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Red Madonna Reading

Part the Red veil. Let Eros be unbound.

$150 | Live on Zoom

The Heart of My Work

My work honors and expands the literacies of liberation, the languages we must learn to pronounce freedom. Tarot is a tool inside a world where aesthetics and ideology shape what counts as truth and beauty. We read to interrupt distortion and reopen perception.

Lets cruise with the cards and revel in the stranger intimacy offered in a consultation. This reading looks into the cards as gateways of sensual speculation to provide perspective into our innermost desires and erotic processes. The cards were made for pleasure. And in their divinatory capacity most predictive uses are usually geared toward love, erotic and sexual relations.

Like Carlos Ulises Decena these cards will contact the sacred, a sense of futurity, through the stranger’s ‘indecent’ conocimientos.

What we do in a session

  • Interrogate, uncover, and re-collect the fractured pieces of a self shaped by empire.

  • Move through anger, melancholia, desire, and humor with care.

  • Create space for erotic honesty, move through shame and embolden sensuality.

  • Name clear next steps. The reading echoes forward and continues to work.

This reading uses a variety of explicitly nude decks and is designed to work through colonial puritanical shame as it inquires into further articulating sexual, erotic and relational liberation. This reading is for those who are comfortable or courageous enough to venture into the taboo, toward a naked beauty, a sensitive love. These erotic readings are perfect for the solo seeker or partnered couples. I will use a variety of erotic decks along with providing sensual suggestions. We will examine how to release, how to join through feeling eros in its freest expression. Available as a 90 min session as well.

The Tarot as Tool and Tactic

  • Sensual Speculation

    The cards were made for pleasure. And in their divinatory capacity most predictive uses are usually geared toward love, erotic and sexual relations.

  • Seeking Communion

    Relationships are places to bond, merge, get lost, hide, blame, heal, to discover the self. Ultimately, we seek communion with others, we want to cum, together. But we are always being foiled, repressed or shamed.

  • Eros is Eternal

    The power of love, Eros, is invincible, eternal and infinitely diverse in its manifestations. The reading becomes a tactic for erotic liberation. Sensual self-understanding expands so that relationality can evolve.

Red Madonna Reading

$150 | Live on Zoom

  • 1 year ago I whispered to the universe, asking for more eros in my life. Then I totally forgot about it. But it arrived and knocked me right out. I later found Chris's work, then felt inspired to book a Red Madonna Erotic reading. After booking, I was mortified that I had sent a stranger on the internet all my secret yearnings and nearly cancelled. But I didn't (thank you, Universe). Chris was warm, wise and nonjudgmental. Their insight and poetic capacity gave much needed shape to my experience and queer desire. My day job is in science and i don't really have a good explanation for divination, except maybe that some people are really good at sensing deep patterns and eloquently connecting the dots. Chris has that gift! The reading was uncanny, fun, and grounding. I have returned to those insights multiple times and it has enriched my relationship. My takeaway is (1) if you ask the universe for something, be ready to receive it for real (2) asking a guide like Chris to help you navigate what you receive is really helpful.

    - Dee M.

  • Chris was lovely and it is quite clear that the work they do is a labor of love. There is intention, clarity, and reverence to the spiritual work and guidance they provide to others. I've found great solace in their guidance through my birth chart as I navigate my Saturn return. They provided a depth of knowledge, wisdom, and patience in walking me through my birth chart and stopping to explain what it means in the context of my life. With their limpias, again, there is so much tenderness and attentiveness in ensuring my spiritual hygiene was taken care of and my needs were met. I'm grateful and so full of love and esteem for them.

    —MARYJO V.

  • I've never received a limpieza & scheduled one because I felt a lot of negativity in my life. Beyond the limpieza, Christopher listened to what was bothering me & reaffirmed my experiences. They did their research on my birth chart & explained how various aspects of my birth chart fit not only into my life, but also the tarot reading I received. I have never felt such a lightness in my heart and body until this limpieza. When they said make sure you hydrate before, they weren’t kidding! Christopher also explained everything in a digestible and relatable way as it connects to queerness. If you’re considering booking an appointment with them, trust your gut and do it!

    —ALEXANDER B.

  • If you're on the fence about connecting with Chris, read this and you'll know why you should schedule. For my 30th birthday I gifted myself a natal reading with Chris after hearing them on the Witch Wave podcast, the timing could not have been more perfect if I had written it. Throughout our time together Chris' energy was so warm, it felt like reconnecting with an old friend...especially how much they knew about me! Firstly, Chris came to the session so prepared with notes and major talking points about my charts while also being extremely fluid and flexible during the session. I felt so safe and seen throughout my session with Chris. During the session I learned that the timing of my partner and I getting together and their personality align super close to my Saturn return. I also learned how my chart reflects the lessons I've learned and survived thus far, again lining up creepily well with my charts. Chris also allowed the session to be recorded so I've been able to re-listen/ watch it a couple times since the session and it's been extremely helpful. I know that despite the rollercoaster of things that have happened, I am absolutely on the right path and feel validated. Thank you so much Chris for this reading & I can't wait to speak again in the future!

    —ASHELY NICOLE M.

  • The reverberations of my Muertos reading continue to echo within me days and weeks afterward — and will for years to come. Christopher’s kindness is grounded, their consideration rooted, allowing deep vulnerability to be both held and cherished. The moments of connections and insights were profound, and could not have been facilitated in such a way without their guidance. Truly, an everlasting experience, and one I am eternally grateful for.

    —KELSEY C.

Christopher Marmolejo, MA, is an independent scholar, writer, diviner and teacher. Being Brown, queer and trans, through divination, they foster a literacy rooted in liberation. 

Their book Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy (2024), 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.

We read in watercolor and shadow light.
We practice attention.
We welcome what arrives.

Red Madonna Reading

$150 | Live on Zoom