Tarot Interactions

When you've learned the meanings of the cards and you're ready to take your tarot to the next level, this is the book. If you're looking for a book that is going to tell you the meanings of the cards, there are plenty of other books for that (although this has some of that too). When you're ready to make the cards come alive for you, this is your book. It doesn't focus on the generic meanings. It focuses on how the cards interact with each other. This is a must have for your tarot shelf. I highly recommend it.

I learned a lot from this book. It leads you through the process of connecting the cards to each other and to each particular circumstance, but it is not a descriptive book—it does not explain every interpretation of the cards or the potential relationships between them.

This book is easily, hands down, my all time favorite book on Tarot, and that's saying something considering I have an enormous collection of books and decks. I've been reading the cards for a number of years - and I still had plenty of "Aha!" moments when working my way through this book. It brought in an entirely new and completely fresh perspective that has helped me take my understanding of how the cards interact within a reading to a whole new level.I love the fact that the book is an easy and enjoyable read, it feels very conversational and isn't overly dry or academic. There are plenty of illustrations, diagrams, and examples within the book demonstrating the techniques used, exercises, and even "homework" at the end of each chapter to help you put into practice what you learned.It's an excellent resource for anyone looking to grow their knowledge of how to weave a story from the cards and how to extract every little last drop of pertinent information from the cards in a spread - this will take your readings from "Good" to "Wow!" with clients. She also has a really interesting and useful Yes/No spread in the book that involves six cards, yet is very simple and easy to utilize.There are chapters with games and exercises, information on interacting with your querent, and even the "language" of Tarot and how best to convey information to your querent.Though there is an appendix of basic card meanings in the book, I wouldn't say this book is for complete and total Tarot beginners - I think to get the most out of it you need at least a basic grasp of the meanings of the cards. If you have at least that aspect of Tarot under your belt, I do think this book could help you increase your skill by leaps and bounds at a pretty quick pace.Highly recommended!

This book offers very clear illustrations of ideas like cards that "look at" or "away from" each other and how card placement in a spread can be used. Robin Wood is used in most of the illustrations and looks good and clear at small print sizes. Visual learners should enjoy this book's presentation because it's not afraid to give a whole page to a spread. A variety of spreads are presented and worked fully, making the book worth a look even if only to see a demonstration of a non standard spread being put to real use. I think it fits best for the lone student who's feeling a little stagnant: one with a deck, who's done some by the book reading with many different spreads, and feels there's a "next step" but needs help finding and taking it.It touches all the bases, and has quizzes and exercises if you're into those kinds of things, but I finished the book feeling like a lot more could be taught by this author about the title subject. The material is mostly straight forward and hints at a greater depth, like there's more to say but it's not being said to keep the book simple. I found the excursions into "fun with Tarot cards" style material distracting, and when that made up most of the final chapter, disappointing. For the final chapter, I hoped to see Lipp demonstrate using all the book's techniques to crack some of those really tough readings that at first glance make no sense at all, even when you are paying attention to relative positions and art details.The actual reading examples are interesting and Lipp isn't afraid to admit to making misinterpretations, but while the corrections are mentioned (such as the client provided a detail that clarified, or a reading doesn't make sense until it is applied to a different aspect of the question) we don't learn how to avoid making those mistakes by getting more information from the cards before drawing a conclusion from them. There must be more to say.I learned from this book but my horizons didn't seem to expand as much as I thought they were about to when I was halfway through it.