Grab your favorite deck and join us! 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’s 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 is also our intuition that seeks meaning out of random cards and archetypal pictures. 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.

Jerome Stueart (2007 Clarion Workshop) is a queer illustrator, writer, and professional tarot reader.  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.