Lesson one -- 

Overview of course materials 

 Tarot basics:

1. Choosing and storing a deck

2. Breaking in a new deck

3. Attitude and preparation  before using cards

4. How to shuffle and deal cards

Q and A session

Lesson two --

How to ask questions of the tarot

1. Breaking questions down

2. Phrasing questions properly

3. Impossible questions

Summary of tarot framework

1. Major and minor arcana

2. Four suits

3. From 1 - 10, beginning to completion

4. Court Cards

Lesson three -- 

Concentration on 40 numbered cards of the minor arcana 

Review of the four suits, numbers one through ten, beginning to completeion

Students will write a summary on each suit  working all ten numbers into a story that makes sense to them, from beginning to completion of each suit (Stories will need to be completed before lesson four)

Choosing Keywords for the 40 minor arcana cards, will start in session three and  continue in lesson four.

Lesson four -- 

Review Suit summaries, discuss in class

Continue with Keywords by building a Keyword table (handout).  (Keyword table will need to be completed by lesson five.)

Three card past-present-future spread using 40 cards only

Practice self readings

Lesson five -- 

Review Keyword tables and correct

Keeping a reading diary (forms for three card or less spreads)

Building a tarot notebook of card descriptions (description form)

Practice reading for each other

Lesson six -- 

Court cards

1. Kings and Queens

2. Kings and Queens reversed

3. Knights upright and reversed (according to Janene)

4. Upright Pages

5. Reversed Pages

Explanation of Reversed Pip cards