In Queering the Tarot, Cassandra Snow deconstructs the meanings of the 78 cards explaining the ways in which each card might be interpreted against the norm. Snow teaches classes on Queering the Tarot and Tarot for Beginners, and coaches new and intermediate tarot readers. Tarot has the power to serve a greater population, with the right keys to unlock the tarots deeper meanings. She has a special interest in queer theory, history, and culture. In the foreword to the 2019 book Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow, tarot reader Beth Maiden writes, “A deck of tarot cards in the hands of a young queer is every bit as important and vital as an esteemed text in the queer canon-each and every time the deck is picked up and we lay out those familiar cards, it becomes a new story, its well-known symbols and archetypes ready to be reshaped to reflect our many and diverse lived realities.” And whichever tarot deck you’re working with, these tarot books from LGBTQ+ writers will help you explore new ways to understand the tarot. Cassandra Snow is the author of Queering the Tarot (4.14 avg rating, 288 ratings, 47 reviews, published 2019), Queering Your Craft (4.20 avg rating, 158. Cassandra Snow is a professional tarot card reader and has practiced and studied magick for over fifteen years. Cassandra’s tarot writing has been seen at Little Red Tarot, The Column, Take Your Pills and Northern Lights Witch among others.

While the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck (that's the popular 78-card deck you're probably picturing right now) shows gendered figures like the Emperor and the Empress and male/female couples like the Lovers, there’s no reason you have to interpret cards that way! In fact, many LGBTQ+ tarot readers have worked to expand the way we interpret the tarot. Queering the Tarot explores themes of sexuality, coming out, gender and gender-queering, sources of oppression and empowerment, and many other topics especially familiar to not-straight folks. Whether you’re learning to read tarot for the first time or you’re a pro who's been practicing for many years, tarot books offer an opportunity to dive deeper into the meanings of the cards. n Queering the Tarot, Cassandra Snow deconstructs the meanings of the 78 cards explaining the ways in which each card might be interpreted against the norm.

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