Foundations

Tarot Foundations

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.

By the end you will be able to

Sort any card into its family and say what that family is about.
Draw a daily card, read it from the picture and keep it in your journal.
Read a three-card spread and sum it up in one honest sentence.

11 lessons · about 135 min

Start the course

1Meet the deckHow the 78 cards are organized, where the Waite–Smith tradition comes from, and what a reading on VeilSoul can offer you.10 min
2Read what you seeRead a card from its picture before any keyword: what is there, what is happening and how it feels, then one detail that speaks to your question.12 min
3Your first one-card drawRun a one-card draw from question to journal line, keep to one question and one draw, and come back later to see what happened.12 min
4Asking good questionsTurn yes/no, timing, fate and other-person questions into open questions about your own choices, and match the question to what a reading can do.12 min
5The four suits and their elementsWands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles: the element and the area of life each suit describes, and how to recognize a suit from its picture.12 min
6The numbers, Ace to Ten, as one storyThe ten numbers of the Minor Arcana tell one story, from seed to completion. Combine a number with a suit and you can predict a card before you look it up.13 min
7The court familyThe sixteen court cards as four ranks in four suits: what each rank adds, and how a court can be a person, a part of you, or an approach to take.12 min
8The Major Arcana mapThe 22 Majors as a map: the Fool and three rows of seven, one line for each card, and the Waite–Smith numbering of Strength and Justice.13 min
9The three-card readingRead three cards each in its position, link them, and sum the reading up in one sentence. Plus what to do when a card appears reversed.15 min
10Limits, care and safetyWhat tarot cannot do, what to do when someone is in crisis, how to read hard cards as processes rather than verdicts, and why consent comes first.12 min
11Foundations checkpointTwelve mixed questions from all ten Foundations lessons: check what you have learned before you move on to the Practitioner course.12 min · Checkpoint

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