Reading the Language of the Hands in the Rider Waite Smith

Presented by Liz Dean

Liz Dean explores hand gestures as story: decode the hands, and you add new depth to your card interpretations – wherever you are in your tarot journey.

Reading the Language of the Hands in the Rider Waite Smith explores hand gestures as story: decode the hands, and you add new depth to your card interpretations – wherever you are in your tarot journey.

We’ll first look at open and closed hand positions (the nature of grip or release) in the Aces, then trace hands across the deck that speak of willpower, defence, receiving or blessing – from the manifest intention of the Magician to benediction of the Hierophant.

Although hands may take up a small area of a card, their influence is dynamic and even hidden or tucked-away hands, as in the free-fall Hanged Man or resistant Four of Cups, offer a focus for interpretation.

$20
Book at: https://www.tarotguildaustralia.com/zoom-presentations

About Liz Dean:
Liz Dean is a tarot-reader and divination teacher. Her 25 books and tarot decks include The Big Book of Tarot Symbols, The Ultimate Guide to Tarot, Tarot By Numbers, HBO’s Game of Thrones Tarot and The Magic of Tarot. She has taught at the Omega Institute and Reader’s Studio, New York; in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney for the Tarot Guild of Australia; at the Western Australia Tarot Conference, Perth (2025); and at tarot conferences in the UK and Europe.

Liz began reading tarot at Psychic Sisters within the famous Selfridges department store, London. Formerly, Liz was an editorial director in book publishing, and was co-editor of the UK’s leading spiritual magazine, Kindred Spirit. She loves cats and poetry, and lives by the sea in Sunderland, in north-east England.

Learn more at: https://lizdean.info/