The 16th Annual North Star Tarot Conference
Next Conference: May 17 - 19, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The North Star Tarot Conference is a step child of the Reader’s Studio in New York. After returning from New York in 2008, Nancy Antenucci and Melani Weber became part of a founder’s group to offer a conference closer to home. For many years, we held the conference in the dead of winter. We found great light in using that time to honor Bridgid and the Imbolc. A core group of dedicated tarot lovers developed for this weekend of a tarot immersion. Recently we moved to Modus Locus in Mpls and to Spring.
Our key presenters are wise teachers and well seasoned readers. This gathering has given birth to a deck, a book, theater presentations, and more. It is the catalyst as well for a year long look through our FB page to keep the exploration growing. North Star acts as a yearly infusion for those of us that read or study tarot mostly in seclusion.
Past presentations are varied and inspired, and include:
- The history of the numerical tarot cards for each year, presented by Jeannette Roth of Tarot Garden
- The Goddess Brigid
- One Card Readings
- Create your own 5-minute tarot deck
- Tarot on the Orient Express
- The Wheel of Fortune and the Medicine Wheel
- Hebrew & the Hermit
- Tarot Tour of Italy
- Tarot Shaman
May 13, 2024
In this year of the Star, Melani and I literally just decided that this is our last North Star Tarot Conference. Factors such as price and rent increases, our own resistance to returning to a hotel environment and personal life shifts have informed us that we can lead this one with comfort but future ones are not feasible. This one is the last jewel.
We go into the future with our February Human Be-In Cyber Events but will transform the conference into an intimate setting somewhere in beautiful Minnesota for 22 folks.
If you are so moved to do so, please send us a few sentences of any experience that stood out for you. We would post some on our web site but mainly she and I will read them to each other one night in our hotel room.
Love you all.
~Nance
The 16th Annual North Star Tarot Conference
During the weekend of May 17, 2024, we return around the tables to read the cards, make new friends, and rekindle spiritual and emotional relationships that are dear to us. Each North Star is a deep dive into the Tarot cards of the year. 2024 is the year of Justice, Star and sometimes Strength (2+0+2+4=8). Pretty telling of an election year although we ask for a space of neutrality in terms of politics and religion.
The environment is as enticing as the kindreds. We return to the Modus Locus Expansion at Art & Architecture; an artistic space full of beauty, light and comfortable spots to converse. There is an upper parking lot that provides access for all bodies.
TICKETS for the full weekend are $180.00. Or join us for just Saturday’s activities for $120.00. Friday night is our 5D Lounge which is free and open to the public!
Featuring: Workshops, tarot readings, arts & crafts, tarot games, a movie night, Sunday bonfire finale and more
(Event details subject to change. COVID Vaccination required. Saturday and Sunday events are 18+, Teens welcome with an adult at Friday events.)
HOTEL: Hampton Inn Mpls University is mere blocks away from the event. The Hampton (and it’s attached sister hotel, Home2 Suites) feature free breakfast, free wifi, free shuttle (limited range, need to reserve), and an attached restaurant. Our price is $139/night, and reservations need to be made by April 24. Parking is $22/day. A LIMITED number of rooms are available on Thursday night and Sunday night for folks who wish to stay an extra day in the Twin Cities.
Featured Presenter: T. Susan Chang.
Our key speaker for the conference is T. Susan Chang! Susie has been reading tarot for 27 years.
She is the author of: The Living Tarot: Connecting the Cards to Everyday Life for Better Readings (Llewellyn 2023), Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers (Llewellyn 2018), 36 Secrets: A Decanic Journey through the Minor Arcana of the Tarot (Anima Mundi 2021), and she co-authored Tarot Deciphered: Decoding Esoteric Symbolism in Modern Tarot (Llewellyn 2021).
She created and hosted, with Mel Meleen, the Fortune’s Wheelhouse Esoteric Tarot podcast, which explores imagery and symbolism in each card of Golden Dawn-based decks like the Rider Waite Smith and Thoth tarots.
She has been certified as a professional tarot reader by the American Tarot Association, offers online tarot readings and tarot mentorship sessions, and currently teaches the Living Tarot, an online tarot course for all levels of reader experience, to over 500 students. She has offered courses on tarot for Atlas Obscura, the Jung Platform, the Philadelphia Jung Society, and the Jung Society of Washington, and presented at the Omega Institute, StaarCon, The International Divination Event, Northwest Tarot Symposium, and other local tarot meetups and bookstores. She is also the creator of the Arcana Case® for tarot decks, which can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/tarotista, along with her line of astrological perfumes and tarot talismans, and she is a frequent podcast guest in the occult community.
Besides her work in tarot, she is the co-presenter of “Godsong: 365 Days with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey,” an online course with Jack Grayle. She writes occasional cookbook reviews for NPR and is the author of the 2011 food memoir A Spoonful of Promises; in the spring, she teaches an undergraduate course on “Writing about the Senses” for Smith College.
Her offerings, events, and blog posts can be found at www.tsusanchang.com. On Facebook she can be found at the Fortune’s Wheelhouse Academy group; on Instagram and Twitter she is @tsusanchang.
We can’t wait to meet, see, and tarot with you!
