Customer Reviews
A great reference
I found this book in a remaindered bin years ago, though it's obviously been reprinted. I admit it. I'm a sucker for kitsch, and this looked like just the thing for an entertaining evening of reading - and for $3, I simply couldn't pass it up.
I don't shock easily, but this book did it. Garen has taken the tarot, and given meanings for each card in 32 categories, from love to travel to health. Just for fun, I did a reading for myself using her interpretations. Want to know if that upcoming dental appointment is going to feel like a hang-glide through hell? This book will tell you, I kid you not. I have no idea how she did it, but she's produced an incredible reference work on the tarot, and not just for beginners.
I don't often use this book when I'm reading, in all honesty. But when I'm absolutely stuck on a card meaning in the context of a reading for either me or a client, I do flip through to look it up. The accuracy rate is uncanny.
Highly recommended, especially for those times (and we all have them) that a card pops up and you can't make heads nor tails out of the contextual meaning. Often, even that one meaning will make the rest of the cards fall into place, and it all starts to come clear. Eureka! Definitely one to keep on your bookshelf.
Absolutely THE Best Tarot Book Out There!!!
I became interested in the tarot years ago and bought several books on the subject. I found the majority of them to be very difficult to use and too open for interpretation. Then I bought this absolutely fabulous book and the world of the tarot finally made sense to me. I have owned and used this book for about ten years.
What makes this book different is that each card has a SPECIFIC printed meaning for each category that your spread position or question might suggest. If you ask a question about your job for instance, and you pull the Major Arcana card, The Magician, you will get a very specific response... "Expect a new beginning and a fresh start. A new partnership could also be in the making." Other tarot books would have some vague interpretation that may make no sense at all in relation to work. Who needs that!!! This book makes, (as the title says) tarot easy!
Not only have I used my (by now, well worn) copy for years to do my own personal readings... I have also used the book to do readings for numerous friends and relatives. Every Christmas Eve at my family's gathering, it has become a TRADITION for me to bring over my cards and this book and do a 32 card category spread for each of my relatives in regards to the coming year! They all absolutely love it! "Tarot Made Easy" should be named "Tarot Made Easy and FUN"!
Before she moved away, a friend of mine used to come over to my home at the start of each month to do a category reading for the coming month. Since I had a copy machine at home, we used to actually copy the appropriate text, cut and paste it all together on a few pages and then review it at the end of the month to see how much had come true. It was often really amazing! Most significant though, were the times that the tarot made a prediction that at the time seemed impossible... but then actually occured. Since she has moved away, I still do smaller readings for her using the book by e-mail. Even long distance, the interpretations seem to make sense!
My only wish is that this book was also available as a computer program! Imagine being able to input the cards you have drawn, select a catagory and print out a reading! Oh well... I guess I can't have everything... and... this book is so close to perfection that I certainly can't complain!
"Tarot Made Easy" by Nancy Garen is absolutely THE best tarot book out there... I would recommend it to anyone who ever wanted to try the tarot!
An interesting twist
A very interesting and different way of interpreting cards in a spread. Describes how you would read a card if it is in a spread for money, relationships, home life, and a whole lot more. A different meaning for every divinary position. Although this could get a little confusing at first, and hard to understand until you get past the first chapter. It causes one to have to hit the book for every divinary meaning. It's good to start with, although the basis of Tarot is to use your intuition, not a meaning in a book.
