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Maria Alvíz Hernando

Director at World Divination Association, Master Tarot Reader & Teacher

María Alviz Hernando has been a perpetual student of Tarot ever since she first picked up a deck back in 2006. Her curiosity for divination promptly developed into a hobby that would then evolve into her full-time occupation as a reader, teacher, and international speaker. Her signature style, known as Tableau, is a blend of traditional Tarot and European cartomantic techniques, resulting in a system that strives to make Tarot effective, useful, and to the point.

María is Director at the World Divination Association and its Spanish-speaking branch WDA Hispana, as well as a teacher. The World Divination Association works to offer quality and affordable education in traditional systems of divination, as well as a supportive community of diviners around the world.

Aside from her interest in divination, she’s deeply into history and antiques, especially antique jewelry, discovering the world, literature, and cats. She lives in Madrid, with her husband and their four kittens.

World Divination Association

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Join me in this practical session and get ready to get your hands dirty! Exvotes have been created for millenia for protection, fertility, abundance, good fortune and healing among other purposes, and during the first portion of the session, we will learn about what they are, what they can be used for, and how they can aid you in your magical practice, petitions or healing requests, and then... Then we’ll jump into action and make our own! Because the best way to learn something new is doing it! In person attendees: I will provide clay and other materials for this session, but it is recommended to bring a little container with you so that you can take your exvote with you (and let it set and dry). Online attendees: You will need to provide your own supplies. The basic is clay, whether the classic brown clay or the white one, depending on how much of a mess you're willing to make. Stay away from fimo or similar for these because some of these are later buried and we don't want to bury plastic derivatives! Optional: your preferred herbs to use for your goal, and a candle.
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While love matters take the cake when it comes to consulting tarot, career issues are a close second. Join me in this session and gain some tools to help your querents navigate the tricky waters of career progression and its challenges.

In this session, you will learn:

- The keys to help your querent find their strengths and identify career options. How to answer questions such as “What is my professional purpose?”

- Reading for job seekers: Opportunities, interviews, negotiations and offers.

- Reading for the employed: Promotions, challenges and job loss.

- Reading for the self-employed: The nuances of entrepreneurship in tarot.

- The financial matters: Increases, bonuses, cuts and withheld wages.

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In this session you will become acquainted with a dynamic reading style and be introduced to the Nine Card Tableau. You will be familiarized with the different interpretative layers and see examples of how to gather information from the spread. At the end of this session, you will practice with a reading for yourself.

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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.

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Meet the Nine Card Tableau’s big sister: The 5x5 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 5x5 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 5x5 Tableau). You will be given a handout, but you can bring material to take notes if you wish.

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The cards on your table show an intricate landscape of the situation that your querent is going through. Get past rigid, card-by-card interpretations to unveil the richness of detail and meaning hidden in the patterns of your draw. In this class, you will learn tips and techniques to see the full picture and add layers of meaning to your readings, threading the cards together to form round and sound predictions that your querents can relate to.

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