How to Read Tarot Cards

Do you want to learn how to read tarot cards?

The tarot is a symbolic language that bridges conscious and unconscious minds to help us to explore the connection between humanity and the greater universe.

In this workshop, you will join Prof Diane Purkiss for three tarot readings, all with the Rider Waite Smith deck. You will learn the fundamentals of tarot – from interpreting individual cards to understanding how they work together in a full spread. Walk away with a clear sense of how tarot can offer a daily snapshot of your emotional and psychic landscape, helping you navigate your life with greater clarity.

Workshop Highlights:

• Learn how to read tarot cards, including initial impressions of a reading
• Explore the importance of placement and the intersection between the suit cards and the major Akan
• Understand different Tarot deck types as illustrative tools to explain hidden meanings
• Break down common myths around tarot readings, including eliminating the idea that tarot readings are about foretelling the future

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About your host:

Diane Purkiss is Professor of English at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of Keble

College. She has published works on witchcraft, fairies, and also on the English Civil War, the occasion of England's biggest witchhunt. She has been in more than a dozen television documentaries; she even has an IMDb entry and a Wikipedia page.She has spoken to general audiences at numerous literary festivals and to many local history societies.

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