Laetitia Barbier: Pocketable Museum — Tarot as Creative Language and Mirror
In Episode 7 of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with Laetitia Barbier—tarot reader, writer, art historian, and longtime explorer of the strange, sacred life of images—to talk about tarot not as fortune-telling, but as a creative language.
The conversation begins with Barbier’s childhood in France and her encounter with her first deck in a tobacconist’s shop. From there, they explore Barbier’s lifelong relationship to images—their power to instruct and enchant—with museums as surrogate churches and the tarot deck as a “pocketable museum”: a portable world of symbols and archetypes…
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