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Want to learn how to read cards like a pro — even if you just plan to read for yourself or your friends? Would you like to be able to foretell the future accurately using any deck of cards — playing cards, Tarot cards, Lenormand cards? Have you ever wondered what the real history and meaning of playing cards and Tarot cards is?

No other book comes close to teaching the skill and history of cartomancy — the art of divination with cards — as usefully and truthfully as this one. Lady Passion, co-author of The Goodly Spellbook, brings her nearly 40 years' experience as a widely sought-after card reader to this illustrated how-to e-book. It includes a fascinating history of cards that draws on the most up-to-date scholarship to show how playing and Tarot cards have been used for both gaming and fortune-telling since their first appearances in medieval Europe, and describes how the Tarot was developed in Renaissance Italy for the subversive purpose of instilling virtue in tyrants.

The core of the book is a handy guide to the meanings, both positive and negative, of every playing card and Tarot card. Lady Passion explains how to interpret cards' numbers, suits, and images, shows you how to use a wide variety of layouts — from three-card draws to the traditional Celtic Cross and more — and walks you through numerous examples of actual readings she has done. She shares plenty of tips only an experienced professional knows, such as how to put a client at ease while helping them handle upcoming challenges the cards may reveal, and gives many examples of spells you can do using Tarot cards.

Bewildered by the enormous variety of Tarot and other fortunetelling decks available nowadays? Lady Passion describes and reviews the key features of the different types of cards out there, from the oldest to the newest. (All of the decks she discusses that are in print can be purchased at Oldenwilde Recommended Tarot.)