Kitchen Table Tarot Spoon Feeds Her Readers

Kitchen Table Tarot by Melissa Cynova is the perfect appetizer for beginner tarot readers but only a hold-over snack for experienced ones.

With Cynova’s perspective being a veteran reader for over 30 years, she gives practical advice and notes to best read tarot cards. In addition, she's known for teaching tarot from her own kitchen table and other events for many years to help others find their potential in reading cards.

Newbie readers would highly benefit from her work since her explanations are thorough and based on the tarot cards' physical appearance. Cynova heavily recommends using the Rider-Waite tarot deck or similar versions to get the best experience of learning tarot inside and out. With that said, her explanations go hand in hand with the visuals. Traditional tarot card books are heavily based on the Rider-Waite tarot deck, bland to the pallet but meant to fulfill their purpose to feed the mind full of knowledge.

It can be difficult for an experienced reader to use this book as a sole reference due to having their own experiences on how THEY interpret the cards. However, it can be helpful to hear another perspective. Still, once a reader reads tarot cards a certain way, it can be challenging to be open to another. The point of having various readers is to cater to certain people's energies and how they receive messages.

This book is not heavily based on the history of tarot breaking it down like other books based on paganism and the heavy esoteric meanings of the elements and so forth. Yet, it is an easy read for those who need a straightforward approach. It is palatable because Cynova spoon-feeds her interpretations in a casual tone with a hint of playfulness.

This book is all about the practical approach and personal experiences which Melissa Cynova has gone through. In her book, she gets personal, which gives the reader a taste of what she has been through yet is very relatable for those other experienced tarot readers who do it for a living.

Cynova dedicates a chapter to "The Ethics of Reading," going over questions about reading the cards and what newbies should do, including taking responsibility when becoming a reader, how readings can go, etc.

This work reads like a cookbook that gives newbie readers the skeletal construct of establishing a relationship with their cards and how to view them. Other tarot veterans can skip around to find the cooking basics to sharpen their skills if they are open to it. Taste it once before passing on it.