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A Pocket Guide to Tarot Card Archetypes: When You Don't Want to Carry Around a Library

by Abbi Clark Author

As the title suggests, this pocket-sized guide to tarot archetypes will save you the difficulty of carrying around your whole library of reference texts for convenience while conducting readings on the go. With a guide to choosing the right deck for you, suggestions for when and where to perform readings, instructions for your basic three-card draw, and the commonly accepted meanings of different elements in the Major and Minor Arcana, this little zine is a perfect companion to any tarot deck, and can provide novice tarot readers and more experienced practitioners alike with a handy reference. Grab a copy to give to a friend along with a new deck, or pick one up to aid you in the process of interpreting a deck you already possess. 

Note that this zine uses a more modern interpretation of the air (swords) and fire (wands) suits, which believes that fire better symbolizes destruction and change whereas air makes overtures to communication and relationships. Traditional interpretations suggest the opposite; neither one is right or wrong, and this zine guides readers to interpret the cards in the way that is most meaningful to them.

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