TAROT TUESDAY:

Tarot Tuesday is a purely generative and recurring online workshop via Zoom that takes place the first Tuesday of each month. Novelist, Witch, & Creative Writing Midwife, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz uses the Tarot (and other oracular methods) to generate a series of writing prompts designed to awaken or feed The Muse via divination while simultaneously providing a forecast for the month to come and individual and collective reflection of the human experience.

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These workshops are meant to inspire and influence you as a writer by experimenting with divinatory poetics, and especially the Tarot. The oracular approach helps shape the writing to come as each monthly session builds upon the ones before to serve as chapters in the story of life.

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Sarah is intuitive when she designs each particular Tarot Tuesday so participants should expect the monthly sessions to vary. These generative workshops differ based on what the cards themselves have to say as well as the time of year, the season, the turning of the wheel, and the zeitgeist. So far, though a combination of devote regulars, and a steady cycle of new writers joining the Zoom room, a collective of Guides & Ancestors have fused together to further channel a community narrative where all the spreads correspond with each other in a way that an ongoing saga is actively being composed to create a big picture divination  that can be read in tandem with the monthly messages and lessons. This divinatory narrative thrives off the energy of new participants just as it appreciates  and honors the foundation created by those who return.

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For each new month, in addition to the forecast for the collective, there will  always be some level of individual divination for every participant. Based on the spread, and the message from beyond the veil, Sarah then creates "literary prescriptions" and other suggested rituals to practice as the participants move forward on both the page and through the space of the daydream that is a writer's life (with a specific focus on how to take care of oneself and each other in a world where artists should be valued more).