A wonderfully curated guide to the art of tarot. Whether the card reader is new to tarot, or an experienced reader, Reed provides easy to follow directions and tips for every reading. The cards are filled with wisdom but can be overwhelming at times. Jeannie makes it more approachable and understandable.

Oooh! ✨🧡🔮 This was good! I’ve been reading tarot for several years and pull cards most days even if I don’t have time for a full spread. Having that experience was helpful — but I’m by no means an expert. Tarot fascinates me and as said by author Jeannie Read …

Read writes of her experiences which has in turn led ,e to more thoughtful assume the of the cards and how they reflect my life — both in what I am willing to see and what I’m not ready or wanting to look at. I love the guidance that Reed provides while allowing space for your own interpretations! This includes both Major Arcana and the suits. I don’t own many tarot books because I’ve been disappointed in the past, but this is one of my favorites that I know I’ll keep coming back to.

The Language of Tarot by Jeannie Reed is a guide on how to read the tarot cards. I felt that this is not necessarily a beginner’s guide. So, based on that, I just want to say it was very well written.

ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I would recommend The Language of Tarot for anyone who has some knowledge on how to read tarot. This isn't a beginner friendly book.

A well written and knowledgeable account of the science of tarot. While Reed obviously is well versed in tarot...her writing did not hold my attention. I would say it was because I am in no need for a 101 book after years of study but I think its the style of writing more than anything. Just not my cup of tea.

I enjoyed the concept of a new way to read the cats. I've struggled with trilingual understanding. While this book didn't make things click in the way Kitchen Table Tarot did, it is another useful tool for my journey learning the cats better.

Well how interesting and unexpectedly delightful this was!

The author is incredibly literate and knowledgeable about the subject matter but managed to be both informative and entertaining - it felt like a combination TEDtalk and kitchen table dinner conversation, in the best way possible.

The way the author talks about family relationships was pretty rigidly traditional and I think we disagree on several other social issues, but all in all, a fantastic book.

This book was a very good reading. Informative, interesting, well written and, to me, it was the perfect one. It is born as a sort of text-book for the author's students, and so it is a bit... I don't know if the word is right in this context, but a little bit "self-centered", and I am not really complaining, what I mean is that this is perfect as a text-book for her students, but for the main public it could have been a little bit less. I don't know if I am making sense here, but this is just a minor thing. I enjoyed the reading, a lot.
It is quite peculiar in its understanding of the use of tarots, and it is thought more for the "right-brain" people and those are the aspect that made this reading so enjoyable, useful, inspirational and interesting. After reading this book I did a bit of research, and I discovered that it is not, in fact, as unusual or as peculiar a line of thought as I was thinking. In the recent year the idea of the tarots as a language (the very thing that draws me to this book) and the tarot as a something less mystique and more linked to the subconscious and as a way to express more "scientific" things, if this could make sense (but it would if you read this book, for example) is slowing growing and expanding. But nonetheless, I have to thanks this book that, to me, was highly original. And more on my chords than a ton of others.
So yes, it's a book I would recommend if only because it is informative and interesting.

The Language of Tarot takes a thorough look at the meanings of individual tarot cards and suits. The book moves beyond the traditional ideas that come to mind when giving (or receiving) tarot readings and explains the tarot system in a way that allows it to truly "speak" to us. In this respect, the book certainly lives up to its name.

I have had a great love for tarot for some time. It was my first introduction into the world of divination, closely followed by runes. I favor tarot because it tends to be a bit easier to work with, so it has a special place in my heart. That being said, the approach that Reed takes to tarot was unique to any instruction that I have received, which was a breath of fresh air

Reed presents an interesting new approach, at least to me, that was simpler to follow than I expected. She does provide you with the textbook meanings of the cards, but she goes beyond that. I am so ready to add aspects of her approach into my practice.

This book represented a new approach to reading the cards.
It is more directed towards those who are already familiar with the cards and their meanings.
I loved the tone of it all, I have enjoyed reading it a lot, thank you for the experience!

The Language of Tarot:
A Proven System for Reading the Cards
by Jeannie Reed

Paperback, 240 pages
Published September 8th 2019 by Llewellyn Publications




Goodreads synopsis:
Reading the cards can be as easy as reading this sentence.

Welcome to a world of tarot you couldn't have imagined until now--a world in which you can give accurate and insightful tarot readings with little or no guesswork while also developing your psychic ability. This revolutionary guide, written by a tarot master with more than thirty years of experience, teaches a simple, proven system that makes reading cards in a spread as straightforward as reading words on a page.

The Language of Tarot presents an innovative system that treats tarot as a science. It can be taught and learned. Jeannie Reed discovered that when the same two or three cards appear together, it usually represents the same issue in any client's life. This remarkable book translates many card combinations and supplies examples to support each lesson. You can be more creative and confident with card meanings as you uncover how they relate to matters of health, money, relationships, and more. With Jeannie's guidance, it's easy to become fluent in the language of tarot.
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4.5 Stars

I have to admit that even though you don’t hear too many people reading the tarot in the way Jeannie Reed suggests, but this is the way I do it. I like to “tell the story” of the cards. It is exciting to see that others read like this as well.

I mesh meanings in a similar way you do with Lenormand. For instance, when you add 9 of Pentacles with the 10 of Pentacles you can come up with one idea. Then add your intuition based on some feature in the card artwork that stands out and suddenly these two cards can mean that “affirmations do indeed work.” The image of the lady in the 9 card looks like she is daydreaming, lying on a couch. That stood out to me. The ten is all about having your own happily ever after. Together you can see how this lady who is all alone could be wishing/affirming her desire for a family in the future.

If you are a writer or even like to write fiction, this way of reading will really resonate with you. It may take a bit of practice because using your intuition based on card images plus the actual meaning can take awhile to develop. But I find this way the easiest for me. In certain readings a card like the Tower can mean something altogether different if the cards around it are suggesting something else.

Go with your gut, guys. This is a wonderful way to read the cards. If you struggle with the actual meanings you still need to learn them in order to read this way. But don’t let a certain strict meaning keep you from finding the truth the spread reveals.

Be a brave soul and try this out for yourself. You won’t be sorry. I will be picking up this book again and again to refresh myself and keep my intuition raring to go. Thank you so much for putting this out in the world. It is so needed.,

I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.

If you're looking for an intro to reading Tarot, then this book is probably not for you. Had I been further along in my study of Tarot, I no doubt would have found this book to be very helpful. The author provides a new way of interpreting the cards intuitively, which, in my opinion, is aimed towards more experienced readers. That said, I did find the book to be helpful, but I think it will be more useful to me once I'm further along in my journey. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advance digital review copy. I would definitely consider purchasing this book at a later date.

The author writes in a friendly, chatty style, so there were long explanations. Probably a bit wordy for me, with so much emphasis on telling her own stories of experiences, but I'm sure will appeal to many people. It does make tarot easily approachable, so good for beginners. I feel there are other more useful books available on this topic, however.
Thanks to Netgalley for providing a complimentary kindle copy. All opinions expressed are my own.

This is a must have. I loved this book and actually have it in my amazon cart right now. This makes it really simple to start understanding tarot. Some might not agree with the explanations but these are all based om the author's perosnal experience, which I value.

If you want a great and simple way to start learning more about your tarot cards...pick up this book today.

A good book that helped me to learn something new about tarot.
I liked the style of writing and how the book is organized.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

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Although it is nice to learn about another aspect of tarot, this book lingers so much on the 'health' system rather than the universal subject I'd like to learn. Still very useful tho. The chapters are short and simple to understand.

Really like this book. I did struggle with it in parts as it was not correctly formatted for kindle and the layout was off, non-the-less the information was written well, descriptively and informative.

I love tarot and tend to turn to it when I need a little help, so reading this boom was going to be perfect for me. It’s nice to read a book that is informative but also helps you build your skills like this book does. I am really pleased with what I have learned about Tarot from this book and ways to use it more.

This is a nice book if one already knows a thing or two about Tarot and are in search of something else than the regular "newbie encyclopedia".