About this Book

This edition of the text was prepared by Mark McElroy and released in November 2015. It is based on material previously published as The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Tarot (Que Books) and public-domain card meanings from A Guide to Tarot Card Meanings. (www.TarotTools.com Books).

This book has been released under a Creative Commons license. You may share this material by copying and redistributing it in any medium or format. You may adapt this material, remixing, transforming, or building upon it for any purpose, even commercially. When you do, please give appropriate credit (a reference to Mark McElroy and a link to www.TarotTools.com will do) and indicate if you made changes.

The Tarot card images in this book are scans of a first edition Rider-Waite Tarot designed by Pamela Coleman Smith and published by William Rider & Son Limited in December of 1909. These images are unambiguously in the public domain in the United States.