Offering: September 8, 2024

Eclectic grief

Jessica Dore

Sep 08, 2024

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A hand is holding a tarot card, ten of pentacles by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. In the image, an old person with white hair is sitting down with two dogs near him, as two adults are speaking in the background with a child nearby as well. There are ten pentacles dispersed throughout the card in the shape of the kabbalistic tree of life. Behind the card is an open window sill, a wood floor and a terra cotta pot with a house plant in it that is sneaking into the photo just slightly. — “Ten of Pentacles” by Pamela Colman Smith for the *Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot*.

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I have this fantasy that each book I write will have a small hole inside of it, that opens out to the next one. I’ve known what the opening was in Tarot for Change for a few years, but it’s taken a while to coalesce into something sturdy enough to build a whole book out of. I’m in the early stages of doing that now which is very exciting.

The winter before Tarot for Change came out, I took a class with psychologist Mary Watkins on liberation psychology. We studied the works of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, psychologist and Jesuit priest Ignacio Martin-Baro, and educator Paulo Freire. We also looked at Watkins’ own book—which she published with philosopher Helene Shulman—Toward Psychologies of Liberation.

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Offering: September 8, 2024

Eclectic grief

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