The Magick of Tea: Blue Mysteries, Creativity and Cartomancy
Two-part series
Live-stream
and in-person out of Mimi’s home in Steveston (Richmond, BC)
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2025
SATURDAY, JUNE 14,2025
10AM - 3PM PST
Saturday, June 7, 2025 and Saturday, June 14, 2025 | From 10AM - 3PM PST
This is an intimate, hybrid event, with live-stream spots (with recordings) and in-person spots at Mimi’s home in Steveston (Richmond).
**In-Person Spots are now SOLD OUT
Live-stream (with recording) has availability
Learn cartomancy playing card meanings and the secrets and spiritual meaning of the colour blue, all in a healing container of art facilitation.
Blending the intimacy of art facilitation with the depth of a creative retreat, this 2-part hybrid experience invites you into a regenerative container for expression, ritual, and resilience.
Mobility Notice: Please note for those attending in-person, we will be utilizing both tables and floors as working surfaces. For those participating via live-stream, please ensure you have a workspace for art making and card reading.
Blue is a colour of non-binaries—calm yet igniting, soothing yet commanding, reflective yet initiatory—it is both wave and particle. It has long been associated with wisdom, protection, and transformation, appearing in sacred garments and amulets, fine porcelain, and the depths of the sea and sky. In this two-part day retreat, we will explore blue’s archetypal presence through creative process, occult practice, and the personhood of Tea.
Through guided art-making and divination, we will craft our own personal playing cards—each infused with intention, symbolism, and the presence of blue. Within cartomancy (divining with cards), we will work with playing cards instead of Tarot, engaging with the four suits, the Joker, and the numerology within the deck. Tea, known for its ability to shift perception and open the senses, will be both a material and a ritual tool, deepening our practice of listening, seeing, and creating.
This journey invites you to work with blue as an ally, helping to build resilience where it feels fractured, offering clarity where there is obscurity, and attuning us to the liminality of change.
2-Part Day Retreat Schedule
This two-part day retreat is an invitation to slow down, tune in, and engage with blue as a living presence—one that speaks through ink, pigment, collage, carrying messages between worlds.
Day 1: Blue as Initiation, Identity & The 4 Suits
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST (45-minute lunch break; bring your own lunch)
A brief presentation on the history and significance of blue across cultures—its role in sacred objects, garments, and art—with artifacts, visuals, and other examples.
Discussion on blue’s association with identity, initiation, and altered states of perception (the spiritual meaning of blue).
Introduction to playing cards as a system of divination.
Creating personal playing cards—working with the four suits as elemental and symbolic forces.
Tea as a conduit: sipping, scrying, and listening through the presence of liquid.
Fine teas, kombuchas, and herbal tisanes will be provided.
Day 2: The Trickster, The Royals & Divining
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST (45-minute lunch break; bring your own lunch)
Deepening our art-making practice with blue’s presence, completing our deck.
Exploring the role of the Joker—the Trickster, the Fool, and the liminal guide, and the Jack, Queen, and King archetypes
Introduction to cartomancy: reading with playing cards and working intuitively beyond Tarot.
Divination exercises using our self-created deck.
Closing ritual: invoking blue as an ally in our ongoing journey.
Fine teas, kombuchas, and herbal tisanes will be provided.
Highlights:
A delightful selection of Teas and their spirits, both physically and energetically reflecting artfulness, inspiration, healing, and the approaching winter season.
Step into ease, fun, and for your busy mind to rest. Be open to spiritual healing. No experience in healing art or collage work is necessary!
The invitation to divinate or foretell from the cards you create, in a helpfully structured container that is rooted in the time-tested tradition of reading with playing cards, including learning cartomancy playing card meanings.
Mimi will also share mini spirit readings for each ticket holder (in-person and live-stream).
Please have the following supplies available:
pen and paper
blue ink pens, blue markers, blue watercolour paints and fine tipped brushes
old magazines that can be cut up
scissors
X-acto blade with ruler
glue stick
A bagged lunch that requires no prep or stovetop heating (a microwave will be available for optional reheating for in-person attendees)
tea and teaware of choice (for online attendees)
Mimi will also have a limited quantity of supplies on hand.
A note for live-stream attendees: Once you have signed up, Zoom login details will be emailed to you within 24 hours. All live-stream ticket holders will be sent a replay link via email within 48 hours after the course, and the content is available only within 48 hours of distribution. It is the responsibility of the ticket holder to download the contents within the 48 hours onto your device so that you will have the recording in perpetuity.
*Given the nature of the type of deep work we get into during these sessions, and out of respect for the entire group, we ask that participants are 16 years of age and up.
TICKETS
In-person investment for 2 days (10 hours total, includes break) - $298 USD (sold out)
Live-stream investment for 2 days (8.5 hours total, not factoring break) - $198 USD
Pricing is per person.
If you're anticipating the company of a friend for the event, kindly ask them to support this small business by registering as well.
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