Biblical bad girl, Queen
Jezebel, worshipped a tree goddess called Asherah, mentioned forty times in the
Hebrew Bible. Ancient Israelites performed ritual “on every high hill and under
every green tree” — an expression that occurs in the Bible fifteen times. Trees
feature in the narratives about Abraham, who set up altars under sacred trees,
and Moses, who spoke to Yahweh in the form of a burning bush. The most famous trees
of the Bible are the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of
Life in the Garden of Eden.
With all this tree
worship, how did humanity became so divorced from nature that it caused its own
geological epoch called the Anthropocene? Join Dr Caroline Tully in a workshop that
looks at the environmental aspects of ancient Mediterranean religion, and ways
that we can realign with the natural world today. We will also look at the tree
as a conceptual map in Kabbalah, the relationship of the Tarot to the Tree of
Life, and how we can return to Eden through scrying the Tarot trumps or pathworking.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own Tarot cards (but it’s not
essential).
Caroline has a background
in various traditions of witchcraft and magic/k and is also an academic who
studies ancient Mediterranean Pagan religions and their manifestation in the
modern world.
28 March 2020
11 am to 2 pm at Muses of Mystery
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