Tarot Learning Resources

There are hundreds of Tarot books for beginners, of varying depth and quality. These are my first suggestions if you want to learn to read:

Tarot For Your Self by Mary K. Greer. 

This book has learning exercises and is ideal if you want isolated phrases for card meanings, including reversed card meanings. 

78 Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack. 

These card descriptions are more narrative. 

Tarot For Change by Jessica Dore

  Dore has a background in theories of psychotherapy, and this book is about using the cards therapeutically to create change. 

As a first Tarot deck, I typically recommend the standard Rider Waite Smith. (If you find the “Rider Waite,” that is referring to the same deck, but illustrator Pamela Coleman Smith is not always properly credited in the name.) Countless decks exist, and I own and use some far-out ones myself. But if you take a language-learning or systemic approach to the cards, the RWS is ideal as an initial vocabulary. 

One problem I do have with the Rider Waite Smith deck is that all the "figures" in it (illustrations of people) are fair-skinned and appear to be white. A good beginner deck with more variety in skin tones is the Morgan Greer. 

Antphrodite is my favorite social media Tarot reader. I can’t speak to the true crime divinations, but his readings on celebrity news items are a treat (and usually NSFW).