The Queens of the Tarot

The Four Forms of Erotic Intelligence

A Tarot Cultivation Circle with Selah Saterstrom

Sliding Scale: $2000 - $4200 | Payment plans available

January 10 – June 6, 2027 | Limited Enrollment

Zoom classes are held on Sundays:

  • January 10, 24

  • February 14, 21

  • March 7, 21

  • April 4, 18

  • May 2, 16, 30

  • June 6

  • Fake Ass Tonyas Practice Circle: March 14

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

🌼 12 Zoom Classes | 24 hours total | Replays instantly available in a beautifully curated private course portal

🔮 A Custom Divination by Selah

🎧 One Q&A Sessions a Month | 6 Total

💃 Tarot Reading Practice Session: The Fake-Ass Tonyas | 2 hours

📚 The Bonus Library

📆 Monthly Office Hours | Six opportunities to meet with Selah

🌿 A Special Gift from the Four Queens Apothecary

👯‍♀️ Reading Exchange Program

Sliding scale: $2,000–$4,200

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.

$4200 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.

The Four Queens of the tarot—the Queen of Cups, the Queen of Swords, the Queen of Pentacles, and the Queen of Wands—can be understood as distinct erotic structures, each organizing a mode of embodied knowing and giving shape to a particular form of erotic intelligence. Each queen offers a unique way of perceiving the erotic: a configuration of attention, sensation, and relation through which knowledge becomes available and carried forward through the body.

The erotic is the very ground of a divinatory practice. It is what allows a reading to remain responsive to what exceeds it, to hold contact without collapsing into certainty, and to stay accountable to what is encountered.

Through the queens, we approach the body and its often mysterious interoiroty as a dynamic system of perception. We will attend closely to how the nervous system tracks safety and threat, how meaning moves through tension, release, impulse, and pause, and how sustained attention to these patterns sharpens our ability to discern: divining is an act of interpretation, and it is also an act of attunement: a disciplined responsiveness to what is already in motion within the field.

This work expands our capacity to feel with greater safety and range—not by resolving contradiction, but by increasing our capacity to feel into what remains unresolved and mysterious. It asks us to stay with intensity without retreat, to resist numbing, and to develop the discernment necessary to differentiate signal from projection. Over time, the body emerges as a legitimate citational source as well as a site of empowered and radical encounter.

What is Included

  • This is not a collection of standalone classes, but a carefully structured arc that moves with intention into advanced practice.

    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.

  • 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.

  • Inside the course portal, you’ll have access to our private Ask a Diviner audio series. Once a 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Schedule at a Glance

Month One

  • The Erotics of Divination

Month Two

  • The Queen of Cups: The Cosmic Sea of Bliss

Month Three

  • The Queen of Swords: The Space Between Mercy and Please

Month Four

  • The Queen of Pentacles: The Body that Pleases Itself

Month Five

  • The Queen of Wands: The Bed As Altar

Month Six

  • The Body Oracle Map & Advanced Theory and Technique

Selah Saterstrom with long, wavy hair and a patterned blouse, with a blue and purple color filter effect.
Selah Saterstrom with long, wavy hair and a patterned blouse, with a blue and purple color filter effect.

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: $2,000–$4,200

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.

$4200 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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