8 weeks online course taught via Zoom by Coleman Stevenson

Sunday,s September 25 to November 13
12pm - 2pm Eastern Time
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
$230 ($205 for $5/a month and above Patreon members)

Please note: Zoom invites are sent five days before the first class meeting. If you do not receive it, please email us at info.morbidanatomy@gmail.com.

Ever take out your cards to read and wish they were speaking more specifically to your life?

In this class, we will create truly personal oracles, decks that come directly from us – our experiences, cultures, thoughts, fears, hopes – to communicate back to us immediately relevant information for self-study, problem solving, and spellwork. We’ll begin by discussing what makes an oracle deck function, then design a system that can be personalized by each participant in the class—your life and your art in the cards.

In the weeks that follow, we will explore some basic principles of visual design and how they can help you communicate your ideas most effectively. You'll interact with other participants as your visual system develops, and have an opportunity to test your completed oracles out in readings with others.

Each student will leave this 8-week class with a completed 10-card oracle deck and accompanying guide booklet for personal use (or to build on further if the aim is to eventually publish a deck for use by others).

This class is ideal for artists who want to explore the esoteric and magicians who want to broaden their creative practices in connection with their occult craft. No specific artistic or magical background is required for this class, but some prior experience reading cards will be helpful (beginner level is fine).

Artist materials are the choice of each student; participants are welcome to design digitally or using any tangible medium they like (paint, collage, illustration, etc.). Materials and scale will be discussed during the first session.

Coleman Stevenson is the creator of several tarot and oracle decks including the Dark Exact Tarot, The Personal Oracle, The Vitriolic Tarot, and a series of mini decks based on individual folktales. In addition to her work as a deck designer through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces in the Portland, Oregon, area, and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies at a number of different institutions there, most currently at Literary Arts and the Portland Art Museum. She is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide, and a book of essays on creativity accompanying the card game Metaphysik by artist Daniel Martin Diaz, and her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, websites, and anthologies. She currently lives in Oregon.