The Heart of My Work
My work honors and expands the literacies of liberation, the languages we must learn to pronounce freedom. Astrology is a profound tool for personal growth, and can significantly enhance self-knowledge when it works to shrink the fiction of the West.
We give the sky meaning, we are what keeps the heavens animate. The moment you were born has significant meaning. It is a map of the heavens, it is a promise of potentialities, and finger-print of grace.
As Alice Sparkly Kat says to me, those of us who are still living despite the world ending a long time ago, divination is no luxury.
What we do in a session
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Interrogate, uncover, and re-collect the fractured pieces of a self shaped by empire.
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Move through anger, melancholia, desire, and humor with care.
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Create space for temporary decolonization of the self.
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Name clear next steps. The reading echoes forward and continues to work.
By using the reading to queer time and place, I aim to use divination as a decolonial tactic that allows us to recognize liberatory possibilities for a postcolonial future. Emma Perez reads Cherie Moraga to tell us “the possibility of a decolonial future is reliant upon the subversion of methods that produce normative notions of gender, sexuality, race, and being in general.” The reading requires comprehending temporal unity. To see into a tenable future red reading reconsiders our self understandings, sense of belonging and subjectivities.
This reading engages Medieval Islamicate timing techniques (fidaria, progressed lunations, transfer of years, solar revolutions, monthly transfers, transits) to examine and provide clarity on the chapters, paragraphs and punctuations of life. These are often booked for a client’s birthday or solar return in order to gain guidance for your year ahead but to also understand it in the larger context of larger life periods.
The Stars as Sign and Symbol
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As Above So Below
Astrological divination tells us that there are invisible threads connecting all things. By opening our eyes to the sky we can contextualize our lives within generational struggle, & growth.
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Decolonial Imaginary
Following Emma Pérez, we work in the interval between the colonial and the not-yet. The reading loosens conditioned narratives and makes room for a different future.
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Queering Time and Place
The self acceptance, scale and sense of significance that comes with learning about your chart is incomparable with anything else. It’s being witnessed by the universe. And it would be an honor to witness your stars.
Revolutions Reading
$222 | Live on Zoom
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.
Revolutions Reading
$222 | Live on Zoom