Deep Calls to Deep
A Tarot Cultivation Circle with Selah Saterstrom
Sliding Scale: $1500 - $3000 | Payment plans available
September 13 - December 20, 2026 | Limited Enrollment
Zoom classes are held on Sundays:
September 13, 27
October 11, 25
November 15, 29
December 6, 20
Practice Reading Circle (The Fake Ass Tonyas): November 8
Join live on Zoom or enjoy asynchronously:
10 am - 12 pm PT
11 am - 1 pm MT
12 pm - 2 pm CT
1 pm - 3 pm ET
For tarot readers with at least one year of experience who feel the call to move into a more profound, structured, relational, embodied, and rigorous practice.
Taught in a Southern, family-style tradition and shaped by nearly thirty years of private practice.
What is Included
🌼 8 Zoom Classes | 16 hours total | Replays instantly available in a beautifully curated private course portal
🔮 A Custom Divination by Selah
🎧 Two Q&A Sessions a Month | 6 Total
💃 Tarot Reading Practice Session: The Fake-Ass Tonyas | 2 hours
📚 The Bonus Library
📆 Monthly Office Hours | three 1:1 opportunities to meet with Selah
🌿 A Special Gift from the Four Queens Apothecary
👯♀️ Reading Exchange Program
Sliding scale: $1,500–$3,000
Payment plans available.
This circle is expected to fill quickly. A waitlist will be available.
I invite you to choose the rate that feels right in relation to your current resources, and in recognition of the value of this work.
$3000 most reflects the cost of offering the course in terms of time, labor, and resources. Contributing at the higher end helps make this space possible for others and is greatly appreciated.
Upon submitting this form, Selah will email you directly to setup your payment. Once your first payment is received, your place in the course is secured.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions, or to schedule a 15-minute Zoom call.
What is Included
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This is not a series of standalone classes, but a carefully structured arc that unfolds with intention toward advanced practice. Each session builds on the last, deepening your relationship to the cards and to your own ways of knowing.
All classes are recorded and made available immediately after each session in a curated private course portal—a thoughtfully designed, dedicated space for the group, rich with additional materials to support your practice as it develops and deepens.
Across four months, we move through:
Month One
Cultivating Intuition: The Restoration of Inner Authority and the Reclamation of Agency
Month Two
Advanced Divination Theory: Building the Temple and The Art of Sacred Composition
Month Three
The Queens: The Four Forms of Erotic Intelligence
Month Four
Advanced Practice: Reading Across Thresholds in Collaboration with the Unseen
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As part of your experience, you’ll receive an asynchronous divination regarding your intuitive gifts and divinatory trajectory. This is a divination session designed to offer you intuitive guidance, innovative strategies, and visionary frameworks to support your work specifically as a diviner.
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Inside the course portal, you’ll have access to our private Ask a Diviner audio series. Twice each month, I’ll record a podcast-style episode engaging your questions on all aspects of tarot and divination—no question is off the table! These episodes are meant to deepen our work together while creating a parallel space for ongoing inquiry.
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Who is Tonya?
Around twenty years ago, we invented a fictional client as a way to practice reading. Somewhere along the way, she became known as “Fake-Ass Tonya”—though no one can quite remember how or why! This is an informal space to read spreads together, exchange techniques and insight, and think collectively about what the cards are doing. We practice in real time and somehow Tonya’s messages tend to resonate with everyone in the room.
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You’ll have access to a thoughtfully curated collection of video, audio, and written materials that extend and deepen the core curriculum. Drawn from over two decades of practice and teaching, these materials offer both conceptual grounding and practical insight. Designed to support your work from multiple angles, this is a resource you can return to as your practice evolves.
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Each month, I offer extended online office hours with opportunities for 25-minute, one-on-one sessions. This is a dedicated space to bring your questions and thinking to the table and offers focused, individualized support within the larger arc of the course.
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As a living apothecary, our inventory is ever-evolving, with carefully selected rare and precious ingredients. We create small-batch, limited-edition ritual formulas in a family-style Southern divinatory tradition. For over twenty years, our oils, ritual baths, and other ritual products have been beloved for their compelling aromas, enjoyable effects, and potent energetic qualities.
Our products are born at the crossroads of divination, ceremonial herbal practice, and Southern family recipes and our ingredients are ethically sourced and harvested by ourselves and our allies.
All blends are made in ritual space and each creation contains sacred herbs, roots, flowers or other ingredients to that correspond to the energetic signature of the recipe.
As a living apothecary, our offerings are ever evolving, shaped by carefully selected rare and precious ingredients. We create small-batch, limited-edition ritual formulas within a Southern, family-style divinatory tradition. For over twenty years, our ritual oils, baths, and other preparations have been beloved for their compelling aromas and potent energetic qualities.
Our work emerges at the crossroads of divination, ceremonial herbal practice, and Southern family practice. Ingredients are ethically sourced and gathered by our own hands and through trusted relationships. Each blend is prepared in ceremonial space.
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If you’d like to exchange readings with a circlemate, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in our Reading Exchange Program. Participants are paired with another reader for a reciprocal exchange, with simple guiding parameters provided to support the process.
MONTH ONE
Cultivating Intuition: The Restoration of Inner Authority and the Reclamation of Agency
I’ve held a professional divination practice for nearly thirty years, and I hear the same desire voiced again and again: a wish for greater confidence, a deeper trust in one’s intuition.
There are strategies for this, and I teach them. The tools I offer are sound, refined over decades of devoted practice, and designed to support intuitive intelligence. But I’ve learned that when someone says, “I want more confidence. I want to trust my intuition,” it is often a long-distance call from the part of them still carrying the wounds of broken trust.
For many of us, this rupture has been lived. We know what it means to be interrupted, dismissed, gaslit, disbelieved, minimized—by institutions, families, medical and legal systems, pedagogical frameworks, abusers, and culture itself. Over time, trust in our own knowing can erode as a survival response to repeated forms of silencing and erasure.
When we speak of confidence, we are often pointing to the capacity to remain in relationship with one’s own knowing, even when it runs counter to dominant logics, but when that relationship has been fractured, no method—however refined—can restore intuition without first reckoning with the conditions that made that disconnection necessary.
What’s at stake is not confidence as a reward for being good enough. What’s at stake is the reclamation of inner agency and the capacity to speak about invisible matters with authority. The work, then, is not to accumulate more technique, but to restore the conditions for self-sovereignty. This is where we begin.
MONTH TWO
Advanced Divination Theory: Building the Temple and the Art of Sacred Composition
In Month Two, we turn toward the theory of divination, cultivating a practice capable of holding the process with precision, care, and integrity. What is divination? What is a reading, structurally speaking? And what are our responsibilities to the divinatory process as practitioners? How do we exit the divinatory field—closing the experience with clarity, coherence, and ethical care?
Drawing on the logic of the rhizome, we will approach the cards as a network of relations where meaning emerges across the divinatory field. We will then deepen our capacity to remain with the movement of divinatory thought as it branches, doubles back, and unfolds through language.
What becomes possible here is not (only) a more “accurate” reading, but one attuned to the ways knowledge emerges through relation, where the reading itself becomes an act of sacred storytelling.
We will then turn to the question of the container within which a reading takes place. How is this temporary sanctuary shaped and sustained? It is here that one begins to move from simply pulling cards to becoming a practitioner.
A divinatory reading is not neutral. It is a constructed space—one that must be capable of holding complexity, vulnerability, and transformation without collapsing into overreach or projection. This requires attention to boundaries and the discipline to remain in relationship with what is unfolding, rather than forcing meaning.
During this month, we will also take up the work of pedagogy: our offering, which is to say: what we place, deliberately, on the altar of the world as diviners. This is our gift—the fruit of our efforts. This involves developing our curriculum, often shaped by divinatory logic itself. It also asks that we speak the work with clarity and rigor, even within spaces that question or refuse its legitimacy.
During this month, we also take up the work of pedagogy: our offering—what we place, deliberately, on the altar of the world as diviners. This is our gift, the fruit of sustained attention and practice. It involves shaping a curriculum guided by divinatory logic and developing the capacity to speak the work with clarity and rigor, even in spaces that question or refuse its legitimacy.
MONTH THREE
The Queens: The Four Forms of Erotic Intelligence
In Month Three, we turn to the four queens of the tarot as distinct erotic structures, each organizing a mode of embodied knowing and constellating a unique configuration of erotic knowledge.
Through the queens, we will approach the body as a dynamic system of perception, with particular attention to how the nervous system registers safety and threat, how meaning is carried in tension, release, impulse, and pause, and how sustained attention to these patterns refines our capacity to discern.
Following Audre Lorde, here the erotic names a deep current of knowledge: a register of truth carried in the body and a cultivated capacity for attunement, relation, and contact. This work expands our ability to feel with greater safety and range—not by resolving contradiction, but by increasing our tolerance for what remains unresolved and mysterious. It asks us to stay with intensity without retreat, to resist numbing, and to recognize the body as a legitimate citational source.
MONTH FOUR
Advanced Practice: Reading Across Thresholds in Collaboration with the Unseen
In our final month, we move into advanced practice, where the work extends beyond the visible field of the spread and into relation with what cannot be seen, but can be encountered.
This includes working with kindred invisible presences, the dead, and the uncanny field where divination “happens.” We will explore approaches for recognizing contact, establishing ethical parameters, and maintaining clarity when engaging across these thresholds.
Alongside this, we turn inward to the concept of the “deck within.” The cards remain, but they are no longer the sole site of meaning. Instead, we begin to recognize how images, impressions, and patterns arise—internally, and at times externally—and how the reader becomes a responsive instrument, capable of registering and organizing insight from within the field itself.
What emerges is a practice that is both expanded and grounded: a practice able to engage the unseen without losing coherence, a practice able to draw from one’s internal knowing without collapsing into self-reference.
About Selah
Selah Saterstrom is a writer and diviner who practices a Southern family-style of card reading and for nearly thirty years, she has offered divinatory guidance within her communities. She is the author of five books, including Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, which has garnered widespread acclaim. A respected consultant and educator, she teaches, lectures, and facilitates workshops and seminars across the United States and internationally. With Kristen E. Nelson, she co-founded Four Queens Divination and co-hosts The Janky Church Podcast. At the heart of Selah’s work is the belief that divination and radical creativity are liberation practices. She lives on Vashon Island in the Pacific Northwest with her wife and daughter.
Sliding scale: $1,500–$3,000
Payment plans available.
This circle is expected to fill quickly. A waitlist will be available.
I invite you to choose the rate that feels right in relation to your current resources, and in recognition of the value of this work.
$3000 most reflects the cost of offering the course in terms of time, labor, and resources. Contributing at the higher end helps make this space possible for others and is greatly appreciated.
Upon submitting this form, Selah will email you directly to setup your payment. Once your first payment is received, your place in the course is secured.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions, or to schedule a 15-minute Zoom call.
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