Leo Rising: A Living Tarot & Creative Intuition Podcast

Mae is an intuitive channel providing lovely chakra energy readings with a goal to leave people feeling empowered. https://www.journeys-inspired.com/offerings @journeysinspired 

Season 2 wraps up with a lovely conversation with Karl of Pinewood Tarot! Karl and I are both tarot readers and professionals in higher education, so this was such a lovely conversation to have! Connect with Karl on Instagram: @pinewoodtarot 

Had a lovely chat with Portland based tarot reader, Natalie of Axis Mundi Tarot! She can be reached on Instagram: @axis.mundi.tarot or her website: https://axismunditarot.weebly.com/ Mentions:  Beth Maiden's Little Red Tarot Course Lindsay Mack's Tarot for the Wild Soul course Jordan of Sincerely the Tarot 

Today I talk with Dominique of Rosee D Wire Wraps and the new podcast Cannabis and Consciousness! We talk about Reiki, dreamwork, and her spiritual journey up until this point! Follow Dominique: @roseeedwirewraps 

Shailer (they/them) is over on Instagram @foxglovemedicinals, and in this episode, we talk about our mutual love of plants, the world of herbalism, native species regeneration, and the creation of plant medicine for trans folx. I loved this conversation! 

Today on the podcast, I talk with Anna Rosen of Blind Love Tarot, and Blind Love Radio! She is a prolific artist, and such a sweet soul to connect with. 

Follow on Instagram: @blindlovetarot or listen at: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/blind-love-radio 

On today's episode, I talk with Jubilee of Mini Myth Astrology. Mentions: Root Lock Podcast, and Heidi Rose Robbins, in addition to Lindsay Mack of Tarot for the Wild Soul. Follow Jubilee: Instagram @mini.myth.astrology 

Sarangelica is an intuitive counselor and recovery life hack mentor. In this episode, we talk about tarot, parenting, and her journey with sobriety.  Connect on Instagram: @sarangelicas.sight or book tarot readings or other intuitive spiritual sessions at: www.deepseamercury.com  

I had the pleasure of talking with MJ, the creator of one of my favorite tarot decks ever: The Crow Tarot. We chatted about our love of crows, and her process for creating The Crow Tarot and her upcoming Wise Dog Tarot. This was truly a pleasure! Find MJ at @crowtarot on Instagram or her website: https://www.enchanteddecks.com/ 

In this episode, I talk with Lyssa of See Jane Smoke. She is a witch working in the cannabis industry, and our conversation takes many wonderful twists and turns, as we talk about her Mormon upbringing, life as a medium (she gives me great parenting tips), and all about the cannabis plant, including her work in the industry!  Connect with Lyssa on Instagram: @seejanesmoke  To Sign up for Tarot for the Wild Soul: https://sso.teachable.com/secure/238259/checkout/951074/tarotforthewildsoul2019?coupon_code=LEORISINGTAROT (Must also put LEORISINGTAROT in coupon code for it to be activated and give me credit) 

Alicia has been a spiritual teacher for over 20 years, leading yoga, doing energy work and other body healing modalities, and leading online courses. I so enjoyed this conversation! Follow her on Instagram: @sova.lumina or her website: www.aliciafronczek.com 

On this episode, I talk about the spirituality of Groundhog's Day, bringing it back to the Goddess Brigid, then talking about St. Brigid's Day and Imbolc, as well as Candlemas and finally tying it in to Groundhog's Day...the movie with Bill Murray. I talk about the Ace of Pentacles as a seed, and share a personal story about my realization of my kids and their ancestry withing me. 

I mention: Tess Giberson The City Witch and read from Wikipedia. 

Let's Connect: 

Instagram: @leorisingtarot 

Website: www.leorisingtarot.com

I loved every minute of my conversation with Veronicka. We talk about having a lack of elders in the community, tarot, astrology, and ancestral healing work, as well as exploring their priestexx training. Veronicka is a mixed race settler on the unceded coast Salish territories in so-called Vancouver. They're a non-binary queer vegan who's a gardening priestexx mystic living the urban hermit life with their animal familiars. They're a double Aquarius who loves deep conversations, thinking about aliens, reading tarot, and dismantling oppressive systems.  

On today's episode, I talk about two drishti points I'm using right now: the card of 2019 Hanged Man, and my card of the year The Sun. I share about mental health, my desire to be the community's story keeper, and how we can intentionally change perspective. 

Had a lovely chat with Kody, of Moss_and_Bones about tarot life, being "weird kids" (a question I yanked from Gordon White's Rune Soup Podcast, and all things witchy. Kody Moss is a non binary queer, disabled witch with a passion for finding magic in the mundane. Kody started his micro business, Moss & Bones so he could have a meaningful career without being limited by his disability. Through Moss & Bones, Kody offers tarot readings via email and snail mail. He runs his business primarily through his Instagram @moss_and_bones where you can message him to book a tarot reading. 

Mary Oliver asked about what you'd do with your wild and precious life. I do some musings on how things are changing or evolving for me, based off Hannah Gadsby's comedy special Nanette. I talk about the wild unknown tarot deck, my former English instructor Dan Peters, James Fowler's Stage of Spiritual Development and Erik Erickson's stages of psychosocial development. 

On this episode, Mandye and I talk about parenthood, being weird kids, and how tarot is a tool/system for organizing the spiritual or psychic downloads we get from spirit. She shares about life as a psychic medium, and her journey from a small town in Nevada to a full life in Portland, Oregon with her husband and three kids! 

Find Mandye on Instagram @tangledfoxtarot or her website: https://tangledfoxtarot.simplybook.me/v2/ 

Mentions: Wild Unknown Tarot by Kim Krans

On today's episode, I talk about where I am currently, just having experienced a concussion of winter break from a freak fender bender (I rear ended someone at a stoplight). I muse about how it was nice to take a social media break, even if forced, and how I sometimes think that watching other people's spiritual journeys online makes me procrastinate on my own spiritual connection, because it's just not as sexy!

I then read on air, a listener email, who responded to my Which New Year episode. This listener, Lisa of  @ninthwavedesigns  on Instagram, is so thoughtful in her own exploration of Samhain vs. New Years, giving us much to think about, including the timing of Samhain,  Zeno's Paradox of the Tortoise and Achilles, and the Kabbalistic belief if tzimtzum of creation. I learned so much from her!

On this episode, Dyanna and I talk about our messy lives, finding purpose outside of the religions we were raised in, and how we've moved forward when family is less than accepting.  Connect with her on Instagram: @safe_passage_tarot  Mentions: The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck and Lindsay Mack's Tarot for the Wild Soul Course 

Welcome to Season 2! 

On today's episode, I talk with Rebecca Scolnick, who I met on Instagram, and loved the brevity in her bio: Video Witch, NYC. Yes!

Her website says that she is a filmmaker, and creative intuitive with a fervor for personal mythology, and I am so here for this conversation that covers her journey to find tarot through an angel deck, and our mutual love of The Hero's Journey. 

Find Rebecca online:

Instagram: @beescolnick or www.rebeccascolnick.com

On this episode, recorded just after Samhain, I muse about being caught between the witch's calendar, and the "regular" calendar. How can I feel like it's a new year, when the new year is celebrated on January 1st? 

On today's episode, I talk about darkness & light, giving voice to my lived experience of postpartum OCD. Trigger warning for this episode, as I read a piece I had published that deals with OCD intrusive images, including suicidality & homicidality. 

On this episode, I talk about the elements of air & fire as they relate to the tarot. This was sparked (no pun intended!) by my purchase of The Dark Days Tarot, which goes against a more traditional view of which element is paired with which suit. In the tradition I learned, swords= air and wands=fire, but Wren McMurdo of Dark Days Tarot has followed her witchcraft tradition and made swords=fire and wands=air. So I go on a rambling adventure around how seeing the tarot through a different lens can enhance the practice, as well as my own feelings about each of the elements. 

Happy St. Lucia's Day! Or better yet, my birthday! On today's episode, I go on a winding journey around topics related to advent, including my intimate experience of this time of year, as I celebrate my birthday, anniversary, and oldest child's birthday, as well as an exploration of the deep magic of Advent. I talk about ancestral embodiment of St. Lucia, the patron saint of my birthday! 

In this episode, I share a personal story about my toddler's visit from an ancestor, walking you through some of my ancestral healing session with Darla Antoine (https://darlaantoine.com), and finish up with some musings about white people finding ancestral connections... and asking the question...is this whole journey I'm on one of cultural appropriation? 

On this episode, I explore the north and south nodes of astrology and their corresponding tarot cards. There's a theory that the north node is your "guiding star" and your south node is the lessons you've come into this lifetime with, or what you're learning in your first 30 years. This information was so helpful for me to think about! I mention Jubilee of @cedartreeceramics, and www.astrostyle.com 

In this episode, I share a collective tarot reading for Samhain, using The Pagan Otherworlds Deck. I mention Lindsay Mack's Tarot for the Wild Soul Course (https://www.lindsaymack.com/) & Yarrow Magdalena's Podcast (http://www.daydreamingwolves.com/)

On this episode, I continue my exploration of The Empress card, as I am deep in ancestral exploration. I talk about historical waitresses empresses were recipients of a blood lineage. This means that my physical embodiment of my ancestral lineage is an empress moment in life. I didn't do anything to earn my genes, I'm just receiving them! I share about my first session with Darla Antoine. Her website is: https://darlaantoine.com 

I go on a ramble about my experience as a witch who attends church. I'ts not meant to be prescriptive, and does not dive deeply into the historical experience of the church's persecution of witches throughout the years. This is only my personal experience in this moment. 

On this episode, I talk about how my birth year (The Hermit) shows up in my life, going way back to some of my earliest memories. I share about taking a break from podcasting this fall aligning with The Hermit, and then muse about how to figure out a year card. Am I gonna have a Magician, Wheel of Fortune, or Sun year coming up? What do you think? 

On today's episode, I speak with Courtney Putnam a visual artist, writer, and teacher. Her MFA is in poetry writing, with a focus on poetry of the body; her primary art mediums are collage, mixed media, acrylic painting, and encaustic painting; and she is the author and artist of the book and oracle deck Body Cards: Insight from the Body, Wisdom for the Soul (Schiffer Publishing, 2016). She teaches writing, college success, and magazine publication courses at Cascadia College in Bothell and is the instructor for Yours Truly, Cascadia's creative arts magazine. Once a massage therapist and Reiki healer, Courtney brings a whole-body approach to creative expression and encourages artistic play and intuitive creativity in all forms. Courtney Putnam's Website: http://rising-bird.com/ I mention: Yarrow (http://www.daydreamingwolves.com/) The Numinous Tarot Deck (https://noelarthurian.bigcartel.com/), and Cassie Allure, Akashic Record Reader (https://www.cassieallure.com/) 

On today's episode, I explore my relationship to boundaries and compartmentalization. I take a look at my history with dividing the world into categories, my professional experience as a mental health counselor and how I used boundaries as self-care, and share about the Temperance card, which is all about de-compartmentalizing parts of the self to make and share a whole being. But what does that look like in today's context, with social media, business branding, and online safety (both physical and emotional?). 

On today's episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Jordan of Sincerely the Tarot. Jordan is a queer trans tarot reader who sends magic to your mailbox. He is a lover of the tarot and the support it can bring to others. I had the pleasure of first connecting with Jordan on Instagram (@sincerely_the_tarot) and had a tarot by mail reading from him, which was incredible! We talk about tarot, being educators, parents, and queer, and how much we love the Pacific Northwest! We mention Lindsay Mack's Tarot for the Wild Soul course (www.tarotforthewildsoul.com) we're taking this fall, and our love of Tess Giberson's (@cityxwitch) zines! 

In this episode, released at The Super New Moon in Leo, I explore The Moon, a Major Arcana card. I read from the Smith-Waite Centennial "LWB," Lewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot definition/keywords on The Moon, and Bakara Wintner's WTF is Tarot book on The Moon. I then share an experience I had this week with the theme of the moon's intuition, where I had a dream about an ancestor and had it confirmed the next day by a living relative! 

On today's episode I am talking with Lindsey, who is a production coordinator by day, which occupies about 50 to 60 hours a week, not including her hour long commute each way. She moved to Los Angeles three years ago in September, and she's been working on consciously creating a beautiful life for herself ever since. She's a Tarot reader, avid crafter, creative thinker, problem solver, handy-woman, writer, and free spirit. I'm so excited to introduce you guys to Lindsey who is on , as @promising.sage. We talk about tarot, astrology, Myers Briggs (we are both INFJs!), reading tarot for friends and family, and growing up in small towns. 

In this episode, I look at two cards that I have been experiencing energetically: The Hermit & The Hierophant. The Hermit is my birth card, and one that I tend to gravitate toward. I like spending time in introspection, daydreaming, reflecting, and general introverted time alone. And yet, there is also something amazing about the sacred knowledge of authority, or institutions, or people who have gone before me on the spiritual path. 

Jo Zurita is an empowerment and mindset coach who specializes in helping women work through fear-based limiting beliefs. She helps her clients catapult from broken to beaming, re-light the fire within their soul, and teaches them the tools to create a life of their dreams through mindset work, accountability, compassion and empowerment. She utilizes tarot and energy work in her sessions and is certified in crystal healing, reiki, and holisitc tarot. She has helped her clients build confidence, manifest amazing opportunities, start their own businesses and transform their beliefs from small and limiting to powerful positive mindsets. Jo has been featured in Love, Light & Legacy Magazine, she also teaches courses in tarot and Shadow Work. While she is based in the Verde Valley in Arizona, her client base is international and rages from all backgrounds and walks of life. houseofswordstarot.com https://www.instagram.com/houseofswordstarot/

A special release! To celebrate Friday the 13th, I've done an early release of my episode on the High Priestess. I talk about how I resonate with this card, explore the imagery and symbolism, and then segue into an exploration of why we (spiritual white women) are so drawn to images of Indian and other brown goddesses, rather than exploring the divine feminine "in our own backyard" by looking at goddesses from our bloodline. I talk about Freyja and the Celtic Morrigan. I mention Biddy Tarot, Tarot.com and Aclectic Tarot, as well as "Google" for some of my brief research on the symbolism. 

On this episode, I have the pleasure of talking with Jasmine Wolfe. Jasmine is a numerologist, tarot reader, and self proclaimed esoteric intellectual based in Sacramento California. As a “jack of all trades” type of artist, she seeks to create space for defiant self love within herself and in the every growing spiritual community. She is a life long student, teacher, and performer who is trying to make this world just a bit softer. We talk about her tarot journey, being a witch girl vs. a horse girl, being an artist, her love of dance, the challenge of the writing process, and most importantly, she teaches me all about numerology! My mind is blown, ya'll! Instagram: @satinxsatan Website: https://esotericjasmine.wordpress.com/ During our interview, Jasmine mentions @alizakelly as an astrologer that she follows! I also mention the podcasts Truth Telling with Elizabeth Dialto and Rune Soup with Gordon White. 

On today's episode, I define creativity, and intuition, which make up the foundational tagline for this podcast! I share from my life where creative intuition shows up, mostly in the grey areas, the spaces between things. I talk about four areas where it's showing up currently: 1) My experience as an adoptee 2) My experience being queer 3) My identity as a working mom 4) My spirituality, walking the path between Christianity and Witchcraft. 

On today's episode, I look at the current political situation of detaining immigrant children, and ask: what does the Five of Swords, what does the Five Wands , what does the Five of Cups , and what does the Five of Pentacles have to offer us, me personally, and us as a collective, right now? What are the invitations that these cards are asking for us to explore together as we wrestle with the current 24/7 news cycle and social media. I talk about colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, trauma, power, control, struggle, and lots of difficult topics. No easy answers, but sitting with the questions. I mention Lindsay Mack's Tarot for the Wild Soul Trauma episode & training. Find more at: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com I quote Bakara Wintner's WTF is Tarot: and How do I do it? You can follow her: https://www.instagram.com/bakaraw/ I mention The Complete Book of Tarot Meanings by Anthony Louis. I read from the LWB that came with the centennial edition of the Smith-Waite Tarot Deck. 

On Episode 12 I introduce you to some of the information that I am learning from Ren Zatopek's Simple Spiritwork online course (that's free!), including her quote that "all maps are metaphors." So tarot can be a map for this moment?! Yes! I was introduced to Ren in an episode of Sarah Chappell's podcast: So You Wanna Be a Witch? I recommend listening to that podcast, as well! I mispronounce her last name in the episode, oops! It sounds like chapel, not shapelle. Sorry Sarah! I take this concept of maps as metaphors and apply it to my tarot practice. I share some vulnerable insights from a recent motherhood experience I had with my son who lives with sensory processing disorder, and my own insecurities as a mom in general. Resources: Ren's FREE Simple Spiritwork Course: https://www.renspiritwork.com/simplespiritwork Follow Ren on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/renspiritwork/ So You Wanna Be a Witch Podcast: https://soyouwannabeawitch.com/ 

On this episode, I take a look at tarot card #12 in the Major Arcana: The Hanged Man. You'll learn different meanings for this card, including: -suspension - restriction -sacrifice -letting go -martyrdom -surrender, and -changing perspectives. You'll be introduced to Tess Giberson's zine on Major Arcana, which says that The Hanged Man explores discomfort and examining where our limitations are. Tess references Rachel Pollack's philosophy that the Major Arcana is split into 3 lines of 7 cards, with The Hanged Man dealing with identity/metamorphosis. I discuss my feelings of limitations with these definitions, and wanting The Hanged Man energy to encourage people to play more, to trust their body/mind/spirit and embrace spontaneous experiences to get out of their comfort zone and see the world from a different perspective, not because they're being forced to, but out of childlike curiosity!

On this bonus episode, I give Carli a Dark Exact tarot reading, which is an expanded version of a Past, Present, Future reading, and features 9 cards in total. The deck we used is the Gustave Klimt deck, which is absolutely gorgeous! If you go to my instagram (@leorisingtarot) you can see an image of the spread. And follow @darkexact to see more about their cards and spreads. A great Portland based tarot reader! 

On this episode I reflect on my experience reading tarot at the Burien Pride festival over the weekend. I look at the dictionary definition of pride, as well as the definition of it that I had grown up believing. I then talk about community and where lion symbolism shows up in tarot, like on the Major Arcana strength card. Mentions: Nicole Hamilton Yoga (@yogabird19) as well as Adaptive Yoga Northwest.