In this episode I talk to independent art historian + all-around fascinating human Brenda Edgar.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Jan van Eyck
• Brenda Edgar's upcoming class thru Morbid Anatomy—Medieval Medicine & the Magical Body—starts July 7
• Find everything Brenda Edgar is up to at her website: brendaedgar.org
• Join her Patreon: Art History AF the first 7 days are free + she does a members-only talk every month

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Tarot 101: Saturday, August 15 at noon et (time zone converter)

a new Study Tarot Series cohort begins September 12

Check out the blog post for this offering for all of the images + links that I talk about...

You can find out about everything I'm up to at sheainthecatskills.com

You can find all of the images (including kitty pic! 🐈‍⬛📸) + links discussed in this episode at the blog post for this offering.

You can find out more about my work at sheainthecatskills.com

in this episode:

blog post

36 Portals to Aliveness

Study Tarot Series

Symbolic Lab

And/Or—listen here!

My books are open

Song For A Hard-Hit People

Haint T

The Mother Tree

Morgan Bassichis

building a movement

what moves people

I picked up my camera

How to Build Emergency Response Systems

anti-ICE billboards

Download your printable versions

Tiny Desk Concert

ENERGY

mood

revive in-person engagement skills

ER

Cosmic Jukebox

The Pudding

Mariame Kaba

Ali Skaik

We're hosting an online gathering to celebrate the publication of 36 Portals to Aliveness on Friday, March 20 at 5pm est. If you'd like to join us, please RSVP to receive the zoom link. We'll send a recording to everyone who RSVPs.

If you haven't checked out the planner yet:

• you can purchase the print workbook
• download the free .pdf version
• listen to Elena read the introduction while she creates a beautiful painting

Purchase the printed workbook version or download a free .pdf version.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Cory Nakasue + The Cosmic Dispatch
• Elena Solano + Human Hands Making Things
• shea in the catskills + the Study Tarot Series
• the And/Or podcast
• the Correspondence astro + tarot offerings
• The Symbolic Lab
• Dayna Lynn Nuckolls
• Kening Zhu's Labyrinth Library
• LJ's Ceremony Studio

Theme music: North Star by Mr Smith, Free Music Archive CC BY 4.0

In this episode:

• check out the blog post for this offering (with kitty pic!)
• Prentis Hemphill
• 36 Portals to Aliveness: a 2026 Journey Thru the Decans is available to order. Order the workbook or download the free .pdf.
• an epic playlist for this planner: tidal, spotify, quobuz
• Elena Solano + I embark on a new Symbolic Lab. Elena's artwork: check it out
• Cory Nakasue + I will offer another Getting Thru It Together cohort
• The new Study Tarot Series cohort begins next month on April 8: a short video about it + read what people have said about the experience
• My books are open + purchase gift readings
• Zine box sets
• my art for sale page is back up
• Covid cases
• Carolyn Yoo's Zine Lab
• Michelle Teasdale's Tend online community + Feeding Your Demons + their newsletter
• online art history with Brenda Edgar, Morbid Anatomy + Art History AF + her future classes
• a short piece about getting off of US tech
• Isaiah Zagar joined the ancestors + Philadelphia's Magic Gardens + a documentary about him: In a Dream
• the group that helps ICE detainees released from Whipple
• this guy

in this episode:

• blog post for this episode, with images
• Martha Graham (h/t Dense Discovery)
• this gem
• Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
• Golden Dome School's upcoming Tarot-Thon for Immigrant Justice February 22-24 & 25
• a new Symbolic Lab
• Cory Nakasue + I will offer another Getting Thru It Together cohort
• the new Study Tarot Series cohort from this month to April 8. I made a short video about it + you can also read what people have said about the experience
• add [email protected] to your email Contacts or Address Book
• My books are open for readings this month + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings for the people in your life. Zine box sets are still available
• 25,349 deaths.*
• Sign up to receive information about how to order the planner + Read the intro + see an excerpt here
• Beth Howard's Song For a Hard-Hit People
• Kening Zhu's Labyrinth Library
• this show + tell about my art practice
• Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei's solo show "The Study of One Thing" at Hartwick College's Yager Museum of Art & Culture
• Hojin's art practice gatherings...
• podcast dispatches from Autumn Brown + Margaret Killjoy
• a 4-minute video by Ana Marie Cox
• an update from Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg via Ann Friedman
• whistleblowers + whis

in this episode:

• view the blog post for this episode—with images!
• Elena Solano
• Community Discussion: Talking to the Dead on Saturday, January 24 at 2pm est
• Using Tarot to Work with the Dead on Saturday, February 7 at noon est
• a new Study Tarot Series cohort beginning in February
• the 2026 Symbolic Lab starts in March
• My books are open + it’s easy to purchase gift readings + Zine box sets
• 36 Portals to Aliveness: A 2026 Journey Thru the Decans: Sign up to receive information about how to order + Read the intro + see an excerpt here
• Mind of Psychic-Mediumship mentoring group on Wednesdays at 5pm est starting January 14 with Karin Connelly
• Human Hands Making Things
• The Cosmic Dispatch: watch or listen
• acquitted by a jury of his peers
• Photographer Christopher Anderson’s portraits: this analysis is by Cassandra Klos
• Community members activating rapid-response teams
• Students walked out of school
• an exerpt from Nemik’s Manifesto, artwork by Elena Solanothis is what we’ll be taking up in this year’s Symbolic Lab!
• the Study Tarot Series community
• “How to Be Alone” by Pádraig Ó Tuama
• Sheila Hicks: We’re Crying for Softness
• Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russel
• this whole situation
• George Washington Carver’s Secret Life as an Artist
• Hea

in this episode:

• view the blog post for this episode—with images!
• Kelly Hayes
• Study Tarot Series
• Upcoming Transits + Tarot Prescriptions reading
• Symbolic Lab: Trust in Remembering
• My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings + Zine box sets
• a new 8-minute video about the Study Tarot Series
• Kening Zhu’s Labyrinth Library
• a show + tell about my art practice
• sign up to receive more information about the 2026 Decans Planner
• Rachel Pollack’s grave
• US postal worker breaking man out of ICE custody
• Images of ICE projected onto Spotify buildings
• fiber artists join peaceful ICE protests i
• I hope you’re not crossing a picket line + we’re not shopping at Target, Home Depot or Amazon, right? (support independent artists + esotericists instead!)
• Faith leader Michael Woolf
• Alice Wong
• Diane di Prima
• David Bowie & Gail Ann Dorsey performing Under Pressure live
• adrienne maree brown talk to Francis Weller about The Long Dark
• tarotist Rashunda Tramble on the Scorpio new moon
• Dayna Lynn Nuckolls on establishing new emotional territory
• Jesse Welles
• epic thread of historically interesting things
• The Hermit of Treig
• Come See Me In The Good Light
• Webb’s mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep (aka

In this episode:

• blog post for this episode (with images + kitty pic!)
• Ethan Hawke (h/t Amelia Hruby)
• Study Tarot Series + what people are saying about it 🤓watch me talk about it
• a new Correspondence offering: Upcoming Transits + Tarot Prescriptions reading
• The Symbolic Lab with Trust in Community + what participants had to say about it so far
• 2026 Symbolic Lab—Revolution: a Close Reading of Nemik’s Manifesto. 
• My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings
• N95 + KN95 masks + clean air (DIY version)
• I recorded a new 8-minute video about the Study Tarot Series
• Kening Zhu’s Labyrinth Library
• Martha Crawford’s by-donation/pay-what-you-can community offerings 
• Manchán Magan + his 2020 book Thirty-Two Words for Field
• Jack Jenkins, a journalist covering politics + religion
• Writer + organizer Kelly Hayes took this video
• Bethany Karsten
• Dean Spade’s recorded patreon Live 
• Raqib Shaw’s Paradise Lost + Shaw’s method
• crisis.acting 
• When We All Get To Heaven podcast
• virtual zine libraries! + this one, too
• A woman stitched together 609 of her state fair award ribbons 
• what Amanda Yates Garcia recently had to say about my new tarot zines box set 78 Faces of Power
• Lettie Jane Rennekamp’s Many Queens Tarot
• “A Torturous Sanitation Disaster Is Unfolding in Gaza’s Displacement Camps” by Sara Awad, October 25, 2025