The “Hard” Cards
A seven week get down with the stingers of the Tarot
Have you ever gotten a scary card in a reading and thought,
WTH FML.
???
lol, me too.
Want to explore your relationship to heartbreak, betrayal and trauma with the Tarot as a grounding tool?
I got you.
Learn how to use your big, intense, activating emotion to grow and self actualize.
Get intimate with the hard cards to become a better reader for others.
You are officially invited to join The “Hard” Cards Class
Dramatic but, this class will transform our entire lives by opening us up to witness suffering and come into the power and strength that suffering offers.
“Despair is necessary”
Uncomfortable? Yes. Scary? Can be! Worth a little attention? Def.
The beauty of being in a class container, is that you don’t have to do it alone. You are not alone, you belong, and you are welcome here.
We will see the tarot as a tool of healing and self actualization. We will use that energy and pain to create gorgeous connection and understanding for ourselves and future querents.
Through this class you will be able to come back to your senses when confronted with hard card moments and feel a few cards closer to being a most intuitive reader!
If gathering is not your thing or you are WAY busy, don’t fret, each session will be recorded and you can engage at your own pace!
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
One of my favorite authors and writing teachers, Jeff Vandermeer says, not to run from the dark things happening in the brain but to turn towards them because a happy story through and through is not only boring, it is unrelatable and detached from the human experience.
When reading Tarot I used to get nervous if a hard card came up for someone, but have learned that this is where the best magic happens for people, where people feel seen in their pain, where they have a meditative moment to reflect on that thorn and are offered space to just be with what has come up.
In order to build language for when these cards come up, we will examine our own nightmares, crazy thoughts, and woundings.
Because they serve us!
They help us "know thyself", knowing the full self includes the scary less sweet parts,
we are multifaceted beings! and that's what makes us sparkle!
The next reason to sit with hardness is because almost everyone has experienced it, especially folks who ID as women! My therapist talks about this all the time, almost every woman has experienced sexual assault, betrayal of trust, body shame or feeling unsafe in her body. The more we are vulnerable and kind to our own pain, the less silent our experience is, the more community, understanding and empathy we can give and receive. To be witnessed and held is to allow others the permission to do so as well.
Week One
Sweet syllabus day! Setting ourselves up for success!
Simple technique: altar building and spiritual safety plans.
Week Two
III of swords. IDing when you are activated. physically what’s it feel like? eg nausea, stuck, flutter heart, clenched jaw.
Simple technique: The "Hi Sweetie" meeting.
Week Three
The Tower is struck! Shedding the beliefs that no longer serve.
Simple technique: Rage rituals!
Week Five
X of swords. What is a right relationship with death?
Simple technique: coming back to senses.
Week Seven
personal hard card. (unconventionally hard) We’re talking X of cups, The Lovers, Six of cups. Integration day!
Simple technique: Shaking and burying.
Week Four
Death. Living in a culture of fear.
Simple technique: Mind mapping.
Week Six
The Devil. Shame healing.
Simple technique: pleasure ritual.
The Details
Your Facilitator
Hi friends! It’s me, Kennedy aka Banditi. I am so excited to share what I know about Tarot and the ways I find most enlightening for engaging this divination tool from an intuitive lean. I have been studying and reading Tarot avidly for over a decade (!?) and was raised with Earth based spirituality. This combination has me well equipped to help you attune to your ritual instinct and inner knowing. I am personally on the healing path and have been in trauma therapy for three + years. Wow! I combine methods and tools I've gathered from that experience and my knowledge of the Tarot to guide us towards deeper relationships and gentleness with the cards and ourselves. I like to offer an abundance of homeplay rituals and activities that engage playfulness and the senses. I so look forward to getting to know you!
$ Energy
Hi! This class is donation based. Recommended 13-31 per session BUT NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. Just DM me. If you can afford to $, the low end would be 91 and the high end would be 217.
I am so serious though, if money is the main obstacle to taking this course, I remove that from your path. lol.
This is the first time I am offering this series so the cost is incredibly accessible, I hope to see you there Magic Maker!
The Schedule
Mondays starting in January for 7 weeks @6:30-p EST via Zoom
All workshops will be recorded and emailed to you so you have them forever!
1.6.25 Welcome & Spiritual Safety
1.13.25 The Three of Swords & Finding cards in the body
1.20.25 The Tower & Raging
1.27.25 Death in a Fear based culture
2.3.25 Ten of Swords & Overkill
2.10.25 The Devil & Pleasure
2.17.25 Unconventionally Hard Cards & Integration
Who it’s NOT for
Folks needing an outline and map of the book of secrets.
Non Believers of magic who’d like to be proven otherwise.
People who need answers but are not interested in finding them themselves.
Folks looking for group therapy, this is NOT therapy, I am not a therapist, while it may be a therapeutic space, I encourage you to find a professional counselor if you are in need of that level of support.
Who it’s for
Curious beginner readers/ lifer readers
people living with ptsd
someone who has an intimate relationship with heartbreak or betrayal
creative writers who want to learn tarot
people who want to learn tarot
witches new and seasoned
readers wanting to explore personal connections and stories to the imagery of the hard cards.
while you will glean the historical meanings of the hard cards, and probably
many many symbolic meanings, we will not be
studying in the traditional sense.
What you walk away with
Access to seven live classes *will also be recorded in case you are busy and need to work at your own pace!
A class playlist
A sense of trust in your intuition
Confidence in your ability to read the hard cards for your querents.
A deeper understanding of the hard cards
Multiple simple heart soothing tools and rituals
Tarot Community
a personal relationship to the hard cards
techniques for calming when confronted with hard card moments.
an understanding that most likely the moment is not the pain point but the residual energy or memory of a big betrayal twisting in the heartspace is.
If it’s time, come on. Would love to have you.
To help not harm,
Bandit