A free course · 10 lessons · about 70 minutes in all
Learn tarot in 10 lessons
From your very first look at the deck to reading a spread with confidence. Short, clear lessons with real cards, small exercises and a quick self-check at the end of each one. Free, no account, at your own pace.
Or practice: A 7-day plan · Flashcards · Card quiz · Cheat sheet · Journal pages · Glossary · All 78 cards
Also in Hebrew: הקורס בעברית
- What tarot is, and what it isn'tBegin with the cards, a little history, and a question you can actually explore.6 min · done
- The 78 cards: how the deck is builtLearn the deck's repeating structure so each card has a place before you learn its meaning.6 min · done
- The Major ArcanaLearn to recognize the larger themes in a reading and bring them back to everyday choices.7 min · done
- The four suits and their elementsUse the four suits to recognize which part of a situation a card brings into focus.7 min · done
- Numbers: Ace to TenUse the numbers as a starting point for understanding the forty numbered cards.7 min · done
- The court cardsMeet sixteen different ways to learn, act, care, and take responsibility.7 min · done
- Reading the pictureBuild a reading from what you can see, one detail at a time.7 min · done
- Reversed cardsDecide how upside-down cards will work in your readings before you draw.7 min · done
- Spreads and positionsGive each card a clear job, then listen for the conversation between them.7 min · done
- Your practiceBring the cards into everyday life with curiosity, care, and room to revise your understanding.7 min · done
Study tools
- Your first weekSeven small practices, 5 to 10 minutes a day, to walk beside the lessons.
- FlashcardsLearn all 78 cards by picture, a few at a time. Your progress stays in this browser.
- GlossaryArcana, querent, significator, reversal: the words of tarot, defined plainly.
- The 78 card meaningsEvery card upright and reversed, with its symbols and Waite's own words.
- SpreadsFive layouts, position by position, with example readings.
How this course works
Each lesson takes about five to ten minutes. Read it, try the exercise with a deck or our free reading, and answer three questions to check yourself. Nothing is graded and nothing is sent anywhere; the lessons you finish are remembered in this browser so you can pick up where you left off.
The course follows the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, the deck most modern English-language readers learn with, and A. E. Waite's own descriptions of its pictures. Where readers disagree, the lessons say so. Throughout, tarot is treated as a tool for reflection, not for predicting the future.