The American Renaissance Tarot

American Renaissance Tarot Deck

Readings & Lecture

October 29, 2022 to October 30, 2022

Harriet Beecher Stowe as the Queen of Cups: American Renaissance Tarot Deck Fox Sisters American Renaissance Tarot

The Stowe Center is especially excited to welcome Dr. Thea Wirsching, author of the American Renaissance Tarot, on Saturday and Sunday, October 29 and 30, of our Spiritualism weekend.

Dr. Wirsching is an Evolutionary astrologer and scholar based in Long Beach, CA, who received her doctorate in American occult literature at UCLA, and will speak in detail about her tarot deck and the research that inspired it at 2 pm on Saturday, October 29. In addition to her lecture, Dr. Wirsching will perform Tarot readings for interested visitors on the evenings of our Spiritualism weekend.

Traditional in its structure, the American Renaissance Tarot deck and Dr. Wirsching’s supporting scholarship blends U.S literature and esotericism, featuring over thirty writers (including Harriet Beecher Stowe) and revealing how the country’s metaphysical history is at work beneath the surface of its canonical texts. Her Tarot practice is rooted in the healing power of narrative.

Tickets are available in advance online. Spirits at Stowe events are recommended for ages 10 and up.

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Location The Visitor Center/ Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Doors Open 2:00 pm

Program Lecture: 2:00 pm; Tarot readings: 4:00-8:00 pm

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Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.