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Easy Tarot Deck & Book Set — Ellershaw & Marchetti
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Easy Tarot deck & book set by Josephine Ellershaw and Ciro Marchetti pairs a stunning illustrated 78-card deck with a complete learning guide. Perfect for beginners who want structured lessons alongside a gorgeous reading deck. The companion book walks through each card’s meaning in plain, accessible language.
Description:Quick Specs
- Brand: Lo Scarabeo / Llewellyn
- Author: Josephine Ellershaw
- Artist: Ciro Marchetti (Gilded Tarot)
- Type: Tarot deck and book learning kit, 78 cards
- Best for: Beginners learning tarot from scratch, structured learning with beautiful art
Easy Tarot: A Complete Beginner Learning System with Gilded Art
The Easy Tarot set pairs Ciro Marchetti's Gilded Tarot, a 78-card deck known for its rich, Renaissance-influenced art with jewel-toned detail, with Josephine Ellershaw's structured beginner handbook. Ellershaw brings over thirty years of tarot reading experience to the guide, organizing card meanings, spread layouts, and reading techniques in a way that actually moves a complete beginner toward functional reading rather than simply cataloguing definitions. This is a complete kit in one purchase, the deck, the book, and a layout mat, with no companion materials required.
The Gilded Tarot itself is a strong deck independent of the learning system. Marchetti's Renaissance-influenced imagery gives each card visual weight and symbolic clarity that holds up as you develop your reading practice. Many beginning readers find they outgrow their first deck as their skills advance and they want something aesthetically richer. The Gilded Tarot is designed to avoid that trajectory: the art quality means it can function as both a learning deck and a long-term reading deck. You won't set it aside once you advance. Explore my tarot collection to see how the Gilded Tarot compares with other decks for ongoing use.
Ellershaw's Learning System: Structure Without Condescension
Ellershaw's handbook organizes the learning process around how the 78 cards interrelate, not just what each card means in isolation. She covers the minor arcana suit by suit, then the court cards, then the major arcana, explaining the logic connecting cards before asking the reader to memorize meanings. The book also includes a card combination reference, spread layouts ranging from a simple three-card draw to the Celtic Cross, troubleshooting advice for confusing readings, and guidance on keeping a tarot journal. This is a curriculum, not just a glossary.
The kit is explicitly designed for someone who has never held a tarot deck before, but Ellershaw treats that starting point with respect rather than oversimplification. The system is practical and sequential, and the handbook has a clear enough structure that returning to check specific meanings mid-reading is fast and friction-free. For those who learn best with a formal introduction, this remains one of the most coherent complete beginner kits on the market. The layout mat included in the kit makes the Celtic Cross spread immediately accessible without improvisation.
How to Use the Easy Tarot Kit
How to get started with the Easy Tarot kit as a complete beginner using Ellershaw's structured approach.
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Start with the Handbook Before the Cards
Read the introduction and first two sections of Ellershaw's handbook before your first spread. Understanding how suits relate and how the major arcana fit the larger structure makes the cards significantly more readable from the start.
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Work Through Each Suit Sequentially
Ellershaw organizes the handbook by suit, then court cards, then major arcana. Work through each section pulling the cards as you read. This relational approach makes spread readings coherent rather than a collection of isolated card meanings.
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Use the Layout Mat and Journal Together
The included layout mat makes the Celtic Cross immediately usable. Keep a tarot journal as Ellershaw recommends. Recording your interpretations and checking them against outcomes over time is how pattern recognition develops in any reader.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock the Easy Tarot kit because it solves the two biggest barriers to actually learning tarot: having a structured learning path and having a deck worth sticking with. Ellershaw's handbook is one of the more coherent beginner curricula I've come across, and Marchetti's Gilded Tarot is genuinely beautiful enough to remain a reader's primary deck well past the learning stage. The combination matters: you get a system designed to produce a functioning reader, not just a deck with a thin pamphlet attached. For those building out a full practice, browse my tarot books collection for additional study materials to pair with this kit.
Frequently Asked Questions
The kit includes the Gilded Tarot by Ciro Marchetti, a 78-card deck with Renaissance-influenced art in jewel tones. It is paired with Josephine Ellershaw's beginner handbook and a Celtic Cross layout mat.
Yes. Ellershaw's handbook is specifically designed for readers who have never used tarot before. It covers the structure of the deck, individual card meanings organized by suit, spread layouts, and troubleshooting advice for confusing readings.
Not necessarily. The Gilded Tarot is a high-quality deck with strong art that many experienced readers continue to use long-term. The learning kit framing does not mean the deck is a starter piece meant to be replaced as you advance.
A tarot author and reader with over thirty years of experience. She wrote the Easy Tarot Handbook and its follow-up Easy Tarot Reading, and is known for practical, structured approaches to teaching the cards to new and intermediate readers.
