Queering the Tarot explores themes of sexuality, coming out, gender and gender-queering, sources of oppression and empowerment, and many other topics especially familiar to not-straight folks. Cassandra’s identity-based approach speaks directly to those whose identity is either up in the air or consuming the forefront of their consciousness. It also speaks to those struggling with mental illness or the effects of trauma, all seekers looking for personal affirmation that who they are is okay.
Tarot is best used as a tool for self-discovery, healing, growth, empowerment, and liberation. And yet the tarot archetypes and their interpretation as they’ve been passed down to us presuppose a commonality and sense of normalcy that is white, European, and heterosexual. But humanity us vast and diverse – culturally, spiritually, sexually. Tarot has the power to serve a greater population if we allow ourselves to unlock its deeper meanings, if we allow ourselves to queer the tarot.
In Queering the Tarot, Cassandra Snow deconstructs the meanings of the 78 cards explaining the ways in which each card might be interpreted against the norm.
Rachel Pollack says, “Queering the Tarot is an indispensable book in the modern re-workings of the 600-year-old images, symbols, and stories – indispensable not just for LGBTQIPA2P+ people, but for anyone who wants to see how the tarot can expand and open to the world.”
Cassandra Snow is a professional tarot reader and teaches classes on tarot, as well as coaching new and intermediate readers. She runs Gadfly Theatre Productions, a queer and feminist theatre company in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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