A great guide for beginners who want more from their tarot journey than the little white book. If you want to delve deeper into yourself with the cards and work on your other areas of magical path (like meditation and journeying) this is a great place to start! Highly recommend also for intermediates who need to go back to the basics or need a reset on their tarot habits.

Wow, I really loved reading this book! If you are looking to learn or strengthen your intuition when using the cards, this is a great book for you! Each card has exercises that will help you explore the card with your intuition & a fresh perspective. You also will learn how to view the imagery in a new light and will see the cards in a whole new light. While reading this book, not only will you enhance your intuition but you will see how the Tarot corresponds with your life and can help you through your own personal journey. I think that reading this book is a great modern approach to the Tarot & self exploration. It's not the typical guide and will take you on a great journey that will give you new perspective and learn it's okay to wander a bit from what's the typical path of learning the Tarot! Now, that sounds like a glowing review but let's get real for a moment, this book has a big whoopsie! The King of Pentacles is missing from the book! Oh snap! A star or two taken away, unfortunately. So even though, I enjoyed it so much you can't help but be dissapointed that were a King short of the hand that was dealt. I would still recommend this tome but hopefully it is revised so we can also explore the King of Pentacles, as well.

As a thank, you to Netgalley and the publisher ( Pen and Sword History) for an advanced readers copy of Leeza Robertson’s “ Pathworking the Tarot”. This book is multifaceted as it can be used by novice and experienced tarot card readers. This book is one that should be explored in a timely manner then read consecutively. It can be of course the richness in which Robertson creates should be savored slowly as she provides much to meditate on. In this book Robertson expands on the personal journey one has with the Tarot. This is done by exploring the themes each hard holds as well as exploring meaning found in the cards and provides information in which one may meditate on. This book can be used as an exploratory tool in spiritual work or by exploring the shadow self within us all. This book is insightful and one that I will look to concerning my relationship with the cards for time to come. I gave this book four out of five stars on Goodreads.

An absolute novice as far as the world of tarot cards (and reading them) are concerned, I found this book to be an absolute gem. Providing in-depth explanations of the cards potential narratives while guiding you to work on intuition to eek out meaning (I really appreciated the exercises), I will no doubt turn to this book over and over again to deepen my knowledge of this way of interpreting experience. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to familiarise and examine the tarot card pathway.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I have recently really began the journey of truly integrating tarot and divination into my practice. With this decision come so many avenues to understanding the cards. The advice given and the method described by Robertson was one that I had not heard a lot about and in many ways I found to be rather intuitive. I look forward to incorporating some of the suggestions into my practice.

This book was a fantastic guide to get started with the Tarot. I enjoyed the exercises the author guides us on and the insight into the cards.

Tarot has always been something that's attracted me. I've always wanted to learn more about it. I loved that this book let me do that. I loved the depth and the descriptions. I really enjoyed reading this and once i feel more comfortable with Tarot I hope to make it a part of my daily routine.

I was really impressed at the way this book creates a sort of “devotional” practice with the tarot deck of your choice. It wasn’t really the sort of book that lends itself to a straight-through reading, but that only means it’s good for more than a couple hours to hang out.

For each card in the Major Arcana, and each number in the pips (Minor Arcana) there are meditations and/or questions under three overarching themes: intentional pathwork, intuitive pathwork and wandering pathwork.

This choice offers variety as one reads through the book, but also, if this approach is valuable to a reader, means that a practitioner could read through the book three times (once for each “path”) letting their focus and intimacy with their deck grow steadily deeper.

I’m excited for the chance to pursue another angle of study with my decks.

(My thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for providing this digital copy for review.)

Thank you to NetGalley, Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, Llewellyn Publications for this free ARC of Pathworking The Tarot by Leeza Robertson. The review to follow is based on my own honest opinion.

I work with Tarot, I can honestly say I’ve never read a Tarot book. Having said that, I’m glad that this was my first! This book is so well organised, it’s also a book that would suit a beginner or experienced reader who may perhaps be looking for some more depth to their readings.
The exercises contained within are completely relevant and not there for the sake of including exercises. This is one ARC that I will most likely purchase a copy of.

“Pathworking the Tarot” by Leeza Robertson, is a fascinating way to read tarot. The author has put so much soul into guiding you, as a tarot reader, to better understand what the cards are revealing on an intuitive level.
For the tarot beginner this book is a source of valuable information as well as a great learning tool to get to know your cards better. This book explains all 78 cards in the Major and Minor Arcana, as well as walks the reader through pathworking exercises (intentional, intuitive and my favorite wandering) for each card. With this book your cards speak to you on a whole different level. I have spent almost two weeks now going through the pathworking lessons, and I am about halfway through my tarot deck, but I can honestly say I have a new perspective on reading tarot for myself and others. Blessings

This was exactly as described. A guide to pathworking the tarot. Useful tips for developing a deeper understanding of the tarot.

I would consider this book more for someone who is a little more advanced in tarot reading, or at least has a good basic understanding of the cards. The entire book explains the meanings of each card, and supplies meditation examples and intuitive exercises for each to help deepen the understanding of each card. It is the type of book you will want to use every day in your readings or to learn the cards one by one instead of one to sit down and just read through all at once.

Rating: 5/5

I cannot say how much I have enjoyed reading and referencing this book! Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or professional reader, this book will undoubtedly have something for you. It goes so much deeper than other books I have read about the genre in that the author will have you focus specifically on each card so that you establish a relationship with it, as well as an understanding of it. You will be asked to meditate on, explore, and journal about your experiences with your tarot cards. I'll definitely be talking this book up to anyone interested in tarot or spirituality (and I will definitely be purchasing a physical copy of my own!)

I had a hard time reading this because of the formatting on my kindle. The images created odd pages and did not align well, this was okay because I was able to scroll past it. The more difficult thing was that words were misspelled and missing which made it hard to read and comprehend. Tarot is a trendy topic and I look forward to reading more on it. I did not stick with this because of the difficult flow.

A wonderful tarot book tip help you learn! I have always been drawn to tarot and decided this was a great book to start with. It's a wonderful resource.

A good book, useful to beginners and skilled pratictioners.
I liked how the book is organised and I found useful ideas and hints.
It could have been a 5* but I think that the references to previous books do not help.
Recommended
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

This was an interesting book. Each card gets an explanation about the card but then it explains three different ways to pathwork with the card.: meditation, journaling, and wandering. This part was very interesting for me and I really like the different options that was given. I will be buying this book once it comes out to use as a reference for future readings.

*ARC provided by NetGalley for an honest review.*

Love the idea of Pathworking the Tarot and the journey it involves. This book is fascinating to me, and I'll be spending quite some time exploring it further. I find it absolutely captivating. I think a paperback version will be easier for me to read and follow.
Thank you to Netgalley for the complimentary kindle copy, and I will be buying a paperback version for my own use.

I am not a tarot user/practitioner, but I am purchasing this for our public library collection, and I believe it will be popular. Robertson lays out interesting ways to use your tarot deck and read the cards for different purposes. I only wish it had some pictures of the cards to accompany the text.

I've read cards for a couple of decades now, though am very much an anti-woo stalwart. I like the narratives a reading can create, and about seeking meaning from the chance juxtaposition of some printed designs.

But, like most readers, I still feel there's more I could be getting from the decks. I mean, I'm not a Papus or a Waite, and certainly not a Pollack. And so when the option came up to read a book on pathworking, I took it.

It's a shame I came away a bit bummed.

(Sidebar: I'm not an expert. I've read a lot, and felt my way around this area for ages, but am not attempting to pooh-pooh this based on any perceived superiority. All readers are learning all the time – or should be, at least.)

Pathworking is, in essence, guided meditation. It's about using the cards as indicators rather than in the strictly divinatory sense that some might consider is the standard or correct usage for a deck. For this text, Robertson divided the deck into major and minor arcana – a fairly standard division – and details three ways of interacting with the cards. Intentional, intuitive and wandering methods are covered for each of the major arcana, and then for each value of the minor arcana. The idea is to focus on one card and to foster a connection with it through the various methods, ranging from meditation to going for an actual walk with your laminated chum.

The book reads a bit more fast-and-loose than I prefer in my tarot texts, but that's a personal preference.

I did like the way that the minor arcana's court cards were treated as non-binary and reflective of an interlinked journey rather than moments in isolation. Similarly, the way the numbered cards led to each other was a good take, and I happily took some pointers from some of the comments within.

I filtered a lot of the commentary and exercises, though. It felt like a lot of the intuitive methods of examination could've been shuffled around with not much difference: there's only so many times one can read about stepping into the shoes of a card without thinking that there's something interchangeable about the approach.

I found it strange that the book seems to lump everything in, the assumption being that if you are interested in cards, then angel work, crystals, candle magic, vibrations, mantras, altars and number correspondences will all tag along for the ride. I can totally understand that there's a market for whom this is the case, but it clanged with me.

Something that irked me about the text was the way the author continually refers to their previous works. I understand that Robertson is a deck designer and has written other works on the tarot, but the continual mentioning of other decks (and the occasional "I wrote about this in another book so I won't do it here") passage seems freighted with the expectation that I'd be either familiar with these things, or else would grab 'em at my earliest convenience. This is admittedly a minor irritation, but it felt in places as if the book were written with the assumption that the reader would already be a fan.

Additionally, there's more than a few references to Robertson's clients, which seemed unnecessary at best and a bit of a brag at worst. I don't know: maybe the target audience of this work is readers with an established client list. In that case, they'll perhaps feel a bit reassured that a working reader is writing in a manner that refers to them. For someone who doesn't see clients – I generally only read for friends and by request – it seems to only accentuate the distance between my practice and the author's.

I admit, the limited time I had to read the book – digital review copies have DRM attached which turns a copy into woofle-dust after a certain period – probably influenced my view. Robertson is clear that the book is designed to be used in a take-once-daily kind of way, to deepen the reader's connection to their deck. Perhaps I would have found less repetition had I the freedom to engage in this manner. It may offer a different perspective if approached this way – but based on my feelings on this read-through, it's unlikely I'll give it a second chance.

There's some good ideas here, and some approaches that I might well adopt – but I think Pathworking the Tarot highlights that my approach to both tarot and pathworking are a bit different to the author's. I suspect that if I were just starting out in tarot, I'd have a much more glowing take on the work.

(I read this book ahead of its publication, thanks to Netgalley, in exchange for an unbiased opinion. It wasn't for me, but it might be for you, and you can find out more from the publisher's page on the work.)