Untold Tarot by Caitlin Matthews

Not just another tarot book, Untold Tarot presents historic styles of reading little known in the modern era. Rather than simply including set card meanings to learn by rote, it teaches traditional ways of reading for pre-20th-century decks, drawing upon older cartomantic arts such as blending and pairing cards, reading lines, and following "line of sight" to piece together untold stories according to the direction in which the characters are facing.

With older decks such as the Tarot de Marseille now enjoying a renaissance, the time to rediscover these lost skills is ripe. The practical and personal approach presented here empowers you to read in your own fluid style and develop a full palette of skills from which to interpret. The book also includes a selection of card spreads drawn from traditional French and Italian sources, plus methods of reading cards based on the authors' own extensive research.