21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card by Mary K Greer

As the introduction states, “21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card is full of techniques for gaining insights into tarot readings”, and it doesn’t disappoint. Working with a single card in 21 different ways definitely expands both your ways of working with your cards and your personal insights. The idea isn’t to utilise every method every time however. Rather, one of the goals of the book is to help you “evolve an individualized reading style or technique.” I love that it’s a how-to book that keeps you very much in charge of how you ultimately work with your cards.

Each of the twenty-one sections offers two different levels of exploration. There are exercises for both the apprentice and the adept. This has nothing to do with your skill level. Instead the way of the apprentice provides an overview while the adept exercises delve more deeply into the concepts and offers additional variations you can explore once you’ve completed your apprenticeship.

21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card is definitely a book you can keep returning to. For example, Step 16 asks you to draw your chosen card. And no, you don’t have to have amazing drawing skills to gain the benefits. I used XXI The World from the Chrysalis Tarot deck and there is no way I could come close to creating anything nearly as beautiful, but it really didn’t matter. I was amazed by how many additional details I discovered during my attempts. This exercise alone is definitely worth revisiting over and over again as are so many of the others. I am glad this book is part of my collection.

About the Author

Mary K Greer is a tarot scholar, teacher and reader who has published many tarot books. (Understanding the Tarot Court, The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals, Women of the Golden Dawn, The Essence of Magic, Tarot Mirrors, Tarot Constellations, Tarot for Your Self and her latest, Who are you in the Tarot). She has over 40 years of tarot experience – and it shows.

21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card Contents

As you can see this book offers a lot. It’s conversational style makes it easy and enjoyable to read. I don’t know what Mary K Greer sounds like, but I felt during the reading of this book that I was sitting in a casual “classroom” being given lots and lots of tips designed to encourage me to develop my own personal reading style and I loved it. I would thoroughly recommend this book to tarot enthusiasts of all levels.

Publishing details

Published by:

Llewellyn Publications

Pictured Version:

First Edition, 13th Printing, 2018

Pages:

310pp