Inner Demons: The Stories We Tell Ourselves

September's 2021 Tarot Offering from Rachel Okna.  Featuring cover art from some artists that I love. This month is from the master, Ichibay. July - October 2021 episodes will be foraging through narratives and digging into Autonomy, Identity & Performance Needs, through a bloodied schematic lens. Every month I pull some tarot cards and write and record an offering for the collective. I e...

Thank you to the beauty, Tati Compton for the gorgeous, explosive cover art this month. A bit of dreamwork on both our parts went on with this, which inadvertently felt like a much looser way of creating things somehow... Less weight or something... To switch up from watery, emotional Cancer season to the fiery heart-wrenched depths of Leo this month... I thought I’d loosen things up and share a f...

This month I've written a short tarot story meditation...  If you want to go ahead and skip to the meditation part, just skip to about 10 minutes in... The sun rises higher, it starts to burn away, does a falcon hunt or just celebrate life? She asks you if you knew that hawks could breed all year? Surrounding her are an angel, an eagle, a bull and a lion. She seems familiar to you in a weird...

For June's tarot offering on emotional deprivation, I’ve written a short story, that gets into the ribcage of the most common, maladaptive schema... In a poem, Denise Riley says... 'There is nowhere further back than pure blue.' In nature, there is no death, just a reshuffling of atoms. It made me think of the concept of transindividualism... and I couldn’t resist a story that depicts  The To...

One of the stories I look at this month is the ancient Roman myth of King Saturn, the God of time, devouring his offspring. I dip my fingers in the waters of redemption and I weave through visions that press into the violations, perhaps, in an attempt to heal visceral wounds. In the Once and Future King, a gorgeous retelling of the Arthurian legend, T.H. White says: “Perhaps we all give the best o...

For April’s Tarot Offering: Social Alienation and Rejection, I’ve dug into the iconic La Llorona myth and peered through the window of a few more stories. I'm Rachel, a writer, tarot reader, and history lover. Every month I pull some tarot cards and write and record an offering for the collective. I explore inextinguishable themes in our collective history, through the stories in us that will neve...

Abandonment and Instability, is the first piece of an 18-episode series, exploring early maladaptive psychological schemas. Every month, with the tarot cards, we'll be weaving in and out of film, literature, mythic legends, and a few gnarled-contorted folktales that have seeped into our psychology, our physiology, over deep time, through generations of oral and written submission.