Membership

What the membership specifically offers.

One sixty-minute session per month, scheduled in advance, reschedulable within the calendar month if needed. The reflection brief is sent within twenty-four hours of each session, as for any sixty-minute Full reading. The session quality and methodology is identical to the ad-hoc Full reading; the only difference is the cadence and the membership price (₹4,000 per session against ₹5,000 for the ad-hoc rate — a 20% saving for the regular practice).

The members-only monthly essay is a 1,500-to-2,500-word piece written each month by Acharya Saumya, available to members only. The essays are not published on the public journal; they are deeper interior pieces about the practice, the lineage, the technical work of contemplative tarot. The essays accumulate over the membership; a member who has been with us for two years has access to twenty-four essays.

The alumni-only spread library contains the proprietary spreads Saumya has developed and refined over twelve years of practice that are not published publicly. New spreads are added every few months. The library is browsable and members can request the rationale and protocol for any spread of interest.

What the membership does not offer.

More than one session per month, included. If a member wants a second session in a given month — for a specific surfacing that warrants additional attention — it is bookable at the reduced member rate of ₹4,000 for sixty minutes (against ₹5,000 ad-hoc). We do not include unlimited sessions in the membership; the methodology resists over-frequency.

Discounts on Deep Dive or year-ahead sessions. Membership applies to the sixty-minute Full rate only. Deep Dive and year-ahead sessions are charged at the standard rate.

Access to academy training. Membership is a session practice, not an academy practice. Foundation, Practitioner, Advanced, and Master Teacher cohorts are separate; some members are also academy alumni, but the two are distinct programmes.

A working pattern many members find.

Many members settle into a pattern in which the monthly session is the contemplative anchor of the month — booked for the same week each month, often on the same day, used as the structured contemplative event that organises the month’s inward attention. The session is then often supplemented by personal journaling in the days following, in dialogue with the reflection brief.

Over a year, this pattern produces twelve sessions, twelve reflection briefs, and twelve members-only essays — a substantial body of inward work that few ad-hoc clients accumulate. By year three or four, several members have remarked that the practice has become a stable part of how they organise their working life.

Frequently asked about the membership.

Can I cancel any time? Yes — there is no minimum commitment. Cancel by writing to hello@trikaala.com; the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current month’s billing cycle.

Can I pause for a month? Yes — pause up to two consecutive months per year by writing to hello@trikaala.com. The membership resumes automatically after the pause; the session quota does not accumulate.

Does the session always have to be with Saumya? Yes — the practice is currently led by Saumya alone. We do not delegate member sessions to other readers.

Can I share my membership with my partner? No — each membership is one seeker. If you would like both of you to have sessions, two memberships are required.

Is there a corporate / institutional version of the membership? Not at this time. The practice is structured around individual seekers.

The texture of long-term membership.

A few observations from the long-term members who have been with us for two or more years. The first is that the monthly cadence becomes part of the working calendar in a way that ad-hoc readings do not. Members tend to keep the same day of the month for their session — the first Tuesday, the third Friday — and the rhythm of the year begins to organise around it. The second is that the substance of the readings shifts. The first year tends to surface and address specific situations; by the second year the situations have largely resolved and the readings move to more structural-pattern work; by the third year the readings often become explicit contemplative-practice supervision.

The third observation is that the members-only essays accumulate into a substantial private library. A member who joins in May 2026 and stays for three years will have access to thirty-six essays by May 2029 — about 50,000 to 90,000 words of writing on the practice not available anywhere else. Several long-term members have said this is the part of the membership they value most.

How to begin a membership.

Membership requires at least one prior session with the practice. If you have not yet had a reading with us, book a sixty-minute Full reading first; we can discuss membership at the close of that session if it seems right. Most members begin in this way — one ad-hoc session, then a few weeks of consideration, then the membership.

The first month of membership is treated as a trial month. If by the end of the first month the cadence does not feel right, cancel without question; the first month’s fee is fully refundable in the trial window. After the first month, the standard cancellation policy applies (cancel any time, takes effect at the end of the current month).

Membership billing is on the first of each month, via the Razorpay subscription link sent at signup. The session can be scheduled any time within the calendar month; we encourage scheduling in advance to ensure the slot you prefer.

What the membership is not for.

The membership is not designed as a continuous-contact subscription. We do not provide between-session check-ins, text-message coaching, or asynchronous question-answering. The monthly session is the contact; the reflection brief is the closure; the next month’s session is the next contact. Members who arrive expecting a higher-frequency engagement are gently invited to reconsider whether the membership suits their actual working needs.

The membership is also not designed as a therapy substitute. Many of our members are also in therapy with licensed clinicians; the two practices complement each other when both are clearly bounded. Members who arrive looking for the membership to do clinical work that therapy properly addresses will not be well-served, and we will say so during the first session.

Finally, the membership is not designed as a vehicle for becoming a tarot reader. The academy is the appropriate path for that aspiration. Many members are also academy alumni, but the membership’s session work is distinct from teaching and does not function as training.

The annual rhythm a long-term membership produces.

Over a year, a member has twelve sessions and twelve reflection briefs. The twelve briefs taken together produce a structural document of the year — not pre-written like the year-ahead reading’s brief, but accumulated month by month as the year actually unfolds. Several long-term members re-read their twelve briefs at the end of each year and report finding the cumulative document more useful than they expected; it captures the texture of the year in a way that no other annual practice they keep does.

The members who use the cumulative document deliberately — by re-reading the year’s twelve briefs at the end of December and writing a short personal essay about what the year actually was, in light of the briefs — are the members who report the deepest long-term value from the membership. The discipline is not required; the membership works without it; but it is available to those who want it.

For new members, we recommend not worrying about the cumulative document in the first year. The first year is for settling into the cadence and discovering whether the monthly rhythm fits your working life. The cumulative work becomes available naturally by the second year, once enough briefs have accumulated for the practice to read.