Tarot Afloat | Learn to Read the Cards | Lady D & Scott William | Newcastle

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Sunday 22 November 2026 | 4pm–7pm | Aboard MV Calmer | Newcastle Harbour

We strongly recommend purchasing a Gilded Tarot Mini Royale deck and bringing it with you to the workshop.

Having your own deck will allow you to follow along with Lady D and Scott throughout the presentation, handle the cards yourself and participate fully in the practical reading exercises.

Using the same style of deck as the facilitators can also make it much easier for beginners to follow the demonstrations and identify the cards being discussed.

If you already own another tarot deck that you love, you're welcome to bring that instead — but for those purchasing their first deck specifically for this event, we recommend the Gilded Tarot Mini Royale.

You've seen the cards.

You've heard about The Fool, The Lovers, The Tower and the mysterious Major Arcana.

But how does someone actually take a collection of individual cards and turn them into a meaningful tarot reading?

This time, you're going to learn how.

Step aboard MV Calmer for an interactive three-hour Tarot Workshop Cruise on Newcastle Harbour hosted by Lady D and Scott William Archer.

Rather than simply sitting back and watching a reading, this experience takes you behind the cards.

Lady D and Scott will introduce you to the foundations of tarot, demonstrate how readings are constructed and then guide you through practical exercises where you'll begin interpreting and reading the cards yourself.

No previous tarot experience is required.

Absolute beginners are very welcome.

🔮 Two experienced facilitators — Lady D & Scott William Archer

🃏 Introduction to the tarot deck

✨ Understanding the Major and Minor Arcana

♠️ Exploring the four suits, numbers and Court Cards

👁️ Learning to recognise imagery, symbols and intuitive cues

❓ How to formulate questions for a tarot reading

🔮 Simple tarot spreads for beginners

🎴 Live reading demonstrations

🧠 Understanding how individual cards work together

🤝 Guided practical exercises

👥 Opportunity to practise reading for another guest

✨ Opportunity to receive a practice reading

💬 Questions and guidance from Lady D and Scott throughout the workshop

🚢 Three-hour Newcastle Harbour cruise aboard MV Calmer

🍽️ Food available for purchase onboard

🍸 Beverages available for purchase from our fully licensed bars

The afternoon begins with the foundations.

Lady D and Scott will introduce you to the structure of a tarot deck and help take away some of the mystery surrounding the cards.

You'll explore topics including:

Discover the major archetypes and themes represented throughout the tarot journey.

Learn how the four suits relate to different areas of life and experience.

Understand some of the patterns that can help make a seemingly complicated tarot deck much easier to interpret.

Learn to look beyond memorised definitions and start noticing the visual clues contained within the cards.

Explore how traditional card meanings, imagery and your own intuitive responses can work together during a reading.

You do not need to memorise 78 cards before you can begin learning tarot.

The aim of this workshop is to give you a practical foundation that you can continue developing after the cruise.

Next, Lady D and Scott will demonstrate how a tarot reading actually works.

Rather than simply giving a reading, they'll take you through the process.

You'll see how a reader:

✨ approaches a question

✨ selects an appropriate spread

✨ begins interpreting the cards

✨ considers the position of each card

✨ connects individual cards together

✨ recognises patterns and themes

✨ combines traditional meanings with intuition

✨ develops the cards into an overall story

This is your opportunity to see what is happening behind the reading, rather than simply hearing the final interpretation.

Then the cards come to you.

Guests will begin working through guided exercises using their own tarot decks.

Lady D and Scott will help you start with simple interpretations before progressing into practical readings.

You'll have the opportunity to work with another guest and practise putting what you've learned into action.

One person becomes the reader.

The other becomes the querent.

Then you'll swap.

Lady D and Scott will move throughout the group, offering guidance, answering questions and helping when you're not quite sure what a card — or combination of cards — might be telling you.

The purpose isn't to become an expert tarot reader in three hours.

It's to give you the knowledge and confidence to start reading the cards for yourself.

Lady D is an experienced psychic medium and astrologer who incorporates mediumship, psychic insight, astrology and intuitive reading into her work.

With years of experience delivering private readings, psychic parties, workshops, group platform readings and larger events, Lady D brings a warm, engaging and intuitive approach to the afternoon.

For Tarot Afloat, Lady D will help guests explore the intuitive side of tarot — looking beyond individual card definitions and learning how imagery, symbolism and intuition can contribute to a reading.

Scott William Archer is an experienced psychic and platform medium whose work incorporates clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience and claircognizance alongside mediumship.

Scott has spent many years within the Spiritualist community and also brings decades of professional entertainment and stage experience to his work.

His engaging presentation style, natural humour and extensive experience working with audiences make him an ideal guide for newcomers learning to approach tarot in a relaxed and practical environment.

No.

This workshop has been specifically designed so that someone who has never read a tarot card before can participate.

If you've already experimented with tarot, you'll also have the opportunity to build on your existing knowledge and ask questions throughout the workshop.

The important thing is simply to arrive curious and ready to participate.

We strongly recommend purchasing a Gilded Tarot Mini Royale deck before the event and bringing it with you.

Having your own deck means you'll be able to:

✔ Follow along during demonstrations

✔ Find and examine the cards being discussed

✔ Participate in practical exercises

✔ Conduct your own practice reading

✔ Continue practising at home after the workshop

You're welcome to bring another tarot deck if you already have one you prefer.

Please do not arrive expecting an individual private tarot reading. This is an interactive teaching and workshop experience.

By the end of the workshop, you should have a much better understanding of:

✔ How a tarot deck is structured

✔ Major versus Minor Arcana

✔ The significance of tarot suits

✔ Numbers and Court Cards

✔ How to approach a tarot question

✔ Basic tarot spreads

✔ How to interpret an individual card

✔ How cards influence one another

✔ How to recognise themes within a spread

✔ How to combine traditional meanings with imagery and intuition

✔ How to begin conducting a simple tarot reading

Most importantly, you'll have actually had the opportunity to practise reading tarot, rather than simply listening to someone talk about it.

Make an afternoon of it.

A selection of food will be available for purchase onboard during the cruise.

MV Calmer's fully licensed bars will also be open throughout the event, with alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available for purchase.

Food and beverages are not included in the ticket price.

Strictly no BYO food or beverages.

✔ Three-hour Newcastle Harbour cruise aboard MV Calmer

✔ Lady D & Scott William Archer

✔ Interactive beginner-friendly tarot presentation

✔ Introduction to tarot structure and symbolism

✔ Major & Minor Arcana

✔ Suits, numbers and Court Cards

✔ Live tarot demonstrations

✔ Simple tarot spreads

✔ Guided hands-on exercises

✔ Opportunity to practise giving a reading

✔ Opportunity to receive a practice reading

✔ Guidance from Lady D and Scott throughout the workshop

✔ Newcastle Harbour views throughout the afternoon

✔ Food available for purchase

✔ Fully licensed bars with beverages available for purchase

📅 Sunday 22 November 2026

⏰ Cruise: 4:00pm–7:00pm

✅ Check-in: From 3:30pm

🚢 Vessel: MV Calmer

📍 Newcastle Harbour

Please arrive with sufficient time to complete check-in.

MV Calmer departs promptly and late arrivals cannot be boarded once the vessel has departed.

Don't forget your tarot deck.

No.

While Lady D and Scott are both experienced psychic mediums and intuitive practitioners, Tarot Afloat is primarily a teaching and participation experience.

The focus is on helping you understand tarot and begin developing your own ability to work with the cards.

Any demonstrations conducted during the workshop form part of the teaching experience.

Individual private psychic, mediumship or tarot readings are not included in your ticket.

Tarot Afloat isn't simply something to watch.

The aim is for you to leave MV Calmer with the beginnings of a skill you can continue exploring long after we return to the wharf.

Learn the cards.

Watch how a reading comes together.

Pick up your own deck.

Then give it a go.

Lady D and Scott will show you where to start.

🔮 The rest of the journey is yours.

Tarot readings, demonstrations and practical exercises during this event are presented for education, entertainment and personal reflection.

Guests may be asked to work with another attendee during practical exercises.

Please be respectful of information another guest chooses to share during their practice reading.

Guests should avoid asking another participant questions involving highly sensitive personal, medical, legal, financial or psychological matters.

Tarot readings and interpretations should not be relied upon as a substitute for professional medical, legal, financial or psychological advice.

Participation in practical exercises is encouraged but guests will not be required to disclose private information they are uncomfortable sharing.

Refund Policy: Tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable except where the event is cancelled by the organiser or where otherwise required by law.

Licensed Venue: Events operate under strict licensing and RSA regulations.

Cash and card accepted.

Food and beverages are available for purchase onboard.

Strictly NO BYO food or beverages.

Allergen Notice: Our onboard kitchen operates in a shared environment and cannot be considered allergen-free. While care is taken in preparation, we are unable to guarantee the complete absence of allergens, including gluten, due to the risk of cross-contamination. Guests with significant intolerances, severe allergies or specific dietary requirements should carefully consider whether the available options and onboard kitchen environment are suitable before booking. Dietary or allergen-related unsuitability does not constitute grounds for a refund.

Heels Policy: MV Calmer has steep stairs, so tall or pointy heels are not permitted. Small chunky heels are fine.

Accessibility: MV Calmer is not a fully accessible venue due to wharf, gangway and vessel design. The vessel cannot accommodate wheelchairs. It is the responsibility of ticket purchasers and attendees to assess whether the vessel and event are suitable for their individual accessibility, mobility or personal needs before purchasing tickets. Guests should contact us before booking to discuss suitability.

Bag Policy: For safety and security reasons, bags larger than a purse or clutch size are not permitted onboard. All bags will be searched prior to boarding. Guests who arrive with larger bags such as backpacks or totes may be refused admission without refund.

Do not leave bags, tarot decks or other personal items unattended onboard. All Event Cruises Pty Ltd accepts no liability for lost, damaged or stolen personal items.

No mid-cruise drop-offs or pickups.

Total cruise duration may be inclusive of embarkation/disembarkation. All indicated times may be adjusted at the discretion of AEC management and/or the vessel Captain.

Rain doesn't stop the boat from cruising. MV Calmer has substantial indoor areas across the Main and Mid Decks.

Event Conditions: All Event Cruises reserves the right to refuse entry or remove guests who do not comply with venue policies, safety requirements or responsible service of alcohol regulations.

Departure Policy: MV Calmer always aims to depart at the scheduled time. Late arrivals will not be refunded.

By purchasing a ticket, guests acknowledge and agree to the event conditions.

⚠️ Important Information, terms & conditions

• 🔞 18+ Event – Authorised photo ID required.
• Licensed venue. Events operate under strict licensing and RSA regulations.

• Valid photo ID Required
• Shared dining table experience: We do a seating plan! If you want to sit together, create a Group Name (e.g., “Smith Family Table”) and have everyone fill in the 'Group Name' field on the order form. Bookings done within 24hrs of start time may not be able to sit with requested other guests that have already been allocated a table.
• Group Bookings and Purchaser Responsibility: Where one person purchases tickets on behalf of multiple attendees or a group, the purchaser is responsible for ensuring that every person attending under that booking is provided with, and is fully aware of, all relevant event information, entry requirements, policies, terms and conditions before the event date.
• All event information, terms and conditions are made available on the ticketing page at the time of purchase. A guest’s failure to read, receive or understand this information does not provide grounds for a refund, credit, transfer or other compensation.
• Drinks - those not included in a stated beverage package or the ticket inclusions are available for purchase
• Food - the included menu is a set menu, that cannot accommodate special or individual dietary requirements. The menu items may be subject to change without notice due to seasonal and supply availabilities.
• Allergen Notice: Our onboard kitchen operates in a shared environment and cannot be considered allergen-free. While care is taken in preparation, we are unable to guarantee the complete absence of allergens, including gluten, due to the risk of cross-contamination. For guests with significant intolerance, severe allergies or specific dietary requirements, we recommend carefully considering whether the available options and onboard kitchen environment are suitable for your individual needs before booking. Dietary or allergen-related unsuitability does not constitute grounds for a refund.
• Cash and card accepted.
• Strictly NO BYO food or beverages
• Heels Policy – The MV Calmer has steep stairs, so tall or pointy heels are not permitted. Small chunky heels are fine!
• Accessibility: Please note that MV Calmer is not a fully accessible venue due to wharf, gangway and vessel design. The vessel cannot accommodate wheelchairs. It is the responsibility of the ticket purchaser and attendees to assess whether the vessel and event are suitable for their individual accessibility, mobility or personal needs before purchasing tickets. Guests should contact us before booking to discuss suitability. Lack of suitability based on accessibility or personal requirements does not constitute grounds for a refund
• Bag Policy: For safety and security reasons bags larger than a purse or clutch size are not permitted onboard. All bags will be searched prior to boarding. Guest that arrive with larger bags such as backpacks, totes and other items may be refused admission without refund.
• No mid-cruise drop-offs or pickups.
• Total cruise duration may be inclusive of embarkation/disembarkation. All indicated times may be adjusted at the discretion of AEC management, and, or vessel Captain.
• Do not leave bags or other personal items unattended while on-board the vessel. All Event Cruises Pty Ltd accepts no liability for any lost, damaged or stolen personal items.
• No need to stress about the weather! Rain doesn't stop the boat from cruising, and there is plenty inside space on the main and mid decks for an epic time! so you don't have to worry about what the weather is doing.
• CCTV & Security Notice: For the safety, security, and enjoyment of all guests, crew, and staff, MV Calmer is monitored by CCTV surveillance. By purchasing a ticket and boarding the vessel, guests acknowledge and consent to CCTV recording and security procedures.
• Professional photography and video may be captured - By purchasing a ticket and boarding the vessel, you acknowledge that photography and videography may occur during the event. You consent to All Event Cruises Pty Ltd using any images or footage of you for marketing, promotional, and operational purposes, without compensation.
• Event Conditions: All Event Cruises reserves the right to refuse entry or remove guests who do not comply with venue policies, safety requirements, or responsible service of alcohol regulations, and all applicable legislation.
• Departure Policy: Vessel always aims to depart at the scheduled time. Late arrivals will not be refunded.
• All Sales Final: Tickets are non-refundable unless the event is cancelled by the organiser.

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