Crystalline Knowledge Tarot

People of the world–spice up your life! Wrapping up our journey through the suit with the King of Wands. Support my work: Book a reading with me! Read my Substack Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

Woo-hoo, witchy woman see how high she flies. Tap into the passion and power of the Queen of Wands. Support my work: Book a reading with me! Read my Substack Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

The big wand energy of the tarot, the Knight of Wands. He’s fearless, he’s confident, he’ll ghost you in less than a heartbeat.  Support my work: Book a reading with me! Read my Substack Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Come on baby, light my fire. Seize the passion and energy of the Page of Wands before they forget you exist. Support my work: Book a reading with me! Read my Substack Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMusic from Pixabay

So high the climb, I can’t turn back now. Must keep climbing on to the clouds. These wands are getting kind of heavy, huh? Today is all about the 10 of Wands and when we need to just get it done, or just let it go.  Support my work: Book a reading with me! Read my Substack Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

Pushed from the precipice, climbed right back up the cliff. Long story short, I survived. A little beleaguered, but we survived. It’s the 9 of Wands. Support my work: Book a reading with me! Read my Substack Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

Ain’t nothing gonna break my stride, nobody gonna slow me down. Oh no, I’ve got to keep on movin’. Seize the moment, propel forward, don’t get struck by a stray wand. It’s the 8 of Wands (and more on my new tarot offerings!).  Support my work: ⁠Book a reading with me!⁠ Read my Substack ⁠Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon⁠ ⁠Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram⁠ Things to learn about from today’s episode: Della Duncan, Interview with Della Duncan on Cultivating Right Livelihood Upstream Podcast Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

You came in with the breeze, on Sunday morning. You sure have changed since yesterday, without any warning. And you want me badly, because you cannot have me. Stand your ground, but don’t stand too hard, ya know? Today’s episode is all about the 7 of Wands.  Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

We are the champions, my friends. This week’s episode is about celebrations and victories of the personal sort. Get ready for the 6 of Wands Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

It makes me that much stronger, makes me work a little bit harder, makes me that much wiser. So, thanks for making me a fighter. This week’s episode is about challenges, conflict, obstacles. It’s the 5 of Wands.  Things to learn about from today’s episode: Schulman, Sarah: Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate. Just one day out of life. It would be, it would be so nice. This week’s episode is about milestones, joy, family, community, and pausing to enjoy the stability we have in our life right now: the 4 of Wands.  Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

Every little step I take… Today we talk about taking action, experiencing setbacks or down periods, and how to move forward with the 3 of Wands.  Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

C’mon and let me know… Should I stay or should I go? The Two of Wands. For the visionaries, for the world changers. But maybe also for those who are content where they are.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Francesca Polletta: It was Like a Fever Verta Taylor: Social Movement Continuity: The Women’s Movement in Abeyance Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

You bring feeling to my life. You’re the inspiration. It’s the Ace of Wands, the essence of the fiery, passionate, sometimes flighty Suit of Wands. Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on InstagramMusic: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

New. You’re so new. In our first episode on the Minor Arcana, we take a high-level walk through the basic organization and associations of the four Minor Arcana suits. Let's gooooooooo. Things to learn more about from today’s episode: C. Wright Mills: The Sociological Imagination Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on InstagramMusic: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

Although we’ve come to the end of the road. Still, I can’t let go. In our final episode on the 21 keys of the Major Arcana, we talk about The World. Make sure you have all of your loose ends tied up to fulfill the last leg of The Fool’s journey.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Hickel: Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World Labyrinthos Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

My castle crumbled overnight. I brought a knife to a gunfight. They took the crown, but it’s alright. Get ready for the rapture, it’s Judgement day.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Weber: Politics as a Vocation lecture Benebel Wen: Holistic Tarot Ophidia Rosa Tarot by Leila + Olive Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

Here comes the Sun, it’s alright. A card of joy, celebration, celebrity, and glory. This episode is all about The Sun.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: collectivecartomancy on Instagram Support my work: ⁠Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon⁠ Connect with your hostess: ⁠Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram⁠ Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

The freaks come out at night. Inside you, there are two wolves. This is about the one who only comes out at night. This episode is all about the lessons of The Moon.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Sandra Harding: The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader NPR: How ‘Bad Medicine’ Dismisses and Misdiagnoses Women’s Symptoms Flores et al. “Assessment of the Inclusion of Racial/Ethnic Minority, Female, and Older Individuals in Vaccine Clinical Trials” Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Follow your north star. In today’s episode, we will talk about The Star card, a lovely card of hope and optimism. A respite after our recent journey through the lessons of The Devil and The Tower.  Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay

Let the rain fall down, and wake my dreams. Let it wash away my sanity. Cause I want to feel the thunder I want to see, let the rain fall down… I’m coming clean. In today’s episode, I will remind you that there are no bad cards. Sometimes we need a little Tower energy in our lives (no, really!) Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power Max Haiven “Hegemony- Antonio Gramsci” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  Support my work: ⁠Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon⁠ Connect with your hostess: ⁠Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by ⁠NeoMmusic from Pixabay⁠

Every single one of us, the Devil inside. Today’s episode is all about The Devil, insight into our temptations, our addictions, our self-imposed chains that need broken. And, just maybe, how to tap into our own deep magic.  Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. In today’s episode, we talk about Temperance. A card for practicing equanimity and taking the middle path through life’s challenges.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: In the Buddha’s Words, Bhikku Bodhi Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Seasons don’t fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain. We can be like they are. Come on, baby, don’t fear the reaper. In today’s episode, we talk about the Death card. Ego death and the tipping point for major transformation. Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Radomska, et al. Queer Death Studies: Death, Dying, and Mourning from a Queerfeminist Perspective Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it (yeah). Your head will collapse, and there’s nothing to it, and you’ll ask yourself: Where is my mind? Today, we talk about The Hanged One (often called The Hanged Man). When it’s all flipped around.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: The Conversation: Talking across the aisle isn’t a cure-all–but it does help reduce hostility Kathleen Belew: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Karma’s a relaxing thought. Aren’t you envious that for you it’s not? In this episode, we talk about Justice, balancing the scales, cause and effect. Getting what’s coming to you… and yes, that can be the bad things, too! Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Howard Becker: Social Construction of Deviance (I think this is an undergraduate student paper- the Capricorn overachiever in my loves it when young students get their ideas out there!) Erika Bryant: Why We Say “Criminal Legal System,” Not “Criminal Justice System” Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

I’m stranded in the sleet and rain. Don’t think I’m ever gonna make it home again. The morning sun is rising, it’s kissing the day. The wheel in the sky keeps on turning, I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow… In this episode, we talk about The Wheel of Fortune card. Understanding the cycles of life. Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Thich Nhat Hanh: The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Here I go again on my own, going down the only road I’ve ever known. Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone. In this episode, we talk about The Hermit card. In defense of solitude and insight.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Mira Jacob: Things I Thought Made Sense That Just Don’t Anymore Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Love your teachers! Today we talk about The Hierophant. Bow down to traditional authority, or better yet, question it! Things to learn more about from today’s episode Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed bell hooks: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom The Muse Tarot Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Don’t blame me, love made me crazy. Making connections, feeling loved, giving love, making the all important carnal choices. In this episode, we talk about The Lovers. Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Thich Nhat Hanh: The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Ain’t nothing gonna break my stride, ain’t nothing gonna slow me down, oh no, I got to keep on movin’. Pulling it together, traveling and movement, knowing where you want to go. In this episode, we talk about The Chariot, which was also the card of the year for 2023.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Moonbeaming podcast Rachel Pollack: Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom The Bhagavad Gita Emile Durkheim: The Division of Labor in Society The Muse Tarot Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Now I’m stronger than yesterday. A card of brute force or gentle leadership? In this episode, we talk all about the card of the year for 2024, the Strength card.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish and “governmentality” Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

All empires must fall. In this episode, we talk about The Emperor. Line up your best defenses of the monarchy and lean into the joy of structure.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (PDF) Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

The Mother Goddess, the Venus of Willendorf, Mother Earth, the Creatrix. In this episode, we talk about The Empress. She is the Divine Feminine, but not in that new age-y, justification of traditional, patriarchal, oppressive gender norms kind of way. Victory to the Goddess!   Things to learn more about from today’s episode: The Second Shift Arlie Russell Hochschild  An Unequal Division of Labor Sarah Jane Glynn  Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Witches, unite! In this episode, we discuss The High Priestess. The witchiest card in the tarot, the patron saint of witches, the female Pope? Victory to the Goddess! Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Sarah Faith Gottesdiener: Moonbeaming podcast and The Moon Studio Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich (RIP) and Deidre English Goode and Ben-Yahuda: Moral Panics: Culture, Politics, and Social Construction Emerson W. Baker: A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience Stacy Schiff: The Witches: Salem, 1692 Haus Witch Home + Healing, Salem Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

He’s a magic man, momma. In this episode, we dive into The Magician. The tool for you to manifest your desires into reality.  Books and theories to learn more about from today’s episode: Schwalbe and Mason-Schrock: Identity as Group Process; Francesca Polletta: It was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics; McAdam and McLean: Narrative Identity Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by ⁠NeoMmusic from Pixabay⁠

In this episode, we start our deep dive into the major arcana by talking about Key 0, The Fool. The novice, the new, the beginner. Learn about how the archetype of The Fool shows up in our lives and how to work with the energy of the card. Thanks for listening! Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay Books and Theories to learn more about from today’s episode: John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Social Constructionism Support my work: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Patreon Connect with your hostess: Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram

Welcome to the first episode of Crystalline Knowledge Tarot, where I introduce myself, the podcast, and what I hope to develop during the course of this podcast. Thanks for listening! Links: Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen Crystalline Knowledge Tarot on Instagram Music: Underwater for Meditation by NeoMmusic from Pixabay