Tarot: Mirror of the Soul: A Handbook for the Thoth Tarot (Weiser Classics Series)

This is my favorite book on the Thoth tarot. It isn't a tome only 190 or so pages but is very concise. The information is minimal but eloquent making it easy to read and digest. It is also very good for someone who is a complete beginner to the Thoth deck. I especially liked the short Indications, Questions, Suggestion, and Affirmation entries for each card, they are short but I found them very enlightening. I also can recommend The US Games Thoth book and Crowley's Book of Thoth.

This is an excellent (to very good) resource for *divination* purposes using the Crowley-Harris THOTH tarot deck. Ziegler's "Tarot" provides more immediate concepts for interpreting a card (e.g. in a spread) than the booklet insert that comes with the deck. It's a fine "Intro" or go-to book.It works especially well with Lon Milo DuQuette's "Thoth Tarot," which is *excellent* in its discussion of symbolism, significance, historical context, and connections and insights into Tarot, Tree of Life, and Tarot as a spiritual journey or meditation practice.**A note about the Thoth Tarot deck by Aleister Crowley and Lady Freida Harris: If you're drawn to it, Get it! If you "fear" it: Get it! It simply is the best, deepest, most "correct" deck you could have or want for insights, clarity, or social/spiritual understanding.I didn't know anything about the Thoth deck (it was required for a course), but I had used or was familiar with others. As other reviewers point out, Crowley managed to impart and condense a lifetime's study into 78 cards. Heady stuff, and not especially easy to get or master. Yet it doesn't matter! The artwork (by Lady Harris) enables you to enter the card / meaning from whatever orientation you have -- color, numeric (numerology), chakra-based, astrological, physical, ..., whatever. You can just go with that.The cards also have a way of unfolding (unpacking some say) more info and insights as you continue your relationship with them. (True!) Pretty cool. That's when a book like DuQuette's can really come in handy. In terms of other decks, previous experience with others lends me the confidence to say THOTH is the BEST deck, ever, for high-level mastery and understanding of greater, highest good. Others, e.g. Rider-Waite, are anachronistic, patriarchal vehicles for fear mongering or are well intentioned but skewed/off.

I have to admit that I have not read the book of thoth, and I have not read any other book on the crowly deck, though I would have to say that after I read this book that my Crowley deck seemed to increase in value to me tenfold and it also changed and increased much of my view through the Tarot in General. I have been a small collecter and learned to some degree of the Tarot and this book was definately worth its price. This book is written quite plainly to include a few pages of COMPLETE detail on every card and several chapters on the ways intended or recommended for crowley tarot readings. The discription of the card does not just leave you feeling that you know that such and such means trouble is coming and you should exercise caution, (I would hope anyone looking into the crowley tarot understands the nature of crowley) rather this is a book to follow the path of the tarot as mans growth. Reading this book it completely took the harsh pictures that make the deck sometimes disturbing into a very calculated and helpful tool with very earth shattering sound advise for those that want to have control of there life (just as it seemed Crowley was truely teaching us in his sometimes harsh way)I recommend it without reservation if you are attracted in anyway to the Crowley deck. Now if you are just getting interested in tarot cards and do not know the back end of a tarot card from adam and don't even know what the Crowley cards look like or that there is a significant differance between decks then I would stop and start doing a lot more suching first before buying this... but definitely come back to buying this.

Bought this expecting to use it occasionally to cross reference some meanings and ideas from AC, but I find I use this as often or more.Zeigler’s perceptions and insights are so powerful and obviously born of much study and practice. I might feel unsure or unclear in my reading after looking over AC and DuQuette (which are both excellent), only to find that a sentence from Zeigler brings it into crisp focus. Truly good nuance.I’m on my second copy from all the wear my first has seen.Really looking forward to more from the author.

I love the in-depth explanation of each card that this book gives. I also have the deck that goes with it, which is great because the book explains the meaning behind all the details in the artwork on each card. After the explanation, it gives an Indication, Question, Suggestion, and Affirmation, all of which I find super helpful. I pull a card each morning and I love how it applies to what is going on in my life that day.

This is my first Thoth book. After many years of RWS clones, I decided it was time to learn Thoth, as many decks I am interested in incorporate Thoth structures and symbols.I love this for the way that each tiny symbol is mentioned, to the point that I have to struggle to find it in the card because it is so well hidden. I like the journal prompts.What this book lacks is a balance of light and dark. There is no mention of the shadow aspects of each card, and that makes it harder to do inner work. Each card is apparently only representative of the greatest good. The five of swords (defeat) means that you are now ready to face your fear of defeat, according to the author. The definitions are skewed, and I will be getting another guidebook for more nuanced and complete meanings. For now, I am relying on my knowledge of RWS to understand these cards, together with the symbols. When a card definition (Prince of Swords) actually refers me to read Shakti Gawain’s Creative Visualization, I know I need to get another viewpoint.