Heh, like I don't have enough projects or anything...

[msfledermaus]

Ben the Neighbor has a wonderful idea these days: He's starting to write a syllabus for a Tarot workshop he would like to teach. Ben's got a couple of people who asked him about teaching them,and it got him thinking about perhaps getting something more organized going. He's invited me to be a co-teacher with him, since I've got a steady background in this kind of thing. We're both very very excited. We're thinking of a very small class first to see how things shape up and to polish our material, and also we're planning on taking people to a field-trip to Magus or Eye of Horus to pick out their own Tarot decks.
(With some coaching from us--nobody, and I mean NOBODY is starting with the Crowley Tarot is I have anything to say about it. And yes, it was one of my first decks. So sue me.)

I'm very excited about this, and the timing is good--I've been refreshing my knowledge a bit on my own anyway...just doing small readings,looking up interpretations, comparing decks, things like that. I think it would be fun to teach other people in a class-like setting...

I'll be going over card symbolism in my head between bouts of negotiation today, I think. It'll be helpful, I'm sure:)

Comments

[fleur.livejournal.com]

Oooooo!!!! I have a Mother Earth deck that is very sentimental and meaningful, and I can't make head or tail of it. I'm in either way.

I thought that a deck could only be a gift from another person and that you couldn't buy your own?

[purplefrog26.livejournal.com]

Yea tarot classes! I've been teaching them on and off for a couple of years now. I always get so much from them. Ugh to Crowley. I am just beginning to read with that and I've been doing readings for 20 years. I insist that everyone start with one that has pictures on the minors too but I read intuitively.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Not really. Of course it's nice if someone gives you a nice deck of your own, but where would we all be if you needed one as a gift to start out and nobody would buy you one?

I bought my first deck at Spencer Gifts, of all places. Sweet sixteen. I'd been playing with my mom's decks for years, and it was time to go get my own. It's retired now in it's own pretty wooden box:)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I like to get people started with clear piccies of the minors too...otherwise people have too hard a time memorizing everything. It helps their intuition, too, to have pictures to react to.

And yeah, no Crowley for beginners! If I hear another noobie magical person who says, "I'm in touch with the inner realm of magick; I have a Crowley Deck!" I will bang my head against the nearest wall. I usually ask, "Are you having trouble with it?" and they usually reply "Nooooo..." at first. Then they usually admit that they feel like the deck doesn't like them very much. And I gently try to coax them into getting a deck that actually likes them better...