The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot - Softcover

Fredericks, Emmi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312323549 ISBN 13: 9780312323547

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

Synopsis

HEY! SMART GIRL! YES, YOU! Are you tired of vague, new agey fortune-telling? Readings that say, maybe you'll meet Prince Charming or maybe you'll get a dog? Do you want to know the future without checking your third eye or contacting your inner goddess?
Then you need The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot!

Every tarot tells a story. This book will tell the modern user how to read that story, using language and examples relevant to contemporary life. Tarot can provide a glimpse into the future and help to clarify one's choices. Just like therapy, but a lot cheaper. The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot provides a sharp, funny, fresh update of those old, stuffy, mystical tarot guides, unmuddling the meaning of the tarot for the general reader, and making readings more fun, diverting, and accurate.

The Smart Girl's Guide not only clarifies the archaic meanings of the cards, but it instructs the modern reader in how to interpret them, allowing her to be her own mystic--- because, let's face it, who knows your twisted psyche better than you?

About this title

About the Author

Emmi Fredericks was born and raised in New York City. She lives in Queens with her husband, lots of books, and a basset hound. Her novel, Fatal Distraction, was published in March 2004. Tarot cards have been telling Emmi more than she's wanted to know since she was a teenager. She has done many readings for her smart and neurotic friends and family, and has read tarot at numerous private parties and corporate functions.

Meredith Green is a potter and art teacher at Charlotte Country Day School. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with two of her three children.

Review

"You'll only manage to put down this stimulating guide to the Tarot long enough to purchase or unearth a deck of cards---with which you'll be doing readings right away. But be warned, consulting the cards with The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot is a lot like opening a box of Belgian chocolates: once you start it's really hard to stop."
- Susi Rajah, author of How to Spot a Bastard by His Star Sign

"While having the cards read by a gypsy crone is atmospheric, you can bet the fifteen bucks you just forked over to Madame Zorah that her reading will not be terribly trustworthy. Emmi Fredericks shows you how to do everything yourself---from asking good questions to interpreting the cards correctly."
- Thomas J. Craughwell, author of The Cat in the Dryer and 222 Other Urban Legends


"While having the cards read by a gypsy crone is atmospheric, you can bet the fifteen bucks you just forked over to Madame Zorah that her reading will not be terribly trustworthy. Emmi Fredericks shows you how to do everything yourself---from asking good questions to interpreting the cards correctly." (Thomas J. Craughwell, author of The Cat in the Dryer and 222 Other Urban Legends)

"You'll only manage to put down this stimulating guide to the Tarot long enough to purchase or unearth a deck of cards---with which you'll be doing readings right away. But be warned, consulting the cards with The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot is a lot like opening a box of Belgian chocolates: once you start it's really hard to stop." (Susi Rajah, author of How to Spot a Bastard by His Star Sign)

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312323549
• ISBN 13: 9780312323547
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240