Mary K. Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card

Mary K. Greer is a scholar, writer, teacher, and professional tarot consultant. With more than forty years experience in tarot as an author and teacher, she advocates a revolutionary approach to learning and using the cards that emphasizes personal insight and creativity.Mary is the founder of Tools and Rites of Transformation (T.A.R.O.T.) and is a member of many international tarot organizations. She is a featured speaker at tarot conferences and symposia around the world.With an MA in English literature, Mary was a faculty member and administrator of a college in San Francisco for eleven years. She is an Arch-Priestess/Hierophant in the Fellowship of Isis. As a world traveler, she has lived in Japan, Germany, England, Mexico, six states in the US, and she currently resides in Northern California.

COVR Award Winner or Best Divination Book"This may be the only book you'll really need on the tarot. All the other books are, so to speak, icing on the cake baked by Mary K. Greer."—Barbara Ardinger, PhD, in The Beltane Papers"If you buy one book this year, make it this book! There is such an incredible amount of material presented here—researched and presented in a thoroughly professional manner...There is something in this book for every student, at all levels."—Bonnie Cehovet, TE, on Aeclectic Tarot

• Contents Acknowledgments, ix Introduction, xi How to Use This Book, xix step 0Stepping Out   1 Step 1Name   3 Step 2Description   7 Step 3Emotion   15 Step 4Story    25 Step 5Number   33 Step 6Mode, Suit, Element   47 Step 7Synthesis   59 Step 8Metaphor   67 Step 9Query & Snapshots   77 Step 10Meanings   89 Step 11Range   103 Step 12Modification   115 Step 13Symbols   129 Step14Dignity & Theme   147 Step 15Dialogs   163 Step 16Drawing   173 Step 17Embodiment   183 Step 18Imagination   191 Step 19Myth & Archetypes   201 Step 20Deck Comparison    219 Step 21The Possible Self   231 Step 00Full Circle   239 Appendix A: Emotions List, 243 Appendix B: Number & Rank Keywords, 245 Appendix C: Mode, Suit, Element Keywords, 251 Appendix D: Elemental Dignity Combinations, 257 Appendix E: The Empress Vision, 261 Appendix F: Archetypal Motifs Chart, 265 Appendix G: Reading Styles, 271 Appendix H: Traps & Solutions in R.I.T.E., 275 Appendix I: 21 Ways Worksheet, 283 Glossary, 285 Bibliography, 297 Index, 305