A 3  WEEK WORKSHOP WITH STEPHANIE SMITH

The Tarot of The Artist's Way

A Three-Week Exploration of Tarot, Writing & the Creative Life

November 2nd—November 20th

What if a Tarot card could help you see your creative life differently?

The Artist’s Way gives us a language for so many of the things that shape our creativity: synchronicity. Inner critics. Creative wounds. Play. Resistance. Trust. The strange and sometimes terrifying act of letting something new emerge.

Tarot has a language for those things, too.

What happens when we put these two creative languages next to each other and see what sparks?

The Tarot of The Artist’s Way brings them together for three weeks of writing, reflection, curiosity, and creative exploration.

Three times each week, we'll explore one idea from The Artist's Way alongside a Tarot card whose archetype, imagery, or "medicine" offers us another way into it.

You don't need to be working your way through The Artist's Way.
You don't need to know how to read Tarot.
You don’t need to be a professional writer.

You just need a deck, something to write with, and a little curiosity.

I WANT IN!

We're not asking the cards to predict what happens next. We're asking them to help us pay attention.

Each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you'll receive a short exploration pairing a creative principle from The Artist's Way with a Tarot archetype.

We'll look at what that card might have to teach us about the creative life—about things like resistance, pleasure, loss, possibility, trust, our inner child, limiting stories, and creative upheaval.

Then you'll take it to the page.

You'll receive a writing prompt connected to the day's theme, along with an invitation to pull a card of your own: perhaps a tool you need, an energy to work with, or an anchor for whatever you're exploring.

The card isn't there to give you the answer.

It's there to give you somewhere interesting to begin.

WHAT YOU'LL RECEIVE

✨ Nine Tarot + Creativity Explorations
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you'll receive a short reading pairing an Artist's Way concept with a Tarot card/archetype, plus a writing prompt and optional card pull.

✨ Three Live Zoom Gatherings
Once each week, we'll come together to write, pull cards, talk about what we're noticing, explore the week's themes, and connect. Attendance is always optional. 

✨ A Private Community Space
Share your cards, writing, questions, discoveries, and "OF COURSE I pulled that card" moments—or quietly follow along. Both count.

✨ A Creative Practice You Can Actually Fit Into Your Life
Three invitations per week. Follow all nine, skip one, fall behind, come back. There is no Tarot homework police.

I WANT IN!

THIS IS FOR YOU IF...

  • You love The Artist's Way (or have been meaning to read it for years…) and want a new way to explore its ideas.
  • You're Tarot-curious and want to learn through archetypes, reflection, and experience rather than memorizing 78 definitions.
  • You already read Tarot and want to bring your cards more deeply into your writing or creative practice.
  • You're feeling creatively stuck, restless, tender, curious, or ready for something new.
  • You want a structured creative practice without committing to another enormous project.
  • You like the idea of letting a card become a doorway into a question you didn't know you needed to ask.
  • You are a writing prompt enthusiast and could use some new material.

This isn't a Tarot certification course, and it isn't fortune telling.

It's a creative practice.

Tarot gives us the archetype.
The Artist's Way gives us the framework.
Writing helps us discover what it means for us.

Two options to join us.

THIS WORKSHOP

$119

Get the Zoom link and join us live—a recording with handouts will be emailed.

Join the workshop →
THIS WORKSHOP + 1:1 SESSION

$219

Get access to this workshop as well as a 1:1 session with Stephanie.

I want all the goods!
 

Meet your instructor

Steph Smith Sprenger

Steph is a writer, editor, podcaster, and producer whose work centers on helping women reconnect with themselves through writing. She is the founder of The Pause, editor-in-chief of THREE literary magazine, co-producer of Listen to Your Mother Boulder, and author of the forthcoming memoir Nostalgia Junkie. 
 

Steph's essays have been published in O Magazine, The Washington Post, Brain, Child Magazine, Scary Mommy, Mutha Magazine, The Huffington Post, and other places.

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