Thrilled to see the nerdiest tarot podcast ever getting some attention from our friends at Medium! Longtime reader Jenna Matlin does a rundown of her favorite tarot podcasts, and we’re in great company along with the folks at Tarot Visions, The Archetypal Tarot, Tarot Bytes, and Tarot for the Wild Soul.
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Today's the day! Official release for Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers
It’s official! Today is publication day for Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers, my first tarot book. It’s only been 22 months or so since I emailed the brilliant Barbara Moore, whom I knew only from her impossibly stylish Steampunk Tarot. I introduced myself and asked if Llewellyn might be interested in a nerdy sort of book about tarot correspondences, the hidden codes embedded in every card and threaded into all modern tarot imagery. To my delight, she was willing to give it a shot.
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TSC cameo on the Occulture podcast tonight
Couple hours ago I got on the mike with my friend and fellow podcast host Ryan Peverly of the Occulture podcast. We did a whacky little scene - complete fiction - in which I got to do a very Scorpionic card reading for Ryan. It was a kind of opening act for Ryan’s fantastic interview with Dr. Al Cummins, one of my favorite metaphysicians to listen and learn from out there in the unreal world. Diviner, magician, and scholar of grimoires, Dr. Cummins puts the practice in practitioner!
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Off with his head!
Fortune's Wheelhouse: Queen of Swords
This week on Fortune’s Wheelhouse, we greet an old friend. For me and probably for many of you, the Queen of Swords is special. As tarot readers, more of us identify with her than we do with any other card (I ran a poll once, is how I know). I bought my first tarot deck on May 3rd, 1997, and she was the first card I ever saw in a reading, and the first card I pulled for Card of the Day. She’s tough, she’s clear-eyed, and she’s wicked smart.
How to Handle an Infamous Moment
Friends, many of us are finding the news cycle harder and harder to take. It seems like voices of reason are being drowned out. It seems like voice of victims are being ignored. It seems like our worst nightmares keep coming to life. Perhaps worst of all is the despair - not knowing what you can do about it.
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FORTUNE'S WHEELHOUSE: King or Knight of Swords...and advance copies of TAROT CORRESPONDENCES giveaway!
I fought the Law, and the Law won! Here comes that intimidating brainiac, the King or Knight of Swords. His is an incisive, restless mind, quick to take up pursuit and flexible to a fault - yet once he makes up his mind, no mercy will temper his decision. Representing the first two decans of Gemini (and the last one of Taurus) in court and everywhere else, he sees a world in black and white, one whose rules must conform to his will.
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The Orisha Tarot: interview with Andrew McGregor
A few weeks ago I had the chance to interview my friend and fellow Llewellyn author, Andrew McGregor, about his new deck, The Orisha Tarot. Before receiving the deck, I knew little to nothing about Lucumí, Orisha tradition, or the wider world of ATR (African traditional religion.) But from my first Orisha Tarot card of the day pull - the Ace of Disks - I was drawn into the complex web of a faith where divination, magic, belief, deity, and community commingle in ways I had never before experienced.
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10 of Swords?! 2 Solutions.
What do you do when you get the 10 of Swords? An extra post on our Fortune’s Wheelhouse Patreon blog this week has the answers!
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Fortune's Wheelhouse: Ten of Swords
In this week's episode of Fortune's Wheelhouse, we face the unthinkable, the dreaded, the horripilating 10 of Swords - Lord of Ruin! (We had to get there sometime.) Who does not shudder to see this card, even in the cheeriest of readings? Here at the end of thought and reason, the contrasts of light and shadow are stark and brutal, and the consequences of choices made in the 8 and 9 of Swords are all too clear.
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