PAST CLASS: Tarot as a Shrine: Inviting the Dead into the Reading Space, with Laetitia Barbier, starting October 20th
Admission: $130 ( $115 for Patreon Members - to become a member, click HERE)
Can we find wisdom through our connection to the departed with the help of the cards? If Tarot can serve as a soundboard for introspective work or esoteric meditation, the arcana can also help us reestablish a dialogue with the gatekeepers of our past. Whether they are ancestors or felt presences that do not share our bloodline, tarot can create this territory in which both sides can express. Imagined as a shrine, a sanctified, porous ground in which the world of the living can interact with the world of the dead, the Tarot can open space in which voices are amplified, presence acknowledged, and wisdom exchanged.
As an adopted child, Laetitia Barbier has been working with the Tarot for several years to claim ancestry and bridge the invisible realm to foster relationships, seek protection or find counsel. In this class, we’ll look at honoring the dead and create our own traditions with the help of the Tarot. The class will cover shrine-centric ancestral worship throughout history, but we’ll discuss the concept of ancestry beyond the tight parameters of bloodlines and DNA tests. Together, we'll look at the importance of creating space and time for such practice and how the image-based language of tarot offers an ideal framework to start this conversation.
Image: Image of Fatality, Jan Toorop, 1893
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 from 2011 to 2024 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archivewas 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, Artyard, Fotografiska NY, College of Psychic Studies in London or New York Public Library She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Admission: $130 ( $115 for Patreon Members - to become a member, click HERE)
Can we find wisdom through our connection to the departed with the help of the cards? If Tarot can serve as a soundboard for introspective work or esoteric meditation, the arcana can also help us reestablish a dialogue with the gatekeepers of our past. Whether they are ancestors or felt presences that do not share our bloodline, tarot can create this territory in which both sides can express. Imagined as a shrine, a sanctified, porous ground in which the world of the living can interact with the world of the dead, the Tarot can open space in which voices are amplified, presence acknowledged, and wisdom exchanged.
As an adopted child, Laetitia Barbier has been working with the Tarot for several years to claim ancestry and bridge the invisible realm to foster relationships, seek protection or find counsel. In this class, we’ll look at honoring the dead and create our own traditions with the help of the Tarot. The class will cover shrine-centric ancestral worship throughout history, but we’ll discuss the concept of ancestry beyond the tight parameters of bloodlines and DNA tests. Together, we'll look at the importance of creating space and time for such practice and how the image-based language of tarot offers an ideal framework to start this conversation.
Image: Image of Fatality, Jan Toorop, 1893
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 from 2011 to 2024 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archivewas 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, Artyard, Fotografiska NY, College of Psychic Studies in London or New York Public Library She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Admission: $130 ( $115 for Patreon Members - to become a member, click HERE)
Can we find wisdom through our connection to the departed with the help of the cards? If Tarot can serve as a soundboard for introspective work or esoteric meditation, the arcana can also help us reestablish a dialogue with the gatekeepers of our past. Whether they are ancestors or felt presences that do not share our bloodline, tarot can create this territory in which both sides can express. Imagined as a shrine, a sanctified, porous ground in which the world of the living can interact with the world of the dead, the Tarot can open space in which voices are amplified, presence acknowledged, and wisdom exchanged.
As an adopted child, Laetitia Barbier has been working with the Tarot for several years to claim ancestry and bridge the invisible realm to foster relationships, seek protection or find counsel. In this class, we’ll look at honoring the dead and create our own traditions with the help of the Tarot. The class will cover shrine-centric ancestral worship throughout history, but we’ll discuss the concept of ancestry beyond the tight parameters of bloodlines and DNA tests. Together, we'll look at the importance of creating space and time for such practice and how the image-based language of tarot offers an ideal framework to start this conversation.
Image: Image of Fatality, Jan Toorop, 1893
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 from 2011 to 2024 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archivewas 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, Artyard, Fotografiska NY, College of Psychic Studies in London or New York Public Library She lives in Brooklyn, New York.