Another Advanced Class on Alchemy and the Tarot
Saturday, May 28, 2011
12 noon to 6 pm
in lower Manhattan
(the address will be provided to registered students)
Price: $100.00
Paid in advance by: Visa or Master Card, Check, or Pay Pal
(The class is limited to 20 students)
This is not the same class that I did last Fall. As I demonstrated by creating the Alchemical Tarot, there is an intimate historical connection between the mystical philosophy of alchemy and the allegory expressed in the Tarot but this class goes beyond that and makes use of alchemical thinking to deepen our reading experience. Alchemists working in their labs forged a psychic connection with the events transpiring in their retorts. They projected on these chemical processes and made them psychoactive. This is also what we must do to be effective readers, we must make the cards psychoactive. In this class we will use techniques developed by David Grove, the the creator of clean Language therapy, to interact on a deeper unconscious level with our cards and turn the reading space into inner space.
An Introduction to the Tarot: Guidance and Wisdom for Our Spiritual Journey
three weekly sessions on Wednesdays, April 27, and May 4 & 11, 2011, 8-10 pm
at The New York Open Center, 22 East 30th Street, New York
with Robert M. Place, creator of The Alchemical Tarot and numerous other decks and the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination
The Tarot is a deck of cards that can be used as a tool for developing intuition, but it is more than this. The cards in a Tarot deck contain symbolic images that express a mystical philosophy, a philosophy that stems from the mentors of Western culture, Pythagoras and Plato, and that has been cherished by mystics and sages over the centuries. The philosophy is expressed not only in individual pictures but in the structure and organization of the deck. Effectively, the Tarot is a map of the spiritual universe, a mandala, divided into separate components but maintaining the pattern through the relationship of each component to another. When this philosophy and structure is understood and the cards are used as an intuitive device, a communication happens between the conscious self and a source of wisdom in the unconscious that I call the Higher Self. Used in this way, the Tarot is like a personal sage that one can converse with whenever guidance is needed. As day to day decisions are made from this place of wisdom, using the Tarot becomes a spiritual path.
In this three-part class we will first study the symbolism of the Tarot as its Italian Renaissance creators intended and come to see the spiritual message contained in the deck. Then we will learn and practice techniques for developing intuition and reading the cards as a message from the Higher Self. Students will need a Tarot deck created by Robert Place, the Waite-Smith Tarot, or one based on the Waite-Smith Tarot, and some unlined paper.
Members $90 Nonmembers $100
For Information:
call: (212) 219-2527
Tarot Treasures
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
SOLD OUT
A lecture and private viewing of the complete Tarot holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Tarot expert Robert M. Place
produced by Sasha Graham
Featuring:
-Three sheets of Italian woodcut Tarocchi cards, circa 1500, from Ferrara, possibly the oldest printed Tarot cards in the world.
-a complete Tarot of Marseilles by Conver, printed in Marseilles, circa 1760, The historic French deck that influenced the occultists.
-rare 16th century Minchaite cards, the variation of the Tarot, with 40 trumps and a Fool, produced in Florence.
-An interesting assortment of Victorian fortune telling cards
Wednesday April 27, 2011
2:00 to 4:45 pm
cost $50.00
To register, email Sasha Graham:
sashag@nyc.rr.com
First come first serve
or contact: Robert M. Place at: (845)246-0180 or robroseplac@aol.com
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