BIO

Rebecca Schoenecker lives in Asheville, NC, and is a full-time tarot reader and artist who works with esoteric themes. Her current art practice explores the place where the physical and ethereal meet. The popular magical tenet “as above, so below” is a guiding theme in her work. She believes that humans are a galaxy of cells and psyches, mirroring the infinite beauty and sometimes unnerving energy of a universe with no edge. 

Rebecca has used a variety of media over the years, but at present works with gouache and colored pencil on paper. From 2010 to 2023, she worked in an illustrative style, publishing tarot decks and authoring esoteric books to bring arcane knowledge into wider view. From a young age, she knew her life’s work was to create images and discuss their meanings, a pursuit that found a perfect match in tarot. Rebecca has been reading tarot since 2011 and considers it a part of her calling.

Rebecca completed an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2002. 

Rebecca has been exhibiting and working with the arts for thirty years. Notable achievements include a piece in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago’s book-arts collection. She also collaborated with the MCA to read tarot at esoterically themed art exhibitions. Additionally, two of her tarot decks have been acquired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s special library collection. 

Currently, Rebecca is creating and exhibiting art in Asheville and continuing her work as a tarot reader, teacher, and esotericist. Her current creative focus is on painting celestial art that explores how the human experience is mirrored in space.