qos: (Sword Woman by Stephanie Law)
qos ([personal profile] qos) wrote2008-10-31 05:53 am
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New Year's Resolution: Tarot Class

Thanks to those who responded positively to my comments about creating a tarot class that focuses on helping a person connect with a specific deck.

Since Samhain is considered by many Pagans to be New Year, I'll take today as an opportunity to create a New Year's Resolution to have a class complete by the end of the calendar year.

However, instead of going it alone, I'd like to invite folks to come along for the ride and be my beta testers.

Here's what I'm thinking of:

- I'll create lessons & exercises and post them here under a special filter.

- Beta testers will do the lessons and post both their lesson response and comments and feedback about the materials. (If something feels too personal to share from your results, you don't have to post it, of course.)

- It would be great if people who are brand new to tarot participated, but old hands are welcome as well.

- Beta testers will need to have one tarot deck in their possession to work with, and will need to stick with one deck throughout the processs. If you don't have a deck and aren't sure how to select one, I'll be happy to provide some tips (which will be part of the class material).

- I reserve the right to limit the size of the beta test group.

- By December 31 (if not sooner) I will have a class I can either teach in person or do as a correspondence course. If all goes as it should, a group of my friends will also be comfortable and happy reading with one specific tarot deck and have a good set of tools which can be applied to any other deck they want to use.


Volunteers can comment below!

[identity profile] silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a great idea to me. Count me in if you can please :-) I have The Runic Tarot, which is a little different to standard Tarot decks, with 24 major cards based on the Nordic Runes and the minor arcana in seasons, 13 in each. Will they be ok, or should I get a more classic style Tarot?

[identity profile] qos.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Since it has majors and four groups of minors, it might well work. I'd love for you to try it, as part of the experiment. Your feedback will be valuable.

[identity profile] silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'd really like that. :-) It has great imagery, but I don't know it anything like as well as I'd like to, and joining a class like this will be a great way to get better acquainted with the deck, and learn to trust my intuition a little better.
Thankyou for letting me take part in this.
Hugs

[identity profile] qos.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Heavens! It's my pleasure! I'm delighted you want to take part!