Over the next few months, we'll look at some books created for beginners. We'll see some tips, ideas, and interpretations that may also be of interest to more seasoned readers. Almost every teacher or author has something to share that we haven't heard before. In Tarot for Beginners, in addition to exploring the traditional Rider Waite Smith meanings, we look at three other decks that follow the RWS tradition. We see how they are similar to and different from the RWS image. We hope that seeing these examples helps you interpret your own RWS-style decks with more confidence while recognizing the unique voices of these decks. Let's take a look at a card that is often a

Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot by Sasha Graham You can hear or read something many times and not "get it." Until that one time when you do. Maybe it was the way it was said. Maybe your brain was poised to receive. Whatever the case, Graham, in her incredible book on the Rider Waite Smith Tarot, helped me understand the importance of Freemasonry's influence on tarot. I hope you enjoy this excerpt as much as I did. Masonic Structure The Golden Dawn’s structural forefather is Freemasonry. Freemasonry and tarot’s common denominator is a perfectly designed structure. Freemasonry’s elegant organization was a core reason the Golden Dawn existed with

Complete Book of Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot by Sasha Graham Recently we posted about Stuart Kaplan’s generous foreword to this remarkable work. Keeping with the theme of beginnings, let’s look at how Sasha’s investigations into the creators of this deck shaped her ideas about the Fool. This book isn’t just a triple biography (Waite, Smith, and Kaplan) but also a close examination of the creation and meaning of the deck itself and an in-depth study of the symbols in each card. The Fool "Stories can be sung, some painted, some written in poetry or prose. But all stories can be told, and told so that every human being can understand them." ~ PCS The Evening

To see more, click here. We are all so excited about this book. Sasha Graham is uniquely positioned to write a brilliant book on the Rider Waite Smith Tarot. She loves this deck with all her heart and knows it like she knows the lines of her hands. She is a scholar and a mystic as well as a brilliant writer. Another bonus is that Sasha has created 78 spreads for this book, one for each of the cards in the deck. But actually, Stuart Kaplan, president of US Games Systems and current publisher of the RWS deck, says it best, in his foreword to this remarkable book: This book is quite unique to a marketplace selling hundreds of books about the Rider-Waite tarot deck. Sasha gathers