Manhattan Tarot

We gather intermittently, like Brigadoon!

MANHATTAN TAROT RIDES AGAIN!
Free Meet & Greet
2024 WATCH THIS SPACE!
NH HOTEL MADISON AVENUE, NY
Find us to the left inside the main entrance.
Free with purchase of coffee or cocktail at the bar,
as hotel courtesy.
22 East 38th at Madison Avenue
6-7:30 pm

2023 We met in June, July, August, for good times with cards.

Renew our acquaintance and share our journeys in Tarot since before the pandemic! We are finding a meeting room for a new season of Tarot programs and adventures. Join us for renewal, if you are free this Independence Day.

New York State, NYC Five Boroughs, New Jersey, you are welcome to join us! Anyone may attend, and we meet in Manhattan~ Manhattan Tarot! We build real-world relationships and ongoing supportive community, for learning and pleasure. We also showcase the best international talent, established and rising stars.

Produced by Ferol Humphrey, Manhattan Tarot offers my best techniques in use of the Tarot in practical and contemplative settings~ Daily Life, Local, and World Community Life, and Eternal Life. Tarot can be very useful in the applied dynamics of daily living.

SOLD OUT~
Fri August 2, 2019
7 - 9:30pm $20
Joe Schippa Returns~
SOMATIC TAROT:
USING THE FELT SENSE
TO AMPLIFY MEANING IN READINGS

Community favorite Joe Schippa is a Founding Member and Guest Presenter of Manhattan Tarot. Joe's last sold out workshop, in August 2018, resulted in a thunderous call for more, and so here he is. It wasn't easy to catch him! Here is his description of what he will be teaching:

“As readers, at some point we put the little white book away and begin to use our intuition to guide our readings. Our interpretations, however, are still often influenced by what we have read (at least unconsciously) or learned from others. We can enhance our readings through the use of the felt sense, an internal source we can learn to access. Based on a technique used in somatic therapy, we will learn to locate the felt sense and use it to amplify our intuition in order to find new or additional meaning in our readings.”

ABOUT JOE:
Joe Schippa is a clinical and coaching psychologist with a post doctoral specialization in neuropsychology, as well as a conference presenter, school district administrator, and cabaret singer. An all-around warm guy, he is also brainy, and is going to bring that good material to YOU for your Tarot practice and life improvement.

So join us, as Manhattan Tarot explores ways in which Tarot, psychology, and the felt sense of the body come together in the best possible way. Get your ticket, and join us in our beautiful space.

SOLD OUT~
Fri July 5, 2019 7 - 9:30pm
THE VERY BASICS:
Love, Work, Money: A Study of Independence
with Ferol Humphrey

THE VERY BASICS, YOU SAY?
In this class we will took our cue from the July 4 holiday to consider what independence means on a personal basis, in the fields of endeavor most on everyone's minds: Love, Work, and Money. These time-honored topics are not trivial, but are the central theater of life, and all of us are concerned with them continuously.

Ferol Humphrey shared her Method to make this inquiry intelligent and productive, as well as fun. Friends were made in our 19 students, 5 of whom were new to the community. Progress was on the table! Manhattan Tarot is for Originality & Community. Join us next time!

SOLD OUT~
Fri March 1, 2019
Scott Martin
Brings the Tarot to Life!

Scott's generated DOUBLE our usual attendance. He will be back in 2019!

Scott Martin studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and holds an MFA in directing. He's performed and directed in community and regional theaters, summer stock, and the off-off-Broadway theater. Scott has appeared as a feature instructor in Kim Wilborn's Tarot Telesummits II & III, and is the author of Bringing the Tarot to Life: Embody the Cards Through Creative Exploration, Llewellyn 2017. He lives in Brooklyn Heights, NY.

SOLD OUT~
Fri Feb 1, 2019
FEROL HUMPHREY TAROT METHOD

Manhattan Tarot's first experience in our new venue took place on First Friday as usual. We had 20 participants, exactly as many as our tables would hold, and we had a blast. When we meet on Friday Mar 1, we will be prepared to seat 50!

This was living adventure~ Ferol Humphrey Tarot Method Using my Blurt Drill techniques we bridged feeling, thinking, intuition, and vocalization, long before we ever attempt to actually read the Tarot. Great progress was made, much practical learning occurred, folks told the truth about their experiences, and everyone laughed a lot.
Next time, why don't YOU come!

SOLD OUT~
FEROL HUMPHREY TAROT METHOD
Fri, Jan 4, 2019
For the 5th time in a row,
we sold out our 12-seat venue~

Manhattan Tarot Community 1st Friday
I flew into NYC to host this gathering.

SOLD OUT~
Fri Sept 21, 2018
3rd Fri Rockstars
Scott Martin's Tarot Theatre

Scott took us for a wonderful ride
into feeling and knowing Tarot.
A Manhattan Tarot favorite, Scott is better known to the world as a lifelong teacher of acting, who began Taroting in 2005. Receiving readings which proved inaccurate, and then a few mind-blowing readings about past and current-life dynamics, he was drawn to discover for himself how Tarot can actually HELP us.

Now, years later, Scott has his own book~ Bringing the Tarot to Life: Embody the Cards Through Creative Exploration~ which brings his distillation and insight, useful and relevant in our modern world. He offers us some of the best techniques from his career in acting and directing, for learning the Tarot. Did you know that the Waite Smith deck was created in an acting atmosphere? Yes indeed! Don't worry, you don't have to act, this is truly a Tarot book, and you will love it and learn lots!

Scott's techniques are for NON-ACTORS who read Tarot. The cards will open up to us in ways many of us had not considered before. It was GREAT!

WHAT IS MANHATTAN TAROT?

Welcome to Manhattan Tarot~
Vitality, Originality & Community.
I am your host, Ferol Humphrey.
Manhattan Tarot meets 1st Fridays in Murray Hill, in the context of modern and ancient Tarot. Join us!

I am a Tarotist, kabbalist, and esoterist with 35 years in study of world religions and spiritual systems, philosophy, mythology, Tarot, and the healing arts. I have a teaching Method and provide private tutoring and public classes, to lead people to further development and growth, for quality of life. I have offered local and international conference and convention Master Classes in Tarot and healing arts since 2006.

Manhattan Tarot~
I mainly create gatherings for creative development, community and originality. I like to bring people together for recreation, discovery, and enlivenment, so that they may go forth and live better lives. We focus on YOU, and what you are discovering and creating, and how we can do it together in community.

HOW WE WORK~
Manhattan Tarot meets in the New York New Church for large attendance, with smaller gatherings at my office in Murray Hill, Manhattan:

Ferol Humphrey
The Art of Wellness
141 East 35th Street
Suite 1, Ground K
New York, NY 10016
917-834-3901
Text or call if you are in the neighborhood
are unsure how to get into the building.

Manhattan Tarot meets quarterly in 2020. Stay tuned for announcements.

WHEN POSTED
1st Saturdays of each new quarter~
1st Saturdays are $40, prepaid. Registrations are non-refundable. This fee pays for our beautiful learning space in the New York New Church. Our casual gatherings are designed to engage the group as a collective, for inquiring about the basics of Tarot, showing decks, demonstrating new layouts, and asking about books and teachers. They are intended to be fun, and will feature my own body of work and Tarot educational experience. Come and join us!

WHEN POSTED
Quarterly Rockstars~
$60, prepaid. Registrations are non-refundable. Our guest presenters receive compensation for their work! These gatherings are for presentations by talented members, or teachers, creatives, therapists, scholars, and others (perhaps well-known!), who are interested in sharing techniques and theory with an enthusiastic mid-sized group.
Our Guest Presenters are noted at right.

All-day or Evening Workshops~
$65-$125+, these gatherings are for past Guest Presenters who want to take their game to a higher level or a larger group. I may teach some of these myself, and will co-present with well-known Tarotists who live in NYC, surrounds, or are here in town for other appearances. We will use a larger, classroom venue.

Manhattan Tarot Meetup~
This meetup has been going since 2004. I have hosted it in various cities around the US, and now is headquartered in NYC. Members can select No Mail or elect to receive reminders and announcements which make life easier to schedule. You will find us on meetup.com

Manhattan Tarot Facebook~
People who have actually attended a gathering in NYC will be invited to participate in the FB group, if they find that easier than the Meetup system or checking the web. We use that group for announcements and for expanding on techniques learned and tested in the 1st & 3rd Fridays.

Manhattan Tarot Instagram~
Photos, of course! Also, announcements. @ManhattanTarot

Manhattan Tarot Twitter~
Brief tweets for announcements, photos, and general interest in NYC Tarot. @ManhattanTarot

Manhattan Tarot at Ferol~
Some people prefer to keep up with us by texting me! 917-834-3901

Voyager Tarot , created by James Wanless. Radical deck modification by Abe Bae. Click the image to visit James Wanless' site.

The Lovers, from Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, created by Robert M. Place. Click the image to visit RMP's site.

Ace of Wands from an alteration of the Waite Colman Smith Tarot, version attribution unknown. Click image to visit U.S. Games official variations of this Tarot.

King of Cups image by James Ricklef.

Eternity, from William Blake Tarot, created by Ed Buryn. Click photo to visit Ed Buryn's website.

JOE SCHIPPA, Ph.D.

Joe Schippa, PhD, is a Guest Presenter of Manhattan Tarot. A lifelong educator, Joe has a potent administrative position in the NY state school system, and maintains a private clinical therapy practice, using the psychoactive imagery of Tarot where appropriate to assist his clients. Joe is a past presenter at the Tarot & Psychology Conference in NYC.

SCOTT MARTIN

Scott Martin is a Guest Presenter of Manhattan Tarot. Scott studied acting at the Herbert Berghof studio and holds an MFA in directing. He's performed and directed in community and regional theaters, summer stock, and the off-off-broadway theater. Scott is the author of Bringing the Tarot to Life: Embody the Cards Through Creative Exploration, Llewellyn, 2017, available in paper and ebook.

ABRAHAM BAE

Abraham Bae is a Guest Presenter of Manhattan Tarot. Abe is also a supervisory technology professional in NY, who combines aspects of systems to strengthen useful structures and invent new approaches. His focus is on people, and teams in which all participants feel safe in contributing. Abe uses Tarot as a way to elicit unusual solutions to everyday issues, and to assist himself and others in the development of the creative and expressive areas of their personal and professional lives.

MARK HORN

Mark Horn is a Guest Presenter of Manhattan Tarot. Mark's professional life includes his study of traditional storytellng as both a teller and as a teacher at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He brings the power of story to his career as an award-winning copywriter for Fortune 500 companies. His new book, Tarot and the Gates of Light, A Kabbalistic Path to Liberation, (Inner Traditions 2019), shows how to use Tarot to practice the traditional Kabbalistic discipline of Counting the Omer for spiritual work. For people of all faiths, it brings together teachings from many traditions, from 12-step practice, as well as insights from his work for LGBT civil rights.
Click either image to visit Mark's site.