Beginner Cards

Beginner Tarot cards and decks. These are the Tarot sets that are easy for Tarot beginners, newbies and novices to use - though plenty of advanced readers use them too. Usually, their symbols of the beginner decks are based upon the Rider-Waite Tarot.

Easy Tarot The Easy Tarot kit was created for the tarot newcomer. It includes the lovely Gilded Tarot deck and a companion book called the Easy Tarot Handbook by Josephine Ellershaw.

Essential Tarot Kit The Essential Tarot Kit is a small but solid introduction to tarot for beginners. The pretty, playing-card size Hanson-Roberts Tarot cards are accompanied by a hard-cover book with the meanings of all 78 cards.

Golden Universal Tarot The Golden Universal Tarot is a re-printing of the Universal Tarot by Roberto de Angelis, but with selected symbols and imagery decorated with gold foil. Due out from Lo Scarabeo in mid-2013.

Hanson-Roberts Tarot The Hanson-Roberts Tarot is the deck I learnt to read with.. it's an easy to understand one for beginners and has positive, slightly medieval artwork that was originally drawn in coloured pencil. Some of the humans look a little odd, but it grows on you.

Instant Tarot Reader The Instant Tarot Reader is a book-and-deck set from Monte Farber and Amy Zerner. It includes their tarot deck, the Zerner Farber Tarot, and a very substantial 344-page companion book to get you started with tarot cards.

International Icon Tarot The International Icon Tarot is a reworking of the Rider-Waite images, applicable to a universal audience by using simple iconic signs with neutral, faceless figures without sex or race. A modern classic (with the addition of The Happy Squirrel card).

Morgan-Greer Tarot The Morgan-Greer Tarot is an excellent deck for Tarot beginners, this deck is of the Rider-Waite tradition, with far better artwork. The cards are borderless, for something different, and the characters are shown fairly close-up.

Quick and Easy Tarot The Quick and Easy Tarot attempts to simplify the use of Tarot cards. It has very large orange and blue borders with printed upright and reversed card meanings, around illustrations from the Universal Waite Tarot.

Rider-Waite Tarot The Rider-Waite Tarot is a classic Tarot deck, perhaps the most well-known in the Western world. It is often called the first modern Tarot deck, as the cards drawn by Pamela Colman-Smith and commissioned by Waite were the first to use detailed pictures on the minor arcana cards.

Sacred Rose Tarot The Sacred Rose Tarot is a standard Tarot deck that has had some Qabbalistic symbolism added to the colourful artwork, inspired by medieval stained glass and Byzantine icons. Suitable for readers of any level.

Sharman-Caselli Tarot The Sharman-Caselli Tarot is a clearly and attractively illustrated set of 78 cards inspired by the Rider-Waite and Visconti-Sforza Tarot decks. Formerly available only as part of the Beginner's Guide To Tarot book-and-cards set, it has now been released as a separate deck.

Simply Tarot 'Simply Tarot' is an inexpensive packaged set for beginners that includes a deck of 78 cards, an instruction book, and a DVD. The cards are a clone of the Rider-Waite, except the imagery is photographic rather than illustrated.

Tarot and You The Tarot and You is a majors-only deck and book set for beginners from Australian astrologer and writer, Lindel Barker Revell. The attractive large-size cards are printed on rather thin cardstock.

Tarot for Everyone Tarot for Everyone is a kit including the Rider-Waite based deck, the Universal Tarot, and a small 64-page companion book aimed at beginners.

Tarot Kit for Beginners The Tarot Kit for Beginners includes the 78-card Universal Tarot deck, along with a guidebook written by tarot reader Janet Berres, called Your Guide to the Tarot. It's a solid set with which to start your tarot journey.

Tarot Kit for Teens Maria Shaw's Tarot Kit for Teens is a youth-oriented set designed for teens who want to discover their psychic abilities. The set includes the Universal Tarot deck, and a basic book by Maria Shaw that introduces that cards, how to read them, and various tarot spreads.

Tarot Learning Cards The Tarot Learning Cards are a flash card style deck, with graphic design icons on the front, and text information on the back. The back info includes a theme, keywords, and additional associations for both upright and reversed meanings. Designed as a study guide for the beginning reader.

Tarot of Prague The Tarot of Prague is a very beautiful Tarot, composed of collaged photographs of Prague's art and architecture. Suitable for readings, and for beginners, the Tarot of Prague is now a classic, and is highly recommended.

Tell Me Tarot The Tell Me Tarot is designed to make the wisdom of tarot accessible to anyone. It has simplified but recognisable tarot scenes, text titles and meanings on the cards underneath the tarot scenes, and even indicates whether they are positive or negative. Originally published in 2004 in Hebrew and English, it has also been reprinted in 2008 by US Games.

The Complete Tarot Kit The Complete Tarot Kit has copies of two incredibly influential tarot decks - the Rider-Waite Tarot and the Thoth Tarot. Accompanying the deck is the book, Introduction to Tarot, by Susan Levitt. The book has full-colour comparative pictures of both decks and is a basic intro to using tarot.

Universal Tarot The Universal Tarot is a multi-lingual basic tarot deck suitable for beginners. Pamela Colman-Smith's Rider-Waite images have been recoloured and redrawn in a more Italian, dynamic style.

Universal Waite Tarot Imagine the Rider-Waite with artwork in the style of the Hanson-Roberts deck. The Universal Waite Tarot is quite a pretty version (or clone) of the Rider-Waite, with more appealing, softer artwork.

Wild Rose Training Deck The Wild Rose Training Deck is designed to be a first deck so the reader can get used to the tarot, and then comfortably read other decks. It has 78 cards with simple tarot imagery on the right, and a list of meaning phrases on the left of the card.