Hello reader,
After a tumultuous first try with Subtack live, for my quarterly readings for paid subscribers, I spent the rest of the day researching streaming platforms so that I could livestream from my deskstop rather than my phone.
Thank you to everyone who showed up live and stuck with me through the all the tech difficulties the app was throwing my way. I want to offer you all an improved experience and so I decided to announce a lil redux to the Autumn Sun Room via substack live this Thursday 🍁
Join me Thursday November 6th at 3pm pst for a subscriber exclusive online event to partake in a gallery reading extravaganza - redux edition!
For about an hour & a half on Thursday 11/6, I’m inviting my paying subscribers to join me in my psychic solarium for the chance to get your cards read.
As those of you who previously joined live saw, I’ll read a couple cards from a unique selection of decks and get to as many of the live paid participants inquiries as possible. While paid subscribers will be able to ask questions and receive direct feedback, this is open to all my subscribers and like last time I’ll pull cards for a general message and divinatory talk for all the live participants present.
This is a quartely / seasonal offering to paying subscribers, so if you’d like a chance to get your cards read for only $5 / mo from yours truly, here’s your chance!
Last Call for the Fold Out!
What the telos of laying a spread? It’s lonely hands laying, looking for the card, the cards, that hold an otherwise way of living; a way to cope, a way to survive the present without resorting to violence.
A spread is a mapping of the underbelly of our social reality. Tarot readers are rogue. They are feral in their pursuit of possibility. As readers we must be recalcitrant against the borders of settler state’s space-time.
What we unfold in our spreads is a map like any other, laden with subjective views of the world. As a people we’ve always made maps, first making schematics of the night sky. Maps change with time. They must. Borders and boundaries are constantly in flux. Where politicians wage wars to expand the bounds of empire, artists can read in these maps wide-ranging stories of migration, cultural networks, social identity. You have to be willing to ask a stranger for directions.
The Fold Out is the first iteration in an ongoing reading series inspired by artists and architects like Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello who transformed the border wall into a teeter-totter to challenge its existence in remarkably creative ways. For an hour when they punctured the US-Mexico wall guerilla style, a small section between the two countries became a site of joyful interplay rather than violent division!
If the diviner is one we consult at the crossroads and in the borderlands than the decolonial diviner would do well to know of such architects that are working to intervene and dismantle the borders of empire.
This class will be intimate, plently of time to write together, share together and read the cards together. This series will present clusters of spreads and writing exercises that, through thematic and aesthetic kinship, will map other ways of being, knowing, loving. Learn a dynamic, generative approach to spread construction, and interpretation. Approach a divinatory poetics that uses the oracular to direct the word. Via 3 pairs of classes over 6 weeks we will connect the oracular practice of laying cards with migratory movements, fundamentally difficult as well politically charged.
We start Wednesday November 5th, 2pm PST. Reach out if you have any questions.
November Consultations Open!
Dia de Los Muertos has passed but you can still get a mediumship reading to commune with your dead. As a thank for being a subscriber I am offering a 15% discount on my muertos reading till the end of November!
Use code “Memento” when checking out to redeem 💀
I have limited availability this month due to some travel for my birthday (wish a gal some good things for the year ahead 🌝), teaching and writing projects.
Time is truly a trip, but thanks for being here with me for another season darling reader.
X,
Christopher