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Red Tarot - by Christopher Marmolejo (Paperback)

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  • Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot is a radical praxis and decolonized oracle that moves beyond self-help and divination to reclaim tarot for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing.
  • About the Author: Christopher Marmolejo is a queer Indigenous teacher committed to radical community healing and building.
  • 448 Pages
  • Body + Mind + Spirit, Divination

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About the Book



"Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot interrogates the images, themes, and power structures that have been read into and onto the cards-and guides readers to radical and empowering reclamation"--



Book Synopsis



Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot is a radical praxis and decolonized oracle that moves beyond self-help and divination to reclaim tarot for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing.

For readers of Postcolonial Astrology and Tarot for Change

Red Tarot speaks 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.

Author 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.

Situating 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 Red Tarot is 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.



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"Red Tarot 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!"
--Erika Buenaflor, MA, JD, author of Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo and Veneration Rites of Curanderismo

"Red Tarot 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 Red Tarot with them. I know that it will be very dear to me. Red Tarot shows you how to find a sense of almost unnerving freedom in the future. This book treats reading as a medicine."
--Alice Sparkly Kat, author of Postcolonial Astrology

"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 Red Tarot 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. Red Tarot achieves the work's goal of Indigenous reclamation, reimagining, and regeneration in this pivotal time."
--Colin Bedell, astrologer and founder of QueerCosmos



About the Author



Christopher 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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.91 Inches (W) x 1.26 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.36 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 448
Genre: Body + Mind + Spirit
Sub-Genre: Divination
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Theme: Tarot
Format: Paperback
Author: Christopher Marmolejo
Language: English
Street Date: March 5, 2024
TCIN: 91571535
UPC: 9781623178475
Item Number (DPCI): 247-31-9814
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Q: How does the author incorporate historical context?

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Q: Who is Christopher Marmolejo?

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  • A: Christopher Marmolejo is a queer Indigenous teacher focusing on community healing and the critical pedagogical use of tarot.

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Q: What is the main purpose of Red Tarot?

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  • A: Red Tarot aims to reclaim tarot for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing, moving beyond traditional self-help.

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Q: Who is the target audience of this book?

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  • A: The book is particularly aimed at LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC individuals, celebrating diverse identities and ways of thinking.

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Q: What unique perspective does the book offer on tarot?

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