Cardslingers Coast to Coast

Happy October. During this spooky season, we’ve decided to share some creepy and spooky stories we’ve encountered while being tarot readers. While some of these stories happen during autumn, they also occur year-round. So stay awhile and listen to Melissa, Hilary, and Jaymi tell stories.

Homework: Play around with your protective circles and expand and contract them. See what happens when you let other sensory critters into your space. Understand when you are open to more psychic events throughout the day or the year.

Shoutouts

Stacey Wolf James

Rachel Pollack

Shining Tribe Tarot

Psychic Tarot by Nancy Antenucci and Melanie Howard

Recommended Episodes

Episode 7 The High Priestess is Not Your Filing Cabinet

Episode 19 Engaging Client in Readers

Episode 42 Spooky Scary Horror Cards

Episode 87 Everyone is a Little Bit Psychic

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Where’d the memes go?!?!? Hilary’s Insta account got suspended for “reasons,” and Jaymi and Melissa are giving her the space to vent, meme, and give good learnings on how to deal with Social Media BS. Know your intent about why you’re on the various platforms and how that can affect your personal, spiritual, and professional accounts. At the time of this posting, Hilary’s primary Instagram account has been reinstated.

Homework: Back up your social media accounts if you can. Diversify on the platforms—Review Hilary’s YouTube live streams on Spammers and scammers.

Platforms we Like

Hilary recommends Vero 

Jaymi is more at home on Mastodon

Melissa found her place on Threads

Shoutouts

Theresa Reed

Starcana

RoseRed

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Airhorns are back! Welcome back to the reading world, Lis. She’s back to slinging cards, taking bookings, writing books, and crafting decks. Hilary is thankful for all her referrals while Lis is working on other stuff. Jaymi speaks about tarot burnout and how to navigate personal needs and offerings to the world.

Episodes Mentioned

Episode 23: Fire that Freaker

Products Mentioned

Jamie Sawyer’s Pocket of Peers Tarot (out of print)

Theresa Reed and Carrie Paris’s My Living Astrology Chart Kit

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Melissa, Hilary, and Jaymi revisit the world of boundaries. Melissa reminds us that the definition of a boundary is “Rules and guidelines we set in our personal guidelines.” There are real, tangible benefits to having boundaries and enforcing them. You need to feel comfortable and safe first, and then you can worry about others. Boundaries also affect our client relationships. Hilary expands on client discernment and how it ties into relationship and boundary setting. And Jaymi reminds everyone about how hard enforcing boundaries can be.

Homework: Remember that no is a complete sentence. Relisten to our past thoughts on Boundaries in episode 20 to see how your boundaries have changed since then.

Past Episodes

Episode 20

-- Our Bookshop list from Episode 20

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As a nice wrap-up to our deep dive into the Aces, we give some practical ways to use the Aces in your magic. Hilary starts by giving ideas for specific focuses using these cards like new beginnings spells. Jaymi uses cards in her magic. She lays out the cards at her altar according to her identifiers and directions. You can place the magician in the center of the table and have them activate the spells or workings being done inside the circle.  Melissa showcases how to read with the Ace, the Fool, and the Magician, proving that you can do readings with a small pack of cards. She also gives Jaymi and Hilary suggestions for spells to honor the reading.

Resources Mentioned

Tarot Spells by Janina Renee

Tarot & Magic by Donald Michael Kraig (out of print)

Tarot Rituals by Nancy Antenucci

The Magic of Tarot by Sasha Graham

Spells for Tough Times by Kerri Conner

Cats Rule the Earth Tarot by Catherine Davidson and Thiago Corrêa

Transparent Tarot by Emily Carding

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It’s all about the things. We equate the Pentacles suit with the element of Earth and maybe winter. They refer to money, tangible items, and your home. These cards remind us to ground and how we can ground. It’s finding the safety when you are in the stillness.

Homework: Find the thing you want and get to getting it. 

Decks Mentioned

Rider Waite Smith Tarot

Radiant Rider Waite Smith Tarot

Wisdom of Pooh Tarot by Serefina and Angel Mesa, illustrated by Kat L Amsel

Resources Mentioned

The Playing Marseilles by Ryan Edward

Maybe Lenormand by Ryan Edward

Be Here Now by Ram Dass

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We dive into the Ace of Swords and the immediacy it brings. Swords bring up thoughts, how we use our voice, and put ourselves forth for change. It puts an edge on things and brings our ideas into focus. Melissa, Hilary, and Jaymi break down the Ace of Swords in various ways and how to tie the card into ways you can use the initial spark of action.

Homework: What cause can you lend your voice to? Take up the sword and think about how you can volunteer your time and money. Listen to some of our examples if you need ideas.

Decks

Narrative Alchemy Tarot by Krissie Bentley

Next World Tarot by Cristy C. Road (Jaymi uses the pocket edition; the link goes to the regular size)

The Shining Tribe Tarot by Rachel Pollack

Luna Soul by Darren Shill & Mike Medaglina

Do you like what you hear? Send feedback to us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cardslingerscc and Instagram at www.instagram.com/cardslingersccSupport our podcast with books. We’re adding all the books from each episode to our Cardslingers CC bookshop.org store. Each purchase from this store gives us a percentage to cover our costs! www.bookshop.org/shop/cardslingerscc. Finally, we’re announcing our new Cardslingers YouTube channel at youtube.com/@cardslingerscc. 

Reminder: We will NEVER DM you for a reading on any social media site. We schedule all readings and conversations through our personal websites.

The Ace of Cups has a comforting vibe. Cups relate to our emotions or things that ebb and flow in our lives. The Ace runs over, showing the honest, true source of the waters of life. The cup offers nourishment and receives love in any shape it comes.

Homework: Figure out what is medicine and poison to yourself. Make a list and keep it handy for when you need self-care. Also, download the app Finch (both Android and iOS).

Decks Mentioned

Weiser Tarot by Weiser Books

Sasuraibito Tarot Deck by Stasia Burrington

Trick or Treat Tarot by Jonathan Hunt and Barbara Moore

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Aces are the first step of each minor suit. In this case, we relate the wands to the element of fire and a season. It can be the idealized focus for Wands. It’s the ember of the fire seen in the suit. It’s a spark of the idea or connection. They help focus the potential energy into focus.

Decks Mentioned

Rider Waite Smith by AE Waite and Pamala Coleman Smith

Shadowscapes Tarot by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law (Czech edition, now out of print) 

Luna Sol Tarot by Liminal 11

Do you like what you hear? Send feedback to us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cardslingerscc and Instagram at www.instagram.com/cardslingerscc

Support our podcast with books. We’re adding all the books from each episode to our Cardslingers CC bookshop.org store. Each purchase from this store gives us a percentage to cover our costs! www.bookshop.org/shop/cardslingerscc. Finally, we’re announcing our new Cardslingers YouTube channel at youtube.com/@cardslingerscc. 

Reminder: We will NEVER DM you for a reading on any social media site. We schedule all readings and conversations through our personal websites.

Welcome back to the cards. Hilary, Lis, and Jaymi kick off the minors. We see the minors as the day-to-day nitty-gritty items of our lives. These cards are broken down into two aspects: the numbered cards and the court cards. There are four suits to the 56 cards. Each one has its association with an element that relates to one of the four elements: air (swords), fire (wands), cups (water), and earth (pentacles/discs/coins).

We’re going to reveal the numbers as a whole. So you’ll get four episodes detailing the aces, the twos, etc., and then we’ll give a wrap-up. We’ll begin with the Ace of Wands starting next month!

Homework: Separate your deck into majors and minors. Look at the minor arcana and see what comes up. Then, do a reading with the minors and a majors-only reading to see how each reading deals with the same topic.

Resources Mentioned

36 Secrets by T. Susan Chang 

Rebecca Szymczak

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Reminder: We will NEVER DM you for a reading on any social media site. We schedule all readings and conversations through our personal websites.