Journey Through the Sacred Tarot – Magick Altman

Your journey through the Tarot will naturally evolve from birth to maturity, as the cards reveal and validate your soul’s wisdom, and you discover the steps you need to take towards greater self-discovery.

During the first three course sessions, you’ll “meet” the Major Arcana, your spiritual and earthly “family,” who will guide you to and through the realm of self-realization. You’ll follow the stages of the journey as they unfold sequentially in the deck, allowing each card to guide your next step.

Session 1: Starting Your Journey as the Ever Optimistic ‘Fool’ (November 7)

The Fool reminds us that everything is possible right now. There are no limitations (only those that are self-imposed). Like the Fool, who’s bursting with enthusiasm for the adventure itself, we have our dreams and imagination. And at a soul level, we all contain this free spirit, which will keep appearing on our journey through the cards, urging us to take the next leap of faith.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience a guided meditation into the world of the Priestess Card to ground you in the work to come
• Understand yourself and your journey on a deeper level by meeting your spiritual and earthly parents in the cards
• Explore your own upbringing by meeting the Tarot Card archetypes of your secular, religious, and social influences
• Discover a new way to be in the world — by letting go of reactivity, and becoming a responsive and aware participant in this time of profound transition

Session 2: Stepping Out Into the Realm of Earthly Reality (November 14)

You’ll step into the Realm of Earthly Reality, where underlying concepts and potential lessons of the material world — such as Justice/Adjustment — await. You’ll open to your adult years, exploring the cards to find your footing in the world.

On this leg of the journey, you’re faced with choices, responsibilities, and possibilities — without constant guidance and direction from family and community… It’s a time when anything can happen!

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience a guided meditation to discover the Libra archetype of the Justice Card and the laws of Nature — and how they can help you navigate your journey
• Deepen your inner wisdom through the archetype of the Hermit Card
• Start to act on your passions through an exploration of the Lust/Strength and Fortune Cards
• Understand the importance of surrender through the archetype of the Hanged Man Card
• Start to integrate your newfound knowledge through the alchemy of life depicted in the Art Card

Session 3: Exploring the Realm of Self-Realization (November 21)

At this point on your journey through the cards, you’ll make your first encounter with your shadow self, as the Devil Card tempts you with your addictive patterns, and the Tower Card plays on your shadow aspects of fear and doubt.

To take the next evolutionary leap, we must face these shadow selves and recognize them as our greatest — though most challenging — teachers. Only then are you prepared to pass through the birth canal in the Dark of the Moon Card, and burst forth as a radiant light for the world, as The Sun.

In this session, you’ll:

• Rebirth your inner child… unencumbered by family influences and outdated patterns
• Experience a guided meditation to release your attachment to outcome
• Discover your capacity for desire — without lust for a particular result
• Recognize your addiction to power, pleasure, or other people as a shadow represented in the Devil Card — and a potent and tenacious force of the Capricorn archetype
• Release self-judgement and comparison by recognizing your uniqueness through the Star Card
• Find out how to offer your gifts to the New Age in the Aeon Card
• Embody your beautiful synchronicity with all life in the Universe Card

Welcome to the Theater Realm, where you’re the director and 16 characters are vying for the lead role in your play. These characters, depicted in the Court Cards, are called Queens, Knights, Princes, and Princesses (names may vary in different decks), and help illuminate aspects of yourself and the people in your life.

In this module, you’ll discover how to navigate your archetypal journey by better understanding your personality traits with the help of the character cards. You’ll become aware of how your personality serves and, perhaps, limits your potential. You’ll also explore how everyone you meet is — on some level — a reflection of yourself, and how instead of reacting to the “reflections” that trigger you, you can instead ask, “What is the lesson here?”

In this session, you’ll:

• Get to know your personality traits by discovering which Court Card represents you
• Meet the elements of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth as various aspects of yourself
• Deepen your self-understanding by exploring the astrological aspects of the cards
• See yourself and others in these 16 characters… identifying both gifts and limitations

Over the next two sessions, you’ll explore how to connect to the 40 cards of the Minor Arcana through the lenses of mythology, symbology, astrology, and numerology to understand how each of the suits — Swords, Wands, Cups, and Disks (or Pentacles) — are also the elements of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth… and how they can be used to help you advance in your journey.

Viewing the Minor cards through these lenses opens you to guidance and archetypal energies for powerful manifestation… from taking an idea to fruition to carrying an initial emotion, such as attraction, into a loving, healthy relationship. These cards offer a broad range of specific directives to use at this point in your journey that can help you with any challenge or opportunity that arises.

Session 5: Understanding the Minors Through Numerology (December 12)

Numbers show us how creation is manifested through geometric progression. For example, first there a vision for building our dream home (one); next we must consider what architect might best reflect our idea (two); then, in partnership, we begin to synthesize a plan (three).

Using the Minor Cards, you’ll discover how you move through all ten stages of this geometric progression — from seed to fruition — to create your life every day.

In this session, you’ll:

• Discover how to receive messages through numbers that represent specific words
• See how the 10 numbered cards of the Minors relate directly to the Majors
• Unblock your fear of math by understanding the significance of numbers
• Understand the Kabbalah as a numerological system that integrates exquisitely with the Tarot

Session 6: Understanding the Minors Through Astrology (December 19)

Astrology has been used as a lens throughout time to carry cultural stories of human history. This week, we’ll explore how the numbered cards — Court Cards and their Zodiac signs — have astrological aspects and how they can help you in your relationships with others… and with yourself.

Knowing the Zodiac signs of the people in your life can help you avoid the pitfalls of reactivity. For example, a Gemini is a great thinker and communicator, but if you want something to get done you might need one of the earth signs like Taurus for the job. Or, if you want to explore a vision for the future, find an Aquarian to share your ideas with. Need a heart-to-heart? A water sign, like Pisces, will have that innate skill.

In this session, you’ll:

• Enhance your relationships by understanding which Court Cards represent you and the people in your life
• Learn some basics of astrology and how it relates to the cards
• Deepen your self-understanding by connecting the Tarot cards to your astrological chart
• Experience the Zodiac as a tool to better understand your gifts and challenges

Now you’re ready to learn how to do a Tarot reading… In this last session, you’ll learn how to tell the story of others’ lives through the classic 10-card Celtic Cross Layout.

This layout starts by pulling a card that indicates your direction and focus right now. Then it reveals what’s going on in your conscious and unconscious mind. Next, you look at what you need to remember from your past. Then, you step into the realm of possibilities, where you’re headed, how that’s manifesting within you, in your environment, and through the people around you. And finally, you’ll face your hopes and fears… to arrive at a probable outcome depicted by card 10 in the reading.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn step-by-step how to do a 10-card reading
• Learn how to frame your questions to get the most specific and clear answers from the cards
• Discover how to interpret the various positions in your card reading
• Weave astrology, numerology, and archetypal symbology into your reading
• Build confidence in providing readings for your friends and family
• Explore a 3-card reading to use as a spiritual check-in
• Learn how the cards are your greatest ally in growing through any situation or relationship