How can we relate with death and loss so as to re-enchant our life?

Mourning is a much traveled but lonely road. It leads us through shadowy waters, without a map or means of communicating with the outside world. As Iris Murdoch put it, in her novel An Accidental Man, “the bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.” This is the realm of the moon. In that cyclical, reflected light, there are ominous, ambiguous shapes but also beguiling enchantments. Grief is an experience of unfolding to all of this.

How do we construct a language for our grief? Describe the indescribable? Will that help us heal?

I started The Moon Unfolded after using tarot to help heal the losses in my life. As a reflection of the unconscious mind, tarot cards are like dreams; they draw on a language of symbolic archetypes that is both universal and extremely personal, through which we can articulate the grief process.

The cards are like apertures, windows to new ways of thinking. They can illuminate life patterns, blockages, and outlooks, and suggest remedies and new narratives, through which we can transmute energy. It is through the act of looking and interpreting that we begin to apply a creative lens to the grief process.

My tarot practice is multimodal, braiding my interests in dreams, myth, astrology, botanical wisdom, somatics, and expressive arts, particularly poetry.

Who is The Moon Unfolded for?

Anyone who has lost someone or something important to them, who is seeking to imaginatively observe the experience of loss in a compassionate space, open to what unfolds.