Greater Arcana
The ten planetary trumps and the twelve sign trumps.
The Academy for Diviners · Part III of the curriculum
The Tarot
The Tarot as the astrology given garments, read on the School’s own deck from The Divine Arcana Tarot.
29trainings in Part III, about 46 hours
100%every segment test, passed before you go on
1book: The Divine Arcana Tarot
Spring Equinox 2027the Academy opens
Part III of the curriculum
What Part III teaches
Our Tarot is the astrology given garments. Each of the twenty-two Greater Arcana is a planet or a sign, the thirty-six small cards are the thirty-six decans of the year, the Knights, Queens and Princes each span thirty degrees of the zodiac, the four Princesses each hold a quarter of the heavens, and the four Aces, which we call Sources, are the four elements before any face. A diviner who knows the astrology of Part II can read every card from what stands behind its picture.
The trumps are taught in the order of the sky, the ten planetary trumps and then the twelve sign trumps through the year, followed by the thirty-six small cards suit by suit and the sixteen courts. For each card the student learns its astrology, the figures drawn on it, its traditional meaning and how it reads in a throw in its lower and higher octave. The seven throws of a consultation are then taught one by one, with every layout shown and worked, and the course ends with scrying and the consultation with a client.
Each training is set out in segments of a few slides, and each segment ends with a test of three to five questions: multiple choice, yes or no, or select all that apply. Every answer must be correct. When an answer is wrong, the student watches the segment again and is then tested only on the questions missed, until every question of the segment is answered correctly, at 100%. Then the next segment opens. A question guide to print holds every question of the training.
- Watch the segment
- Take its test
- 100%Go on to the next segment
The deck of Part III
Seventy-eight cards, each standing on the sky
Small cards
The Twos to the Tens, the thirty-six decans of the year.
Court cards
Knights, Queens and Princes each span thirty degrees of the zodiac, and the four Princesses each hold a quarter of the heavens.
Aces, the Sources
The four elements before any face.
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Part III: the trainings
What is learned, training by training
Training T01 · about 70 minutes
Becoming a Tarot Reader: the Divine Arcana Tarot
What a reader of the Divine Arcana Tarot does, what a reading gives and leaves to the client, and the method every later training builds on.
What you learn
- What a throw shows: the class, the thread and the octave, with the choice left to the client
- The seventy-eight cards on the sky: ten planetary trumps, twelve sign trumps, the small cards, the courts and the Aces as Sources
- The astrology given garments: the agency behind a card and its persona-mask
- The four layers of every card: the agency, the persona-mask, the garments and the tradition
- The reader's four rules: every card upright, no clarifying card, no jumpers and no re-asks
- The lower and the higher octave in place of reversal, with no card a bad card
- The five steps of looking at a card, and the study journal entry
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 1DAT Ch 6 and 8DAT Ch 39 and 40
- Tested by
- 14 segment tests, 64 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T02 · about 65 minutes
Where the Tarot Comes From
The history of the Tarot in order and with its dates, from the playing cards of the 1370s to the Divine Arcana Tarot, and how to answer what clients ask about it.
What you learn
- Playing cards in Europe, the trionfi of 1440, the Visconti-Sforza cards and the game of triumphs
- The Marseille pattern and the first divination with tarot cards
- Court de Gébelin, Etteilla and Éliphas Lévi, the Hebrew letters and the name ROTA
- The Golden Dawn and Book T, Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, Crowley and Frieda Harris
- Paul Foster Case, Lon Milo DuQuette, and Jung and the Tarot
- The five layers by which the astrology entered the pack, and what our deck keeps and changes
- The older names of our trumps, and short answers to the questions clients ask about the Tarot
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 3DAT Ch 6DAT Ch 39 and 40
- Tested by
- 14 segment tests, 65 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T03 · about 75 minutes
ROTA the Wheel: the Deck on the Sky
The wheel that lays all seventy-eight cards on the planets, the signs, the elements and the decans of the Sun's year.
What you learn
- The rings of the wheel from the center outward, with the elements, the modalities, the rulers and the exaltations
- The twenty-two trumps on the sky: the planetary trumps, the sign trumps, the six oppositions and the gate pairs
- The rule that places every small card on its decan, and the titles of the four suits
- The Chaldean order and the rulers of the thirty-six decans
- Every small card through its two parent trumps, in its binding face and its freeing face
- The spans of the Knights, Queens and Princes, the quarters of the Princesses and the thrones of the Aces
- Lookups from card to station and from date to station, and the decans in Western and WaveForm astrology
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 4 to 6DAT Ch 29DAT Appendix AWF Section 18.8
- Tested by
- 13 segment tests, 63 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T04 · about 85 minutes
How to Read a Card
One method for reading any card of the deck, from its scale and class to the answer spoken to the querent.
What you learn
- The scale of a card: trumps for who acts and how, small cards for where and when, courts as a person or a matter in passage, Aces as Sources
- The octave in place of reversal, found from the querent's words, from the neighbors and from the querent's own choice
- The card in a position, and two cards as a pair: the gate pair, the parent trump, the ruler, the mode and the element
- The keyword that answers the question, read from the astrology
- The card as a person, a time and a place, and for love, work, decision and timing questions
- The order of the answer, plain speech for a hard card, and the twelve common errors
- The method shown on six cards: the Tower, the Hierophant, Death, the Five of Cups, the Queen of Swords and the Ace of Wands
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 1DAT Ch 5DAT Ch 29DAT Ch 39 and 40
- Tested by
- 18 segment tests, 82 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T05 · about 95 minutes
The Lights: The Sun and The Priestess
The two trumps of the lights, the Sun card (XIX) for the Sun and the Priestess (II) for the Moon, read figure by figure and in a throw.
What you learn
- The facts of each card: the Sun with the gate of Spirit and the keyword Atman, the Priestess with the gate of Water and the keyword Reflection
- The figures of the Sun card, from Helios and the ring of the twelve signs to Prometheus with the torch
- The figures of the Priestess, from Isis and Artemis as one figure to the veil of light and the two pillars
- The Sun and the Moon in Western astrology, and in WaveForm as the reference and the reflective medium, with dignity read as cost
- Each card in its lower and higher octave, as a person, a time and a place, and in the seven throws
- The five small cards of the Sun and of the Moon, and the two lights read together in a throw
- The Priestess, the Moon card and the Moon in a chart kept apart
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 6 to 8DAT Ch 39 and 40WF Ch 9 to 11WF Ch 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 18 segment tests, 82 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T06 · about 90 minutes
The Theurgist and The Empress: Mercury and Venus
The trumps of Mercury and Venus, the Theurgist (I) and the Empress (III), read figure by figure, alone and together in the order of the work.
What you learn
- The facts of each card: the Theurgist with the gate of Air and the words PARAMATMA and LOGOS, the Empress with the gate of Earth and the keyword Woman
- The figures of the Theurgist, from the Transpersonal Egg to the exchange of lyre and wand
- The figures of the Empress, from the Yoginī on the lotus and the Śrī Yantra to Aphrodite, Lakṣmī, Rādhā and Kālī
- Mercury and Venus in Western astrology and in WaveForm, and how to tell Venus from Saturn
- Each card in its two octaves, as a person, a time and a place, and in the seven throws
- The five small cards of each planet, the Theurgist and a retrograde of Mercury, and counterfeit Venus in a reading
- The two cards read together in the order of the work
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 6DAT Ch 9 and 10DAT Ch 39 and 40WF Ch 9WF Ch 12 and 13WF Ch 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 15 segment tests, 74 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T07 · about 105 minutes
The Tower, Wheel of Fortune and The Cosmos: Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
The trumps of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, read figure by figure, alone and as three functions in one sequence.
What you learn
- The facts of each card: the Tower with the keyword Truth, the Wheel of Fortune with Discovery and the Cosmos with Cosmic Womb
- The figures of the three cards, from the all-seeing eye of the Tower to the Sphinx on the Wheel and Maa Śakti on the Cosmos
- Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in Western astrology and in WaveForm
- The psychology of each card: the Ego, Synchronicity and the Collective Unconscious
- Each card in its two octaves, as a person, a time and a place, and in the seven throws
- The small cards of each planet, and the timing caution with the Tower
- The three read together in the order of the work, and three feared cards spoken to a client
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 6DAT Ch 11 to 13DAT Ch 39 and 40WF Ch 9WF Ch 14 to 16WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 22 segment tests, 91 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T08 · about 110 minutes
The Outer Trumps: The Fool, The Hanged Man and The Rising
The three Mother trumps of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, read figure by figure, alone and together as the ambient field.
What you learn
- The facts of each card: the Fool with the keyword Tao, the Hanged Man with Surrender and the Rising with Annihilation and Rebirth
- The Rising as the School's name for trump XX, called Judgment in older decks and the Aeon in the Thoth deck
- The figures of each card, from the tiger and the egg of the Fool to Nuit, Horus and Hadit on the Rising
- Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in Western astrology and in WaveForm, and the caution that not every crisis is Pluto
- The psychology of each card: Unus Mundus, Initiation and the Inner Child
- Each card in its two octaves, as a person, a time and a place, and in the seven throws
- Three kinds of change told apart when the three Mothers fall in one throw
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 6DAT Ch 14 to 16DAT Ch 39 and 40WF Ch 9WF Ch 17 and 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 22 segment tests, 103 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T09 · about 105 minutes
The Emperor, The Hierophant and The Lovers: Aries, Taurus and Gemini
The three sign trumps of the spring, read figure by figure, alone and together as begin, hold and divide.
What you learn
- What a sign trump pictures, and the rulers behind the three cards
- The facts of each card: the Emperor with the keyword Man, the Hierophant with Incarnation and Demiurgos and the Lovers with Attraction
- The figures of each card, from Julian and Indra on the Emperor to Viṣṇu on the Hierophant and Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā on the Lovers
- Aries, Taurus and Gemini in Western astrology and in WaveForm
- The psychology of each card: the Animus, the Father, and Attraction and Playfulness
- Each card in its two octaves, as a person, a time and a place, in the seven throws and with its three small cards
- The three read together as one season, shown on a six-month forward review from the equinox
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 6DAT Ch 17 to 19DAT Ch 39 and 40WF Ch 12 to 14WF Ch 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 21 segment tests, 101 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T10 · about 105 minutes
The Chariot, Strength and The Hermit: Cancer, Leo, Virgo
The three sign trumps of the summer, read figure by figure, alone and together as set, hold and redistribute.
What you learn
- The facts of each card: the Chariot with the keyword Intention, Strength with Resilience and the Hermit with Experience
- The figures of each card, from Kṛṣṇa on the reins and Arjuna with the bow to Durgā and the lion and the Hermit's lantern with the Sun inside
- Cancer, Leo and Virgo in Western astrology and in WaveForm, and each card read with the querent's chart
- The psychology of each card: the Hero, Character and Wisdom
- Each card in its two octaves, as a person, a time and a place, and in the seven throws
- The three small cards of each sign, and the trump Strength kept apart from the Nine of Wands
- The three read in the order of the summer, shown on a horseshoe about handing on a family business
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 6DAT Ch 20 to 22DAT Ch 34, 35 and 37DAT Ch 39 and 40WF Ch 11 and 12WF Ch 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 21 segment tests, 103 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T11 · about 110 minutes
Adjustment, Death and Art: Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius
The three sign trumps of the autumn, read figure by figure, alone and together, with a method for speaking a hard-named card.
What you learn
- The facts of each card: Adjustment with the keyword Equilibrium, Death with Mortality and Art with Liberation, and the older names Justice and Temperance
- The figures of each card, from Themis and the great balance to Kālī and Santa Muerte on Death and Ardhanārīśvara on Art
- Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius in Western astrology and in WaveForm, with Mars as the ruler of Scorpio and Pluto given to the Rising
- The psychology of each card: Balance, the Shadow and Individuation
- Each card in its two octaves, as a person, a time and a place, and in the seven throws, with the caution on legal questions and verdicts
- The three small cards and the courts of each sign
- The three read in the order of the year, and the method for a hard-named card
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 6DAT Ch 23 to 25DAT Ch 39 and 40WF Ch 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 23 segment tests, 110 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T12 · about 110 minutes
The Devil, The Star and The Moon: Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces
The three sign trumps of the winter, read figure by figure, alone and together, with the Moon card kept apart from the planet Moon.
What you learn
- The facts of each card: the Devil with the keyword Ecstasy, the Star with Awareness and the Moon with Anima Mundi
- The figures of each card, from Pan and the chained pair to Śiva seated with Nuit and the river of stars, and Hecate with her three faces and the two dogs
- Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces in Western astrology by rulers, dignities and houses, and in WaveForm as media with their own costs and failures
- The psychology of each card: Instinct, the Persona of the self and the Unconscious
- Each card in its two octaves, as a person, a time and a place, and in the seven throws, with desire in a reading
- A strong sign in the chart told from the sign's arrival, and the three small cards of each sign
- The three read in the order of the winter, shown on a five-card question about a long care
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 6DAT Ch 26 to 28DAT Ch 39 and 40WF Sections 18.6 to 18.8WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 25 segment tests, 117 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T13 · about 90 minutes
The Thirty-Six: How the Small Cards Are Built and Read
How each of the thirty-six small cards is built as a planet in a sign over ten days, and how it is read through its two parent trumps.
What you learn
- The decans from the star groups of Egypt to the faces of the signs, counted in the tropical zodiac
- The four rules that place every small card, the Chaldean order and why Mars rules six decans
- The two parents of a small card: the trump of its planet and the trump of its sign
- The face of a card in a fixed order: glyphs, title, printed name and scene, with the grid of titles
- The binding face and the freeing face, with no small card a bad card
- Cost on the card, as Western dignity and as WaveForm energetic cost
- The master table, and finding the card of any date or of any planet in a chart
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 5DAT Ch 34 to 37DAT Sections 39.5 to 39.7, 40.2 and 40.3DAT Appendix AWF Ch 18WF Appendix D.9
- Tested by
- 14 segment tests, 69 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T14 · about 110 minutes
The Suit of Wands
The Ace and the nine small cards of Fire, card by card, and how they read in a throw.
What you learn
- Fire in Western astrology and in WaveForm, its three signs and its trumps
- The Ace of Wands as the Source of Fire, figure by figure, its throne and its season
- Aries: the Two, Three and Four of Wands, Dominion, Virtue and Completion
- Leo: the Five, Six and Seven of Wands, Strife, Victory and Valor
- Sagittarius: the Eight, Nine and Ten of Wands, Swiftness, Strength and Oppression
- For each card: the title, the printed name, the station, the dates, the two parents and the cost
- Each card in both octaves, in every position, as a person, a time and a place, and in words for a client
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 5DAT Ch 34DAT Ch 39 and 40DAT Appendix AWF Ch 11 to 16 and 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 24 segment tests, 108 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T15 · about 100 minutes
The Suit of Cups
The Ace and the nine small cards of Water, card by card, and how they read in a throw.
What you learn
- Water in Western astrology and in WaveForm, its signs, rulers and five trumps
- The Ace of Cups as the Source of Water, figure by figure, its throne and its season
- Cancer: the Two, Three and Four of Cups, Love, Abundance and Luxury
- Scorpio: the Five, Six and Seven of Cups, Disappointment, Pleasure and Debauch
- Pisces: the Eight, Nine and Ten of Cups, Indolence, Happiness and Satiety
- Each planet in its sign read in Western terms and in WaveForm terms, with the cost of each station
- The readings of the Golden Dawn, Waite and our deck side by side, and a run of Cups read by mode, pair and season
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 5DAT Ch 35DAT Ch 39 and 40DAT Appendix AWF Ch 12, 13 and 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 16 segment tests, 75 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T16 · about 110 minutes
The Suit of Swords
The Ace and the nine small cards of Air, card by card, read in a throw, and how a hard card is spoken to a client.
What you learn
- Air in Western astrology and in WaveForm, its three signs, its trumps and all seven planets in one suit
- The Ace of Swords as the Source of Air, figure by figure, its throne and its season
- Libra: the Two, Three and Four of Swords, Peace, Sorrow and Truce
- Aquarius: the Five, Six and Seven of Swords, Defeat, Science and Futility
- Gemini: the Eight, Nine and Ten of Swords, Interference, Cruelty and Ruin
- The traditional meanings from the Golden Dawn, Waite and Thoth, and where our deck reads them as one face of the station
- Speaking the Three, Five, Seven, Nine and Ten to a client in five steps, without verdict or alarm
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 5DAT Ch 36DAT Ch 39 and 40DAT Appendix AWF Ch 10 to 16 and 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 23 segment tests, 98 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T17 · about 105 minutes
The Suit of Disks
The Ace and the nine small cards of Earth, card by card, and how they read in a throw.
What you learn
- Earth in Western astrology and in WaveForm, its signs, its medium and its trumps
- The Ace of Disks as the Source of Earth, figure by figure, its season and its octaves
- Capricorn: the Two, Three and Four of Disks, Change, Works and Power
- Taurus: the Five, Six and Seven of Disks, Worry, Success and Failure
- Virgo: the Eight, Nine and Ten of Disks, Prudence, Gain and Wealth
- The Western dignity and the WaveForm cost of each station, kept in two distinct languages
- A Disks card read with its parents, its sister stations and its court, and spoken in a money, work or body question without predicting
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 5DAT Ch 37DAT Ch 39 and 40DAT Appendix AWF Ch 9, 12 to 15 and 18WF Appendix D
- Tested by
- 17 segment tests, 82 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T18 · about 90 minutes
The Court Cards I: Rank, Element, Span and Type, the Courts of Wands and Cups
How the sixteen courts are built and read, with the eight courts of Fire and Water read in a throw.
What you learn
- The four ranks and the double element of each court
- The spans of the Knights, Queens and Princes and their three small cards, and the quarters of the Princesses
- Finding the court of any date, and of a client's Sun or rising sign
- The type of each court as a second vocabulary
- The Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess of Wands and of Cups, figure by figure, with the meanings of Crowley, Book T and Waite
- A court read as a person, a situation or a time, chosen by the question, the position and the neighbors
- Courts in the five-card question and the relationship throw, without claims about an absent person's mind
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 29 to 31DAT Sections 39.6 to 39.8DAT Sections 40.2, 40.3 and 40.6WF Ch 18WF Appendix D.9
- Tested by
- 18 segment tests, 81 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T19 · about 90 minutes
The Court Cards II: the Courts of Swords and Disks, Reading Courts as People, Situations and Times
The eight courts of Air and Earth, and the method of reading any court as a person, a situation and a time.
What you learn
- The court framework in brief: ranks, double element, spans, passage, Princesses, type and octaves
- The Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess of Swords, with span, small cards, figures and type
- The Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess of Disks, with span, small cards, figures and type
- Deciding whether a court names a person or a passage, and the limits of reading a person
- Courts read together: beside a small card of their span, beside another court, the court that follows and the court that faces
- The court as a time: a court in season, found from the Sun's degree
- Worked throws: the horseshoe, the five-card question, the business partner and an account closed
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 29DAT Ch 32 and 33DAT Sections 39.5 to 39.8DAT Sections 40.2, 40.3, 40.5 and 40.6DAT Appendix A.7
- Tested by
- 15 segment tests, 70 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T20 · about 100 minutes
The Art of the Throw
The method of every throw, from the question in one sentence to the reading of a whole spread.
What you learn
- The question in open form, its four measures, and rewriting a "will" or "should" question
- Questions the cards do not take, and writing the question with the querent
- Preparing, the shuffle, the cut, the lay and the turn, with the three rules of the deck
- A position as a question put to a card, the four layers of a card and the scale of each kind of card
- The five relations of a pair, and the five steps of reading a spread to an answer in one sentence
- The octave in place of reversal, the wheel as a calendar and cards in season
- Reading for another person, the spread as a small chart, the reading journal and the twelve common errors
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 39DAT Sections 40.1 and 40.10
- Tested by
- 21 segment tests, 91 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T28 · about 75 minutes
Reading the Whole Spread: Counts, Patterns and Combinations
The first look at a spread before its positions: the scale of the matter, the elements and modes, the numbers, the planets and the pairs.
What you learn
- The order of reading, and why the whole comes first
- Counting the kinds of card to name the scale of the matter
- The leading element and mode, missing elements and oppositions
- Repeated numbers read through their place on the wheel
- The planets present and absent, in the planetary order
- The five pairs the wheel provides, courts beside the cards of their spans and Aces beside their Princesses
- The first-look note in four lines, with four spreads read whole
- Taught from
- DAT Ch 29DAT Sections 39.5 to 39.7 and 39.9DAT Sections 40.1 and 40.10DAT Appendix A
- Tested by
- 15 segment tests, 73 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T21 · about 85 minutes
Throws I: The Three-Card Question and the Five-Card Question
The first two throws of the Divine Arcana Tarot, position by position, with worked readings.
What you learn
- The rules the two first throws share: the question, the lay, its limits and the order of reading
- The three-card question: Situation, Challenge and Outcome, read as one movement
- The five-card question: Present Environment, Internal Experience, Hidden Influence, Action and Outcome
- Each card in its position in four layers: the agency, the keyword, the octave, and the person, time and place
- The hidden influence offered as a question, and the act of the fourth card settled in the querent's words
- Worked readings: the farm, a new practice, the care of a mother and after the sale
- The journal entry, its returns and the choice between the two throws
- Taught from
- DAT Sections 39.2 to 39.10DAT Sections 40.1 to 40.3 and 40.10
- Consultation programs
- 3-Card Basic Question · 5-Card Complex Question
- Tested by
- 18 segment tests, 88 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T22 · about 100 minutes
Throws II: The Six-Month Forward Review and the Horseshoe
Reading a sequence: the half-year in seven cards, and the arch of a matter with a history.
What you learn
- Reading a sequence by the kind of card, the gate and the mode, with seasons and time
- The six-month forward review: the header with the decan of the day, the six stretches of the Sun and their sign trumps
- The Present Foundation, the six months and the pivot read twice
- The horseshoe: the questioner's account, the seven positions of the arch and its three movements
- The two cross-readings of the horseshoe, and the hidden card offered as a question
- Four worked readings, two of each throw
- The entry and returns of each throw, and choosing the throw by the shape of the question
- Taught from
- DAT Sections 39.2 to 39.10DAT Sections 40.1, 40.4, 40.5 and 40.10DAT Ch 29DAT Ch 34 to 37
- Consultation programs
- 7-Card 6-Month Forward Review · 7-Card Horseshoe
- Tested by
- 22 segment tests, 99 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T23 · about 70 minutes
Throws III: The Relationship Throw
Reading pairs: ten cards in two columns, both of them the questioner's experience.
What you learn
- The one rule of the throw: both columns are the questioner's experience
- Rewriting a question about a partner, parent, friend, colleague or teacher into the open form
- The ten positions and the five rows: thought, feeling, the hidden, holding back and what is wanted
- Every right-column card spoken and recorded as something the querent meets
- The rows read as pairs by the relations of the wheel, and courts in the throw
- When the throw is refused, and the answer to a querent who asks for the other person's heart
- Worked readings of a friendship grown cold and a marriage after the children leave home
- Taught from
- DAT Section 40.6DAT Sections 40.1 and 40.10DAT Sections 39.2, 39.5, 39.6 and 39.8 to 39.10
- Consultation programs
- 10-Card Relationship
- Tested by
- 15 segment tests, 75 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T24 · about 100 minutes
Throws IV: The Celtic Cross
Reading a whole in groups: the cross, the staff, the two axes and the four pairs, over two sessions laid once.
What you learn
- The Celtic Cross for a turning point of a life, and how our throw differs from the tradition
- Class, thread and octave in ten positions, and the two preparation lines
- The cross of six: the Present, the Challenge, the Root, the Past, the Aim and the Near Future
- The staff read from the role to the outcome, without splitting the ninth card
- The two axes, the four pairs and the relations the wheel adds, with the ten cards read as a small chart
- Worked readings: the return to the university and leaving the firm
- The two entries and their returns, the Waite order, the common errors and the limits of the throw
- Taught from
- DAT Sections 40.1, 40.7 and 40.10DAT Sections 39.2 to 39.11DAT Throw sections of the card chapters
- Consultation programs
- 10-Card Celtic Cross
- Tested by
- 19 segment tests, 88 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T25 · about 105 minutes
Throws V: The Twelve-House Throw and the Circuit Throw
Reading a whole life in its twelve regions, and reading the station the Sun is passing through.
What you learn
- The twelve regions of the house throw, with the Western meaning and the WaveForm reading of each house
- Each card read as its own class met in its region, and why a card never belongs to its house
- The throw in two sessions laid once, and the whole read by gates, modes and planets
- The querent's chart beside the throw: cusp signs, tenants and rulers, each reading kept in its own language
- A card on the querent's own station, and the celestial and mundane relations
- The Circuit Throw, our School's own: the decan of the day and its three positions, Sign, Planet and Station
- Worked readings, including the book's circuit of 5 September, Virgo II
- Taught from
- DAT Sections 40.1 and 40.8 to 40.10DAT Sections 39.5 to 39.10DAT Sections 5.5, 5.6 and 6.5DAT Appendix AWF Ch 9WF Ch 19
- Consultation programs
- 12-Card Astrological Spread
- Tested by
- 23 segment tests, 101 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T29 · about 90 minutes
Reading by Topic in the Tarot: Love, Work, Money, Health, Decisions and Timing
How a question on each of six topics is written, which throw it takes, which cards speak to it and what is never said.
What you learn
- The six topics, the open question with its four measures and its limits
- Choosing the throw by the shape of the question
- The trumps, suits and courts that speak most directly to each topic, in their two octaves
- The limits of each topic: the inner life of an absent person, the instruction to spend, the verdict in health, the ranking of paths and the date
- A decision read in two three-card questions, one for each path
- Timing answered with a season, a pace and a stretch of the Sun's year
- One worked throw for each topic
- Taught from
- DAT Sections 1.4, 2.7.3, 29.3 and 29.8DAT Sections 39.2 to 39.11DAT Sections 40.1 to 40.10DAT Throw sections of Ch 7 to 28 and 30 to 37
- Tested by
- 16 segment tests, 70 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T26 · about 60 minutes
Scrying a Card
The sustained looking at one card: the five movements, the circuit of a decan, the record and the cautions.
What you learn
- What scrying is in our School, its object, and why a reader scries
- Preparation from the nativity, with the placements a planetary trump and a sign trump require
- The five movements in order, and the four layers read by position, size, direction and repetition
- Scrying a trump by its chapter's path: the Hierophant, the Tower and Death
- The circuit of a decan, with the small card in its three states, and the circuit of the day
- The study entry, reading a series of entries, and the cautions of Section 38.9
- Taught from
- DAT Sections 38.1 to 38.4, 38.6, 38.8 and 38.9DAT Sections 11.7, 18.7, 24.7 and 35.6.2
- Tested by
- 13 segment tests, 52 questions in all, each test passed at 100%
Training T27 · about 125 minutes
Reading for a Client: the Tarot Consultation
A whole Tarot session from the booking and the written question to the close, with three demonstrated throws.
What you learn
- The seven stages of a consultation, consent and speaking to a client
- The reader's limits, referrals to a physician or a lawyer, and the record
- The booking, the question in one sentence, the choice of throw and the opening words
- Each position read aloud in four steps, the octave found with the querent and a hard card spoken evenly
- Three demonstrations: a Three-Card Question, a Relationship Throw and a Celtic Cross in two sessions
- The close with the querent's own sentence and choice, and the record kept in two copies
- Friends and family, the professional frame, and preparing a recorded reading for the review
- Taught from
- DAT Sections 39.2 to 39.11DAT Sections 40.1, 40.2, 40.6, 40.7 and 40.10DAT Section 29.8
- Tested by
- 26 segment tests, 124 questions in all, each test passed at 100%