Cassandra Snow is a professional tarot card reader who
teaches Queering the Tarot and Tarot for Beginners classes and
coaches new and intermediate readers. She also runs Gadfly Theatre
Productions, a queer and feminist theater company. She lives in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Beth Maiden is the founder of Little Red Tarot.
“Queering the Tarot was a feature on the Little Red Tarot
blog. Taking the tarot cards that we all love, and peeling them
back to their bones. From there, Cassandra Snow builds the cards a
new form. One that speaks to everyone regardless of their gender
identity, sexuality or gender expression. I have seen queer tarot
cards save people's lives. I have seen the impact that diversity
and representation have in my community. I am delighted that this
book exists, and encourage everyone - queer, straight or otherwise
-- to pick it up.” —Melissa Cynova, author of Kitchen Table
Tarot
*Melissa Cynova*
“Learning to apply the wisdom embedded in each tarot card to
specific situations is always challenge. The challenge is
heightened when your lifestyle may not be considered mainstream.
Cassandra Snow leads us on a journey through the tarot that
explores, acknowledges, and honors, the experiences of non-straight
and/or non-cisgendered folks. Her insights are valuable for both
queer readers and for readers with queer clients.” --Barbara Moore,
author of Steampunk Tarot, Llewellyn’s Classic Tarot, Your
Tarot Your Way, www.tarotshaman.com
*Barbara Moore*
"In Queering the Tarot, Cassandra Snow opens up the world of
tarot and makes it inclusive for the LGBTQ community and other
marginalized folk. I think this may be one of the most important
tarot books out today. It gives much needed representation and
respect to a whole slice of the population that has been left out
due to tarot’s tendency to focus on white, cisgender,
heteronormative. Queering the Tarot is a wonderful book
who’s time has come. It belongs on every serious tarot reader’s
shelf." —Theresa Reed, author of The Tarot Coloring
Book and co-author of Tarot For Troubled Times
*Theresa Reed*
"Queering the Tarot doesn't just bring the Tarot out of the closet.
It dresses it up in drag (both queen and king) to show it off. This
is a book that isn't afraid to challenge the binary gender paradigm
from all angles. It doesn't matter if you are queer, straight, or
somewhere else on the spectrum because Cassandra Snow unflinchingly
casts aside the heteronormative dialogue to reveal a rich, nuanced
view of this divinatory art. I was pleased to see the Urban Tarot
used in the images as well. It is the perfect "gender-queer" deck
for this book. It is truly a keeper for anyone who wishes to
broaden their Tarot practice personally. I think it should be
required for all professionals who want to be in touch and in tune
with our diverse, beautiful population." --Arwen Lynch-Poe,
Editor/Publisher at The Cartomancer
*Arwen Lynch-Poe*
"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 LGBTQQIPA2P+ people, but for
anyone who wants to see how the Tarot can expand and open to the
world. “ --Rachel Pollack, author of Seventy Eight Degrees of
Wisdom
*Rachel Pollack*
"As a straight, middle-class Baby Boomer, I admit to being slightly
uncomfortable with the word “queer”. It is also true that I have
made up my mind not to die of mental rigidity. So a few years back,
I began consciously trying on other people’s perspectives and I
have come to understand that the LBGTQ+ community speaks the word
clearly as a powerful badge of honor. For the moment, as Beth
Maiden points out in her brilliant foreword to this book, the queer
experience is substantially different from the hetero experience.
Both from that perspective, and from the perspective of a long time
student of all things tarot, I herald the release of this book and
the new dimensions that it adds to the magical symbolism of the
cards. In the page-and-a-half “Word” that follows Maiden’s
“Foreword”, Cassandra Snow says that the word “queer” has come to
mean the intention to create a community where “others” (all those
who need a safer space) are welcomed with open arms. I can think of
no better definition of the symbolism of the tarot. Snow is asking
The Fool to “walk in another man’s shoes” along the path to
enlightenment. The lessons learned are invaluable." --Anna
Jedrziewski, Retailing Insights, May/June 2019
*Retailing Insights*
"Tarot, as practiced by modern readers, is an exploration into
one's psyche and life experience. Snow has blogged for years on the
website Little Red Tarot about reinterpreting the tarot to be more
inclusive of the LGBTQ community. Expanding these earlier writings
and using the images of the Urban Tarot deck, they have created a
resource that speaks to queer culture and the inherent issues of
difference. Although the Urban Tarot deck is based on Aleister
Crowley's Thoth Tarot (which diverges from decks based on the
Rider-Waite-Smith cards), traditional tarot readers will appreciate
this perceptive take on each of the major and minor arcana. The
emphasis of Snow's interpretations becomes welcoming, relatable,
and compassionate to those in the gender nonconforming community,
as she deals with concerns previously ignored or judged. VERDICT
Snow creates a safe divinatory space for a community likely to have
suffered abuse or trauma, or who don't relate to the dominant cis
culture in an expanding and affirming read for all levels of tarot
enthusiasts." —Library Journal, Janet Tapper, Univ. of Western
States Lib., Portland, OR
*Library Journal*
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