XZy2 - the next round in revolutionary orientation

Sept 2024 - Sept 2025 [Sun / Moon Days} 3-5 pm PST

Class Starts September 25th 2023

TENZ Year 2 or XZY2 continues toward a pedagogy of divinatory acompañamiento, that as a divinatory educator I walk with students through the liminal space of transgressive, decolonial self-actualization in this relational course through the borderlands.

We have done one walk through the minor arcana of the tarot decans together and just we still have so far to go, so much to depth to dive deeper into. While the first year XZ is focused on reading, this year emphasizes writing. In this I invite you to become a writing comadre and that we will approach the writing as dialogic, recursive, democratic, spirit-inflected, and only partially within our conscious control. I hope to have modeled in the first year, the manner in which the tarot becomes a rich unbound archive, a personal codices, a library of cross cultural historic thought that can be examined and engaged critically. With XZY2 I continue empowering your ritual relationships, dignity and divinely guided liberatory movement. This year we will collaboratively write the way, we will open and examine new cycles of cosmic coherence, and ritual practices to further and more finely integrate our divinatory mediums.

Now that we have a solid foundation of the most intimate and ancient zodiacal subdivision we can begin expanding our scope.

Class Format

XZY2 will alternatively give space for student presentations of their own decan artistic attunings and uncoverings as well as medieval Islamicate timing techniques. Amidst our cohorts our own charts we will study solar revolutions, fidaria, monthly profections, annual profections, the great turns, secondary progressions, heliacal rising and setting stars. I further aim to deeper integrate limipia tools and techniques such as candle work, reading the flame, and barridas.

Further year 2 students will be welcome to join any live year 1 classes should / and as they are scheduled, so that deeper analysis, review and regard for the tarot - decan - critical coding syncretization is done. The goal through this cumulative work is to empower your voice, your reading and your writing as a critical diviner. I want to us to continue sharing authority, teaching and learning from each other and encouraging each other through this revolutionary moment.

Suggestions for Student Presentations

I would suggest seeing this as choosing a decan group(s) you feel called to deepen a relationship, if not outright setting an intention to create your own personalized artistic translation for the entire decan wheel. Research the Gods / Spirits associated with each Decan, lay out the cards of the decan, consider them in your own chart and then find and commit to a form. Examples include:

- Poetry / prose / essays for each decan. Consider the texts already recommended, expanding, responding &/or critiquing, or alternatively choosing your own texts that resonant with the decan group. Remember texts can include any popular media as well as literary texts. 

- Painting, collaging, planting, jewelry making, perfume making. 

- Sharing reflexive magical / ritual experiential activity. You could try doing timed elections, invocations, petitions, and reporting and reflecting back to the group through the lens of each card / decan. 

-Please make these findings / artistic renderings / translations and experiential discoveries presentable (ie upload images to canva or pdf or something else).

The class is still cut into 12 monthly units, following the cards / decans of the current zodiacal season, which cuts the zodiac down to a finer grain (36 distinct faces versus 12). Students will sign up for decan group to present in the last decan of each season while the other class of the season will focus on one of the timing techniques / alternate subjects mentioned above. We will leave some flex room for follow up classes on any subject that may require more than one meeting, and so here are 25 more live classes offered!

Classes will take place on Sundays or Mondays, twice a zodiac season, from 3-5 pm PT (though subject to change based upon the collective availability). These will be held via Zoom and are recorded for future reference, and to ensure students who can’t make it live, are kept current. Once enrolled you will gain access to a private webpage with the monthly lectures and presentations, and invitations to live classes, exclusive texts, and a private discord channel.

Please note this is only available to students who have completed TENZ year 1 (XZ).

Texts

All About Love & Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks ~ Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse ~ Feminism Without Borders by Chandra Talpade Mohanty ~ Red Skin White Masks by Glen Sean Coulthard ~ The Fantasy Bond by Robert W. Firestone ~ Theories of the Flesh by Julie Avril Minich ~ Making Face, Making Soul, Haciendo Caras edited by Gloria Anzaldúa ~ The Inner Reaches of Outer Space by Joseph Campbell ~ And The Category Is…Inside New York’s Vogue House, and Ballroom Community by Rick Tucker ~36 Faces by Austin Coppock ~ 36 Secrets by T. Susan Chang and more!

Combined, Accessible Study

This offering is for you if want to study with me, and the tarot, but with a bit more space / deconstruction and accessibility than the comprehensive THRESHOLDS : TÉTTARES tarot course. This course is for more advanced / committed diviners, and most students have taken the foundational THRESHOLDS course, otherwise have some preexisting astrological knowledge. Either way you are sure to establish a tarot practice that is anchored in astrological historic cosmic coherence. It will make your divination practice much more nuanced. Each month we cover everyone’s chart one house, one planet and placement at a time, providing ongoing counseling, collaborative consideration, and cathartic ritual.

Committing to this offering is to accept invitation to a field and frequency of devotion, right relations and revelation. Payments can be processed on automatic monthly basis once you sign up, or in-full upfront for discount.

Tuition: $875 (discounted for upfront investment to $800) (scheduling block to the right / below)

Payment Plans: $160 to set up and enroll and then $65 per month for 12 months (the first being the enrollment month). (scheduling block to the left /above, make sure to use code after setting up payment plan to then enroll in the XZ course)

Sign up for XZY2 to learn tarot, astrology and criticality with me!

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