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Learn tarot
A path in four tiers: from how the deck works to reading whole spreads with care. Foundations is free, and the first lesson of every course is open to everyone.
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Meet the deckHow the 78 cards are organized, where the Waite–Smith tradition comes from, and what a reading on VeilSoul can offer you.
Free, always. How the deck works and your first real readings.
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How the deck is built, how to read a card from its picture, how to ask a question that helps, and how to read three cards together. You learn a system, not 78 meanings to memorize.
11 lessons · about 135 min
All 78 cards through their pictures, their numbers and their people.
Plus · first lesson free
The 22 cards of turning points, two or three at a time: what each picture shows, how far each card reaches from light to shadow, and how to tell it apart from the card it is mistaken for.
11 lessons · about 158 min
Plus · first lesson free
Forty cards, ten ideas. Each lesson follows one number through all four suits and shows where the pattern holds and where a picture breaks it, so you can read any numbered card without memorizing it.
10 lessons · about 141 min
Plus · first lesson free
Sixteen characters made of four ranks and four elements. Learn when a court card is a person, a side of you or a way of acting, and how to read two courts together in a relationship question.
6 lessons · about 96 min
Reading whole spreads: positions, combinations, story, reversals and care.
Plus · first lesson free
How a card's job changes with its position, from small spreads to the Celtic Cross, the Hexagram and the Horoscope, and how to design a spread for your own question.
7 lessons · about 106 min
Plus · first lesson free
The skill that turns a list of cards into a reading: how cards change each other, which patterns to notice across a spread, and how to tell the story in one sentence you can act on.
4 lessons · about 72 min
Plus · first lesson free
Whether to read reversals at all, the main ways readers interpret them, and how to choose one method and use it consistently. Reading upright only is a valid choice too.
2 lessons · about 27 min
Plus · first lesson free
Hard cards, reading for yourself, love questions about another person, reading for others, and knowing when a question belongs to someone else.
5 lessons · about 71 min
Optional depth: history, symbols and the Golden Dawn systems.
Plus · first lesson free
Where tarot really comes from, and the symbol systems that run through the Waite–Smith deck: landscape and weather, body language, and the Hermetic emblems.
4 lessons · about 57 min
Plus · first lesson free
The design logic behind the Waite–Smith deck: the Tree of Life and the numbers, numerology, the astrology of the Majors and the decans of the numbered cards, each taught as one tradition among others.
4 lessons · about 58 min
Plus · first lesson free
The Golden Dawn way of reading cards through their elements, instead of or alongside reversals, and an honest approach to questions about when.
3 lessons · about 40 min
Plus · first lesson free
Reading other decks with what you know, comparing Waite's 1911 meanings with today's readings, and writing your own reading method and ethics.
3 lessons · about 53 min
Foundations, the 78 card pages and card practice stay free, always.
