This is not about prediction. Not about trends. It’s not even about tarot as we usually perceive it. This is about theatre. About movement. About stepping into your body’s inner stage and listening to what arises when the curtain lifts.

In 2018, on a small and special island, I met Stevie Bothor, a luminous artist, researcher, and the creator of a deeply intuitive tarot deck that would one day become part of a shared offering.

We were introduced through a friend, and from the very beginning, I felt the uniqueness of Stevie’s presence. Their work is not just artistic; it’s embodied, relational, and alive.

Stevie is the founder of PARADIS SAUVAGE – intrinsic performative research, based in Berlin. They explore through internalising and performing, surrounding themself with props (objects), space, their craft (embodiment), and fellow players (people). Their work lives and evolves through photography, text, drawing, and installations, which they call Zeiträume — time-spaces.

Starting in September 2025, Stevie will enter a 648-day exploration titled Otherness — a living inquiry into the aesthetic of aging otherness, shaped by 101 in-depth interviews with human beings socialized as female.

I’m deeply honored to be one of the voices contributing to this body of work, which will culminate in the creation of a garden rooted in these stories.

A Tarot Workshop Like No Other

Some time ago, we came together to host a workshop on Embodied Tarot, an experience that wove together Stevie’s performative language and my own body-based research.

It wasn’t about reading the future.
It wasn’t about symbols or spreads.
It was more like entering a stage.

Opening the deck became the entrance.
The cards face-down were the curtain.
The question we carried in our bodies was the script.

From Viewer to Actor

The people on the cards were the actors.
We were the audience.
But then something shifted.

The facial expressions, gestures, silences, and textures invited our senses.
Our own bodies began to respond,
not just observing, but feeling, remembering, moving.

We became the stage.
We became the players.

The inside of our bodies came into play
our organs, feelings, memories, sensations.
The boundaries between audience and actor blurred.

The tarot wasn’t something we looked at;
It became something we entered.

A Full-Body Engagement

When the curtain fell, when the cards were placed back in the box, we left the theatre.

But the play had changed us.

It lived on inside us.
In our way of walking, sensing, expressing.
In the way we listened to our inner theatre as we moved through the outside world.

This is Embodied Tarot.

Not a reading. Not a trend.
A happening.
A liberation of your inner repertoire.

What’s Next

The tarot continues to live inside my work, not as a fixed system, but as a fluid, embodied language I return to again and again.

Stevie and I are dreaming into future offerings that continue this exploration. Perhaps another Embodied Tarot workshop, or a gathering where the cards meet movement, voice, and touch.

If this speaks to you, I invite you to stay close through the journal, the newsletter, or in person.

The theatre is always there,
waiting for the next question to lift the curtain again.

CONTINUE TO EXPLORE