Tarot Anatomy: Arcanas and the Body as a Sacred Vessel for Intuitive Work - Online Class with with Laetitia Barbier, starting July 2
Date: Wednesday’s July 2, 9 and 16.
Time: 7pm - 9pm EDT
Admission: $130 - ( $99 for Patreon Members - To become a member, click HERE)
3 Week Online Course
This course will be conducted through Zoom, ensuring a convenient and interactive learning experience for everyone. Additionally, to accommodate the diverse schedules of our participants, all classes will be recorded. These recordings will be made available to all ticket holders, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
Apart from a few exceptions, most Tarot decks share a remarkable characteristic: they feature human figures. These bodies—posed, postured, and poised in deliberate attitudes—form one of the cornerstones of Tarot interpretation, their gestures speaking volumes in silence. The human body, with its bends and movements, becomes a language of its own, one that transcends words. Beyond the visible, the organs concealed within also carry profound symbolic weight, their meanings evolving across cultures and histories. Even taboo body parts shift and transform, their significance reframed over time.
The body is both a sacred and profane vessel, an antenna tuned to the divine yet anchored in earthly experience, driven by needs. In this class, we will explore how the human form—both the figures on the cards and our own embodied presence—becomes a metaphor for understanding instinctual messages. Which bodies are speaking to us? Are they the bodies depicted in the Tarot, or the sensations and wisdom of our own flesh?
By viewing the Tarot deck as an anatomical structure, we uncover layers of meaning that stretch far beyond the surface. During a reading, the cards and our bodies unite as tools of divination, expanding the ways we perceive and interpret the stories they hold. Through this exploration, we’ll delve into the archetypal understanding of the anatomical machine at large, the organs that allow it to function, the ways classic art history has shaped our perception of bodies, and how to develop techniques that attune us to the messages coursing through our physical selves.
This class invites you to sense from within what the Tarot reveals about your stories, your hopes, and the places where healing awaits. Together, we’ll weave a practice that harmonizes intuition, art, and embodiment, allowing the wisdom of the cards to be felt not only in the mind but truly experiencing in the pulsating vessel of the soul.
French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris in 2009. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy from 2012 to 2024 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is the author of the Tiger Tarot Guide Book, a unique Tarot deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. As a writer and scholar, she has the privilege of collaborating with the iconic French maître-cartier Grimaud, notably on the exquisite re-release of their 1930s Tarot de Marseille and Belline Oracle.
Laetitia has lectured, taught and read cards for various cultural institutions, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Artyard, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London or the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Date: Wednesday’s July 2, 9 and 16.
Time: 7pm - 9pm EDT
Admission: $130 - ( $99 for Patreon Members - To become a member, click HERE)
3 Week Online Course
This course will be conducted through Zoom, ensuring a convenient and interactive learning experience for everyone. Additionally, to accommodate the diverse schedules of our participants, all classes will be recorded. These recordings will be made available to all ticket holders, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
Apart from a few exceptions, most Tarot decks share a remarkable characteristic: they feature human figures. These bodies—posed, postured, and poised in deliberate attitudes—form one of the cornerstones of Tarot interpretation, their gestures speaking volumes in silence. The human body, with its bends and movements, becomes a language of its own, one that transcends words. Beyond the visible, the organs concealed within also carry profound symbolic weight, their meanings evolving across cultures and histories. Even taboo body parts shift and transform, their significance reframed over time.
The body is both a sacred and profane vessel, an antenna tuned to the divine yet anchored in earthly experience, driven by needs. In this class, we will explore how the human form—both the figures on the cards and our own embodied presence—becomes a metaphor for understanding instinctual messages. Which bodies are speaking to us? Are they the bodies depicted in the Tarot, or the sensations and wisdom of our own flesh?
By viewing the Tarot deck as an anatomical structure, we uncover layers of meaning that stretch far beyond the surface. During a reading, the cards and our bodies unite as tools of divination, expanding the ways we perceive and interpret the stories they hold. Through this exploration, we’ll delve into the archetypal understanding of the anatomical machine at large, the organs that allow it to function, the ways classic art history has shaped our perception of bodies, and how to develop techniques that attune us to the messages coursing through our physical selves.
This class invites you to sense from within what the Tarot reveals about your stories, your hopes, and the places where healing awaits. Together, we’ll weave a practice that harmonizes intuition, art, and embodiment, allowing the wisdom of the cards to be felt not only in the mind but truly experiencing in the pulsating vessel of the soul.
French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris in 2009. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy from 2012 to 2024 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is the author of the Tiger Tarot Guide Book, a unique Tarot deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. As a writer and scholar, she has the privilege of collaborating with the iconic French maître-cartier Grimaud, notably on the exquisite re-release of their 1930s Tarot de Marseille and Belline Oracle.
Laetitia has lectured, taught and read cards for various cultural institutions, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Artyard, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London or the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Date: Wednesday’s July 2, 9 and 16.
Time: 7pm - 9pm EDT
Admission: $130 - ( $99 for Patreon Members - To become a member, click HERE)
3 Week Online Course
This course will be conducted through Zoom, ensuring a convenient and interactive learning experience for everyone. Additionally, to accommodate the diverse schedules of our participants, all classes will be recorded. These recordings will be made available to all ticket holders, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
Apart from a few exceptions, most Tarot decks share a remarkable characteristic: they feature human figures. These bodies—posed, postured, and poised in deliberate attitudes—form one of the cornerstones of Tarot interpretation, their gestures speaking volumes in silence. The human body, with its bends and movements, becomes a language of its own, one that transcends words. Beyond the visible, the organs concealed within also carry profound symbolic weight, their meanings evolving across cultures and histories. Even taboo body parts shift and transform, their significance reframed over time.
The body is both a sacred and profane vessel, an antenna tuned to the divine yet anchored in earthly experience, driven by needs. In this class, we will explore how the human form—both the figures on the cards and our own embodied presence—becomes a metaphor for understanding instinctual messages. Which bodies are speaking to us? Are they the bodies depicted in the Tarot, or the sensations and wisdom of our own flesh?
By viewing the Tarot deck as an anatomical structure, we uncover layers of meaning that stretch far beyond the surface. During a reading, the cards and our bodies unite as tools of divination, expanding the ways we perceive and interpret the stories they hold. Through this exploration, we’ll delve into the archetypal understanding of the anatomical machine at large, the organs that allow it to function, the ways classic art history has shaped our perception of bodies, and how to develop techniques that attune us to the messages coursing through our physical selves.
This class invites you to sense from within what the Tarot reveals about your stories, your hopes, and the places where healing awaits. Together, we’ll weave a practice that harmonizes intuition, art, and embodiment, allowing the wisdom of the cards to be felt not only in the mind but truly experiencing in the pulsating vessel of the soul.
French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris in 2009. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy from 2012 to 2024 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is the author of the Tiger Tarot Guide Book, a unique Tarot deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. As a writer and scholar, she has the privilege of collaborating with the iconic French maître-cartier Grimaud, notably on the exquisite re-release of their 1930s Tarot de Marseille and Belline Oracle.
Laetitia has lectured, taught and read cards for various cultural institutions, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Artyard, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London or the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
