Saturday, June 3
2 pm - 6 pm ET
$99 Patreon Members / $120 General Admission
Limited to 6 students

This class is in person and will take place in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, NY. The address will be sent via email.

If tarot practice presents multiple functions for its practitioners, one can use it to invoke, activate and simply heal specific aspects of their psyche. As we move in a world suspicious of feminine energy, we can, by using the cards, foster and embolden the most sacred aspect of the Feminine while reconnecting with this ethereal power. Yet, instead of seeing these figures as the inaccessible Goddesses of the antique world, we envision them as Sisters, closer to us, familiar and present, open to counsel us, their hearts facing ours. Different, our divine sisters are yet very close. Seemingly our equals, they aim to elevate us toward them, teaching us how to grow to their level. 

Maidens and crones, bad b*tch and holy prostitutes, masculine femme and matriarchs: a colorful ballet of womanly manifestations, all mirrored in the 78 cards of our deck. With the help of our 78 teachers, we learn how to embrace without timidity the different expressions of our anima, circulating between mythology and folk tales, to look into what images of the feminine we spontaneously gravitate toward. 

In this exercise-based class, together we’ll unpack the full spectrum of feminine archetypes contained in the Tarot along with their mythical narratives, and without neglecting its darker aspects. We’ll learn how to work around the idea of “divine feminine compass’' in order to understand the different positions we assume on this symbolic spectrum. Through spreads and classic tarot inquiries, we’ll partake in a subjective account with the feminine divine, and we’ll learn tools to reclaim and celebrate it from within. 

Each student will be given the opportunity to work using a symbolic pantheon of their choosing: from the Goddess Kali to Dolly Parton, you will be invited to choose your icons of the sacred or the profane; everyone is invited to this party! In a creative collage exercise (sharpen your scissors, sister!) each student will be invited to create an idiosyncratic icon of their Divine Sister, an image mixing tarot symbolism with the symbolic aspects of the feminine they wish to integrate. With this visual collage, we’ll also utilize ideas and traditions behind domestic altar making as a feminine form of spiritual practice. 

Although this class focuses on woman archetypes and femininity, everybody, whatever their gender identity or sensibility, is welcome!

Image:

1. Moon Madness, Alex-Ceslas Rzewuski, 1922

2. Balinese dancer dressed as Rangda, date unknown

3. Priestess of Bacchus, John Collier , 1886 

4. Three of Cups, Rider Waite Smith Tarot

French born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy since 2012 as a programing director and Head Librarian. She is the author of Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive, published in 2021 by Cernunnos/ Abrams.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York.