A Luxryne course
Tarot Academy
From your first card to the Tree of Life
A complete course in reading the 78 cards: their history, structure and symbolism, the craft of reading for yourself and others, and the esoteric correspondences of the Golden Dawn tradition.
By the end of this course you will
- Read any card upright and reversed with confidence
- Choose and read spreads from one card to the Celtic Cross
- Understand number, court cards and elemental dignities
- See the deck as a map of astrology and the Kabbalah
Curriculum
Module I
Foundations of the Tarot
History, structure and your first readings.
- What the Tarot Is (and Isn't)History, structure of the 78 cards, and how to approach the cards as a mirror for reflection.Foundation · 4 min read · Free
- The Major Arcana: The Fool's JourneyThe 22 trumps as one great story of the soul.Foundation · 4 min read · Free
- The Four SuitsWands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles and the elements they carry.Foundation · 3 min read · Free
- Spreads and PositionsHow position meaning shapes card meaning, from one card to the Celtic Cross.Foundation · 3 min read · Free
Module II
The Reader's Craft
Number, people, reversals and story.
- Numerology of the PipsPremiumAce to Ten as a cycle of growth that repeats in every suit.Intermediate · 4 min read
- Court Cards: People, Roles and EnergiesPremiumPages, Knights, Queens and Kings decoded with elemental pairs.Intermediate · 4 min read
- Working with ReversalsPremiumFive ways to read an upside-down card without fear.Intermediate · 4 min read
- Intuitive Reading and StorytellingPremiumMoving beyond the book: imagery, pattern and narrative.Intermediate · 4 min read
Module III
Esoteric Tarot
The correspondences of the Golden Dawn.
- Elemental DignitiesPremiumHow neighbouring cards strengthen or weaken one another.Advanced · 4 min read
- Astrological CorrespondencesPremiumPlanets, signs and decans across the 78 cards.Advanced · 4 min read
- The Tree of Life and the TarotPremiumSephiroth, paths and Hebrew letters as a map of the deck.Advanced · 4 min read
Course reading list
- Michael Dummett, The Game of Tarot (1980)
- A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910)
- Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom (1980)
- Paul Foster Case, The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages (1947)
- Mary K. Greer, Tarot for Your Self (1984)
- Israel Regardie (ed.), The Golden Dawn (1937–40), including 'Book T'
- Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (1944)
- Mary K. Greer, The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals (2002)
- Lon Milo DuQuette, Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot (2003)
- Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah (1935)