People often ask me how I started reading tarot. These people are not usually people that know me. The people that know me don’t have to ask… I’m a bookish girl. A lot of what I learned growing up was because I read. A lot. If I was spouting off information, it was usually information from something I had just read. Some of this learning was useful, and some of it made me sound like an insufferable know-it-all.
As I’ve said in previous posts, my first deck was the Tarot Nova deck. I learned the basics of tarot reading from working with this deck and the slim instructional brochure that came with it. As I used tarot more, I realized the instructional brochure simply wasn’t covering all the meanings and wasn’t answering the questions I had. I branched out and started investigating outside sources. Some were tarot books, some were not.
Those sources included:
- The Complete Book of Tarot by Juliet Sharman-Burke
- Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners by Joan Bunning
- Psychic Connections: A Journey into the Mysterious World Of Psi by Lois Duncan and William George Roll (because I had read A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan, and wanted the nonfiction equivalent)
I would seclude myself for hours at a time at the library, devouring book after book about psi subjects, tarot, etc. If my mother was looking for me, she didn’t have a hard time finding me: I was usually in the same section every time.
Not much has changed since my childhood about my bookishness, besides that I usually buy more books than I can read at one time, and attempt to read five different books at the same time, alternating as I get bored. I don’t spend my time at the library anymore, preferring to indulge in buying my books or acquiring them on my kindle.
‘Til next time, I’m bookishly yours,
Hilary
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PS—What books have you found invaluable to your collection? Leave your recommendations in the comments section below!
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