THRESHOLDS: Week Zero
Welcome! Here we discuss ritual elements, tarot as regular ritual practice, and personal cards
Welcome,
I hope you are well and excited for this journey we are to take. I am so excited to facitllaite this course and enrich your life with the tarot. I look forward to everyone meeting each other, tuning our collective intuition and being witness to each other’s identity exploration and transformations.
In preparation for our live class zero, please select a card from the Major Arcana (or minor arcana too) which you most closely identity with right now. This card may depict how you link to think of yourself, one you have a special affinity with, or aspiration towards. This will be your “Personal Card” and the first card we will be connecting to as part of our deepened tarot relationship. We will be exploring our personal tarot constellations through the course.
Please come to class with a journal & pen ( or other note taking source), a comfortable seat, your deck, with space to lay cards, a beverage and/or magical tool to be nourished in the space.
Also please bring any questions you may have! I'll see you all soon on the other side! Please note the link to the live classes were auto-sent to your email upon enrollment.
Please review the slides (below) before class, there is no lecture this week as the material will be overviewed live, for a healthy & clear course container
(Click the image to access the weeks materials)
As an added bonus and to compensate the lack of lecture this week I am offering this pdf on signifiers and the tarot. This is a little preparation for the personal card sharing we will do live.
(click to access)
THRESHOLDS: Week 1
Hello seekers,
This week we cover the energy of Ace, as seen through the Magician, the Wheel of Fortune, the Aces and the Pages. The lecture is meant to be listened to alongside viewing the slides, as it narrates and expands the written material. Please note the slides had to uploaded in two sections due to my website server’s capabilities >.<
(slides pt 1)
(slides pt 2)
Here’s this week’s additional reading material: “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers, by Gloria Anzaldúa”
THRESHOLDS: Week 2
Hi folkx,
This week access the energy of two, through the High Priestess, Justice, the Hanged One, Judgement, and the elemental two’s. As always please listen to lecture alongside the linked slides below.
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Additional Reading:
The Esoteric Meaning of the Twin Pillars Boaz & Joachin
Audio of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Lecture in Literature (This is the highest invocation, model, telling of the High Priestess I could imagine) Youtube version here
THRESHOLDS: Week 5
Welcome,
This week we examine dogma, inheritance and oppression through the Hierophant, the Devil and the elemental fives.
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Complementary / Recommended resource:
The Wounded Word: The Phenomenology of Prayer by Jean-Louis Chrétien
Moonbeaming episode on 5 of Swords medicine: Here
THRESHOLDS: Week 4
This week we examine the stability, foundation and doorway of the fours. We will examine the Emperor, Temperance, the Kings, and the Elemental fours.
Click here for lecture transcript.
Complementary Reading:
THRESHOLDS: Week 3
This week we enter the expansion of three, working themes of mothering through the Empress, Death, the Queens and the elemental threes
Complementary Reading:
Learning the Grammar of Animacy, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ecofeminism excerpt Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva, 1993
Please have your birthchart out for our live class. here are some resources we will look further into class
Click image to download / access zodiac correspondences for cards.
Another listing of the correspondences that may be more straightforward.: here
THRESHOLDS: Week 7
Welcome,
This week we discuss agency, and the border crossing required to heal shame. We will be guided by the Chariot, the Star, the Knights and the elemental sevens.
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Complementary Reading:
Materials for live class.
Please review before class as we will use this for our shadow spread series.
THRESHOLDS: Week 8
This week we discuss deep feminine wisdom through the Strength card, the Moon card, and the elemental eights. We explore sexuality and spirituality and the reconciliation offered through Moon, feminine medicine.
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Complementary Reading:
THRESHOLDS: Week 6
We’ve made it to the lovers week, where six shows us harmony and the divine disruption to that harmony in the Tower. We shall traverse the elemental sixes to find orientation.
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Complementary Reading (click to access):
World Traveling and Loving Perception by María Lugones
Magic of the Spheres guest appearance: Tarot as an Erotic Practice and the Lovers: here
I Needed This Today Podcast: A Partner I Dont Have Sex with : Here
Sexual Healing for All with Layla Martin and Vylana Marcus podcast: here
THRESHOLDS: Week 9
Welcome,
We are rounding out the end our journey together. Hopefully turning inward we have found the light in the hermit’s lantern, able to share it with the self and world as an emanation of the Sun.
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Complementary Reading:
Audre Lorde: Uses of the Erotic (click to access)
THRESHOLDS: Week 10
At last,
We have made it to the end of the tunnel, peering out yet another threshold. This week we ready to emerge with the wisdom of the Wheel, Judgement, the World and the elemental tens.
In preparation for our last live class, I would greatly appreciate if you prepared a question for our final spread. I hope to make it a collaborative / generative final offering. Any question or point of reflection that you think would aid the group or that you are in need of is welcomed. We will take turns facilitating feedback and discussing the questions brought to the oracle.
Given our time is wrapping up, I would greatly appreciate if you took the time to fill out the course review (click to access) form please.
Towards a Definition of the Brown Commons
From José Esteban Muñoz's Posthumously Published The Sense of Brown
(click title to access)
Magic of the Spheres Ten of Cups & Ten of Pentacles guest appearance: here