Tarot for the Wild Soul with Lindsay Mack

64. Embodying The Tower with Mari Andrew

On today’s episode of the podcast, we have an extraordinary interview with Mari Andrew, who is our beautiful embodiment of The Tower, Strength, and Death!
Mari is a prolific writer, artist, speaker, and author of the New York Times best-selling book, “Am I There Yet?”
The Tower is a deep and intense clearing of everything that no longer serves us, and in doing so, often elevates us to the next evolutionary cycle of our lives. Mari’s Tower experience came in the form of a sudden onset of an autoimmune disease that temporarily paralyzed her, and set her off on an unexpected journey of healing, grief, and transformation. The medicine that she shares around this (and her whole journey) is truly potent, vulnerable, and beautiful — a must listen for anyone who wants to understand not only The Tower, but the life that can blossom on the other side of painful and difficult experiences.
Topics in this episode:
• Enrollment for Tarot for the Wild Soul Course is open! To sign up, or learn more, click here: https://www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
• Embodying The Tower, Strength, and Death
• How the death of Mari’s father unexpectedly opened her up to the world of art at the age of 28
• How her sharing her art on Instagram became a form of service
• The importance of honoring our creative spark, and how we do not need to be given permission in order to call ourselves artists
• Mari’s experience with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and how it shifted the trajectory of her life, art, and work
• The importance and medicine of grief
• What it is to share our struggles on Instagram without a bow on top, and so much more!
Mari’s website (and to buy her beautiful book!):
https://www.bymariandrew.com
Mari’s Instagram:
@bymariandrew
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

63. Ask Lindsay: Unexpected Pulls, Throwing out the guidebook, and Reading for others

It’s Ask Lindsay time on Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast! The episode where I answer your questions about Tarot, magic and everything in between.
Some of the topics covered in this month’s episode:
•How to redefine cards for ourselves when the traditional meaning doesn’t support or resonate with us (8:13)
•How to read decks with additional cards that the creators added in (19:05)
•Does pulling a Tarot card when you feel anxious feed obsessive tendencies? (21:56)
•Is it unethical to read Tarot for other people without their permission? (24:15)
•Trusting the cards you pull: is it magic or just randomness? (26:35)
•Calculating the card of the year when the entire system of honoring time is Christian-based and you don’t follow Christianity (30:03)
•How to use spirit/intuition to help tweeze out insecurity from the genuine “not ready” and do you know when you’re ready or not ready to read Tarot for other people (34:44)
•Ten of Pentacles as a card for getting to know the Tarot more deeply (38:30)
•Can you upset the Tarot by asking the same question more than once? (44:10)
•Working with traumatic thresholds (46:36)
•How can you reconcile your own interpretations with the Tarot deck creator’s — should you throw out the Tarot guidebook? (56:33)
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

62. MONTHLY MEDICINE: February is Unapologetic Permission

Happy Imbolc, Wild Souls! Welcome to a brand new Monthly Medicine episode of Tarot for the Wild Soul, centered around February’s big invitation for us to give ourselves unapologetic, sacred permission to honor our knowing, our timing, and our truth.
The more we permission ourselves to embody our soul yes and no, the more our lives will begin to shift and change for the better, and the more things will begin to feel more aligned. February is a bridge month, one that invites us to get clear on how we can begin to shift the way we permission ourselves, connecting more deeply with our intuitive knowing.
Topics:
• The significance of Imbolc (7:43)
• February as a bridge month (10:47)
• The theme for February: Unapologetic Permission (12:11)
• The Star and the Moon as the Tarot cards of this month (47:47)
Wild Soul Collective Tarot Reading for the month of February:
MEDICINE OF THE MONTH: Three of Cups (29:05)
WHAT WE ARE BEING INVITED TO PAY ATTENTION TO: Temperance (33:01)
LESSON OF THE MONTH: Page of Pentacles (35:48)
WHAT WE ARE RELEASING: Seven of Cups (39:33)
THE SEEDS WE ARE PLANTING/NEXT CYCLE: The World (41:06)
TEACHER: Knight of Cups (45:01)
ASTROLOGY FOR FEBRUARY
February 1–2: Imbolc
February 4th: New Moon in Aquarius
February 19th: Full Moon in Virgo
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

61. Intuitive Channeling with the Tarot

Welcome to another episode of Tarot for the Wild Soul!
Today on the podcast, Lindsay dives into how intuition and the Tarot intersect with each other, and how we can begin to cultivate a channeling practice with our decks.
On this episode, we cover:
• What intuition is (the answer might surprise you!), and how you (yes, you!) are already an intuitive (5:31)
• How we can begin to deepen our authentic gateways to intuitive knowing and expand our channels (14:22)
• Tapping into intuition by asking your Guides (19:40)
• How we can deepen our intuition + communicate with our Guides by using the Tarot (25:35)
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

60. Embodying the Three of Cups with Staci Ivori

In today's episode of Tarot for the Wild Soul, we're talking to the amazing Staci Ivori, who is our embodiment of Three of Cups, and Queen of Wands!
Staci is an intuitive guide, tarot reader, Reiki practitioner, herbalist and maker who teaches workshops, leads moon ceremonies, hosts circles, and facilitates women’s work all over the US.
Three of Cups is an experience of communal joy and celebration. It’s an energy of ritual, ceremony, and expansion experienced amongst one another. It takes a lot of trust and communication to come to a truly open experience of Three of Cups, which Staci and I dive into thoroughly. In our conversation, we discuss what group work is, and how it can improve our lives, the medicine of covens, and what it means to have safe, sacred community.
As is the Queen of Wands, Staci is an embodied witch; she lives her life in alignment with this level of depth, passion, power, and ability to connect with the deep waters, as well as the deep fires.
Topics in this episode:
• Shifting from Capricorn to Aquarius—The Devil to The Star and the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Leo (0:25)
• Embodying the Three of Cups and the Queen of Wands in the Tarot (6:12)
• What Staci does as a reiki practitioner, Tarot reader, and holder of women’s circles (14:54)
• Staci’s Tarot journey + realizing the power of group work (16:13)
• The magic that comes out of gathering in sacred space (21:35)
• What does “women’s work” mean and working with the wound of circling with other women (25:09)
• Holding space for group work for wherever people are at + without fixing anything (26:35)
• The initiatory process of becoming a facilitator for sacred group work (35:57)
• Circling at a weekend-long intensive gatherings (39:17)
• Making safety a number one priority in sacred space (43:35)
• Stepping into the Queen of Wands energy to become a facilitator and a healer of the dark feminine (50:45)
• Shadow work, cycles, and transformation as an initiatory process and seeking + offering support to others through it (53:35)
• What does it mean to have a coven? (57:45)
• Staci’s experience at the Spirit Weavers Gathering + communicating triggers in group work (1:01:00)
• The work of the Three of Cups in gatherings—being the change (1:08:33)
• How to start small with women’s gatherings (1:10:58)
Staci's website:
https://www.stacivori.com
Staci's Instagram:
@stacivori
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

59. Ask Lindsay: Repeating cards, Fear vs Intuition, Thresholds and more

It’s Ask Lindsay time on Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast! The episode where I answer your questions about Tarot, magic and everything in between.
Today, we start the episode out with some words on this liminal space between the Eclipses, some exciting announcements about upcoming offerings, and work through some beautiful questions:
• The energy of the in-between time of eclipse season (1:01)
• All about Lindsay’s class: Trauma and the Tarot (5:15)
• Tarot for the Wild Soul course updates! - enrollment opens in February (9:05)
• What do repeating Tarot cards mean? (15:57)
• What does it mean when a positive Tarot card shows up in the position of “What needs to be released?” (20:08)
• Do you need a contract to read Tarot professionally? (24:41)
• How to connect with the moon cycles and blood mysteries for non-bleeding folx (29:07)
• How to prepare yourself when you receive contractive Tarot cards (35:54)
• When to ask someone else to do a Tarot reading for you vs. when to do a Tarot reading for yourself (40:43)
• Combining Tarot reading with other energetic offerings (45:21)
• Celebrating and honoring retroactive thresholds (49:51)
• How to tell the difference between feeling Intuition and Fear (56:57)
• Advice on how to read Tarot card combinations (1:00:53)
• Energetic difference between the Emperor and the Queen of Swords (1:02:35)
• How to work in winter energy while still being abundant in your business (1:06:22)
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

58. MONTHLY MEDICINE: January is Live your Magic

Happy New Year, Wild Souls! It’s a brand new month, which means a brand new Monthly Medicine.
This is an extra special episode, as we are also transitioning into a new year, from the energy of High Priestess/Justice to Hanged Man/Empress — the first half of today’s episode is dedicated to a download on the energies of 2019 from a Numerology and Tarot perspective.
We also explore the invitation for January, which is to live, or embody, our magic. It is time to bring our full selves into our life and the world. How much energy do we leak or waste by trying to be different from who we are? This month is all about releasing old, egoically driven patterns, all so we can be available to brand new ways of connecting with ourselves.
Topics:
• We’ve got new podcast artwork by Chelsea Iris Granger! (1:38)
• Moving from 2018 to 2019 —the year of The Hanged Man + The Empress and how to calculate the Tarot card of the year (5:40)
• The medicine of The Hanged Man for us in 2019 (12:57)
• The medicine of The Empress for us in 2019 (22:47)
• 2019 is ruled by Neptune and Venus: a great year for dreaming (27:00)
• January Mantra of the Month: Live Your Magic and Embody Your Magic (33:45)
Collective Tarot Reading for the month of January:
MEDICINE OF THE MONTH: Ten of Pentacles (42:53)
WHAT’S UNDERNEATH: Queen of Wands (50:09)
GENTLE MESSAGE FROM DIVINE: The Star (52:08)
LESSON: Six of Swords (53:07)
OVERALL ENERGY: Four of Pentacles (54:28)
ASTROLOGY FOR JANUARY
January 6th: New Moon Solar Eclipse In Capricorn
January 21st: Full Moon Lunar Eclipse In Leo
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

57. The Two of Swords Holiday Minisode!

Happy Holidays, sweet Wild Souls! It’s our first ever minisode of the podcast, honoring the patron saints of self care during any holiday season, or gathering: Two of Swords and Queen of Swords!
This episode is a gentle love note to anyone who might need to hear kind words in their ear this week. Just a reminder that you are allowed to honor your boundaries and self care without apology during this Xmas holiday. If you are having trouble, call upon these who archetypes to help you — and know I, and so many others, love you deeply.
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

56. The Devil: Transformative Liberation

Happy Solstice/Yule, Wild Souls!
Today on the podcast, Lindsay dives deep into the profound medicine of The Devil card, exploring it through a soul centered lens.
The Devil is a transformative liberation, a holy ladder, one that has the power and the potential to positively shift our relationship with ourselves, our desires and our brain chemistry forever, if we are available to the blessings that it brings. On this episode, we explore an evolved way of viewing this card, and discuss ways in which to work with it if we are triggered, contracted, or confused.
The Devil is truly one of the great keys of the Tarot — together, we will dispel any fear based myths around this beautiful card, opening listeners to the possibility of a fresh relationship with its medicine.
On this episode, we cover:
• The importance of rest and being gentle this time of year and the powerful punch this weekend packs: Yule/Full Moon in Cancer/Sun moving into Capricorn (1:49)
• The glories of the Solstice, of Yule, and of inclusive ways to observe it (4:41)
• The Devil card in the Tarot and ways to begin to soften and open our relationship to it (12:34)
• The relationship between The Devil and Temperance: expansion and contraction (20:02)
• Four questions to ask when you pull The Devil: Where am I expanding? What is this impulse/what is the invitation? What’s in my highest and best to know about this? Is this in my highest and best/is this truth? (29:25)
• The relationship between The Devil, The Magician, The Hierophant, and The Lovers (53:19)
• Capricorn’s role in ruling The Devil (54:22)
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing
PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner

55. Embodying The Empress with Erica Livingston

In today’s Tarot for the Wild Soul episode, we’re talking to doula, breathwork facilitator, and herbalist, and co-founder of Birdsong Brooklyn, Erica Livingston.
The core understanding of The Empress is that it’s an invitation to receive, and receiving one of the hardest things we do on this planet. In this episode, Erica embodies this receiving energy of The Empress by sharing how to dilate so we can become more comfortable with receiving from others as well as ourselves, and how we can begin to plug in our threshold journeys.
This episode also touches on embodying Death. Embodiment of Death card energy is someone who is available to the cycles of change that come with deep release and transformational rebirth. It is truly about a turning over and a transition from one form to another. So we’ll see the meeting of The Empress and Death because as Erica shares, that receiving energy is often most needed after big transitions and transformations.
Topics in this episode:
• A shift in how interview episodes will be focused for this Tarot for the Wild Soul podcast (0:25)
• Introducing Erica Livingston, this episode’s embodiment of The Empress in the Tarot (1:25)
• What is the Empress in the Tarot? (4:55)
• What is a doula? (15:17)
• Erica’s postpartum work and the importance of receiving in the time of after crossing a threshold (17:27)
• Postpartum as a journey through the underworld and Erica’s adoption story (27:24)
• The initiation to dilating the threshold of learning how to receive (38:58)
• Tips for expanding that threshold of receiving + embodying the Empress (52:57)
• Discomfort and contraction as evidence of when you’re about to break through the threshold (1:09:20)
• Erica’s amazing offerings and where you can find more (1:18:20)
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ABOUT THE PODCAST 
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking.
Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast.
Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world.
As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them.
Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe.
WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com
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PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees
PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner