Creativity (or, the urge & ability to create) is one of our most instinctual and potentially powerful skills as activists, witches and denizens of this world.
There was a time before our world was what it is where we sang because we needed to express ourselves, sketched because it felt good, wrote love letters of delicate and impassioned prose for our lovers’ eyes only. What’s amazing about humans is how much we remember - even when we’re not aware. Every time we daydream about the future with a partner, make ridiculous jokes with a sibling or perfectly wrap up a homemade gift for a friend, we are using this natural, Divine skill.
Our creations in modern day are no less Divine, no less innate. They are born of our passions for a better world, our birth right of expression & our wild imaginations. 2020 was a weird year and 2021 is not letting up. That energy is not going out without a fight and so many of us are so exhausted that creating anything at all feels like a vague memory of a folk tale we heard as children - NOT like something we could sit down tonight and just...do. Yet those skills live and thrive under our skin and when the chips are down is when they are itching to come play the most.
Creating In Wyrd Times is an eight week journey into our own potential for creative bliss and all of the beautiful creations that can come from that. We take this journey using Tarot Cards, exciting artistic inspiration & our own hands. We’ll forge rituals together. We’ll embrace the many, many lessons of the tarot together. We’ll brainstorm and yes, we’ll create. Together.
If this sounds like you and you are just itching for some time to play with cards & your creative prowess, we are genuinely so thrilled to have you. Click right here to learn more and/or sign up. Please note we have THREE Options for pricing: $197 is the base price. Rad. Just snag it. $250 allows Siri and I to pay ourselves for scholarship spots AND if we get more than we expect, we can increase scholarship availability. If you are someone of means, we do ask that you think about purchasing at that level. Finally, as you’ve probably gathered, there are scholarship options! We are asking that you only apply for one of those if you are BIPOC, an LGTBQ+ community member, a single parent, and/or someone who’s disability impacts your income AND you need the scholarship. Click here to learn more and register for either a scholarship or the waitlist, depending on when you get it in.
About Creating in Wyrd Times: You’ll get a weekly email full of creative prompts from the tarot itself as interpreted by Cassandra & Siri. These are yours to do with as you wish. Do them all. Pick one. Throw them in a notebook and deal with it later. That end is completely your call. Then every other week we’ll meet as a group to journey through a different tarot suit’s points of inspiration. We will create unique flash writing and/or visual sketches (or play with both if you’re so inclined). Siri will lead us through ritual and meditation to stimulate our creative unconscious. Cassandra will talk about this suit’s role in our creative lives. Then you’ll be introduced to artwork inspired by the Ace of each suit (one suit per session) and use that as a jumping off point to create something all your own.
You can use this time together to work on one project for the eight weeks, a small project per group session or 100 very little projects that you work through as inspiration hits. It’s your call. This is your journey through the tarot, your journey through the creative recesses of your mind. We’re just here to help you unlock & shape it.
Included in the workshop is a pretty dense workbook to work through at your own pace. This will help those of you who are tarot newbies feel comfortable turning to your decks throughout our eight weeks together. You do not have to be a tarot expert to thrive in this class, a base level of tarot knowledge will suffice. You don’t need to be an artist to thrive in this class either. You simply need to be willing to engage and see what comes out of that.
Given that this class takes place on Zoom, you do not need to worry about sharing with the class but there will be many times you’ll be more than welcome to share. You will need a stable internet connection and capability to run Zoom, as well as an email address you check frequently.
Cassandra and Siri share core values centered around building community and providing you with the promised information in the most generous and collaborative way possible.
The Nuts and Bolts: Siri or Cassandra will send you a Creating in Wyrd Times email every Monday. The live sessions take place every other Thursday in June & July from 6-9 PM CST.
Live Session Dates:
Thursday, June 3
Thursday, June 17
Thursday, July 2
Thursday July 15
Classes will be recorded should you sign up and then have to miss. Things happen!
Again, simply click here to sign up at whichever level works for your budget!
