My name is Klara Sa-Lees and my interest in combining plants with tarot grew out of a lifelong relationship with both fields of study. When I experienced the deaths of my parents within the same year, I turned to these guides for support as I moved through a tunnel of grief and came out at the other end.
My tarot practice began over twenty-five years ago, when I bought my first deck at a part-time job at a bookstore, along with a copy of Rachel Pollack’s Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. I have always turned to the cards in times of change and been both comforted and inspired by their teachings.
My career in art and education has given me tools for prismatic thinking about images and symbols that I’ve applied to my tarot framework. My tarot practice is multimodal, braiding my interests in dreams, myth, astrology, botanical wisdom, somatics, and expressive arts, particularly poetry. If this sounds interesting and supportive to you, I’d be honored to hold space for you in a reading.
I see plants - both caring for and learning from them - as an integral part of the healing process. By observing how they respond to their environment and its challenges, we add another layer to our own experience of survival. I learned how to study, identify, classify, and respect and care for plants from my parents who were both landscape architects. I created The Moon Unfolded collection of botanical essences from plants I have cultivated and harvested for over 20 years in my garden in the Hudson Valley of New York. Botanical essences are imbued with the energetic current of flowers, leaves, or other plant parts, which can support us as we move through life’s changes. Given their connection to subtle energies and intuition, botanical essences are a natural complement to spiritual practices such as tarot.
