Tarosophy by Marcus Katz - challenging but worth it!

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One of the most important voices in contemporary tarot. Marcus Katz's big tome of a book is a treasure-trove of inspiration and advice for professional readers. It's not always a smooth read but it's very much worth persisting with.
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12 авг 2024

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@urbanfrog8466 6 месяцев назад

I actually really like the way it is formatted, and collated. I love the dividing and subdividing, it makes it very layered. It is very reminiscent of a much, MUCH older style of writing. I guess I'm a bit of an oddity, then, or maybe I'm just hanging to a past life, lol. Anyway, it is a really good book, very practical and informative. A refreshing change from the multitude of tarot book that say they will teach you great methods to learn the tarot for reading and self development, or how to hone or develop intuitive reading skills, or that they have new or obscure layouts, etc, and they almost all invariably turn out to be just an encyclopedia of card definitions, a few standard layouts, and maybe some historical stuff.

@laurenlevy9948 7 месяцев назад

I could t agree more. It’s the book that I’ve been looking for. It includes exercises and concepts to becoming a better reader.

@tewtravelers9586 6 месяцев назад

Excellent review. It looks like the kind of read I enjoy, but your opinions make perfect sense.

@teatarot4557 5 месяцев назад

You should definitely give it a go. It is quite unusual.

@christinescott 4 месяца назад

Thanks for this reveiw, I have been toying with getting this book as a NLPer myself, I think it is worth a place on my bookshelf. Great reveiw,thanks again!

@teatarot4557 4 месяца назад

I would be super-interested to hear what you make of it. It's unusual! Rx

@christinescott 4 месяца назад

@@teatarot4557 yes, first I have to wait for international postage, so do no hold your breath.

@XwynntopiaX 6 месяцев назад

This is the second video of yours I have watched, and I agree with you on this book review. Tarosophy is a good book, but it sort of does miss the mark in some places. Hard for a beginner like me. I plan on watching a couple of your other book review videos. Thank you so much!

@teatarot4557 6 месяцев назад

I'm glad it was helpful. 🙂

@aquamarine18 8 месяцев назад

Excellent review -- gives me a good sense of the book's scope, structure, and approach. I don't know that this is one for me, but it seems a very ambitious book. I do tend to get drawn in when I see a good bibliography.

@teatarot4557 8 месяцев назад

I was being fairly tactful in the video. The best thing about this book is the NLP element, which is really good. But the book continually veers off in other directions. It's a challenge!

@elip4854 2 месяца назад

I understand what you're saying but this book isn't a straight read through. I look at it as more of an information guide. It has helped me tremendously over the years. I also think this book originally had better formatting because it was published by a company that went under and he had to buy the rights back and republish it. There are older editions that sometimes pop up on eBay.

@teatarot4557 2 месяца назад

That's very interesting. I wish I had the earlier version!

@toddh377 8 месяцев назад

I'm heard of him and seen books written by him but never felt a call to read them. Didn't know about his interest in nlp. Thank you for the review. Pretty sure now my instincts were correct.

@urbanfrog8466 6 месяцев назад

Can I just point out that when Katz talks about "people can be divided into four categories", he's not saying that there are only four categories that people can be divided into, and that is it. That is very black and white thinking. He is saying that for the purpose of tarot, we can divide people into four categories, but obviously there are many, many other ways people can be divided too. And people will invariably fit into many different categories. It also doesn't mean that just because someone is in one category at a given time, that the category they are in won't change depending on the circumstances, focus of the question, or choices made. He isn't saying that all people fit only into these four specific categories and no others, and once in that category, that's it, they are there for life, end of story.

@teatarot4557 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for both your messages. It's always nice to talk to someone who has read the same books. I think on the whole I was quite polite about Katz's book but I did find reading it a real test and there were times when it drove me up the wall. Of course one can use the elemental system of personality types, but I was frustrated by Katz's claim that this is a system that you can quickly learn and quickly use. When I was researching my own book I realised that the court cards are the part of the tarot over which there is most disagreement, and I did a lot of research about them. I ended up feeling that yes, there is an elemental aspect to them, but there are other layers too, for example the traditional associations of them with the heroes of antiquity (for example the Queen of Swords as Pallas Athene) and other apparently random associations wich have gathered round them over the years (for example, Queen of Swords as "the Widow"). If you tell your readers that it's *just* a matter of knowing the four elements, then the Queen of Swords is simply "water of air" - which to a beginner is probably quite puzzling. I'm probably oversimplifying, but that's how Katz'y book struck me.

@urbanfrog8466 6 месяцев назад

@teatarot4557 I apologize if you felt my comment was disparaging your review, it wasn't meant it that way. I actually thought your review was very good. You gave your honest opinions, of both what you found to be good and not so good about it. Even though you found aspects of it frustrating, you didn't let that lead you the view of 'if some of it is bad then all of it is bad' that I see in so many reviews - people not liking part of a book so deciding the whole book lacks any merit. Yes, court cards are definitely the most contentious cards of the deck, and generally the most difficult for beginners. Perhaps because I am a long-time reader of tarot, I automatically viewed his work and ideas as another layer on what I already knew, simply another perspective to incorporate, one of many facets on the jewel, rather than seeing it as a single option. So, what is your book about? It sounds Interesting. BTW, greetings from New Zealand (moving to Australia in a couple of months, though).

@teatarot4557 6 месяцев назад

Greetings from Berlin. And thanks for the reply. My book is a kind of beginner's tarot book for smart people. I will publish it in one volume with a book by a friend, which consists of speculations about how tarot works - again aimed at people coming to it for the first time. @@urbanfrog8466

@teatarot4557 6 месяцев назад

ps, Apologies if I was defensive! The internet is such a jungle.