Tarot Visions

In this episode, you can hear Charlie go full fanboy as he speaks with gaming legends Lori and Corey Cole who created the best-selling Quest for Glory series and are hard at work on Hero-U: http://kck.st/1MuQKKB.

We chat about how they incorporated Tarot and divination into their games as a tool of empowerment, how our choices (in life as well as when role-playing) can make us the heroes we aspire to be, and what we can look forward to in their newest title.  

Be sure to check out (and hopefully contribute to) their Kickstarter campaign for Hero-U here: http://kck.st/1MuQKKB

A new Tarot magazine is on the scene. In this episode, Charlie talks to Jadzia DeForest, the Editor of The Cartomancer Magazine, a quarterly publication for Tarot, Lenormand, and Oracle card enthusiasts. We talk about how Jadzia was inspired to create the magazine, what you can find inside, and what content she is looking for to fill future issues.  

Find out more at http://thecartomancer.com/

We all get hung up sometimes when we work with Tarot, but identifying our own pitfalls and traps is one of the best ways to move past them. In this episode, Rose and Charlie chat about their own personal pitfalls as diviners and how they have worked to get out of their own way in order to give fantastic readings.

How big is your collection?  In this episode, we talked with RWCarter, a mod from Aeclectic Tarot Forum about his MASSIVE collection of Tarot decks and books as well as oracle cards.  He shared his advice for acquiring and managing your own collection of cards and we finish up with a chat about altering and "blinging" decks.

No matter how many Tarot decks you own, you usually have a few familiar go-to decks that you turn to often for readings.  In this episode, Rose and Charlie discuss their most often used decks as well as what makes for that special bond between a reader and their go-to deck.

Rose's Decks
Radiant Waite http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/radiant-rider-waite/
Voyager Tarot http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/voyager/
Druidcraft Tarot http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/druidcraft/

Charlie's Decks
Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/smith-waite/
Fey Tarot http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/fey/
Secret Tarot http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/secret/

Tarot joins the battle against cancer! In this episode, Rose and Charlie chat with Ron Leong, the man behind the Tarot Pink project. Tarot Pink is a collaborative, healing-themed deck created by more than 60 artists to raise money for breast cancer research.  

To make a donation to Tarot Pink and pre-order a copy of the deck, head to https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tarot-pink-benefitting-breast-cancer-research.

Field reporter Jaymi Elford checks in about her time at this year's Readers Studio in New York.  She recounts days and nights of tarot learning, shopping, reading, and other oracular shenanigans. Find out just what happens at the annual gathering of tarot enthusiasts.

Spring is in the air, the birds and bees are doing what they do best, and Rose and Charlie are chatting about the tender subject of love and relationship readings.  We talk about the spreads we use to find (and keep) our heart's desire as well as what certain cards, in particular, say to us during love readings. We round it all out with a quick discussion of our favorite romantic and erotic decks. Enjoy, young lovers.

This week, Rose and Charlie are delighted to have a chance to speak with Tarot authoress extraordinaire Barbara Moore (fancy meeting her here).  We chat about how she got started in the business and a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes at a big publisher like Llewellyn. Moore walks us through the creation process for decks like her exquisite Steampunk Tarot and gives a sneak peek at a few decks that will hit shelves in the future. We talk with her about the writing process from LWB's and companion books to her awesome Tarot Spreads and Beginner's Guide to Tarot.  

For more information about her upcoming series of classes on Tarot reading, deck and book creation,  and Tarot Shamanism, be sure to sign up for her newsletter at tarotshaman.com.

Just what is one supposed to make of the court cards? In this week's episode Rose and Charlie discourse on the courts.  We talk about how to use the court cards as significators, how to read them both for prediction as well as personal analysis and talk about a few decks that take the courts in an untraditional direction.