Food and Tarot Circle

➤ Together, we’ll explore various ways to interpret and derive meaning from the images and stories within tarot.
About this Event

Food and Tarot Circles are an opportunity to learn and practice tarot in a collaborative setting, through shared interpretation and processing. ✨

Together, we’ll explore various ways to interpret and derive meaning from the images and stories within tarot. Our time together will flow between socializing, sharing, and exploring our decks and resources (in whatever way you feel comfortable), culminating in an intentional series of card pulls.

These gatherings are designed to offer insights and opportunities for self-reflection within a community context, promoting authentic openness in a safe and nurturing environment. Inspired by Jessica Dore’s approach in Tarot for Change, which blends tarot with modern therapeutic concepts, we will:

🔮 Engage in a guided tarot meditation and various card spreads to set intentions, reflecting on how the mythic imagery of tarot supports modern concepts like mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion

🔮 Learn techniques for interpreting the energies and messages from your tarot cards, drawing from psychological and spiritual insights to deepen self-understanding

🔮 Explore practices for nurturing our intentions using tarot as a tool for personal growth

🔮 Receive input on integrating mental health and self-care practices, drawing from expertise in Mental Health First Aid

🔮Create a space that fosters deep listening and non-judgmental practice within the collective

Before the circle, please have your tarot deck, a journal, and any other divination or mindfulness tools you prefer ready. If you don’t have a deck, let us know, and we’ll be happy to provide one for you during the event.

🥗 Kim will bring a large salad to share. You are invited to bring finger food or a salad topping to share with the group. Tea and water are provided.

✨ Event Details

Wednesdays from 5:30 - 7 pm

• June 10
• July 8
• August 12
• September 9

$15 per circle.

Join us for one or all. Everyone welcome.

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.

Additional Details:

The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

Parking Information

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✨ Facilitated by Kim Bushore-Maki

For nearly thirty years, Kim Bushore-Maki has served Appalachia as both a pioneer and champion of holistic well-being and community health.

A licensed clinical counseling professional, she became the first Master level clinician at East Tennessee State University's Counseling Center, where she provided therapeutic services and directed the Sexual Violence Prevention Program and the Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program.

During her tenure at ETSU, she was a founding organizer of the Tennessee Coalition for Healthy and Safe Campus Communities as well as Tennessee's representative for the National Prevention Network. She drafted ETSU's first Sexual Violence Response Policy and coordinated the region's first "Take Back the Night" program and fundraiser (the oldest worldwide movement to stand against sexual violence in all forms), the proceeds of which funded the first SANE nurses at the Johnson City Medical Center. Kim also served as Interim Director of Disability Services for 11 months.

In 2010, Kim followed her intuition and vision to found , a thriving healing-arts center that draws on somatic expressive therapy, archetypal psychology, wisdom traditions, and regenerative economics. Kim continues to maintain a small private therapy practice and also leads healing programs and retreats, guides the Shakti Stewardship Program, and serves as a community-building consultant to justice-oriented initiatives committed to building safe, inclusive, vibrant, and resilient communities.