
shea in the catskills
By shea in the catskills


June 2025: protecting what's precious
In this episode:
- blog post for this offering (with kitty pic 🐈⬛)
- Trust in Care + what participants had to say about it
- my online workshops
- The Rebis
- In-Person Tarot Circle
- My books are open + it’s easy to purchase gift readings
- Elena's GoFundMe here + artwork + other goodies + Elena’s artwork for sale
- The Whole Archive of Martha Crawford’s Community Discussions
- watch-purchasing-consultation—for yourself or for someone you love—via this super-fun form
- “Galactic Mountains” original watercolor painting by Elena Solano; check out her artwork for sale
- here’s what you need to know
- May Day demonstrations
- Ben Cohen doing what needs to be done
- this Gallatin School grad + Columbia students
- trolling as protest + resistance
- pushing back against the cops
- a teenager does what the Democratic Party is too craven to do
- how many billions of dollars in Medicaid funding will be cut from your congressional district?
- The Antidote to Fascism is Mindfulness with Danielle Moodie + Jared Yates Sexton
- the people of Omaha rejected anti-trans bullshit
- my comrade Olga disrupting business as usual
- Mariame Kaba on libraries
- “Hex Fascists” print by artist Frank Duffy—purchase one here
- Ann Friedman on libraries
- the short documentary Quilters on Netflix
- ransom notes from the GOP, a project by Mariame Kaba
- Shogun
- an artist using her platform
- Hilma af Klint’s botanical watercolors
- human beings creating beautiful things
- A Quiet Storm online art gallery
- Heart as Political Principle
- people’s obsessive special interests
- Explore Livecams (h/t Dense Discovery)
- Frank Duffy’s Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot
- 78 Faces of Power
- Yaqeen Hammad

May 2025: on being self-responsive
blog post for this offering (with kitty pic! 🐈⬛)
- artwork + goodies for sale: check it out
- Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
- The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Patterns + what participants have to say about it
- In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way
- My books are open + it’s easy topurchase gift readings
- Martha Crawford is offering: Riding the Roller Coaster: Emotion & Contemplation + A Gathered Meeting to Support Helpers
- Mediumship readings with Karin + clairvoyant readings with Monica
- Here’s what you need to know about the coup underway
- people showed up + showed out for #HandsOff protests last month
- cross-racial, intergenerational solidarity
- Missouri, Chicago, Alaska, LA
- a powerful person doing something: 10/10, no notes
- Urge your rep to fund libraries!
- The facts about the Constitutional Crisis we’re in
- join a May Day action
- join a SURJ Action Hour
- Joan Baez I Am A Noise + From Every Stage
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Iris
- All About Disciple, an artwork by Robyn Love
- “Save Your Humanity, Don’t Save Your Job” by Janine De Novais
- 2024 Nature’s Best Photography Awards
- 100 Days of Creative Resistance, particularly these pieces by Carvell Wallace + Christina Rivera
- “Dear ones, it is time.”
- Mapping Lunar Beauty (h/t Hyperallergic)
- cats co-parenting their kittens
- 78 Faces of Power
- Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona

April 2025: alone with our mind
In this episode:
- blog post for this offering (with kitty pic!)
- I’m selling artwork: check it out
- Asking Good Questions + what past participants have said about it
- Study Tarot Series + what people have said
- The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Change + what people said about March's session
- In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way
- My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings
- Dream Work as Praxis with Martha Crawford + Mortality Workshop + the Group-Group
- me.to.me to you: A Mutual Aid Show—an hour of original music. Proceeds go toward supporting three friends facing financial crises: Elena, Aurora, & Jay
- Here’s what you need to know about the coup underway
- people are pissed
- people are refusing
- people are brave + courageous + creative
- people are getting it done
- communities are creative
- people ask why I’m still masking
- Kelly Hayes
- THE MOOMINHOUSE
- people who are obsessed + use materials in unconventional ways
- painter Chantal Joffe: All I’m Seeing Is the Beauty
- What if We Ran the Economy? by Andrewism
- Dean Spade in conversation with Thao Nguyen about Love in a F*cked Up World
- Minimally Invasive Positive Fictionalization Gossip from the Middling Substack
- The Hydrant Directory
- Wikitok (h/t Dense Discovery)
- The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
- 78 Faces of Power
- Martha Crawford

March 2025: feeling secure
There’s a coup happening in the USA: Here’s what you need to know
me.to.me to you: A Mutual Aid Show via zoom with robin herold: Friday, April 4, 7-8:15pm ET
In this episode:
blog post (with kitty pic)
Asking Good Questions + what past participants have said about it
Study Tarot Series + what people have said
The Correspondence + what people have said
Beyond Love + Strife: A Venus Retrograde Workshop
My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings
The Challenges and Opportunities of Work Without Set Fees
Facing Ruthlessness and Ourselves
Cathy Pratt’s newsletter
Protect and Resist with SURJ
what using your platform can look like
this + this + this + this + this
the OFMD Craft Fair
Campaign for Southern Equality's Trans Youth Emergency Fund
Leonard Peltier walking out of prison
Choosing the Uncertain Path by Martha Crawford
Not exactly inspiring
Ema Shin’s Hearts of Absent Women + Devoted Body (h/t Colossal)
Indigo: A World of Blue + In Search of Lost Colour
knowing how to be satisfied*
satisfiable*

February 2025: entering our villain era
In this episode:
- blog post (with kitty pic! 📸)
- Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
- Online Workshops
- The Symbolic Lab: Trust
- The Correspondence + what people have said about the experience!
- some goodies, the proceeds for which go to Elena’s GoFundMe🌈
- My books are open + it’s easy to purchase gift readings
- Sign SURJ’s Gear Up Pledge
- 2025 offerings from unsung studio; our 2:1 tarot reading is ❤️🔥read all about it
- follow me on bluesky
- Martha Crawford’s Dream Work as Praxis, Riding the Roller Coaster: Emotion & Contemplation workshop + spring Mortality workshop
- donate to the Transgender Strategy Center
- acts of public defiance like this + this + this + this + this
- I’m getting my news from Kelly Hayes’s Organizing My Thoughts newsletter
- mutual aid isn’t easy, but…eye on the ball
- enter the blanket raffle: make a donation of $22 or more to Elena’s GoFundMe
- perspective
- Colossal
- handmade artist books
- Black Gold Tapestry by Sandra M. Sawatzky
- Portrait Artist of the Year + Elena’s 20-minute video of painting watercolor flowers
- Emily Hall’s dreaming of a new world
- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, hosted by Margaret “Magpie” Killjoy: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South
- Meredith Whittaker’s talk Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
- A Glimpse by Martha Crawford
- Marie Howe’s poem “What the Living Do”
- Luminous Void, the Leonora Carrington’s Major Arcana + Rosebud Tarot
- Alejandra Caraballo
- Dean Spade
- Kelly Hayes
- Martha Crawford
- Survive the Tyrant.pdf
- the C.I.A.’s very own Simple Sabotage Field Manual

January 2025: trusting our experience
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode (with cat pic!)
- Dorothee Söelle
- Study Tarot Series…check out the cohort schedules + what people have said about the experience
- online tarot workshops
- The Symbolic Lab: Trust with me + Elena Solano
- a new duet consultation called The Correspondence + a Venus Retrograde Workshop
- My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings
- me + Cory + Capricorn season on The Cosmic Dispatch: watch or listen!
- Writer + teacher Janine de Novais on Bill Ayer’s Under the Tree podcast
- Dean Spade + Susan Stryker on trans resistance
- Kimberly Garland’s Cosmic Flowers Coloring Book
- Violet Blue’s Covid Safety Handbook
- Elena’s GoFundMe campaign
- Jennifer Armbrust’s Feminist Flourishing Framework
- The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons
- Daniel Hunter on Tactical Disobedience
- Conclave
- Frank Duffy’s Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot + the guidebook
- Martha Crawford’s Circling the Drain: Living Intentionally With Mortality 16-week workshop—Sign up for her newsletter to find out when she’s offering it next!
- NPR Tiny Desk concerts: Doechii, TV On The Radio, The Magnetic Fields, Audrey Nuna + Hayden Pedigo
- Isabella Rotman’s This Might Hurt Tarot
- Daniel Hunter, founder of Choose Democracy

December 2024: reorienting
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode
- Study Tarot Series + cohort schedules + what people have said
- Tarot 101
- Help Elena cover emergency vet bills
- US Consumer Strike 4 Palestine
- buy from independent artists + spiritual workers
- My books are open
- purchase gift readings
- robin herold’s Sleep in Public
- How Do I Take Action Where I Am? A Workshop Series for Grounding Ourselves in the Fight Ahead
- Suzette Clough’s Painting With The Ancestors
- Workshops 4 Gaza
- Grace Lee Boggs
- There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body by Finn Schubert
- creative, spiritual + cultural work
- protecting access to abortion
- taking the biggest risks
- direct support to people in Gaza
- Phoenicia Library + Phoenicia Food Pantry
- Elena Solano’s feelingndealing + counseling services
- robin herold
- Beth Howard’s Working Class Love Notes
- Gaza GoFundMe campaigns via Molly Shah
- Martha Crawford’s groups, circles, writing + more
- astrologers Cory Nakasue + Camille Michelle Gray
- Cosmic Dog House Press
- Nina Hatfield’s Co-Resting Groups:
- Beth fucking Howard + post-election mass meeting here + Working Class Love Notes
- Daniel Hunter’s 10 ways to be prepared and grounded
- actions that are not protesting or voting by Frontline Medics via Mariame Kaba
- action is the antidote
- Robyn Love’s book Branks
- Logan Grendel says it with the utmost clarity
- Detour by Tusharr Madhavv
- the Netflix doc Quincy
- Wojnarowicz
- Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own + an article
- Margaret Killjoy
- Mariame Kaba
- I worked my tail off
- Lane Smith
- long-time organizers + SURJ
- Kelly Hayes
- Gear Up cohorts
- Daniel Hunter’s essay
- Rebecca Solnit
- Dayna Lynn Nuckolls
- break my heart in order to keep me moving

November 2024: major arcana 13 death
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode (including kitty pic!)
- Ussama Makdisi
- Study Tarot Series, cohort schedules + what people have said about the experience
- In-person Tarot Circle
- Online Post-Election Gathering
- My books are open
- purchase gift readings
- Aurora’s housing Go Fund Me
- Elena Solano’s psychotherapeutic + coaching services
- Valatie Community Theater presents Sam’s Point
- Amiri Baraka
- Scorpio season mood
- anthem
- Covid Safety 101
- We can never say we didn’t know; we are all complicit
- cats cats cats cats cats
- organizing instead of agonizing
- Found On The Ground newsletter
- offerings
- working class heroes
- Kara Walker: Fortuna & the Immortality Garden (Machine)
- Sarah Kendzior’s Hanging by a Thread
- beauty + love in Palestine
- Dan “Nuge” Nguyen’s art
- Fall 2024 issue of Hammer + Hope
- Sarah Kendzior
- Liberation Tarot, artwork by Malak Mattar
- not really counting
- 1,000+ people a week
- Covid-19
- science + research
- financial, logistical + political support
- over 335,000
- Living Intentionally With Mortality with Martha Crawford
- Kelly Hayes

October 2024: on being not-okay
in this episode:
- blog post for this episode
- Study Tarot Series…cohort schedules + what people have said
- In-person Tarot Circle
- My books are open—book thru calendly
- 4 free Covid tests
- Martha Crawford’s fall/winter groups
- The Rebis is available for pre-order + a playlist!
- excerpt from an article about the murder of Emmanuel Littlejohn
- COVID via Time magazine
- doing the impossible. every day.
- Palestine teaches life
- Matt Nelson
- cat videos, always cat videos
- murdered 330,000 people, or 8% of the Palestinian population
- listen to one US healthcare worker’s experience in Gaza
- Crips for eSims, 3 families + Fidaa + her children
- my new painting series
- Kusama: Infinity
- Hamada Shoo + the date harvest
- the world is vast + wide + deep, + that there are worlds within worlds
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams documentary
- direct action
- this short video about sculptor Beth Cavener’s work
- Adam Elenbaas’s video
- Ann Friedman’s recent newsletters about ways to build community
- Marcellus Khalifa Williams
- executed 5 men
- nearly 140 journalists in Gaza
- unidentifiable bodies
- killing an injured civilian
- listened to the voice
- chasing down + detaining

September 2024: the power of consistency
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode, complete with kitty pic
- Getting Thru It Together—Cory + I talked about it on The Cosmic Dispatch—watch or listen
- Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
- 2:1 tarot consultations with me + robin herold
- My books are open—book with me thru calendly
- Guidance From the Flowers: Connecting with the Ancient Wisdom of the Earth with Mary Kerns
- did you know I also paint murals?
- You might be interested in purchasing this rare, out-of-print tarot deck for me?
- election season
- Tarence Ray
- Please break my heart by Jodi Rhoden
- Kelly Hayes
- Jeremy Flood
- It would be funny if it weren’t true
- steady diet of cat videos keeping me alive
- Mary Oliver on Empire via Dr. Maya C. Popa
- THESE TWO!!! 😭❤️🔥
- Protests at the DNC
- To Live in a Wild Sea by Guillermo F. Flórez
- Dr. Ariana Brazier’s Imagination Playbook
- Beauty is everywhere
- Organizing can happen anywhere
- robin herold’s Sleep in Public
- Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens playing for her grandson
- Alexandria Masse’s crochet insects
- Fifth Spirit Tarot
- my current work-in-progress, 78 Faces of Power

August 2024: can you join us?
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode
- Malkia Devich Cyril
- fundraiser for my friend Kerry, there’s still time to give!
- Elena Solano + I are offering Confusion + Casting Spells
- Cory Nakasue + I are offering Getting Thru It Together; Cory talked about it on The Cosmic Dispatch
- new Study Tarot Series cohort begins in December + what people have said about the experience
- 2:1 consultations with me + robin herold, you can read more about it here
- My books are open—book with me thru calendly
- Kelly Hayes
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs reflective writing workshop—it was recorded
- Gerti Schoen’s Microdosing Amanita Muscaria online course
- Agonizing? Organize!
- general mood
- In Bad Faith with Mohammed El-Kurd
- cat ASMR
- nearly 200,000 Palestinians, or 9% of the population
- Octavia’s Parables podcast
- Stitching Freedom: Embroidery & Incarceration by Isabella Rosner
- Jessica Mitford interviewed Black radical George Jackson
- Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time, esp Tarot + Blankets and Quilts
- Resistance Revival Chorus’s 2020 album This Joy
- Fannie Lou Hamer’s Songs My Mother Taught Me
- Southerners on New Ground (SONG) recently released the results of their strategic planning process, in the form of a Strategic Almanac
- It’s not too late to start masking!
- Mark Perlmutter, orthopedic surgeon
- this blood-soaked, death-making country
- CAN YOU JOIN US?

a July Interlude
episode artwork by Elena Solano
in this episode:
- blog post for this offering…with memes + kitty-pic
- "Is this America?": Survival and Creativity in the Face of Electoral Foolishness with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- don’t agonize, organize
- obsessed with things like this
- my new favorite podcast
- Tarot 101 online on Tuesday, July 23 at 6pm est (time zone converter) + what past participants have said about it
- Elena Solano + Cory Nakasue
- The Symbolic Lab. On Saturday, August 3 from 1-2:30pm est (time zone converter)
- Getting Thru It Together: The Living Language of Divination #inthesetimes

July 2024: a mid-year check-in
In this episode:
- blog post for this offering
- Charlie Claire Burgess
- Tarot 101 + what people are saying about it
- Online Tarot Circles
- In-Person Tarot Circle
- me + Elena Solano, The Symbolic Lab + Confusion + Casting Spells on Saturday, August 3
- me + Cory Nakasue + tarot + astrology in mid-September
- My books are open—book with me thru calendly!
- Saidiya Hartman
- Hojin’s online art practice series
- Martha Crawford’s Discernment and Emotional Function
- Musical moods: inspiration, connection, rage (support artist Robin Herold on Patreon!)
- Visualizing wealth inequality
- “the goal is to have an endless war, not a successful war”
- trying to eat my snacks in peace
- The Rebis
- New Yorker documentary about a Bulgarian tradition of dancing evil spirits away a young lad named Samih sat on a chair, played the Oud, and sang a song
- Melissa Cody is at MoMA in an exhibit called Webbed Skies
- Cultivating Solidarity: Responding to Political Repression + 5 Questions tool
- Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together by Dean Spade is available for pre-order! Use promo code F*CKED<3 for a discount…
- 78 Faces of Power
- “your silence will not protect you” —Audre Lorde

June 2024: our thoughts + words are spells
in this episode:
- blog post for this episode, with images
- Nemik’s Manifesto
- Tarot 101 on Tuesday, July 23 at 6pm est + what people are saying about it
- Online Tarot Circles
- In-Person Tarot Circle
- My books are open book with me thru calendly
- Alice Sparkly Kat
- The Cosmic Dispatch
- In Conversation With Lane Smith on my podcast; their forthcoming book: 78 Acts of Liberation
- Lama Rod Owens
- 2024 mood board: Careless Whisper, Yes, Sigi, Me every evening at around 7:30pm, Kamau Franklin
- Palestinian Resistance
- Working Class Love Notes
- the most wonderful time of the year
- artist Archie Moore’s kith and kin
- Survival is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- working class pianist at the public library
- How To Survive the End of the World podcast—the sisters’ reunion
- 78 Faces of Power
- Marie Howe

In Conversation With: Lane Smith
Today I had the great good fortune of being in conversation with Lane Smith. Lane is a transmasculine nonbinary writer with over 20 years of experience as an activist, organizer, and Tarot reader. They have been involved in struggles against war, the death penalty, attacks on LGBT rights and body autonomy for marginalized genders and birthing people, police violence, and apartheid. They have worked as a social worker in prisons, and in the field of harm reduction with people who are at risk for HIV/AIDS. With a professional Master’s degree in Social Work and an academic Master’s degree in Humanities and Social Thought, Lane expresses their ideas in clear, nonacademic language in the interest of putting social justice values into practice. Lane is the editor of the Tarot & Politics zine, and a member of Solidarity Tarot where they live in Baltimore City, Maryland.
In addition to publishing the Tarot & Politics zine—a paid venue for Tarot writers and artists that prioritizes the voices of BIPOC, trans, nonbinary, queer, disabled and neurodivergent people—Lane is also author of the forthcoming 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World, available for pre-order now. + they also have a newsletter called Rebel Specters, which I highly recommend.
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Lane Smith on the interwebs: https://mxlanesmith.com/
78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World: https://bookshop.org/p/books/seventy-eight-acts-of-liberation-tarot-to-transform-our-world-lane-smith/20322387?ean=9781649632203
Tarot & Politics zine: https://mxlanesmith.com/publications/
Rebel Specters newsletter: https://buttondown.email/rebelspecters
The Rebis tarot magazine: https://linkin.bio/the__rebis
Armed Joy zine: https://eighteeneightytwo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/armed-joy-imposed.pdf
music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
The Arcana in You ezine: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/the-arcana-in-you-ezine
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

May 2024: the power of the World
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode (with kitty pic)
- a little tarot something…
- Online Tarot Circles
- Asking Good Questions + what people are saying about it
- In-Person Tarot Circle
- My books are open—book with me thru calendly
- Public service announcement
- Prison Solidarity Project
- Amanita Muscaria Microdosing course with Gerti Schoen
- No
- iconic
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Shawn Fain
- Mario Savio’s 1964 speech
- creating new worlds + new culture
- The Cornell Lab’s Merlin Bird ID app
- Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files
- Call (707) 873-7862
- Sophie Strand on Things to Say Instead of “I Hope You’re Feeling Better”...
- Sam Gregg’s The Forgotten Naples
- the artwork of Sebastien Preschoux
- Artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir
- RIP Faith Ringgold
- The World is vast + wide, why do you [do what you do]?*
- Tarot Neocolonial de las Américas by Patrick McGrath Muñiz
- 78 Faces of Power, a work in progress
- poet Joy Sullivan

April 2024: Love as a way of life
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode
- Online Tarot Circles
- Tarot 101 + what people are saying about it
- In-Person Tarot Circle
- Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
- My books are open book with me thru calendly
- Toi Derricotte
- co-resting cohorts with Nina Hatfield
- In Search of the Goddess art show
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Dr. Mohammed Subeth on MSNBC
- @areejakoud’s Silent Prayer
- Hammer & Hope’s Spring 2024 issue about Palestin
- Caroline Bird
- Sweet Tea With Emily Dickinson by Sybil Rosen
- UK fiber + embroidery artist Nature Nurture + UK typewriter artist James Cook
- Claire Foy 👑
- a conversation with a woman who lacks an internal monologue
- Olayemi Olurin giving this asshole the what-for
- Louise Thompson & the First March On Washington via Prisonculture’s substack
- A woman lost her dog for 5 days
- eclipse season vibes
- The Gentle Tarot
- more about Yukon here + a short video about him
- more about Kevin here

March 2024: Relating with unfathomability
In this episode:
- blog post for this offering (cat picture!)
- Online Tarot Circles
- In-Person Tarot Circle
- Using Tarot to Work With the Dead
- Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
- My books are open + it’s easy to book thru calendly
- Return to the Root Retreat
- The Grief Room
- I made some zines
- Loretta Ross
- More of this energy in 2024
- Artist Nick Cave on Loss, Yearning, Transcendence
- Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, her convo with James Baldwin here, + this
- Reimagining Life With Friendship at the Center via Anne Helen Petersen’s Culture Study substack”
- Prison Art: Drawing Is an Outlet and Source of Income for Incarcerated People, an op-ed by Juan Hernandez
- Born at the Right Time by Natalie Labriola
- feline blessings
- Jenny Holzer
- 78 Faces of Power
- Cameron Awkward-Rich; hear him read it here

February 2024: Freedom is making things
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode (it’s where the kitty pic lives!)
- Online Tarot Circles
- Asking Good Questions + what people have said about the experience
- still room to join the Study Tarot Series cohorts-in-progress
- My books are open + it’s easy to book thru calendly
- George Washington Carver
- Jonathan Louis Dent
- Suzette Clough’s online classes + Visual Medicine Facilitator Training
- you can apply here for a penpal thru the Prison Solidarity Project
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Elena Solano + I are collaborating on a playlist
- Downton Abbey
- Millennials Are Killing Capitalism study group is reading the Counterinsurgency Field Manual Email Jared to join + make a donation if you ca
- Dana Piazza’s artwork
- The Feminist on Cellblock Y
- Alice Sparkly Kat’s Astro Poem Generator + their Astro-Kat’s offering
- Mariame Kaba’s newsletter + the People’s Pottery Project
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- SURJ
- the Squad
- Christofascist far-right state their goals plainly
- SURJ’s strategy for 2024

January 2024: Entering a Strength year
In this episode:
blog post for this episode
Tarot 101 + what people are saying about it
room to join Study Tarot Series cohorts underway
My books are open + it’s easy to book with me thru calendly
the grief room + Elena Solano on Instagram or TikTok
In Conversation with Ki Martinez
An article about female reindeer
The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Betty Martin on the For The Wild podcast
a beautiful memorial to Palestinian poet + professor Dr. Refaat Alareer,his poem read by actor Brian Cox + his Tedx Talk Stories Make Us
Some skills I think we need get good at… from Karla Monterroso @karlitaliliana

Episode 9: In Conversation With Ki Martinez
Today I have the great good fortune of being in conversation with Ki Martinez. Ki received their training in the UK at the Sea School of Embodiment in 2020, becoming a Certified Embodiment Coach as well as a Certified Sexological Bodyworker. Ki is a member of the worldwide Association for Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB). Today, they specialize in working with growth-oriented people of all genders, erotic explorers, creatives, helping professionals, adults with anxiety, + folks suffering from the effects of trauma.
Ki is also a Somatic Anti-Oppression Practitioner + Educator, teaching courses on Somatics for Social Justice with Both/And Collective.
Prior to this work, Ki was a community organizer + facilitator in leadership development. Their focus was coaching social change makers + creatives looking to lead value-driven lives. Even in that work, they encountered the importance of embodiment + somatic practice for creating real change.
Ki holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Loyola University in Chicago.
Follow Ki’s work on IG:
@pleasureactive
@bothandcollective
Websites & Newsletters:
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

December 2023: Orienting with the needs of the collective
Blog post for this offering (with kitty pic!)
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In this episode:
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- Online Tarot Circles
- room to join Study Tarot Series cohorts-in-progres
- Tarot #inthesetimes newsletter signup
- My books are open it’s easy to book thru calendly
- Guérin Asante
- Phoenicia Library
- Phoenicia Food Pantry
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) + their new National Member program
- Truthout
- Gerti Schoen’s online course
- The Dharma Tarot
- Móri, a gifted esotericist
- disrupt business as usual, protect forests + move decision-makers to action
- the organizers who helped Andy Beshear win re-election in Kentucky
- Beth Howard’s forthcoming memoir, manifesto, + how-to organizing manual Rednecks for Black Lives
- Michelle Alexander in Hammer & Hope
- Five Broken Cameras
- Can We Imagine Ourselves Surviving Together?
- Li: Dynamic Form in Nature by David Wade
- Martha Crawford

Episode 8: In Conversation With Roberta Aylward
Welcome to In Conversation With, my new series where I get to talk to my favorite artists, esotericists, writers, organizers, spiritual + creative workers + people who I think are doing really interesting shit in the world.
Today I have the great good fortune to be in conversation with Roberta Aylward, an artist living in Portland, OR. Roberta was born in Elgin, Illinois in 1969 + creative expression is essential to her understanding of the world + where she finds her clearest voice. She credits her high school art instructors, Martin Davis (Tucson, AZ) + Milton Harley (Nanaimo, B.C.) for providing a strong foundation for valuing art in her life. She received a BFA with a concentration in painting from The College of Santa Fe in New Mexico in 1991.
Roberta lives in Portland, OR with her husband, their 13-year-old son + their cat. She works in her home studio + practices drawing, collage + photography in service of her painting. Roberta exhibits her art on her website + in person, opening her studio to the public twice a year. Her work is included in many private collections + has been part of group exhibitions at The Painting Center in New York, Tacoma Art Museum, Oregon College of Art + Craft, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Umpqua Valley Arts Association + The Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery at Chemeketa Community College.
Roberta’s website: www.robertaaylward.com
Roberta’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/robertaaylward
Sign up for exhibition + Open Studio updates: www.robertaaylward.com/contact
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

Episode 7: In Conversation With Brett Barry
Today, I had the great good fortune of speaking with Brett Barry. Brett hosts + produces Kaatscast from Silver Hollow Audio, in the heart of the Catskills. He teaches podcasting + audio production in the Digital Media & Journalism dept. at SUNY New Paltz. Brett graduated from Syracuse University’s television, radio & film program + worked as an associate documentary producer for several years before launching a career in voice-overs in 2002. He returned to Syracuse 10 years later for a graduate degree in television-radio-film. Brett is represented in NYC by Access Talent for television + radio commercials, audiobooks, promos, + narration. He’s the host of public radio’s "Sound Beat," was the longtime voice of India’s English-language network, Zee Café, + the last announcer for the iconic soap opera Guiding Light. He has narrated more than 125 audiobooks + is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
Kaatscast podcast: http://kaatscast.com/
Silver Hollow Audio: http://silverhollowaudio.com/
Brett’s Voice: http://brettsvoice.com/
shea’s favorite kaatscast episodes:
Dowsing for Water with Bill Getz: https://www.kaatscast.com/dowsing-for-water-with-bill-getz/
Indigenous Catskills 101 with Justin Wexler:
https://www.kaatscast.com/indigenous-catskills-101/
“Listening To Taylor Swift In Prison” by Joe Garcia: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/listening-to-taylor-swift-in-prison
music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

November 2023: Aligning bit by bit
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode (with kitty pic!)
- Online Tarot Circles
- there’s still room to join Study Tarot Series cohorts-in-progress
- Using Tarot to Work With Regret
- Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- My books are open; book with me thru calendly
- rehearse the world
- Rising Majority webinar + time stamps
- 5 calls app
- call folks in Kentucky
- phone + text banks
- In Conversation With podcast
- Elena Solano’s offering The Grief Room
- Liturgical Book Club!
- Mike Davis
- UAW tentative agreement
- 13 Ways of Looking: Jenny Odell
- Colombian artist Doris Salcedo; her piece A Flor de Piel and Palimpsest
- How We Show Up with Mia Birdsong
- Season Two of Our Flag Means Death
- Disturbing the Meaning of Objects + artist Jessica Stockholder
- Indigenous Catskills 101 on the Kaatscast podcast + a handy Lenape Resources PDF
- Tricia Hersey
- The Philosopher’s Tarot
- Spolia Tarot
- Wayhome Tarot
- This Might Hurt Tarot
- rblack Tarot
- Howard Thurman
- adrienne maree brown
- values
- Dayna Lynn Nuckolls

Episode 6: In Conversation With Laetitia Barbier
Today I’m In Conversation With Laetitia Barbier. Laetitia is an intuitive counselor with a great passion for the human soul. She studied art history at the Sorbonne, and has been working professionally in the arts for over a decade. She had her first tarot epiphany at the age of 11, when she bought her first Marseille Tarot deck at a Parisian tobacco shop. A passionate and experienced tarot reader, Laetitia is a firm believer in the cards' empowering nature. Beyond their use as a fortune telling oracle, she views tarot as a visual tool that helps us bring clarity to the complexity of life, providing information and insights on decisions we’re facing, or shining a light on options that we might not have considered. Laeti is also an independent scholar + teacher. She has worked with Morbid Anatomy since 2011 as a programming director, head librarian, + occasional curator + shares her interest for antique divination cards and esoteric iconography via her popular instagram account @laetitia.cartomancy. Laeti’s gorgeous book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Laetitia’s website: https://www.laetitiacartomancy.com/
Laetitia’s book—Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/books/2d60hukqya5ejy6oydsq7i7d1c1k7l
Laetitia’s amazing IG account: https://www.instagram.com/laetitia.cartomancy/
Morbid Anatomy: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/
Morbid Anatomy’s patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morbidanatomy
music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

Episode 5: In Conversation With Jamie Sanin
Today I’m In Conversation With Jamie Sanin (she/they/any pronouns) is a visual artist, educator, + organizer living + growing in “New York's Hudson Valley,” historically known as the Eastern Door, shared ancestral territory of Mohican, Lenape, Stockbridge Munsee, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora—shouts to all teachers including Iron Path Farms!).
Raised in Washingtonville NY with B.S. in Visual Arts Education, Jamie’s interest in teaching sprouted from her own experiences with the arts; in addition to visual art, Jamie also studied dance, music, + theater from a young age. Each experience provided them not only with a breadth of cultural knowledge but also the opportunity to consider the importance of self care + community care via accessible arts, for which she is a fierce + dedicated advocate.
Through their artwork + events facilitation, Jamie aims to create cultural commentary using visual language + to use the arts as a vessel to foster strong connection + strong communities. She believes that the arts are a universal language + is dedicated to protecting them from co-optation by those who would abuse or oppress people thru gentrification, capitalism, art washing, + other forms of exclusion. Jamie's personal, professional, + creative work is centered around liberation, collaboration, + joy.
Jamie is also the proud founder of Celebrate845, whose mission is to organize, recognize, + celebrate marginalized + working class creatives via pop-up events across the “845.” Jamie is so grateful to have roots in the Hudson Valley + be a part of its creative community.
Jamie Sanin on the web: www.jamiesanin.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jamiesanin
Celebrate845: www.instagram.com/celebrate.845
Donate to Celebrate845 via Venmo: @Celebrate845
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

Episode 4: In Conversation with Cory Nakasue

October 2023: Conversations with the body
In this episode:
- blog post for this offering (with a pic of my cat)
- Study Tarot Series + what people are saying about it
- Asking Good Questions + what people are saying about it
- listen or watch my new In Conversation With podcast
- My books are open + now it’s super-easy to book with me thru calendly
- Let’s Talk About It: Mistakes
- Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way
- Ki Martinez’s sexual, healing, embodied support space
- JINKER
- Antarctica the Woman by Stephanie Krzywonos
- Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
- #StopCopCity: continue to act to resist
- Jackie Battenfield on Small Things Brought Together
- The Gallery That Destroys All Shame
- a simple thing
- Dayna Lynn Nuckolls
- Wheel of Consent
- The Art of Giving and Receiving
- “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass, via Mariame Kaba’s Substack

Episode 3: In Conversation With Elizabethanne Spiotta
Elizabethanne Spiotta is a chaplain, a spiritual caregiver, a widow, a mother, and she loves to walk. She is studying the Somatic Experiencing model of addressing grief and trauma as they arise in the body. Elizabethanne works 1-1 with clients where sessions consist of walking and talking—an approach based on the idea that movement is change, walking while exploring the relationship with grief and trauma offers new perspectives, ideas and curiosity. Everything shifts when we move. We have the chance to feel differently about what is in front of us. Moving forward, moving along. Elizabethanne also leads grief groups and disordered eating groups. She is located in the Hudson Valley but is also available for 1-1 and group sessions via zoom.
music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
----------- shea in the catskills Tarot as Questions: the bookstudy tarot series

Episode 2: In Conversation With Robyn Love
Robyn Love is the founder of Atha Yoga School + a certified Yoga therapist. She has decades of personal practice, over fifteen years of teaching experience + thousands of hours of training in the Viniyoga tradition. All of that is good and important but it doesn’t really convey her passion for sharing the profound wisdom of Yoga, particularly as it is presented in Patanjali’s Yoga Sūtra + other foundational texts. Robyn believes that the ongoing study + practice of a Yoga deeply rooted in abhyasa (daily discipline) + vairagyam (acceptance) honors yoga’s roots in India + takes up its invitation to explore what it means to be alive in a human body. Her teachers are Chase Bossart, Anita Claney, Dolphi Wertenbaker + Bhooma Madavan. Robyn also is a student in the Mountains & Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism. Her teacher is Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi.
Mastering Pranayama 2024 in-person training
Robyn Love’s artist website + Instagram
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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Episode 1: In Conversation With Camille Michelle Gray
Camille Michelle Gray is an astrologer, musician, writer, + civil servant from Washington, D.C. She started practicing astrology in 2017. Her consults are steeped in the soulful concepts & archetypal poetry of Evolutionary Astrology & are informed by the technical & traditional techniques of Hellenistic Astrology. Camille writes about astrology a lot, too—for her website, for social media, + for The Astrology Podcast with Chris Brennan. She is also a staff writer for a new astrology dating app that will be releasing later on this year! Be on the lookout for that!!
In this episode:
camillemichellegray.com for readings, @millymichelle on IG and Twitter
The Astro Bash Evolutionary Astrology conference in Borrego Springs, CA 9/28 to 10/2—REGISTRATION OPEN for both in-person and streaming
The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest
Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott, PhD
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
music: Wii music but make it hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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shea✨ in the catskills is a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, pleasure activist, organizer + contemplative.

September 2023: All together now
In this episode:
- Study Tarot Series cohorts + what people are saying about this Series
- Asking Good Questions on Sunday, September 24 at 10am est + what people are saying about this workshop
- Atha Yoga School’s next Let’s Talk About It Series: MISTAKES
- My books are open + you can now schedule with me thru calendly
- Suzette Clough + Painting with the Universe beginning September 20
- Virtual Politicized Practice Space for White Organizers, Activists and Community Workers
- The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand
- Heat Is Not a Metaphor by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Buried Passion—The Price of Silence by Mary Porter Kerns
- Ayanna Young’s convo with James Bridle on Modes of Intelligence
- Katherine May’s Enchantment + her Substack: The Clearing; her piece about Sinéad O'Connor + a recent post about community
- The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row (gift article)
- Mariame Kaba
- The Ritualists podcast
- Cosmic Doghouse Press
- Tarot as Questions
- SURJ + work that feels like a ritual.
- less prep, more presence
- Mariame Kaba + Kelly Hayes
- Kurt Russo on the For the Wild podcast
- blog post for this offering

August 2023: Making a life outside the walls of safety + conformity
In this episode:
- Blackbird Info Shop & Cafe in Kingston, NY
- Phoenicia Festival of the Arts
- Tarot as Questions
- Shout out to Christina Varga
- In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way in Kingston
- Study Tarot Series cohorts starting next month; what people are saying about this Series
- My books are open
- Aurora Brush + I talked about Cosmic Dog House Press + our collaboration—listen here
- Erika DeVries's gorgeous artwork
- The Cosmic Dispatch on Radio Kingston
- I’ll be talking FLOWERS with Mary Kerns on Sunday, August 6
- I’ll be talking ART PRACTICE with Jody Hojin Kimmel on Sunday, August 13
- Tune in live 4-5pm EST, or check out the podcast
- The conversations I’ve been having with folks in Kentucky
- Suzette Clough’s paintings
- the artwork of Karla Knight
- Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
- The 13th Step podcast
- Katherine May’s latest book, Enchantment
- Let This Radicalize You
- image + links in tarot offering are in this blog post

Laughing + Crying as Life Rushes Thru
In this episode:
- blog post for this offering (with cat photo!)
- Tarot as Questions
- Tarot 101 on Saturday, July 15 at 10am est + Tuesday, July 18 at 6pm est—see what past participants have to say
- In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way
- Radio Kingston’s The Cosmic Dispatch
- My books are open
- Study Tarot Series cohorts that are starting in the fall
- Cosmic Dog House Press
- Ritualists podcast + Rituals of Discernment
- Perdita Finn is offering a FREE online intro (register to receive the recording)
- SURJ phone bank
- Liturgical Book Club
- Robyn Maynard
- The Deep Sea
- Breaking the Romance Myth
- This conversation with queer poet Andrea Gibson + her poem Tincture
- Scalawag’s Abolitionist Media Guide
- Queer Portraits in History
- Lux Magazine
- T. Susan Chang
- This Might Hurt Tarot

June 2023: Getting Lost
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode
- Tarot as Questions
- Using Tarot to Work With the Dead
- Study Tarot Series + what people are saying about it
- Tarot 101
- Asking Good Questions
- Liturgical Book Club
- Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes + Mariame Kaba
- My books are open
- Essential Wrap by Chrissy Lawlor’s Workday Wear
- Cory Nakasue + The Cosmic Dispatch
- June 16 is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Woodstock
- Finn Schubert interviewed me about Taking Our Desires Seriously + his latest post, Maintenance as a Creative Act
- Showing Up for Racial Justice’s 3-year strategy (I do a little story sharing at 36:45!)
- Our Ancestors Don’t Need Healing by Perdita Finn
- The new season of the For The Wild Podcast
- Bayo Akomalafe’s series The Edges in the Middle with john a. powell, V + Indy Johar
- Kimberly Ann Johnson on Pleasure as a Pathway
- Karen Turner’s Intuitive Daily Stitching journals
- Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s 2021 documentary short Video Visit

May 2023: The Power of It Hasn't Happened Yet
In this episode:
- Pre-order Tarot as Questions
- Asking Good Questions + what people are saying about it
- Study Tarot Series
- My books are open
- sexual, healing, embodied with Melina Martinez
- Making Space: Rituals for Releasing Stuff with Peg Conway
- Oriethyia
- The 100th episode of Movement Memos
- Let This Radicalize You
- artwork by students at Essex Street Academy
- Justine Kurland collage
- You Didn’t See Nothin
- The Africas VS. America
- End-of-Life Dreams by Paul Lauritzen
- The Art Room at My Texas Prison by Brian Hindson
- This Might Hurt Tarot
- Tangle & Wend
- Bayo Akomolafe
- Mariame Kaba
- Kelly Hayes
- Action Hour
- calling offices to #StopCopCity

April 2023: Sacred Work is Done with Others
In this episode:
- Tarot 101
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- Study Tarot Series
- My books are open
- Frances Weller’s The Wild Edge of Sorrow via Dean Spade) is writing about flowers: It’s not what you think.
- everything ALTARS on The Ritualists podcast
- 10 Ways You Can Help Your Local Public Library .pdf
- Missouri legislators voted to defund public libraries
- Watch this talk by incoming ALA President Emily Drabinski; if you only have 90 seconds, go to 1:08:00.
- If you live in NY: contact your legislators about increasing library funding
- Check out this visual exploration of A History of Public Libraries
- Flower paintings by Joy Taylor
- a really beautiful show at the Olive Free Library through May 6th.
- Close Readings podcast; I loved this episode!
- short video about artist Cecilia Vicuna
- What if climate change meant not doom—but abundance? by Rebecca Solnit
- 4-part conversation with Zoharah + Michael Simmons, centered on Dan Berger’s new book Stayed On Freedom
- Proof the Dead Are Real (But What If There Isn’t Any?) by Perdita Finn
- This Might Hurt Tarot
- Mariame Kaba
- Maisie Brown
- Parabola’s Spring 2017 Issue, via Rob Breszny’s weekly newsletter

March 2023: Playing in the Dark
In this episode:
- Asking Good Questions + what people say about it!
- Reading Tarot Spreads
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- Atha Yoga School’s Let’s Talk About It: Death series
- Study Tarot Series
- The Ritualists Season 2
- My books are open
- Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
- Robyn Love offers Many Small Deaths: The Art of Living Courageously
- Perdita Finn’s Substack
- Making Space: Rituals of Releasing Stuff with Peg Conway
- Ann Friedman on Kinkeeping
- Hammer & Hope: A Magazine of Black Politics and Culture
- Chase Strangio’s When Cis Women Attack Trans Rights, Fascists Win
- Nia T. Evans’s Revolution is a Great Work of Art
- Hyperallergic’s A View from the Easel series
- A Love Letter to Libraries, Long Overdue
- More and More, I Talk to the Dead by Margaret Renkl
- Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday
- Tortuguita, body-cam footage, Cop City, Norfolk Southern’s toxic chemical release in East Palestine, OH
- The Wild Unknown Tarot
- Nawal El Saadawi

February 2023: On Liminality + Surrender
In this episode:
- blog post of this offering, with images
- calendar of tarot workshops
- Tarot 101
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- Atha Yoga School’s Let’s Talk About It: Death series
- Study Tarot Series
- Liturgical Book Club
- My books are open
- Making Space: Rituals of Releasing Stuff. For info or to register: pegconway@gmail.com
- Perdita Finn’s Mothers of Mystery and Magic: A Four-Week Intensive
- at our backs & at our sides: reconnecting to our white anti racist ancestors
- ‘aBiogenesis’ by Markos Kay
- “The Men of China Hill” by Matthew Hahn
- Sasha Velour in “Wild is the Wind”
- From Loki to Behemoth by Rachael Talibart
- Really Long Distance by Miki Meek
- Lydia Polgreen’s Want to Understand L.G.B.T.Q. Life in America? Go to Alabama
- a single brain cell
- Tortuguita
- Stop Cop City.
- a prototype of militarized police training centers
- the City Council approved it anyway
- learn more about this movement to Stop Cop City
- the Wayhome Tarot

January 2023: Entering a Chariot Year
- blog post of this podcast (includes cat pictures!)
- tarot workshops
- Liturgical Book Club
- Study Tarot Series + a short video
- My books are open
- Painting with the Universe
- The Neighborhood Astrologer
- Camille Michelle Gray
- Kaatscast
- The Ritualists podcast + Peg Conway
- Monica Furlong’s Juniper, Wise Child + Colman + a book on medieval women mystics
- Small Things Brought Together
- Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross
- Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
- SURJ National Director Erin Heany on How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky
- Nimasprout, aka Nicole Gustafsson’s, Adventures series of artworks
- The Spacious Tarot

December 2022: What kind of art is this?
In this episode:
- Asking Good Questions workshop
- Study Tarot Series + what people are saying it
- Liturgical Book Club reading Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto out loud
- Book a reading
- The Ritualists podcast on Rituals of Healing and Money as a Ritual Ingredient
- I’m giving to the Phoenicia Library, the Phoenicia Food Pantry, SURJ, the National Network of Abortion Funds + Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition—Water Fund
- this conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer + Björk
- Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
- feature on Emily Wilson
- The Visions of Octavia Butler + Lynell George’s A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
- Season 3 of We’re Here on HBO Max
- The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
- Master of Light
- Lisa Sterle’s Modern Witch Tarot
- Visual Medicine + Suzette Clough’s Painting with the Universe class

November 2022: Cultural Shadows
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode, with images
- Asking Good Questions workshop
- Study Tarot Series; Here’s what people are saying about this experience
- Book a reading
- Alta Starr
- Finn Schubert’s Substack
- Energy First Aid for Any Home with Peg Conway
- Meeting the Ancestors: Sacred Doll-Making as Ritual & Prayer with Polly Paton-Brown
- Join SURJ for some delicious midterm actions
- Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
- The Liturgical Book Club
- Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Visiting Room Project
- Off Assignment’s Letter to a Stranger series
- I Will Not Be Purified—a collaboration featuring Sophie Strand’s words with music by Amanda Palmer + Gracie & Rachel
- Sophie’s book The Flowering Wand
- Kelly Hayes

October 2022: The Gift of Our Anger
In this episode:
- Asking Good Questions workshop
- Book a reading
- Learn tarot
- Tarot as Questions series
- Mary Porter Kerns’s new oracle deck
- This is why I’m investing my time + energy with SURJ for the midterms. We’re taking action to protect abortion access in Kentucky + many other things…CAN YOU JOIN US?
- The Ritualists episode 6 on Desire + Ritual + episode 7 on Rituals at Work
- The podcast series Mother Country Radicals
- Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
- Eleanor Hancock’s 9-minute video “5 Tools for Emotional Resilience.”
- Roots Deeper Than Whiteness class
- One of my favorite books is back in print: Waking Up to the Dark by Clark Strand
- Station Eleven on HBO Max
- This again #whateverittakes
- Can you join us?

September 2022: Generative Intersections
In this episode:
- Tarot 101
- Book a reading
- Tarot as Questions
- Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
- Perdita Finn’s Take Back the Magic fall classes
- delicious ready-made actions with SURJ
- The Ritualists podcast Episode 4 + Episode 5 with me + Peg Conway
- Suzette Clough’s Art Apothecary + Visual Medicine
- Vaskange’s Endless Illustration
- Ang Roell on BEES
- this account
- The Hustle Behind Bars by Beth Schwartzapfel
- Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines
- Way of the Rose community
- 54-day Novenas
- Perdita Finn
- Dayna Tortorici “Your Body, My Choice: The movement to criminalize abortion”

August 2022: Something to Remember, Something to Practice
Mentioned in this episode:
- Learn Tarot
- Study Tarot Series testimonials
- Book a reading
- The Ritualists podcast
- Tarot as Questions
- August 11 text bank with SURJ
- a perspective check
- adrienne maree brown’s sermon
- MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN: THE LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS
- Hudson Rowan’s “I Voted” sticker
- Alok on friendship
- Olivia Juliana
- “Thoroughly Loved” by Mary Porter Kerns
- Isabella Rotman’s This Might Hurt Tarot
- Alok on democratizing love

July 2022: You are a Personal Front Line
In this episode:
- adrienne maree brown + her meme curation + Emergent Strategy
- The Ritualists podcast
- Finn Schubert’s Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here + substack
- My books are open for readings in July.
- Somatics for Social Justice workshop
- Sarahana defeats incumbent
- join the Mid-Hudson Valley DSA
- The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel
- The Age of the Possible by Maria Popova
- adrienne maree brown’s StyleLikeU feature + this early StyleLikeU gem
- Resistance Revival Chorus
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- “The Theft of the Commons” by Eula Biss
- Summer of Soul documentary
- unedited conversation with adrienne maree brown
- quotes by Mariame Kaba

June 2022: Hope is Not a Feeling
- Learn more about abolition here, here + here
- Study Tarot Series
- Book a tarot session
- We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
- Tangle & Wend Atelier Canal’s June Garden Party Summer Salon in Brooklyn
- energy work with my friend Peg Conway
- Sarahana for NY State Assembly: the primary is June 28th; donate here, canvass here
- Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
- “Paradise” by Sybil Rosen
- Season 6 of How to Survive the End of the World podcast is all about love
- From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
- “A Bleed of Blue” by Amy Key
- Patrick Blanchfield on gun violence
- Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together
- 3am.tarot’s honestly, what the fuck? tarot spread using the This Might Hurt Tarot
- 3am.tarot's tarot spread ebooks
- My Broken Voice by Caitlin Seida

May 2022: Turning Points
- Book a reading with me
- Learn Tarot
- Painting raffle
- Movement Memos podcast
- Neighborhood Astrologer
- Bethany Saltman’s book Strange Situation
- Amazon Labor Union
- We’re Here on HBO Max
- Vaughn Smith, working-class hyper-polyglot who speaks 24 languages
- Our Flag Means Death
- Jerrod Charmichael: Rothaniel
- Writing about libraries by Rachael Nevins + antilibraries by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- Resmaa Menakem
- *abandoning myself to appear normal: this framing is via Melina Martinez’s Somatics for Social Justice course
- Bob the Drag Queen

April 2022: Abundant Attention
Episode notes:
Let’s Talk About It: Food & Eating Appetite
Perdita Finn has two incredible workshops
Dean Spade Is Asking Activists, ‘How Much Bolder Could You Be?’
adrienne maree brown on deep practice
Ecoerotica’s Instagram feed
The extraordinary story of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on the island of O’ahu in Hawaii
Listening to a podcast
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy