Free course
Learn to read tarot
Nineteen short lessons, in order, from the shape of the deck to reading a whole spread.
Foundations
- 1 What a Tarot Reading Actually Does Now Seventy-eight pictures, and why they are useful whatever you believe.
- 2 Inside a Deck of 78 Cards Now How the deck is built, and what the split between major and minor tells you.
- 3 The Major Arcana as One Long Story Now Twenty-two cards in order, from the first step off the cliff to the last.
- 4 The Four Suits and What They Are About Now Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles: four kinds of problem and four kinds of answer.
- 5 Numbers, Aces and Tens Now Each number is a stage, and it means much the same thing in all four suits.
- 6 The Court Cards Now Sixteen cards that can be a person, a mood, or a way of handling something.
Before you read
- 7 Choosing a Deck and Making It Yours Now Which deck to start on, how to shuffle, and how much ritual is worth keeping.
- 8 Where and When to Read Now The conditions matter more than beginners expect, and none of it is mystical.
- 9 Writing a Question That Can Be Answered Now The skill that improves readings most, and four questions that never work.
- 10 The Daily Card Now One card a morning, and why it teaches faster than studying does.
Reading the cards
- 11 Your First Spread: Three Cards Now The smallest layout that says anything, and four ways to use it.
- 12 Bigger Spreads, and What a Position Does Now Five, seven and ten cards, and why the layout is half the meaning.
- 13 Reading a Single Card in Position Now The core method: four passes over one card, in a fixed order.
- 14 How Cards Change Each Other Now Cards are read in company. Four ways a neighbour alters what one is saying.
- 15 Reversed Cards Now Whether to use them at all, and five readings that beat “the opposite”.
- 16 Turning a Spread Into a Story Now The last pass, where separate interpretations become something you can say out loud.
- 17 When a Reading Will Not Come Together Now Six reasons a spread goes silent, and what to do about each.