By Josephine Nolan



Tarot in Reverse is a major contribution to the tarot reader's deeper understanding of the symbolism of the Tarot, covering a topic many of us do our best to avoid. Subtitled Making Sense of the Upside Down Cards in a Tarot Spread it offers up an authoritative guide to reverses, and delves deeply into a broader universe of symbol roots, that include, according to the author, "movies, literature, myth and personal experience." Personally, I found this illuminating.



Janet Boyer, the author, serves up one of the most comprehensive, almost encyclopedic, keyword references for reverse cards. In her own words, "In the majority of Tarot books, deck companion…

By Lady Eagle Feather



The Lakota Sweat Lodge Tarot deck and book are based on the teaching of, Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer.  Chief Lame Deer, a Lakota Sioux spiritual teacher and medicine man, acted as an advisor, for the creation of the book and deck. Ann Louise Goulene created the spiritual voices traditions, card spread guidance and meditation texts.  The card's interpretive text and spread concepts were done by Wendy Meg Siegel.  Helence Sarkis was the graphic designer .…

Above: Stella's Tarot as the main character in a runaway popular Korean drama Ma Wang. Here, the "Hanged Man" is played by main star Uhm Tae Woong, a cop in search of a serial killer, but who might have a secret darker than his opponent. Throughout the drama, various cards from Stella's Tarot are not only featured, they're the key to solving the crime. To understand the clues, you need to know the deeper meanings of the cards!

Citizen Journalist Josephine Nolan

My favorite deck started out, for me, as the main star of an award-winning Korean drama—popular around the world now that it is available in English and other languages. The tagline from…

Citizen Journalist Rahul Singh



Easy Tarot Guide by Marcia Masino was released worldwide on 15th June 2011. In keeping with her mission to help relatively new seekers to learn tarot, she stays focused on the fundamentals and makes it seem easy. She teaches in an non-stuffy but intelligent way which does require the active participation of the reader. This book is perfect for those, who are new to the concept of tarot.



Easy Tarot Guide starts with deck description, reading description, card interpretation and abstract. Marcia assumes the reader may know nothing,…

By Citizen Journalist Blake Hall



Giving an accurate review of the All Bears Tarot requires that several aspects be understood about it first. It is an extremely beautiful and thoughtful crafted tarot deck, but it is aimed at a niche market audience. This audience is the lovers of bears and all things to do with these wild animals on Earth. The cards are funny and magical renderings of the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck from 1910, but the humans have been replaced with various species of modern bears. It is designed in this way, so that anyone may use already existing RWS books to interpret the meanings of readings.



The All Bears Tarot was released on January 16, 2012 by Graphic Artist and Tarot teacher Lynnette Monrean, or…

Review by Amanda Cook, Wise Tarot Magazine

Charming and Disappointing?

By Arlene McKanic

The Court Cards in the Tarot deck are often the most difficult cards for Tarot readers. They are often explained as the "personalities" of people involved in the reading. Some experts have given early and rigid definitions of personality archetypes, aligning them with significators—cards meant to stand in for the reader or another person (querent.) In some "systems" this includes appearance, others emphasize personality. When a court card appears in a reading, it is widely thought of as representing a person with those attributes.

Other readers interpret the courts differently, choosing instead to interpret the personality indicated as an idea rather than a person. So, for example, the King of Wands, generally held to be a…

Tarot Reading - Which Questions Can You Ask and When?

By Ferdinand Cuvelier