Christopher
Marmolejo
Christopher Marmolejo, MA, is an independent scholar, writer, diviner and teacher. Being Brown, queer and trans, they foster a literacy rooted in liberation, through divination.
They are the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide To Divinatory Literacy, published by North Atlantic Books.
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Red Tarot has been featured in the University of Denver’s graduate creative program. Christopher has been a key partner with the University of British Columbia’s Tarot For Decolonization initiative, faciliating several workshops at the University on the intersections of tarot, indigeneity, gender and sexuality, and decolonial storytelling. Christopher has lectured and taught taromancy and decolonial divination for institutions and conferences such as New York University, Arizona State Univeristy, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Philosophical Research Society, the Occult Humanities Conference, the Los Angeles Festival of Tarot and New Orleans Poetry Festival.
Christopher is currently serving as guest-editor for the Rebis, a literary anthology celebrating tarot, art & creative writing, focusing on arcanum XVIII: the Moon, out later this year.
As a trained educator committed to cultivating classrooms of emancipatory possibility, they work with students around the world to plant and nurture the seeds of a divinatory practice—finely weaving tarot, astrology, and curanderismo with decolonial, queer epistemologies and critical feminist pedagogies.
I frame Tarot as a political praxis of liberatory literacy.
Red light makes each card a prism of poetic, political praxis. The reader unfamiliar with social horror will find their imagination engaged and activated. Tarot makes us literate in the imagery offered in augury, but a red read enacts a divinatory consciousness that is critical, transformative & transgressive.
