Using Tarot to Access Life Events & Create a Tarot Timeline with Tanya Pryputniewicz (FREE–ZOOM)

As writers, we work to establish a practice of engaging deeply with our inner and outer lives in the service of writing compelling work. Ideally, we put ourselves in front of the blank page on a regular basis and this practice means we live in an ongoing conversation with our muse and our projects. While tarot has been used as a spiritual tool for self-discovery and divination, it can also be used as a visual prompt for helping us access our own life events when we connect imagery in the cards to life experiences, either those we’ve had or those we can imagine having. The tarot’s built-in structure lends itself to exploring all aspects of a lifetime across four areas of focus, also known as the four elements: the heart (element of water), the mind (element of air), the will/creativity (element of fire), and tangible manifestation such as money or specific hands-on projects (element of disks). How we use the four elements or how we are blocked from using them makes up the very story of our lives. This workshop covers a basic introduction to the structure of the tarot, how to tarot journal to connect the card’s imagery to our own lives, and how to use a tool called a Tarot Timeline to seed new work. Includes PDFs for How to Tarot Journal and How to Create a Tarot Timeline.

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A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Tania Pryputniewicz is the author of November Butterfly (Saddle Road Press, 2014). Recent poems appeared in America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience, NILVX: A Book of Magic (Tarot Series), The Rockvale Review and at SWWIM online and are forthcoming in Climbing Lightly Through Forests (tribute anthology for Ursula K. Le Guin) and at Bilingual / Borderless. Her Heart’s Compass Tarot: Discover Tarot Journaling and Create Your Own Cards workbook is forthcoming on Valentine’s Day, 2021 from Two Fine Crows Books and features tarot inspired non-fiction, poetry, and student tarot cards. Her essay, Mom’s Night Out and the Trickster is forthcoming in Shaking the Tree. Tania teaches at San Diego Writers, Ink and through Antioch University’s Continuing Education Program. She lives in Coronado with her husband, three children, one blue-eyed Husky and a formerly feral cat named Luna.

*Photo credit: Jamie Clifford