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Sango’s Tarot Soul Tarot Training – So how does
it work?
You sign up with me for Lesson One
by sending me a message at Sango’s Tarot Soul expressing your interest to do
so. You will pay for the lesson by online transfer and receive it by e mail.
You will be added to the group made for the students of this course. Once you
have gone through the lesson if you have any doubts or would like some
practice, comment in the group or send me an e mail titled ‘Study Support’. Not
only will I be there to guide you throughout, all of us will learn more and benefit
from the discussions in the group.
I truly enjoy teaching more than I
enjoy reading Tarot. People who have learnt a little from me have told me I
make it really easy for them. So I am looking to reach out to as many eager
students as I can without waiting for a few more years to be free to hold
classes in person. I have committed to stay at home and exclusively enjoy being
a mother at least until my little girl is five years old and no longer enjoys
having me around ALL the time! J
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What do I need to be ready to take this course?
Your interest to
learn, Rs 30 for the first lesson, a FAT notebook dedicated to your own Tarot
notes, at least two hours of self-study per week and preferably a Tarot deck.
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Why do you have to pay per lesson instead of a
one-time fee for the entire course?
I would like for you to have the flexibility
to choose whether to continue learning with me in this way or not.
We all have preferences to different
styles of learning. Some of to us would learn better in a classroom session learning
with a teacher face to face.
I would have liked that too, when
I first set out to learn Tarot. But firstly, I found that the cost of such
courses was prohibitive. It almost always starts at Rs. 7000 minimum. Do not
get me wrong – I believe that this cost is TOTALLY JUSTIFIED, now that I know
how much time, money and effort a person invests into learning Tarot and
becoming good enough to teach.
Over that, there are so many costs
a teacher incurs in facilitating a class – notes, the rent for the venue and
facilities etc. I am sure I would have charged at least Rs. 8000 per student to
make it worthwhile for me to teach a class in person. But not everyone can pay
that kind of money for something they are merely curious about and do not know for
sure yet whether they will pursue seriously or not.
With this course, after you invest
Rs. 20/25/35 (depending on the length of the lesson) if you feel it is not
suitable for you; you are not stuck with me for the duration of the course. Don’t
pay, and don’t continue with me! It really IS that simple!
Also, I believe my lessons
delivered in bite sized installments will keep a student’s interest level
high. You get to decide when you are
ready for the next lesson. People have a million things to do, and keeping up
with an inflexible tarot course that won’t wait for you to catch up may not be
possible for everyone. You may fall behind on your learning if you have to cut
short your practice and self-study time to be present for the next lesson held
in a fixed duration course.
On a more selfish front, it will
keep me motivated too if I get constant feedback about the efforts I put into
this. I need this, because after writing one e book on a section of the tarot,
I quickly lost interest when there was nothing to keep me motivated to write on
all the topics I had initially planned to write.
Every lesson of this course will
take shape using your feedback. We will discuss doubts and queries at regular
intervals for FREE, so that everyone is up to speed.
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Another difficulty with learning face to face is
making the time and taking the effort to reach class!
I don’t know about you but for me,
if I can avoid the inconvenience and expense of travelling to attend a Tarot
class, I will. I fall in the category of people who learn better when I am
allowed to learn at my own pace. I like to be able to go back to my study
material again and again. Each time I do so, the matter sinks in deeper. I see
new information in it that I may have overlooked previously.
In addition to that if I have online support
to ask my doubts and there are people who are taking the same course as me from
whose doubts I can learn, nothing like it! With this course, learning support
does not end after the lesson or even after the course.
If you are the kind who believes that learning
from a teacher in person in a classroom is best, taking one lesson from me
would help you decide whether this method of learning suits you or not. Give it
a try! Wouldn’t it be better to find out and be pleasantly surprised than to
indefinitely postpone learning waiting for the day and time when attending
regular classes will become convenient for you ?!
Anyway, you get to keep the lesson
forever. And those who have tried Lesson One from me will tell you, that what
they learnt is going to simplify the way they interpret their cards forever!
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How long does each lesson take?
That depends
entirely on you. It depends on your pace of learning. The second lesson will be
ready to be sent after TWO weeks. I believe a beginner needs to give at least
that much time to the learning, reading more about the topic and completing the
exercise I have given in the first lesson.
Generally a new
lesson will be ready after every two weeks. You can request to be sent your
next lesson much later, depending whether you feel ready to learn the next
portion.
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So WHY are my lessons ridiculously underpriced?
My lessons will ALWAYS cost
BETWEEN Rs 20 – Rs 35 per lesson. The cost will depend on the length of a
lesson. This is how I work as a freelance writer – I am paid according to the
length of an article I write. Trust me
when I say that your Tarot lesson is priced at a FRACTION of what I would get
paid for writing an article of the same word count! I have written about the
reason for this low pricing. Read on if you have the time J
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Is this
some sneaky ploy to make you end up paying more than Rs. 7000 in total?
Well I can tell
you this – it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY that it will take more than 200 lessons for us
to cover all aspects that a good Tarot course would cover! Very, very unlikely!
And if by some genius plan I do manage to stretch out a simple Tarot course to
span 200 lessons (RIDICULOUS!), remember that you always have the freedom to
choose whether you wish to take the next lesson or not! You will always be
informed in advance about what topic the next lesson will cover and how much it
will cost.
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So Seriously, WHY is the course so ridiculously
underpriced?! What is my secret?!
The ‘secret’ is that I learnt
TAROT for FREE from (in my humble opinion) the BEST Tarot teacher online –
Brigit Esselmont of Biddy Tarot. She granted me the privilege of learning her certificate
course, just like that, just an act of great kindness by someone who truly
loves Tarot. And the only thing she told me to do was to pay it forward.
So this is me, paying it forward
by making learning Tarot EASY and AFFORDABLE to the genuinely interested
student.
If you want to know the entire
story, it goes like this –
I follow the www.biddytarot.com of Brigit Esselmont religiously
because for me it is THE BEST WEBSITE to learn tarot. Check out her website now
and you will see what I mean.
Brigit Esselmont offers online
Tarot lessons through easy to follow courses and also has written The Ultimate
Guide to Tarot Meanings which is the BEST book for a student to learn from, in
my opinion.
After I quit my full time job to
be at home for my child and before I started working as a freelance
editor/proofreader from home, I just could not justify investing in taking
Brigit’s courses. When converted into Rupees, it would cost me an amount that I
could not burden my sweet natured husband with! He would have readily agreed,
but I didn’t have the heart to burden him with the expense. You guys can
understand what I mean when I say ‘justify’, because most of us would get a
similar reaction from family members if we say we are about to spend some
serious money in enrolling for a tarot course. (Hein? TAROT?! Woh ki hounda
hain?!! Woh seekh ke kya job milega?!! Can you put it on your CV? Blah blah…)
Besides, I had already invested
quite an amount in taking courses by Doreen Virtue, learning Reiki etc.
But I really, really knew that I
wanted to learn tarot and that too from Brigit Esselmont’s Tarot Foundations
course ONLY. I had already taken her 31 days course and was desperate to learn
more in depth by enrolling for her intensive Tarot Foundations course.
I thought and thought, and by
divine grace stumbled upon a website called ‘Indiegogo’ on which I saw people
setting up campaigns to raise funds for various things – from raising money for
a honeymoon trip to raising money for a small business to raising money for a
medical emergency – and everything in between – people had set up campaigns for
a variety of reasons.
So I set up a campaign too. I
explained to readers that I wanted to raise the amount that would cover the fee
of this course, buy a me new tarot deck, a few good books on Tarot and pay for
course on Psychic Awakening by another brilliant teacher I admire – Anna Sayce.
(Check out http://annasayce.com/)
On one of Brigit’s posts about her
book and her course on her FB Page ‘Biddy Tarot’, I commented that I WILL take
her course someday and mentioned that I have even set up a campaign to make
that possible. I hardly expected her to actually look at that comment. I
thought just like I write get paid to write posts Social Media Marketing on the
pages of businesses, someone hired by her must be handling her FB page for her.
Anyway, she DID see my comment and
asked me to post a link to my campaign. I did so. Two days later I received an
e mail from her that she was so touched by how sincerely I wanted to do the
course that as a one off rare case, she decided to allow me to enroll for her
course! Not only that, this awesome woman gave me her incredible book The
Ultimate Guide to Tarot meanings e-book for free too!
I was already stunned, but she
then goes a step further and arranges for me to learn from Anna Sayce as well –
The amazingly effective Psychic Awakening course. Turns out she knows Anna
Sayce and was able to get her on board to make it possible for me to do the
Psychic Awakening course too.
As a student of Brigit’s course I
made several lovely friends from all over the world, of which one sweet woman
living in Australia gifted me a Tarot deck through Amazon J J
When you are touched by SO MUCH of
kindness, that too from people you admire and people whom you may never even
meet in your lifetime, it really touches your heart in a way that changes you
forever. You want to spread that kindness and yes, you really do get inspired
to pay it forward.
The way I choose to do this is by
offering this course with this seemingly bizarre fee structure. If before my
course only two out of ten people who wished to learn Tarot would actually take
a course and invest close to nine thousand rupees (course fees plus travelling
expenses plus incidentals), my aim is to get ALL ten of those people to be able
to afford to at least CHECK OUT whether learning tarot is really for them.
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Am I not worried that people will pay for a
lesson once and may circulate the material without me benefitting from it?
No J
If you think that
is OK to do, by all means go ahead. I hardly planned this course with the
intention of getting rich! If sharing my material for free genuinely helps
someone you know to learn Tarot, I am happy! Besides, remember this is not my primary
source of income so I am not really greedy about it J
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Will you get a certificate?
As of now, I do
not plan to give out certificates. Thankfully for tarot readers, you are really
only as good as your readings. People will return to you for readings and
recommend you to others if they know you are good.
If however, in
future I do start issuing certificates, all students who have taken this course
with me will receive a certificate.
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How many lessons will there be?
Honestly, it is
difficult to say at present. This course is really going to get structured
according to the feedback I get from students. So if majority of students need
a particular topic broken into smaller sections to facilitate easier grasping,
that is what I will do. So covering a topic may take longer. If students are
able to grasp a particular topic quickly, we will breeze through it fairly
quickly. In that case I will keep the material concise for that particular
topic.
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Will I need a Tarot deck to take this course?
I strongly
recommend that you get a tarot deck before you start the course. Of course you
can learn without it, but it will feel like only theory and you will not
benefit as much as someone who has their deck handy from Lesson ONE.
My aim is to
enable you to interpret cards from day ONE, lesson ONE - No matter how new you
are to tarot. By the end of the first lesson I will already have you practicing
how to interpret cards. So having a tarot deck handy will make more sense. I
heavily rely on the Rider Waite deck. I personally feel it is the friendliest
deck for beginners. This course would be easiest to those who use the Rider
Waite deck. You can purchase it online if you do not have it already.
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Is this course suitable for people who already
have tarot knowledge?
Although my
material is written with absolute beginners in mind, people who already dabble
in Tarot can benefit from using this as a refresher course.
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Will I have to invest in more study material?
I will
have book recommendations for you, if you would like to add to your knowledge.
There are invaluable online resources too that you can gain immense knowledge
from. I have invested a mini fortune in
books on Tarot and intend to continue doing so. Because I believe nobody can
get really good at something expert without constantly learning and practicing
what they learn.
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Will the course be discontinued at any point?
If I get
too few participants, yes. At any point of time if it makes more sense for me
to invest more time and effort to my freelance work than to spend time guiding
a really small group of students of my course, yes, I will have to discontinue
the course and providing support to the online study group. In such a scenario
too, you will already have received value for money by way of the simple and
easy to understand lessons you received up to the point.
Further
questions? Inbox me at Sango’s Tarot Soul on Facebook.
I hope to see
you in ‘class’ soon J
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