Tarot for Your Self

Sinderella's note

Mary K. Greer's *Tarot for Your Self* is the workbook every serious tarot reader graduates through, my child. It's been in print since 1984 and it shows — the format is dense, exercise-driven, no vibes. You don't *read* this book. You *do* it. Sinderella's copy has thirty-five years of pencil notes in the margins.

The long version

Mary K. Greer's *Tarot for Your Self* — first published in 1984, expanded across multiple editions, currently in print as a 35th-anniversary edition — is the *workbook* every serious tarot reader eventually graduates through. It is not a vibe book. It is not a coffee-table book. It is a dense, exercise-driven, do-the-work-yourself manual. Greer's approach is psychological-spiritual: tarot as a tool for self-knowledge, not divination-for-others. Each chapter walks through a specific practice — calculating your personal lifetime card, doing daily card pulls, tracking patterns over weeks, building your own spreads. Most readers buy this book once, do half the exercises, set it aside, and come back five years later to do the rest. Sinderella's copy has 35 years of pencil notes in the margins. The book assumes you have a Rider-Waite or RWS-clone deck (so it pairs naturally with the Rider-Waite-Smith deck in the Shop). It does *not* assume any astrology background. Pair it with Pollack's *Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom* (for symbolic depth) and you have the two-book starter library that produces actual tarot readers. Saint Cecilia for the patient ones. Saint Catherine of Alexandria (patron of scholars) for the woman who wrote it.