Tarot as Language
A Tarot Fundamentals Class for diviners of any level of experience
When I first came to tarot, I thought I had to memorize lists of meanings if my readings were going to be “good.” I thought there was one right answer hidden in the cards, and that my job was to decode it.
Overtime, I found that this way of learning strips tarot of its life. It tells us to value rules over relationship, certainty over connection. And in the process, we lose touch with the living images that make the cards speak.
When we are taught that the cards are fixed, we unconsciously agree to that smallness. We read flatly, we recite keywords, we doubt our own voice. We let tarot become someone else’s language instead of our own.
But the cards are not lists. Each is alive with the spirit of its image, a container that holds countless signs and situations. These images return in our lives again and again, always in new forms and with deeply personal metaphors and expressions unique to each reader
Our work is to meet the cards relationally.
To build a living relationship.
To let the cards return us to our bodies, our knowing, our stories.
This is tarot as language.
Every image in the deck has a pulse.
A spirit that waits in the picture, half-seen, half-felt.
When you draw a card, you’re working with spirit
to intune the tone and temper of the image.
Learning this language feels like meeting an old friend
returning through a new face.
The Fool steps forward, and you remember a leap you once took.
The Lovers appear, and you feel the ache of choice in your chest.
Death arrives, and the body knows what it is to release.
These images are not distant—they live in you.
Each card is a vessel that gathers signification
from all the sense experiences of your life,
holding them inside its frame.
Each card is a threshold, and when it returns,
it asks you to recognize what you already know.
Somewhere in you is a reader,
waiting to meet the deck this way.
A reader who doesn’t want to recite, but to listen.
Who doesn’t want rules, but relationship.
Who doesn’t want a list of meanings, but a living language.
That reader is already here, as you read this.
Waiting to step into dialogue with the cards.
Waiting to let tarot return you to your own voice.
Tarot as Language
A 5 Month Tarot Speaking Course
On October 19th we begin a five-month journey into the grammar of tarot—designed to cultivate sovereign confidence in diviners, whether you are just beginning or looking to deepen an established practice.
Together we’ll move through the history, form, and living voice of the deck—tracing the Majors, Pips, and Courts, and learning to hear the images as they echo through our lives. In dialogue and practice with one another, we’ll establish a collective mode of learning that is hands-on, discovering tarot’s language as something spoken together.
Each week we’ll balance study and play: reading, reflecting, practicing spreads, and uncovering your own voice as a reader. By the end, you’ll feel at home in the language of the cards—able to sit with your deck and let it speak with clarity, depth, and confidence.
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purchase bundle at a discount by October 18th
Why Study w/ V?
Why Read Tarot as a Living Language?
The world itself speaks within the flux of our dialogic relationships. Images, words, and gestures don’t live in isolation. They are interdependent—they breathe, shift, echo and return alongside each other.
By reading tarot in this way, we are asking: how is this image alive right now? How is this nowness informed by the images of my past and projections of my future?
What Makes this Course Different?
I encourage in my teaching style an opening of the imagination. Each card becomes a voice you learn to hear—subtle and surprising. As you practice listening, you begin to discover your own voice in dialogue with the deck. This is where confidence grows: from sovereign trust in what you perceive. By the end, tarot is no longer something outside you—it’s a language you carry, fluent and creative in its own expression.
How has V come to this understanding of tarot?
For seven years I have read tarot professionally, and what I’ve learned is that the cards are never still—they shift and speak differently in every encounter. My background in cognitive studies through poetry and sonic arts taught me to listen for rhythm, resonance, and symbol, while my studies in esoterica deepened my engagement with the mysteries that shape the deck. Performance studies also informs my praxis, showing me that images only come alive when embodied, when spoken, when material conditions are explored and shared.
What is the course Methodology?
I teach tarot through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from Qabbalah, astrology, philosophy of poetics, and Hermetic traditions. The Tree of Life, the astrological decans, and the elemental structure of the suits provide a framework, but they are always paired with a poetic approach to image and imagination. I treat each card as a container, a vessel for recurring signs that speak differently each time they return. In practice, this means students learn to read tarot as both a system and an art: structured enough to be coherent, but alive enough to speak in the moment of reading.
