Farber Monte - Instant Tarot: Your Complete Guide to Reading the Cards

For Ma, Jessie Spicer Zerner,
our beloved Angel on Earth and now in Heaven. First published in 2017 by Weiser Books Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC With offices at: 65 Parker Street, Newburyport, MA 01950 www.redwheelweiser.com Copyright 2017 by Monte Farber and Amy Zerner All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017934774 ISBN: 978-1-57863-617-4 Cover and text design by Kathryn Sky-Peck Cover and interior tarot images from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT Typeset in Lato Printed in Canada MAR 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 www.redwheelweiser.com www.redwheelweiser.com/newsletter

Although Instant Tarot has been specifically devised to make instant readers out of tarot beginners, even experienced tarot readers can gain new and valuable insights into the tarot by using Instant Tarot. Instant Tarot propels the ancient art of the tarot reading into the twenty-first century. As you will soon see, reading tarot cards can be a very powerful, exciting, and enjoyable experience. The gentle, life-affirming guidance contained in the pages of Instant Tarot is deep and thought provoking. More importantly, it is quick and easy to obtain. E. E.

Waite and currently published by US Games. The Rider-Waite deck is note-worthy as one of the most well known tarot decks in the world; it is the one used by almost all professional tarot readers when they were learning interpretation the old-fashioned way; that is, before they were able to learn using our Instant Tarot reader! There are literally hundreds of tarot decks, and hundred of books that have been written through the ages to help you to understand the general meanings of the tarot. Almost all of these books require you to spend a great deal of time studying and memorizing the subtle and all-too-often confusing meanings, symbols, and attributions of the seventy-eight cards. Then you must learn the basic meaning of each of the eleven positions of the Celtic Cross layout, by far the most popular tarot spread used by readers. What makes Instant Tarot so exciting and different? A card's meaning changes depending on what position in the spread it occupies. Incredibly, every single one of these hundreds of other tarot books leaves it up to you, a beginner, to figure out what each of the seventy-eight different cards of the tarot means in each of the eleven positions of the Celtic Cross spread! Not one of these other books tells you the exact meaning of each card in every position.

This leaves you, the beginning tarot reader, in the position of flipping back and forth among the pages of a book to look up various meanings of various cards, and then having to piece it all together. Not only does this hamper the spontaneity of the reading, but it also robs you of your natural intuitive ability while you are working with the tarot spread. No wonder most people who have tried to learn the tarot have given up so quickly. Instant Tarot gives you immediate, easy access to the power of the tarot to guide your life. Instant Tarot allows you to instantly find the interpretation of each card as it appears in each of the eleven specific positions of the Celtic Cross spread. You'll find it incredibly easy to ask questions and get clear answers to them.

You don't have to memorize anything! All you have to do is shuffle the deck and pick the number of tarot cards necessary to ask the type of question you have selected. Then look up your answer in the pages of the main section of this book. Just like an experienced tarot reader, you will form your answer by reading the meaning of each card in each position indicated by the type of reading you have chosen: one-card, three-card, or eleven-card Celtic Cross. Every meaning is in the book. It's that simple to become an instant tarot reader. When you ask for and receive guidance from any tarot deck, you are performing an ancient rituala ritual that is renewed by each new question you bring to it.

As you shuffle the cards with your question uppermost in your mind, you become yet another link in an unbroken chain of truth-seekers that stretches far back in time. For centuries, many European rulers, their courtiers, and their subjects were said to have made regular use of the advice of the great tarot readers of their time. Today, behind the closed doors of boardrooms and bedrooms, the rich, the powerful, and the successful still consult the tarot on a regular basis. To paraphrase the late J. P. Morgan's comments about his use of astrology in amassing his vast fortune: Millionaires don't use tarot cards, billionaires do.

But tarot cards are not only for the rich and rarified elite. Today anyone can discover the timeless truth and personal power accessible through the tarot. People do not consult the tarot because it is fashionable or because it is an amusing curiosity. They do it because it works for them. It answers their questions and it helps them to make important decisions. Instant Tarot will allow you to regularly consult the tarot and have it become an integral part of your information mix. Instant Tarot will allow you to regularly consult the tarot and have it become an integral part of your information mix.

Many people think of the tarot simply as a method of fortune telling. However, tarot cards are truly your tool for personal insight, growth, and success. When interpreted by expert readers like my wife Amy and me, tarot can help you make your fortune. Since 1990, we have introduced hundreds of thousands of people around the world to the fascinating and useful experience of using tarot cards to gain insight into their own life and the lives of those they care about. Together, we have dedicated our lives to using our art to make the timeless truths of ancient systems of knowledge and personal power accessible and useful to everyone here and now in our modern world. We have succeeded in brushing the dust off the tarot, the dust that has accumulated from centuries of misunderstanding and superstition of the divinatory arts.