Not a book likely to have a large audience overall, but if you read or want to read Marseille-style tarot decks (decks without scenes on the pip/Minor Arcana cards), you may find this to be useful as all get-out. Matthews discusses ways of interpreting tarot cards that emphasize the practical more than the esoteric or purely psychological. Without scenes to set the tone for the pip cards, readers must rely on number and suit to read these cards, and Matthews shows various ways to do that. She includes some spreads, but she also shows how to read cards in a line or a tableau, methods that will be familiar to readers who also use Lenormand cards. She uses older names for the suits (Batons and Deniers instead of Wands and Coins/Pentacles) and for some of the trumps. I thought the book was pretty dense, and I'll need to reread parts of it, but I was delighted to learn about all these new (old!) techniques. ( )