I’m delighted to offer my 30-Day Heart’s Compass Tarot Challenge again this year in celebration of National Poetry Writing Month. In addition to the visual prompts of the tarot card of the day, writing prompts pair existing published poems by local, national and international poets with the energy of the tarot card under study. While I provide tarot card images for your use, you are also welcome to use your own tarot deck/s for this course. *We have a beautiful group forming and have changed our Friday zoom time to 3:30 pm PST if you would still like to join us; we meet for the first time over zoom on Friday, April 8th. 

Last year’s class took us on a wonderful journey and created powerful work; here is an article about the power of combining tarot exploration with poetry writing: Four Ways to Use Tarot to Write Poetry, and here’s the culminating 30 Day Tarot Poetry Challenge Reading recorded at the end of our 30 day session I invite you to watch to gain an idea of what this class offers.

You’ll receive an email every morning with your tarot poetry prompt during the month of April. We kick off with a zoom session on April 8, 2022, at 3:30 pm PST and meet on Fridays to write together and share insights, culminating in a final tarot poetry reading of your work at the end of the month (TBA).

Pencil, paper, and open heart are the only materials you’ll need.

Prompts start going out on April 1; two-step registration below:

1. Sign up here to receive your 30 days of prompts and zoom invitations delivered to your inbox: Heart’s Compass 30 Day Tarot Poetry Challenge
2. Payment accepted here through Heart’s Compass Tarot (PayPal.me) link; you will also receive a welcome email when you sign up with additional options for payment. Cost is $99.

This class is for you if:

• you are tarot curious or tarot savvy
• you like to write ekphrastic poetry (poetry based on art)
• you wish to create new poetry over the course of 30 days
• you enjoy sharing in a dynamic and nurturing creative environment

 You receive:

30 daily prompts delivered to your email inbox that contain:

• ekphrastic inspiration in the form of 3 different versions of the same tarot card
• interpretations for the cards
• an example poem embodying the energy of the card
• a prompt for you to write your own tarot-inspired poem
• 5 sessions on zoom including a final evening reading (come read your favorite poem from the month)

You have the opportunity to learn:

A heart’s compass tarot approach to engaging with tarot imagery, poetry, and the writing of your own poems. Tarot cards covered: the 21 Major Arcana, 4 Aces, and Page, Knight, Queen and King of Wands (*last year we covered the Cups Family)

You come out of the month with:

• New poems!
• A deeper understanding of the tarot and yourself in relation to tarot’s imagery
• A deeper understanding of the tarot through the lens of the example poems chosen to illuminate the energy behind each tarot card
• A stronger connection to writing community

Course dates:

• First Zoom meeting: Friday April 8: Tarot haiku, 3:30 pm PST
• Friday April 15: Tarot Imagery, 3:30 pm PST
• Friday April 22: Tarot and Sound play, 3:30 pm PST
• Friday April 29: Tarot and Music 3:30 pm PST
• Tarot Poetry Reading from work created: TBA

Course Cost:

$99

Two-step registration:

1. Sign up here to receive your 30 days of prompts and zoom invitations delivered to your inbox: Heart’s Compass 30 Day Tarot Poetry Challenge
2. Payment accepted here through Heart’s Compass Tarot (PayPal.me) link; you will also receive a welcome email when you sign up with additional options for payment. Cost is $99.

Example poem and tarot card pairings: Tarot cards for which poems appear in my workbook, Heart’s Compass Taro: Discover Tarot Journaling and Create Your Own Cards, are easy—already paired—such as those for the beginning of the tarot deck and everyone’s tarot journey, The Fool: ruth weiss’s “A Fools Journey.” And for the internal spiritual guide, The Priestess, we have Rachel Pollack’s “The High Priestess.” For the radical eye-opener, The Tower we will read Marianela Medrano’s “Kali, The Awakener.” Past the poems featured in Heart’s Compass, I once again cast my net far and wide into the world to gather poetry by local, national, and international writers, for example: poetry by Judy Reeves for the Moon, Amanda Gorman for the Magician, and Pablo Neruda for the Lovers (and so much more—27-days-worth more, to be exact). I hope to see you there, where tarot and poetry meet, on the field of the heart.

*Paper and pencil are the only required materials; optional supporting materials: Heart’s Compass Tarot.

Additional Link of Interest:

Here’s a post I shared earlier that contains a poem I wrote based on the Strength card, forthcoming in my second book of poetry, The Fool in the Corn (winter 2022, Saddle Road Press).