Friday
Coconut – Main Stage
Session 1: Understand the Tableau
Diving into the Tarot Tableau: Read Cohesively in Every Context
During this three-part intensive with tarot reader and teacher María Alviz Hernando, you will be fascinated by the versatility of the Nine Card Tableau, learn techniques to accurately extract information from your readings at all times and in every context and gain confidence in your reading skills, even in general readings!
Session 2: Adapt the Tableau
Diving into the Tarot Tableau: Read Cohesively in Every Context
Once that you are familiar with the spread, it’s time to adapt it to your reading needs! You will learn how to glean advice and prediction from the cards, and how to adapt the layout that you know to fit the specifics of your question. You will learn the keys of timing with this reading system and practice reading for a partner.
Session 3: Extend the Tableau
Diving into the Tarot Tableau: Read Cohesively in Every Context
Meet the Nine Card Tableau’s big sister: The 5×5 Tableau. Learn to tackle a large spread with ease and incorporate new techniques to go deeper in your interpretations and aim for longer periods of time in your readings. In this session, you will practice reading a 5×5 in groups and have the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and ask questions.
For this session you will need a tarot deck (I advise bringing a mini-deck if you have one, so you can comfortably lay the 5×5 Tableau). You will be given a handout, but you can bring material to take notes if you wish.
Madam Adam
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Amy Forman Session 1
Lip Print Reading
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Amy Forman Session 2
Lip Print Reading
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Mercedes Vasquez
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Oracular Intentions Sound Bath Meditation
This deeply relaxing and centering experience blends divination with a meditative sound journey, a unique opportunity to come together to explore and manifest clear intentions for our experience at StaarCon 2023!
Opening Ceremony
Join Christiana for the opening ceremony for StaarCon 2024! We will gather together as a community to create sacred space, set intentions, and perform divinations for our weekend ahead.
Salon A – Regular Session
Lisa Adams – Part 1
Astrology for Beginners
Learn some astrology basics in this three-session intensive.
Astrology is an ancient language of symbols and meaning that provide a framework of understanding life’s magic and difficulties. It’s a tool of evolution.
Lisa Adams – Part 2
Astrology for Beginners
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Lisa Adams – Part 3
Astrology for Beginners
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Session 1 – Cards and Stars
Tarot Plus! Divination Combos
Whether you know nothing about astrology, or you’ve been a pro for years, the first session will help you focus on a few simple astrology tools to personalize your tarot readings.
Session 2 – Cards and Charms
Tarot Plus! Divination Combos
In the second session we will learn charm-casting. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is. Then of course, we will combine the charms with a tarot reading!
Session 3 – Cards and Crystals
Tarot Plus! Divination Combos
This session will teach the basics of lithomancy (reading crystals) and several methods to combine crystal divination with cartomancy.
Saturday
Coconut – Main Stage
Why I Designed a Tarot Deck…and You Should Too!
Publishing isn’t always the goal. An exploration of my journey creating the Good Journeys Tarot and why creating a deck is a valuable exercise for tarot readers of any level. We will explore a little tarot history, my personal experience, and some practical concerns of creating a deck.
Erika Robinson
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Situational Divination, or What I Learned from Scott Cunningham
You’ve read the books. You do the work, and you’re confident in your divination abilities. But when you’re caught off-guard, and your usual references are out of reach, what do you do? Come learn how Christine Cunningham Ashworth took what she learned from her brother Scott, among others, and made it work – her way. Learn how to trust your studied knowledge and apply your skills when you’re on your own.
T. Susan Chang
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The History of Occult Tarot, Made Easy
We’ll begin in 18th century France and cover three different tarot divination methods from three centuries. How has astrology, philosophical Hermeticism, alchemy, Cabalism (the Qabalah), and Rosicrucianism influenced the evolution of tarot into an occult tool? And what does Hermes Trismegistus have to do with tarot? What do we even mean by “occult”? Let’s discuss together.
Stacey Williams-Ng
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Kristen Barnes
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Entertainment
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Salon A – Regular Session
Marion Kirk
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Dame Darcy
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Madam Adam
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Bonnie Isham Willis
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Jen Sankey
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Salon B – Regular Session
Holistic Healing, Complimentary Alternative Modalities and Wellness
Feeling blocked? You may need to unblock and redirect your energy flow!
Learn about the Universal energy field, the human energy field and how holistic interventions can balance body (physiological), mind (psychological) and spirit (metaphysical/spiritual) to correct the flow of energy, facilitate healing and achieve improved health.
Peter Coe
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Arwen Lynch Poe
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Salon C/D – Regular Session
Amie Emberharte
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Tarot Reversals – Are They Necessary?
In this workshop, Catiara will teach you a few different methods of reading reversed cards. She will explain her beliefs and philosophies surrounding reversed cards.
Joe Monteleone
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Sunday
Coconut – Main Stage
Reading Tarot in Layers
Join Mitchell, your ‘tarot coach,’ in this practical and fun workshop to improve your reading skills. You will break down your ‘reading senses,’ if you will, in layers, practice one layer at a time, and then reconstruct them. This practice can enhance any reader’s ability to give a more comprehensive, deeper, and thorough reading. Bring a tarot deck and something to log your notes and findings. And get ready to have fun.
Nancy Hendrickson
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Anthony Perotta
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Madam Adam
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Emilie Muñiz
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Closing Ceremony
Christiana leads the conference in the closing ceremony. Join us in a moment of appreciation and affirmation, as we share our joy of tarot, art, divination and community.
Salon A – Regular Session
Teri Salomoni
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Michelle Barrie
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Beverly Frable
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Tikashi Denour Lacoste
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Brenda Elizabeth
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Silver Raven
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Salon B – Regular Session
Grace Calas
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Mark Horn
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Salon C/D – Regular Session
Tarot, Scent, and Psyche: Creating Magical Potions, Using Tarot Correspondences, Symbols, and Elemental Energies, in Conjunction with the Plant Kingdom
The power of the tarot is unsurmountable when you call in the energies of the plant kingdom as an ally. As we work with the tarot, we can create magical potions and teas by connecting plant energies with the tarot symbols, correspondences and the elemental energies that flow through the cards. In this class we will learn how to connect the plants with the cards. I will demonstrate how to create a planetary oil based off of a chosen tarot card’s energies.