A Zoom workshop

Sunday 22 June 2025, 5pm-6pm London, £30

Rooting Your Stories in the Garden of the Imagination

The Empress, the Queen of Pentacles, the Nine of Pentacles, the Sun: we’ll harvest these powerful symbols of gardens and nature for their creative energies and then write stories that ground our writing in the sensory realities of character and setting.

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The tarot is a great gift for writers: an invitation to the imagination, a tool for creative focus, a prompt for accessing our unconscious drives.

These interactive Tarot For Writers workshops explore the potential of the tarot in creative writing as well as writing for personal growth. Different classes survey the archetypes of the Major Arcana, investigate the four elements, court cards and number cards of the Minor Arcana, and unlock the symbols and associations of individual cards.

We do in-class writing experiments, and you’ll take away ideas to develop in your personal practice, whether you’re generating new pieces or revising work-in-progress. We also discuss resources on tarot and investigate different styles of tarot decks and divination cards – feel free to bring your own cards to class to share with us too. After the class you’ll be sent a handy reference on tarot for writers as well as other resources to explore at your own pace.

Each class is stand-alone. Beginners as well as experienced practitioners in tarot and all forms of writing are welcome. You can read more about my approach in my blog post Tarot and Writing.