Rewired

Deep feeling wisdom is not logic — it's a felt sense of worth, and this episode spends ninety minutes finding out what happens when you actually act on it. The card is the Queen of Cups, pulled cold on a "themes for the world" dare, and by the end she's been cross-examined against Taylor Swift, mapped onto Star Trek's court, and used to name the difference between absorbing a feeling and letting i...

Two people who left religion keep finding its shape in the places that promised to be the opposite of it. The rule of three is penal substitutionary atonement wearing a pointed hat — a claim stated as a law of the universe, binding on everyone, held in fact by one tradition. This is an episode about authority: who takes it, what they point at to justify it, and what's left of a practice once nobod...

The card came up with no box, no home country, printed by hand in a Port-au-Prince slum with whatever materials were on hand that week. Matt pulled it the same week his last living grandmother slipped away at ninety-six, the same weekend a friend at his old church retreat got a terminal diagnosis, the same stretch he spent standing in George Floyd Square reading hand-lettered gravestones. Death, i...

There is a kind of tired that sleep does not touch, and this episode is ninety minutes of two people circling it. The card came up world-weary — a woman on a throne with a whiskey in her hand and her eyes closed, shutting out the noise long enough to hear something. Then a second card turned up uninvited, the one Matt says has been stalking him. Between them they name the thing: the exhaustion is...

There is a version of the vampire that stopped being a monster somewhere in the last century and started being a mirror. Not the thing out there you drive a stake through — the thing in here that has to take something from someone in order to keep going. That's the whole episode. The card just got there first. Matt showed up in a black shirt, dark nails, hair slicked back, holding an Edgar Allan P...

This is a dispatch from the vault: an unreleased episode of Matt’s old show, Contemplating Resonance , and the very first time he and Jaye Anne ever talked on a microphone. He’s hosting; she’s the guest — an energy healer there to talk self-healing, surprising self-care, and the divine feminine. Neither of them knew it yet, but this conversation is the seed that became Rewired. The through-line is...

Matt pulls Strength as a jumper (it fell face-up) from the Symdala Tarot , a round mandala deck whose guidebook gives every card a one-word activation. Strength’s word: ferocity. Leo, the Sun, fire, Kabbalistic mercy and severity — and, as it happens, Jupiter sauntering into Leo on Matt’s own Jupiter return. The card doesn’t name the topic so much as the temperature, and this one runs hot. The hea...

Matt pulls a deck he hasn’t touched in over a year — the Deviant Moon Tarot , where the clothing is stitched from photographed 19th-century tombstones and nothing in the deck is more than a little bit unsettling — and turns up the Magician: four arms, four tools, and four shadows foreshadowing behind him. Light and dark, baked into one card. What starts as “why don’t I use this deck more” becomes...

It’s Pride Month, so Matt brings the queer deck and pulls The Empress: bearded, liberation-focused, shield reading live, laugh, liberate . What starts as a structure-of-the-tarot argument turns, through the card’s shadow — the great mother and the devouring mother — into the realest AI conversation we’ve had: not “is it good or evil,” but why we keep trying to shove the parts we don’t like under t...

Astrology isn’t predicting it; it’s reflecting it — the cosmos enforcing cycles a culture of endless progress refuses to honor. The question we couldn’t close: can you turn the heat down halfway, or does the whole thing have to burn to complete? Two hosts who promised structure and immediately abandon it pull the Ten of Swords from the food-themed Magic Pantry deck — an onion, mid-chop, weeping —...

This is the one where we mix the things you’re not supposed to mix, argue that the purity line around technology is shadow projection in an ethics costume, and follow animism past the point of comfort: if it’s animism, it’s animism all the way down, or it isn’t animism at all. The most charged question in modern practice: can you blend AI and technology with magic, or does it make you a charlatan?...

On the surface, a riff on the King of Pentacles. Underneath: reality as a set of consented games — speakeasies, masks, LARPing, capitalism — and AI as an amplifier of whatever is already there, not a creator of anything new. Jaye Anne named it on-mic: “it was mostly about shadow capitalism.” In this episode * The card: the Gen Z Tarot’s renamed suits (Aesthetic / Mood / Facts / Guap) and the Zaddy...

Two white people take on appropriation vs. appreciation and refuse to dodge it. The Hanged Man — Matt’s recurring card, drawn 3 of the 4 times he’s ever cut this deck — presides over the whole hour: suspension between two ways of being, willing surrender rather than giving up. The core move is to reject the clean binary: there’s no filter that spits out yes/no, and anyone selling you one is sellin...

NOTE: We forgot to pull a card. On the debut. The one rule of the show — pull a card, follow it, leave it unresolved — missed on episode one. So we did the only honest thing a tarot-adjacent podcast can do: we pulled it late. Months later, blind, from a deck that didn’t exist when we recorded — card 32, Fumus / Smoke , from The Wild Unknown Alchemy deck. Smoldering. Warning. Illusion. Smoke is the...