Golden Monkey Life Podcast

In Episode 2 we found the map — the Tarot as the 78-station cartography of the Fool’s Journey through the alchemical furnace. This episode answers the question that map raises: where did the Tarot get its symbols? The answer has been written in the sky for two thousand years. In this episode we explore: The hidden astrological blueprint encoded into every Major Arcana card — and why the Tarot was...

In Episode 1 we found the furnace. In Episode 2 we've found the map. The Tarot is not what most of we all have been told it is. It is not a fortune telling device, not a mystical parlour trick, not the property of any religiosity. It is the oldest alchemical map most of we all have been sitting next to our entire lives without knowing what it was. In this episode the Golden Monkey unpacks the deep...

In this first episode, we go back to the beginning — to the ancient art of alchemy and what it was really pointing at all along. The restless, reactive, swinging monkey mind is the led. The gold is the stillness underneath it. And the journey between the two is not a self-improvement project. It is something far older and far more interesting. We talk about why the monkey mind is not your enemy —...