The Monthly Spread : A Dinner Date with The Major Arcana

September 28th 2024 // 5PM-8PM at Café Joust (365 Main Street Catskill NY)

Admission: $111

Menu by: Lauren Tanchum (Café Joust)

Tarot Reading by: Derek Smith (Constellation Catskill)

Join us for a night of divination and elevated dining as we journey into the unknown where tarot, food, music and games of chance set the tone for this unique dining experience. Through out the evening, A four course meal featuring twenty two dishes inspired by the major arcana archetypes will be served while guests draw cards in a collective reading for the month ahead.

The Major Arcana consists of 22 archetypes in a progression of two cycles 0-10, and 11-21. We will be reading from the Thoth Deck which is rich and colorful painted deck associated with the ritual magic of Aleister Crowley.

Schedule for the evening:

5PM Cocktails (non alcoholic options available)

5:30PM Dinner begins.

Notes about the menu: menu is entirely plant-based. A series of plates and tarot readings will be organized in relation to the aspects of the elements. Musical interludes will guide us from one course to the next. The menu of elements is as follows:

Amuse Bouche

Earth / The Disks / Material manifestation

Fire / The Wands / Energy, passion, spirit of the matter, action

Water / The Cups / Emotional self, intuition, depth and meaning

Air / The Swords / Intellect, structure and strategy, crafted

Closing Statement

8PM/ Curtains up, time to see what the future’s about.