In this episode, we break the pattern and explore divination as a broader practice, focusing on Tarot and I Ching. This is the first in a year-long series cohosted with Kat Hosoo Lee. Kat supports spiritual entrepreneurs, helping them connect with their purpose, build sustainable businesses, and attune to intuition, nature, and emotional experience. She's been using I Ching as a divination tool for many years.In this conversation, Kat and I explore (briefly!) the history of I Ching and Tarot, how the two systems are structured, and how the elements play an essential role in each. We also share how we approach the Tarot and I Ching as a process and practice, centering intention, stillness, and time to connect deeply with Self and Spirit. We also discuss how to choose a Tarot deck, Kat's favorite books on the I Ching, and how divination can help us track our lived experience and find meaning in our hardships and triumphs. If you're already wandering into Divination Land (or careening down the rabbit hole!), this episode will help you explore different systems from different timelines and cultures. Stay tuned throughout the year for more Tarot / I Ching episodes on specific hexagrams and Tarot archetypes corresponding to the seasons.Find Kat's work and learn more about her Business Alchemist Mentorship program (highly recommend!) on her website or Instagram.  Check out her Rooted Business Podcast on Apple or Spotify. Check out Kat's free Daoist Lunar Wisdom course and her favorite I Ching translations.Other resources in this episode:+ Shop Typewriter Tarot's curated Tarot deck collection.+ The Pagan Otherworlds deck by uusi. + "Animism is the Normative Consciousness" by The Emerald Podcast+ Meet Chantal deFelice, our sound designer and episode editor. + Meet Ami Plasse, the artist who created YC&ML's logo.Find more for your creative & magical life at Typewriter Tarot: join the Creative Magic Collective sign up for the Typewriter Tarot newsletter request a Tarot reading attend the next Creative Coven read our blog check out this month's Tarot-scopes order Mystic Messages and Mystic Message decks explore one-on-one coaching & mentorship make a donation to support to our work follow us on Instagram explore our reading lists at Bookshop.org

The Empress is the divine mother of the Tarot, the vast creative force that moves through nature and gives us LIFE! She is empowered, expressive, creative, receptive, nurturing, and — as we discover in this episode — fighting for a multi-racial feminist future!Our guest is an Empress herself — Christina Rosales, a journalist-turned-activist who developed a video game about housing justice, and turned it into a stage play (in a big collaborative way). Christina also sews her own clothes, is raising a young son, and has two additional artistic passions I didn't even know about until late in our conversation!Christina and I talk about the many faces of The Empress and what she teaches us about creativity, interconnectedness, rest, receiving, biodiversity, and collective action. Christina also shares about her Mexican and Catholic roots in South Texas, her organizing with Power Switch Action, "the how-hard-can-it-be?" bone in her body that keeps her doing incredible things, and her journey toward claiming her own power. We ask The Great Empress in the Cosmos (by pulling a Tarot card): How can we find peace within our family?Christina shares a lot of wisdom in this episode, and her words are likely to inspire you to create in a new way, take action for your community, or take a creative stance toward something that challenges you. And I leave with a creative prompt to work with The Empress in your life.Follow Christina's sewing adventure on Instagram at @tinita_sewingnsuch. You can download Dot's Home in the Apple App Store, or here, where you can also learn more about the game. Hear the NPR Marketplace story about Dot's Home. Learn more about Power Switch Action on Instagram or via their website. Learn more about the Rise-Home Stories Project here. Learn more about A Host of People here. And about Detroit Action here. + Meet Chantal deFelice, our sound designer and episode editor. + Meet Ami Plasse, the artist who created YC&ML's logo.Find more for your creative & magical life at Typewriter Tarot: join the Creative Magic Collective sign up for the Typewriter Tarot newsletter request a Tarot reading attend the next Creative Coven read our blog check out this month's Tarot-scopes order Mystic Messages and Mystic Message decks explore one-on-one coaching & mentorship make a donation to support to our work follow us on Instagram explore our reading lists at Bookshop.org

In this episode, we explore The High Priestess with Ebony Isis Booth, a coach who supports primarily Black and Indigenous folks in transformation, leadership, and emotional alchemy. Our conversation explores the 2nd card in Tarot's Major Arcana through the lens of intuition, self-trust, and Spirit, and we talk about the internal and external resistance that comes up when intuition brings its wisdom.Ebony also teaches us about "unclenching our butt cheeks" and takes us through an exercise to experience this powerful act of softening. (Because it's harder to hear our intuition when our bodies are constantly bracing.)In the course of this conversation, Ebony shares about growing up in the Southern Baptist Church and finding her way to a personal spirituality that draws on African and other mystic traditions. She also talks about receiving an intuitive hit around her need for creative agency in the workplace, and how she wrestled with that knowing before finding a path out. We also talk about alcohol (and quitting!); The Matrix, The Color Purple, and Goosebumps; a drunk man in a banana suit who wanted a Tarot reading; taint-hairs and buttholes; being human as a revolutionary act; going outside; and more!At the end of the episode, Cecily shares submissions from the Typewriter Tarot community about how they experience intuition, plus a creative prompt for working with The High Priestess. Here's an incomplete list of time codes for this delicious & juicy episode:How Tarot came into Ebony's life (18:30)Who is The High Priestess & where can we find her (31:45)How to unclench your butt cheeks & connect with The High Priestess (1:20:45)Submissions from the community on experiencing intuition (1:49:33)A creative prompt for The High Priestess (1:58:04)Follow Ebony's work:Check out her website ebonyisisbooth.com.Follow her on Instagram @coachebonysaid.Listen to her podcast What Would It Look Like?Read her Substack newsletter Ebony Imago: A Black Womanist Gaze.+ Meet Chantal deFelice, our sound designer and episode editor. + Meet Ami Plasse, the artist who created YC&ML's logo.Find more for your creative & magical life at Typewriter Tarot: join the Creative Magic Collective sign up for the Typewriter Tarot newsletter request a Tarot reading attend the next Creative Coven read our blog check out this month's Tarot-scopes order Mystic Messages and Mystic Message decks explore one-on-one coaching & mentorship make a donation to support to our work follow us on Instagram explore our reading lists at Bookshop.org

In this episode...What I mean by "your creative & magical life"?My theory of creativityHow magic can show up  in different ways + different ways we can invite it inIntroducing Jessica Jernigan (20:15)Jessica's thoughts on the connection between magic & creativityJessica talks about her creative & magical life + definitions of magic (25:45)Introducing The Magician — the basicsRisks of "manifestation mindset" & "create your reality" thinkingJessica's year of being a witch & "engaging in willing disbelief"Feeling (& recognizing) writer's block in the body & how to move itTarot & magic within (& beyond) certain cultural frameworksJessica's journey to Tarot (starting in the 80s with Mists of Avalon!)Tarot's recent expansion "into the mainstream"Jessica responds to a Brianna Saussy quote about magic (47:30)How Tarot deepens our connection to intuitionHow Jessica experiences the intersections of Tarot, writing & magicThe Magician as a trickster (59:30)The relationship between The Fool, The Magician & The High PriestessBringing social justice into a Tarot reading (1:05:35)Delivering Tarot readings in writing vs. conversationWitchcraft as a commitment to collective liberationStarhawk!The Magician as permission to make money & exchange energyWorking as a freelance writer: making art, making content, making moneyWriting for yourself on Substack vs. writing for othersCreating & selling zines & using Substack to support 3D productsMaking zines as a response to AI + the joy of making something with humans (1:27:10)Magic, aging, reaching menopause, not giving a shit, growing more creative & less anxious & having more fun (1:30:00)Labor unions!A creative prompt for working with The Magician (1:40:30)+ Subscribe to Jessica's Substacks: Postmodern Witch & Croning, buy her zines, and follow her on Instagram.+ Meet Chantal deFelice, our sound designer and episode editor. + Meet Ami Plasse, the artist who created YC&ML's logo.Find more for your creative & magical life at Typewriter Tarot: join the Creative Magic Collective sign up for the Typewriter Tarot newsletter request a Tarot reading attend the next Creative Coven read our blog check out this month's Tarot-scopes order Mystic Messages and Mystic Message decks explore one-on-one coaching & mentorship make a donation to support to our work follow us on Instagram explore our reading lists at Bookshop.org

In this episode...A tribute to my mom and dad Elements and symbolism in The Fool cardWhat The Fool's about and not aboutHow this podcast is a Fool momentThe Fool story behind Typewriter TarotAnnar Veröld shares her her dance with The FoolA creative prompt for working with The FoolRead Annar's writing on Death and The Fool cards.Meet Chantal deFelice, our sound designer and episode editor. Meet Ami Plasse, the artist who created YC&ML's logo.Find more for your creative & magical life at Typewriter Tarot: join the Creative Magic Collective sign up for the Typewriter Tarot newsletter request a Tarot reading attend the next Creative Coven read our blog check out this month's Tarot-scopes order Mystic Messages and Mystic Message decks explore one-on-one coaching & mentorship make a donation to support to our work follow us on Instagram explore our reading lists at Bookshop.org