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Get Red

60-Minute Tarot Reading

Enter the obsidian mirror. See what has been hidden.

$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.

Tarot functions as an obsidian mirror. It sharpens attention. It asks for patience and humor. It does not promise full transparency. The cards keep their mystery and ask us to live with complexity.

As Édouard Glissant would say, the cards reserve a right to opacity by maintaining their mystery.

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 temporary decolonization of the self.

  • 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 the tarot 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. 

The Tarot as Tool and Tactic

  • Mirror and Prudence

    Tarot discerns truth from appearance. It clarifies what is right for you in this time and place. It lights the path and keeps the night honest.

  • 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.

  • Queering Time and Place

    We disrupt inherited timelines and identities. The reading becomes a tactic for liberation. Self-understanding expands so that belonging can change.

60-Minute Tarot Reading

$150 | Live on Zoom

  • We recently had a couples tarot reading , and it was nothing short of extraordinary. The reading was beyond on point- so accurate and deeply validating that we both felt truly seen and understood in ways that are often hard to put into words . Every card and interpretation resonated with us on a profound level, offering clarity and insight that felt both personal and empowering . It wasn’t just a reading; it was an experience that brought us closer together and gave us a new perspecitve on ur journey as a couple. We left feeling lighter, more connected and incredibly grateful.

    —BRIGITT & LAURA

  • 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.

60-Minute Tarot Reading

$150 | Live on Zoom