Tarot Made Easy By Black Hart

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Postby VoodooMick » Dec 9th, '07, 03:57



magikmax wrote:One thing I know I'm going to have a problem with is finding someone to do a reading on to practise with?


This is a statement that I almost find amusing! You might find that the problem you have is getting OUT of giving people readings.. once you spread the word that you are studying the cards, people's curiosity will get the better of them and they'll be queuing round the block!
On your profile it says you are a children's entertainer.. I wondered if you wouldn't consider throwing in a few readings for the mothers of the children you may be entertaining?
Or... "whacky-idea-time-and-straight-off-the-top-of-my-silly-head"...
any Christmas Fayre's going down in your neck of the woods? How about dressing up as a gypsy with a turban and doing readings for charity? If you dress up and do it for charity then perhaps it takes the seriousness out of proceedings and will create a generous and benevolent atmosphere for you to practice?
School Christmas Fayre's where you can meet mothers of children to promote the children's parties?

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Postby themagicwand » Dec 9th, '07, 09:16

The easiest way to the readings down the pub is to do palm readings. Just quickly learn the basics off a palmist website, then transfer all you've learned from the tarot into the palm. Eg, look at the palm then imagine in your mind the first three tarot cards that pop into your head. Use those three cards as a past, present and future reading. Now you're actually doing a tarot reading (albeit with imaginary cards!) but dressing it up as a palm reading.

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Postby magikmax » Dec 9th, '07, 13:56

excellent ideas VoodooMick and themagicwand, thanks very much indeed. Bit soon for me to do so yet, but it's certainly given me some good ideas, thanks chaps

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Postby .robb. » Jan 9th, '08, 22:56

I received Tarot Made Easy today and am 100% happy. The title should read: Tarot Made Incredibly Easy by Black Hart a.k.a. the bizarre guy that takes cares of his customers inquiries and ships quickly.

My obstacle with previous books was getting the Minor Arcana pinned down. Mr. Hart did that for me in all of three or four paragraphs.

For anyone in the US who may be considering ordering- Yes, it's worth the money despite the currency exchange. It took exactly one week from the time that I ordered to get here. I didn't have to pay any BS tax or fees on it.

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Postby Adrian Morgan » Jan 10th, '08, 06:25

Going back to the early part of the thread . . .

themagicwand wrote:I come from both a shut-eye and an open-eye background. I learnt the tarot as a shut-eye, then got into magic & mentalism and had my eyes opened a little. I have the hugest respect for both camps, and I have a foot placed very firmly in both camps.


Most of the perspectives I hear come from the overtly sceptical side of the fence, people like Lynne Kelly, for whom I have a lot of respect, based largely on the strength of [podcast] [interviews] and such. Wouldn't mind seeing tauromancy in use some day, having heard nothing but good about Lynne's performance skills.

Personally, I'm actually more likely to learn to use tarot cards for the purpose they were originally designed for than for doing readings. This is not to belittle magicians/mentalists who do use tarot cards as a tool, but it's not where my ambitions lie.

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Postby Replicant » Jun 20th, '08, 15:13

Queenie's Tarot thread has sparked my interest in Tarot readings and now I have stumbled upon this book by Black Hart. Sounds very good for a beginner like me.

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Postby Mandrake » Jun 20th, '08, 15:31

Trust me, this is excellent. It gives a very easy way to remember the basic meanings of each card and you can develop from there onwards. I did a lot of googling around for Tarot details and most of what I found was far too intense for a klutz beginner like me. Keith's book assumes no prior knowledge but take matters to a skilled level. Don't think twice, hit that Submit button right now!

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Postby black hart » Jun 20th, '08, 15:34

...and if you don't agree you can have your money back! :D

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Postby Replicant » Jun 20th, '08, 23:04

Well, I've taken the plunge and ordered it just now. Dammit, I swore blind just the other day that Outlaw's Luna would be my only purchase this month. OK, that and TME. Definitely no more purchases this month. Seriously. I mean it this time.

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Postby Johnny Wizz » Jun 21st, '08, 08:54

You will not regret this purchase I can assure you.

The book is brilliant for a complete beginner, trust me, I have enough teach yourself Tarot books sitting on my shelf gathering dust to be an expert.

Once you have the structure, which is easilly learned, you can start to add your own interpretations to the cards. I just couldn't get my head around all of the meanings through ordinary reading. Every book gives a slightly different interpretation to the cards.

What Black Hart does with his method is give a solid base which you could use to do a reading with nothing added. But once you have that foundation you will find that expanding and embellishing comes easilly.

And to add to the good value you get a full pack of Marseilles Tarot cards with it.

You will enjoy this purchase.

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Postby Replicant » Jun 21st, '08, 11:22

Thanks, I'm looking forward to this. Ordered at 10:45 last night, dispatched at 8:15 this morning - this is very good indeed. :D

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Postby Replicant » Jun 23rd, '08, 14:08

Received this morning. I've obviously not studied it in detail yet, but have read through the book just to get a gist for it. This is very, very impressive. The last book I read confused to hell out of me and I ended up losing interest in Tarot cards because of it; the book ended up on eBay. But it looks as if Black Hart's book lives up to the title. I'm looking forward to sitting down and learning about the cards so I can do my first reading.

Thanks, Keith, for a very fast dispatch and for such a quality book. You've opened my eyes.

By the way, can anyone recommend books for further reading? I was looking at the Complete Idiot's Guide to Tarot book, but apparently you need a Rider-Waite deck; I don't want to purchase another Tarot deck just yet and was hoping my Marseilles deck would be sufficient. The Dummies Guide to Tarot book was another contender, but this has not got good reviews on Amazon.

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Postby VoodooMick » Jun 23rd, '08, 15:21

Replicant wrote:By the way, can anyone recommend books for further reading?


Tarot Plain & Simple by Anthony Louis

Lots of nice bits in there that aren't in a lot of other books.

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Postby themagicwand » Jun 23rd, '08, 16:09

VoodooMick wrote:
Replicant wrote:By the way, can anyone recommend books for further reading?


Tarot Plain & Simple by Anthony Louis

Lots of nice bits in there that aren't in a lot of other books.


Yes, I'd 100% agree. Get this book as your next stepping stone. Both voodoomick & the magicwand say so! :wink:

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Postby Replicant » Jun 23rd, '08, 16:44

themagicwand wrote:Yes, I'd 100% agree. Get this book as your next stepping stone. Both voodoomick & the magicwand say so! :wink:


If you guys say so, then that's good enough for me. Thank you, gents.

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