TAROT ECOSYSTEMS: An Immersive Day of Presentations DAY PASS

TAROT ECOSYSTEMS: An Immersive Day of Presentations, Workshops, Readings, Performance and an Esoteric Marketplace

Your Saturday day pass INCLUDES exclusive access to presentations in the PRS auditorium throughout the day & the world premiere performance of "The Reader," a Tarot shadow play.

No ticket is needed to access the Esoteric Marketplace, which is free and open to the public.

No ticket is needed to access readers and healers, although prices for their services are individually set.

Workshops and the Tea Ceremony are separately ticketed events and require additional purchase. The Saturday day pass DOES NOT include access to Workshops or the Tea Ceremony.

OVERVIEW

12:00-6:00 PM | ESOTERIC MARKETPLACE by Witchy Ways Market (free to the public, no ticket needed)

12:00-6:00 PM | TAROT, ASTROLOGY, AURA READINGS and HEALING ENERGY WORK (open to the public; individually priced services)

PRESENTATIONS (ACCESS INCLUDED WITH SATURDAY DAY PASS):

1:30-2:15 PM | SANYU ESTELLE: A Deck of Many Dimensions: Unearthing the Tarot's Multicultural Foundations

An exploration into the rich migratory history of the cards that uncovers the complex interplay of cultures, traditions, religions, spiritualities, and the social upheaval that shaped the tarot as we know it today. In this presentation, the Tarot deck will also be broken down (from a material perspective, not a symbolic perspective) by which regions of the world contributed which aspects of the Tarot as we know it today.

2:30-3:15 PM | BEL SENLLE: Plant Ecosystems & Arcane Dynamics: Understanding Flower Essence Energies in the Tarot

How do we make meaning from something as alive as flowers? Can we read the energy of a plant in the same way we read the cards? How might they speak back to us?

Visual language, mythology, archetypes, psychic work, and ritual inform our understanding of a pack of cards as a technology for imagination and interpretation. These same tools can be used to understand and communicate with our local garden.

Guiding us through interconnected symbolic systems and practices, Bel traces the analogies at play in Tarot and herbalism, revealing how to read patterns, elements, and dynamics in plant ecosystems much as we do in the cards.

5:15-6:00 PM | CASEY ZABALA: Journey to the Underworld: Resourcing Ourselves at the World’s End with the Wisdom of the High Priestess and Justice

As we find ourselves navigating the end of one world, and the birth of another, we turn to the chthonic landscape and underworld spirits of the Tarot for guidance and resilience. The guardians of the underworld of the Tarot include the High Priestess and Justice, allusions to goddesses that in some traditions, steward souls across the threshold of this world into another.

This talk will unpack the otherworldly symbolism of these Tarot archetypes, explore cultural context for underworld exploration, and invite us into a participatory relationship with the psychic wisdom of the High Priestess & Justice.

Part lecture, part guided meditation, together we will enter into a new relationship with the underworld, at a moment when its profound wisdom may help us transform. By tapping into this underworld landscape, may we gain insight and inspiration into how to lead a more aligned life.

6:15-7:00 PM | LORRIANE ANDERSON: Navigation & Habitation: Understanding Tarot through Cyclical Empathy with Nature

Bestselling author Lorriane Anderson unpacks the relationship between the greater and lesser sabbats that comprise her popular Seasons of the Witch oracle series and the creation of her Seasons of the Witch Tarot series. Learn about Anderson's path from ideation to manifestation as she discusses lore and mythology in the evocative story of Seasons of the Witch: Winter Tarot. Through wintry themes of rest and contemplation, Anderson explores how the harmonic relationship between Yule, Imbolc and the earth's barest season seamlessly blend to unlock deep, divinatory wisdom, while embracing a new way for the tarot to move its energy throughout the year.

By allowing empathic portals to open onto seasonally shifting landscapes, Anderson shows how we can glean greater insight to the rhythms and cycles of nature as a reflection of the power and meaning in the Tarot. She also reveals the next deck in the series to be published, and talks about the current stage of her work with Seasons of the Witch and other projects.

PERFORMANCE (ACCESS INCLUDED WITH SATURDAY DAY PASS):

7:30-8:15 PM | THE WYZBOTS: The Reader, A Tarot Shadow Play

The Reader is a shadow play tracing a Tarot reader’s day of client encounters. As each reading unfolds, interpretations take form—cards flicker to life and transform in unexpected ways through the magic of shadow puppetry.

Don't miss the unforgettable world premiere of this very special original work created exclusively for the L.A. Festival of Tarot.

SATURDAY PASS PRICES:

$65 Early Bird (Ends 5/7)

$70 Regular Saturday Pass

Saturday Day Pass Tickets are $70 and include Four Auditorium Presentations and the Exclusive Tarot Shadow Play World Premiere.

OR

Get the most value with a (early bird ticket $90) that includes the Friday ritual, panel and after-party PLUS the Saturday presenters & Tarot shadow play performance - that's over ten esteemed Tarot luminaries and the premiere of a brand new Tarot shadow puppet show written exclusively for the Festival of Tarot and PRS!!!

*Please note that the two-day pass does not include workshops or tea ceremony, which are separately ticketed events.

Please email [email protected] or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions. All sales are final.

Presented by James Jude Tarot
Co-Presented by The Philosophical Research Society, TarotArts, and 22 Teachings

About the Festival:
The Los Angeles Festival of Tarot is an annual event presented by James Jude Tarot with the support of The Philosophical Research Society, TarotArts and 22 Teachings. Learn more about the Festival, the Presenters and the 2026 Program of events at www.lafestivaloftarot.com

For the 2026 Los Angeles Festival of Tarot, we invited presenters to explore Tarot as an ecosystem—a network of interrelated symbols, environments, structures, traditions and imaginal worlds.

Ecosystems may be natural or constructed, terrestrial or cosmic, physical or symbolic. Terrain, architecture, weather, oceans, galaxies, communities, and cultural systems are all lenses through which to approach the cards.

Follow @festivaloftarot @jamesjudetarot @philosophical_research_society @tarotarts and @22teachings for festival updates and sneak peeks!

Other Saturday Festival events NOT INCLUDED in the Day Pass (ticketed separately):

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM | LAETITIA BARBIER Workshop: Land Art: Reading Landscapes and Navigating Tarot Weather Through the Works of Ecological Visual Poets ($55)

12:00-1:30 PM | LIZ HUSTON Workshop: What story are you living? Discovering and crafting a mythic story for your life through the cards ($45)

3:30-5:00 PM | ZHENA MUZYKA Ceremony: Magic Hour Tea & Tarot Tea Ceremony ($55)

MARKET (FREE TO ALL ATTENDEES)

(Esoteric Marketplace)

There are many ways of the Witches and avenues of practicing Magick, both in community as well as in our personal practices and daily rituals. Whether you are brand new to exploring Witchcraft, a seasoned Witch crone, somewhere in between or just simply curious about magick, we welcome you!

Our market is a safe space & community of talented unique artists, Witches as well as healers and those practicing divination from all walks of life, gender & expression! We delight in ritual, music, food & shopping within the community and overall support & joy when we come together! We started this market because we want to create more opportunities for our community to grow and thrive! We believe in community over competition!

We hope that all who attend our events feel inspired, included, a part of something special and that a spark of your own Magick and inner flame is ignited! There’s a little Magick and Witch in all of us, and we hope to help you find your way!

About the Presenters, Performers, Readers and Market:

PRESENTERS

(The Cultural Roots of Tarot) is a Claircognizant (clear knowing) Soothsayer (truth teller) that is also known as "The Word Witch" because of her deep love for word origins (etymology) and word culture (philology).

Sanyu is a pigmented womoonist (as constant as the tides; word to Alice Walker), cissy (femme and fem), flexible asexual (it's a spectrum, seems unwise to call it), travel-apt (Earth is a country) and fashion forward (Funk Flag Flyage) SSJW (Sarcastic Social Justice Warrior). She is known for her straightforward card reading style ("the reading you need, not necessarily the reading you want") and her way with words via writing, speaking, and singing.

A US-American of Ugandan and Belizean descent, Sanyu was born, bred, and buttered in Los Angeles on land traditionally stewarded by the Tongva. Sanyu is herself Black Seminole, Moskito, Maya (and possibly Huron + Chiricahua). Sanyu's African origins also include Angolan, Cameroonian and Nigerian descent with ancestry from literally all 4 "corners" of the Motherland. She also has Celtic and Slavic ancestors.

Sanyu is your forebears’ attainable unreality. Yet she is the intended of her Ancestors. Many dream up the future, but it belongs to their descendants. Thus, she is the best thing that came out of her Colonizer’s lineage. She uses their/her own ancestry to denounce their indoctrination into the invention of Whiteness through colonization. They are lucky to have her and they ensured not only that she is, but what she is.

(Claridad Tarot / Clarity Tarot) is an Argentinian artist, Tarot reader, and psychologist-in-training, based in London.

Bel’s first tarot deck, Claridad, was created in Spanish and has sold worldwide since 2019. The English co-edition was published in 2023 by Watkins and distributed by Penguin Random House.

Bel has been a guest speaker at conferences and festivals around the world, including the Congress of Tarot (Barcelona), Festival of Tarot (Los Angeles), Tarot Conference UK (London), Occulture Conference (Berlin), HUWD (London) and other events in Italy, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brasil.

She is a resident practitioner and teacher at She's Lost Control and The College of Psychic Studies, both in London. Bel studied Visual Arts at Buenos Aires University and is currently enrolled in the Clinical Psychology program at Goldsmiths, University of London. She hosts artistic-esoteric events, classes and sessions for internationally renowned brands including the Brits Awards, Warner Music, the Royal Academy of Arts, H&M, Lime Bike, L'Oreal, & Other Stories, Monki, Astley Clarke, Fabric, Chelsea Fringe, Estelle Manor, and numerous private clients.

(Wanderer's Tarot, Wyrd Sisters Oracle, A Confluence of Witches) is an author, interdisciplinary artist, and intuitive witch. At home in the overlooked intersections of dreams, meadows, and used bookshops, Casey has always known herself as a witch, hedge-walker, and weaver between worlds from an early age. Casey is the creatrix behind the Witches Confluence, and the host of the Modern Witches podcast. Her published divinatory tools include Wanderer’s Tarot, and Wyrd Sisters Oracle, and she is the editor of A Confluence of Witches: Celebrating our Lunar Roots, Decolonizing the Craft, and Reenchanting our World.

Casey has been working within the intuitive and symbolic realms for 20 years. Whether writing, art-making, or teaching, magic will always fall at the center of her practice. She believes that divination is a tool for empowerment, re-enchantment and healing, and that witches play a pivotal role in our collective liberation and planetary healing.

(Seasons of the Witch Oracle and Tarot series, The Witch's Apothecary, The Moon Apothecary) is the bestselling creator of the Seasons of the Witch oracle series and author of The Witch’s Apothecary, among other titles in the spiritual space. Her work bridges seasonal wisdom, intuition, and practical spiritual living. Lorraine’s decks have supported readers around the world and she has been featured in The Daily Star, The Spruce, Reader’s Digest, Kindred Spirit, and Oprah Daily.

PERFORMERS

(The Reader) are Chad Wyszynski and Brittaney Talbot. As Wyzbot Productions, they have performed Tarot shadow puppetry readings at The United Theater (Bardo, Black Lodge), The Queen Mary and The Philosophical Research Society.
Brittaney is a puppeteer who specializes in shadow puppetry, full suit puppetry, and animatronics. Her work has appeared in film (The Traveler & The Troll), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (I Sell Windows), and live shows around LA (Schlitzie: Alive & Inside).
Chad is a software engineer and student of the Tarot. He studied the Marseilles under Enrique Enriquez, Jared Kopf and John Wilson.
Chad and Brittaney live in Los Angeles with their son and two cats.

READERS:

(Red Tarot), MA, is a brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, and educator. They use divination to promote a literacy of liberation.

They are the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide To Divinatory Literacy, published By North Atlantic Books.

They Were Born and Raised in San Bernardino, California, In Community With The Serrano People Of The Pines, The Yuhaaviatam Clan Of The San Manuel Nation.

As a trained educator focused on cultivating classrooms of emancipatory possibility, they work with students around the world to plant and nurture the seed of a divinatory practice, finely weaving Tarot, astrology, and curanderismo with decolonial, queer epistemologies and critical, feminist pedagogies.

is a Birth Doula, Oracle and Curandera of Mayan, Pipil, Nahual and Garifuna descent. Born in Los Angeles, CA to Salvadoran immigrants and raised in Mexico. Their practice is rooted in their ancestral heritage and indigenous traditions of the Anahuac.

Madre has always walked between the worlds. Ever since they can remember, Madre Jaguar has experienced visions, prophetic dreams, visitations and a strong clear connection to their Spirit team.

Nature was their first teacher. Most of their childhood was spent observing and studying the cycles and seasons of Earth, connecting and experimenting with the energy of the elements, animals, herbs, plants, flowers, rocks, crystals and beings seen and unseen. As a child, their maternal grandmother taught Madre Jaguar ways to communicate with the plant kingdom; to sing to them and to listen to their songs. Their Abuela also taught them ways in which these plant allies could be used to treat all kinds of ailments from a tummy ache to a broken heart.

As an adult, a passion for helping others and a strong desire to help propel positive change in the world, led Madre Jaguar on a path of self-discovery and exploration of different healing modalities including Curanderismo, Reiki and Energy Healing, Shamanic Practices, Folk Magic, Herbalism and Tarot. They have studied and continue to learn from indigenous healers and teachers in Mexico, Central and South America.

Madre Jaguar believes that Love is our super power. As human beings we are here to bless and be blessed by all of creation. Harmony and Joy are our birthright. Through their healing practice, readings, classes and projects Madre Jaguar’s goal is to help you connect with the inner power, wisdom and magic that lies within; all while helping you remember your Divine origin and unique soul purpose.

(Art of the Zodiac, Los Angeles Astro Salon, L.A. Astro Fest, TalkTalkTalk) is an LA-based astrologer and Tarot reader whose practice centers on storytelling, mythology and collaborative divination. She creates a space for clients to reclaim their personal narratives through the lens of ancient archetypes. Vivi produces L.A. Astro Fest, hosts the Los Angeles Astro Salon, and is the creator of the podcast TalkTalkTalk. You can find her weekly writing on ritual and meaning at her Substack, ART of the ZODIAC.

(The Healing Queen) is the founder of Healing Queen and Healing Queen School of Sacred Alchemy. She weaves Curanderismo, Reiki and earth-based practices into conscious spiritual support rooted in nervous system literacy.

Prado supports practitioners and clients in working within the relational field, where the body listens, the heart perceives, and healing unfolds through presence in a way that allows something truer to emerge. Through ancestral knowing, ritual intelligence and ethical spiritual care, you re-connect the energetic threads of who you are and step into your becoming.

Through Love Limpias, group experiences and practitioner trainings, Prado supports personal transformation and professional development so your joy deepens, your intuition clarifies, and your sovereignty becomes lived rather than conceptual.

CONTENT DISCLAIMER

The views, opinions, and thoughts expressed by the presenters are solely those of the presenter and may not represent those of the Philosophical Research Society (PRS), its affiliates, or any individuals associated with PRS. Presentations are intended for informational and entertainment purposes.

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