Learn tarot for beginners

You learn to read tarot cards best in two steps: the 22 Major Arcana with their core themes first, then the 56 Minor Arcana by suit (Pentacles, Cups, Swords, Wands). In Astro Academy you do that in 30 days, 5 minutes daily, with quizzes that anchor each card. You do not need a separate book — the app is your learning system, and the first three lessons are free.

You learn to lay tarot spreads once you can read the individual cards confidently — because a spread is simply reading cards in relation to each other. In Astro Academy you start with the three-card spread (past, present, future), then learn love spreads and the Celtic Cross. Every spread comes with a step-by-step guide, so you know not just the positions but how the cards tell one story together.

Reading all 78 cards confidently enough to do a three-card or love spread on your own takes 30 days at 5 minutes a day. Real fluency — staying calm in complex spreads like the Celtic Cross — typically comes after 2–3 months of regular practice. We build the course so 30 days gives you the foundation and you decide how deep you want to go from there.

Tarot looks complex because 78 cards feels like a lot. But every card has one clear theme — the Fool is beginning, Death is change, the Lovers are choice. Once you internalise those themes, reading is intuitive. It only gets hard if you try to memorise keyword lists. Our system quizzes you actively instead of letting you read passively — that is why it sticks.

Yes — you can teach yourself to read tarot, with no teacher or circle. What you need is your own deck (any will do — we recommend Rider-Waite for beginners), 5 minutes a day and a system that walks you card by card. That is exactly what Astro Academy is: 30 structured days of learning to interpret the cards, with quizzes that lock in each card and audio coaching that brings them to life.

Astro Academy costs 42.68 € one-time — lifetime access to all four paths (astrology, tarot, runes, numerology) and every future update. The first three tarot lessons are free, so you see whether the learning method works for you before paying a euro.

Unlike astrology, tarot has no state-regulated training — the path runs through confident card knowledge, plenty of your own reading practice and, optionally, a certificate from a private tarot academy. Astro Academy teaches you the first and most important part: reading all 78 cards with confidence and handling spreads fluently, in 30 days. That is the foundation every professional tarot practice is built on.

Yes — but there is no officially accredited tarot certification the way there is for regulated professions. Tarot certificates are issued by private academies and are worth as much as the reputation behind them. In Astro Academy you finish the tarot path with a completion certificate (part of Pro access). What matters more than the paper, though, is that you can actually read confidently afterwards — which is exactly what the 30-day path is built for.

The first three lessons of the tarot path are free, no card required. You pull your daily card, learn the first handful of cards and lay your first three-card spread. You can learn tarot free on YouTube too — what is missing there is the order, and anyone to check whether you actually got it. If you want the remaining 30 days and all four paths, that is 42.68 € once, no subscription.

Not all 78 at once. Start with the 22 Major Arcana — they carry the big themes and turn up in every reading. Then one suit of the Minor Arcana, not all four in parallel. The 30-day path keeps exactly that order and puts one card against your actual day, because cards stick faster when they have something to do with you.

We keep a separate reference for that: all 78 cards with full interpretations, upright and reversed, in the tarot card library. That is built for looking things up — you drew a card and want to know what it says. This course is the counterpart: it teaches you to read the cards without looking them up. Together they are the fastest route.

Five minutes is enough. Lessons are deliberately short so they fit any day — with your morning coffee or in bed at night. You can always do more; you never have to.

No. The Academy starts free. If you want to unlock everything, you pay once and keep access forever — no renewal, nothing to cancel. There is no monthly plan and no recurring charge — one payment, and that's it.

If you unlock Pro and it turns out not to fit: email us within 14 days and you get your money back — no reason needed, no questions asked.

Yes — you start free anyway: the first lessons are free, and so is your daily card. You only pay when you want to unlock everything.

It helps, but it's not required. With your birth time your birth chart is complete — without it you still learn everything, and you can add it later at any time.

Yes! As long as you log in with the same account, you can access your progress on any device.