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Christopher Marmolejo
Writer, diviner & educator investigating decolonization, indigeneity, queerness & consciousness through Divination.
About
Welcome to the Red Read, with Christopher Marmolejo.
I regard tarot reading as a tool of revolution by revealing the inner sanctums of power, the shadowed structures of dominance & the path to revolutionary change.
The Red Read is a project of simultaneous decolonization & re-indigenization. I frame Tarot as a political praxis of liberatory literacy. Tarot makes us literate in the imagery offered in augury, but red tarot enacts a divinatory consciousness that is critical, transformative & transgressive.
A Red Read reweaves a poetic coherence of multi-valent relationality that comprises dignified selfhood and counters colonial power.
Upcoming Events
Offerings
Classes
With my MA in Education and single-subject English teaching credential, and 9+ years of experience, I am trained educator focused on cultivating classrooms of emancipatory possibility. My classes center tarot but very much incorporate astrology, curanderismo, and principles of critical, decolonial black queer feminist theory. I love teaching the tarot because I get to help students plant and nurture the seed of a divinatory practice, working continuously with students round the world conjuring, consulting and conducting the oracular aria. Come learn about tarot, the radical tradition of reading, freedom and prophecy.
Thresholds: The Decolonial Divination Course is currently open for enrollment!
Readings
I offer limpias, tarot and astrology readings online, and at in-person events, to help clients process, heal and grow. Whereby chart, cards or curanderismo, a reading is a summoning and articulation of soul. It subversively undercuts the logical dominance of western epistemology, and offer catharsis, clarity and divine communion.
Writings
In my tradition, literacy in all its forms, is the legacy of liberation. By giving and facilitating new ways of reading the world and the self, we are empowered to write a new world, and to revise worn out self-concepts. Follow my revisions, my proclamations, my translations below.
Speaking
Following the publication of my debut essay collection, Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy, I have been sought out by institutions such as The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Mechanics Institute, and more for readings/talks.
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Please Reach Out If You Would Like To Lead A Workshop, Class Or Retreat With Your Organization & Inquire For Rates
Upcoming Events include:
On Tarot and Divinatory Literacy for Liberation (in-person and Live-streamed with California Institute of Integral Studies, May 23, 2024, 6:pm PDT
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“Red Medicine is the red of ceremonies and blood, the red earth and red cloth for healing; it is the red of protection and ‘the red and the black’ paint of the codices and, therefore, knowledge. It is the red of women’s blood powers and red of the woman’s direction in some expressions of Nahua thought; it is the red coral worn for protection, as in the red thread, the red of primary color and firstness and the red inside the color brown; it is the red of vitality and of the ability to live and continue. It is the red of original colors and originality. It is the ceremonial red and the red cloth of ceremonies.”
