Tarot Visions

Tarot is a wonderful tool. Like any other tool, it has a language that develops naturally all on its own. In this episode, Rose Red and Jaymi demystify the acronyms and insider knowledge around the language of tarot. We discuss some of our favorite people, structure, and three-letter acronyms, including the famous LWB! Thanks again to Michael Charboneau for producing this week’s cast.   A list of...

After a short hiatus, Rose Red and Jaymi return. This time they catch with Matt and Hope Hughes. Great news, their Ethereal Visions Tarot is shipping, and boy is it amazing. Jaymi and Rose Red agree the deck is a total winner.   But that’s not all, for the dynamic couple is busy at work on funding another deck through Kickstarter! This time it’s a playing card deck based on Norse/Viking structures...

Live from PantheaCon 2018, it’s Tarot Visions! Imagine Rose Red and Jaymi sitting in a room with a studio audience and that’s what your hearing. We chatted about various topics from tarot spells and how we do them, to what divination classes were on the program during the weekend, to tarot fashion. We even learned that there IS an app for a tarot-based dating sim (available for Android and iOS). A...

In this week’s episode, Rose Red and Jaymi chat with Shelley Carter who curated the fabulous The Tarot Lovers: Works of Heart art exhibit which opened this past weekend in Ontario. This wonderful art installation features works from both the tarot tribe and artists around the world. Shelley shares stories of the art (as well as some images, which you can find on the Facebook page) and describes th...

Rose Red and Jaymi talk pop culture and dark arts with Emily Carlin this week. Emily shares her 13-tile, "bone" tossing, pop culture divination technique as well as describing her background on delving into the darker side of magic. Look for her Defense Against the Dark book on amazon.com and read more about her pop culture experiments at her blog, Exoteric Magic. You can find Emily at the occasio...

Love is in the air, have you had your inoculation yet? This week Rose Red and Jaymi chat about one of tarot’s top draws: romance! Listen in as they discuss their favorite spreads, suggest ways to get the best out of your romantic and couple readings this season, and discuss some ancillary topics around relationship questions and what clients bring to the table.

Blue moons occur every 2.5 years! They’re full moons occurring twice in the same month. Luckily for us, January 2018 has its own blue moon. Join Rose Red and Jaymi as they discuss their thoughts about the full moon and what readings or rituals they’ll do during this special time. Some of our fabulous tarot and astrology peeps who share their wisdom on these events include Ethony Dawn and Theresa R...

Rose Red and Jaymi discuss dealing with dishonest querents. We’re talking about skeptics, people that are dishonest about what they want, and folks that look for their own meanings in a reading. Shout out to Andrew McGregor for suggesting this topic. Reach out and join the discussion on our Facebook page or our Twitter feeds @RoseRedTarot or @jaymi_elford. Plugs: Northwest Tarot Symposium (NWTS) i...

Rose Red and Jaymi reveal their NYE and 2018 year-long planning spreads. They discuss what they did and examine the similarities and differences. Rose used a 13-card major arcana monthly thematic spread. Jaymi’s NYE spread was from Beth of Little Red Tarot. Jaymi's posting her results over at Inner Compass Tarot, so you can see all 36(!) cards in their glory. Did you use tarot to help plan your 20...

Rose Red and Jaymi are back after taking a bit of a long holiday break. Listen in as the girls talk about their plans for the future, their PantheaCon adventures (coming February 16-19, 2018 to a DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose), and their plans for this new year. Their words for 2018 include Faith, Community, and Connections. Connect with jaymi at Inner Compass Tarot Coaching or on twitter @jaymi_el...

Rose Red and Jaymi chat with the purveyor of creative decks, Maree Bento. Maree is the creator of the Antiquarian Lenormand and Tarot decks and a wonderful reader. She stops by to chat about her creativity, inspiration and informs us about her upcoming project, the Divine Muses Oracle. In this episode, we mention a few decks including Pixie’s Astounding Lenormand, Pam’s Vintage Tarot, and the Essl...

Our favorite jet-setting tarotista, Mary K Greer,  takes some time out of her busy schedule to chat with Rose Red and Jaymi. Mary’s a very busy instructor in 2018. She’ll be teaching at PantheaCon, and at the now sold out Readers Studio in New York. She’ll be traveling back to China to teach at least twice more. And she’s running a wonderful tour of Britain and Scotland with her “Tarot Magic in Me...

Rose Red and Jaymi catch up with the Metaphysical Men: Fred West and John Hijatt. This dynamic duo runs the Divination Suite every year at PantheaCon in San Jose, where attendees hang out and chat about all things divination. The guys are also very active in the divination scene; John is working on self-publishing a 35-card Christmas Oracle deck (due out this winter season). He also records the He...

Sing it with us, “It’s a small world after all…” This week Rose finds out how Elizabeth Leggitt has a mutual friend in Jaymi. We discuss her creative process and uncover how she developed her own tarot deck. We learn the happiness of winning not just one, but two, Hugos! and unpack some symbolism inside her art. Find out more about Elizabeth at her website and go check out the book Retrograde by P...

In this episode, the girls call upon Arwen Lynch Poe (check out her Patreon!) to help Jaymi sort out some writing issues by using advice from her book, Mapping the Hero’s Journey. She also gives us the scoop about her vision for The Cartomancer magazine, and her other awesome projects, like the tarot blog hop (note, this is a closed group, so you’ll have to ask permission to join the fun!). Planni...

Fall is rapidly approaching. Pumpkin pie, hoodies, and Halloween decorations… ravens. Wait, ravens? Yes, ravens. This week we talk with Matt and Hope Hughes once more about their newest creation and Kickstarter, the illustrated Edgar Allen Poe book. Come with us on this journey as we learn more about Poe, his works, his spiritual beliefs, and this fantastic project which kickstarts on September 12...

In this episode, we used our random character generator to conjure up “a satyr line developer” by the name of Satyros Phil Brucato, an award-winning author. We discuss his sordid history of gaming, from his involvement with White Wolf Game Studio as the line developer for Mage the Ascension, and Sorcerer’s Crusade games to creating the urban fantasy Deliria, Faerie Tales for the New Millennium. We...

This episode kicks off a new series we’re doing about RPGs and tarot. Andrew Robinson joins Rose Red and Jaymi to discuss how their favorite hobbies cross over together. In this long episode, we discuss how tarot can be used for conflict resolution, character creation, and campaign designs. We share some of our favorite RPG created decks, and we share various ways to tie your tarot decks into your...

It's Jaymi's birthday week, so we're taking a hiatus to allow her to celebrate her solar return and be with friends and family. As such, we're rebroadcasting the episode in which Charlie and Rose Red interview her and hand over the reins.

Cynthia Fisher is a prolific tarot, Lenormand, and oracle creatrix. She has over 20 fantastic and unique decks on her Etsy store at Two Koi Moon and she’s got no signs of stopping. Rose Red and Jaymi spent some time chatting to Cynthia about her creativity, processes (she does hand-drawn and digital art), and what’s next on her long list of creations. (Editor note: we had some audio issues with th...

In this week's episode of Tarot Visions, Rose Red TORTURES Jaymi by forcing her to watch the modern feminist classic movie, "The Love Witch." Immediately followed by much groveling and begging to remain friends. Listen in to this week’s episode to find out what we thought, good and bad.

Rose Red and Jaymi interview author Liz Worth, whose book Going Beyond the Little White Book is a treasure trove of meanings spanning the upright and reversed meanings and everything in between for all the cards. In this interview, we learn about Liz, her approach to blog writing, and her reading style. We also get to wish her a happy Canada day and get to quiz her about her fabulous tattoos!

In this week’s episode, we sneak in the back door of the Library of Alexandria to have a wonderful discussion with author Gwendolyn Womack. Her second novel, The Fortune Teller (published June 6th), takes us on a suspenseful journey through her version of where tarot came from. Listen in as we learn about her writing style, tarot escapades, and how she crafts a well-told story.

Matt and Hope Hughes designed and inked the Ethereal Visions Tarot deck, which was a successful Kickstarter last year. They’re back, and this time they’ve got a really interesting Oracle for us. Listen in on this interview as we find out more about this deck project, their tarot philosophies, and future projects. In fact, they’ve even got a special Reward level for all our listeners. Go to their K...

Summer school is in session! This week Rose Red and Jaymi discuss tarot and the Summer Readers Academy program with headmistress Ethony Dawn. Learn about this fun program, Ethony’s deck and book projects, and some insight into her court card philosophy.