The Lovers' Tarot: For Affairs of the Heart: Amazon.ca: Jane Lyle: Books

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Love is the center of all our emotions. It inspires romance and passion, but also can herald doubts and fears. Most of all, love is elusive and so we often feel the need for guidance and insight into our most urgent longings and desires.

To answer all your questions on affairs of the heart, Jane Lyle has created The Lovers' Tarot which focuses on love, sex and relationships. With its help you can now reveal the path to your future happiness and fulfillment.

-Suitable for beginners, with instantly accessible interpretations
-Includes 22 beautiful Major Arcana cards
-160-page book shows each card in color

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A tarot system that concentrates specifically on affairs of the heart offers a guide to love, emotions, sexuality, and other related issues and includes illustrated cards with a detailed instruction book.

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The twenty-two cards of The Lover's Tarot have been specifically designed and interpreted to focus on questions of love and relationships: eternal issues that concern us all. Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars Can't Wait For The Complete Deck, Feb 10 2004

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Sadie (Ventura, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lovers' Tarot: For Affairs of the Heart (Paperback)

I have owned the large deck with the Major Arcana cards only for several years now and I love them. The pictures are incredibly lovely and I have often wanted a full deck of these cards in a size that's easier to handle. The size of the major arcana deck is quite large and difficult to handle -- there's no way you would be able to shuffle an entire 78 card deck in that size. I can't wait until I get this deck of smaller cards with the entire 78 card deck included. The descriptions that come with the larger deck make a lot of sense and I use them whenever I interpret a romance spread.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 78 card version smaller, nice courts and aces, Jan 26 2004

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This review is from: The Lovers' Tarot: For Affairs of the Heart (Paperback)

The 10th Anniversary edition might be useful for those who want a transitional set that has pretty, romantic art images and interesting relational slant. The images are clean and clear and set against backgrounds such as delicate lavendar, sky blue, soft yellow and a delicate jade.

The cards are the about the size of the Marseilles cards in the 12.98 Tarot set or average Rider Waite Smith by U.S. Games.

The majors are the same pictures, but smaller, if you liked the oversize 22 card version--Strength is Eight and Justice is 11. This edition adds the 16 courts in a similar pictorial style and scenic Aces in Oliver Bursten photocollages. Pips 2 to 10 are Marseilles style, with just patterns of the appropriate suit symbol.

The write ups in the 208 page book has the same slant and full descriptions of the majors, about five pages for each major which include one page that shows a picture of the card and a facing page with a general description. The softcover book is written in blue text and the pictures are in blue and white. The text in first half of the book from pages one to page 147 is virtually identical to the first 22 card edition--although the 22 card edition is a hardcover book with beautiful color pictures.

Pages 148 to 208 group the descriptions of the Aces first, then the twos through ten. Each Ace has a full page description, then the twos have two pages of description, followed by the threes through ten. Court descriptions of the Pages through King have also one page each of description and a small scan of the picture. Pages 188 to 205 give reading suggestions.

The overall tone of the descriptions is relational, but I can use this deck for other topics as well and using it to evaluate likes and dislikes or how close or distant a questioner would feel about a subject. This isn't really a straight Marseilles-style deck because Strength is Eight and Justice is 11 and it's not a RWS with scenic pips. If you don't mind Marseilles styles pips, the book is helpful and essential.

Since Jane Lyle's other 12.98 set is a similar size Marseilles deck with a detailed book, it might be fun for a collector to have both sets, compare the books and decks and have a variety of ideas to develop their readings.

Kat Black's upcoming Golden Tarot is more true to the Medieval to Renaissance style, but this is a nice set if you enjoy a blended old style of European art. The use of the color blue and other tones are soothing and I find it a pretty, romantic set.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lovers' Tarot, Aug 29 2001

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This review is from: The Lovers' Tarot: For Affairs of the Heart (Hardcover)

This was the first Tarot I ever used; it was a gift, which is as i have been taught it should be. I enjoyed it a lot, and still use it, in certain ways. First of all, the use of only the major arcana is a very good way to learn the concept of the Tarot without getting lost under all the cards. That and it also simplifies the reading's complexity, leaving room for the reader to explain and detail instead of just being card after card after card. Secondly, the book is well-written and quite interesting; I remember all the meanings that I learned at the time, and still use them with other Tarot. Thirdly, the artwork is visually stunning- so much so that (don't laugh!) i actually framed the cards and hung them, replacing them with the Major Arcana of a Robin Wood, which were easier to shuffle and work with, as well as reasonably inexpensive. Then, when i had the cards laid, i would show my subject the card in question, then have them look at the one on the wall while i gave the explanation. This gives a nice point of reference, plus eases the irritation of such huge cards. Good Tarot, wonderful Artwork, good book... What else could i ask for?

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Find
This is a three part set consisting of tarot deck (major arcana only) interpretation guide, and case. Read more

Published on July 20 2001 by Fix-It-Kit

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointment
this book was nothing like i was led to believe it was , very disappointing

Published on Mar 12 2001