A Tarot Ancestor Garden of Verses: A Reading

We spent a beautiful 2022 using the tarot court cards to connect with the family tree through writing and art. We made personal tarot card art to honor the connections we discovered. 

Please join us as at our reading during which we will share the harvest of our reflections in poetry, prose, and art. Work was created in Antioch University's Continuing Education series, Using Tarot Court Cards to Explore Ancestry. 

This event is free and open to the public. Please pre-register here for the zoom link: A Tarot Garden of Ancestor Verses.

Sunday, January 26, 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST

Our presenters:

Valerie Coleman-Palansky: I am a 5 number and my archetype is The Hierophant: I am inspired by teaching and learning situations, honoring and valuing the sacred within as well as the unlimited source and resource provided by that inner faith and intuition. I am a psychotherapist, NYU adjunct professor, and and a registered Jin Shin Do acupressurist living in the Bronx, New York. I am married and have two almost adult daughters. I engage in many creative arts including writing. I have been specifically involved with tarot and metaphysical doings from my teen years. I synchronistically found Tania and her Heart's Compass Tarot Journaling group and was hooked via the Aces immersion. My first deck was The Golden Dawn Tarot and my most recent is Daughters of the Moon.

 

Alley Greymond: I am driven to learn and at various times have studied Accounting, Psychology, Systems Design, Real Estate Management, Poetry and Non-Fiction. While my current position is administrative support, I find value at work serving with different Employee Resource Groups towards perspective shifts and workplace equity. I’m not used to using my intuition to a robust capacity and when I first joined Tania’s class I felt as though I’d have nothing to offer. What a welcoming group of women and Tania creates an environment for one to think, feel and share. I appreciate having had an opportunity to explore Tarot with these women.  

 

Pratishta Natarajan: I have been fascinated with spirituality and meditation since I was five years old. My father was incredibly passionate about Indian mysticism, and I grew up surrounded by books on Eastern spiritual traditions. I found Tarot when I was a young teen. I loved receiving Tarot readings for years before I attempted doing my own reading. I was amazed by the connection I instantly felt with the cards. Tarot cards have been a powerful guide in my journey of personal healing and transformation. Currently, my favorite tarot deck is the Light Seers. 

 

Deborah Smith: My name is Debby and I live in New Paltz, New York on Lenape land. My pronouns are she/her. I have worked for 40 years practicing and teaching bodywork based in Chinese Medicine. My work with clients includes assisting them in tapping into their inner wisdom through the bodymind connection and supporting their intuitive relationship to their own health and happiness. I have revived my connection to Tarot as a doorway to my own intuition in the last two years and Tania's workshops have been a wonderful part of that. I've done a fair amount of writing related to my profession, but these writing experiences have been very rich and stimulating, both because of my own connections and being privileged to hear from the others in the group. Pulling tarot cards has become like having conversations with a dear and trusted friend: always relevant and always fascinating.

Additional Links of interest:

If you are unable to attend, but interested in using tarot cards to explore ancestry, the book Ancestral Tarot by Nancy Hendrickson is a beautiful place to start.

If you are interested in beginning or deepening your understanding of the tarot, I'll be teaching a new linked series of six-week courses through Antioch University's Continuing Education program that explore how the Major Arcana are connected to the Minors. 

For more information and to register for the first course (starts Sunday, February 26), visit: Tarot Journaling Courses 2023 & 2024