About Tarot

Has curiosity brought you to this page? If so, "Welcome!"   Even if you are not looking to buy anything, you can learn a lot about Tarot from these pages.

• The first thing is that you don't need to be planning a career as a fortune teller or psychic to benefit from tarot cards. They are a wonderful tool for developing a better understanding of yourself. Career counselors and psychologists use them in their daily practices to help people get in touch with their true feelings. They can help all people to gain insights and make better decisions by allowing people to tune-in to their own natural intuitions.

• Have you heard some silly statement about them like "tarot cards will harm you?" Egad! There is absolutely nothing "evil" about tarot cards. They are simply a deck of illustrated cardboard or plastic cards. Almost every bookstore carries them these days. Many people like to collect them just for their art alone. Some of the best illustrators alive today have provided art for tarot decks.

• Tarot card decks are appearing on TV and in the movies more and more everyday. Perhaps you've seen them on Charmed, Carnivale, Dharma & Greg, Buffy, or a Friends episode. Visit our Tarot in Film section to find a list of movies and television programs where tarot cards and tarot readers have been depicted.

• After viewing some of those films/videos,  you might think you'd like to try tarot reading for yourself. Anyone capable of reading a 6 to 16-page instructional booklet can begin learning to read tarot cards. If you decide you want to own a deck, please consider buying your first deck from us. We carry the best decks available and our descriptions will tell you which decks are best for beginners.

• Finally, a tarot reading is also entertaining and the ability to give one can make you quite popular. People like to hear about their "possible" future life path and they like to have assistance with decisions. If you can "interpret" the card imagery for your friends and acquaintances, they will enjoy having you around all the more. Tarot readings by non-professionals are often done for entertainment at baby and bridal showers, slumber parties, other parties, and Halloween carnivals.

• Professional tarot readers can be located by visiting New Age bookstores, Renaissance or psychic fairs/faires, online, or by consulting a phone book. Give extra credence to those that belong to professional national or international organizations where continuing education and certification are of great importance (American Tarot Association or the Canadian Tarot Network).