{"product_id":"red-tarot-isbn-9781623178475","title":"Red Tarot","description":"\u003cb\u003eDesigned to be used with any deck, \u003ci\u003eRed Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e is a radical praxis and decolonized oracle that moves beyond self-help and divination to reclaim tarot for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For readers of \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Astrology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTarot for Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Tarot \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003espeaks 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSituating 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 \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRed Tarot \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis 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.“\u003ci\u003eRed Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e 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!”\u003cbr\u003e—Erika Buenaflor, MA, JD, author of \u003ci\u003eCleansing Rites of Curanderismo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVeneration Rites of Curanderismo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRed Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRed Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e with them. I know that it will be very dear to me. \u003ci\u003eRed Tarot \u003c\/i\u003eshows you how to find a sense of almost unnerving freedom in the future. This book treats reading as a medicine.”\u003cbr\u003e—Alice Sparkly Kat, author of \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Astrology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eRed Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eRed Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e achieves the work’s goal of Indigenous reclamation, reimagining, and regeneration in this pivotal time.”\u003cbr\u003e—Colin Bedell, astrologer and founder of QueerCosmosChristopher Marmolejo is a queer Indigenous teacher committed to radical community healing and building. They bring traditional teaching experience as an English teacher, intensive study as an astrologer, and their personal articulation of the tarot archetypes to their classes, workshops, and consultations as they seek to liberate through critical pedagogy and transgressive truth-telling. Marmolejo has facilitated emotional wellness programs with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice for the Inland Empire, and has worked with the organization Artists in Solidarity to offer their services to raise money for migrant families and children.","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304584728805,"sku":"NP9781623178475","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781623178475.jpg?v=1767735557","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/red-tarot-isbn-9781623178475","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}