Appendix Two:
Reading Lists by Chapter
Chapter 1—Face to Face with Your Deck:
Essential Skills and Methods
Gray, Eden. Mastering the Tarot. New York: NAL, 1973.
Greer, Mary K. Tarot Reversals, St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2001.
———. 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2007.
Huggens, Kim. Tarot 101. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2010.
Katz, Marcus, and Tali Goodwin. Tarot Flip. Keswick, UK: Forge Press, 2010.
———. Tarot Twist. Keswick, UK: Forge Press, 2010.
Louis, Anthony. Tarot Plain and Simple. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2003.
Michelson, Teresa. The Complete Tarot Reader. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2005.
Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. London: Thorsons, 1997.
Quinn, Paul. Tarot for Life. Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 2009.
Thomson, Sandra A. Pictures from the Heart. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003.
Waite, A. E. The Key to the Tarot. Sydney: Century Hutchinson, 1989.
Warwick-Smith, Kate. The Tarot Court Cards: Archetypal Patterns of Relationship in the Minor Arcana. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 2003.
Chapter 2—Face to Face with Your Deck:
Practicing Tarot
Abraham, Sylvia. How to Use Tarot Spreads. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1997.
Bunning, Joan. Learning Tarot Spreads. San Francisco: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2007.
Burger, Evelin, and Johannes Fiebig. Complete Book of Tarot Spreads. New York: Stirling, 1997.
Fiorini, Jeanne. Tarot Spreads and Layouts. Atglen, PA: Shiffer Publishing Ltd., 2010.
Konrad, Sandor. Classic Tarot Spreads. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1985.
Michelson, Teresa. Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2003.
Naylor, A.R. Tarot Abecedarian: The Treasure House of Images. Thame, UK: Mandrake Press, 1997.
Vogler, Christopher. The Writer’s Journey. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions, 2007.
Chapter 3—Facing the Questions
Meyer, Martin, and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Chapter 4—Facing the Querent
Bruit-Zaidman, Louise, and Pauline Schmitt-Pantel. Trans. Paul Cartledge. Religion in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: Cambridge Press, 1994.
Illes Johnston, Sarah. Ancient Greek Divination. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
Vandenberg, Phillip. Mysteries of the Oracles: The Last of the Secret Anti-quity. London: Tauris, 2007.
Chapter 5—Facing the Crowd:
Reading for Parties and Groups
There are surprisingly few books dealing specifically with group activities and party games with tarot. You may be interested in The Tarot Game by Jude Alexander (Schiffer, 2011), which provides a “tarot-lite” board game for groups. You may also consult any book of party games and modify the ideas to tarot as we have done here.
Chapter 6—Facing the Outside World:
Tarot for Engaging Life
Bates, Bryan. The Way of Wyrd. London: Hay House, 2005.
Carr-Gomm, Philip. The Elements of the Druid Tradition. Shaftesbury, UK: Element, 1991.
Castenda, Carlos. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. New York: Pocket Books, 1986.
Fries, Jan. Visual Magick: A Manual of Freestyle Shamanism. Oxford: Mandrake, 1992.
Jayanti, Amber. Living the Tarot. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993.
Lorelei, Lady. Tarot Life Planner. London: Bounty Books, 2005.
McElroy, Mark. Putting the Tarot to Work. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2004.
Pollack, Rachel. The Forest of Souls: A Walk through the Tarot. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2003.
Chapter 7—Facing Each Other:
Tarot and Relationships
Fairfield, Gail. Choice-Centered Relating and the Tarot. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 2000.
Johnson, Robert A. We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983.
Laurence, Theodore. The Sexual Key to the Tarot. New York: Citadel Press, 1971.
Schwartz-Salant, Nathan. The Mystery of Human Relationship. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Tennov, Dorothy. Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love. New York: Stein and Day, 1981.
Chapter 8—Facing Yourself:
Tarot for Self-Discovery
Anonymous. Meditations on the Tarot. Shaftesbury, UK: Element Books, 1991.
Banzhaf, Hajo. Tarot and the Journey. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 2000.
Echols, Signe E., Robert Mueller, Ph.D., and Sandra A. Thomson. Spiritual Tarot: Seventy-Eight Paths to Personal Development. New York: Avon Books, 1996.
Fairfield, Gail. Choice Centered Relating and Tarot. York Beach. ME: Samuel Weiser, 2000.
Gad, Irene. Tarot and Individuation. Berwick, ME: Nicholas Hays, 2004.
Gardber, Richard. Evolution Through the Tarot. New York: Samuel Weiser, 1977.
Gwain, Rose, Discovering Yourself through the Tarot: A Jungian Guide to Archetypes and Personality. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1994.
Hamaker-Zondag, Karen. Tarot as a Way of Life. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1997.
Jette, Christine. Tarot Shadow Work. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2000.
Jodorowsky, Alejandro. The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 2004.
Lee Braden, Nina. Tarot for Self Discovery. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2002.
Pollack, Rachel. Tarot Readings and Meditations. Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1986.
Rosengarten, Arthur. Tarot and Psychology: Spectrums of Possibility. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2000.
Sargent, Carl. Personality, Divination, and the Tarot. London: Rider and Co., 1998.
Summers, Catherine, and Julian Vayne. Personal Development with the Tarot. London: Quantum, 2002.
Walter Stirling, Stephen. Tarot Awareness: Exploring the Spiritual Path: Correspondences, Meditations, and Guided Visualizations. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2000.
Woudhuysen, Jan. Tarot Therapy: A Guide to Your Unconscious. Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1979.
Chapter 9—Facing All Fronts: Twelve Spreads
Birkbeck, Lyn. The Watkins Astrology Handbook: The Practical System of DIY Astrology. London: Watkins Books, 2006.
Frawley, John. The Horary Text Book. London: Apprentice Books, 2005.
———. The Real Astrology. London: Apprentice Books, 2000.
Levine, Stephen. A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if It Were Your Last. New York: Crown Publishing, 1998.
Parker, Julia, and Derek Parker. K.I.S.S Guide to Astrology. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
Chapter 10—Tarot in the World
Decker, Ronald, and Michael Dummett. A History of the Occult Tarot 1870–1970. London: Duckworth, 2002.
Decker, Ronald, Thierry Depauls, and Michael Dummett. The Origins of the Occult Tarot. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
Farley, Helen. A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism. London: Tauris, 2009.
Jensen, Frank K. The Story of the Waite-Smith Tarot. Croydon Hills, AU: ATS Publications, 2006.
Nichols, Sallie. Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1984.
O’Neill, Robert. Tarot Symbolism. Croydon Hills, AU: ATS Publications, 2004.
Place, Robert M. The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination. London: Tarcher Penguin, 2005.
Shotwell, Peter. Go! More Than a Game. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2003.