Episode 2: We brought a friend!
Episode 2: We brought a friend!
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This week we have guest talking about cards with us! Our friend Elle Bower Johnston is an Embodiment Guide, Breath and Rest Teacher, Writer, & Body Witch. Want to know more? You can find her through her website, An_other Practice, and on her Substack, In Practice.
I felt like a toddler throwing a tantrum. Like, “No! But I want to do something different! I don't want to keep sticking with the same thing!” I decided I was done whether I was done or not, and the cards are like, “No, no, it doesn't work that way.” —Di
Di’s Cards
Now that I know what I need to release, how do I do that? the devil
What inside me can help? ten of pentacles
What outside support can help? six of pentacles
clarifying card (?) seven of swords
I know that this will tie nicely into the running theme for you guys, but in this deck, the devil himself is tattooed with “there is no safety there is only trust.” And what does it feel like to really step into wholeheartedly and embody that sense of trust? —Elle
Elle’s Cards
Where to I need to direct my energy this week? nine of pentacles
What is spooling my energy away from me? the empress
What do I need to embody to call that energy back in? the devil
Empress & Emperor from The Spacious Tarot:
If I know I can't have it, I won't imagine it, I won't dream it, I won't desire it, I won't do anything. It won't even enter my brain to want things that I don't think I can have. And so seven of cups also feels like this call to, this push to want things that I can't have and to let that be its own form of magic. —Joeli
Joeli’s Cards
Why am I stuck in these same cycles? 7 of cups
What energy would shake things up? 4 of pentacles
What’s the path between these two? What’s underneath connecting these? the high priestess
Things we talked about in this episode
Changing the questions we ask in the hopes of getting different cards/answers
Getting a different perspective from Elle, who thinks about feelings more (as opposed to Di & Joeli who tend to go with thinking & logic first)
Getting “good” cards in a “bad” placement
Tall poppy syndrome and empress vs. emperor energy
Not rushing to make decisions & instead waiting for what we really want; planting seeds & just letting them do their thing
Links
The Spacious Tarot (Di’s cards)
Many Queens Tarot (Elle’s cards)
Next World Tarot (Joeli’s cards)
the song Joeli mentioned: don’t jump the gun
Now that you’ve seen our cards and heard what we have to say about them, we’d love to know what you think. How would you interpret these cards? How are the ones in your deck similar or different? Comment to let us know, or to ask any questions that you have about this episode.
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