What do you think?
Rate this book
Tarot Tour Guide: Tarot, The Four Elements, and Your Spiritual Journey
Tarot Tour Guide presents tarot as a guide for the journey of life. This book includes easy instruction for tarot interpretation, as well as techniques and exercises to deepen your tarot practice, no matter your level of experience.With Tarot Tour Guide you will learn different reading styles that will help you interpret cards for yourself and others, in any context. You will learn the lessons for life tarot offers, and many ways to incorporate the wisdom of tarot into your life.Included in the book are tarot spreads, sample readings, meditations and tarot spells to bring love, healing and prosperity.Tarot itself is a book of spiritual wisdom in picture form that maps the journey of life, describing the experiences and lessons we encounter along the way. Tarot is a tool of spiritual growth, divination, meditation and magic that is useful in every aspect of life, from the mundane to the mystical.Let Tarot Tour Guide be your guide as you explore tarot, and let tarot be your guide as you explore life!
- GenresTarot
224 pages, Paperback
First published July 19, 2012
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
January 13, 2026
Reading this book is like sitting with Christiana as she describes the entire tarot deck to you. Not only traditional correspondences, she also describes how the cards speak to each other in a spread, how the positions might tweak the meaning, and the difference between traditional and intuitive reasons - and how they work together.
May 16, 2019
Christiana writes like she talks and in Tarot Tour Guide she is talking to me. Her 30 plus years as a professional reader shine through. I read the second edition. Strongly suggest it.
April 26, 2013
Tarot Tour Guide: Tarot, the Four Elements, and Your Spiritual Journey
Christiana Gaudet
Jupiter Gardens Press
[PRICE]
In April 1989, I stood outside one of the world's greatest art museums, the Louvre, with only an inkling of what I would find inside. I knew about the Mona Lisa, "Winged Victory", and a few other gems, but otherwise, I had no idea of the depth and breadth of the collections that stood all around me. It was definitely overwhelming.
Working with the tarot can seem overwhelming, too: There are tons of books and other resources vying for the time and attention of the beginning tarot reader. Luckily for those interested in learning the tarot, Christiana Gaudet created something that I should have had at the Louvre: A tour guide!
Tarot Tour Guide is a remarkably complete work that surprised me with its breadth and simplicity. Everything you'd expect from a tarot book is here: Card meanings, example spreads, suggestions for tools and various techniques, and meditations. The author's tone is conversational and not pretentious, making the reader comfortable. It also doesn't make judgments about how you should or should not use the cards; in other words, Gaudet presents the options without pushing one way or the other.
What I didn't expect was the elemental focus of the book--five entire chapters dedicated to this vital topic. To me, the four elements of fire, earth, air, and water are an essential part of not only tarot, but of spiritual practice. Gaudet includes a full chapter on each of the elements and asks the student to work with each one through exercises and meditations. Most books are content with a cursory "here are the four elements" portion, but the author really went over and above to ensure that the reader understood each element. I'd love to see an individual book on each of the elements in the tarot from this author someday.
I really liked the additional information included in each of the elemental chapters. In Chapter 8, for example, "The Element of Air", Gaudet discusses the element and the mental body, but includes related topics, like reading for other people, tarot ethics, and what to do if you feel that someone is lying during a tarot reading. The other elemental chapters follow a similar pattern, with earth focusing on work and the physical body; fire focusing on the spiritual body, creativity, and sexuality; and water presenting the emotional body, as well as love and relationship readings. The fact that these topics were organized by element really stood out for me, and for that reason they resonated with me even more.
One final point: The readings that Gaudet includes in the book really help understand not only the elements, but the role of the tarot reader. The reading "Single Again" from Chapter 10, "The Element of Water" really hit home for me as a professional reader, because these are the types of problems our clients face every day. It's about a man going through a divorce. While you should go buy this book and read it for yourself, I'll say this much: The author does a great job of showing how to react compassionately but honestly when a client doesn't want to see the truth of a particular situation. It's a regular occurrence in my own practice as well.
Whether you are an aspiring tarot professional or just want to develop your intuitive abilities, I'd recommend this book. It's also great for beginners, especially those who may be interested in using tarot as a larger part of their spiritual development or are drawn to a Pagan/Wiccan spiritual path.
Christiana Gaudet
Jupiter Gardens Press
[PRICE]
In April 1989, I stood outside one of the world's greatest art museums, the Louvre, with only an inkling of what I would find inside. I knew about the Mona Lisa, "Winged Victory", and a few other gems, but otherwise, I had no idea of the depth and breadth of the collections that stood all around me. It was definitely overwhelming.
Working with the tarot can seem overwhelming, too: There are tons of books and other resources vying for the time and attention of the beginning tarot reader. Luckily for those interested in learning the tarot, Christiana Gaudet created something that I should have had at the Louvre: A tour guide!
Tarot Tour Guide is a remarkably complete work that surprised me with its breadth and simplicity. Everything you'd expect from a tarot book is here: Card meanings, example spreads, suggestions for tools and various techniques, and meditations. The author's tone is conversational and not pretentious, making the reader comfortable. It also doesn't make judgments about how you should or should not use the cards; in other words, Gaudet presents the options without pushing one way or the other.
What I didn't expect was the elemental focus of the book--five entire chapters dedicated to this vital topic. To me, the four elements of fire, earth, air, and water are an essential part of not only tarot, but of spiritual practice. Gaudet includes a full chapter on each of the elements and asks the student to work with each one through exercises and meditations. Most books are content with a cursory "here are the four elements" portion, but the author really went over and above to ensure that the reader understood each element. I'd love to see an individual book on each of the elements in the tarot from this author someday.
I really liked the additional information included in each of the elemental chapters. In Chapter 8, for example, "The Element of Air", Gaudet discusses the element and the mental body, but includes related topics, like reading for other people, tarot ethics, and what to do if you feel that someone is lying during a tarot reading. The other elemental chapters follow a similar pattern, with earth focusing on work and the physical body; fire focusing on the spiritual body, creativity, and sexuality; and water presenting the emotional body, as well as love and relationship readings. The fact that these topics were organized by element really stood out for me, and for that reason they resonated with me even more.
One final point: The readings that Gaudet includes in the book really help understand not only the elements, but the role of the tarot reader. The reading "Single Again" from Chapter 10, "The Element of Water" really hit home for me as a professional reader, because these are the types of problems our clients face every day. It's about a man going through a divorce. While you should go buy this book and read it for yourself, I'll say this much: The author does a great job of showing how to react compassionately but honestly when a client doesn't want to see the truth of a particular situation. It's a regular occurrence in my own practice as well.
Whether you are an aspiring tarot professional or just want to develop your intuitive abilities, I'd recommend this book. It's also great for beginners, especially those who may be interested in using tarot as a larger part of their spiritual development or are drawn to a Pagan/Wiccan spiritual path.
April 21, 2022
Scritto in caratteri grandi e con eccessiva spaziatura tra le righe, in pagine di dimensioni quasi A4, alla fine – stringi stringi – sarebbe un libricino se stampato in maniera “normale”. Inoltre, la carta su cui è stampato è troppo sottile: le parti evidenziate si intravedono dall’altro lato della pagina, inficiando la comprensione.
L’autrice descrive sommariamente tutte le carte, a una a una, per poi passare a illustrare alcune stese senza però elaborarle.
Il “grosso” del libro, se così lo si può chiamare considerate le dimensioni, è scritto prendendo spunto dai vari Elementi tradizionali, e lì l’autrice dà informazioni di varia natura che possono risultare utili nella pratica e per l’apprendimento dei Tarocchi (e include anche sezioni dedicate a rituali e meditazioni, per chi fosse interessato a queste cose), aggiungendo – ma solo per alcune carte qua e là – ulteriori significati che possano avere in un ambito o nell’altro (p.e. denaro, sentimenti).
Nel complesso è un libro che, seppur apprezzabile per certi versi, lascia l’amaro in bocca perché dà l’impressione che avrebbe potuto essere una miniera di informazioni, se fosse stato ben strutturato e scritto più approfonditamente.
L’autrice descrive sommariamente tutte le carte, a una a una, per poi passare a illustrare alcune stese senza però elaborarle.
Il “grosso” del libro, se così lo si può chiamare considerate le dimensioni, è scritto prendendo spunto dai vari Elementi tradizionali, e lì l’autrice dà informazioni di varia natura che possono risultare utili nella pratica e per l’apprendimento dei Tarocchi (e include anche sezioni dedicate a rituali e meditazioni, per chi fosse interessato a queste cose), aggiungendo – ma solo per alcune carte qua e là – ulteriori significati che possano avere in un ambito o nell’altro (p.e. denaro, sentimenti).
Nel complesso è un libro che, seppur apprezzabile per certi versi, lascia l’amaro in bocca perché dà l’impressione che avrebbe potuto essere una miniera di informazioni, se fosse stato ben strutturato e scritto più approfonditamente.
August 9, 2019
This book makes me want to be a better reader. Excellent read. There's a lot of great information and quite a few spreads.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews