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The World Is Not Enough: Tarot & the Arts in the 21st Century gathers artists, best-selling authors, musicians, scholars, and mystics from divergent lineages for one day of paradigm-shattering conversation and learning.
The tarot's mysterious endurance as both repository of wisdom and reliable source of surprise has inspired artists for centuries, exploding far beyond its origins as a diversion for aristocrats to become a foundational text in the imaginative and divinatory practices of some of the most creative minds of the last 500 years. A source of wisdom and reinvention for queer, feminist, postcolonial, and esoteric modes of being, both within and beyond the bounds of the old-time religions, the tarot continues to refresh our sense of what it means to be human and lead a meaningful life on Earth.
featuring
COURTNEY ALEXANDER
Courtney Alexander is a multimedia artist, writer, and ritual practitioner whose creative work is a vessel for healing, remembrance, and spiritual reclamation. ¸In 2016, she made history as the first Black person to successfully publish and distribute a tarot deck—the widely acclaimed Dust II Onyx—funded by a groundbreaking Kickstarter campaign.
STAV APPEL
Author of the groundbreaking The Torah in the Tarot (Ayin Press, 2025); former director of the Israeli-Palestinian coexistence organization Nitzanei Shalom and of International Service Programs for American Jewish World Service. His work focuses on crypto-Judaic studies and the Noblet deck — a history that has been systematically obscured — through close reading of both the Biblical text and the iconographic language alive in the cards.
MARIANNE COSTA
The preeminent expert on the Tarot de Marseille and a renowned dancer, artist, and teacher, co-author with Alejandro Jodorowsky of The Way of Tarot and Metagenealogy (Inner Traditions). Costa teaches across the world in four languages and recently was Advisor the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo on the exhibition Tarots (2025–26) and to the Guggenheim Collection in Venice on Surrealism and Magic (2022).
REMINGTON DONOVAN
Bestselling author of Numerology: A Beginner's Guide to the Spiritual Meaning of Numbers, Angel Numbers, and Prosperity Practices (Penguin), Qabalistic numerologist, mystery school initiate, and educator with over thirty years of experience working in private consultancy with the Thoth deck and devout yoga practice, Donovan teaches thousands of students through his school, The Mystical Artists.
KIM KRANS
Artist and New York Times bestselling author of the viral The Wild Unknown decks, whose visual language has redefined the contemporary relationship to divination. The LA Times described her as "the creative powerhouse behind some of the most influential spiritual art of her generation."
CHRIS KRAUS
Chris Kraus is the author of five novels, most recently The Four Spent the Day Together,three essay collections and a literary biography, After Kathy Acker. In 1996 she organizedThe Chance Festival with Sylvere Lotringer, Jean Baudrillard, Diane Di Prima, Reynaldo Rivera and many others. She is a co-editor of Semiotexte alongside Hedi El Kholti andwill be Visiting Faculty at Deep Springs College in Fall 26.
CHRISTOPHER MARMOLEJO
Christopher Marmolejo, MA, author of Red Tarot is an independent scholar, writer, diviner and teacher. Being Brown, queer and trans, they foster a literacy rooted in liberation, through divination.
PENNY SLINGER
Feminist surrealist multimedia artist and oracle deck pioneer, whose unique approach to collage, performance, and filmmaking inform a highly erudite and uniquely grounded mysticism. Co-creator of The Secret Dakini Oracle (1977); her work is held in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum,the Tate, and many others.
MICHELLE TEA
Author of more than twenty books, including Modern Tarot, Against Memoir, and the novel Little F (currently nominated for a Firecracker Books Award for Fiction), Guggenheim fellow, and the curatorial, arts production, and publishing powerhouse behind Sister Spit, Dopamine Books, and RADAR. Tea’s engagement with magic and mysticism is indivisible from her superstar status in queer culture, known for her raw honesty and embrace of the esoteric as a survival technology.
ANDREW WHITEMAN
Musician, composer, poet, scholar, and founding member of Broken Social Scene. Whiteman’s engagement with esoteric practice and contemplative inquiry has deepened across decades of work at the intersection of music, consciousness, and the sacred.
music throughout the day by
THE LIGHTMAN SISTERS
Romy and Sari Lightman are twin siblings from Toronto who work in close concert with Daniela Gesundheit (Alphabet of Wrong Doing) Their previous projects include Tasseomancy (Bella Union) and Lightman & Jarvis Ecstatic Band (Anti). Both Lightmans were also longtime members of the electronic pop outfit, Austra (Domino Records).
Daniela Gesundheit is a vocalist, composer, and cantor who has collaborated with a wide array of artists & thinkers, including celebrated acoustic biologist Katy Payne, the Institute for Art and Olfaction, Feist & LaForce.
hosted by
ARIANA REINES
Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, and performing artist. She has held named chairs at Scripps College and UC Berkeley and taught poetry at NYU, Columbia, Tufts, and Yale. Her most recent books include The Rose (2025), Wave of Blood (2024), and A Sand Book (2020), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. She founded Invisible College in 2020, as a Divinity student at Harvard.
