Complete Rider-Waite Tarot Course

With one card, everything is easy. With seven, which one weighs the most, which links can you claim and what do you do when two cards contradict each other? This Rider-Waite tarot course teaches you to make those decisions methodically, not with sentences that would fit any layout. Over sixteen chapters you work through sixteen seven-card layouts. Before drawing a card you write a layout contract: the question, the positions and what the layout will not answer. Then you distribute weight, link the cards without inventing causes, deal with incompatible readings and reversed cards, and write a synthesis you can defend. It includes eighty worked problems with reasoned solutions, an evaluation criterion for every chapter, a contract template, a five-criterion rubric, an identification gallery of all 78 cards, a glossary and a short reading list. A course for reading with judgment, with no promise of prediction.