Drawing on fifty years of tarot experience, Josephine Ellershaw teaches you how to successfully link the cards, tell their full story, and get the answers you need. She takes you card by card through the deck, sharing keywords, visual prompts, applied meanings, featured combinations, polarity type, and more. Josephine also provides predictive reading techniques to help you find connections at every symbolic layer.Easy Tarot Combinations adds depth and dimension to your readings by teaching you how the cards relate to each other and reinforce each other's meanings. Josephine makes it easy for you to understand reversals, opposing cards, multiple numbers, and card associations. This book shows you that combinations aren't like lists you need to memorize they are extensions of yourself and your readings.

Accessible and intuitively organized, this must-have guide offers the history and practical application of every card in the Tarot deck. Fully illustrated and clearly designed, Tarot: Practical and Celestial weaves traditional meanings with a series of contextual readings, and lays out paths for personal interpretation, essential for a deep understanding of Tarot. Guided exercises, profiles, reference charts, and other key tools for any tarot practitioner are included to assist in your development.

From ancient times, storytelling has been an engaging method to impart ageless wisdom through underlying meanings and morals of treasured tales. Step into the magical Enchanted Emporium and, through the Guardian of Books, work with 60 beautiful destiny fortune cards to find adventure, immediate insight, and guidance as you interact with an original, themed story. During your quest for answers to your most important questions, receive step-by-step instructions, keywords, in-depth meanings, exciting spreads, a timing method, cheat sheet, card combinations, and sample readings in an accompanying guidebook. No previous knowledge of cartomancy is necessary, and this deck and guide is also suitable for more experienced users. What will your destiny reveal? Don't miss the adventure...

You don't need a special gift to read tarot, insists Josephine Ellershaw. And to prove it she has boiled down thirty years of experience into a straightforward, easy-to-use tarot guide for beginners. More than just a manual, Easy Tarot is a boxed kit that also includes The Gilded Tarot - a stunningly beautiful and popular deck by Ciro Marchetti. Ellershaw gently guides novices to become proficient, sensitive amd responsible readers. Suit by suit, she introduces the distinct characteristics of the minor arcana, court cards and major arcana. You will learn how the cards link to one another and produce insightful relationships as their unique energies merge in the Cross Of Truth, the Celtic Cross, and other spreads. There is even a list of card combinations that commonly indicate specific events: such as pregnancy, a wedding a new job, and more. A quick guide to card meanings, sample readings and ethical guidelines, as well as tips for keeping a tarot diary, are all covered in this well-rounded introduction to tarot.

Featuring a foreword by award-winning Tarot author Barbara Moore

After learning Tarot card meanings and basic spreads, the next step for beginners is fitting all these pieces into a cohesive, insightful reading. Josephine Ellershaw, the author of the international bestseller Easy Tarot, presents an easy, effective, and enjoyable way for anyone to learn to do amazingly accurate, helpful Tarot readings.

Ellershaw illuminates the Tarot reading process by inviting you to virtually sit in on her readings with ten individuals. Card by card, spread by spread, she reveals her thought process behind each interpretation and decision, and tells how to make the connections that add clarity and depth to a reading. These compelling and memorable accounts of ten very different readings, along with follow-up documentation of how relevant each reading proved to be, result in a powerful and completely unique approach to learning to do Tarot readings.

Easy Tarot Reading also includes tips on the following topics: --Ethical guidelines and responsibility--Conducting email and telephone readings--Delivering bad news--Seeker involvement and icebreakers--Frequency of consultations--Indicators of success, secrets, and skullduggery

Praise: "A truly unique book . . . This engaging and honest behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of Tarot will delight and inspire both Tarot enthusiasts and curious newcomers alike."--Lisa Finander, author of Disneystrology

"I absolutely adore this book . . . Ellershaw presents the 'story' that a reading really is in fine fashion "--Bonnie Cehovet, Aeclectic Tarot

"If you've never read cards before, this is the book to start with. If you're already reading cards, this is the book that will help you fine tune your skills."--Anna Jedrziewski, TarotWise.com