I was wondering how much would you pay for a Tarot teacher? You see sometimes prices equal to two Tarot books, for just 1 lesson. Some courses exist of 10 lessons. And I have even found a course from 2 years, for about 2.500 Euro / 2.800 USD. I was just wondering is het better to have several Tarot books, or just 1 teacher? In my opinion you learn more from several sources (Tarot books) than just 1 teacher. What do you think? And how much would you pay for a teacher?
I would like to attend if a class or tarot workshop was available near where I live, somewhere where you could meet other people interested in tarot, and where a more experimented tarot reader would coach the group around collective exercises similar to the ones found in Kim Huggens' or Mary Greer's book.
It would need to be an "in person" type of class, after work hours or during the weekend. It could be two or three sessions in a row.
For that, I would agree to pay up to 15 or 20 euros.
If a 2 hour class was 15 euros and there were 12 students, the teacher would earn 180 euros in two hours.
But it is not something that even exist around where I live. Before I answered this thread, I did a search in french on Google, and when you type "apprendre le tarot" ou "cours de tarot", in France, you mostly only get info about learning the playing card game of tarot, the rules of the game. There is a French Federation of Tarot (the game), and official tournaments. But for esoteric tarot, there is much less going on in France, and I did not find ANY class available anywhere, even less in my area.
I would not agree to an online class. There is already a whole lot of info you can get from internet and from books, so what I need right now is interaction with real people in real time, not through internet.
In the past I did enroll for a tarot class, the Alternative tarot course with Little Red Tarot, an internet course.
I mainly signed in because I like her work very much, she shares an awful lot of free info in her blog, and I wanted to support her. The course is now 35 euros, I think it was less at the time I signed in, maybe I dont remember right. The price seems reasonable and very honest to me, in any case.
I admit that I did not really work through the course. I did the first two exercises and got lazy. There was so much journaling to do.... again..... the method was mostly based on journaling, it got me discouradged. I am still planning to finish the course at some point, sooner rather than later, I am sure it is good, but the intense compulsory journaling repells me a tad.
So far I have learnt everything I know mainly from books, and from freely available contents on internet. I would say, 60% from books and 40% from internet.
The best books for learning, IMO, are the ones that give you exercises to do, that make you look at the cards differently, that make you work through spreads : the workbooks.
The traditional reference books that are about cards meaning, can be a useful addition, but I would not have learnt from them.
I would not say that the forum is enough in itself.
I think it is a wonderful place to grow your knowledge and to meet likeminded people, but I do not think it is a good place to start at all.
I have learnt a lot here, and it is a great place to practice, but it is because I came here with some background knowledge ; I do not think you could easily find your way if you arrive here as a complete beginner. But frequenting the forum is an excellent addition to learning from a book !
I think that it is normal to want to get paid for your work if you offer tarot classes, tarot courses, or if you write a tarot book.
But I would NEVER pay the kind of money you mention ! 2500 euros does not seem reasonable AT ALL, and I would very much be suspicious of such an offer.
Any offer where you have to agree right away to follow online classes over a long period of time, and the price is several hundreds of euros, seems like a scam to me.
I regularly receive in my mail box, offers for online tarot classes by a well known tarot reader (I visited her blog once and probably clicked on the wrong place without being aware of it...) and now I receive every week promotional emails for her classes, workshop or else.
There are numerous classes available (one for learning the meanings of all the cards, one for developping intuition, etc), it makes you feel like you need all of them, and each course is several hundreds of euros - up to 400 euros for one online course, from memory. The classes seem spread along the course of several weeks.
It always seems extraordinary expensive to me, plus the marketing strategy of this particuliar person is very aggressive : almost daily emails in your maibox, and prices are not immediately disclosed even if you scroll all the way down through all the "wonderful feedback by students", but you only discover the price if you sign in, the email is written in a way to make you think the course is free, and only then do you discover the price, and there are always "exceptional discounts" offered if you sign up before tonight - like a class for 399 E instead of 600 E, etc...) so I now completely lost any trust I had in this person and her services, and I genuinely wonder if anybody actually buys in her strategy and enrolls in her classes and pays that price.
This person seems successful though, so maybe some people do enroll after all.... For me, I just resent that kind of marketing technique and the courses seem grossly overpriced.
For the record, I also disagree with some of her tarot positions (or at least I don't find them useful in my own practice). But then I've never met an acknowledged expert that I agreed with 100% on everything.
I would NEVER pay that much! For me, it would depend--I did once take a class many many years ago with a friend because she wanted someone to go with her. I think we payed $25.00 to $50.00 and the class was 3 or 4 hours each night for 2 nights--with a professional tarot card reader. It also included some xerox copies of notes he thought would help us and he brought many various decks he owned as well as books for us to check out while there--plus free water to drink! Though this was back in the 1990s, I think. 