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Instant Tarot: Your Complete Guide to Reading the Cards
Read tarot card predictions within minutes with the Instant Tarot! The authors unique Instant Tarot system is devised to enable beginners to read virtually every Tarot deck. The clearly organized Instant Tarot text interprets every card in each of the eleven meaning-specific positions of the celtic cross spread. With detailed instructions, sample questions, helpful diagrams, and a handy index, readers can easily navigate the book. The ingenious layout of Instant Tarot allows individuals to also ask any question using a one-card, three-card or full eleven card "Celtic Cross" spread to get revealing, inspiring answers to your burning questions about love, money, career...everything! It's great for parties, small groups of friends and especially by yourself where, undisturbed, you will often see subtle and formerly hidden meanings emerge from the text. You can set up and do tarot readings right away using the instructions provided. No memorization is required, because each card is interpreted according to the position it appears in -- the book tells you right where to look. "Using tarot cards has helped us to improve our intuitive abilities which, when blended with our logical minds, has enabled us to make better decisions that have guided us to great success, especially our forty plus year loving marriage. The tarot adds spice to your life but you cannot live on spice alone. Your free will to make decisions is your "main course." Instant Tarot has been designed to help you properly access the tarot's ancient truths and put them to immediate use. It is our sincere desire that our book, the first and only one of its kind in the tarot's long history, will help you to better understand your own inner voice and its ability to direct you." -Monte Farber and Amy Zerner
272 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2017
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About the author
Monte Farber
91 books20 followersSince 1988 Monte Farber and his wife Amy Zerner have created what they call their family of "spiritual power tools," including The Enchanted Tarot, The Instant Tarot, Sun Sign Secrets, Karma Cards, Chakra Meditation Kit, The Truth Fairy Pendulum Kit, The Soulmate Path, Quantum Affirmations, and Signs & Seasons: An Astrology Cookbook. There are over two million copies of their works in print in sixteen languages. They live in East Hampton, NY.
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May 17, 2018
This book is mostly for those who don't want to take the time and learn the tarot, but instead just copy and paste answers from a book. This book certainly has its place in modern society, but I feel that the instant gratification of books such as Instant Tarot is bad psychologically, and bad magically.
May 9, 2020
An approach that is convenient for a beginner, but not one I recommend, because it encourages a dictionary look-up approach that isolates the cards and doesn’t guide one further into how to pull back and weave meanings together within a spread.
The idea has potential, in that it shows you the nuances of how the meaning of a card can change depending on its position in a spread. However, first of all you have to know the Celtic Cross. While I think every reader at some point should be familiar with it, if only for historical background, it’s too many cards at once for a beginner. I cannot count how many beginners come to forums, confused and panicky, asking for help with their Celtic Cross, when they could have eased into their question with a three card spread for starters.
But if you ARE studying the Celtic Cross and have decided to focus on it, then this book will be useful for you.
It makes some effort to translate the positions of the Celtic Cross into one card and three card readings (Past Present Future, Mind Body Spirit), but it’s confusing. For example, Mind = What is below you (here called “Your Foundation”) Body = What is before you. Spirit = What crowns you.
There are so many variations to the CC. For example the What is before you is translated by other sources as Near Future. It’s bit of a leap to transcribe that into “Body”. Mind and Spirit make sense, but additional little learning tricks like “Mind is BELOW you because of SUBconscious” would have helped.
It just feels watered down. Like someone showing you a small window into how something works, so you get your instant fix (which is in the title after all) without revealing the mechanics behind it for deeper understanding. It teaches “Just do as I say. You don’t need to bother your pretty little head about HOW it works. Just that it does.”
I know that sometimes that’s just what some people want. But if you’re the type who needs more information, then this book is not it.
I don’t recommend this book for absolute beginners. It’s alright to have around as a second opinion for the advanced beginner, but it’s not one of the primary references I reach for.
The idea has potential, in that it shows you the nuances of how the meaning of a card can change depending on its position in a spread. However, first of all you have to know the Celtic Cross. While I think every reader at some point should be familiar with it, if only for historical background, it’s too many cards at once for a beginner. I cannot count how many beginners come to forums, confused and panicky, asking for help with their Celtic Cross, when they could have eased into their question with a three card spread for starters.
But if you ARE studying the Celtic Cross and have decided to focus on it, then this book will be useful for you.
It makes some effort to translate the positions of the Celtic Cross into one card and three card readings (Past Present Future, Mind Body Spirit), but it’s confusing. For example, Mind = What is below you (here called “Your Foundation”) Body = What is before you. Spirit = What crowns you.
There are so many variations to the CC. For example the What is before you is translated by other sources as Near Future. It’s bit of a leap to transcribe that into “Body”. Mind and Spirit make sense, but additional little learning tricks like “Mind is BELOW you because of SUBconscious” would have helped.
It just feels watered down. Like someone showing you a small window into how something works, so you get your instant fix (which is in the title after all) without revealing the mechanics behind it for deeper understanding. It teaches “Just do as I say. You don’t need to bother your pretty little head about HOW it works. Just that it does.”
I know that sometimes that’s just what some people want. But if you’re the type who needs more information, then this book is not it.
I don’t recommend this book for absolute beginners. It’s alright to have around as a second opinion for the advanced beginner, but it’s not one of the primary references I reach for.
June 2, 2022
Had the digital version and needed a paper copy as I do with valuable resources. Excellent to assist sparking well rounded interpretations in various situations.
December 9, 2021
It gives a very quick view into the world of Tarot. If you haven't got an experience in it, you'll probably like this peek through. However, it does not make you apt for reading the cards, not at all. In fact, it can be very restricting in its presentation of the Tarot.
August 25, 2022
Absolutely perfect for beginners if you're looking for a book to gift or if you're unsure where to start.
It's a very straight-to-the-point book (I loved it for it and it's going straight to my top recommended Tarot Books), it's got 1 Card/ 3 Card / Celtic Cross Spreads and a reading example so you know how to take your baby steps in doing a reading.
Whichever card you pull, you just follow the instructions to the card page and its position on the spread.
In the beginning this makes it a lot easier and with time, intuition will kick in and you'll most likely need the help of the pages less and less.
The cards in the book are organized by Major Arcana first, followed by the four suits. I understand this information may seem redundant for more experienced readers but for beginners it's a relief knowing that everything *will* be organized and there's no going back and forth looking for something.
Now go, do magic and do Epic. ✨
It's a very straight-to-the-point book (I loved it for it and it's going straight to my top recommended Tarot Books), it's got 1 Card/ 3 Card / Celtic Cross Spreads and a reading example so you know how to take your baby steps in doing a reading.
Whichever card you pull, you just follow the instructions to the card page and its position on the spread.
In the beginning this makes it a lot easier and with time, intuition will kick in and you'll most likely need the help of the pages less and less.
The cards in the book are organized by Major Arcana first, followed by the four suits. I understand this information may seem redundant for more experienced readers but for beginners it's a relief knowing that everything *will* be organized and there's no going back and forth looking for something.
Now go, do magic and do Epic. ✨
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