8th House Healers

Caroline Yongue (Savana Amata) is a Buddhist minister and founder of the Center for End of Life Transitions and Carolina Memorial Sanctuary- both in Western North Carolina near Asheville. In her conversation with Eliza, the two discuss breathing space for anxiety, fear, overwhelm, and grief, focusing our awareness, sensory consciousness, and home funerals. Buddhists believe that rather than a soul, that karma, consciousness, and awareness live on after the brain dies, and that consciousness takes a 49 day journey through the realms of the death bardo. It is throughout this ordeal that important choices must be made, choices that can be guided with the help of the living. 

Caroline’s Sanga: anattasatimagga.org

Center for End of Life Transitions: ceolt.org & carolinamemorialsanctuary.org

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

Dying with Confidence: A Tibetan Buddhist Guide to Preparing for Death by Anyen Ripoche; tergar.org

Original interview recorded on May 5, 2022

8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved.

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Nancy Hendrickson is a professional genealogist, Tarot reader, and author. Join Eliza’s journey through her personal ancestry as the conversation taps into the work Eliza began through Nancy’s award-winning Ancestral Tarot. Nancy has since released The Ancestral Grimoire. 

Find all things Nancy at: sageandshadow.com

Original interview recorded on April 7, 2022

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Enrique Enriquez is a one-of-a-kind poet and bird talker who resides in New York City. Enrique and Eliza share much in common as bird people. They talk about language and form, the indifference of light, human speech, symbols and signs, movement and rhythm, birdsong, silence, and of finding one’s voice.

Enrique invites listeners to request his bird messages via Facebook messenger or email at [email protected]

Original interview recorded on April 2, 2022

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Wishing a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Donnaleigh and safe passage to her beloved friend and colleague, Rachel Pollack, on her journey o'er the veil. Godspeed, Rachel x

This episode is dedicated to them both and to their continuing bonds of friendship.

Donnaleigh LaRose is a longtime reader of Tarot, Lenormand, Oracle, and stones. Eliza discovered Donnaleigh’s podcast, Beyond Worlds, some years ago as she embarked upon her own journey into the Tarot. The analytical discussion and deep dives into each card, other divinatory approaches, applications, techniques, and alternative interpretations found on Beyond Worlds not only set Eliza’s path of unending discovery of Tarot into motion but ultimately inspired her to start her own podcast, 8th House Healers, with co-host, Sarah.

Donnaleigh has so much wisdom to impart; this episode teems with fascinating topics: pareidolia (seeing faces and forms in everyday objects), scrying, premonitions, symbols and signposts, meaning-making, the afterlife, continuing bonds with the dead, the survival powers inherent in our own intuition and above all… the vital importance of paying attention.

Beyond Worlds: blogtalkradio.com/beyondworlds

Acknowledgments & Mentions:

Tarot for Yourself by Mary K. Greer, Life After Life by Dr. Raymond Moody

Donnaleigh reads from The Mystic Palette Tarot by Ciro Marchetti

Original interview recorded on April 8, 2022

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Andrew McGregor is a Toronto-based artist, Tarot reader, prolific deck creator, teacher, podcaster, and owner of The Hermit’s Lamp, a brick and mortar/online spiritual supplies store. 

Andrew's journey has been one filled with unimaginable loss and trauma. Discover over the course of this conversation with Eliza, how he learned to navigate life after a near-fatal car accident as a teen, losing two of his three siblings within six weeks of each other as a new father, and, most recently, losing his original shop to a massive, electrical fire. Andrew’s is an incredible story of resilience, and the healing potential that endures within each of us.

Check out everything Andrew has to offer at: thehermitslamp.com

Acknowledgments & Mentions:

The Mythic Tarot

Suicide Prevention Resource:

Carly Boyce https://www.tinylantern.net/suicide-intervention-resources

Original interview recorded on March 31, 2022

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Welcome to Season 3- perhaps we’ll call it Season of the Witch? Last spring, Eliza interviewed several artists, healers, and Tarot practitioners, a few of which you’ve already heard from. We decided to devote an entire season to these conversations with our ‘8th House Guests’ and to (hopefully 😬) feature the remaining ‘Eliza’s Interviews’ series through 2023. We hope you enjoy! 

First up, Meet Monica 🖤

Artist, illustrator, designer of Tarot and Oracle decks, author, seer, diviner, and practicing witch, Monica Bodirsky, discusses her Shadowland Tarot with Eliza, exploring the meaning and significance of shadow work in her own practice and the tools she created to help others to do the same. 

In this episode, learn about cartomancy, oneiromancy, necromancy, ancestral veneration, bones and curio, scrying, the time-space continuum, and so much more as these two 'weird kids' discover bonds through deep conversation. Find all the latest amazing things Monica is up to at: monicabodirsky.com.

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

Carl Jung, the “persona”

Original interview recorded on March 24, 2022

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Associated with Pisces (Neptune), 'The Hanged Man' in Tarot denotes spirituality, limbo, liminality, sacrifice, surrender, martyrdom, allowing, acceptance, forgiveness, nature taking its course, inaction, perspective, vision, and reflection.

In this episode, Sarah and Eliza discuss what it means to practice presence in the in-between, trusting our knowing in times of unknowing, waiting, the wounds of trauma begetting preparedness, cycles of birth, death and rebirth. Eliza recounts her own alchemical lesson as learned from her beloved Frank rat from beyond the veil…

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

Medicine Woman Tarot, Carolyn Bridges; The Prairie Tarot- A Tarot of the American West, Robin Ator; The Wildwood Tarot, Mark Ryan & John Matthews; Brandi Carlile, Outlander book series by Diana Gabaldon

*Episode cover art features The Mirror from The Wildwood Tarot, The Hanged Man from The Prairie Tarot, Vision from Medicine Woman Tarot, (and an overlay of Frank’s skull)

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“I was born an artist and decided to stay one…" -Sharon McLeod

You won’t want to miss this fascinating conversation with Visionary artist, diviner, Tarot and Oracle creator and illustrator, Sharon McLeod from Australia’s Gold Coast.

In this latest of 8th House Healers’ featured interviews, Sharon talks to Eliza about growing up reading everyone's "Tarots" as she learned from her grandmother, her natural ability to see beyond the cards themselves, intuitively reading people and situations. They share favorite/least favorite Tarot cards, astrology, roosters, rats, and cats as fairy-spotters and lost-spirit-vanquishers, and the importance of women claiming (and modeling for our girls) our power as artists.

Find Sharon’s art, decks, events, and more at: sharonmcleod.com

*Episode cover art features The Queen of Fire card from Sharon’s The Bohemian Animal Tarot

Acknowledgements & Mentions: Krisztina Lazar, Fortune’s Wheelhouse Academy, The Wildwood Tarot

Original interview recorded on March 23, 2022. (March 24th for Sharon!)

8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved.

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Gifts and curses, cookie homes and kindness, pink people and imposter syndrome, learning to art. A diviner and beloved mentor in the Tarot and Oracle community, Amanda is an artist, sage and poet. Listen as Amanda and Eliza weave through the mundane and the extraordinary and reflect on life and what it means to share in this human existence.

When I rise

Up from 

The flowing water

Bare skin 

Dripping

Sunlight

Water-light 

Wind dried

Flesh waiting

For your

Paint, your color

Where will you gild me?

Which scars will be highlighted

Crowned

Made beautiful

-Amanda Bell

Join Eliza & Amanda as they discuss topics inspired by the Tarot- like Amanda’s own numerological system she calls “Tarot Math”. Amanda shares how synesthesia informs her experiences, the label of 'autism', and the weight that can accompany labels in general.

Original interview recorded on March 17, 2022

Acknowledgments & Mentions:

Stuart Kaplan Marsaille deck, Shadowscapes Tarot , RAADS Online Self-Assessment Tool

8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved.

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Meet Certified Child Life Specialist, Megan DiTore, MS, CCLS, CTRS and join the conversation as Megan shares her story of coming into her life’s purpose by coming face to face with death as a teen. Eliza and Megan- former cohorts of their master’s degree program in thanatology- talk making peace with death, post-traumatic growth, extraordinary experiences, meaning making, and much more. 

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

Stephen Jenkinson, Griefwalker, Marian University, WI, Root Lock Tarot Podcast (Elemental meditation)

Original interview recorded on March 5, 2022

8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved.

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