Speakers 
Art Director, La Panthère Studio
Saturday July 18, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am
EDT
Ravinia C
Workshop
- Take aways: After years of working on divination systems, and squeezing my brain very hard to make systems that would work for people, I ultimately managed to tap into my own ancestral folklore to "make a world" that my readers could make use of. I did so without relying too hard on the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley or anyone else in our field: instead, I looked to my community's own traditions and ideas. I would like people to walk away from this sesh feeling similarly challenged. Why must we put a couple of notable 19th century authors on a pedestal, when we have SO many new voices in the world? New divination scholars—many of whom might even be in this audience!— can offer us divination systems with life lessons that *are not* based on European political systems of royalty, patriarchy, and colonialism, because those ideas are—well, quite distasteful. So how can we democratize cartomancy? Important: I will not just be promoting my decks here. I want to lift up many great examples of modern tarot artists.
