PODCAST · fiction
The Tarot Cure
by Free Association Radio
It was a good idea at the time, I guess.
Episodes
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30. Beyond The Pleasure Principle
“The clock in the back of the deserted house (everyone’s sleeping) slowly lets the clear quadruple sound of four o’clock in the morning fall. I still haven’t fallen asleep, and I don’t expect to. There’s nothing on my mind to keep me from sleeping and no physical pain to prevent me from relaxing,...
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29. An Arid Heart
"Sadly, or perhaps not, I recognize that I have an arid heart. An adjective matters more to me than the real weeping of a human soul. But sometimes I’m different." -Fernando Pessoa -- Every so often, I sit down and write a letter to Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese poet and writer. I not only…
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27. The Centaur (part ii)
The second part of my Tarot Cure Pilgrimage to Treadwell's Bookshop to see if one of their finest Tarot readers (Madame Kalathaki) might have some wisdom to share with me on where my last relationship went awry, and what I need to do to keep the next one (when it comes) more enduringly on the…
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26. The Centaur (i)
In which I take myself off to consult a professional tarot reader at London's main hub for the Tarot Cognoscenti (Treadwell's Bookshop) to see if she can help me with the "stuff" that I’m still trying to work through in relation to my last romantic relationship. One of my favourite centaurs…
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THE TAROT CURE OMNIBUS: What A Fool Believes
Before falling in love with the Enneagram, I had a thing for Tarot. And so I decided to put this thing into a podcast called The Tarot Cure. Here's an Omnibus edition of those episodes, spanning the length and breadth of my 50th year. It was a good year :)
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25. The House of Belonging: The Three of Wands Tarot Cure
Sophie (psychotherapist, single) asks a burning question that her friend Steve (psychotherapist, also single) might also like to have answered: "Will It Ever Happen For Me?" -- This episode of The Tarot Cure is sponsored by two poems: REQUEST Please love me And I will play for you this poem upon...
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24. Dick Pics & Living The Questions: The Ace of Wands Tarot Cure
Why do our burning questions burn in the way they do? I try to answer this by looking back at the phenomenon of PostSecret, and how burning questions often tap into core needs, longing, and yearnings such as the yearning for orientation, meaning, coherence and understanding, as well as...
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23. Incense(d): The Five of Swords Tarot Cure
Are you getting huffy and puffy about online dating? Or maybe One Of The Other Things We Tend To Get Huffy and Puffy About (the list is endless)? If so, this one is for you: giving birth to Max, poetry vs. evolutionary psychology, incense vs. incensed, and Cain versus Abel. All with added...
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22. Either/Or: The Hierophant & High Priestess Card Tarot Cures
This episode takes a walky-talky dive into my favourite scene in the Wizard of Oz: "The Wizard Revealed", exploring the healing powers of Hierophants & High Priestesses versus that of Persona-fied Schmucks like toi et moi. This episode of the Tarot Cure is proudly sponsored by KURKURE NAUGHTY...
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21. How Fragile We Are: The Tower Tarot Cure
This episode discusses our core existential fragility through a pink child's bracelet found on the side of the road, the violent and sometimes even bone-breaking choreography of Elizabeth Streb, as well as my mother's recent mishaps with "The Jaws of Fate". This episode is sponsored by Dorianne...
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20. The One Thing I'd Love To Know About You: The Eight of Wands and Five of Cups Tarot Cures
In this episode I wonder, to use that line from Larkin: "What are days for?" Parcels of time we hold in our minds when we opening our eyes after being off-line, asleep. Days where we either feel on-track or off-track with those experiences, states, fulfilments we all desire to have more of in our...
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19. Tree, Tree, Tree: The Queen of Wands Tarot Cure
In this episode, Sophie delivers an impromptu free-association on The Queen of Wands from a semi-recumbent state (hence the superb quality of the F-A, dream-like?), whilst I ponder Max's gender metaphysics and admire some spindly trees on a walk. Thanks to Sophie for her FFA (Free…
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18. Don't Be Cruel (To A Heart That's True): The Five of Pentacles Tarot Cure
This episode is mainly about the incredibly young (only 22!) and goofy Elvis Aaron Presley's performance of "Don't Be Cruel" on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957. It also delves a little into why vegans don't (or shouldn't?) eat honey, and whether we'd change our behaviour towards people and things…
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17. Winner Takes All: The Five of Wands Tarot Cure
Why do we do one thing, rather than another? Why do we sometimes struggle to commit to certain kinds of behaviour, whereas others come naturally? Why do we procrastinate and self-sabotage? Once you've understood how the Winner Takes All mechanism works in your mind, as well as the "mind" of our…
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16. Leaving The Atocha Station: The Emperor Tarot Cure
An exploration of The Emperor archetype through the sex lives of Orthodox Jews and the sublime wittering of John Ashbery. Thanks to Sophie for her FFA (Free Free-Association) of this card. Each FFA involves Sophie, freely-associating around the episode card which until that moment she had never…
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15. Expectation Minus Disappointment Equals Suffering In Time: The Judgement Card Tarot Cure
What do you love more than what you imagine is your singular life? Are you willing to take your place in the forest again? to become loam and bark to be a leaf falling. from a great height. to be the worm who eats the leaf and the bird who eats the worm? Look at the sky: are you willing to be the...
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14. What Is This Life If, Full Of Care, We Have No Time To Stand And Stare? (The Sun Card Tarot Cure)
A exploration of the The Sun archetype with a nod to these two poems: LEISURE What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?- No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows: No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in...
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13. Love Is Apart From All Things: The Hermit Card Tarot Cure
A exploration of the Hermit archetype through Lizzie MacKenzie's recent documentary The Hermit of Treig. THE GREAT FIRES Love is apart from all things. Desire and fulfilment are nothing beside it. Neither body nor mind can truly love. Even if they try to lead us there. What is not love provokes...
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12. Fire and Ice: The Tower Card Tarot Cure
An exploration of The Tower, an archetype which invites us to explore and consider sudden change, upheaval, and chaos in our lives, as well as a kind of revelation or awakening sometimes associated with the word "enlightenment" as it is sometimes linked to personal transformation. We take this...
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11. Poems For Ma: The Death Card Tarot Cure
The Death Archetype (XIII in the Major Arcana) features pretty heavily in this episode. But fear not, no one dies, and no one gets hurt. That's because Mary Oliver's poem Wild Geese, the one with the line in it about letting the soft animal of the body love what it loves, features even more...
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10. On Having Your Cake And Eating It: The Magician Card Tarot Cure (v)
All our pain and most of our pleasure it would seem, resides in our peculiar human predilection for wanting to have our cake, whilst at the same time also eating it. How does the Magician archetype get us into, but also perhaps out of this conflicted, cakey business? MUSIC: All We Do For Love -...
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9. Three Spells For Getting Over Someone (3rd Spell): The Magician Card Tarot Cure (iv)
Break-ups suck. Here's a final spell to help us get through and over, based around a Tarot card that accompanied me and helped me to heal (get over/get through in a therapeutic way) my last break-up: The Two of Cups. PS: This podcast has been designed to be listened to on 🎧 ⚡ SPELL THREE: A…
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8. Three Spells For Getting Over Someone (2nd Spell): The Magician Card Tarot Cure (iii)
Break-ups suuuuck. Here's another spell to help us get through them. PS: This podcast has been designed to be listened to on 🎧 ⚡ SPELL TWO: A Spell for Connection & Centering ⚡ Ingredients: 2 tbsp of Lauren Groff's Annunciation (listen online) 1/2 tsp of Lazy Susan a handful of polyvagal...
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7. Three Spells For Getting Over Someone (1st Spell): The Magician Card Tarot Cure (ii)
Break-ups suck. Here's are a few spells to help us get through them. PS: This podcast has been designed to be listened to on 🎧 ⚡ SPELL ONE: A Spell for Connection & Centering ⚡ Ingredients: 200g of Alice Oswald's poem Sisyphus [PDF] a sprinkling of musical scales and polyvagal chanting 7 large...
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6. It Is Sad, But It Is What It Is: The Magician Card Tarot Cure (i)
What has the archetype of the Magician got to do with John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, the colour we now call Schoolbus/Safety Yellow, Extended Mind theory, entropy (physics), depression (metaphysics), and ring-tailed lemurs wanting to be antelopes? Links: The Sound of The Sun (poem) by...
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5. Constant Craving: The Fool Card Tarot Cure (v)
In this one I explore what it means for the fool to be "high", making a distinction between The Natural Fool (symbolised by the pooch at their side) and the Fabricated Fool who is just about to step off the edge of a thought into the abyss.
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4. To Life, To Life, L'chaim! The Fool Card Tarot Cure (iv)
I present five fools, both ancient as well as modern, so that we might together play the guessing game we end up playing with ourselves and others most of the time anyway: Good/Upright Fool vs. Bad/Reversed Fool. You decide. L'chaim!
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3. Better to Burn Out Than Fade Away? The Fool Card Tarot Cure (iii)
What the Fool can teach us about gravity: i.e. the ups and downs of life.
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2. What A Fool Believes: The Fool Card Tarot Cure (ii)
We learn about Henry Patenson, Sir Thomas More's family fool, and how the Fool archetype (as well as those who embody it) present a way of being in the world that is candid, truth-seeking, but also deeply playful. "The ‘trickster’ figure that anthropologists have identified in ancient myths and...
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1. In The Middle of The Road, There Was A Stone: The Fool Card Tarot Cure (i)
We meet one of the earliest images of the Fool archetype -the bagpipe-playing, Sola Busca Fool (1490) - and discover how this medieval loser or "zero", asks questions of us and our place in the world that we are perhaps only now starting to comprehend. "The fool, the so-called insane creature…
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Love Is A Losing Game
What my friends Jackie and Guy (circa 1987) taught me about Eros.
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