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About this episode:
Adrien Mastrosimone has been reading tarot for over 30 years, buying his first Marseille deck from Grimaud as a young teen.
Dancing the Tarot is Adrien's proprietary workshop method, a powerful fusion of tarot reading, systemic family constellation, somatic healing, and physical embodiment. In this episode, he walks us through exactly how it works, what surprised him about it, and why he describes the space he creates not as a safe space, but as a brave space.
What we cover:
- What Dancing the Tarot actually is, and what happens in a session
- Why some cards are easy to embody (The Empress, The Emperor) and some take the room somewhere else entirely (The Moon, The Hanged Man)
- The Temperance card exercise: fill a glass with water, pour it into another glass for five minutes, and discover what the card actually means in your body
- Which card Adrien is working on embodying himself this year, and why
- His partner: a doctor of experimental physics, published in Nature, who attends tarot café with his own little deck
- The tarot café Adrien runs in Vienna, and why mathematicians and biologists keep showing up
- His upcoming retreats: a three-day Alice in Wonderland tarot retreat in Unstone, England, and a planned tarot retreat in Greece in 2027
- His talk at Pandemonium: the esoteric coding of gender in the Marseille tarot
- A new webinar series on retrograde planets with an astrologer collaborator (starting with Venus retrograde)
- The divide in the esoteric community, and a clear-eyed, hopeful take on where it comes from
- AI and tarot: where it helps, where it doesn't, and the one thing he tells everyone never to do
- Growing up as the weird kid in a Sicilian Catholic family in France — and buying his first tarot deck with saved-up change
Find Adrien:
- Website: search Adrien Mastrosimone
- Instagram: @adrien.mastrosimone
Mentioned in this episode:
- Dancing the Tarot workshops
- Systemic family constellation
- The Marseille Tarot (Grimaud edition)
- Smith-Waite / Rider-Waite-Smith tarot
- House of Zophiel (retreat co-organizers)
- Pandemonium conference, UK (September)
- Venus retrograde webinar (October, with astrologer collaborator)
- Tarot Culture Conference
- The lyre — instrument of Apollo, created by Hermes
- Triboelectric charging (Nature publication)
- Kabbalah / Tree of Life
Keywords: Dancing the Tarot, Adrien Mastrosimone, embodiment tarot, somatic healing tarot, systemic family constellation, tarot workshop, transpersonal coaching, Marseille tarot, tarot embodiment, tarot retreat Greece, tarot retreat UK, Alice in Wonderland tarot, Pandemonium tarot conference, Venus retrograde webinar, Confessions of a Tarot Reader, tarot and the body
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