How to read tarot cards
The five steps of a reading, from the breath before the shuffle to the one sentence that closes it.
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Learn to read
Thirteen short lessons. Everything you need to read the cards for yourself, and to understand the sky you were born under.
The cards
From your first reading to a practice you keep.
Major and Minor Arcana
Why the deck splits in two, and what it changes in a reading when a Major shows up.
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The four suits
Fire, water, air and earth, and the part of your life each suit is talking about.
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The numbers, ace to ten
One number, one stage of a story. Learn the ten and you have learned forty cards.
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The court cards
The sixteen cards most people find hardest, and the one question that unlocks them.
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Reversed cards
A card upside down is not a bad card. It is the same energy, turned inward or blocked.
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How to ask a good question
Most confusing readings are not bad readings. They are answers to badly built questions.
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Three card spreads
Three cards are enough for almost every question, once you name the positions first.
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Reading cards as one story
The step that separates a list of meanings from an actual reading.
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Keeping a tarot journal
The one habit that turns scattered readings into a practice you can actually learn from.
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The sky
Enough astrology to read your own chart.
Sun, Moon and rising
Three signs, three different jobs. Your Sun sign was only ever a third of the story.
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The twelve houses
Signs are how something happens. Houses are where in your life it happens.
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How to read a birth chart
A chart is a wheel of symbols until you know which order to read it in. Here is the order.
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