Handy guide to the 'Rider Waite Tarot Deck'. Each card from the pack (both `Major & Minor Arcana') is illustrated on a full page in black outline, opposite its description, divinatory meaning and reversed meaning.
Used this like a flash card system, to build up my general familiarity with each image and 'classic' meaning. I prefer to take literal definitions of cards, with a pinch of salt, relying mainly on a mixture of intuition and synchronicity to guide my readings.

For a good non-dogmatic introduction to tarot and other methods of divination see 'Positive Magic' by Marion Weinstein.