Fortune’s Wheelhouse

By Susie Chang and Mel Meleen

What's Fortune’s Wheelhouse about?

Fortune’s Wheelhouse is a podcast about esoterics and the tarot.

The show is hosted by Susie Chang and Mel Meleen. Its first 22 episodes look closely at esoteric imagery in the major arcana of the Rider Waite Smith and Thoth tarot decks,

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Fortune’s Wheelhouse episodes:

09.22.2021
SERIES FINALE: A reading for Mel, a reading for Susie.
Friends, we have arrived at our destination. After completing the planetary, numeric, zodiacal, and elemental series, Mel and Susie decided to record one final episode to mark the conclusion of the Fortune's Wheelhouse podcast: we decided to give the gift of...
05.26.2021
Episode 116: The Element of Earth in Tarot
We conclude our series on the 4 elements and their relationship to the tarot with Earth, the source, home, and ultimate destination of all of us. We explore the qualities of Earth, both physical and metaphysical; its zodiacal and planetary...
05.12.2021
Episode 115: The Element of Air in Tarot
We continue our series on the 4 elements and their relationship to the tarot with Air, the ubiquitous and mobile element associated with the restless human mind. We explore the qualities of Air, both physical and metaphysical; its zodiacal and planetary...
04.28.2021
Episode 114: The Element of Water in Tarot
With this episode we continue our series on the 4 elements and their relationship to the tarot with Water, repository of redemption, the unconscious, and all that is felt. We explore the qualities of Water, both physical and metaphysical; its...
04.14.2021
Episode 113: The Element of Fire in Tarot
It's elementary, dear astral heroes! With this episode we begin a new series on the 4 elements and their relationship to cards in the tarot. First up is that spark of creation, the element of Fire. We explore the qualities...
03.24.2021
Episode 112: Patron One-Card Readings, part 2 [March 2021]
Fortune's Wheelhouse brings you part 2 of our March 2021 readings episode illustrating how the correspondences are applied in real time when reading a card. Esoteric tarot reading is both an art and a science, in which the correspondences form...
03.10.2021
Episode 111: Patron One-Card Readings, part 1 [March 2021]
Back by popular demand! Fortune's Wheelhouse brings you part 1 of a readings episode that illustrates how the correspondences are applied in real time when reading a card. Esoteric tarot reading is both an art and a science, in which...
11.25.2020
Episode 110: The Sign of Pisces in Tarot [zodiacal]
We conclude our zodiacal series with mystical, spiritual sign of Pisces, the Fishes. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical uses and...
11.11.2020
Episode 109: The Sign of Aquarius in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the inventive and idealistic sign of Aquarius, the Water-Bearer. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical...
10.28.2020
Episode 108: The Sign of Capricorn in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the structure-loving and pragmatic sign of Capricorn, the Sea-Goat. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical...
10.14.2020
Episode 107: The Sign of Sagittarius in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the freedom-loving sign of Sagittarius, the Archer. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical uses and...
09.30.2020
Episode 106: The Sign of Scorpio in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the darkly mysterious sign of Scorpio, the danger-loving Scorpion. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical...
09.16.2020
Episode 105: The Sign of Libra in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the sign of Libra, the Scales - archetype of symmetry, balance, and partnership. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations...
09.02.2020
Episode 104: The Sign of Virgo in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the meticulous and perceptive sign of Virgo, the Virgin. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical...
08.19.2020
Episode 103: The Sign of Leo in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the radiant and illuminating sign of Leo, the Lion. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical...
08.05.2020
Episode 102: The Sign of Cancer in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the moonstruck sign of Cancer, the Crab. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical uses and...
07.22.2020
Episode 101: The Sign of Gemini in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the sign of Gemini, the Twins. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical uses and more;...
07.08.2020
Episode 100: The Sign of Taurus in Tarot [zodiacal]
We continue our zodiacal series with the sign of Taurus, the Bull. We explore the characteristics of the sign, its associated planetary dignities, its magical and natural correspondences, its astronomy and related constellations and myths, its magical uses and more;...
06.24.2020
Episode 99: The Sign of Aries in Tarot [zodiacal]
A new beginning! With this episode we begin a new series on the 12 zodiacal signs and their relationship to cards in the tarot. First, of course, is the sign of Aries, the Ram. We explore the characteristics of the...
06.10.2020
Episode 98: Patron One-Card Readings, part 2 [May 2020]
Fortune's Wheelhouse brings you part 2 of a readings episode that illustrates how the correspondences are applied in real time when reading a card. Esoteric tarot reading is both an art and a science, in which the correspondences form a...
05.27.2020
Episode 97: Patron One-Card Readings, part 1 [May 2020]
Back by popular demand! Fortune's Wheelhouse brings you part 1 of a readings episode that illustrates how the correspondences are applied in real time when reading a card. Esoteric tarot reading is both an art and a science, in which...
04.29.2020
Episode 96: Number 10 [numeric]
In this tenth and final episode of our numeric sequence we explore the replete and fulsome! number 10, and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively explore the...
04.15.2020
Episode 95: Number 9 [numeric]
In this ninth episode of our numeric sequence we explore the potent and magical number 9, and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively explore the concepts and...
04.01.2020
Episode 94: Number 8 [numeric]
In this eighth episode of our numeric sequence we explore the systemic, systematic, and very real number 8, and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively explore the...
03.18.2020
Episode 93: Number 7 [numeric]
In this seventh episode of our numeric sequence we explore the mystical, elusive and profoundly magical number 7, and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively explore the...
03.04.2020
Episode 92: Number 6 [numeric]
In this sixth episode of our numeric sequence we explore the harmonious sphere of Grand Central, number 6, and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively explore the...
02.19.2020
Episode 91: Number 5 [numeric]
In this fifth episode of our numeric sequence we explore the very disruptive! subversive! and trying! number 5 and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively explore the...
12.04.2019
Episode 90: Number 4 [numeric]
In this fourth episode of our numeric sequence we explore the very stable, grounded, and generous number 4 and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively explore the...
11.20.2019
Episode 89: Number 3 [numeric]
In this third episode of our numeric sequence we explore the deep and restless waters of the number 3 and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively explore...
11.06.2019
Episode 88: Number 2 [numeric]
In this second episode of our numeric sequence we explore the balanced, active, self-conscious number 2 - our only even prime! - and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We...
10.23.2019
Episode 87: Number 1 [numeric]
In this first episode of our numeric sequence we explore the unique! the indivisible! the one and only! number 1, and all tarot-related topics relating to it. We touch upon numerology, Pythagorean thought, related shapes and symbols. We also comprehensively...
10.09.2019
Episode 86 Patron One-Card Readings, Part 2
By popular demand! Fortune's Wheelhouse brings you a readings episode that illustrates how the correspondences are applied in real time when reading a card. Esoteric tarot reading is both an art and a science, in which the correspondences form a...
09.25.2019
Episode 85: Patron One-Card Readings, Part 1
By popular demand! Fortune's Wheelhouse brings you a readings episode that illustrates how the correspondences are applied in real time when reading a card. Esoteric tarot reading is both an art and a science, in which the correspondences form a...
09.11.2019
Episode 84: Saturn [planetary]
This is the seventh in our planetary series covering each of the seven classical "planets" in the tarot. Featured in this show: the Great Timekeeper and Lord of Karma, Saturn - including his related astrology, Qabalah, powers, correspondences, Orphic hymn,...
08.28.2019
SPECIAL EPISODE: Tarot and the Decans, with Austin Coppock
On this week's special episode, we bring you a guest whose name will be very familiar to all Fortune's Wheelhouse listeners - Austin Coppock, author of 36 Faces: the History, Astrology, and Magic of the Decans This episode is one...
08.14.2019
Episode 83: Jupiter [planetary]
This is the sixth in our planetary series covering each of the seven classical "planets" in the tarot. Featured in this show: our expansive all-Father and Big J himself, Jupiter! - including his related astrology, Qabalah, powers, correspondences, Orphic hymn,...
07.31.2019
Episode 82: Mars [planetary]
This is the fifth in our planetary series covering each of the seven classical "planets" in the tarot. Featured in this show: the Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty, indomitable Mars! - including his related astrology, Qabalah, powers, correspondences,...
07.17.2019
Episode 81: The Sun [planetary]
This is the fourth in our planetary series covering each of the seven classical "planets" in the tarot. Featured in this show: the Light of Our World, the shining Sun! - including his related astrology, Qabalah, powers, correspondences, Orphic hymn,...
07.03.2019
Episode 80 - Venus [planetary]
This is the third in our planetary series covering each of the seven classical "planets" in the tarot. In this episode we talk about Her Loveliness the Fairer Benefic, Lady Venus - including her related astrology, Qabalah, powers, correspondences, Orphic...
06.19.2019
Episode 79 - Mercury [planetary]
This is the second in our planetary series covering each of the seven classical "planets" in the tarot. In this episode we talk about the one, the only, thrice great Mercury! including his related astrology, Qabalah, powers, correspondences, Orphic hymn,...
06.06.2019
Episode 78 - The Moon [planetary]
Fortune's Wheelhouse is back! with the first in our planetary series wherein we discuss each of the seven classical "planets" in the tarot. We shall begin with our satellite, the lovely Moon, along the way discussing the related astrology, Qabalah,...
01.23.2019
Episode 77: Page of Pentacles / Princess of Disks
In this final episode of our journey through the cards, we meet at last the original Sleeping Beauty: the Page of Pentacles or Princess of Disks. Rose of the Palace of Earth, she is the ultimate destination and the ultimate...
01.16.2019
Episode 76: Knight of Pentacles/Prince of Disks
Presiding over newly-plowed fields, the sun warm on his back, the imperturbable Bull is the Prince of Disks or Knight of Pentacles. The airy part of Earth, he applies his methodical intellect and mechanical genius to problems of the land....
01.09.2019
Episode 75: Queen of Pentacles/Disks
Our final Queen is the silent one, the thorny rose, the Queen of the Goats. Ruling over the final decan of Sagittarius and the first two decans of Capricorn, the Queen of Pentacles or Disks offers silence, the certainty of...
01.02.2019
Episode 74: King of Pentacles/Knight of Disks
The King or Knight of Pentacles/Disks is the fiery part of earth, associated with the 7 of Wands and the 8 and 9 of his suit: valor, prudence, gain. He has left behind his leonine warrior days for the hard...
12.26.2018
Episode 73: Ten of Pentacles/Disks
In this final card of the decanic minors, we arrive at the Lord of Wealth. Mercury governs the final decan of Virgo, sign of his rulership and exaltation. Therefore the 10 of Pentacles or Disks holds the culmination of our...
12.19.2018
Episode 72: NIne of Pentacles/Disks
Perfection and control produce beauty in the 9 of Pentacles or Disks, province of Venus in the second decan of Virgo. Here in the Lord of Gain, the perfectly ripened crop is gathered and organized, methodically, increasing in value at...
12.12.2018
Episode 71: Eight of Pentacles/Disks
Time is money and patience bears fruit in the 8 of Pentacles or Disks, the Lord of Prudence. The messenger god, at home everywhere, enters his rulership as we arrive in the sign of Virgo. The Sun governs this decan,...
12.05.2018
Episode 70: Seven of Pentacles/Disks
Alas, it was too good to last! After the brief shining success of the 6, we arrive at the Lord of Failure in the 7 of Pentacles or Disks. The 5 posed problems of scarcity and Mercurial anxiety, while the...
11.28.2018
Episode 69: Six of Pentacles/Disks
Now that we've arrived at the auspicious 6 of Pentacles of Disks, Success is within reach! Here the Moon, exalted in the sign of Taurus, shines her kindest light. The steady earthen bull plows the fertile fields; all herds thrive,...

What's Fortune’s Wheelhouse about?

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Fortune’s Wheelhouse episodes:

SERIES FINALE: A reading for Mel, a reading for Susie.

Episode 116: The Element of Earth in Tarot

Episode 115: The Element of Air in Tarot

Episode 114: The Element of Water in Tarot

Episode 113: The Element of Fire in Tarot

Episode 112: Patron One-Card Readings, part 2 [March 2021]

Episode 111: Patron One-Card Readings, part 1 [March 2021]

Episode 110: The Sign of Pisces in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 109: The Sign of Aquarius in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 108: The Sign of Capricorn in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 107: The Sign of Sagittarius in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 106: The Sign of Scorpio in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 105: The Sign of Libra in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 104: The Sign of Virgo in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 103: The Sign of Leo in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 102: The Sign of Cancer in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 101: The Sign of Gemini in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 100: The Sign of Taurus in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 99: The Sign of Aries in Tarot [zodiacal]

Episode 98: Patron One-Card Readings, part 2 [May 2020]

Episode 97: Patron One-Card Readings, part 1 [May 2020]

Episode 96: Number 10 [numeric]

Episode 95: Number 9 [numeric]

Episode 94: Number 8 [numeric]

Episode 93: Number 7 [numeric]

Episode 92: Number 6 [numeric]

Episode 91: Number 5 [numeric]

Episode 90: Number 4 [numeric]

Episode 89: Number 3 [numeric]

Episode 88: Number 2 [numeric]

Episode 87: Number 1 [numeric]

Episode 86 Patron One-Card Readings, Part 2

Episode 85: Patron One-Card Readings, Part 1

Episode 84: Saturn [planetary]

SPECIAL EPISODE: Tarot and the Decans, with Austin Coppock

Episode 83: Jupiter [planetary]

Episode 82: Mars [planetary]

Episode 81: The Sun [planetary]

Episode 80 - Venus [planetary]

Episode 79 - Mercury [planetary]

Episode 78 - The Moon [planetary]

Episode 77: Page of Pentacles / Princess of Disks

Episode 76: Knight of Pentacles/Prince of Disks

Episode 75: Queen of Pentacles/Disks

Episode 74: King of Pentacles/Knight of Disks

Episode 73: Ten of Pentacles/Disks

Episode 72: NIne of Pentacles/Disks

Episode 71: Eight of Pentacles/Disks

Episode 70: Seven of Pentacles/Disks

Episode 69: Six of Pentacles/Disks