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The Red Read
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Indigiqueer author, diviner, teacher. Author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy.

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Devour my golden flower…

New Red Read: Venus the Vampire

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April 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Starting rn!
April 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Still time to sign up! Spend my full moon lunar return with me 🥰✨ this weekend!
I’m also excited to announce that I will be returning to the California Institute of Integral Studies @ciispubprograms in April! This two-day online workshop, three Hours Per day, Cultivating Decolonial Perspectives on Divination with Tarot, will be held from April 12-13, from 10:00am -1:00pm PDT.
April 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Look at this awesome live sketch they did of my talk at UBC😍
April 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Just finished my slides for this and omg I think it’s going to be my best one yet! Join us!

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April 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thresholds week 4. We are talking about fathers and patriarchy and my student who is a father is talking about the king of Cups with his newborn baby girl in his lap 😭
March 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Page of cups is a signifier of the Tithi, aka the water-boy!
March 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Don't miss my my talk at UBC on March 20 at 4:30 PM PST.

This talk will engage the tarot as cypher for decolonizing consciousness. Within divination one can find a dignity that is denied in dominator culture. The cards are neurological pivots, subverting the logical dominance of society and self.
March 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I’m also excited to announce that I will be returning to the California Institute of Integral Studies @ciispubprograms in April! This two-day online workshop, three Hours Per day, Cultivating Decolonial Perspectives on Divination with Tarot, will be held from April 12-13, from 10:00am -1:00pm PDT.
February 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Week 3 of Thresholds is always such a treat. We layout the natal chart using the entire tarot deck! Love to see when students share the cards of their chart😍
March 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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“We are her when we refuse to abandon hope. When we let joy be born again, we are sustained by her. When we are ready to trust her, we are ready to be liberated in love.”

This just really struck me today. Thank you @the-red-read.bsky.social #resist #tarot #tarotsky
March 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Moon is in the last decan of Aquarius , shedding its light as it prepares to be renewed as a new moon on Pisces. The Moon is in its own decan here.
February 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The moon is in the last decan of Capricorn which corresponds to the 4 of pentacles. In the smith Waite image we see a strict and severely solitary figure. His material rigidity freezes him place and it becomes an image of constipation.
February 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Literacy is activism.
Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.
February 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
My prayers, my practices, and my spiritual relationships have gotten so much stronger since I began a divinatory practice, and moreso as I began teaching divination.

If you are seeking sanctuary out of the bounds of patriarchal religion, I invite into TENZ, a year long course in decanic tarot.
February 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“Ekklēsia is the term for church. It is an actual assembly of free people who gather to decide their own spiritual-political affairs. Women in the patriarchal church cannot decide their own theological-spiritual-religious affairs and that of ‘their people’, all women…
February 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The last decan of sag is tiring because it’s Saturnian. It’s every resource spent to make it across the finish line. It’s land laborers & it’s land duties. Its ancestral reverence. It’s bodies that break to provide fresh fruit. It’s dry and it’s tired and it’s class consciousness.
February 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The Moon is finishing its journey through Sagittarius. Mars will station tomorrow and will oppose the Moon. Mars fallen, Moon detrimented. Tired body, emotionally worn.
February 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’m also excited to announce that I will be returning to the California Institute of Integral Studies @ciispubprograms in April! This two-day online workshop, three Hours Per day, Cultivating Decolonial Perspectives on Divination with Tarot, will be held from April 12-13, from 10:00am -1:00pm PDT.
February 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yesterday a friend came over to help me go through my closet and purge as I get ready to move. I was trying an old coat that I really only wear at funerals and in my pocket was my lost AirPods! 😂 it had been years !! I thought someone stole them lmao. the gift of Scorpio mooning lololol.
February 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Leonard Peltier was put on trial during Venus Rx in Aries back in 1977. The prosecution rest its case during the inferior conjunction (exactly opposite his natal Venus-Mars). Peltier received clemency this year + has returned to his homelands. Venus stations rx at the degree he was found guilty at.
February 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
So the moon is switching decans from Scorpio 1 to Scorpio 2 right now and our card today is the Five of Cups, which corresponds to the first Scorpio decan, ruled by Mars.
February 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“A retrograde fallen Mars has me wondering: Who gets to own the phallus?, and why do they wield it? Obviously the phallus is less a biological penis than the symbolic weapon for asserting autocratic authority and perpetuating patriarchal prerogatives over all genders. “
February 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
February 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Where are the Vedic Astros on here?
February 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM