How To: Read Tarot for Love & Liberation
WHERE: Saturday May 10th at the MAIN BRANCH of Louisville Free Public Library
WHAT: As part of Louisville Free Public Library’s annual How To: Fest, I’ll be teaching a quick 45-minute intro to reading Tarot. We’ll go over the basics of how to read the cars, and, as always, do so through the lens of liberation and visionary culture-building.
WHO: Facilitated by Bri (they/them/sidhe), queer animist witch, and tarot scholar of over ten years.
HOW MUCH: FREE to attend!
In our short gathering we will:
meet in a safe and sacred container: judgment-free, neurodivergent friendly, queer friendly and body-kind
pull your personal Reader’s card, and use an intuitive journaling method to explore the energy present in your personal relationship to reading the cards
Cover the basics of Tarot as a living symbolic language; a 78- card system of overlapping imagery, color, numerology, astrology, and elemental magick. We’ll move through a custom workbook I’ve designed for this class; you’ll make your own notes as you prefer. Document what matters to you most!
Use a critical and loving eye, deconstructing parts of the Tarot that are changing as our world is changing. We’ll study from an anti-capitalist and liberatory lens, and talk about ways that tarot - as a system of inquiry- can empower change.
Make time to explore and quench our curiosity. I’ll be bringing the decks I use, as well as beloved books and resources. There will be time in the last 15 minutes of the workshop for questions. We can shuffle through cards, play with oracle decks, and enjoy the tiny works of art that are Tarot cards.
Click the link on “Learn More” to get access to the schedule and parking info.
Leave class with :
A basic knowledge of the Tarot and its structure: what the cards mean, and why.
A basic knowledge of the logistics of reading: how to set the stage to receive intuitive information, how to lay out the cards, and what the card positions mean
A workbook / zine designed for your reference; think of this a guided journal.
A curated selection of resources for your ongoing journey; there’s A LOT of Tarot information floating around out there. It can be overwhelming, and a lot of the resources that are most likely to pop up on a Google search just aren’t the most comprehensive, or inclusive.
A small taste of community: you’ll have met some radical magicals like yourself, who are interested healing, collective liberation, and magic.
I’m Bri, your facilitator in this workshop. I have been studying the tarot for over ten years, and I have been reading tarot for the general public since 2018.
I am a queer witch, an artist, and an animist. These identities and life ways inform my approach to tarot and energy work at large. I believe that magick is real, that everyone is intuitive and creative, that energy work & psychic knowing is something anyone can learn. For more on my philosophy as a tarot reader, click here.