Your Tarot Court: Read Any Deck With Confidence

Long story short:- For a beginner this will be a good help to get started with the court cards. Just remember to expand your horizon and read other books on the subject.- There are a lot of repeats. 3 different parts of the book go over each court card. Why?? Just do it well and comprehensively once. It's confusing to go back and forth between 3 different versions. Chapter 7 is version one, chapter 8 is version 2 and focuses on relationships. Appendix 1 is version 3 and is a mash of version 1 and 2. I can't help but see repeats and fell like this should just have been done once, one good section and enough.- Pages 1 to 32 are just summing up old tarot notions and discarding them (pentacles = dark people, etc). Chapter 10 - pop culture references - is interesting enough. Chapter 11 - Court Card tarot spreads and exercises - seems unhelpful for learning to me.- This book would benefit from better editing. Even on the back cover you get a little taste of it; "she loves to create more than sleep". To create more than to sleep is what they meant. Then on page 2 you get another, worse one; tell me if this sentence makes syntactical or semantical sense to you: "So the fact that there is more than one definition given or question posed is purposefully done". I'm not a grammar nazi and English is not my first language, but a fact can't be "done" and this is just hurried and bad writing. The beginning of the book is overly wordy as in to take space and make more pages.What I like BEST about it: I like the pages that describe each court card for themselves and as archetypes. They have a much stronger presentation and are more to the point. They give you a good sense of Ethony's interpretation of the court card characters. Emphasis on "interpretation". We all have our systems of perceiving them and their character, even thought there are guiding rules. Ethony herself says that we don't have to agree. This is important because we cannot settle on just one source no matter what. This is a good thing and a bad thing both. No Tarot book can suffice by itself. I am indeed thankful I do not have to agree with her that the King and Queen of Wands are necessarily shallow and all for show. Where is the deep, uberloyal, protective side of the Fire sides in love? Not mentioned, instead we're told repeatedly how their main focus in love is to keeping outside appearances. So be it, it's her interpretation, but tell that to any Leo and they'll be rightfully offended. I found her approach to the Water cards much more true to the signs. Truly though it's just a matter of your perception and your system and how it fits with the author's. I still found this reading enriching in terms of description of the court cards. This is the part of the book that I like.

There's a real sense of sadness I have with this entire recent round of tarot books. I was into tarot to see the amazing Advanced Topics in Tarot series released, I grew up with Rachel Pollack and Mary Greer as required tarot reading. Today, readers don't seem to want to dig up these older writers.It's a shame, because the entire recent crop of tarot books--and this is no exception--are shallow as spit and more about building a platform for the author (Ethony will let you pay several hundred bucks to be certified as a tarot reader!) than about conveying useful info. I guess they think they should just 'teaser' info in the books and hint that the real juice is in their course? I'm not a fan of that approach and definitely not a fan of this book. Or her little Facebook Live series about the book, which again is a push for her classes.It's not to say there's nothing useful in this book. There is about 15 pages of worthwhile content here and the rest is stuff you can find online for free like oh, having trouble learning court cards? Try associating them with fictional characters! WHo would Jack Sparrow be as a Court Card? It's a fun exercise, but you don't need to drop coin here to find it. Also everything she says that's good is actually said BETTER and with deeper exercises by Mary Greer, Rachel Pollack, etc.It's honestly not worth your time if you've read tarot for any length of time. And if you want to read tarot and are just learning and need to be pandered to by 'oh my GAWD we're just cool sisters!' vibe, then you might find this book useful, before you hopefully outgrow it and go to your library and find the good stuff.

I have been reading tarot for several years and have many books in my collection. I picked this one up because court cards can be problematic and because I do enjoy Ethony’s YouTube videos. While I enjoyed this book and found some useful information in it, I wasn’t blown away.I loved the number of activities and exercises in this book that urge you to find your own way with the tarot court cards. As Ethony always says “Take what resonates with you and leave the rest.” She defines each court card with an archetype, an element, a gift, and a hierarchy (or rank). She also created a mantra for each card, which I really liked.However, the problem I have with this book, like many other tarot books, is that it describes the tarot as a fortune telling tool with an emphasis on predicting the future and reading for other people. There is an entire chapter on predicting timing with the court cards. However, I read tarot for myself as part of my spiritual practice and for self-development, so much of the content of the book was simply not useful for me.I was so looking forward to the pop culture references in the book. Aligning the courts with pop culture can be helpful in gaining an understanding of the cards. I was a bit disappointed here. Some were very good, but some left me flat. For example, the archetype she associated with the Queen of Pentacles was the healer. So TV doctors were listed as the pop culture references. I thought Hawkeye Pierce was a wonderful pop culture association for the Queen of Pentacles, however, the additional suggestion of Dr. House really missed the mark.I do think this could be a very helpful book for a beginner looking to learn to read predictively for others. I did not find it that helpful on my own personal tarot journey.

If like me, you've been struggling to get your head around the court cards, this is the book for you. It explains clearly defined roles, characteristics and archetypes of the tarot court. This book really provided clarity for me helped where many others had failed.

Love it! Very nice to learn more about Court cards.

Fabulous book and exercises to aid understanding of the court. Ethony has filled a gap in the market.

Llegó en perfectas condiciones.Me ha gustado mucho ojearlo. No lo he leido completamente, pues me acaba de llegar. Lo que he visto me ha gustado bastante pues realmente es un conocimiento sobre las cartas de la corte. Tiene ejercicios, tablas, explicaciones, tiradas especificas, relaciones con el zodiaci, planetas, edades, elenentos, temporadas, mantras, etc.Esta mas orientado al trabajo terapeutico pero deja una visión tambien al adivinatorio.Tiene muchas imagenes describiendo las cartas del tarot de Barbara Moore y Deborah Blake principalmente. Aunque estan en escala de grises, son claras y precisas.

Sí tienes ganas de profundizar en la corte, este libro no te puede faltar, ayuda mucho en conectar con la energía de cada uno de los personajes de la corte y te da herramientas para poder identificar si es una actitud o un personaje, aunque siempre hay que poner mucha atención a la intuición. Pero este libro te proporciona buenas herramientas y bastante conocimiento sobre la corte.