Tarot, runes and the stars
Methods of reading signs: the tarot's structure, reading the cards, the Major Arcana as a journey and the small cards' decans, Lenormand, the Elder Futhark runes, the Irish Ogham, geomancy and the judging of its charts, dreams and the old dream books, numerology, the Lenormand's Grand Tableau, and the astrology that underpins magical timing; and, for the tarot, the sixteen court cards, and for the ogham, the stones and the manuscripts behind the trees.
16 lessons · about 4.5 hours of reading · 1 free
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78 cards, four suits, 22 trumps — and how cards became occult.
Questions, spreads, reversals and telling the story.
Twenty-four runes in three families, and how to cast them.
Signs, elements, modes and rulerships — the language of magical timing.
The 22 trumps as a story of initiation, in three stages of seven.
The sixteen figures and the classic shield chart of Renaissance divination.
Ancient dream theory, incubation and a practical dream journal.
The early Irish alphabet of notches and strokes, its tree names, its history — and how it is used for divination today.
A practical, story-based system of reading with thirty-six cards, and the older tradition of fortune-telling with an ordinary pack.
How the Golden Dawn tied every small card to ten degrees of the zodiac, and every court card to an element of an element.
Where modern numerology came from — the Pythagoreans, Agrippa, and the Atlantic City teacher who built the system we use — how the life path, expression and personal year are worked, and what to make of them.
The Lenormand's full spread of thirty-six — the Game of Hope behind the deck, the two layouts, the significators, near and far, the houses and the lines of sight — read step by step.
Beyond the Judge — the house chart, the four modes of perfection, the company of houses, the Way of the Point, the Part of Fortune, and when the old geomancers refused to judge at all.
What people reached for when a dream needed reading — the papyrus in the British Museum, Artemidorus and his questions, Macrobius's five kinds, Achmet and Daniel, the penny dream-books — and why Freud turned the question round.
Where the ogham really comes from — four hundred stones of the fourth to sixth centuries, the medieval tracts that explain the letters, the kennings, which of the twenty names are trees and which are not — and what that leaves for divination.
The sixteen cards readers find hardest — their names in Marseille, Waite and the Golden Dawn, the Name of four letters behind the ranks, the elements within the elements, the zodiac they rule, and three ways to read a court card when it falls.
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