Voices in the River

At the close of the season, Rebecca leads Sara and Theo in a ritual. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to support our work with a gift of $33, click here. If you would like to reach our team, you can write to us at voicesintheriver@gmail.com.  Rebecca helps women remember who they are and become leaders of their own destiny. If you’...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: artist Ariana Martinez. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to support our work with a gift of $33, click here. If you would like to r...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: audio journalist Brenna Farrell. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to support our work with a gift of $33, click here. If you would...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: audio journalist and artist Ahmed Ashour. Here he is on Instagram. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to support our work with a gift...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: audio reporter and poet Sean Cole. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to support our work with a gift of $33, click here. If you woul...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: self-proclaimed Certified Doer, Mama and Veteran from the Chicagoland area. Jackie Hope Glass. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: reporter Emily Kwong. The show that Emily hosts is Inheriting. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to support our work with a gift of...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: audio producer, manager, and educator Mia Lobel.  This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to support our work with a gift of $33, click he...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: director, artist, producer, digital and cultural strategist Kym Allen. Here’s the episode with Shereen Marisol Meraji that inspires Kym. Special thanks to Chioke I’Anson. This independent show is a...

Welcome to Resonate Readings, a slice of real time magick from one night in November. All this season, we’re bringing you tarot readings from the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Today: sculptor Lily Cox-Richard. Here’s Lily’s exhibit at the ICA at VCU: Disquiet in the Sand Special thanks to Chioke I’Anson. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time...

Welcome to Season Three: Resonate Readings.  We were invited to the Resonate Podcast Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Founder Chioke l’Anson set up a recording studio for us in the midst of a rowdy after party late one Saturday night, and Rebecca read tarot cards for a handful of folks she’d never met. This season, we’re sharing those slices of real time magick with you. First up, director, produce...

Light in darkness; darkness in light. At the end of a second season that has brought us from winter to summer, Rebecca, Theo, and Sara reflect on the wisdom that our guests shared on the show and poured into the river. This independent show is a delight to make, and it also takes a lot of time and care. If you’d like to support our work with a gift of $33, click here. If you would like to reach ou...

Willow Defebaugh is a writer who transmutes the teachings of nature for this era of climate crisis. As Editor-in-Chief of Atmos Magazine, author of The Overview, and host of The Nature Of podcast, she has a remarkable ability to hold darkness and light in tandem, re-enchanting the natural world for those who wish to see the magick in it. In time for summer solstice, Willow joins us by the riverban...

Writer, playwright, and dramaturg Ashley Thomas is no stranger to the gift of presence - embracing the stillness of life, even in the midst of chaos. Ashley reminds us that beautiful things call upon us to dream big. She joins Rebecca to reflect on the meaning of the Earthkeeper, the importance of stillness, and the power of love and freedom in sparking our creativity.  Read more about Ashley here...

We will be back on the next new moon, May 26th, 2025 with a new episode! In the meantime, Rebecca shares how you can contribute to our show, so we can keep making these conversations about power and intuition accessible to all.  Click here to support the show.

Writer Chloe Garcia Roberts describes translating as the practice of doing divination with a dictionary. As she carries meaning from one language to another, or from the spirit world to her original writing, she steps outside of societal structures to channel a fundamental kind of mystery, resisting dogma and letting herself be led by instinct. Chloe joins Rebecca to talk about the difference betw...

Valerie June is a star being. Her music invites us to trust the path, to live with our whole hearts, and to embrace joy and attunement while navigating darkness. Celebrating the release of her new album, “Owls, Omens, and Oracles”, Valerie joins Rebecca to share how she connects to plants, neighbors, owls, ancestors, power, breath, and her own spirit, which she calls upon and even seems to pray to...

Anna Sale, host of “Death, Sex & Money,” was at a professional and personal turning point in January of 2024. As she was trying to predict what the new year had in store, she came to Rebecca for a “year ahead spread”—a tarot reading that would tell her what to expect and what to tap into in a time of tumult and transition. A year later, Anna joins Rebecca on the show to reflect on how last year’s...

Comedian Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) never wanted to be seen as just another “woo-woo” Hollywood actress. She prefers to hold the idea of magick lightly, treating it with her characteristic curiosity and humor. Even so, when she visited a channeler whose uncanny predictions came true, Rachel started to pay more attention to signs, as well as what the woo can tell us about being hu...

Throughout the political tumult of the mid 20th century, painters Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo made deeply spiritual, surreal, and mythic art, drawing from a dream world to envision a distinctly feminine form of power. Their stories inspired our guest Claire McMillan to write “Alchemy of a Blackbird,” a novel that follows the geographical and spiritual journeys that led Carrington and Varo...

Throughout her time co-hosting and producing NPR’s “Code Switch,” Shereen Marisol Meraji has reported countless stories that complicate American narratives about race and identity. Now a journalism professor, Shereen reflects on how she has stepped into her own power as a listener and a leader. And, prompted by a card pull, Shereen and Rebecca look to the past, discussing ancestral relationships a...

Rachel Khong’s 2024 novel Real Americans is a gorgeous and sweeping portrayal of an American immigrant family. It is also, in a sense, a novel about magick, about what it means to stop time, and about connections that reverberate across generations. Joining Rebecca as a voice in the river, Rachel explains her use of intuition in facing the blank page and her use of prayer in facing publicity, as w...

Rebecca has been collecting the offerings of artists and writers Fia and Kai Skye for many years, including art and writings from their studio, Flying Edna. One is a piece of reclaimed wood that carries the words: “You cannot believe in magick all you want, she said, but it's a lot like holding your breath for your whole life because you don't believe in air.” Fia and Rebecca talk about how words...

Archaeologist and YouTuber Dr. Smiti Nathan helps us delight in the magick of the material past. While guided by the rigor of her discipline, her work also revolves around her intuition and her love of storytelling, as she illuminates untold and often undervalued histories. Smiti joins Rebecca to discuss her expansive approach to material history on her YouTube channel, the influence of her Hindu...

Rebecca begins our second season with an invitation for the winter solstice: to remind ourselves that while we are going into the darkness, we have the tools already inside of us, and outside of us in nature, to move us through. She was inspired by our guest, Katherine May, and her book called Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. Rebecca and Katherine talk about being allow...