My method for teaching TdM and pip-style style cards is to help you understand tarot at its core. If you understand where something comes from, you understand what it is about, and you have a better grasp of its mechanics.
I've been interpreting the cards for nearly fifty years, and I bring a strong skill set to the table. I am passionate about tarot and enthusiastic about keeping the art of reading alive.
I am currently offering 7 hours of Pre-Recorded instruction.
The ideal student for this class is one who is new to pip-style and TdM decks and wants to learn how to read them. You may be new to Tarot altogether, or making a switch from RWS or Thoth.
Tarot has been around for hundreds of years, and since its inception it's been a fascinating collection of human experience and expression.
My method of teaching tarot, is to go back to the beginning, to Medieval and early Renaissance Italy, and 1600s France, to acquaint my students with old school meanings of the trump images and numerology. This class will be using pip style cards which predate the Rider Waite Smith Tradition. The style of tarot interpretation I teach can also be applied to any pip-styled cards. Bear in mind that TdM can rightly reference the Tarot of Milan (Italy) from the mid 1400s, (which is where and when what we now call Tarot began), and other northern Italian decks as well as the Tarot of Marseilles which came later, out of France in the mid 1600s.
If you can read TdM and pip-style cards, you can read anything.
Each lesson I deliver is about an hour in length and you may proceed with the lessons at your own pace. Some lessons might require multiple viewings because there's a lot to unpack in each lesson. I recommend you pace yourself at a week apart, because each lesson will include exercises for you to do at your own pace and prepare you for the next lesson. The homework isn't there for me to correct you, it's recommended for your benefit. I am always delighted to interact with you and chat about tarot, but the homework is strictly for your benefit to be done at your own pace.
I deliver the lessons via recorded video which I feel will best facilitate the concepts being taught. Naturally, I am always available any time for questions.
Seven hours won't make anyone a tarot master, but my lessons will allow you to benefit by my decades of experience with tarot and save you years of research.
Please contact me before ordering. Contact Marilyn
If you are unable to order the lesson in its entirety, I will sell lessons individually for $40.00 USD and you may order lessons that way. Let me know and I'll send an invoice for each lesson.
Using Rider Waite Smith or Thoth decks will not be appropriate for this course. This course is strictly for Tarot de Marseille, early Italian, on non-scenic pip styled cards.
Read below for recommended decks.
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Tarot lessons: Learn to Read Non-Scenic Pip or Tarot de Marseille Style Tarot Cards with Marilyn
This class is a pre-recorded class option. The class is a total of about eight hours, spread over eight classes, some well more than an hour, and some slightly less. Length of class depends on the content and is appropriate the lesson.
I am always happy to talk tarot, so never hesitate to contact me at: [email protected] Indicate your name and that you are a student in the subject line.
Requirements For Course:
Student must have a non-scenic pip-style deck for this class. The pips might be decorative, but they are not scenic.
A deck in the Waite-Smith or Thoth traditions will not be helpful for this course. You do not need to spend a fortune on a tarot deck for this course, and a few inexpensive and readily available decks mass produced decks which I recommend are: The Spanish Tarot by Fournier, Ancient Italian Tarot by Lo Scarabeo, Visconti Tarots Deck by Lo Scarabeo, and Claude Burdel Tarot of Marseille by Lo Scarabeo.
Artisan Tarot has many beautiful TdM (Tarot de Marseille) styled decks and they shuffle divinely.
Artisan Tarot decks are midway priced between commercial decks like Lo Scarabeo and US Games Systems Inc decks, and the more expensive art decks such as Yves Renaud, Giordano Berti, Sullivan Hismans, Il Meneghello, and Marco Benedetti decks.
The 1JJ Swiss Tarot deck, which is a Besancon styled deck, may also be used. Even the Fergus Hall deck created for the James Bond film Live and Let Die would work.
Choose a deck based on your personal aesthetic. But it must be pip-style or TdM for this class. Ask me if you aren't sure about a deck.
Assignments to be completed on your own are included with each lesson and will expand the scope and time spent on each lesson.
This course is designed to allow the student to work at her/his own pace and have access to Marilyn with questions that might come up.
Eight hours won't make anyone a tarot master, I've been reading and interpreting the cards for nearly forty-five years, and I still encounter learning myself, but these lessons represent decades of research will save you years of research and allow you to learn more quickly.
Lessons include a little bit of history to put the cards in context and lots of exercises for hands on experience, so if history isn't your thing, this class might not be the one for you. Tarot history is fascinating though, and if you love tarot, I think you'll love this course.