Date the Deck
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Tale as old as time. True as it can be.
Longtime lovers take each other for granted.
The spark dims, or dies completely.
The magic yields to banality; the unexpected to the expected.
But the love remains.
In this four-week workshop, re-meet your old love, the tarot, and fall in love again.
March 7, 14, 21, 28 from 2 - 4 eastern time.
Week 1: Beautiful Stranger
Who is this mysterious and sexy so-and-so smoldering at you from across the room? (Spoiler: it’s the tarot.) What sweet nothings will it whisper in your ear? What does it want to do with you when it gets you alone?
Discover your gifts as a diviner and your relationship with tarot as we encounter the cards in a whole new way.
Week 2: Major Turn-on
They’re confident, dominant, they never leave us feeling ambivalent . . .
But who are they once the door is closed and the curtains are drawn? Is there more to the majors than meets the ye?
Can these strong, silent types let down their guard and show you who they REALLY are?
(Spoiler: YES.)
Week 3: Give or Receive
The minors: an orgy of intercourses and intersections—symbols, numbers, elements . . . ? Which really matter, and when . . . ? How do we know what to focus on when there’s such a sensory delight at our fingertips?
Fear not. The cards will tell you . . . if you LET them.
Let the minors play dom, learn to receive like a good little reader, and you’ll discover new heights of divination.
Week 4: A-courtin’ we go
So many fish in the sea . . . but what are they DOING, and who ARE they?
What do they want, and what are they willing to do to get it?
Re-discover the power of the people cards. Learn to love rather than loathe them, and experience their unique dance.
They saw you from across the bar. Wanna know more?
THE DEETSDespite the tongue-in-cheek sexiness of the copy, this is an every-can-play class. The focus is not on sex and romance, but on falling in love with tarot all over again. For anyone who feels stale, plateaued, or who just wants to spend time with the cards, this workshop is for you!
Using various reading techniques and experiments, we’ll re-meet our great love and find new things there.
I’m going to TRY to sell this class as a recording after the completion, so some of what is shared in class will be available in the recordings. But I plan to edit out anything personal. Just know that going in. (You receive the full recordings as class participants.)
That is the only change. Otherwise, the class style will be the same as my usuals.
Cost: $125. Pay in full through Etsy.
If you would like to pay in installments, no sweat! DM me for my venmo.
Need a scholarship? Also fine. DM me. No personal info required. I offer at least one need-based scholarship per paying student.
This class needs four paid participants by 2/23 to run.
Zoom info follows agreements, below. Participation in the class assumes acceptance of the agreements.
Workshop Details
My workshops are always participant-centered but introvert friendly. I tell my groups, “participate to your level of comfort.” Some folks jump right in, others take a week or two, and others lurk. All of this is fine, but to those lurkers I encourage at least a little participation. And the reason is that these sessions are interactive.
Throughout our time together we’ll have our cards out and we’ll be reading, sharing, and discussing. I prepare a lesson guide for myself, but I’m a facilitator, not a dictator—and the joy of learning is doing, and the greatest lessons come from each other.
This is why I don’t sell recordings of past classes, because the content is as much the group’s as it is my own, and the specifics and focuses change based on each group.
Agreements:
Before committing to a class with me, read the following. These are the “rules of the road” for the learner-centered space I work to create.
We recognize the realities of history and modernity that leaves people oppressed, disenfranchised, and traumatized. While this may sound dramatic, my expectation is that, at a minimum, class participants accept that homophobia, transphobia, other queerphobias, white supremacy, racism, ableism, classism, ageism, misogyny, and other systematic dogmas are alive and well and hurting people as we speak. This is my first rule, because:
Learning only happens when we feel safe, dammit! The workshop space should be an actively safe place for queer people, people of color, people of any age*, people of any body type and ability, people of any nationality or faith**, any gender expression, etc., can be comfortable to relax and experience the class. (*Except for the fact that my classes cover topics considered are 18+; **Unless that nationality or faith makes you actively harm others and you’re actively doing that now or plan to.)
Nobody’s perfect. Any one of us might use the wrong pronoun, mispronounce a name, stumble on an accidentally awkward sentiment, use a word we don’t realize is no longer acceptable parlance, or say something dumb or weird that we didn’t quite mean as it sounded. We’ll all actively attempt to make the generous assumption with each other. (Unless a trend of not-very-thoughtful, easily avoidable behavior appears.) If someone corrects us, we thank them; if we notice we’ve said something incorrect, we fix it. We’re human. And many of us have lingering COVID brain.
If you’re consistently being a dick, I will kick you out and I will not refund you. Sorry.
No comparing ourselves! My workshops are designed assuming you have a foundational tarot practice, but are created to compliment the development of your foundation if that’s still in progress. Some of us will have been reading for 20+ years, some of us for 20+ minutes. That’s OK. Some of us charge money for readings (which, supposedly, makes us “professional”) and some of us don’t (which, supposedly, makes us “amateurs.”) In my workshops, the definition of a pro is someone who wants to learn, who is open, who gets excited by new ideas—even when they don’t agree with them. And the mark of an amateur is someone who is closed, refuses to learn, and doesn’t want to encounter anything that runs contrary to their assumptions.
It’s your time! If you can’t make it, no worries. We’ll miss you, but life happens.
Introverts: I won’t make you do anything that you don’t want to do. I will occasionally ask you if you want to add anything, and this is to give you the opportunity to chime in if you’ve been too shy so far—but you can feel free to decline. I think you’ll eventually warm up, though.
Extraverts: You make my job so easy! Your enthusiasm lights us all up and gives the workshop a motor! Once in a while, though, you need to shut up and let others talk, OK? Just a reminder!
Tale as old as time. True as it can be.
Longtime lovers take each other for granted.
The spark dims, or dies completely.
The magic yields to banality; the unexpected to the expected.
But the love remains.
In this four-week workshop, re-meet your old love, the tarot, and fall in love again.
March 7, 14, 21, 28 from 2 - 4 eastern time.
Week 1: Beautiful Stranger
Who is this mysterious and sexy so-and-so smoldering at you from across the room? (Spoiler: it’s the tarot.) What sweet nothings will it whisper in your ear? What does it want to do with you when it gets you alone?
Discover your gifts as a diviner and your relationship with tarot as we encounter the cards in a whole new way.
Week 2: Major Turn-on
They’re confident, dominant, they never leave us feeling ambivalent . . .
But who are they once the door is closed and the curtains are drawn? Is there more to the majors than meets the ye?
Can these strong, silent types let down their guard and show you who they REALLY are?
(Spoiler: YES.)
Week 3: Give or Receive
The minors: an orgy of intercourses and intersections—symbols, numbers, elements . . . ? Which really matter, and when . . . ? How do we know what to focus on when there’s such a sensory delight at our fingertips?
Fear not. The cards will tell you . . . if you LET them.
Let the minors play dom, learn to receive like a good little reader, and you’ll discover new heights of divination.
Week 4: A-courtin’ we go
So many fish in the sea . . . but what are they DOING, and who ARE they?
What do they want, and what are they willing to do to get it?
Re-discover the power of the people cards. Learn to love rather than loathe them, and experience their unique dance.
They saw you from across the bar. Wanna know more?
THE DEETSDespite the tongue-in-cheek sexiness of the copy, this is an every-can-play class. The focus is not on sex and romance, but on falling in love with tarot all over again. For anyone who feels stale, plateaued, or who just wants to spend time with the cards, this workshop is for you!
Using various reading techniques and experiments, we’ll re-meet our great love and find new things there.
I’m going to TRY to sell this class as a recording after the completion, so some of what is shared in class will be available in the recordings. But I plan to edit out anything personal. Just know that going in. (You receive the full recordings as class participants.)
That is the only change. Otherwise, the class style will be the same as my usuals.
Cost: $125. Pay in full through Etsy.
If you would like to pay in installments, no sweat! DM me for my venmo.
Need a scholarship? Also fine. DM me. No personal info required. I offer at least one need-based scholarship per paying student.
This class needs four paid participants by 2/23 to run.
Zoom info follows agreements, below. Participation in the class assumes acceptance of the agreements.
Workshop Details
My workshops are always participant-centered but introvert friendly. I tell my groups, “participate to your level of comfort.” Some folks jump right in, others take a week or two, and others lurk. All of this is fine, but to those lurkers I encourage at least a little participation. And the reason is that these sessions are interactive.
Throughout our time together we’ll have our cards out and we’ll be reading, sharing, and discussing. I prepare a lesson guide for myself, but I’m a facilitator, not a dictator—and the joy of learning is doing, and the greatest lessons come from each other.
This is why I don’t sell recordings of past classes, because the content is as much the group’s as it is my own, and the specifics and focuses change based on each group.
Agreements:
Before committing to a class with me, read the following. These are the “rules of the road” for the learner-centered space I work to create.
We recognize the realities of history and modernity that leaves people oppressed, disenfranchised, and traumatized. While this may sound dramatic, my expectation is that, at a minimum, class participants accept that homophobia, transphobia, other queerphobias, white supremacy, racism, ableism, classism, ageism, misogyny, and other systematic dogmas are alive and well and hurting people as we speak. This is my first rule, because:
Learning only happens when we feel safe, dammit! The workshop space should be an actively safe place for queer people, people of color, people of any age*, people of any body type and ability, people of any nationality or faith**, any gender expression, etc., can be comfortable to relax and experience the class. (*Except for the fact that my classes cover topics considered are 18+; **Unless that nationality or faith makes you actively harm others and you’re actively doing that now or plan to.)
Nobody’s perfect. Any one of us might use the wrong pronoun, mispronounce a name, stumble on an accidentally awkward sentiment, use a word we don’t realize is no longer acceptable parlance, or say something dumb or weird that we didn’t quite mean as it sounded. We’ll all actively attempt to make the generous assumption with each other. (Unless a trend of not-very-thoughtful, easily avoidable behavior appears.) If someone corrects us, we thank them; if we notice we’ve said something incorrect, we fix it. We’re human. And many of us have lingering COVID brain.
If you’re consistently being a dick, I will kick you out and I will not refund you. Sorry.
No comparing ourselves! My workshops are designed assuming you have a foundational tarot practice, but are created to compliment the development of your foundation if that’s still in progress. Some of us will have been reading for 20+ years, some of us for 20+ minutes. That’s OK. Some of us charge money for readings (which, supposedly, makes us “professional”) and some of us don’t (which, supposedly, makes us “amateurs.”) In my workshops, the definition of a pro is someone who wants to learn, who is open, who gets excited by new ideas—even when they don’t agree with them. And the mark of an amateur is someone who is closed, refuses to learn, and doesn’t want to encounter anything that runs contrary to their assumptions.
It’s your time! If you can’t make it, no worries. We’ll miss you, but life happens.
Introverts: I won’t make you do anything that you don’t want to do. I will occasionally ask you if you want to add anything, and this is to give you the opportunity to chime in if you’ve been too shy so far—but you can feel free to decline. I think you’ll eventually warm up, though.
Extraverts: You make my job so easy! Your enthusiasm lights us all up and gives the workshop a motor! Once in a while, though, you need to shut up and let others talk, OK? Just a reminder!