THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
a conference on TAROT & the ARTS
JUNE 29 | 8 HOURS
Tarot is a deck of cards that has been used for centuries, originally appearing in Europe during the 15th century as a game before gradually taking on a role in reflection and storytelling. A traditional deck contains seventy-eight cards, divided into the Major Arcana, which depicts broad themes and archetypes, and the Minor Arcana, organized into four suits: cups, swords, wands, and pentacles. Each card carries its own imagery and symbolism, and the visual language of the deck has inspired artists, writers, and designers across many generations.
Today, many people approach tarot as a tool for contemplation, journaling, or creative inspiration rather than prediction. The familiar symbols — a radiant sun, a flowering staff, a brimming cup, an upright blade — invite open-ended interpretation, and no two readings are ever quite the same. Whether viewed as art, tradition, or a simple prompt for self-reflection, tarot continues to hold a quiet fascination, offering a framework for pausing, looking inward, and considering the questions that matter most.
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
TORAH IN THE TAROT
STAV APPEL
Stav Appel is the author of The Torah in the Tarot. He is also a retired data scientist and a lifelong student of Torah. Earlier in his career he was the director of the Israeli-Palestinian coexistence organization Nitzanei Shalom, and the director of International Service Programs for American Jewish World Service. He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and has studied Biblical Hebrew at Hebrew University and Yale Divinity School. After a chance encounter with an old deck of Tarot cards, Stav began to explore the origins and meaning of the biblical references he recognized in its images. He is now a frequent speaker on the lost and forgotten Judaic origins of the mysterious Tarot de Marseille. He currently resides in North Salem, NY. Find Stav on Instagram @torah.tarot.
THE WAY OF TAROT
MARIANNE COSTA
Marianne Costa (France, 1966) holds a Master's degree in Comparative Literature and is an internationally recognized expert in Tarot, symbolism, and Surrealism. With Alejandro Jodorowsky, she co-authored the bestsellers The Way of Tarot and Metagenealogy (Inner Traditions, 2006 & 2011). Her most recent book, Tarot Step by Step — an exploration of Tarot history, symbolism, and iconography — is available in French, Spanish, and Italian, with an English translation forthcoming from Parallax Publishing this fall.
The author of numerous books translated into several languages, she works as both advisor and performer with major institutions and museums — among them the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo for the exhibition Tarots (2025–26), and the Guggenheim Collection in Venice for Surrealism and Magic (2022).
NUMEROLOGY
REMINGTON DONOVAN
Remington Donovan is an author, esotericist and teacher trained in the spiritual wisdom of the ancients.
He was quite literally born into the traditions of mysticism, spirituality and meditation, which naturally evolved into his now over 30 years of experience practicing with tarot and numerology. Along with performing thousands of private readings, Remington teaches and speaks all over the world. He hosts "The Mystical Artists" podcast with his wife, Jeana, and leads The Mystical Arts Mystery School.
Remington Donovan is the author of Numerology - A Beginner's Guide to the Spiritual Meaning of Numbers and Prosperity Practices: Harnessing the Power of Positive Thinking to Get the Life You Want and Angel Numbers published by Penguin.
THE WILD UNKNOWN TAROT
KIM KRANS
“… the creative powerhouse behind some of the most influential spiritual art of her generation.” - LA Times
Kim Krans is a visionary artist, author, and creator of The New York Times bestseller THE WILD UNKNOWN TAROT. A prolific creative influenced by a range of mystical traditions, Kim’s published works include several oracle decks and children’s books, The Wild Unknown Journal, the graphic memoir Blossoms and Bones, and the board game Renunciation.Kim received her BFA in drawing at Cooper Union in NYC, MFA in mixed media at Hunter College, and an MA in Jungian depth psychology and creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California.
Her seeker's heart has brought her to study in-depth practices of Classical Hatha and classical shamanism in India, Africa, Europe, and the UK. Kim teaches workshops and courses that activate the forces of creativity and radical transformation through art, meditation, mysticism, dreamwork, and movement. Though revered for her drawings and publications, Krans is also a multi-media artist, filmmaker, and musician.
TANTRIC DAKINI ORACLE
PENNY SLINGER
Penny Slinger (b.1947, London) is a Los Angeles-based artist pioneering feminism, eroticism and mysticism for over fifty years. Inspired by Surrealism and Tantra, she works across collage, photography, sculpture and video, focusing on feminine liberation. Her work is held in the V&A and the Tate, and she is represented by Richard Saltoun Gallery, UK.
Slinger co-created the iconic The Secret Dakini Oracle. In 1979, she I collaborated on Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy, a work on Eastern mysticism translated into 20 languages.
MODERN TAROT
MICHELLE TEA
Michelin Tea is the author of over twenty books, most recently the novel Little F, currently nominated for a Firecracker Books Award for Fiction. Her work has gathered awards and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, PEN/America and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her memoir Valencia was recently given a 25-year anniversary edition with an introduction by Maggie Nelson. and was adapted into a sprawling art film with 21 directors each filming a chapter. A tarot reader for forty years - professionally for over thirty - she is the author of the books Modern Tarot: Connecting to Your Higher Self Through the Wisdom of the Cards, and Modern Magic: Stories, Rituals and Spells for Contemporary Witches.
The structure of a tarot deck rewards a closer look. The Major Arcana moves through a sequence often described as a journey, beginning with openness and curiosity and passing through challenge, change, and renewal before arriving at a sense of wholeness. The Minor Arcana, meanwhile, speaks to the texture of everyday life — the suits are commonly associated with emotion, intellect, energy, and the material world, giving the deck a vocabulary for both the grand and the ordinary.
Part of tarot's lasting appeal lies in its artwork. Over the centuries, countless decks have been illustrated in styles ranging from medieval woodcut to modern minimalism, each reinterpreting the same familiar figures through a new lens. The cards have become a canvas for symbolism, color, and craft, which is why they continue to find a home in galleries, studios, and personal collections far beyond any single tradition.
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Ariana is a brilliant practitioner of alchemy and I know I am not the only one in the course who feels that the timing of this offering is mysteriously, cosmically aligned with what is actively revealing itself and requiring reckoning in my own life, and in the world at large. This class and this community, even in our brief, virtual time together, has been a life force, opening my heart to itself and to the miracles of biology, breath, fermentation, embarrassment, Uranus in Gemini, sanity, and the opus.
— Ruby S.
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It’s truly incredible to have been witness to that process of talks, readings and various check-ins and travelogues because Ariana was generous enough to share all of it on there. Her voice memos were always timely and inspiring and some of her readings are ones I return to often, namely the one with Rile Books in Brussels that contains earlier poems that would become part of The Rose.
— Angelica J.
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Invisible College has been such a great portal to alchemy and poetry which have recently become a small but constant part of my life. As a new member of Invisible College, I have been enjoying Ariana's beautiful voice and way of speaking, the ancient texts/readings, in-depth discussions and observations, tarot analysis, astrology musings and woo woo. [...] Being in the Whatsapp group for The Reddening has also been a lovely addition to my chronically online life - it's easily a favourite group chat (with strangers) and scrolling, among my many other loaded/involved/serious group chats.
— Ashanti P.
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This is the best news! I wanted desperately to take this course [Inanna] since Paradise Now. Thank you for the continued gifts you have given us. They are the greates t gifts. Especially today; it feels like medicine.
I have like a million things I want to share from Paradise Now….
I kept wondering last night what it would be like
If there had been a poet on Artemis 2 - I think Ariana mentioned something like this before. Wouldn’t that have been different!
Thank you so much again, I can’t wait to dive in. I am so grateful.
Love and an upright heart,
Continuing to remember that behind everything love is unfolding (thank you tanner)
Steph
images from Marija Gimbutas,The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: 7000-3500 BC