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Guided Tarot Box Set: Illustrated Book & Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck
The essential tarot kit to read cards seamlessly—with confidence and ease. Featuring Stefanie Caponi’s bestselling 240-page guidebook, Guided Tarot , plus a vibrant Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, it has everything you need to become an expert tarot reader.
Each of us holds gifts deep within and, with tarot, we have the power to unlock those gifts and make transformative discoveries. In this box set, which includes the book Guided Tarot, expert Stefanie Caponi offers easy exercises to embrace the wisdom of your inner voice, not only to understand the cards’ universal meanings, but to channel your own meanings. It also shows you how to attune your energy to the deck for more accurate readings. Along with the stunning companion tarot deck, you’ll learn how to cultivate your intuitive magical potential, get divine guidance with life decisions, and overcome obstacles in your relationships—all while celebrating your unique gifts and honoring your higher self.
With more than 2,000 5-star reviews and 35,000+ copies sold, the bestselling Guided Tarot has emerged as the only tarot guidebook you need. It
• Illustrated tarot card profiles with astrological, numerological, and elemental meanings; guidance for career, love, and spiritual life; and reverse card interpretations.
• Beginner's tools offering step-by-step advice to prepare for and perform readings along with a variety of introductory spreads to try
• The Celtic Cross explained and deconstructed to help beginners master this popular spread with ease.
• Quick reference chart with card images and key upright and reversed meanings.
With Guided Tarot Box Set , you’ll have everything you need to understand tarot and connect to your intuition. You'll gain confidence with every reading you do for yourself as well as your friends.
Each of us holds gifts deep within and, with tarot, we have the power to unlock those gifts and make transformative discoveries. In this box set, which includes the book Guided Tarot, expert Stefanie Caponi offers easy exercises to embrace the wisdom of your inner voice, not only to understand the cards’ universal meanings, but to channel your own meanings. It also shows you how to attune your energy to the deck for more accurate readings. Along with the stunning companion tarot deck, you’ll learn how to cultivate your intuitive magical potential, get divine guidance with life decisions, and overcome obstacles in your relationships—all while celebrating your unique gifts and honoring your higher self.
With more than 2,000 5-star reviews and 35,000+ copies sold, the bestselling Guided Tarot has emerged as the only tarot guidebook you need. It
• Illustrated tarot card profiles with astrological, numerological, and elemental meanings; guidance for career, love, and spiritual life; and reverse card interpretations.
• Beginner's tools offering step-by-step advice to prepare for and perform readings along with a variety of introductory spreads to try
• The Celtic Cross explained and deconstructed to help beginners master this popular spread with ease.
• Quick reference chart with card images and key upright and reversed meanings.
With Guided Tarot Box Set , you’ll have everything you need to understand tarot and connect to your intuition. You'll gain confidence with every reading you do for yourself as well as your friends.
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240 pages, Cards
Published September 6, 2022
About the author
Stefanie Caponi
17 books30 followersStefanie Caponi (she/her) is an intuitive writer and illustrator. She has been reading tarot for over twenty years, and established her business as a professional tarot reader after creating her first tarot deck, The Moon Void Tarot. Her work is centered around exploring shadow work, healing, and creativity using tarot as a vehicle to access the hidden realms of the self. In addition to her work with tarot, she also writes monthly horoscopes for Swell by Dame products. Stefanie resides in Brooklyn with her partner and their two cats.
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January 17, 2024
1/1/2024 3.5 stars. Full review tk at TheFrumiousConsortium.net.
1/17/2024 One of the silver linings of 2023 being such a garbage year for me emotionally was the fact that it encouraged me to start making better use of my many Tarot decks, not (necessarily) to divine the future -- tho my weekly spreads do have the concerning habit of choosing to focus on Arsenal games instead of my actual personal life when the former arise: as of this time of writing, I'm 8.5/10 correct publicly posted predictions -- but to work on my inner impulses when faced with daily challenges. And while I have mumblemumble number of decks, I realized that I don't actually own a copy of the classic Waite-Smith which set the standard of symbolism for the many decks that came in its wake.
Given that this box set was going for pretty much the same price as a deck alone, I had to snag it. In all honesty, I really wanted a book that does a deep dive on the symbolism of Pamela Colman Smith's art, created in collaboration with the academic and mystic A. E. Waite. I've seen really cool ads on social media for pdf downloads of that kind of exploration, but I'd much rather have a hard copy, so thought this would be a good place to start.
The presentation box this comes in is lovely: sturdy, with a satisfying flip-top lid closure, and with the most gorgeous metallic lettering on the front. Inside, there are slots for both the book and the deck, which keeps everything secure and tidy. That said, the box is so large, I'm not sure what to do with it now. I'm uninterested in carrying the whole kit and caboodle around: I'll pack the deck into my purse for the month of January, then store it with my other decks when it's not in active rotation. It seems weird to have the book stay in the box, tho perhaps once the month is over, it makes sense to store deck and book together in the original packaging. It's just not very practical for the more advanced reader, tho I suppose that isn't really the target audience for this set anyway.
The deck itself is great, featuring faithful reproductions of the original cards, and with a perfect size and hand feel. The symbolism is unmatched. I've definitely come a long way from the days when I thought the art was "boring": the amount of thought put into each card is truly spectacular, and I come to it now as a fairly seasoned, if far from masterful, reader with a new appreciation for the amount of work put into choosing things like color and placement on each card. My only complaint about the deck is due to the deck box itself, which doesn't have a cutout notch for ease of opening. I have to try to peel the top open from the sides every time, and worry I'm going to rip the dang thing -- a far cry from the lovely setup of the presentation box. Update: Karin helped me clip out a notch which, while far from perfect, still makes it easier to open without fear of ripping.
The accompanying book is good, if aimed squarely at Waite-Smith novices. And that's fine! I bought this set because I wanted to become more familiar with the classic imagery, and it's always good to have a firm grounding in what I'm trying to better learn. There are also interesting exercises to help familiarize readers with the cards, as well as broad descriptions of the art on each. While I would disagree personally with the interpretation of the Celtic Cross spread that Stefanie Caponi uses -- to the extent that I haven't yet done a CC reading for myself with it, tho in fairness, some things I just don't want to know right now -- I did love the idea of the Release-Retain two-card spread, which I used in New Year's readings for my friends to help break in the deck for me. I have been doing weekly spreads with it too, to varying degrees of success. You can see this week's Majors-heavy spread, which has definitely provided excellent advice so far, at TheFrumiousConsortium.net.
Most of Ms Caponi's card interpretations tend towards the generous, an approach which I personally appreciate. None of her write-ups deviate too far from standard, but her interpretation of the Ten of Swords, for example, is much less ominous than I'm used to. Instead of the dire warning against treachery and disaster, she posits first that the presence of the Ten of Swords indicates the end of a bad cycle, at worst the very rock bottom of it, before reminding readers that this also heralds the beginning of a new one. It's an optimistic, kind-hearted approach that resonates with me, especially since my aim with Tarot reading is to improve my ability to cope with big emotions, not (necessarily) to predict the future.
Overall, this is a pretty good starter set, especially if you don't already have storage solutions for multiple decks.
Guided Tarot Box Set by Stefanie Caponi was published September 6 2022 by Zeitgeist and is available from all good booksellers, including Bookshop!
1/17/2024 One of the silver linings of 2023 being such a garbage year for me emotionally was the fact that it encouraged me to start making better use of my many Tarot decks, not (necessarily) to divine the future -- tho my weekly spreads do have the concerning habit of choosing to focus on Arsenal games instead of my actual personal life when the former arise: as of this time of writing, I'm 8.5/10 correct publicly posted predictions -- but to work on my inner impulses when faced with daily challenges. And while I have mumblemumble number of decks, I realized that I don't actually own a copy of the classic Waite-Smith which set the standard of symbolism for the many decks that came in its wake.
Given that this box set was going for pretty much the same price as a deck alone, I had to snag it. In all honesty, I really wanted a book that does a deep dive on the symbolism of Pamela Colman Smith's art, created in collaboration with the academic and mystic A. E. Waite. I've seen really cool ads on social media for pdf downloads of that kind of exploration, but I'd much rather have a hard copy, so thought this would be a good place to start.
The presentation box this comes in is lovely: sturdy, with a satisfying flip-top lid closure, and with the most gorgeous metallic lettering on the front. Inside, there are slots for both the book and the deck, which keeps everything secure and tidy. That said, the box is so large, I'm not sure what to do with it now. I'm uninterested in carrying the whole kit and caboodle around: I'll pack the deck into my purse for the month of January, then store it with my other decks when it's not in active rotation. It seems weird to have the book stay in the box, tho perhaps once the month is over, it makes sense to store deck and book together in the original packaging. It's just not very practical for the more advanced reader, tho I suppose that isn't really the target audience for this set anyway.
The deck itself is great, featuring faithful reproductions of the original cards, and with a perfect size and hand feel. The symbolism is unmatched. I've definitely come a long way from the days when I thought the art was "boring": the amount of thought put into each card is truly spectacular, and I come to it now as a fairly seasoned, if far from masterful, reader with a new appreciation for the amount of work put into choosing things like color and placement on each card. My only complaint about the deck is due to the deck box itself, which doesn't have a cutout notch for ease of opening. I have to try to peel the top open from the sides every time, and worry I'm going to rip the dang thing -- a far cry from the lovely setup of the presentation box. Update: Karin helped me clip out a notch which, while far from perfect, still makes it easier to open without fear of ripping.
The accompanying book is good, if aimed squarely at Waite-Smith novices. And that's fine! I bought this set because I wanted to become more familiar with the classic imagery, and it's always good to have a firm grounding in what I'm trying to better learn. There are also interesting exercises to help familiarize readers with the cards, as well as broad descriptions of the art on each. While I would disagree personally with the interpretation of the Celtic Cross spread that Stefanie Caponi uses -- to the extent that I haven't yet done a CC reading for myself with it, tho in fairness, some things I just don't want to know right now -- I did love the idea of the Release-Retain two-card spread, which I used in New Year's readings for my friends to help break in the deck for me. I have been doing weekly spreads with it too, to varying degrees of success. You can see this week's Majors-heavy spread, which has definitely provided excellent advice so far, at TheFrumiousConsortium.net.
Most of Ms Caponi's card interpretations tend towards the generous, an approach which I personally appreciate. None of her write-ups deviate too far from standard, but her interpretation of the Ten of Swords, for example, is much less ominous than I'm used to. Instead of the dire warning against treachery and disaster, she posits first that the presence of the Ten of Swords indicates the end of a bad cycle, at worst the very rock bottom of it, before reminding readers that this also heralds the beginning of a new one. It's an optimistic, kind-hearted approach that resonates with me, especially since my aim with Tarot reading is to improve my ability to cope with big emotions, not (necessarily) to predict the future.
Overall, this is a pretty good starter set, especially if you don't already have storage solutions for multiple decks.
Guided Tarot Box Set by Stefanie Caponi was published September 6 2022 by Zeitgeist and is available from all good booksellers, including Bookshop!
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January 7, 2025again, SO perfect and insightful for beginners! very helpful, i adored the author's voice, insights, and organization!
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