Today’s show will focus on the Hermit and Oedipus.

Announcements: The ego, superego, and the ID

The Hermit: It’s time to retreat within, and let go of the world you think you know.

Oedipus: His journey to being the Hermit, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus.

ThunderBitty Lightening Round: Freud’s Oedipus Complex.

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Next week: The Wheel and Chronos

On today’s show we talk about Strength and Athena.

Metaphors: The monkey mind becoming the toddler mind (just as a metaphor to represent your control over your inner desires, the id and the ego).

Strength: all forms (physical, mental, and emotional).

Athena and her Buddies: Heracles, Achilles, etc.

ThunderBitty Lightening Round: Troy and Athena

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Next week: The Hermit and Oedipus

MTL Episode 8:

Today’s show we will be talking about the Chariot and Medea.

Announcements: We are now on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mythtarotlove

This episode is dedicated to Rose’s uncle

The Chariot: Overcoming/conquering fears, victory in the face of overwhelming defeat.

Medea/Helios’ Chariot: A brief overview of Jason and Medea from the Argonautica, but especially from Euripides’ Medea. Medea uses Helios’ Chariot to escape Corinth = Deus ex machine

ThunderBitty Lightening Round: The Mummy

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Next week: Strength and Athena

Today’s show we will be talking about the Lovers, Odysseus and Penelope.

Fate: how it is brought out in tarot (especially in the Lovers) and fate in mythology (big surprise they are gods!)

The Lovers: All varieties of love, a lot of sexual energy, a partnership that has the potential for a positive outcome, but also the potential for destruction.

Odysseus and Penelope: The Oath of Tyndareus, tales from the Odyssey by Homer.

#theyaremetisforeachother

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Next week: The Chariot and Medea

In today's episode we examine the tarot card The Hierophant, as well as the Hierophant from the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Thunder Bitty Lightning Round: Wonder Woman

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Next week: The Lovers, Odysseus and Penelope

In today’s episode we will be talking about The Emperor and Augustus (the first actual historical figure that we examine.)

The Emperor:

- The first truly masculine card.

- he is sitting on a stone throne facing forward, with a stern expression,

wearing a red robe and holding a sceptre and a sphere.

- mind over matter persona, archetypal father and patriarchy, rules, and

everything having a place. Everything works because his laws are put

in place and are respected.

- if he shows up its time to buckle down, and its time to use your head

instead of your heart.

Augustus/Octavian:

- First Emperor of Rome (he was a consul first).

- Great nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar.

- Star Wars!!! #starwarsisreal

- Brought stability to Rome after the civil wars of the Late Republic.

- (honestly Wikipedia has a bunch of info on Gus!)

Thunder Bitty Lightening Round: Patriarchy, and Feminism vs. Equality

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Next week: The Hierophant & The Hierophant ;)

Today’s show we will be talking about the Empress and Demeter.

The Lost Episode Blog Post:

https://bittydiana.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/myth-tarot-love/

Tarot card positions. When you are reading tarot you often use a spread, i.e. Celtic Cross. Basically a spread means that you put the card in a certain position and that place will also help to define its meaning.

The Empress:

- She is surrounded by nature and feminine symbols.

- She appears large in the image, and seated/relaxed but also attentive.

- she represents creativity, intuition, love (unconditional love), and

motherhood.

- Ultimate mother figure in the tarot, with the Queen of pentacles as a

close second

- phase of life where things are being created around you. Possibly even

that you are pregnant.

- Locus Amenos

Symbol of fertility, and there are many fertility goddesses, such as: Gaia, Inanna, Astarte, Cybele, Isis, and of course Demeter.

Demeter (Roman Ceres):

- goddess of grain, fertility and motherhood. Patroness of farming.

- daughter of Kronos and Rhea, elder sister and the fourth wife of Zeus

represented as a mature and dignified woman, holding a cornucopia.

- Homeric Hymn to Demeter (the earliest myth of Demeter and

Persephone).

Thunder Bitty Lightening Round:

Hades and the ‘rape’ of Persephone. Trigger warning.

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Next week: The Emperor and Augustus

Today’s episode we focus on the High Priestess and Hekate. The High Priestess is the second card in the Major Arcana, and it is the first highly gendered card.

We also discuss gender fluidity in tarot, life, and history. Akhenaten is one Egyptian Pharaoh who was represented as having both female and male characteristics.

Spiritual Energy vs. Kinetic Energy.

All people have male and female energy.

High Priestess:

- symbolically feminine, the power of yin energy

light and dark on both sides of the card, and the high priestess is in the

middle of the card balancing the two

- means different things for different people, because of the mystery

surrounding her.

- Things are happening but its not the time to act; action has already

taken place and now she is patient and letting things play out

Hekate (Hecate):

- goddess of magic, patroness of witches, crossroad and the underworld,

the dark side of the moon, and poisoners

- she is in a lot of myths, such as the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

- in art she is shown with three heads or bodies, holding one or two

torches

This episode is also a little quiet (growing pains!) but that will be fixed for the next one.

We apologize for the echoing at the beginning, and the low sound here and there, we are still learning!

Book of Thoth

78 Card Tarot Decks: Rider-Waite Smith &

Celtic Dragon Tarot

American Tarot Association

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Our very first podcast episode! In the week's show we explore the Fool card and Ariadne.

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