PAST CLASS: Chromatic Mystique: Tarot and the esoteric language of colors
Admission: $199 - $155 for Patreon Members
This course is available via a Google classroom platform and includes:
Eight 90-minute interactive video recordings of our classes, covering:
An introduction class
Individual classes on the colors Black, White, Red, Yellow-Gold, Green, Blue, and Purple
The PDF presentation for each class
A comprehensive bibliography
Access to more than 20 free online books, resources, and documents that serve as primary sources for the class.
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Have you ever considered how deeply the color palette of your Tarot cards influences your intuition? Your emotional perception of the reading? If equivalent cards are pulled, would a Thoth deck or a Rider-Waite-Smith one give us the same message if the reading was based on colors? Because of our unique sensibility, why do we gravitate toward or avoid certain decks because of specific hues?
Colors have a profound impact on our experience, softly murmuring this silent language that speaks to the deepest layers of our Self, directly reaching into our spiritual depth. If specific tones can please or soothe us, it is because of their inherent power to influence us. As if they somehow possessed their own magical traditions, colors act like sorceresses, stirring us in various directions. We are under their spell, a spell that binds aesthetics and mystical pursuits.
In this class, we'll cover the full chromatic spectrum, from a scientific, archetypal, and esoteric point of view. Using the work of alchemist and color theorist Isaac Newton, Medieval Historian Michel Pastoureau, and Aby Warburg’s “subject retrieval” methods of classification, we'll look at the historical background of color symbolism, answering how and why certain colors have been used in spiritual and esoteric contexts throughout history, including their significance in ancient cultures. Sources will include alchemical treatises, magical theories, as well as art history and contemporary art.
Together, we'll explore how colors can channel and become vehicles of emotional, spiritual, and psychological states, and how to use these ideas in a Tarot reading. This class will also guide students in reflecting on their own personal relationship with colors, helping them understand how these reactions can offer insights or, conversely, hinder their practice.
The course on Tarot and color symbolism will provide each student with both an academic examination and playful experimentations over the course of nine weeks. It seeks to bring students to uncover the profoundly personal significance and potential implications of color symbolism within their own Tarot practice.
French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris in 2009. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy since 2011 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is the author of the Tiger Tarot Guide Book, a unique Tarot deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. Laetitia has lectured, taught and read cards for various cultural institutions, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London or the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Participants will enjoy unrestricted access to all class materials, with no time limitations.
Images:
1 - Album of the Great Symbols of the Paths; illustrations to the Ritual of the most Holy Order of the Rosy and Golden Cross with the photomechanical prints made after them. 1917-21 - A.E Waite and Trinick.
2: Color wheel, Claude Boutet, 1708.
3: Conver Tarot de Marseille 18th Century.
4: Albano-Waite Tarot, 1968
Admission: $199 - $155 for Patreon Members
This course is available via a Google classroom platform and includes:
Eight 90-minute interactive video recordings of our classes, covering:
An introduction class
Individual classes on the colors Black, White, Red, Yellow-Gold, Green, Blue, and Purple
The PDF presentation for each class
A comprehensive bibliography
Access to more than 20 free online books, resources, and documents that serve as primary sources for the class.
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Have you ever considered how deeply the color palette of your Tarot cards influences your intuition? Your emotional perception of the reading? If equivalent cards are pulled, would a Thoth deck or a Rider-Waite-Smith one give us the same message if the reading was based on colors? Because of our unique sensibility, why do we gravitate toward or avoid certain decks because of specific hues?
Colors have a profound impact on our experience, softly murmuring this silent language that speaks to the deepest layers of our Self, directly reaching into our spiritual depth. If specific tones can please or soothe us, it is because of their inherent power to influence us. As if they somehow possessed their own magical traditions, colors act like sorceresses, stirring us in various directions. We are under their spell, a spell that binds aesthetics and mystical pursuits.
In this class, we'll cover the full chromatic spectrum, from a scientific, archetypal, and esoteric point of view. Using the work of alchemist and color theorist Isaac Newton, Medieval Historian Michel Pastoureau, and Aby Warburg’s “subject retrieval” methods of classification, we'll look at the historical background of color symbolism, answering how and why certain colors have been used in spiritual and esoteric contexts throughout history, including their significance in ancient cultures. Sources will include alchemical treatises, magical theories, as well as art history and contemporary art.
Together, we'll explore how colors can channel and become vehicles of emotional, spiritual, and psychological states, and how to use these ideas in a Tarot reading. This class will also guide students in reflecting on their own personal relationship with colors, helping them understand how these reactions can offer insights or, conversely, hinder their practice.
The course on Tarot and color symbolism will provide each student with both an academic examination and playful experimentations over the course of nine weeks. It seeks to bring students to uncover the profoundly personal significance and potential implications of color symbolism within their own Tarot practice.
French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris in 2009. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy since 2011 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is the author of the Tiger Tarot Guide Book, a unique Tarot deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. Laetitia has lectured, taught and read cards for various cultural institutions, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London or the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Participants will enjoy unrestricted access to all class materials, with no time limitations.
Images:
1 - Album of the Great Symbols of the Paths; illustrations to the Ritual of the most Holy Order of the Rosy and Golden Cross with the photomechanical prints made after them. 1917-21 - A.E Waite and Trinick.
2: Color wheel, Claude Boutet, 1708.
3: Conver Tarot de Marseille 18th Century.
4: Albano-Waite Tarot, 1968
Admission: $199 - $155 for Patreon Members
This course is available via a Google classroom platform and includes:
Eight 90-minute interactive video recordings of our classes, covering:
An introduction class
Individual classes on the colors Black, White, Red, Yellow-Gold, Green, Blue, and Purple
The PDF presentation for each class
A comprehensive bibliography
Access to more than 20 free online books, resources, and documents that serve as primary sources for the class.
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Have you ever considered how deeply the color palette of your Tarot cards influences your intuition? Your emotional perception of the reading? If equivalent cards are pulled, would a Thoth deck or a Rider-Waite-Smith one give us the same message if the reading was based on colors? Because of our unique sensibility, why do we gravitate toward or avoid certain decks because of specific hues?
Colors have a profound impact on our experience, softly murmuring this silent language that speaks to the deepest layers of our Self, directly reaching into our spiritual depth. If specific tones can please or soothe us, it is because of their inherent power to influence us. As if they somehow possessed their own magical traditions, colors act like sorceresses, stirring us in various directions. We are under their spell, a spell that binds aesthetics and mystical pursuits.
In this class, we'll cover the full chromatic spectrum, from a scientific, archetypal, and esoteric point of view. Using the work of alchemist and color theorist Isaac Newton, Medieval Historian Michel Pastoureau, and Aby Warburg’s “subject retrieval” methods of classification, we'll look at the historical background of color symbolism, answering how and why certain colors have been used in spiritual and esoteric contexts throughout history, including their significance in ancient cultures. Sources will include alchemical treatises, magical theories, as well as art history and contemporary art.
Together, we'll explore how colors can channel and become vehicles of emotional, spiritual, and psychological states, and how to use these ideas in a Tarot reading. This class will also guide students in reflecting on their own personal relationship with colors, helping them understand how these reactions can offer insights or, conversely, hinder their practice.
The course on Tarot and color symbolism will provide each student with both an academic examination and playful experimentations over the course of nine weeks. It seeks to bring students to uncover the profoundly personal significance and potential implications of color symbolism within their own Tarot practice.
French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris in 2009. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy since 2011 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is the author of the Tiger Tarot Guide Book, a unique Tarot deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. Laetitia has lectured, taught and read cards for various cultural institutions, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London or the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Participants will enjoy unrestricted access to all class materials, with no time limitations.
Images:
1 - Album of the Great Symbols of the Paths; illustrations to the Ritual of the most Holy Order of the Rosy and Golden Cross with the photomechanical prints made after them. 1917-21 - A.E Waite and Trinick.
2: Color wheel, Claude Boutet, 1708.
3: Conver Tarot de Marseille 18th Century.
4: Albano-Waite Tarot, 1968
