Learn Tarot online · from your first card to professional practice

For a complete beginner, TarotNav · Reading the Major Arcana for Life's Real Questions with Linda Marson is the place to start · twenty-three lessons that build from your first card through all twenty-two Major Arcana and the Celtic Cross spread, each card taught through a real story and an actual reading. Pair it with the free complete guide to reading Tarot and you have everything you need to begin.

Yes · Global Spiritual Studies offers more than thirty self-paced online Tarot courses taught by published authors, from your first card to professional client work, all watched on your own schedule with lifetime access. You can start free with the complete guide to reading Tarot and the printable Major and Minor Arcana charts, then move into a full course when you are ready.

Most people learn to read a spread with meaning within a few weeks of steady practice · the twenty-two Major Arcana come first, then the fifty-six Minor cards and the court cards fill in over a season. Because every course here is self-paced with lifetime access, the timeline is entirely yours · a course like TarotNav gives you a structured path through the Majors so you are reading confidently sooner.

There is no official governing body that accredits Tarot readers, so "certification" means something different for the Tarot than it does for a licensed profession. What matters is real skill · our courses are professional-development classes taught by working readers and published authors. A Jungian Approach to Tarot with Mary K. Greer includes a course quiz and awards a certificate of completion, and for reading with real clients the deepest preparation on the site is Client Skills for Tarot & other Esoteric Consultants with Jenne Perlstein.

Select Tarot courses include a certificate of completion · A Jungian Approach to Tarot with Mary K. Greer is one, awarded after its course quiz. Certificates can be downloaded and printed at home, or professionally printed and mailed to you for an extra charge · we mail certificates worldwide, including to China and other countries.

Global Spiritual Studies gathers a faculty of published Tarot authors in one place · Mary K. Greer (Tarot for Your Self), Rachel Pollack (Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom), Linda Marson, Jenne Perlstein, Philip Carr-Gomm, Steve Hounsome and more. Each teaches the part of the Tarot they know best, so you learn from the source rather than a summary.

TarotNav · Reading the Major Arcana for Life's Real Questions with Linda Marson is the site's dedicated Major Arcana path · twenty-three lessons across all twenty-two trumps, taught through Linda's "GPS for Life" method. For a free companion, the Major Arcana complete guide covers every trump and the Fool's Journey.

Start with the free Minor Arcana complete guide for all fifty-six cards, then go deeper with Secrets & Sources of the RWS Minor Arcana from Mary K. Greer. The court cards get their own class · Cracking the Court Card Code with Linda Marson · since they are the cards most readers find hardest.

Yes · A Jungian Approach to Tarot with Mary K. Greer reads the cards through Jung's archetypes and symbolism, and Jung's Active Imagination and the Tarot applies his active-imagination technique to the cards for a living inner dialogue. Both come from the foremost living Tarot scholar.

Yes · Reading Tarot Reversals with Mary K. Greer teaches how to read reversed cards without fear · as nuance and dimension rather than simply the opposite of the upright meaning.

The free complete guides are the fastest way in · the Major Arcana guide and the Minor Arcana guide together cover all 78 cards, and the printable Major and Minor Arcana charts keep the meanings beside you as you practise. From there, Tarot and Intuition helps you read the cards rather than just recite them.

Yes · Client Skills for Tarot & other Esoteric Consultants with Jenne Perlstein is the premium professional course · twelve classes bringing counselling and mental-health skills to your readings. An Introduction to Tarot as Therapy with Steve Hounsome and Tuning in to Difficult Clients round out the pastoral side of reading for others.

Yes · The Energy Body in Tarot · A Guided Practice Through the Seven Chakras with Philip Carr-Gomm and Steve Hounsome reads the Tarot through the seven-chakra energy system across nine lessons, with two live Q&As in 2026 and a private community group.

The Secret Ingredient for Effective Relationship Readings with Jenne Perlstein teaches relationship readings that genuinely help couples, and the free Tarot Love chart reads all twenty-two Major Arcana for love and intimacy. For the symbolism underneath, see the guide to sexual symbolism in the Tarot.

Yes · The Energy Body in Tarot pairs its recorded lessons with live Q&A sessions where you can bring your own questions to Philip Carr-Gomm and Steve Hounsome. The next one is on September 22, 2026 at 7pm UK time. All sessions are recorded and added to the course, so you keep them with lifetime access · including any held before you enrolled.

Improve Your Tarot Readings Through Tarot History with Mary K. Greer is a visual tour from the Mamluk deck to the modern Rider-Waite-Smith, and the free Visconti-Sforza complete guide walks the oldest surviving deck card by card.

Yes · everything you need to begin is free. Read the complete guide to reading Tarot for all 78 cards, spreads and reversals, then download the printable Major Arcana, Minor Arcana and Tarot Love charts. When you want a guided path, a full course is waiting whenever you are ready.