Red Tarot | Free Book
For readers of Postcolonial Astrology and Tarot for Change
Red Tarot speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking—LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular—presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves.
Author Christopher Marmolejo frames literacy as key to liberation, and explores an understanding of tarot as critical literacy. They show how the cards can be read to subvert the dynamics of white supremacist-capitalist-imperialist-patriarchy, weaving historical context and spiritual practice into a comprehensive overview of tarot.
Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame—Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui—Marmolejo’s Red Tarot is a profound act of native reclamation and liberation. Each card’s interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, José Esteban Muñoz, and others, in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author’s divination practice—and reveals tarot as an essential language for liberation.
In The Press
“Red Tarot passionately reindigenizes the symbolism of each
tarot card and demonstrates the importance of this reclamation. Along
with illuminating bold interpretations of the tarot, it pulls the
reader into each tarot narrative in a brilliant and poetic manner. I
loved this book!”
—Erika Buenaflor, MA, JD, author of
Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo and
Veneration Rites of Curanderismo
“Red Tarot
is a volume that truly, as in its own words, readies its reader to
come as ‘part prophet, part poet, part political participant.’ This is
a generous book. Marmolejo has done something truly wonderful here.
They have made a book that makes it possible for you to engage with
the future in the best way possible which is with the feeling of
blowing your brain hole open. Anyone who hungers for more possibility
when faced with the prospect of reading the future should keep
Red Tarot with them. I know that it will be very dear to me.
Red Tarot shows you how to find a sense of almost unnerving
freedom in the future. This book treats reading as a medicine.”
—Alice
Sparkly Kat, author of Postcolonial Astrology
“After
a pandemic’s collective deadness, I’m looking for resources that help
us all claim collective aliveness. You’re holding one of the finest
contributions to help find a portal to Eros; the rapture of aliveness,
and the transcendent support of red reading. Christopher Marmolejo’s
Red Tarot is an invaluable, extensively researched tool that
helps you remember the language, symbols, and fields of somatic and
intuitive knowledge acquisition. It’s a highly integrative work;
successfully, accessibly merging the best of Christopher’s teachers in
the decolonial and divinatory fields. Red Tarot achieves the
work’s goal of Indigenous reclamation, reimagining, and regeneration
in this pivotal time.”
—Colin Bedell, astrologer and founder of
QueerCosmos
- Title: Red Tarot | Free Book
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