CTS 2022 Year in Review

 CTS's members are looking forward to our annual holiday potluck party and gift swap coming up December 3!

In the meantime, it's fun to look back on everything we accomplished over the past year, especially as this was a time of serious transition and we rose to meet the challenge.  Earlier this year, as we emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided as a group to experiment with a hybrid meeting schedule (alternating virtual and in-person every other month) and learned to manage the logistics pretty seamlessly.  Members continued to step up and design great online presentations for our virtual meetings, including some topics that leveraged the virtual format and could not have been done in-person.  Meanwhile, it was great to start seeing each other in-person again.

This year we met in person to read for each other, show-and-tell our favorite tarot books, and give away a number of free decks kindly sent to us by a past CTS member who had moved away.  Online presentations spanned all kinds of interesting topics like tips for giving romantic readings, Jungian principles in the tarot, active listening as an important tarot skill, and using our astrological sun and moon signs to identify teacher and coach cards in the tarot deck.

We also used one of our online meetings to get together to collectively design a tarot card together using a photo editing phone app and screen sharing.  We also used the breakout rooms feature in Zoom to engage in comparative reading exercises (which allowed for structure, quiet and privacy in a way that meeting in-person to read for each other never could).

We are currently working on our presentation schedule for 2023, which will continue to follow an alternating virtual and in-person meeting format.  It will be exciting to see what types of presentations and activities our members will cook up!