
Thresholds
A course in decolonial, divinatory literacy with Christopher Marmolejo
11-week intensive
August 11 - October 20, 2025. Mondays at 3pm PT
Live on Zoom, or watch asynchronously
Sliding scale: $420 - $1050
An invitation
We practice divination as a literacy of liberation. We read to re-map perception toward dignity and choice. The classroom is a living mirror. We gather to learn how to see.
This course meets at the threshold between the seen and the numinous. We work with the cards as aesthetic objects and decolonial imagination. We build skill and we build community.
Read the soul. Open your eyes to the numinous. Gain a tool for transformation.
Thresholds is for those at the edge of life, navigating uncertainty, trauma, and self-determination. This class welcomes beginners and experienced readers, seekers, teachers, and healers who want to study tarot through a decolonial and intersectional lens.
This course deepens ritual practice, strengthens intuition, and supports authentic expression within a safe and inclusive community. Thresholds offers tarot as medicine for liberation, a guide in transmuting oppression into love and possibility.
What you’ll learn
Cards as signposts in the soul’s journey. Timing and the structure of an ethical reading. Reversals, clarifiers, personal cards, shadow keys. Astrology and decans for minors. Numerology, myth, psychology, ritual. Unique spreads and weekly prompts. Texts to deepen study. And so much more!
Who this class is for
Beginners and seasoned readers. Astrologers seeking to expand divinatory literacy. Practitioners ready to study tarot through a decolonial and intersectional lens. We learn together and practice transformation.
How this course works
“Your work on the tarot is truly revolutionary, unlike anything else out there. So blessed to learn from you💫”
—NAJI T.
Ready to cross the threshold?
The Red Read is committed to equitable access and honoring a diversity of lived experiences. A tiered tuition model invites each participant to reflect on their access to resources and choose a price point that feels appropriate — with integrity and without shame.
This model relies on community trust and mutual care. When those with greater financial flexibility choose higher tiers, it helps subsidize access for others. This is one way we practice solidarity and redistribution within our shared learning space.
Abundant Care Rate
$1050 suggested rate
Choose this rate if you have abundant financial resources, access to wealth, or are able to give generously without financial strain. You help keep the work sustainable while honoring your own value! Once you purchase Thresholds, please make an additional suggested donation of $350 to The Red Read.
Community Care Rate
40% OFF
Select this tier if you’re experiencing financial hardship, are systematically marginalized, or would not be able to access this offering otherwise. No explanation is needed. This is an invitation to receive with dignity and grace.
If you’d like to access this rate, please use the coupon code COMMUNITY at check out.
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11 Week Intensive
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Week Zero
Introductions, Orientations & Entry points - Ritual Relationships, Interpretation Tools, The Fool, Personal Cards
Reading: Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy Introduction, The Red Read
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Week 1
This week we cover the energy of Ace, as seen through the Magician, the Wheel of Fortune, the Aces, and the Pages.
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Week 2
Access the energy of two, through the High Priestess, Justice, the Hanged One, Judgement, and the elemental two’s
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Week 3
We enter the expansion of three, working themes of mothering through the Empress, Death, the Queens and the elemental threes.
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Week 4
We examine the stability, foundation and doorway of the fours. We will examine the Emperor, Temperance, the Kings, and the elemental fours.
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Week 5
We examine dogma, inheritance and oppression through the Hierophant, the Devil and the elemental fives.
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Week 6
We’ve made it to the Lovers week, where six shows us harmony and the divine disruption to that harmony in the tower. We shall traverse the elemental sixes to find orientation.
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Week 7
We discuss agency, and the border crossing required to heal shame. We will be guided by the Chariot, the Star, the Knights and the elemental sevens.
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Week 8
This week we discuss deep feminine wisdom through the Strength card, the Moon card, and the elemental eights. We explore sexuality and spirituality and the reconciliation offered through Moon, feminine medicine.
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Week 9
We are rounding out the end our journey together. Hopefully turning inward, we have found the light in the Hermit’s lantern, able to share it with the self and world as an emanation of the Sun.
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Week 10
We have made it to the end of the tunnel, peering out yet another threshold. This week we are ready to emerge with the wisdom of the Wheel, Judgement, the World and the elemental tens.
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Questions?
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Our first live class will be August 11th at 3 pm PST.
Please note times may be subject to change to accommodate the various time zones of students.
Classes will be recorded in case you ever can’t make a class!
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Forever! You’ll have 24/7 access to all course content as it’s released and a copy of your live cohort!
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Payment plans are available!
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Feel free to email with any other questions you may have about this course.
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You will need to download and install Zoom to participate in our classes. I highly recommend purchasing Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy to accompany your learning experience. (students will get a discount code for the book after enrolling) The only other thing needed is your own tarot deck of course! Let me know if you need any recommendations, or feel free to check out my blog to see the variety of decks I work with regularly. No other material or experience is required for the course!
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Well first, any one that calls to you! But here’s a list of some of my favorites:
Mahogany Tarot
Smith-Waite Deck, Centennial Edition
Afro-Avatar Tarot
Tarot Yohualli Ehécatl
Pagan Otherworlds Tarot
Botan Tarot
Star Spinner Tarot
Terra Volatile Tarot
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Absolutely not! My experience as an English teacher has taught to me craft the course to be accessible for beginners and experienced readers alike. Though, I promise you’ve never seen an integrated intersectional teaching of tarot like
Thresholds
offers.
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This course is designed for you! If you’ve always wanted to learn tarot but have trouble learning from “the little white book” then this course will give you a comprehensive understanding to all Tarot has to offer.

Meet your instructor,
Christopher Marmolejo
I came to tarot as a queer, brown, de-tribalized native from an under-resourced community, already transgressing the status quo. Tarot sharpened that power, and in Thresholds I teach you to do the same.
My background blends training in critical race theory, a Masters in Education, years of classroom teaching, and professional practice as both astrologer and diviner. I do not aim to reform colonial institutions but to cultivate thriving communities outside them.
In this work, education becomes liberation. I build safe, inclusive spaces where the spirit is welcomed. Thresholds expands our reading of tarot and our imagining of freedom, guiding you toward radical self-expression and the practice of liberation.
What my students have to say
Ready to cross the threshold?
The Red Read is committed to equitable access and honoring a diversity of lived experiences. A tiered tuition model invites each participant to reflect on their access to resources and choose a price point that feels appropriate — with integrity and without shame.
This model relies on community trust and mutual care. When those with greater financial flexibility choose higher tiers, it helps subsidize access for others. This is one way we practice solidarity and redistribution within our shared learning space.
Abundant Care Rate
$1050 suggested rate
Choose this rate if you have abundant financial resources, access to wealth, or are able to give generously without financial strain. You help keep the work sustainable while honoring your own value! Once you purchase Thresholds, please make a suggested donation of $350 to The Red Read.
Community Care Rate
40% OFF
Select this tier if you’re experiencing financial hardship, are systematically marginalized, or would not be able to access this offering otherwise. No explanation is needed. This is an invitation to receive with dignity and grace.
If you’d like to access this rate, please use the coupon code COMMUNITY at check out.
Rather do some solo seeking?
No matter if live enrollment is open, you can always do some solo seeking with this stand-alone option. This is a bundle deal with the lectures, lecture transcripts slides, herbal associations, prompts and spreads from THRESHOLDS offered at a discounted rate. Available for immediate access upon purchase. You can also purchase individual lessons from each week of Thresholds via the workshop page here.