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<p class="MsoNormal"> Hi all:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I’ll add one more here on a Friday afternoon since I had hoped to say more about technologies/practices of intuition ranging from meditation to astrology – and specifically about tarot. I loved learning about
Adriene’s Eco-tarot – because I, too, am interested in alternative decks – especially queer and feminist ones. I now use a mix of the traditional Rider-Waite, the Motherpeace deck (which is a classic of lesbian feminism), and Michelle Tea’s genderqueer take
on Rider-Waite. I also just discovered another lezfem deck from the early 80s – amazing black and white block-prints – republished and reinterpreted by queers in Montreal. (See She Is Sitting in the Night: Revisioning Thea’s Tarot, Metonymy Press.) Given
the current schisms between lesbian feminisms and transfeminisms, there’s some good magic going on in these mash-ups, which seek to adapt ancient traditions to contemporary needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> And they make room for mixed feelings of all kinds. I see that Adriene describes her eco-tarot readings as allowing for access to feelings – and to an opening onto tears – of grief? Or just contact
with something otherwise hard to know and feel? My first serious encounter with the tarot was through a colleague/mentor who suggested a reading as a way to help me address a problem I was having with my job. And I drew The Tower … and the Star card. She
had me read the cards in whatever way I wanted – not difficult for a scholar of close reading – and I’ve used them at different points of confusion or impasse ever since – but as it happens with renewed focus during this time of pandemic. With so much beyond
our control, and so much turning inward because we can’t be with other people or in other places, the cards have kept me company. And since it looks like the Age of Aquarius is going to be darker and more chaotic than I imagined as a child of the 1960s, I
need all the magic I can muster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks all for a provocative set of threads.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ann (Cvetkovich)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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