Foundations, autumn intake — teaching begins 14 September See the dates
Lumenarca
Autumn term · online and in Edinburgh

Learn to read a spread, not to recite one

Seventy-eight cards, and almost every book will tell you what each one means. Very little tells you how to hold a reading together for another person for forty minutes. That is the part we teach.

Look at the courses
A pair of hands holding a fanned deck of cards face down over a woven cloth

Start where you actually are

Most people arrive having owned a deck for years and read for nobody. Some arrive reading weekly for friends and wanting to charge for it without feeling like a fraud. Those are different problems, so they are different courses.

Three ways to study with us

A full deck laid out in neat rows on a white surface Foundations Eight weeks · online Hands laying three cards on a red velvet cloth seen from above Reading for others Ten weeks · online Cards spread on a table beside a lit candle Practitioner diploma Twelve months · supervised

The school in numbers

Teaching since 2017 412 people through Foundations 68 diploma holders Students in 19 countries Groups capped at 14

From the studio

Teaching notes

Two cards laid beside a small lamp on a dark table
Method Why we teach the three-card spread for six weeks before anything larger
Two illustrated cards resting on a patterned cloth
Cards The Moon is not a warning, and other habits worth unlearning early

Practice room

An open notebook beside a lit candle on soft fabric
Supervision What happens in a supervision hour, and why every diploma reading gets one
Candles and a closed notebook on neutral fabric
Ethics The four questions we will not answer for a sitter, and what to say instead

What students say afterwards

Written at the end of term, unedited apart from cutting them for length.

“I had read for myself for eleven years and never once for a stranger. By week six of Reading for Others I had done nine, and the ninth was the first that felt like a conversation instead of a performance.”

R. K. · Glasgow Reading for others

“The ethics block is the reason I stayed. Nobody had told me what to do when a sitter asks about a diagnosis, and I had been improvising badly for two years.”

T. A. · Leeds Practitioner diploma

“Being made to write up every practice reading was miserable for a month and then it was the whole point. I can see exactly where my language got lazy.”

M. D. · Dublin Practitioner diploma

Not sure which one you need?

Write and describe what you can already do and what you are stuck on. We will tell you which course fits, and quite often that it is none of them yet.

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