In Search of Tarot

It's the final installment in our Book Club series discussing Charlie Claire Burgess' phenomenal new work, RADICAL TAROT. This episode is an extra long deep-dive into the Minors and Courts, and it's also Angie's farewell to the podcast. We will miss you, Angie! JOIN US THIS THURSDAY 12/21 for our Book Club Hang with special guest Charlie Claire Burgess on Patreon: patreon.com/insea...

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. Howe...

Dajé Alōh is a storyteller, emergent strategy facilitator, and earth-based, spirit led visionary leadership coach helping creators pursue the deepest dreams of their heart. As a Memphis-born, Appalachian-cured storyteller, song-keeper, and essence liberation coach, Dajé is here to support seekers, lovers, crafters, and kin in finding and singing the deep song of their lives. There are new stories,...

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...

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. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! Cyrée Jarelle's Instagram Cyrée Jarelle's TikTok --- Nick's Instagram Nick's Website Angie's Instagram Angie's Website --- Music by AJ Ackleson Logo Design by Andrew Tamlyn

Thomas is a divination coach, deck creator (Life Line Tarot, Life Line Lenoracle, and Seaborn Kipper), and author (Tarot Tableau: The Fool's Journey, Awaken the Court Cards, and many workbooks). As Thomas of Hermit’s Mirror, he helps the spiritually curious use divination to reclaim their present, untangle threads of the past, and weave their future fates. You can learn more about his work at ...

Nik (they/she) is a virgo sun, cancer moon & scorpio rising who identifies as queer & gender fluid.   After longing for more experiences of genuine connection & authentic exploration with others, Nik created "the open space" - a platform where they share their gifts as an intuitive, embodiment guide, writer & community organizer.  You can find more about Nik's work at...

Charlie Claire Burgess is a queer and trans-nonbinary tarot practitioner, writer, deck creator, and witch. They are the author of  Radical Tarot , a guide to reading tarot radically for personal and collective liberation; the creator of Fifth Spirit Tarot, a queer and inclusive deck for a world beyond binaries; and the creator of The Gay Marseille, a cheeky, queer update on the classic Tarot de Ma...

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...

Today we're sharing a conversation that originally took place on The Tarot Diagnosis podcast. In it, Nick and Shannon discuss The Magician, and use this iconic card to investigate and trouble the notion of "Self" as it appears in Western ontology. Shannon Knight (she/her) is a queer therapist licensed in both Arizona and Florida where she specializes in working with individuals and c...

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&#...

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 a...

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" appea...

Nick's going solo today to explore the themes and concepts that will inspire Meet Me at The Margin - a month-long virtual conference for queer people who want to reclaim and re-story their innate capacity for ambiguity, paradox, and liminality, which will take place June 4-28, 2023. Through a series of eight workshops facilitated by some of today’s most Marginal thinkers, participants explore...

Eli Lawliet, PhD, is The Gender Doula - offering full-spectrum support to folks who are transitioning, questioning, or exploring their gender. Due to the unique nature of every gender journey, Eli pulls from his many experiences--a working-class background in retail, ten years of academic research on trans healthcare in the U.S., five years of tarot reading for others, and much more--to support cl...

We're back for another shuffle of the history books — today exploring the traditions and legends of Runes and Ogham. At first glance, these two symbolic systems (which are actually alphabets) appear quite similar. But it turns out that their stories branch apart in many directions. Join us as we discover more about these popular methods of divination, and question just how old they actually ar...

Jordan Rayne of @sincerely_the_tarot is a queer trans-masc tarot lover. He believes that tarot is a juicy tool for self-empowerment and meaning-making. He has a deep relationship with magic, ritual, beetles and worms. Jordan creates tarot-inspired prose, collage, affirmations, and oracle cards. Subscribers of his monthly snail mail offering receive these treasures and a tarot card from a different...

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, yog...

Meg Jones Wall (she/they) is a queer, chronically-ill tarot reader, writer, photographer, and the creator of 3am.tarot. A columnist and editor for Autostraddle and a regular contributor to Astrology Answers, Meg's work has also appeared in WIRED, Catapult Magazine, Witchology, and more. Finding the Fool is her first book.  SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ON PATREON Purchase Finding the Fool on Bookshop.o...

Cameron Steele is a writer, editor, and tarot reader based in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She teaches online creative writing, composition, and literature courses at the University of Nebraska, where she graduated with her PhD in August 2021. Her recent essays are forthcoming or have been published in Gulf Coast, Barrelhouse, Split Lip Magazine, Brevity, and SFWP Quarterly.  She also writes "in...

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,...

Sanyu Estelle is the author of "The History (Mystery) of the Tarot," the opening chapter of Tarot for Pregnancy by Brittany Carmona-Holt. Sanyu is a Claircognizant ("clear knowing") Soothsayer ("truth teller") that is also known as "The Word Witch" because of her deep love for word origins (etymology) and word culture (philology). These natural inclinations...

Ari Felix is a multidisciplinary philosopher and mystic dedicated to living in veneration of the Planetary Ancestors (including the Earth). Their work is about emotional transmutation, dreaming new worlds, and building those worlds through visionary power and spiritual freedom. They have worked with spiritual practitioners, movement leaders, healers, creators, and artists of all kinds for ove...

Our guests today are Jannie Bui Brown and James W. Brown IV, a mother and son team who authored and illustrated the fantastic new Tarot deck: The Sacred Web Tarot. Jannie is an artist, yoga teacher, devoted mother of three and partner in life with her beloved. She considers herself to be a life-long student of all things spiritual and liberating and finds herself most at home on a trail by a strea...

Many worlds exist in this one world. In one world, Leah Garza is a veteran teacher and education organizer. She has spent nearly two decades in social justice movement spaces, working toward equitable change in public education. She earned her masters degrees in education and depth psychology and is currently working on a Phd in community, liberation, indigenous, and eco psychologies. In another w...