7 Ways Tarot Can Inspire and Revive Your Writing

7 Ways Tarot Can Inspire and Revive Your Writing

Learn how a simple deck of divination cards can unstick your plots, deepen your characters, and surprise you by unblocking your thoughts, building your intuition, and releasing your storytelling skills from tired patterns.

11am-1pm EST OR 7pm-9pm EST
Sept 21 or Oct 12, 2024

$30

Grab your favorite deck and join us in two weeks! Or, if you don’t own a deck, bring your questions, story blockages, character conundrums and we will do the spreads for you!

Tarot Decks have been used to guide seekers for hundreds of years. Why couldn’t they be used to guide writers? We write about lives, about choices, about being human. With 78 cards, there is, at the very least, a lovely randomization to the process, but at its most potent, tarot cards have wisdom in them to guide you along your writerly way too.

I’d like to show you ways you can get insight on stories, and how you can get insight into YOU as a writer.

Maybe you are stuck on a chapter and you can’t get through: Why am I stuck in Chapter 7? What is happening in my head that makes me stop here and not move on?

Maybe you are having trouble with creating complexity in your characters— there are spreads that will give you some beautiful complexity to characters you don’t want to have too flat or simple.

Stuck in the plot–can’t write your way out? A spread that asks what your character should do could shake loose the very thing in your head that you need.

Do the cards, or some outside force or spirit, speak to you or guide you? Perhaps. Perhaps it’s our intuition that seeks meaning out of random cards and archetypal pictures–the jarring loose of some great thought from the juxtapositioning of images. Whichever way you believe about tarot, come ready to learn about 7 different ways that tarot cards can help you in your writing.

The cards provide a picture, an archetype, an action, perhaps embedded in the image— you decide what that means for your character, for your plot, your story, or even your practice as a writer.

If you’re interested in learning more about how Tarot can help your writing, come join us! Send me an email at jeromestueart@gmail.com letting me know you’d like to join and I’ll send you what you need and get you set up.

TWO times on TWO DAYS:

Saturday Sept 21, 2024: 11 am or 7 pm EST
Saturday Oct 12, 2024: 11 am or 7 pm EST

7 Ways Tarot Can Inspire and Revive Your Writing

Come join us to delve into the archetypal and intuitive use of tarot to solve your writing blocks. You’ll get a cheat sheet of 78 card meanings, some sample spreads that can help you untangle a plot, complexify a character, or just get you unstuck as a writer. We will solve your problems together LIVE–and demonstrate how the cards help you develop your intuition in ways that will permanently expand your writing skills! Indicate WHICH DAY and TIME during payment in your note.

$30.00

Jerome Stueart (2007 Clarion Workshop) is a queer illustrator, writer, and professional tarot reader. He’s been reading tarot professionally since 2021. His birthmom and birth-aunt are both professional readers of tarot and runes. His writing has appeared in F&SF, Tor.com, On Spec, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Geist, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for a 2020 World Fantasy Award in Short Fiction for “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun” (F&SF). His PhD in English (Texas Tech U) with specialties in Creative Writing, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and Spiritual Memoir put him forever in debt, but has allowed him to live and work as a teacher part-time for more than 25 years, running writing workshops in academia and through city programming, in schools, in churches and online. Both American and Canadian (Yukon), he lives now in Dayton, Ohio.