A Course In Decolonial, Divinatory Literacy.

Taught online via Zoom by Christopher Marmolejo

11 week intensive, Wednesday, Starting Sept. 11 2024, 2pm PST, $450 admission

“For Me—A Writer In The Last Quarter Of The Twentieth Century, Not Much More Than A Hundred Years After Emancipation, A Writer Who Is Black And A Woman— The Exercise Is Very Different. My Job Becomes How To Rip That Veil Drawn Over “Proceedings Too Terrible To Relate ” The Exercise Is Also Critical For Any Person Who Is Black, Or Who Belongs To Any Marginalized Category, For Historically, We Were Seldom Invited To Participate In The Discourse Even When We Were Its Topic” -Toni Morrison

How do you read tarot? How do the cards decolonize the psyche, the self and the querent? How does the tarot as an aesthetic object engage a process of cultural transformation that will ultimately create a revolution in vision? How can tarot take us away from the real only to bring us back with renewed perception? Find the dignity in divination that is denied in dominator culture. 

Thresholds offers a comprehensive tarot education in red reading. This is not an appropriated, aka white-washed new age spirituality. This is a course that moves toward the invention of the decolonized self, as it seeks to set our imaginations free. This course will vivify your tarot cards and your divinatory reading so that your experience within the course, and thereafter your cartomancy can heal the psychic wound inflicted by assault from the forces of imperialist, racist, classist, sexist, domination.

We will work together to enter the subconscious, the dream space, the heart center, the soul spheres via the portals offered in each card. Thresholds teaches tarot as a literacy of the heart and soul. I am committed to both providing a technical proficiency with the structure, varied meanings and uses of the tarot, in reading for self and others, while also using the cards as a tool for critical self-inquiry as a byproduct of a communal process. I offer this course as a humanizing education, through which you become conscious about your presence in the world, to then transform the world.

In the cards find the lost reflections of your love, your strength and resiliency. In the cards confront your fear, your pain, your potential.  Thresholds is a course in threading the disparate cords of consciousness into a rich tapestry of life. This is a course in transformation, magic, manifestation, healing, ritual and decolonization. 

But it is so much more than a course.

It is a classroom, it is a conjuring, a vehicle, an incubator, a threshold through tarot towards transformation. It is a space of emancipatory possibility, designed and facilitated by the love and passion I have for my craft and my community. It is a witches garden in the 3 of cups, and a safe haven in the 3 of pentacles. You will learn tarot differently because this classroom will teach you how to think through the tarot, rather than rely on memorized meanings to spout. Thresholds will catalyze your divinatory relationships because it engages the cards as cyphers for decolonizing consciousness. The cards will be made real as we catalogue the wisdom distilled from our experience with them. Thresholds is for you if you want to create an authentic, organic, empowering and revelatory relationship with SPIRIT through tarot.  It is for you if you are Black, Red, Brown and or White and want to unlearn anti-blackness and deject the internalized white supremacy. It is for you if you want to use tarot as a prothesis to mend the ruptures of colonialism upon our birthright to richly intuitive, animate, multivalent divinatory psychic faculty.

Thresholds reads tarot as a theory of multidimensional freedom, and practices that freedom through queer community building. This course is a space to learn together, to challenge un/conscious conditioning, to be witness to moments of revelation, which such a tarot reading offers.

In this way it is perfect for beginners and seasoned readers alike. This is course is a study in consciousness, it is a movement practice. We spiral in this course. We circle around as the stars and planets do, and as we syncretize the cards with the cosmos we come to understand the soul’s process, to heed celestial cues. It is perfect for astrologer’s who wish to expand their divinatory literacy, while finely braiding the cards into their practice. 

My classroom is distinct also in its engagement of critical consciousness. The cards are neurological pivots, subverting the logical dominance of society and self. The cards are taught as tools to reengage alternative epistemologies assaulted by colonial imperialism. Here tarot is taught as a radical epistemology.  My practice is soul-centered to primarily and powerfully transform the objectified, the oppressed into the self composed of very rich multivalent relationships. Come to explore the potential of reading the soul, discerning the subtle cosmic threads which connect all things. Discover an alternative learning, a transformative tool and experience. It is a course engaged in the ontological and historical vocation of becoming more human, by offering you a mirror to see with more clarity, respect and agency.

As my style of teaching is socratic and dialogic, I will be the psychopomp facilitating our soul journey in our time together. Live classes are focused on application and skill development in reading. In the live class we cover special subjects as timing and tarot, the cards of the chart, reversals, shadow work and more! This time is for digging deeper into the week's material, sharing perspectives, conducting group readings and sharing space.

In class we will establish a ritual space, and together will cross the thresholds, learning what it means to transform in community. 

Transform Collective Consciousness

Read The Soul, Open Your Eyes To The Numinous, Gain A Tool For Transformation.

Thresholds is medicine for those who are lost, alienated, or who’ve been cast aside. Those who navigate a myriad of attacks upon their selfhood. Those who were born subversive, those on the path of self-determination, persisting because there's no place for self-hood within dominant white culture or white cultural consciousness. It is for astrologers, tarot readers beginning and experienced alike, for yoginis, queer bois, femmes, butch babes. It is for teachers and counselors, writers and readers of all kinds. 

Thresholds is designed for those at the critical edge of life, navigating extreme uncertainty. It’s for those who may or may not realize their embodiment is a resolution of the history of colonial imperialism. Those seeking to learn the tarot from a decolonized, intersectional perspective and apply that perspective into a praxis of liberated self-exploration and renewed self-expression. Thresholds is an experiential guide in transmuting trauma into love. 

It is for those who seek to decolonize, learn tarot, deepen a ritual practice, and strengthen the intuitive channel. This course for anyone who wishes to catalyze an ever more authentic expression within a safe and inclusive community. 

This course seeks to use tarot as a means to transgress internalized oppression, seeking ontological decolonization as its highest aim. By that I mean uplifting the cosmic order possible when we elevate and center the divine, queer, black and brown beings of this earth. Thresholds promises to facilitate radical physical-psychic change in the self of each student, the various worlds in which we exist, and to which we aspire. 

When, Where & How

COURSE SCHEDULE

Sept 11 - Nov 20 / Wednesdays, 2pm pst / $450 admission (payment plans are set up with an additional $50)

This Is An Opportunity Of A Lifetime

In my commitment to providing accessible and equitable work, I encourage people experiencing financial hardship and/or systemic marginalization to reach our for limited scholarships.

This work supports Queer Brown & Indigenous intellectual labor, teaching and being. I am a nonbinary independent educator working against capitalism devaluation and exploitation. Consider this an investment into your intuition, into your overall well-being within the safe container of community. I have invested my Spirit, education, and experience into this course and welcome your wholistic investment as well. Committing to this offering is to accept invitation to a field and frequency of devotion, right relations and revelation.