The Broom Closet Briefing Podcast

This conversation started with a flat tire, because apparently the universe enjoys opening political astrology episodes with slapstick symbolism. Broom was supposed to sit down with astrologer Elizabeth Grace for a discussion about the Summer of 2026 in the United States, and right on cue, the day delivered a literal rubber-meets-road omen. Broom got stuck at the tire shop. EG’s astrology software...

The tradwife movement is no longer just a woman in a floral dress baking sourdough under suspiciously professional lighting. It has become something much darker: a political spell disguised as domestic softness. What began as cottagecore cosplay has mutated into Christian nationalist propaganda, where female submission is rebranded as holiness, financial dependence is sold as peace, and giving up...

In this Broom Closet Briefing live conversation, I sit down with political and mundane astrologer Dorje Kirsten of Heart Astrology for a deep, fiery, and very timely look at Trump, Netanyahu, and the future of the United States and Israel. We begin with Trump’s natal chart, his eclipse birth, his Mars rising, and the infamous Regulus warning: success can be enormous, but revenge is the poison that...

In this episode of The Broom Closet Briefing , we are talking about the economy not as a sterile chart, not as a cable-news stock ticker, and definitely not as some smug economist’s quarterly hallucination, but as a pressure system moving through daily life. Gas prices, oil anxiety, shipping routes, grocery costs, corporate greed, geopolitical escalation, and voter rage are not separate stories. T...

In this episode of Broom and Grey , we step straight into the electric storm of Uranus in Gemini , because apparently the universe looked at the timeline and said, “You know what this needs? More chaos, more information warfare, more revolutions of thought, and maybe a little nervous-system jazz hands.” Very generous. Very subtle. Very Uranus. Over the next seven years, Uranus moving through Gemin...

There’s a very specific kind of political shift that doesn’t announce itself loudly, doesn’t arrive with a clean scandal or a breaking headline, and doesn’t give you the satisfaction of a clear beginning. It moves quietly at first, almost politely, in the background of everything else that’s happening, until one day you realize that someone who once felt central to the narrative now feels strangel...

Something is shifting—and it’s not just the headlines. Over the past two weeks, I wrote about three things that, on the surface, had nothing to do with each other: the U.S.–Iran war, rising economic pressure, and the strange reappearance of Cuba in political conversations. But when you step back and look at them together, they stop feeling random. They start looking like a pattern. This episode pu...

In this episode my lovely guest and very dear friend Jenny Duceour who is an astrologer on Substack, talks about current events, political climate and how things unfold during this eclipse season. We also look at how this eclipse affects the 3 special people of interest, Trump, Vance and Stephen Miller. Below are the articles that will give you more context on what we talked about: Wondering if I...

Something has changed in the way power is behaving. The Epstein files didn’t just expose people — they destabilized relationships that were never meant to be visible. Since then, the system hasn’t been governing. It’s been performing . Journalists arrested and released without consequence. Raids that generate spectacle instead of resolution. Billionaires posturing while their room to maneuver quie...

This week didn’t feel like another headline. It felt like a fracture. Two Minnesotans dead at the hands of federal agents. Official stories collapsing under video. Politicians walking back words they were confident about days ago. Courts saying no. Allies backing down. Money tightening. This isn’t chaos. It’s consequence. In this episode, I connect the dots between Minneapolis, ICE, Congress, the...

This week did not feel like news; it felt like a haunting. A mother was killed during an ICE encounter in Minneapolis, and the nation snapped back into the trauma of 2020 as if no time had passed at all. Into that raw grief walked Kristi Noem with the eagerness of someone mistaking tragedy for a casting call, revealing more about her political soul than any hearing ever has. And while her collapse...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Broom Closet Briefing Podcast . This episode is an opening invocation—and a line in the sand. I begin by thanking the subscribers who built this corner long before it had a microphone, and the many new readers who joined this month and pushed me—loudly and lovingly—into finally starting this podcast. This show exists because a critical mass of people recogn...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com Let me tell you a secret the Tarot community doesn’t like to talk about: Tarot is stunning, poetic, layered, and brilliant—but when you’re asking about real-world timing, tangible outcomes, and what exactly is about to go down? Tarot can get cagey. Symbolic. Circular. It mirrors your inner state, but...

Let’s talk about what went down in the New York mayoral primary—because once again, Lenormand did not stutter, and neither did I. Deck used: Lustrous Lenormand by Ciro Marchetti Here is the article. In a private video I shared only with my paid subscribers (because trolls can stay broke and outside), I walked through a Lenormand reading that accurately forecasted Zohran Mamdani’s win. What I didn’...

So I didn’t post a deck review this week... because I’ve been building one. And not just any deck. I’m talking about my Domestic Divine Tarot —my love letter to retro rebellion, 1950s perfectionism, and the absurdity of how we expect women to save the world while baking a soufflé and smiling for the damn Christmas card. This deck is my magic, my satire, and my chaos spell wrapped into a red-and-wh...

Today’s feature? The Rustic Fortune Tarot by Roxana Paul — a retro-art tarot deck that’s as charmingly vintage as it is stubbornly challenging. Let me start by saying this: this deck will test you. It’s not your usual Rider-Waite clone with easily digestible symbolism. No ma’am. This one grabs your intuition, throws her into a 1950s magazine ad, and says, “Read between the mascara lines.” The suit...

You ever meet a tarot deck that feels like it’s whispering, “Let's f **ing go”* every time you pull a card? That’s how I feel about the Bonfire Tarot by Gabi Angus-West. This isn’t your grandma’s Rider-Waite-Smith. This is tattoo-art, symbolism-drenched, no-border, chaos-layered genius. I’ve been using this deck constantly in my recent readings—especially my political ones—and honestly? It’s a who...