The Tarot Podcast with T. Susan Chang

Episode 66: The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Spread

The Tarot Podcast is sharing the secret sauce this week! it’s the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure spread, my hands-down favorite form of narrative problem-solving.  Choose your

Episode 65: Grounding 101 for Tarot Readers with Ethony Dawn

The effervescent Ethony Dawn returns to the show this week! to talk about an energy practice that’s really crucial for tarot readers: grounding. When you work with tarot,

Episode 64: Five Questions with Mark Ryan, John Matthews + the Wildwood Tarot

This week, the Tarot Podcast brings you one of the best-selling tarot decks of all time: the Wildwood Tarot. Creators Mark Ryan and John Matthews joined me to discuss the

Episode 63: The Page of Wands in Real Life

Tarot IRL is back, with our very first court card! In this episode, we examine how the energetic and enthusiastic Page of Wands shows up in the lives of ordinary folks.

Episode 62: Five Questions with Leeza Robertson, Eugene Smith + the Animal Totem Tarot

Animal decks are commonplace in the world of tarot, but to my mind the very finest of them is the Animal Totem Tarot, published in 2016 by author Leeza Robertson and arti

Episode 61: Interoception—the Body Reads Tarot, with Siddharth Ramakrishnan

Neurobiologist and tarot reader Siddharth Ramakrishnan returns to the Tarot Podcast to talk about interoception—your awareness of what’s going on inside your own body. Wh

Episode 60: Intro to Court Cards

It is commonly said that court cards are the hardest cards to interpret. Today, we take on these Royal Pains in the A** and try to make some sense of them. When you’re do

Episode 59: "Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions" at the Morgan Library

Tarot on the Road is back! This week, the Tarot Podcast heads out to the Morgan Library in New York City for their “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions” show. The

Episode 58: Tarot Myths with Ethony Dawn

If you’re tarot-curious, you’ve probably heard some of the myths around tarot – how you’re supposed to get your first deck, what kind of abilities you have to have, what

Episode 57: So You're Getting a Tarot Reading...

Getting a tarot reading? How can you make sure you have the most meaningful experience possible?  How do you protect yourself against “querent remorse”?  In this week’s s

Episode 56: Tarot Museum Belgium

It’s Tarot On the Road! This week, the Tarot Podcast visits the Tarot Museum Belgium, where proprietor Guido Gillabel shows us what 40 years of pure tarot obsession can l

Episode 55: Tarot and the Predictive Brain, with Siddharth Ramakrishnan

In today’s show, the Tarot Podcast veers off the beaten path and turns to science! for an explanation of how prediction works. My guest is Siddharth Ramakrishnan, a neuro

Episode 54: The Tarot Readers of Amsterdam

For this week’s episode, we present something completely different for the Tarot Podcast! We recently traveled to Amsterdam and decided to do an episode on the tarot scen

Episode 53: How Do I Care for My Cards? with Barbara Moore

In today’s episode, we take on a totally practical question for both new and experienced tarot readers: How do I take care of my tarot cards? The care and maintenance of

Episode 52: Jumpers, Stalkers, and Holdouts—Cards with an ATTITUDE!

It’s the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Tarot Podcast! and have I got a show for you! Today we’re having a look at three Unexplained Card Phenomena that every tarot reader

Episode 51: Five Questions with M. M. Meleen + the Tabula Mundi Tarot

The tarot deck known as the Tabula Mundi is a modern tarot masterpiece, a memory palace, and a love song to esoteric tarot. Its creator, M. M. Meleen, is known for her wo

Episode 50: The 10 of Wands in Real Life

Tarot IRL is back! with the final installment of our numeric minors in the Wands suit. In this episode, we examine how the mighty—but exhausting!—10 of Wands shows up in

Episode 49: How to Read the Tarot de Marseille, with Sherryl Smith

In Episode 48, the tarot historian and independent scholar Sherryl Smith gave us an introduction to the classic European deck known as the Tarot de Marseille, or TdM. In

Episode 48: What is the Tarot de Marseille? with Sherryl Smith

The Rider Waite Smith and Thoth tarot decks may be the most recognized decks in the English-speaking world. But it is the Tarot de Marseille, known in tarot circles as th

Episode 47: An Artomancy Reading with Laetitia Barbier

In this week’s Tarot Podcast episode, we welcome back goth tarot queen Laetitia Barbier to boldly engage! in a special kind of divination devised by Laetitia herself: ART