a whole day on each of the major Arcana cards (ie 22 of them). We would spend the whole day working with the energy of that card, doing spreads about how that card is showing itself in our life etc. One of the exercises we did was to take an A4 sheet black and white line drawing of that card and spend half an hour colouring it in. It helped you to notice things in there you had never seen before, made you take better note of the colouring, and question why they used a wreath, or why the river is there, or why is the woman wearing a blindfold. I mention this because in this book every card has two pages dedicated to it. On the right hand side of the page is the card in black and white line drawing which reminds me of my Tarot classes. As you colour there are a couple of little pointers on what you can look out for in the card itself, and below a couple of boxes to fill in - "what this image means in my life" and "readings in which it was significant". On the left there is half a page about what the card represents, then a couple of short sentences about the divinatory meaning and then half of all the text is dedicated to "student comments", where a real person like......more

By Brian Stevenson View Profile
The Tarot Workbook is aimed at students of Tarot who have a basic knowledge of the subject and who want to deepen and widen their understanding of the images.

Following a short introduction, two pages are devoted to each of the 78 cards. The left-hand page contains information about the card, including comments from the author’s students, and the right-hand page contains a full-sized black and white drawing of the card, for the student to colour in and embellish as they wish. There are also spaces for the student to record their feelings and impressions for each card. All the images are taken from the Sharman-Caselli deck and although to is very useful to have this deck to hand, it isn’t vital as there are fold-out full colour pictures of the full deck included in the book. The book concludes with sections on Creative Interpretation and Record Sheets for four spreads, including the Celtic Cross.

The book may be used in two ways. Firstly, a student might decide to slowly and methodically work their way through the whole book; a potentially daunting task as it would take a total of 70 to 80 hours to do justice to the entire book. However, some students may decide to simply work on cards that they find difficult to interpret.

Overall, this is an interesting concept, designed to help intermediate students of Tarot to deepen and enrich their understanding.