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Utilizing the cards to examine new questions, question any answers, and reimagine the possibilities of our lives.
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Full Moon in Scorpio + The Death Card

In Search of TarotMay 06, 2020

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Radical Tarot Book Club: Minor Arcana + Court Cards
Dec 19, 202302:00:60
Radical Tarot Book Club: Wheel of Fortune - The World

Radical Tarot Book Club: Wheel of Fortune - The World

The In Search of Tarot Book Club continues with our second of three monthly installments discussing Radical Tarot: Queer the Cards, Liberate Your Practice, and Create the Future by Charlie Claire Burgess.

Throughout the month of November, we've been reading the chapters on Wheel of Fortune through to the The World, and today's episode features a deep-dive discussion on those chapters. However, you don't need to have read any of the boook in order to enjoy the themes and topics covered in this episode.

JOIN US THIS WEDNESDAY (11/29) FROM 6-7:30PM ET ON PATREON FOR OUR BOOK CLUB HANG! All levels are welcome to attend and share your thoughts on the book.

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Nov 26, 202301:35:42
The Story Doula with Dajé Alōh
Oct 29, 202347:28
Radical Tarot Book Club: Introduction - The Hermit

Radical Tarot Book Club: Introduction - The Hermit

Our innaugural In Search of Tarot Book Club pick is Radical Tarot: Queer the Cards, Liberate Your Practice, and Create the Future by frequent ISOT contributor Charlie Claire Burgess.

For the month of October, we've been reading the Introduction through The Hermit, and today's episode features a deep-dive discussion on those chapters. However, you don't need to have read any of the book in order to enjoy the themes and topics we dive into.

JOIN US TOMORROW (10/23) FROM 7-8:30PM ET ON PATREON FOR OUR BOOK CLUB HANG! All Patron levels are welcome to attend and share your thoughts on the book!

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Oct 22, 202301:09:31
Capitalism and Cartomancy with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Capitalism and Cartomancy with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a diviner and poet from Piscataway, NJ. Find him on TikTok at @cyreejarelle and Instagram at @collectivecartomancy or at www.collectivecartomancy.com.
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Oct 13, 202354:34
Sharing Our Full Selves with Thomas Witholt of Hermit's Mirror
Oct 06, 202359:37
Somatics & Embodiment with Nik from The Open Space
Sep 29, 202344:13
Radical Tarot with Charlie Claire Burgess
Sep 22, 202354:07
Filling Your Cup with Sarah Arantza Amador, Guest Hosted by Maria Minnis

Filling Your Cup with Sarah Arantza Amador, Guest Hosted by Maria Minnis

It's the final episode of Season Six, and the final installment of this Season's Guest Host episodes! Today we're bringing you another conversation full of warmth and love between Guest Host Maria Minnis and Sarah Arantza Amador of Hawthorn Mountain Tarot.

Sarah Arantza Amador is an author and tarot reader living on the Monterey Bay of Northern California. A former university professor with a background in literary analysis, nonviolent communication, psychoanalysis, and critical theory and philosophy, Sarah works with the tarot to explore inter and intrapersonal connection and understanding. Find her online on IG @hawthorn_mtn_tarot and on Twitter @ArantzaSarah.

Maria Minnis is an unapologetically Black writer, artist, ritual facilitator, and tarot reader who teaches people about blending their spirituality with liberation work and sensuality. She has creatively worked with tarot for over 20 years and considers herself an eternal student of life, and thus the tarot. Her work is inspired by her belief that the end result of all magic should be to cultivate a more equitable and empathetic planet. Her antiracism tarot workbook, Tarot for the Hard Work, will be released by Weiser Books in Fall 2023. Maria enthusiastically drinks from the flowing firehose of life and wouldn’t have it any other way. Find Maria on Instagram @feminnis

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Jun 22, 202346:36
The Magician and "The Self" with Shannon Knight of The Tarot Diagnosis
Jun 15, 202340:11
LIVE from Meet Me at The Margin

LIVE from Meet Me at The Margin

Today's minisode is a live recording of Nick's Opening Remarks from the opening night of the Meet Me at The Margin virtual queer conference, which took place on Sunday, June 4, 2023. If you're feeling the FOMO, registration will remain open through June 12. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW!

Nick is also currently hosting the #PrideInTheTarot2023 card-a-day challenge on Instagram, and there's still time to join in the fun! Click here to view the prompts.

We also invite you to support this podcast by making a monthly contribution on Patreon. You can also leave a rating and review wherever you're listening right now.

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Jun 08, 202314:26
The Paradox of Queerness with Britten LaRue

The Paradox of Queerness with Britten LaRue

Today's episode is first for us. It's a crossover/part two that builds on a conversation Nick took part in over on Britten LaRue's Moon to Moon podcast. In that episode, Nick shared his thoughts on The Margin, and mused on queerness as an unknowable, unspeakable power. Then Britten asked a question that sent both of their heads spinning in opposite directions.

Today, Nick and Britten are coming back together to hash it all out and share where their different experiences have led them since that first conversation. If you'd like to listen to part one of the conversation on Moon to Moon you can do so HERE.

Britten LaRue is a mystic, teacher, and author who channels the spirit and cosmic realms to conjure words that create cracks: cracks in who we think we are and what we think this reality is. A recovering academic and a single mom, Britten is more interested in questions than in answers. She creates potent offerings anchored from her deep trust that we are fractal beings who are dreaming new worlds into being together. Britten's book Living Astrology will be published in early 2024. In the meantime, you can learn and unlearn with her through her podcast Moon to Moon, on Instagram @brittenlarue, via one of her sumptuous workbooks, through one-on-one mentorship, or from inside one of her many learning containers. 

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Jun 01, 202351:28
Tarot Obscuro with Stephanie Adams-Santos, Guest Hosted by Charlie Claire Burgess

Tarot Obscuro with Stephanie Adams-Santos, Guest Hosted by Charlie Claire Burgess

The work of Stephanie Adams-Santos spans poetry, prose, screenwriting, and visual art. She/They are the author of the full-length poetry collections Dream of Xibalba and Swarm Queen's Crown (a Lambda Literary Award finalist). Their chapbooks include Total Memory and The Sundering (New York Chapbook Fellowship, Poetry Society of America). Stephanie’s short story "Night Flowers" appeared in the Latinx anthology Speculative Fiction for Dreamers. Stephanie was a Staff Writer and Story Editor on the television anthology horror series Two Sentence Horror Stories (CW/Netflix); their episode "Elliot" won a 2022 Gold Telly Award in Writing. As an inaugural fellow of The 2022 Ojalá Ignition Fellowship, they developed an original fantasy pilot based on the world and characters of the Tarot. In addition to her literary work, Adams-Santos is a professional Tarot reader and is making headway on an original Major Arcana tarot deck inspired by occult animism. In all her work, she is drawn to queerness, the uncanny, and whatever draws us closer to the primal source.

Charlie Claire Burgess is a queer and trans-nonbinary tarot reader, deck creator, writer, and artist. They are the creator of Fifth Spirit Tarot, a queer and inclusive deck for a world beyond binaries, and the author of Radical Tarot, a guide to reading tarot radically for personal and collective liberation. Charlie is currently at work on a second tarot deck, The Gay Marseille Tarot, and a book on queer devotion. They teach classes on tarot and queer magical topics online and in Portland, Oregon, and sometimes they record episodes for their podcast, The Word Witch.

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May 25, 202301:16:41
Meeting The Margin
May 18, 202335:46
Shedding Genders with The Gender Doula
May 11, 202352:40
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY: Runes & Ogham
May 04, 202323:51
Reading Tarot "Sincerely" with Jordan Rayne, Guest Hosted by Sam Valentine
Apr 27, 202359:27
Searching for Questions with Michael J. Morris

Searching for Questions with Michael J. Morris

Michael J. Morris is a consulting astrologer and tarot reader, artist, writer, teacher, facilitator, and witch committed to personal and collective healing and liberation. They began their consulting practice, Co Witchcraft Offerings, in 2019 through which they share astrology, tarot, and movement ritual practices. Michael holds a PhD in Dance Studies and brings decades of experience in dance, yoga, reiki, and other somatic practices to their work. They are a queer feminist, and their practices are inspired and informed by years of study and teaching in feminism, queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, environmental studies, and other branches of critical theory. Michael has presented at the Queer Astrology Conference 2020, the 2020 Fresh Voices in Astrology Summit, the Astrology and Climate Change Conference, NORWAC 2022, and the 54th Annual Conference of the Astrological Association. They are a teaching assistant with Kelly Surtees of Kelly’s Astrology, a contributing writer to the CHANI App, and a guest teacher in the Foundations in Embodied Ancestral Inquiry course presented by wildbody somatics. They reside in Columbus, Ohio—the ancestral and contemporary territory of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe, and Cherokee peoples.


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Apr 20, 202301:04:45
Finding the Fool with Meg Jones Wall
Apr 13, 202346:55
Interruptions of Life with Cameron Steele
Apr 06, 202355:28
The Body as a Site of Divination with Madison Nees, Guest Hosted by Jonathan Koe

The Body as a Site of Divination with Madison Nees, Guest Hosted by Jonathan Koe

Today we are thrilled to welcome our first guest host, Jonathan Koe, who shares a highly charged and vulnerable conversation with their teacher and friend Madison Nees.

Jonathan, who first appeared on In Search of Tarot back in April of 2022, is a queer mystic who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, land of the Lenape people. Fluent in the language of music, astrology, tarot, energy work, statistics, and the Akashic perspective, Jonathan aims to empower the collective through compassionate discernment, to nurture communities of passionate seekers, and to expand our sense of interconnectedness beyond the myths of binary-thinking and not-enoughness. You can follow Jonathan's contemplations and conversations with friends (including Nick and Madison) on their podcast, Healing The Spirit. 

Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Madison Nees currently lives and practices on Kumeyaay land (also known as San Diego). Madison is a queer artist, human, guide, and facilitator who believes in a non-expert model that empowers the individual and collective to tap into their own wisdom rather than as a facilitator having the answers. This is Radical Aliveness. 

When Madison began their own journey, they did not understand that the pull to Somatics was a call of their ancestors. They were being pulled to embody all the gifts their mother could not and ultimately lost her life suppressing. Madison was being pulled to feel the things their Grandmother had no language for.

Madison’s body knew the language however, and it spoke in illness, pains, aches and rage. During this process, Madison discovered gifts hidden beneath these repressed emotions. These gifts were the sensations, intuition and creativity of their lineage. When Madison stopped trying to push these parts away, they wondered what would happen if they let them grow. They grew into Madison’s practice today.

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Mar 30, 202301:10:08
The History (Mystery) of the Tarot with Sanyu Estelle
Mar 23, 202355:39
Worldbuilding with Ari Felix
Mar 16, 202357:53
The Sacred Web Tarot
Mar 09, 202351:29
Living Systems with Leah Garza
Mar 02, 202301:07:58
Sound, Art and Magic with zaneta sykes
Feb 23, 202358:08
BONUS: Breaking Patterns
Jan 31, 202306:04
BONUS: Cracking The Chariot in 2023
Jan 05, 202315:04
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY with Edgar Fabián Frías

SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY with Edgar Fabián Frías

Dec 22, 202246:22
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY: Mexican Mysticism & Cartomancy II
Dec 15, 202226:35
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY: Mexican Mysticism & Cartomancy I

SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY: Mexican Mysticism & Cartomancy I

We're bookending Season Five with the first in a three-part deep-dive into Mexican Mysticism and Cartomancy. Step back in time with us to trace the pre-Spanish contact origins of mystical beliefs in Mexico, before exploring the history and popularity of the card game Lotería. 

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Sources: worlddivinationassociation.com, academia.edu, reddit.com, tarotforum.net, wikipedia.com, tarot-heritage.com, lenormandquest.blogspot.com, stmuscholars.org, papersowl.com, scholarworks.boisestate.edu, llewellyn.com, berkleycenter.georgetown.edu, researchgate.net, davidbowles.medium.com, theculturetrip.com, theyucatantimes.com

Dec 08, 202224:29
Queering Astrology with Jeff Hinshaw
Dec 01, 202251:56
Shaping Our Stories with Finn Schubert
Nov 24, 202247:12
Translating Archetypes with Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
Nov 17, 202201:05:55
Season Five Q&A Special
Nov 10, 202245:47
FAMILIAR Witchcraft with Rachael Gonzalez
Nov 03, 202258:54
Tarot for Pregnancy with Brittany Carmona-Holt
Oct 27, 202249:10
Porous Palms with David Davis
Oct 20, 202250:28
Queer Conjure with Jasper Joy
Oct 13, 202249:12
Rewilding Masculinity with Sophie Strand
Oct 06, 202256:47
Lessons from The Empress with Cassandra Snow
Sep 29, 202245:50
The Witch's Book of Numbers with Rebecca Scolnick
Sep 22, 202256:25
The Contemplative Tarot with Brittany Muller
Sep 15, 202243:50
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY V: Oracle, Lenormand & the Future of Tarot
Sep 08, 202236:47
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY IV: Aleister Crowley & The Thoth Deck

SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY IV: Aleister Crowley & The Thoth Deck

Today we're casting light on "the wickedest man in the world," Aleister Crowley. If we had to choose a word to describe this guy it would be "extreme." From hearing the disembodied voices of Egyptian gods, to getting deported from Italy by the Italian government, Crowley's story is full of mania, bigotry, and obsession. Join us as we open this dark chapter of Tarot history. 

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Sources: Stealing Fire from Heaven by Nevill Dawn; The Book of Law, The Book of Thoth, and The Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley; Wikipedia; “Mercury is in a Very Ape-LIke Mood” by Deja Whitehouse; ARIES: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, Vol 21 (2021): Issue I (Dec 2020): Special Issue: Rethinking Aleister Crowley and Thelema; learnreligions.com; Rethinking Aleister Crowley and Thelema by Manon Hedenberg White; brittanica.com; 

Drawing of Crowley's "Double Loop": https://www.corneliuspublications.com/an-open-epistle-on-crowleys-zodiac-belt/

Article from The Guardian on Crowley's bisexuality: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/09/occultists-poems-to-grace-london-antiquarian-book-fair

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Sep 01, 202219:14
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY III: Western Occultism & the Smith-Waite Deck

SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY III: Western Occultism & the Smith-Waite Deck

Welcome to one of the most highly documented periods in Tarot history: the codification of western occultism, the rise and prominence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the creation of the Smith-Waite Tarot deck. It's a time marked by problematic syncretism, in which initiatory fraternities invented stories and misappropriated spiritual knowledge in an attempt to make their version of the Tarot more "legitimate." Although many of these practices have been cloaked in secrecy for centuries, we're bringing them to light in today's chapter of Tarot history!

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Today's Sources: Etteilla, or A Way to Entertain Yourself with a Deck of Cards by Jean-Baptiste Alliette, "The Four Cardinal Virtues and How Freemasonry Came to Influence Tarot" by P.D. Newman, The Primeval World, Analyzed and Compared to the Modern World by Antoine Court de Gebelin, Promethean Ambitions by William R. Newman, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun, Talking to the Gods by Susan Johnson Graf, Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions by James R. Lewis, "Practical Occultism" by Helena Blavatsky, Theosophy and the Golden Dawn by David Reigle, Modern Ritual Magic: the Rise of Western Occultism by Francis King, Book of the Artists by Henry Tuckerman, The National Encyclopedia of American Biography, "The Deck of Cards That Made Tarot A Global Phenomenon" by Laura June Topolsky for Atlas Obscura, "The Jewish History of Tarot" by Zo Jacobi, Pictorial Key to the Tarot by A.E. Waite

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Aug 25, 202226:07
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY II: Romani History

SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY II: Romani History

We're devoting the entirety of today's episode to the misunderstood and often completely erased story of the Romani people. Many of us in the Tarot community complain about the way cartomancy gets vilified and misrepresented by religion and pop culture. But the history of that stereotyping rests solely in the horrific persecution Roma have faced for centuries. Romani fortune-tellers have influenced and inspired countless Tarot practitioners over the years, and we owe it to them to lift up their voices and their stories.

Tell us what you think! Write in to isotpod@gmail.com and share this episode with a friend you think would enjoy learning about the history of the Tarot.

Romani Organizations to Support: patreon.com/eromnja, domarisociety.com, Romni.org

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Jezmina Von Thiele
Paulina Verminski: @romaniholistic
Aurora Sims: @baby_recklesss
Katelan Foisy: @katelanfoisy
Kiki Robinson: @opulentwitch
Angeliska Polachek: @angeliska & @sistertemperancetarot

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Sources for Chapter Two: rise up! good witch podcast, Romanistan podcast, Code Switch podcast, Jezmina Von Thiele, villagepreservation.org, ushmm.org, nationalww2museum.org, hmd.org, wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, gypsyloresociety.org, "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling" by Charles G. Leland, "Confessions of a Tarot Reader" by Jane Stern, "Gipsy Witches and Celtic Magicians: Charles Godfrey Leland and Lewis Spence" by Juliette Wood

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Aug 18, 202233:48
SHUFFLING THRU HISTORY I: Origins & Tarot de Marseille
Aug 11, 202226:51
Walking an Alchemical Path with Sister Temperance Tarot
May 25, 202255:41
Quarterly Questions: Divination as Resistance
May 18, 202227:14