Dates: Sundays April 5, 12, 19, 26, Saturday May 2
Time: 2pm - 4pm EST
Admission: $155 General / $135 Patreon Member. To become a member and enjoy exclusive discounts, click here.
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 participants, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
Co-created by Lou Benesch and Laetitia Barbier, the Camena Tarot is a Major Arcana–only Tarot de Marseille–style deck inspired by the Camenae—liminal feminine spirits of the ancient Mediterranean world, associated with fresh waters, prophetic imagination, and unseen realms. Developed over five years, the deck is richly layered, dense with narrative, symbolism, and visual detail that does not always reveal itself at first glance.
Rooted in the French tradition of reading with the Major Arcana alone, the Camena Tarot invites a mode of divination that privileges archetypal scrying and mythic logic over accumulative literacy. In this class, Laetitia Barbier will guide participants through the iconography of each card, uncovering the artistic, folkloric, and mythological references woven into the deck. Particular attention will be given to the Camenae themselves—their Mediterranean origins, symbolic functions, and the conceptual framework that animates the deck as a whole.
Beyond historical and visual analysis, the class offers a practical entry point into working with the Camena Tarot as a living divinatory tool. Through clear, hybrid exercises, participants will learn how to read the deck both as a classical Major Arcana system and as a contemporary oracle—developing methods that clarify its structure, reveal its narrative potential, and make its density more approachable.
Designed as a guided grand tour of the deck, this class is ideal for readers who feel intrigued yet overwhelmed by the Camena Tarot, as well as for those seeking to deepen their understanding of Major Arcana–centered practices. Participants will leave with a clearer map of the deck, practical techniques for reading with it, and a renewed appreciation for its visual and symbolic complexity.
French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, tarot reader, and teacher with a BA in Art History from La Sorbonne. From 2012 to 2024, she served as programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator at Morbid Anatomy. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive (2021) features a foreword by Rachel Pollack. With artist Lou Benesch, she co-created the Camena Tarot and collaborates regularly with the French maître-cartier Grimaud, including on the re-release of their 1930 Tarot de Marseille and Belline Oracle. Laetitia has lectured and taught taromancy and card divination history for institutions all around the world such as Greenwood Cemetery, the New York Public Library, Fotografiska, the College of Psychic Studies in London and The Tokyo Tarot Museum, She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Dates: Sundays April 5, 12, 19, 26, Saturday May 2
Time: 2pm - 4pm EST
Admission: $155 General / $135 Patreon Member. To become a member and enjoy exclusive discounts, click here.
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 participants, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
Co-created by Lou Benesch and Laetitia Barbier, the Camena Tarot is a Major Arcana–only Tarot de Marseille–style deck inspired by the Camenae—liminal feminine spirits of the ancient Mediterranean world, associated with fresh waters, prophetic imagination, and unseen realms. Developed over five years, the deck is richly layered, dense with narrative, symbolism, and visual detail that does not always reveal itself at first glance.
Rooted in the French tradition of reading with the Major Arcana alone, the Camena Tarot invites a mode of divination that privileges archetypal scrying and mythic logic over accumulative literacy. In this class, Laetitia Barbier will guide participants through the iconography of each card, uncovering the artistic, folkloric, and mythological references woven into the deck. Particular attention will be given to the Camenae themselves—their Mediterranean origins, symbolic functions, and the conceptual framework that animates the deck as a whole.
Beyond historical and visual analysis, the class offers a practical entry point into working with the Camena Tarot as a living divinatory tool. Through clear, hybrid exercises, participants will learn how to read the deck both as a classical Major Arcana system and as a contemporary oracle—developing methods that clarify its structure, reveal its narrative potential, and make its density more approachable.
Designed as a guided grand tour of the deck, this class is ideal for readers who feel intrigued yet overwhelmed by the Camena Tarot, as well as for those seeking to deepen their understanding of Major Arcana–centered practices. Participants will leave with a clearer map of the deck, practical techniques for reading with it, and a renewed appreciation for its visual and symbolic complexity.
French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, tarot reader, and teacher with a BA in Art History from La Sorbonne. From 2012 to 2024, she served as programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator at Morbid Anatomy. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive (2021) features a foreword by Rachel Pollack. With artist Lou Benesch, she co-created the Camena Tarot and collaborates regularly with the French maître-cartier Grimaud, including on the re-release of their 1930 Tarot de Marseille and Belline Oracle. Laetitia has lectured and taught taromancy and card divination history for institutions all around the world such as Greenwood Cemetery, the New York Public Library, Fotografiska, the College of Psychic Studies in London and The Tokyo Tarot Museum, She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
