We met in Naples, back in the spring of 2011. Very soon in our first meeting it became evident that we shared an orientation in our separate explorations of knowledge practices and tools - Tarot, Astrology, Alchemy, Palmistry, Reiki -  which are, in different ways, related to healing. Both experimented with how they enable thinking about political and social issues in a way that also takes into account the emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of existence. More significantly, we both were already experimenting with these tools and practices’ capacity to complexify and amplify the ways of thinking and existing, and corresponding ways of acting politically and ethically. 

Throughout the years, each of us learned how these tools and practices gather a different kind of sensibility -- not only a different mode of knowing the world but a different way of existing, of being of the world, one that welcomes and thrives in complexity and implicancy. 

Since 2011, we have been learning from each other. We shared the existing reading and healing practices we knew, Tarot, Astrology, philosophy, poetry, palmistry, herbal healing, Reiki and well as invented practices such as Fake Therapy and Political Therapy, while also experimenting with other possible combinations. 

Initially, we framed our practice around a specific question: How to image an ethics without the subject? The term subject, which is a philosophical one, corresponds to other known ones such as the first person singular, or I, the psychoanalytic figure of the Ego, and the social-psychological notion of Self. With the intention of engaging and dislodging this central figure in modern thinking, we realized that the readings were to unfold with/out the subject. Each reading decomposes and recomposes a situation, refiguring a situation in which the subject is at play – in the crisis, as the crisis, and because of the crisis and yet one in which the subject and their mode of knowing no longer directs the play. Eventually we named this practice of reading together using and layering multiple tools Poethical Readings.

After having performed Poethical Readings at several art venues, we felt the need to share and transmit the reading and healing tools we used, as a way to continue to experiment with them as tools for study. That is, tools able to gather us socially according to the specific arrangement they propose, with the intention to see what becomes of knowing when we go about it in this way. We thus began organizing the Sensing Salon, a studio practice for the healing arts, at several venues since 2016.

In the past year, the COVID-19 global pandemic crisis disrupted the basic aspects of everyone’s lives, revealing the harsh reality of a world where human life and well-being are not as valued as it was believed. As this disruption unfolded, we began to receive more and more requests for Poethical Readings from individuals, small groups, collectives, as well as institutions. What we have learned in this past year is how our unique approach to practices such as Tarot, Astrology, and Reiki seems to respond immediately and effectively to the challenges created by this global situation. For this reason, we have decided to make our approach widely available through private readings and training. Enquire with us for more info.