78 Acts of Liberation Release & Tour
Today is the last day to pre-order 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World!
It’s a Moon day (Monday) and a Full Moon in Aquarius, plus the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which many see as the test of whether Democrats can be moved from their genocidal agenda. I think we can expect that party leadership will try to circumvent a repeat of the 1968 Chicago DNC, where protesters against the Vietnam War were brutalized by Chicago police, awakening many people to the fact that Democrats were committed to being on the wrong side of history.
By digging in on defending their annihilation of the Vietnamese, the Democrats lost to Nixon. It’s not hard to imagine the same pattern playing out this year when Democratic candidates Harris and Walz have said they will continue to fund Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, leading to a Trump win (which of course none of us wants). I just want to remind people that it isn’t Gaza that is dividing the Democratic Party. It isn’t Uncommitted voters. It isn’t protesters. It is the Party’s commitment to arming Israel and their refusal to ever compromise with the Left, instead choosing to court Republicans who are dissatisfied with Trump, moving us increasingly rightward. Whatever happens at the Convention today, we should be mindful of the lessons of history, whether history appears to be repeating itself or whether there is change (or the illusion of change, as tactics shift while priorities remain the same).
Tonight I’ll be speaking at an event hosted virtually by Firestorm Co-op, in conversation with Christopher Marmolejo, author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy and Sara Calverese, creator of the Turning Terrestrial Tides Tarot. Emotions may be running high at that time, and I invite you to join us for a discussion about grounding our spirituality in the real world and tapping into historically and materially supported revolutionary potential with our spiritual tools.
I pulled a card for this moment and it happened to be my birth card, The Chariot. This is no time to freeze or fawn. We are in perpetual motion in order to survive. Our movements keep going no matter what our governmental leadership looks like. With this Moon-ruled card associated with the water sign of Cancer, we may get emotionally tossed from the stagnant shoals of despair to the awe-inspiring cliffs of hope and inspiration, but it is our spiritual core and moral compass that keeps us oriented in the right direction so that we can keep going, in alignment with collective liberation.
This intense week is the week that my book, 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World will finally be in people’s hands. I’ve put together a little tour, rooted in my organic connections to radical spaces and my relationships with others who are doing liberation work. Here is the schedule, and I hope to see you at one of these virtual or in-person events!
TONIGHT! August 19 at 4pm Eastern: Tarot to Connect with Revolutionary Realities, a free virtual conversation with Lane Smith, Christopher Marmolejo and Sara Calvarese hosted by Firestorm Co-op
August 20 at 7pm Eastern: free in-person author event at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore
August 25 at 1pm Eastern: release party and fundraiser for Palestinian Youth Movement and Baltimore Safe Haven at NoMüNoMü in Baltimore ($15 minimum donation includes drawing for a signed copy of the book)
September 8 at 1pm Eastern: free in-person author event at The Potter’s House in Washington, DC
September 21 at 6:30pm Eastern: Lane Smith in conversation with Margaret Killjoy, a free virtual event hosted by Charis Books & More
September 27 (exact schedule TBA): virtual appearance at the Critical Thinking Witch Conference
September 29 (exact schedule TBA): in-person appearance at the Radical Book Pavilion at Baltimore Book Fest
October 5 at 2pm Eastern: free in-person panel discussion with Biany Pérez and Sara Calverese at Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia
Thank you all for your love and support; you’ve made this such a joyful experience in a time when social and political forces make joy difficult to access. Let’s continue to do good work together.