Radical Magical: Beginner’s Tarot Reading Workshop

WHERE: On Sunday March 3rd, 2025 at Aurora Gallery from 2pm to 4pm .

WHAT: A fun, beginner, hands-on tarot learning experience with an emphasis on liberatory magic

WHO: Facilitated by Bri (they/them/sidhe), queer animist witch, and tarot scholar of over ten years.

HOW MUCH: $30

In this 2-hour class we will

  • circle up in a safe and sacred container: judgment-free, neurodivergent friendly, queer friendly and body-kind

  • pull a Card of the Day, your personal Reader’s card, and we’ll calculate and study our individual Life Path cards, and our Card of the Year for 2025

  • practice strengthening our visual intuition; I’ll guide you in some exercises I use to tap into subtle knowing through imagery. Learning to read tarot is not about rote memory; it’s about practice, and about self-trust! This is a more fun way to learn!

  • Cover the basics of Tarot as a living symbolic language; a 78- card system of overlapping imagery, color, numerology, astrology, and elemental magick. We’ll move through a custom workbook I’ve designed for this class; you’ll make your own notes as you prefer. Document what matters to you most!

  • Use a critical and loving eye, deconstructing parts of the Tarot that are changing as our world is changing. We’ll study from an anti-capitalist and liberatory lens, and talk about ways that tarot - as a system of inquiry- can empower change.

  • Make time to explore and quench our curiosity. I’ll be bringing the decks I use, as well as beloved books and resources. We will make time at the end of the workshop to chill with decks, shuffle through cards, play with oracle decks, and enjoy the tiny works of art that are Tarot cards.

Leave class with :

  • A basic knowledge of the Tarot and its structure: what the cards mean, and why.

  • A basic knowledge of the logistics of reading: how to set the stage to receive intuitive information, how to lay out the cards, and what the card positions mean & methods for shuffling, clearing, charging and storing your deck

  • Information on how to choose a tarot deck (or how to let a deck choose you.)

  • More confidence in your own intuition; you’ll have practiced subtle knowing (claircognizance/ clairsentience) which helps to learn tarot more fluidly, and enjoyably.

  • A workbook / zine designed for your reference; think of this a guided journal.

  • A curated selection of resources for your ongoing journey; there’s A LOT of Tarot information floating around out there. It can be overwhelming, and a lot of the resources that are most likely to pop up on a Google search just aren’t the most comprehensive, or inclusive.

  • A small taste of community: you’ll have met some radical magicals like yourself, who are interested healing, collective liberation, and magic.

What to bring:

  • any deck you like to use, if you have one (you do not need to bring a deck to participate!)

  • a favorite writing instrument and a notebook (extra paper is always handy, but a custom workbook will be provided!)

  • *Optional: a small object that is symbolic of your tarot or magical journey. Something that speaks to you, inspires you, or soothes you.

  • Your questions; any and all that you have. I’m here for it!

  • Your Presence; just be you. You already belong in the space.

I’m Bri, your facilitator in this workshop. I have been studying the tarot for over ten years, and I have been reading tarot for the general public since 2018.

I am a queer witch, an artist, and an animist. These identities and life ways inform my approach to tarot and energy work at large. I believe that magick is real, that everyone is intuitive and creative, that energy work & psychic knowing is something anyone can learn. For more on my philosophy as a tarot reader, click here.