Dive deep into the full spectrum of your inner world. Combining ancient Tarot wisdom with modern psychological insight, this immersive journey will teach you how to explore your subconscious patterns, reclaim your joy, and use the Tarot as a trusted ally in personal and spiritual growth.

You’ll examine what lies beneath the surface, like fear, shame, grief, and reconnect with the powerful forces of love, creativity, and play. Because healing doesn’t have to be heavy. It can be liberating, curious, and even fun.

✨ What You'll Learn

In this course, you’ll be guided through rich, soulful lessons including:

🌓 Understanding Shadow Work and Integration: Learn how embracing your shadow self leads to deeper wholeness and self-compassion.

🎲 The Importance of Play in Life and Spiritual Development: Rediscover how joy and lightness are essential to any healing path and how to invite more of it into your spiritual practice.

🌑 Tarot and Shadow Work: Work with the Tarot to safely explore inner wounds, limiting beliefs, and hidden emotions.

🌞 Playfulness and Tarot: Lighten the journey and discover how the Tarot also points to delight, laughter, and creative expansion.

📚 Tarot Deck Recommendations for Shadow and Light Work: Find the best decks to support emotional healing, empowerment, and inner child work.

💖 Working With Life’s Big Emotions: Unpack and navigate complex emotions like fear, anger, shame, love, peace, joy, and more with the Tarot as your guide.

🃏 A Walkthrough of the Tarot Cards and Their Shadow & Light Essences: Discover how each card carries both a shadow and a playful/light interpretation—and how to use both for powerful insight.

🔮 Shadow and Light Tarot Spreads: Use original spreads that reveal your hidden truths while celebrating your strengths.

🐺 Why Shadow and Play? 🎠

Healing is most potent when it’s balanced. Shadow work gives us depth and awareness, while play returns us to joy, imagination, and possibility. This course blends both to help you become a more integrated, empowered version of yourself.

Whether navigating personal transformation, seeking new ways to work with clients, or simply wanting to know yourself more deeply, this course gives you the tools to bring Tarot into your life in a meaningful, sustainable, and soulful way.

Ethony is a High Priestess, Tarot teacher, and internationally respected author who blends mystical insight with grounded guidance. As the creator of the Tarot Readers Academy, she has taught thousands of students around the world how to master the art of Tarot reading. Her books Your Tarot Court and Tarot Grimoire (Llewellyn) are trusted resources for deepening one's connection to the cards.

Ethony has independently created and published several beloved Tarot and Oracle decks, including the Cosmic Wisdom Tarot, Modern Love Tarot, Penumbra Tarot, Awakened Soul Oracle, and Modern Goddess Oracle. She also leads The Awakened Soul Coven, a vibrant online modern witchcraft community active since 2016.

An ‘80s kid at heart, Ethony lives in Vancouver, Canada, with her family and three magical dogs. She’s most at home there, surrounded by Halloween decor, Care Bears, and coastal forest trails.