This Tarot classic, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, is now in a new edition with a new preface that provides fresh insights about Tarot and card interpretations. Described by many as “the Bible of Tarot readers—a classic that will never outgrow its usefulness,” the book has brought awareness of myth and modern psychology to the Tarot’s ancient esoteric symbolism.  This book uses the Rider Waite Deck as visual symbols.

Readings teach us a general lesson, and a very important one. In a manner no explanation can possibly equal, they demonstrate that no card, no approach to life, is good or bad except in the context of the moment.
 

Finally, giving readings gives each person a chance to renew his or her instinctive feeling for the pictures themselves. All the symbolism, all the archetypes, all the explanations given in this book or any other can only prepare you to look at the pictures and say, “This card tells me...”

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom draws on mythology and esoteric traditions and delves deeply into the symbolism and ideas of each card. It also gives the cards a modern psychological slant based on the pictures rather than a system of occult symbolism. It provides a concise history of tarot, introduces common spreads, and is a clear and readable book for both the beginning and more advanced student of tarot.