If you are able to check out the video included in the podcast you will witness a strange visual sideshow of the artist using mirror effects to morph into a united entity and continue to demonstrate the speratness we sometimes feel within an internal struggle. Linsey plays with this artistic imagery as a way to showcase her response to the extreme polarity being demonstrated in popular culture these days. It seems everywhere you look or tune in, there is a demonstration of division split perspective. The artist finds this feeling extremely frustrating as she values the importance of seeing many perspectives to almost all controversy. Her intention is to comment upon the isolation found in adversity and division. For those of you who enjoy YOUTUBE VIDEOS: a private viewing link to the her channel is linked below.

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The episode art is Linsey Gessner's depiction of the nine of swords card in her uniquely designed tarot designs. If you would like to learn more about what the symbolism of this card represents, please visit one her favorite readers on YOUTUBE. 

Moody Tarot: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCojgzXGaXkumK-V9ENe1zBA

Roseology: https://www.youtube.com/c/Roseology1111

The opening of this episode includes a poem recited by Linsey R. Gessner called DEFEAT by author:BY KAHLIL GIBRAN

Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;

You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,

And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.

Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance,

Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot

And not to be trapped by withering laurels.

And in you I have found aloneness

And the joy of being shunned and scorned.

Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,

In your eyes I have read

That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,

And to be understood is to be leveled down,

And to be grasped is but to reach one’s fullness

And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.

Defeat, my Defeat, my bold companion,

You shall hear my songs and my cries and my silences,

And none but you shall speak to me of the beating of wings,

And urging of seas,

And of mountains that burn in the night,

And you alone shall climb my steep and rocky soul.

Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,

You and I shall laugh together with the storm,

And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,

And we shall stand in the sun with a will,

And we shall be dangerous.

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