Tarot Tuesday takes place the first Tuesday of every month from 10:00-11:15 a.m. MST via Zoom. For poets & prose writers alike. All levels. Open to anyone anywhere with a Zoom account. $15-35 sliding scale. To register, please email writesofpassage13@gmail.com
Tarot Tuesday is a purely generative and recurring online workshop led by the novelist, witch, & creative writing midwife, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz who 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.
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"I'm in awe of Sarah's gifts, let it be known!"
—Selah Saterstrom, Novelist & Medium
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These workshops are meant to inspire and influence you as a writer by experimenting with divinatory poetics, 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 while simultaneously foreshadowing the future. Tarot Tuesday is also an avenue to learn more about how to read the Tarot and engage in this approach to the page. Scroll past the 2024/2025 Tarot Tuesday schedule below for more info:
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You can register for one, two, or all of the following dates:
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2024:​​​​​​​
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December 3rd
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January 7th
(The New Year Special!)
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February 4th
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March 4th
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April 1st
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May 6th
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June 3rd
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July 1st
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August 5th
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September 2nd
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October 7th
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November 4th
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December 2nd
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Gift certificates available
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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 stars, the turning of the wheel, and the zeitgeist. So far, through a combination of devote regulars and a steady cycle of new writers joining the "parlor," a collective of Guides & Ancestors have fused together to further channel a community narrative where all the spreads correspond with each other so 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. In addition to the unique aura each participating writer brings to the space, many of the writers who attend also carry with them the characters they have created/are creating for the page (the same applies to the persona each poet/poem invites). This divinatory narrative thrives off the energy of new participants just as it appreciates and honors the foundation created by those who return (sometimes again and again).
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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 writer who signs up. Based on the spread, and the message from beyond the veil, Sarah then creates "literary prescriptions" and other suggested rituals/(w)rituals to practice at home as the participants move forward on both the page and through the space of the daydream that is a writer's life. Tarot Tuesday focuses on how each writer can take better care of themselves as well as each other in a world where artists should be valued more than they are. Participants will also receive weekly gifts via emails sent out on the remaining Tuesdays of the month they attended that contain anything and everything from relevant reading materials to more divination to more writing exercises.
Because so many beloved regulars had to go back into the real world once the lockdown unlocked, we have decided to offer the video of each Tarot Tuesday to those who can't attend remotely (you will also still get a Personal Divination too). We encourage you to participate with us during the live class if you can, but if you can't, we do not want to leave anyone out. We will humbly ask you not to share the recording with anyone outside the Tarot Tuesday circle for that month. All participants can use these recordings as a way to return to the cards drawn, the messages received, or to write toward the prompts once more.
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If you'd like to gift someone a Tarot Tuesday (or even a Tarot Tuesday "punchcard"), just email us and we will make the arrangements—we have both digital gift certificates we can email to your beloved or ones made from dead trees sent through the mail (both options are exquisitely crafted).​
If you are in a position to donate toward the (W)rites of Passage donation fund we would greatly appreciate the support. (W)rites of Passage always offers some form of financial assistance to writers who qualify, and this includes scholarships as well as a sliding scale.
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"The workshop was a lovely piece of beauty sandwiched between two pieces of work[day] bread. It was like the chocolate in a pan au chocolat, or like the freshest strawberry rhubarb jam, or maybe a super dark and luscious blueberry or blackberry jam"
—Sherri Pauli, Poet & Librarian
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