Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy

Designed to be used alongside any deck, Red Tarot provides a decolonised paradigm to explore tarot that moves a step on from viewing tarot as a individualised form of self-help, to reclaiming the practice as one of self-determination, societal liberation and collective healing.

Red Tarot is dedicated to anyone othered for their identity or way of perceiving the world. Marmolejo clear intention with their work within this book is to preset tarot as a radical tool that has the power to shift the authority of self-empowerment and knowledge into the hands of people themselves. Through a skilful presentation, the author helps us to explore tarot as critical literacy for liberation and subvert the power dynamics of modern life by weaving in historical and spiritual contexts behind the cards to perceive them within a much wider lens outside the Hellenistic framework.

Overall Red Tarot acts as a profound act of reclaim action with each card’s interpretation is integrated with the teachings of Bell Hooks, Toni Morrison, Jose Esteban Muox, Paulo Freire and many others, in a format that truly offers intersectional wisdoms with the author’s own divination practice, ultimately providing every reader with an essential language and tools for liberation.