Tarot Apprenticeship Articles

In the following articles, Toby Skibinski explores the principles and practice of ethical tarot divination as communication with the Divine. Delve into foundational tarot skills (Rider Waite Smith deck focus), the nuances of ethical reading, the journey towards tarot mastery through 1-to-1 mentorship, and the deeper insights which tarot divination can offer. These articles reflect the depth and perspective central to the Tarot Apprenticeship program.

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Developing Foundational Tarot Skills: A Rider Waite Smith Deck Focus

Begin your tarot journey with a solid foundation! This guide focuses on the iconic Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) deck, exploring its structure and the key themes of the Major and Minor Arcana. Get practical tips for understanding card meanings and build the essential skills needed to start reading with confidence. Perfect for beginners and those wanting to strengthen their core tarot knowledge.

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Tarot Reader Pricing Strategies To Serve Low Income Querents

So you want to read tarot for the public good but you have costs that you can’t afford to compromise on? Perhaps you believe that some kind of exchange is necessary in spiritual work but you still want to be affordable to all sincere seekers? In this article we will discuss some pricing strategies that you can use to help people through the monetary barrier of entry that looms over a large number of tarot reading querents.

Please note that the motivation for such pricing strategies has nothing to do with social justice activism or left wing ideological views more broadly. Our reasoning is based in spiritual, not political ideas.

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A Wrong Way To Shuffle Tarot Cards

There are three main ways to shuffle tarot cards but the third of them as listed is undesirable. They are; overhand shuffling, riffle shuffling (bridge shuffle), and...

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How To Read Tarot Card Combinations

In this article, I will explain this step by step process so that you can read card combinations like a fluent tarot reader. I will do this by providing examples of how to layer, or combine, the 3 essential factors necessary to reading tarot card combinations. I will also provide some of the practise exercises which you can use to develop your ability to read tarot card combinations.

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How Does Tarot Divination Actually Work?

Some tarot authorities are fond of telling their students to promote the “experience” of a reading through maintaining a mysterious atmosphere. The upholding of tarot’s mystery implies that tarot readers possess the knowledge of it to reveal. Yet, when it comes to the mystery of tarot, most tarot readers are wallowing in it.

In this article, we will unveil the mystery of tarot works with the following topics;

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