Tarot offers a powerful pictoral and visual tool of divination. Perhaps this tool divines what is happening in our subconscious, bringing our unknown dreams, fears and influences to light so that we can identify them and gain new understanding. Perhaps Tarot responds to and reflects energetic patterns around us, pulling in influences that are outside our knowledge and displaying that information to us in patterns that we can learn to read and interpret. Certainly Tarot provides images that are useful in meditative self-reflection, that can bring clarity, insight, and new ways of looking at old problems, and a unique means for a reader to connect with and communicate with a querent.

The images in the major and minor arcana are typically archetypal that can resonate with the reader and/or querent on a deep level. A tremendous variety of decks have been developed and published over the years, many of which are based on the structure of 22 major arcana and a minor arcana that is similar to a deck of standard playing cards, others of which have developed their own variations.

With her apprentices, Heather Ash uses a deck that is very similar to the classic Rider-Waite deck. The cards located at the bottom of most of the pages in this web site come from another deck that is also closely related to the Rider-Waite deck.

Heather Ash teaches a Tarot Workshop, an intensive course during which the class explores the history, mystical and practical applications of this powerful divination tool. Class focusses on awakening the students' own intuitive abilities. By the end of this course students are able to do a reading for themselves and friends. and to calculate their own soul, personality, and year cards.

Major Arcana