The Image as Portal:

Working with Divination Decks for practitioners, readers, & seekers . . .

Enroll in this 2.5-hour exploration of divinatory decks as tools for insight, creativity, and embodied presence.

June 20, 2026 at 10am–12:30pm ET | Recording Available

Working with Divinatory Decks as Visionary Guides

Symbols speak in a language older than words, guiding us through thresholds of transformation.

Image-based divination practices have been around for at least 3,000 years. From the I-Ching to modern oracle decks, people have worked with the world around them, and the images they find therein as tools for personal, spiritual, and collective guidance.


In this workshop, we will explore how images, specifically the images in modern divinatory card decks, can be used as tools for deepening insight, wisdom, creativity, and presence.


We will also explore how to work with your own “symbolic library,” as well as how to use a reading practice to support an embodied integration alongside a path of spiritual pilgrimage.


Students will leave with:

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  • A practice in presence with the world that seeds insight, wisdom, and creativity
  • Confidence in looking and how to use cards (and the broader world of images) in a personal reading practice
  • Practical approaches and methods for using cards as companions during spiritual thresholds and embodied integration
  • Steps toward building your own symbolic library as a foundation for an ongoing personal practice.
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Participants will:

  • Learn the various historical approaches, functions, and theories that underpin a practice of working with divinatory cards
  • Practice deeper looking as a method of reading images
  • Learn how to formulate better questions for more embodied, liberatory answer
  • Receive embodied data that feels personal and workable for you
  • Practice multiple, accessible ways of reading, pulling cards, and embodying images that are appropriate for both beginning and advanced practitioners
  • Understand how to begin your own symbolic library for even more potent card-reading experiences

Workshop Agenda

Opening: Arrival and Orientation


  • Framing the work: what this practice is and isn't
  • Introduction to guiding voices: James Hillman, Henry Corbin, Enrique Enriquez, Mary Greer, and Rachel Pollack

Part I: The Practice of Seeing

  • Historical grounding, and multiple frameworks of seeing and reading
  • Guided group practice: working with a shared image through deepening questions

Part II: Images As Portals, Cards at the Threshold

  • Pilgrimage, liminality, and cards as threshold-markers
  • Introduction to the significator: choosing the card(s) that names where you are
  • Guided practice: a two-card draw oriented around a current crossing

Part III: Archetypal Companions and Your Symbolic Library

  • Working with card figures as companions with their own interiority; how to build a personal symbolic library over time
  • Introduction to Spiralis: a deck-in-progress as a case study
  • Guided practice: drawing a companion card for the next phase of your journey; written dialogue with the figure

Closing & Q&A

A Depth Psychology Approach

This is not a fortune-telling workshop, nor a class on how to “correctly” interpret cards from any one specific type of deck.


Divinatory cards can function as spiritual mirrors, archetypal companions, and even portable threshold-markers. While some use divinatory cards as a fortune-telling apparatus, this workshop will ground our experience with them in the present tense. Inspired by psychologists, philosophers and practitioners such as James Hillman, Henry Corbin, Enrique Enriquez, Mary Greer, and Rachel Pollack, we will work with a practical, image-centric approach akin to reading a story book, or a compass.

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Ryan LeMere

Ryan LeMere is a NYC-based, artist, designer, creative director, and educator. His work is guided by questions around culture, ancestry, and material design. He is the co-founder of Aligned Magazine, and creative director of the strategic design co-op Family Meal. He teaches regularly at Parsons School of Design. Ryan has maintained a personal practice with using divinatory cards (specifically the Tarot) since he was a teenager and is the creator of the forthcoming deck and oracular system, Spiralis.

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  • The Image as Portal: A 2.5-hour immersive exploring divinatory decks as tools for insight, creativity, and embodied presence. Through image-centered practices, archetypal inquiry, and guided reflection, discover how cards can become spiritual mirrors, and companions on the path of transformation.
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DIVINITY DECK IMMERSION

Deepen your capacity to see, listen, and engage the symbolic dimensions of experience. Discover how images, divinatory cards, and your own evolving symbolic library can support greater presence, creativity, wisdom, and meaningful navigation through life's transitions.