A Taste of 2025 Masters of Tarot! The classes, the teachers, the fun!

Come join our Organizer, Cheryl Ryder, for a "Taste of 2025 Masters of Tarot with Mary K. Greer" This is her annual report of all the fabulous tarot learning that she acquired over the 3 days of this world-renowned international intensive tarot learning experience.

If you are attending in person please bring your $10 donation to our meetup operations fund in cash. If you are attending online, please send your $10 to our operations fund to: www.paypal.me/CherylR999/10.

For reasons of respecting personal privacy our general meetups are not recorded, unless we have a guest speaker that requests it and then releases will be required.

Masters of Tarot is a magical weekend that takes tarot education to a very high level. Cheryl will endeavor, in the relatively short time allocated to a meetup session, to convey the core of the tarot wisdom and practice she acquires at this year's fabulous Masters of Tarot conference. You are encouraged to visit the web sites of the teachers, read their books, and practice their lessons.

Here are the instructors who presented the Master Classes for 2025:

# Mary K. Greer

http://marykgreer.com
Mary Greer is an independent scholar, writer, teacher, and professional tarot consultant, known for her innovative teaching techniques. With nearly 50 years of experience, she is the author of 11 books on tarot and on magic, including the groundbreaking, Tarot for Your Self. Recipient of the International Tarot Lifetime Achievement Award, the Mercury Award, and the COVR award for best divination book, Greer is featured at conferences and workshops in the United States and abroad.
A grandmaster of the American Tarot Association, she is a member of numerous tarot organizations, and is featured at tarot conferences and symposia around the world. Greer also has a wide following in the women’s and pagan communities for her work in women’s spirituality and magic. An Arch Priestess-Hierophant in the Fellowship of Isis, she is founder of the Iseum of Isis Aurea. She is also the recipient of the 2007 International Tarot Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2006 Mercury Award from the Mary Redman Foundation for “excellence in communication in the metaphysical field.”
Greer is the author of nine books on tarot and magic, including the classic Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation, and a scholarly biography of four 19th-century women magicians, Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses. The Essence of Magic: Tarot, Ritual, and Aromatherapy is her work on magical aromatherapy and Mary K. Greer’s 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card, won the Coalition of Visionary Resources Award for best divination book.
An independent scholar, Mary Greer has a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Central Florida, where she first taught tarot in 1974. She was also a faculty member and administrator of New College of California in San Francisco for 11 years. She currently lives in Northern California.

# Carolyn Cushing

https://soulpathsanctuary.com
Carolyn Cushing is a tarot practitioner, poet, and seeker of justice. Through Soul Path Sanctuary, she offers spiritual mentoring, tarot sessions, and online and in-person offerings to attune to the wisdom of sun and moon in their seasonal shifting. Carolyn has been a guest teacher at the Northwest Tarot Symposium, HATHOR Forum, Twin Cities Tarot Collective, and Gaian Tarot Circle; and co-created rituals annually at Readers Studio, the largest and longest running international tarot conference. Her tarot practices and writing are included in The Gaian Tarot Companion Guide and Tarot for Troubled Times. She is cofounder of the Massachusetts Tarot Society.

Carolyn has been Rachel Pollack’s student and collaborator since 1999. Rachel’s Shining Tribe guided Carolyn through the underworld experience of her partner’s sudden death and, since then, Carolyn has studied The Raziel with Rachel privately. Together they have guided groups through dynamic experiences of the tarot as Circles of Healing and Wholeness, the Oracular Body, and the Magic Hidden in the Cards.

# Sasha Graham

http://sashagraham.com

#### Sasha Graham is a world-renowned tarot expert, best-selling author, award-winning tarot deck creator, actor, and educator who teaches and lectures around the globe. Her work has been translated into more than 10 languages and she is the author of 12 books including Tarot Diva, 365 Tarot Spreads, 365 Tarot Spells, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot, The Magic of Tarot and Artist's Guide to Tarot.

She served as editor and writer of Lo Scarabeo’s Tarot Fundamentals, Tarot Experience, and Tarot Compendium, Dark Side of Tarot & Tarot Original 1909 series. Graham is a contributing author of Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, 2020, 2022, and 2024, Witches’ Datebook 2022 and 2024 and Llewellyn’s Witches’ Calendar, 2021 and 2023. Her tarot decks include Tarot of Haunted House, Dark Wood Tarot, Tarot of the Witch's Garden and the forthcoming Gothic Glamour Oracle and Vampire Tarot. Graham is an indie horror actress and host/creator of a monthly, live, crowd-sourced creepy story share and podcast called Sasha Graham's Ghost Stories by the Fire.

# Mark Horn

http://www.gatesoflighttarot.com

Mark Horn may be the only person who has taught at both the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Readers’ Studio International Tarot Conference. He is the author of Tarot and the Gates of Light: A Kabbalistic Path to Liberation, an innovative, spiritual workbook that has won praise from two groups that don’t usually agree—both respected rabbis and recognized tarot experts.
He has studied Kabbalah with academic, rabbinic, and practical teachers in organizations ranging from the highly respected to the highly unorthodox. And he has studied tarot with many of today’s most authoritative teachers. Myth, midrash, and sacred story from many traditions have always been central to his teaching of Kabbalistic tarot. He has taught at conferences such as StaarCon, the Northwest Tarot Symposium, and at meet-ups from Albuquerque to Tokyo, as well as at synagogues, including Romemu, Temple Beth-El of City Island, and The Village Shul.

# Ethony Dawn

https://www.ethony.com

Ethony Dawn is an author, tarot teacher, reader, and high priestess. She is the author of Your Tarot Court and Tarot Grimoire, both published through Llewellyn. She independently created and published several tarot and oracle decks, including the Cosmic Wisdom Tarot, Modern Love Tarot, Penumbra Tarot, Awakened Soul Oracle, and the Modern Goddess Oracle. Ethony is headmistress of the Tarot Readers Academy, which teaches people the art of reading the cards globally. She also created an online eclectic modern witchcraft coven, The Awakened Soul Coven, which has been running since 2016. Ethony is a child of the 80s, who loves Halloween, Care Bears, and the ocean.