Samhain Grief Studio Tomorrow: The Death Card & Making Life in Decay
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Like grief, the death card calls us to shapeshift. As Laeticia Barbier shares:
“The Death Card marks a point of fracture in our story and the beginning of a rite of passage. .. Often dreaded by people, this card describes in fact our own capacity to welcome change or to live it as an invasion...” (Tarot and Divination Cards)
I chose the death card as my inspiration for this season before the hurricane hit. But now it has taken on a deeper meaning for me.
Who is death, for you?
How does being with death call you to shapeshift?
Come share with us during our Samhain Grief Studio, tomorrow, October 23rd, from 6-7:30pm eastern time. We will be exploring the Death tarot card and making life in decay and the ruins of capitalism, and making art about it.
The session is free for those directly impacted by any of the hurricanes this season. If you know anyone else directly impacted by Hurricane Helene (or any of the hurricanes this season) who would like to attend, they can RSVP here.
What to bring:
💀🌱Bring an image that has to do with death that ALSO feels like an invitation to life in some way. This could be a death tarot card, or something else. We’ll be using these as inspiration.
🕯️💐Set the space: Please find a comfortable, quiet place for our meeting. Set this space for yourself in any way that feels most supportive for you, whether bringing in pillows, candles, flowers, photos of any of your beloved dead, drawing a tarot card, creating an altar of some kind, bringing in scents and textures you enjoy, or simply making sure you have a spacious and comfortable space.
🍉🫖Bring nourishment: Please bring water, tea, any beverages, fruits, or snacks you'd like to bring for our time together.
🎨📒Bring art supplies, a pen and paper or something to write with, or if there is a more pleasurable or accessible form of reflection you like to do, bring materials for that…Markers, colored pencils, paints, collaging supplies, your phone to record voice memos... There will be time set aside to free-write/create/reflect using whichever mediums work best for you.
🧚♀️🌊Disrupt perfectionism and come as you are. You do not need to be "on" in order to show up to this space. Let however you're arriving be enough.
Structure for Grief Studios*:
Welcome & Grounding
Small group discussion around a particular theme, tarot card, plant, or text related to grief (this time, the death card and making life in the ruins)
Intention Setting for your creative practice
Creative Exploration/Studio time: Undirected, parallel play/creative exploration using whatever mediums/materials you feel called to, with the understanding that all of life can be lived as art, and that our artmaking gets to be a practice of attunement to ourselves and the world around us. Studio time can include anything from painting, collaging, dusting off your apothecary shelves, making tea, making music, rearranging your room, casting a spell, cooking a meal, or simply laying down and allowing yourself to rest as a creative practice…
Reflection: Set aside time to free-write/reflect on your creative process, and witness and dialogue with your own art/creative process as if it were animate and speaking to you.
Witnessing one another: Time to share our art and reflections with one another, without the intentions to critique or comment. Here we are simply in the magic of witness - hearing ourselves share, feeling ourselves be heard and received by one another.
Sessions (not including break out rooms!) will be recorded for those unable to make them live ✨
*This structure is adapted from the lineage of the Jewish Studio Process, whose two year Creative Facilitator Training Fellowship I am currently in and deeply grateful for!