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Taropedia
by Philip Carter and Benjamin Carter
Two brothers tour through the Tarot deck, discussing the cards through the lens of musical practice and contemporary wellness. ***It ought to be stated that the breathtaking space image used in our cover photo is ours to ocularly devour thanks to the love and devotion of the folks over at NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Mwah, babes.
Episodes
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Episode 13: Rosie Rings
Greetings, hi. Ben and Phil do major galaxy brain takes on all sorts of things in this episode, on the Three of Pentacles. All about habits, rituals, momentum of precedent, etc... we talk about politics, social justice, spirituality, language. Pls enjoy. Outro music sister ray by foxes, phil's...
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Episode 12: Pivot
Hiya Podfam. We're all about the pivot today. We're scooping up our things and going the other direction. Ben and Phil talk about life changes, poop wiping technique, Phil's sex life, and a bunch of other stuff which is really interesting and this is really a good episode. But Phil is writing…
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Episode 11: Discrimination part 2
part 2 babes pls enjoy
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Episode 11: Discrimination part 1
Boing boing merry merry pentacles suit podfam! Special guest and old friend Sam Vodopia joins Phil on pod for a reading and a very loosely themed 'ace of pentacles' episode. If you zoom way out you can sort of see how what we discuss is on topic for Ace of Pentacles, which is about how we set…
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Episode 10: Acceptance
Greetings! We do ten swords today, which is all about the dissolution of the ego. Attachments, personal darkness, despair, the practices of discipline and self control, the concept of evil, the fruits of self knowledge and self love, collective identity, death, and some esoteric theory about the...
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Episode 9: Madness
Hiya friends! We do nine swords. It's on the dark side but there's a bunch of good stuff in here. We talk fantasy, repression, fear, healing, internal family systems, RuPaul's Drag Race, despair, rumination, identity, boundaries, empathy... else also. Pls enjoy. Outro music ATU XII: The Hanged…
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Episode 8: Interference
Hi Podfam! Eight swords today -- Ben and Phil met yesterday and churned this one out. We cover regulation, interference, polyrhythms, friction, influence, resistance, political revolutions, agency, self-awareness, independence, defiance. Phil feels clutter in his brain about how to move forward…
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Episode 7: Shame part 2
Part 2
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Episode 7: Shame part 1
Hi folks -- another two-parter today. I don't know if we speak shame directly in this episode but when I zoom out I think the seven of swords (our card for the day) is a good face for us to project shame onto, for our learning. Shame is the word of the day, then. We talk about a lot; theater,...
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Episode 6: Blitz
Special pod favorite Erica Dicker joins Phil on pod and they consume two bottles of wine together while Erica gives Phil a reading. A precious hour-or-so of audio (the beginning of the episode) is lost due to a corrupt SD card which is sad. Yet we are big grateful for the audio present here. Six…
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Episode 5: Awe
Greetings! Five swords today. Special guest Cody Geil joins Phil on pod for a musical reading and we cover a beautiful range of topics. Musicians' mental health, musical entrepreneurship, singing, the harmonic series and some esoteric spirituality. Lots else. Cody is a beautiful and amazing soul....
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Episode 4: Agreement
Hello loves. Ben and Phil cover four swords today, and get into deep (and slightly triggering) musings about grief, childhood, religious trauma, heaven and hell, sex-negativity and 'sublimation of the libido,' and some speculation about the vibrational universe and the nature of joy. Blessings…
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Episode 3: Anxiety part 2
Part two babes.
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Episode 3: Anxiety
Greetings PodFam! Phil's magical friend Sarah comes on pod for a reading and we have such a cute conversation. The big topic is Three of Swords which represents the flood of sympathetic activation that our nervous system gives us when we are mobilized. We talk about music performance, identity,...
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Episode 2: Grace
Smooches, PodFam. It's two swords and the topic is Grace, which is a really open ended thing that prompts discussion about Peace, social relationships, the nervous system, martyrdom, self love, the collective unconscious, laughter, stand-up comedy, slurs... much more. Phil gets a reading. There's...
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Episode 1: Knowledge
Season 3 starts here! Onto the swords suit. Today is the Ace of Swords and so we wonder about what it means to know something and talk about animal vigilance and how it shapes our perceptions of the world and the sorts of things we value knowing. We talk about embodied cognition. Phil shares more...
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Episode 20: Ten of Cups
Greetings! Ten Cups B*****S we get into the sauce in a deep and slippery way. We talk about the Holy Spirit, we talk about the primacy of breath, we talk about Yoga and the "spiritual path," we talk about acoustics and resonance, we talk about esoteric Kabbalah and do wild conjecture about…
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Episode 19: Nine of Cups part 2
part 2 babes
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Episode 19: Nine of Cups part 1
Greentings, heller to all of yers. Today's nine cups surfs the goodness of horniness, charisma, musical proportionality, harmonics, emotional control, time, orchestral conducting, and self love. Phil bobbinses his silks and gives Ben a reading. Outro music ATU IX for two violins by Phil.
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Episode 18: Eight of Cups
Hiya PodFam. We do eight cups today, PodFam. It's a somber soup of solemnity, but full of riches nonetheless. We talk about growing pains, denial, repentance, failure, clowning/drag, reality tv, death, rebirth, spiritual asceticism, wisdom, Mother Nature... Ben gives Phil a reading and Phil…
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Episode 17: Seven of Cups part 2
Part 2! SHREEEEEM (Srim)
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Episode 17: Seven of Cups part 1
Hi hi hi. It's seven cups today and it's a good one! Long tho -- up in two parts. Sorry abt that. We listen to minecraft and talk about analysis paralysis, habits, the seven hells, the circle of fifths, Phil's chanting/yoga practice, and self awareness. We give Ben a reading and talk about his...
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Episode 16: Six of Cups
Hey y'all. We did six cups! Pleasure and relief. Very tasty, very sexy, very good. We dip into bad breath, esoteric numerology, vedic chant, tonal harmony, mysticism, hedonism, stoicism... much. Please enjoy. outro music Gesualdo Tenebrae Resonspories by the King's Singers.
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Episode 15: Five of Cups
Heya! We do five cups and it's a dip into restless and chaotic musings about separation, loss, and sadness. We assure you that it's deeply silly. Mostly we wax on about the nature of consciousness and sensation. We talk about madness and read some Kahlil Gibran poetry. We attempt to connect wet...
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Episode 14.5: Four of Cups part 2
Hey we're back! This is the second half of our very long Four of Cups recording sesh. We do a reading. I forget the topics! Outro music courtesy Gaiea Sanskrit and Phil.
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Episode 14: Four of Cups
Absolutely luscious episode, pod fam. Four Cups and we get into a rich spread of topics. Cringe and digust, the history of western classical music, bombasticity phrases, esoteric numerology, trauma and talk therapy. BED BUGS. Yes. We listen to Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony and go on and on.…
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Episode 13: Three of Cups
Hi Pod Fam -- We did three cups. Three of Cups!! Phil eats an obscene amount of graham crackers and gives Ben a reading and we try to explore the scope of this magical card. A little more Christian esoterica, which includes an elaborate dance around sex negativity and emotional repression. We…
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Episode 12: Two of Cups
Greetings our merry minions, our pod fam. We bring you Two of Cups today and it's a big lesson on entrainment, sympathy, vibration, movin' and groovin', and Love itself. We talk a lot of bullshit, and we even get into some esoteric christian doctrine and talk about the divine trinity. Sorry, not...
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Episode 11: Ace of Cups
Surprise! It's a special one all about the Ace of Cups. We do another reading, this time for Ben. We talk a really big range of things as we listen to one of Ben's favorite albums at the moment, Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token. Phil apologizes for some jarring prayer bowl interjections. We…
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Episode 10: Ten of Wands
Yusssss it's Ten of Wands, PodFam. Ben and Phil sensed the same hot pile and so do a single reading for both simultaneously. There are groovy background tunes provided by Ratatat, and Ten of Wands-adjacent topics are perused. Oppression, marketing, labor, discipline, self-compassion. Many other...
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Episode 9: Nine of Wands
Greetings PodFam. Phil's dealing with some life changes so he's full of query. We gave him a reading and serendipity gave us a sweet gift in drawing the nine of wands. We were able to wax poetic even extra than usually, just in time for this week's drop. Full of topics... Can't keep them all...
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Episode 8: Eight of Wands part 2
Part 2 as promised. Please drink up.
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Episode 8: Eight of Wands part 1
Greetings Pod Fam. We're hitting you w another one, straight away! It's Eight of Wands so we get into a super abstract dish of concepts and chat chat chat. We gather in the flesh in PA in Ben's magical vehicle, where illicit, secret things take place. We talk deep, naval gazey philosophy and get...
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Episode 7: Seven of Wands
It's the Seven of Wands. "The Seven of Wands has to do with our ability to separate and consider emotions independent of the actual flood of experience with the emotion, with the sensation." -- Phil Here we talk about severence, gender metaphysics, mind/body interface, love and will, Phil…
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Episode 6: Six of Wands
Six of wands today! Emotional regulation, 'legato bowing,' circular breathing, pranayama, 'binaries' such as yin/yang, Phil gets into some of his own breathing practice and his thinking behind it, flow states, "victory," leadership, and hierarchy. A good one. Outro music featuring ATU XII (The...
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Episode 5: Five of Wands
Greetings! Five of Wands today -- big concept and we spread way wider than the scope of the card, perhaps more so than usual. The topics include childhood, "shining" a la Stephen King, worship, awe, polyvagal theory, reflections on Ben and Phil's church background, yin/yang theory and some...
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Musical Reading with Erica Dicker part 2
I'm awfully sorry to spam dear audience with episodes this day -- I realized too late my logic program cuts off long files (it can't get enough of it) so here's the last 10 minutes of pod w Erica. Enjoy!
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Episode 4: Four of Wands
Welcome and greetings! Four of wands. Ben and Phil discuss money, markets, labor, nutrition, musical proportion, sound production, 'feminine' rage, emotional subdual, spiritual introspection, asceticism, sustainability, Earthships. Yogini Shambhavi gets a shoutout so Phil has put in some of her...
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Musical Reading with Erica Dicker
Greetings Pod Fam, it's our second musical reading! On the pod we have a legendary icon, seamstress of the essences Erica Dicker, violinist, improviser, composer, professor, ETC. We talk about a glorious range of things here, weighing in on far too much to list. So here's a list: Violin extended...
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Musical Reading with Marta Bagratuni
Here begins Taropedia's musical reading series! Phil has super special guest and dear friend Marta Bagratuni on pod to have her cards read. We talk about embodying emotions, acting, stage performing, stinky cheese, and the whole nine yards. Lots of love here.
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Episode 3: Three of Wands
Greetings Pod Fam! Welcome to three of wands. This is an especially aimless episode for us, which is funny because three of wands is supposed to be all about gaze, direction, attention, travel, etc.. We cover an interesting array of topics nonetheless, which includes EMDR Therapy, Chamber...
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Episode 2: Two of Wands
Two of Wands! The topic is Domain and so we talk about Sound, vibration, the overtone series, singing vowels, audiences and performing, churches, power... there's a bunch more, per usual. An important note, speaking of audiences! The fabulous PodFam (that's YOU) has been called upon to write in...
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Episode 1: Ace of Wands
This is the inaugural episode of season 2, folks! We're beginning a new chapter of Taropedia and with that comes episode titles that correspond to card names. This episode is devoted to naval gazing about the Ace of Wands, and as such we brush over things such as vocal diction, breath support…
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Episode 26.5: Frog Wah part 2
ad;klaj;sf file too big too long. Had to split. Second part here. Mwah bbas.
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Episode 26: Frog Wah
This one we tackle Temperance and the four pages, which is a scoop that gets us into a particularly juicy swath of topics. In no particular order: karma, tarot divination, "kundalini awakenings," yoga, spirituality and worship, chaos, psychedelic experiences, Polyvagal Theory's "neuroception,"...
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Episode 25: Yak Shum
CW: Religious trauma, murder Ben gets a reading today and we get into a beautiful and haunting range of things including a troubling incident from Ben's past. The topics revolve around self care, mental health, pain, violence, and the mind-body interface. Outro music is ATU VII for two mandolins,...
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Episode 24: Core's Redge
Phil gets a reading on this one! It's a vulnerable one, all about identity, queerness, speech, expression, and the artistic pursuit. Lots of little nuggets sprinkled in. Phil has some original music for two violins as the outro.
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Episode 23: Glawwm Snit
Hi Pod fam. It's Death and the four knights today. We get into a super interesting range of things: (clippity clop) the grind of labor, the value of discipline, and the spirituality of arts and crafts. This was a natural transition into the learning process and how knowledge is embodied and...
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Episode 22.75: Ache's Gnoyle
Part 3 of our Hanged man saga! This one is mostly Queen of Wands and Queen of cups, which gets us into weirdness on Sanskrit, instincts, gratitude, flow states, orchestral conducting, love, the circle of life... Rupaul gets a name drop! Outro is an excerpt of Taittiriya Upanisad 3 recited by…
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Episode 22.5: Cog's Blitte
We take a second whack at the hanged man and the four queens, opening up several sumptuous cans of worms. Among them are ruminations on talk therapy, tattoos, collective identity, trauma, dissociation, creative expression, homophobia, somatic expression, evolution, morality, Adam and Eve... wow....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two brothers tour through the Tarot deck, discussing the cards through the lens of musical practice and contemporary wellness. ***It ought to be stated that the breathtaking space image used in our cover photo is ours to ocularly devour thanks to the love and devotion of the folks over at NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Mwah, babes.
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Philip Carter and Benjamin Carter
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Two brothers tour through the Tarot deck, discussing the cards through the lens of musical practice and contemporary wellness. ***It ought to be stated that the breathtaking space image used in our cover photo is ours to ocularly devour thanks to the love and devotion of the folks over at NASA and...
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