Rachel Okna

About

Sessions are held via Zoom, unless you are London-based, then we can talk about one on one sessions.

|| I take appointments- On WEDNESDAYS FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS.||

A refreshing approach to exploring the Tarot.

My fascination & focus for the last six years has been exploring the Tarot through a bloodied schematic lens, through the patterns/behaviours/narratives, we repeat over and over. I dig for evidence in history, art and psychology, and I pull cards to form a union between the somatic and the symbolic; to create and forage for language embedded and connected to our base desires.

As I’m predominantly a storyteller, if there’s a myth, ancient, astrological (including your astrology placements), and beyond, please feel free to mention it in your booking email. Perhaps we will unfold why these stories you can’t forget linger on in you.

I have linked my tarot blog, that unearths archetypes and covers a new schema in depth each month, if you'd like a deeper overview of how I work with the Tarot.

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For thousands of years, indigenous peoples of Arctic tribes have entered the sacred space of spiritually charged traditions meeting the earthly performative ritual of skin-stitched tattoos. Painfully applied patterns constructed a visual language that exposed and anchored the recipient’s desires and fears, displaying personal accomplishments whilst wreathing ancient ancestral symbols and sinking cultural values into the body. Much like Tattoo, the Tarot can visually transmute a deep internal connection to our own visceral truths.

Shuffling the cards, we enter a timeless space, an alchemical kitchen opening to the philosophical traditions that span over four millennia.

A spread can create a thought provoking visual mosaic or be a screen to project new visions, reflections, and old shadows onto. It can recharge intuitive neural pathways, recapturing the Western imagination from the clutches of suspicion and unchallenged rationalism. Reawakening the parts in us with the audacity to know somatically.

The Slovenian word, Okna describes the process of rivers under land creating a window through stone. The cards may poke at interiors or shift external structures within our lives, giving us new windows to observe things from.

Russian Director, Andrei Tarkovsky thought, like Swiss Psychoanalyst Carl Jung, that striking images, signifying the distinctly human could spark new images, capturing deeper emotional truths. In uncovering archetypal forms we can recover our connection to the busted flesh house of our bodies and psyches.

In a spread, we create the space to observe, question, grasp, shape, and move things around a bit.

The art of tarot as with all creative arts can also be seen as an experiment to leave an impression of ourselves in hopes that if it has meaning to us it will lend meaning to others. We are invited to open our intuitions and balance them with discernment, invoking critical thinking skills.

A tarot session can be a brief portal into the mythic; religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive historic man. Sessions can sharpen a light on our desires, loosening what we once thought to be mythical in this world.

We will become co-creators in a session, birthing new life to old, inflexible narratives, creating and strengthening, new ones or boiling them down to what is essential.

You will probably leave with more questions than you came with, sometimes that’s the medicine, rekindling a fire in our bellies and throats.

A session could bring you closer to your potential by hopefully revealing that you are capable of more than you think. That's the secret to potential. 

I’m not promising epiphanies or revelations. These Arcanum act as stimulants of the intellect. Part of my role in our sessions is to uncover some of its secrets. Yours is to be curious and honest.

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