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A review by arnrockwell
The New Tarot Handbook: Master the Meanings of the Cards by Rachel Pollack
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
The New Tarot Handbook breaks down all 78 tarot cards using the imagery of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, the most well-known deck to ever exist and the foundation for the majority of decks that exist today.
Rachel Pollack is world-renowned tarot expert and she discusses not only keywords but themes, elements, upright and reversed meaning. She also goes in-depth concerning the imagery and how that can help you interpret each card. As a special bonus, each Major Arcana card also has a spread inspired by it, which can also serves to help when leaning the cards as well as how you may relate to them.
The Minor Arcana is split into two sections, just as with most tarot books: ace through ten for each of the four suits, followed by the court cards for each suit (page, knight, queen, king). There is also discussion concerning spreads, though this isn't touched on too much, as well as a small section at the back that lists more books for further reading.
I decided to give this book 3 stars. Ideally, it is worthy of 4 stars, but I chose to drop it due to how the book was formatted. The formatting works for fiction, but not so much for a non-fiction book such as this. It made it difficult for me to learn and remember what I read. Which is a shame, 'cause this is truly a good book that deserves to be in more hands.
Rachel Pollack is world-renowned tarot expert and she discusses not only keywords but themes, elements, upright and reversed meaning. She also goes in-depth concerning the imagery and how that can help you interpret each card. As a special bonus, each Major Arcana card also has a spread inspired by it, which can also serves to help when leaning the cards as well as how you may relate to them.
The Minor Arcana is split into two sections, just as with most tarot books: ace through ten for each of the four suits, followed by the court cards for each suit (page, knight, queen, king). There is also discussion concerning spreads, though this isn't touched on too much, as well as a small section at the back that lists more books for further reading.
I decided to give this book 3 stars. Ideally, it is worthy of 4 stars, but I chose to drop it due to how the book was formatted. The formatting works for fiction, but not so much for a non-fiction book such as this. It made it difficult for me to learn and remember what I read. Which is a shame, 'cause this is truly a good book that deserves to be in more hands.