We used to have this deck and never used it. The Major Arcana are completely confused, their order doesn't even resemble the usual numbers. The book is also terribly complicated, confusing, and includes a lot of material that is utterly inessential to reading tarot. I can handle a pretty deep, complicated and intellectual explanatory book. The Gill Tarot's book, for one. This one makes no sense. Perhaps it would work if you were already an alchemist.