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Through Decolonial Divination

I teach for those who know that at the core of divination is the ethic of being in good relations as an embodied practice.

For you if you read for others, or aspire to. For the queers (off-center, oblique, opaque), feminists, astrologers, diviners, seers, conjurers, who are serious about reading tarot in a way that speaks to the conditions we are living in now.

The readers in this room want a practice with fleshy depth. They want a practice that holds up for the person across the table, a practice that addresses the world that each walks back into. 

Maybe you're one of these: 

  • The reader with clients: You read for others, and realize that little book of meanings stops helping when a real person is sitting in front of you. 

  • The reader going pro: You want your practice to become your work, and you're not sure how to hold a client with care and clarity. 

  • The queer reader: Your readings are unruly, recalcitrant and tangential. You find yourself bending the “standard” meanings of the cards so that your practice speaks to the way you move through the world. 

  • The feminist diviner: You want readings that undercut and resist patriarchy. You want to call on the cards to recognize the women and femmes that counter the victim-blaming that is inherent to the larger culture.

  • A total beginner: You’ve perhaps a reading from a friend, or a professional and felt its impact resonate ever since. Or you have just bought your own deck but still feel like you’re not fully getting “it.” You are ready for trusted guidance and a unique approach.

CLASSES

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Questions?

Learn from Christopher Marmolejo, the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide To Divinatory Literacy, published by North Atlantic Books.

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, facilitating 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 University, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Invisible College, 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. 

Their practice of red reading shows how a decolonial approach to divination, rooted in queer indigeneity, can unsettle dominant narratives of futurity and enact alternatives grounded in relation, collectivity and the still-possible. They have students around the world tarot and the art of divination since 2020.

I frame Tarot as a political praxis of liberatory literacy.

Red light makes each card a prism of poetic, political praxis. Tarot makes us literate in the imagery offered in augury, but a red read enacts a divinatory consciousness that is critical, transformative & transgressive.

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