You bought the deck. You still look up every card.
So did I, for about a year. The first three-card spread I tried to read by the book, I fumbled in front of my wife. She has never let me forget it.
I’m Alex. I built Astra Trainer, the app that teaches tarot, astrology, numerology and runes in ten minutes a day, and this newsletter is where I teach the same material for free. Around 60,000 people read it now. Substack ranked us #10 Rising in Education, which I am choosing to believe was not a clerical error.
Most tarot writing hands you a glossary and stops. Knowing that The Tower means upheaval will not save you when three cards are face up and someone is waiting for an answer. I write the other half: how cards shift each other, why a spread lands the way it does, and what to say out loud.
What you’ll unlock inside:
Full card guides, Major Arcana and court cards, written so you can read a spread without a reference open
Combination reading, the skill that turns three separate cards into one answer
Astrology from the ground up, starting with your Sun, Moon and Rising
The stranger corners: runes, numerology, kabbalah, the symbolism nobody bothers to explain
Honest notes from building the app, including the parts that flopped
Subscribe free and every guide lands in your inbox, plus first access to new tools like the Big Three and birth card calculators.
Paid subscribers get the deeper material: advanced technique, the full personal-development library, and the behind-the-scenes posts. If the free letters teach you something, the paid ones will teach you more. Either way you’re welcome here.
Come learn something. And be kind to yourself on the days it’s hard.
Alex, Founder, Astra Trainer 🌟
