Free Online Tarot Course

free online tarot course

This free online tarot course will get you up and running reading Tarot in 2-4 weeks.

Will you be an expert Tarot reader?

Probably not.

But you’ll be able to learn Tarot and read for yourself and your friends and even for clients.

With these free Tarot lessons I guide you to learn Tarot — even if you’ve tried before and failed.

There are many approaches to reading Tarot and none of them or right or wrong. But some approaches are markedly FASTER than others and don’t require tedious memorization, studying the history of the ancient world, or reading texts in ancient languages.

So if you are tired of memorizing Tarot card meanings and getting nowhere, try my stupidly simple method of learning Tarot.

It’s free, for goodness sake!

Here’s How to Proceed

You have a few options moving forward. You can:

Should I pick my own Tarot Deck

Picking your first deck can be intimidating. 

And what’s more, there’s an urban legend if you will going around that you need to be gifted a Tarot deck.  That would be wonderful, except that we live in a world of the broken nuclear family, and it is rare that anyone is gifted the family coo coo clock, family broach, or mother’s wedding dress, much less a deck of Tarot cards! 

How many readers do you have in your family?

Hey, do you need a free deck? You can download yours here: https://www.quickcardreading.com/free-tarot-card-images/

Here are some other free decks to download:

Choosing Your First Tarot Deck

So if no one is going to gift you a deck, how do you get your hands on a Tarot deck?  Well that’s easy, Amazon, silly. 

(I’ve changed my mind on Amazon for Tarot decks. See my post about buying a counterfeit deck.)

But which deck to choose.

I suggest buying a deck based on the Rider Waite deck or the Rider Waite itself. 

Why?  Because that’s where all the conversation is.  The Tarot revival came through the Rider Waite deck, so at least here in the US, it’s the best-known deck and there are many resources based on the deck.

Get a deck with pictures on the pip cards, or the cards numbered Ace through 9. 

This is critical to one of the methods we will use in this course, and it’s just a helpful way to start reading. 

Later on you can branch off into the Marseilles and other decks with no pictures on the pips as well as other systems.

Tarot Card Meanings

I have mixed feelings about Tarot card meanings. 

On the one hand, Tarot card meanings are a way for Tarot readers to talk among themselves. 

You know, we got the lingo, like he’s such a King of Swords, meaning perhaps that person is analytical and can solve problems through thought. And the 3 of swords is known even outside Tarot circles as “heartbreak”.

But truly, the “definitions” are completely arbitrary. 

Yes there is some deep symbolism on each and every card, but on a certain level, you get what I mean, 5 of cups means disappointment only if you say it does.

On the other hand, you have to start somewhere, and memorizing a few quick keywords or meanings certainly can’t hurt.  After all, when you learn a foreign language it’s important to memorize the vocabulary.

My advice is to go ahead and keep a notebook with a few good keywords, definitions and examples, but don’t get hung up on what is the “true and officially sanctioned” meaning of any card.

Tarot Card Suits

The suits in many ways are the building blocks of Tarot. 

Tarot and playing cards both share 4 suits plus royal cards.  Tarot has an extra one, the Knight.  According to Ernst Wilhelm the Knight resulted from a mis-translation and that’s why we have the extra card in Tarot.  But I digress.

The four suits are synonymous with the 4 elements, earth, air, fire, water. 

  • wands = fire
  • cups = water
  • swords = air
  • pentacles =earth

Once you get a good feel for what kinds of people, places, situations, problems etc. are enveloped by each suit, you are at least halfway to being a more than competent Tarot reader.

Combined Tarot Card Meanings

Okay now you’ve got a handle on the suits.

The next step is to combine the suits to get an overall flavor

and extract some meaning and predictions from the reading. 

A good way to practice Tarot card meanings is:

  • split the deck in two and draw a card from each pile 
  • lay the cards next to each other.
  • look at the suits. 
  • look at the pictures 
  • what are these cards talking about?

How to Read Reversed Tarot Cards

To read, or not to read…reversals…that is the question.  Seventy-eight cards.  Add reversals, that makes 156.

Sometimes I read reversals and sometimes I don’t. 

I know that’s a total cop out. 

I still stand by my stance that if you are killer good at the basics, like knowing suits, numerology, and learning how to tap your intuition for a card’s significance and meaning right then and there, then do you really need reversals?

How to read Tarot Cards and give yourself the shivers

This is where the rubber meets the road, my friend. 

This is where the philosophizers and collectors get left behind, and the readers take to the streets and preach to the common folk. 

This is the art of the Tarot. 

This is combining the 78 cards in a universe of possible omens to just the right message for your client to hear AND receive.  That’s quite the art form.

All of the divining arts are similar to those books of pictures that you hold up against your nose and peer at them perpendicular to the page and 3-D images rise from the pages.  Each card is a hologram, but you have to know the right way to cast your gaze to see the image arise.