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Class Tarot01
Session I : History & The Minor Arcana of Pentacles
Learn to read the Tarot Cards and how to create sacred space and professionally read a Three Card Tarot Spread using the Rider Waite Tarot deck.
You are about to embark on a wonderful journey through ageless images which directly harness the energies and powers of time, space and especially the human condition! The Tarot are a powerful divinatory tool that allows you to see deeply into the heart and soul of a person or situation and assist that person in learning more about their path and their predicted movement into the future.
 This course uses the Rider Waite Tarot Deck to teach and work with the Tarot. These cards will be your initiation into the world of the Major and Minor Arcana cards of the Tarot. If you have not purchased your Tarot cards yet, please do so now. The Rider Waite deck can be found at most bookstores, New Age shops and on Amazon.com. [Click here for on-line store]
 The Rider Waite Deck is one of the three older, modern Tarot Decks in existence and one of the most popular. Authur Edward Waite spent a vast amount of time studying the history and the indepth meanings of the Tarot. He sought to discover the "Key" to the Tarot and to find the answer which could unlock the "door" of the occult teachings as a unified discipline. The deck's artwork was drawn and coloured by Miss Pamela Colman Smith.
The reason that I have chosen to use the Waite Deck to teach the Tarot is two fold. The first reason being that the cards are beautifully drawn and explain the interpretive meanings in a very straight forward manner. The novice and master reader alike, can turn to the art when at a loss for the worded definition and find the meaning. The second reason is that Waite spent a great part of his life in pursuit of the occult and mystical sciences. He was well versed in the esoteric world, Kabbalah, Egyptology, Magik and science. He sought to understand the relationships among the occult sciences as a way to see into the soul of mankind. This knowledge can be seen in his recreation of the Tarot through the Rider Waite Deck.
| Lesson One - History of the Tarot
The first step in learning about the Tarot is to know where they originated and when they were created. There has been much speculation and some arguments as to the beginnings of this mystical system of divination. Please choose from the link below to begin:
- HTML History of the Tarot Lesson
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| Lesson Two - The Tarot Deck & Pentacles
The Tarot are comprised of 78 cards broken out as 22 Major Arcana or Trumps and 56 Minor Arcana or Lesser Arcana. The Minor Arcana are made up of 4 separate suites: Pentacles, Swords, Cups and Wands. Some Tarot decks have different names for the four suites, such as disks (Pentacles), knives (Swords), grails (Cups) and rods (Wands). Each Minor Arcana suite have (1) one Ace, cards (2) two through (10) ten, and a Page, a Knight, a Queen and a King. Each Minor Arcana holds one of the positions of the four elements and is associated with specific information.
 Minor Arcana of Pentacles
Rider Waite Name: Pentacles
Elemental Representation: Earth
Associated Color: Green
Directional Representation: North
Archangel Representation: Ouriel
General Energy/Base Focus: Earthly Realm, Money, Material Goods or Material Focus
Meet Each Card in the Pentacle Suite
You may choose from any one of the following to learn about each card of the Minor Arcana suite of Pentacles.
- HTML Guided walk through (Click here).
- Choose from one of the following images to learn about each card:
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Session One Homework and Exercise
- Homework: Spend some time with each one of the Pentacle Cards and take in the imagery and the card's meaning. Notice how each card effects your emotions, thoughts and ideas. You might want to journal about what you find as you sit with each card and it's meaning.
- Exercise: Once you have reviewed the Pentacles and spent some time with each card in the suite, Click here to open the Interactive Pentacle Flash Card presentation. You will be shown a single card, from the suite of Pentacles. The card will either be right-side-up or it will be reversed. There will be two questions for you to answer. When you are ready, click the next (
 ) arrow to see the correct answers and to continue to another card.
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Session One: History, Structure and Pentacles
Session Two: Various Decks and Swords
Session Three: Caring for your Cards and Cups
Session Four: Sacred Space and Suite of Wands
Session Five: The 22 Major Arcana
Session Six: The Three Card Tarot Spread
Author
Steve Johnston, MA, PsyD-dba
SteveJohnston.Org
Raider Waite Images
Decks by US Games, Inc.
Artwork by Pamela Colman Smith
This course in Tarot is offered free of charge. Please make a donation if you have learned and/or enjoyed the information provided in this on-line course. All donations go towards the hosting and maintenance of this web site so more people can experience the learning offered here. Thank you for your support.
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