Like Water offers workshops designed to first provide a historical foundation of Tarot which dispels its many myths, then to build a framework which will help students and seekers create meaningful, personal, and impactful Tarot practices.
Like Water’s philosophy on Tarot readings centers on the idea that a Tarot deck is a mirror we hold up to ourselves, made up of 78 prisms through which to view our inner world.
You can’t see your reflection in churning waters.
– Karen Hantze Susman
Water must be still to see your reflection.
Workshops
Workshops are intended to make Tarot an approachable subject and useful tool in a mindfulness practice. They each run for 90 minutes, including time for questions and answers, and can be combined. Workshops include extant historical Tarot decks including the 14th-century Sola Busca Tarot, a 17th-century Tarot de Marseilles, the Smith-Waite Tarot, and more.
Tarot 111: History, De-Mystification, & Re-Mystification of Tarot takes students on a journey from Renaissance Italy–birthplace of the deck of cards we know today as Tarot–through occult circles of Enlightenment-era Europe, and finally to its place in esoteric culture today. Through history, art, and philosophy, participants will leave the workshop with a foundational knowledge of key people and places in Tarot’s history on which to base their own practice.
Tarot 222: A Soul’s Triumph, as told by The Major Arcana dives deeper into the rich symbolism and philosophy behind the 22 “trionfi” cards, or Major Arcana, in a Tarot deck. This workshop begins with Renaissance humanism, tracing its origins to Plato’s ancient Greek writings on the nature of the human soul, continuing through ancient Roman philosophers to Carl Jung’s and Joseph Campbell’s studies into human archetypes. A card-by-card exploration of a soul’s journey from birth through death to return to “The One, The True, and The Beautiful”.
Readings
Like Water offers unique Tarot readings based in the philosophy of its workshops. To begin, a reading will never “answer” a question. The answers are within us, and the cards will point us toward that inner truth. The cards may challenge or affirm; the cards will never predict or foretell.
As Arthur Edward Waite writes in his Pictorial Key to the Tarot, “The Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.” We make our own meaning.
To schedule a workshop or a reading: likewaterky@gmail.com
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