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Ready to plunge in and finally learn how to use your Tarot deck? The Tarot Fast Track intensive is oriented to beginners. It rolls three separate classes into a one-day workshop for those who want to put their Tarot learning on a fast track. It covers course material from "Tarot Beginnings: The Minor Arcana", "Tarot Mysteries: The Major Arcana", and "Tarot Insights: Connecting the Cards".
Class begins promptly at 10:15, with a one-hour break for lunch on your own. Bring your Tarot cards with you, or use a loaner deck from the instructor. The curriculum is based on the Rider-Waite/Smith-Waite deck imagery. |
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Tarot Insights: Connecting the Cards
Date: TBD
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: 4 Sisters Holistic Remedies
Cost: $40
Pre-registration through Eventbrite
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: 4 Sisters Holistic Remedies
Cost: $40
Pre-registration through Eventbrite
The magic in reading Tarot is not in memorizing the meanings of the cards, but in accessing your intuition and being able to hear how the cards are talking to you, and to each other. This course will focus on learning to tap into and trust your intuition when doing a reading, how to see the relationships between the cards, and how to weave a story with them. One moderately complex layout will be taught so you can practice seeing and understanding the relationships between the cards. If you have not yet learned the individual meanings of the cards, you’ll still have more to study before you begin reading the Tarot, but the principles learned in this class will provide an excellent foundation to help you become an intuitive reader.
Past Events
Nurturing Your Inner Empath
(NOTE: Based on wonderful feedback from the last round of participants, this course is undergoing revision, and will be focusing even more on shielding/releasing/restoring. A new class will be added to address "projective empathy", consciously amplifying your abilities and tuning into others, and connecting with them.)
Do you experience inexplicable emotions that don’t seem to make sense to be feeling? Does it drain you to be around someone who is emotionally intense? Are you overwhelmed by large gatherings of people? You may be a natural empath, someone who readily absorbs what other people are feeling. It can be a wonderful gift, but if you don’t know how to manage it wisely it can seem more like a curse. This 3-hour class will help you better understand your empathic abilities and how to develop them and use them in a way that does not deplete you. We will cover:
Do you experience inexplicable emotions that don’t seem to make sense to be feeling? Does it drain you to be around someone who is emotionally intense? Are you overwhelmed by large gatherings of people? You may be a natural empath, someone who readily absorbs what other people are feeling. It can be a wonderful gift, but if you don’t know how to manage it wisely it can seem more like a curse. This 3-hour class will help you better understand your empathic abilities and how to develop them and use them in a way that does not deplete you. We will cover:
- Understanding Your Gift
- Amplifying Your Abilities
- Deciphering the Signals
- Recognizing Empathic Overload
- Shielding Techniques
- Releasing Toxicity
- Restoring Your Energy
Tarot Transformations: Creating Change
This course offers practical guidance on incorporating Tarot into your own path of personal growth. Tarot has evolved over time to become a spiritual practice in its own right. After several centuries, the symbols and metaphors of the Tarot have become embedded in the collective unconscious. Your brain reacts to those symbols the same as if they were reality. With the Tarot, you can leverage the power of your own subconscious to deepen your self-awareness, see connections and patterns in the influences surrounding you, design a new, positive direction for your life, and create real and lasting change.
The class covers:
The class covers:
- Creating sacred space for your Tarot practice
- Simple ways to connect with the cards
- Meditation using the Tarot
- Using Tarot as a psychological mirror
- Designing transformative rituals with the Tarot
Tarot Introductions: Choosing a Deck
As a Tarot beginner, the dozens and even hundreds of choices in Tarot decks can be overwhelming. Perhaps you already bought a deck but after opening the box discovered that you strongly disliked many of the cards, or that it is using symbology you can’t connect with. Or maybe you are expanding your Tarot practice and are wondering what other Tarot decks to add to your collection. The goal of this one hour class is to help you make a better decision about which deck is right for you.
The class covers:
The class covers:
- The basic structure of a traditional Tarot deck
- Where to get good information about a deck before you buy
- Deciding which symbology/artwork is best for you
- Which decks are suitable for beginners versus more advanced Tarot readers
- Creating a personal evaluation sheet for comparing decks
- Caring for your Tarot deck
Tarot Mysteries: The Major Arcana
This two hour course is often taken after the Tarot Beginnings class, although the two classes can be taken in either order. The 22 Major Arcana require self-study outside of what will be taught in this class, but this course introduces the traditional meanings of the cards, and several different ways you can connect with them over time.
The class approaches the Major Arcana through:
The course focuses on the traditional meanings of the Major Arcana in the upright position. It will very briefly touch on the concept of reversals, which can be extrapolated to all of the Tarot cards. The class will not specifically address the Minor Arcana or Court cards, though it is possible to begin reading with just the Majors. A simple two and three card reading will be taught so that you can begin to use the cards.
Traditional decks based on the Rider-Waite version of the Tarot will most closely align with the course curriculum, but bring your favorite Tarot deck (or buy one at the shop) and we will work with it. If you have questions about if your Tarot deck is compatible with the course curriculum simply email to ask.
The class approaches the Major Arcana through:
- Symbolism
- Archetypes
- Psychological development
- Meditation
The course focuses on the traditional meanings of the Major Arcana in the upright position. It will very briefly touch on the concept of reversals, which can be extrapolated to all of the Tarot cards. The class will not specifically address the Minor Arcana or Court cards, though it is possible to begin reading with just the Majors. A simple two and three card reading will be taught so that you can begin to use the cards.
Traditional decks based on the Rider-Waite version of the Tarot will most closely align with the course curriculum, but bring your favorite Tarot deck (or buy one at the shop) and we will work with it. If you have questions about if your Tarot deck is compatible with the course curriculum simply email to ask.
Tarot Beginnings: The Minor Arcana
This two hour course is a great beginner's class if you have always wanted to read Tarot but didn't know where to start. This class will teach you a system for reading the cards that minimizes raw memorization and leverages your intuition.
The class provides instruction in the Minor Arcana and the Court Cards, and touches on the Major Arcana:
The course focuses on the combinations of suits, numbers and face cards to help you learn the system to be able to read intuitively. We only briefly touch on the Major Arcana (best covered over time through individual study or an in-depth class devoted just to the Majors) but you will learn enough with what is presented and in your own Tarot deck documentation to be able to begin using the cards. Two basic reading layouts will be taught so you can start reading the cards right away for yourself and your friends.
Traditional decks based on the Rider-Waite version of the Tarot will most closely align with the course curriculum, but bring your favorite Tarot deck (or buy one at the shop) and we will work with it. If you have questions about if your Tarot deck is compatible with the course curriculum simply email to ask.
The class provides instruction in the Minor Arcana and the Court Cards, and touches on the Major Arcana:
- Elemental energies of the suits
- Numerology of the numbered cards
- Combining elemental energies with numerology
- Personalities of the court cards
- Brief walk-through of the Major Arcana
- Two basic reading layouts
The course focuses on the combinations of suits, numbers and face cards to help you learn the system to be able to read intuitively. We only briefly touch on the Major Arcana (best covered over time through individual study or an in-depth class devoted just to the Majors) but you will learn enough with what is presented and in your own Tarot deck documentation to be able to begin using the cards. Two basic reading layouts will be taught so you can start reading the cards right away for yourself and your friends.
Traditional decks based on the Rider-Waite version of the Tarot will most closely align with the course curriculum, but bring your favorite Tarot deck (or buy one at the shop) and we will work with it. If you have questions about if your Tarot deck is compatible with the course curriculum simply email to ask.