78 Degrees of Wisdom, the book with which I started in the Tarot, has between three and pages pages per Major arcana, and at least two pages per minor - more for thos she considers "gate cards" (cards that bring you to another dimension). Although based on RW, Rachel Pollack compares several decks and traditions and discusses the symbolism at length, draws the learner's eye to this or that detail on the card (hence teaching you to look independently too) as well as giving some upright and reversed divination meaning (my only gripe is that she sticks to the RW umbering, which makes no sense to me ow, but on the whole she is not a slave to RW). All that together makes for a very rich experience, even when you are starting out, and you can draw on many elemments to try and undersand meanings. She also works on spreads, and how to read cards TOGETHER in order to get a dynamic reading. I never even looked at any LWBs.
Later I discovered other books, and different aspects of the Tarot. When I am stuck, I still go back to Rachel, she ahs such in-depth knowledge of her subject.
But there are no miracles: for good intuitive readings, you can't get enough practice readings - and this is important: playful reading exercies (thee are examples in this forum) and you must not only read for yourself, but for other people, as you have less emotional attachment to the outcome. And lay the book by - even Rachel Pollack would be the first to say that!
