Fall 2025 Transmissions Practice:
Exploring Tarot’s Big Secrets using the Triangle Method
• a 6-week Major Arcana Intensive harnessing intuition, information, and inquiry •
• all experience levels welcome •
Welcome! I am so excited to explore the tarot with you.
Each 90-minute session will include INFORMATION in the form of pre-readings, presentation, and facilitated discussion; INQUIRY via written exploration; and INTUITION development via hands-on practice.
Schedule: Tuesdays from 6-7:30 p.m. central, October 21 through November 25
Our focus for this course will be the Major Arcana, the big secrets, the juicy cards that signpost our journeys.
WEEK 1 – THE JOURNEY -- introduction, review of basics, Fool and Magician
WEEK 2 – POWER -- High Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant
WEEK 3 – CHOICES -- The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit
WEEK 4 – PERSPECTIVE -- Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death
WEEK 5 – NAVIGATION – Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star
WEEK 6 – ILLUMINATION – The Moon, The Sun, Judgment, The World
New to tarot? No worries, all questions are welcome in this space and the major arcana is a great place to start your exploration
Tarot master? Come nerd out and dig even more deeply into the cards, their history, their resonances and seeming contradictions.
Sessions will be recorded and provided to all participants.
Primary texts (will be excerpted and electronic versions provided, but participants are encouraged to acquire copies as well if desired and able):
The Secrets of the Tarot: Origins, History, and Symbolism by Barbara Walker (hard to find in print)
Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy by Christopher Marmolejo
A Gnostic Book of Saints by Robert M. Place (hard to find in print)
Transmissions from the Untamed Interior by Marty McConnell (available here)
This course is available on a sliding scale. Suggested levels are:
$250 standard price
$150 supported price
$400 supportive price
Additional discounts are available if needed, do not let cost be the barrier! Please email marty@vitalcoachings.com to discuss.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR: Chicago-based educator, healer, and poet Marty McConnell provides vital coaching and consulting services to people and organizations, supporting them in being planful, proactive, and powerful in building the lives and worlds they envision. She is the author of “Transmissions from the Untamed Interior: Intuitive Tarot Reading,” as well as two award-winning books of poetry and “Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop.” For more than 20 years, Marty has drawn on the ancestral traditions of poet seers and ritual makers to guide individuals and groups through moments of growth, transition, and struggle. Her favorite spread is the WTF spread; ask her about it sometime. Yes, it means what you think it means.
