Taught online via Zoom
Wednesday July 31st, August 7, February 14.
7 - 9 pm ET
$95 Patreon Members / $120 General Admission

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot attend live

Zoom invites are sent five days before the first class meeting. If you do not receive it, please email us at info.morbidanatomy@gmail.com.

Tarot exists at the conjunction of two territories: The first one is it’s long-standing tradition, stretching over six centuries and chronicled in a plethora of books, decks and their iconographic variations and speculative interpretations. The second one is introspective, intangible, uncharted. This other realm exists both beyond and within us.

For Tarot to become a powerful meditation tool, one needs to cross this territory, develop an intimate relationship to the cards and their images, a sensitive and spontaneous one. In this strangely magical land, we unlearn, we reinvent the rules, trusting inclinations that often whisper to go against the grain. Intuitive and poetic, this approach of the Tarot can allow us to see ourselves more honestly, bring clarity to the complexity of our lives, and shed a new light on situations often misunderstood.

In 3 week long online class, Laetitia will present a variety of simple techniques that will help you to read cards without the help of your beloved tarot books by developing your intuitive connection with the tarot. After a historic overview, we’ll look at the tarot as a system, trying to understand its language and how to read “between the lines”. In this interactive, experiment friendly class, participants will be invited to unpack the symbolism of the tarot and understand it through the lense of their own symbolic values, in order to connect more deeply with the visual archetypes of each card. Together, we'll also learn how to weave a story out of the different levels of interpretation we encounter, and how the visual beauty of these cards can open to prophetic inspirations.

This class is a beginner to intermediate level, but everybody is welcome! Students will be required to have their own tarot decks. We'll work mainly with the Rider Waite Smith deck, but also with more abstract decks such as the Khan & Selesnick "Carnival of the End of the World" and the Tarot de Marseille.

French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris in 2009. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy from 2011 to 2024 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is the author of the Tiger Tarot Guide Book, a unique Tarot deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. Laetitia has lectured, taught and read cards for various cultural institutions, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London or the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.