The Muse & The Marketplace 2024

Reading tarot can be a wonderful way to not just gain self-knowledge and look at your own life, but to delve into your characters’ lives from an entirely different perspective. In this session, we’ll explore why tarot cards–usually a deck of 78 Major and Minor arcana–are increasingly being used by writers to work through narrative roadblocks and to deepen characters, as well as to approach writing projects from a more intuitive and open state of mind. We’ll do some writing prompts based on specific tarot cards, and have fun drawing cards to answer participants’ questions about their current writing projects. We’ll use the standard Rider-Waite deck for this class, but participants who already have a tarot practice should feel free to bring any deck they’re comfortable using. (Owning your own tarot deck is not a requirement for this class; having an open mind is!)