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What you will learn in this course:
• What is tarot? • Decoding the Major Arcana Cards • What’s a “suit”? • Court Cards – what are they? • How to interpret the cards without a book – what?!
• How to do a spread • Working with the “perfect” quesLon • The “Bad Boys” of the tarot
What to expect
• To have fun! • Classes are every Tuesday for 75 to 90 minutes for five weeks.
• Please post assignments in our Facebook group and get to know each other! Don’t forget to tag me if you have a quesLon!
• Before our last class we will have a live Q & A for 1 hour
CHOOSE YOUR TRAVELING COMPANION!
Before each class, you will be selecLng a card and that card will be your “traveling companion” for
this class.
Shuffle your deck, pick a card, and set it beside your laptop or device.
Don’t worry about the meaning just yet, just share with the group in the chat space, what you THINK
the card means for you for this class.
WHAT IS TAROT?
Believed to have been originally a card game in the middle ages in Italy. But really they are just:
A set of images that evoke an emoLonal and psychological response.
Tarot cuts through our noisy mind chaeer and allows us to listen to our subconscious and intuiLve mind.
We all have the answers to all of our problems, but have lost the inability to listen. And even when we DO hear our intuiLve voice, we have lost our ability to trust what it is saying.
Tarot is the mediator between our logical brain and our Inner Wisdom.
This is the age old “Ah ha” moment.
Like a Rorschach Ink blot that psychiatrists have used – your subconscious mind starts to churn away going through its GIANT rolodex of memories and experiences to get meaning from the card.
Which is why it’s….
A) Super cool
&
B) Very very effecLve at helping you solve problems, make decisions, or get real deep
clarity about a situaLon or area of your life or business.
Clearing your deck
It is important to clear your deck the first Lme you use it, and also every single Lme you use it from then on.
Simply rest a quartz crystal on your deck, or wave your deck over smoke from a burning sage smudge sLck. You can add an intenLon such as: I clear this deck of all negaLve energies.
CreaLng your Sacred Space
• Find a room or corner of your home that is designated to your tarot work • Gather your tarot deck, a quartz crystal, smudge sLck, or any other meaningful objects for your altar. • State your intenLon for this space using a simple prayer or declaraLon.
Caring for your cards
It is important to keep your cards in a special place, but it is a myth that you can only keep them in a pouch made from natural fibres. You can even keep them in their original box if you want, but usually your favourite or main deck you will be using daily, so a pouch or even an organza bag works really well too.
Clear the energies of your deck regularly by waving them over smudge smoke, or placing a cleared quartz crystal on top of them.
CLEARING YOUR DECK
A) Super cool
&
B) Very very effecLve at helping you solve problems, make decisions, or get real deep
clarity about a situaLon or area of your life or business.
Let’s try it right now
Type in the chat space EXACTLY what you see in the card – be literal!
SAY WHAT YOU SEE.
One more thing…
USING THE “INTUITIVE BLURT”
While you are “saying what you see” and as you move throughout this course, pay aeenLon to when you get a “hunch” or a “gut feeling”.
BLURT IT OUT when this happens.
With Lme, you will learn to gently enfold these blurts into your story, but for now BLURT IT OUT!
CREATE A STORY
Imagine that this card is an illustraLon from a book. What would the accompanying text be? Tell a liele story about what is happening in this card?
How is this person feeling? Where is his focus? What is the scenery around him? What happened before and ajer this image?
CONGRATULATIONS!
You just did your very first ever tarot reading!
Reading the tarot is ulLmately about looking at the images on the cards and allowing your
intuiLve self interpret what you see.
Now, are you ready? Here is the tradiLonal meaning of the 5 of Cups…..
5 of Cups
• Pessimism – focusing on the cups that have spilled and not even seeing that full cups right behind you! • Depression – feeling hopeless, and not able to see the brighter days ahead. • Melancholy – pining over what was lost.
The story…
Here’s what a story might look like:
A man has suffered a great loss, and is grieving over it so much that he cannot move on. He is focused only on his terrible loss, and cannot see the blessings behind him. He only needs to turn around to see there are good things in his life and a way out (bridge) of his grief.
How did you do?
Were your notes about the 5 of Cups similar to the tradiLonal meanings?
How about your story?
Remember: each reader will have their own unique “meaning” of each card as it is filtered through their own intuiFve lens. There are no
wrong answers!
ONGOING ASSIGNMENT:
• Buy or grab a journal or notebook only for this work.
• Do this exercise for EACH CARD of your tarot deck. STARTING WITH THE MAJOR ARCANA.
• Pull out one or two cards per day and write down exactly WHAT YOU SEE in the image.
• Write a liele story. Pull out KEY WORDS and make note of them.
• Look up the tradiLonal meaning in a book or online, and add any that resonate with you.
By the end of this course, you will have the MOST AMAZING book of your own unique
meanings of your tarot cards!
• Build a solid relaLonship with the cards. • Have your own unique interpretaLon of the cards
Doing this you will:
78 cards
22 Major Arcana major events or turning points in one’s life
56 Minor Arcana
the day-‐to-‐day trials and tribulaLons, celebraLons, ups and downs of daily life. Might feel dramaLc, but they tend to pass.
This too, shall pass.
MAJOR PLAYERS Decoding the 22 Major Arcana
Key thing to remember: Major Arcana cards are “major”, and they represent an energy that is very powerful and more potent than all of the other cards.
We need to pay close aeenLon when they come up in a reading.
WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
• They always represent a TURNING POINT or TRANSITIONAL TIME in a person’s life.
• They can also represent an important
LIFE LESSON. • SomeLmes they also represent a reoccurring theme in the person’s life.
Learning the Major Arcana Cards
There are some cards where you will need to become familiar with the tradiLonal meanings and key words from a book or some other source. The Major Arcana are those cards! For ex: The High Priestess key words: Non-‐ac<on; intui<on; unconscious awareness; mystery. Looking beyond the obvious.
HOW TO INTERPRET
• Become familiar with the card’s meaning. • When they come up in a reading for yourself or others, understand that they represent either or all of the following:
• A MAJOR turning point in a person’s life. • A life lesson at this Lme. • A transiLonal period: for whatever reason, this is an important Lme in the person’s life.
• A re-‐occurring theme in the person’s life, ojen Lmes Led up with the life lesson.
REMEMBER…
When you see a Major Arcana card in a spread, just remember that it is a major turning point, life lesson, transiLonal Lme, or re-‐occurring
theme.
Then you explain the meaning of the card. This will give the meaning of the card in CONTEXT.
Learning with Archetypes
• Help us to recognize what we are seeing • Help us to relate to the image.
• They give your subconscious a frame of reference to grasp meaning from a story, situaLon, or in this case, a tarot card!
What is an archetype?
DefiniLon: “An original paeern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based.”
Or In Jungian psychology: A collecLvely inherited unconscious idea, paeern or thought, image, etc. Universally presented in individual psyches.
HUH?
Confused? I was too! Writers use archetypes all the Lme: Ex: • The down-‐to-‐earth mom • The famous spoiled celebrity • A backpacking adventurer • Teacher – most people around the world will understand what you mean by the word ‘TEACHER’ because it is an ARCHETYPE.
Digging deeper
• Adventurer • Taking a leap of faith • Naïve and enthusiasLc • New beginnings
Tarot is someLmes referred to as The Hero’s Journey that starts with The Fool. Think Frodo in Lord of the Rings.
CONTEXT AND MEANING
• The Fool is the adventurer. A naïve person ready to take the big leap in life, full of enthusiasm!
• If this card came up in a reading, this would be important because why?
Could be a TURNING POINT TRANSITIONAL TIME
LIFE LESSON RE-‐OCCURRING THEME
• What might the life lesson be then? Or the turning point?
• The meaning is determined largely by the CONTEXT.
Major Arcanas:
You would say the following to yourself or the other person:
This is a turning point in your life, or a life lesson. Are you feeling as though you are starLng
something brand new and it is feeling a liele bit scary? Are you taking a BIG LEAP into the
unknown?
When a Major Arcana Card appears:
• Ego • Not ethical • Addicted to power • Giving in to more primal needs • TemptaLons • Impulsive behaviour
Another example:
WOAH.
If you were thinking of taking on a brand new job that has been offered to you, and you asked the cards about it, and the devil came up.
What might you say given what you have just learned about The Devil?
Archetype example:
What film/literature character or public figure could The Magician represent? The Magician is obviously a “magician” but also can represent an Alchemist, or someone who can transform anything from seemingly very liele.
• Gandolf • Merlin • Hermoine Granger from Harry Poeer • Harry Poeer • Even Voldemort (he would be the Shadow side of the Magician)
HOMEWORK
• You will find all homework/worksheets in the Learning Hub under each module. For this week, though, you will be using your journal only.
This week: 22 Major Arcana Journaling • “Say what you see” for each card. • Note in journal and jot down key words • Write a liele story • Validate by looking up tradiLonal meanings and add any keywords or phrases to your journal.
In Summary:
• Tarot is a tool that we use to access our intuiLve mind.
• There are 78 cards in the deck, 22 of which are Major Arcana, 56 of them are Minor.
• The Major Arcana are the heavy hieers, represenLng those major turning points, transiLons, or life lessons in our lives.
• You can idenLfy some of the major arcana by relaLng them to their archetype.
• RelaLng some of the Major Arcana to characters in movies and television, is another fun way to learn the cards.
Remember your traveling companion?
• NOW, share what you think this card’s meaning was for you for this class!
• Say what you see in the card, tell a liele story. Share with the class what if anything has changed for you in the meaning of this card?
• Bring your cards to every class! :0)