It’s tempting to hold back—especially when being seen has meant being misunderstood. But we aren’t meant to live as spectators. My work exists to invite people back into relationship with life: through meditation, tarot, art, and writing experiences that hold space for connection. Each offering is a small gesture toward re-entry. When we begin to show up, others do too. And that’s how it happens: we co-create something better, together.
2025 Year Ahead Tarot Reading and New Workshops ahead!
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Hello 2025! Happy to announce a few changes coming to the event lineup this month. But first, I want to take a minute and ask you a favor. You probably noticed when you signed up for this newsletter that I have a range of interests and offerings. For me, everything centers around spirituality and creativity. And most of what I offer involves tarot cards but not all of it requires tarot cards. So that leaves me curious what YOU signed up for. Did you sign up specifically for tarot content? Did you sign up hoping it won't all be about tarot? If you could send me a quick note just letting me know what type of content YOU would most like to see from this newsletter, it would be SO appreciated. You can contact me at kim@kimberlyessex.com. Note: You are invited several times below to join us for various events. The link to register for these events can be found at the very end of this newsletter. Our 2025 Year Ahead Reading:We performed our 2025 Year Ahead Reading in advance this year! This tarot spread is based on an astrological birth chart. So it is read counterclockwise and begins this month with the Three of Wands. We will be revisiting these cards each month at our Second Thursday Tarot Reading Practice events. This month's Meditations:With the last meditation of 2024, we wrapped up our work with the Minor Arcana! Just in time to start 2025 with Major Arcana Meditations. Join us this month for meditations on The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, and The Empress. We meet Mondays on Zoom from 8pm to 9pm ET for a guided meditation and discussion. This month's writing workshop:Join us on Zoom for Last Sundays from 3pm to 5pm ET to write from the tarot together. Find link to sign up to attend events at the bottom of this email. No experience necessary. You need only a tarot deck and something to write with to participate. New workshop! Asemic Art with the TarotI am really excited to announce this new event! One of my favorite past lives (of this life time) are the years I spent teaching high school art classes in Brooklyn. So I have been pondering for a few years now how I might go about offering something similar to those art classes but for the adults already attending the tarot, writing, and meditation workshops. Concerns I had were that some would arrive with the expectation of illustrating a new tarot deck and others would not join us at all due to a perceived lack of artistic skills. And then it hit me: Asemic Art. This is also often referred to as Asemic Writing. A simple description of Asemic Art/Writing: an art form that appears to be writing but that has no semantic meaning. To see some examples, I recommend checking out the works of Cy Twombly and Renee Gladman. I hope you will decide to join us! Current subscriber discount code: HERMIT2025(This discount code expires January 31, 2025) xo kim Book a Private Tarot or Meditation Zoom Session--for yourself or a small group: https://www.kimberlyessex.com/services Sign up to attend Tarot Reading, Writing, Asemic Art, and Meditation Events: https://www.kimberlyessex.com/events View Monday Meditation Replays: https://www.youtube.com/@tarotandmeditations |
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It’s tempting to hold back—especially when being seen has meant being misunderstood. But we aren’t meant to live as spectators. My work exists to invite people back into relationship with life: through meditation, tarot, art, and writing experiences that hold space for connection. Each offering is a small gesture toward re-entry. When we begin to show up, others do too. And that’s how it happens: we co-create something better, together.
Hello November! That new collaborative project I told you about last month kicked off on October 23, 2025. Details about the next Amethyst Gate coming up this month on November 21, 2025 can be found at amethystgate.com. Our friend Elizabeth Kirwin did a write up on the first event that you can read at fairiesinamerica.com. I chose to write about the process that brought Amethyst Gate into being. Amethyst Gate is a new monthly literary series in Philadelphia that brings together poetry, music,...
Hello October! As the nights stretch longer, we are gently invited into a period of reflection. October asks us to notice both the shadow and light within ourselves—to take inventory of what we’ve inherited and what we’ve built for ourselves. During our year-ahead reading for the tenth house—linked with Capricorn and themes of status and purpose—we drew a card that centered less on achievement and more on contentment. Maybe this month’s work isn’t only about what we hold close, but what we...
Welcome back. This month we arrive at a closing. This coming Monday we gather for the final meditation in our 78-card series, ending with The World. It’s the last time we’ll sit together in this form, having traveled through every card in the deck. 🌞 Guided Meditation on the World Card — Monday, August 4 at 8pm (ET) This will be our only meditation this month. I’m still weighing whether it makes sense to continue Monday Meditations after this series is complete. One possibility is meeting...