I have been teaching tarot workshops as a means of developing intuitive abilities since 2005, and some of the original students are still coming to the advanced class; they enjoy tarot so much they don’t want to give it up! This is fun, fascinating to learn and can deepen your own ‘psychic’ capacities by integrating the intuitive and strictly grounded thought processes, so that your subconscious uses the concrete imagery of the cards to provide conscious ideas.
In the first workshop
the meaning of the 78 cards is covered, as well as some historical background and we discuss how it is that the cards may work. We also do a simple spread that you can practice for yourself and your friends at home before workshop 2.
The second workshop
is designed to explore the kind of people the royalty cards represent in card spreads, for example: is that your younger brother or your rich uncle who keeps turning up in your cards? We will work with a relationship spread amongst others and practice reading our own cards for months ahead.
The third workshop
covers the occult (hidden) aspects in tarot, such as astrology and numerology, both of which are represented in the cards. We look at what it means when you get more than one or two of a type of card turning up, e.g. two knights. We practice reading other peoples cards as a group.
In later workshops,
as an intermediate group, we will work on many different spreads building up to designing spreads of our own to answer specific questions. The advanced class looks at deeper esoteric links to tarot cards and how they can develop clairvoyance.
It is suggested that you attend the first three workshops in tarot reading if you want to achieve the most from the course, as each provides important foundation material on which to build the future knowledge of later workshops. If you miss one for any reason after those 3 you will still be able to continue the course without difficulty.
Any Rider Waite designed (ask if you want to know more about which ones these are), deck is suitable for the course, as that is the teaching aid used. Boards to lay out the cards on are provided during the workshops and, if you don’t already have a deck of your own, various Rider Waite style tarot decks are for sale at very competitive prices.
You will need to bring paper and a pen for each workshop to note how to lay out new spreads, the meaning of card combinations etc. but most of the work is with the cards themselves.