Tarot Visions

Tarot is a wonderful tool. Like any other tool, it has a language that develops naturally all on its own. In this episode, Rose Red and Jaymi demystify the acronyms and insider knowledge around the language of tarot. We discuss some of our favorite people, structure, and three-letter acronyms, including the famous LWB! Thanks again to Michael Charboneau for producing this week’s cast. A list of words we chat about include:LWB-- little white book, the booklet or the book that comes with a deckRWS-- Rider Waite Smith deckPCS-- Pamela Colman SmithMajor’s only-- decks, or exercises, using only the 22 major arcana of a full tarot deckTarot PDA-- jaymi’s definition for a tarot journalTSW-- This Stuff WorksYMMV-- Your Mileage May VaryWaite-- AE WaiteCrowley-- Aleister CrowleyLady Freida Harris-- Artist of the Thoth deckMLP-- My Little Pony (not really mentioned, thought we'd see if you were still with us)3cd-- three-card draw CoTD-- card of the dayHM-- Hidden Message (card pulled from the bottom of the deck)Did we m

After a short hiatus, Rose Red and Jaymi return. This time they catch with Matt and Hope Hughes. Great news, their Ethereal Visions Tarot is shipping, and boy is it amazing. Jaymi and Rose Red agree the deck is a total winner. But that’s not all, for the dynamic couple is busy at work on funding another deck through Kickstarter! This time it’s a playing card deck based on Norse/Viking structures. Called the Gjallarhorn deck, this already funded deck features nifty illustrations of the Norse gods. Matt and Hope tell us about how they teamed up with Doctor Jackson Crawford, Instructor of Nordic Studies and Nordic Program Coordinator at the University of Colorado Boulder (formerly UC Berkeley and UCLA) to get their inspiration. He’s quite prolific and has several books on Norse mythology and has a great youtube channel and several books on the subject. Finally, in September, the Hughes plan to re-do the Kickstarter for the Dreamscape Oracle, a 24-card companion oracle to the Ethereal Visions Tarot. A big shout o

Live from PantheaCon 2018, it’s Tarot Visions! Imagine Rose Red and Jaymi sitting in a room with a studio audience and that’s what your hearing. We chatted about various topics from tarot spells and how we do them, to what divination classes were on the program during the weekend, to tarot fashion. We even learned that there IS an app for a tarot-based dating sim (available for Android and iOS).A huge thank you to John and Fred, hosts of the Divination suite and an even BIGGER thank you for everyone who listened in, contributed, and hung out with us all!

In this week’s episode, Rose Red and Jaymi chat with Shelley Carter who curated the fabulous The Tarot Lovers: Works of Heart art exhibit which opened this past weekend in Ontario. This wonderful art installation features works from both the tarot tribe and artists around the world. Shelley shares stories of the art (as well as some images, which you can find on the Facebook page) and describes the process of going from creating the Elora Tarot to curating an art exhibit.

Rose Red and Jaymi talk pop culture and dark arts with Emily Carlin this week. Emily shares her 13-tile, "bone" tossing, pop culture divination technique as well as describing her background on delving into the darker side of magic. Look for her Defense Against the Dark book on amazon.com and read more about her pop culture experiments at her blog, Exoteric Magic. You can find Emily at the occasional festival, or in and around Seattle. Connect with Emily by emailing her at emily@e-carlin.com.

Love is in the air, have you had your inoculation yet? This week Rose Red and Jaymi chat about one of tarot’s top draws: romance! Listen in as they discuss their favorite spreads, suggest ways to get the best out of your romantic and couple readings this season, and discuss some ancillary topics around relationship questions and what clients bring to the table.

Blue moons occur every 2.5 years! They’re full moons occurring twice in the same month. Luckily for us, January 2018 has its own blue moon. Join Rose Red and Jaymi as they discuss their thoughts about the full moon and what readings or rituals they’ll do during this special time. Some of our fabulous tarot and astrology peeps who share their wisdom on these events include Ethony Dawn and Theresa Reed. Are you doing something? Let us know in the comments or on our Facebook page.

Rose Red and Jaymi discuss dealing with dishonest querents. We’re talking about skeptics, people that are dishonest about what they want, and folks that look for their own meanings in a reading. Shout out to Andrew McGregor for suggesting this topic. Reach out and join the discussion on our Facebook page or our Twitter feeds @RoseRedTarot or @jaymi_elford.Plugs: Northwest Tarot Symposium (NWTS) is coming in March! Register now and join in the fun. Today is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday. Don’t forget to look for This and Nothing More, the illuminated Edgar Allen Poe book by Matt and Hope Hughes. 

Rose Red and Jaymi reveal their NYE and 2018 year-long planning spreads. They discuss what they did and examine the similarities and differences. Rose used a 13-card major arcana monthly thematic spread. Jaymi’s NYE spread was from Beth of Little Red Tarot. Jaymi's posting her results over at Inner Compass Tarot, so you can see all 36(!) cards in their glory. Did you use tarot to help plan your 2018? Let us know by leaving your comments below!

Rose Red and Jaymi are back after taking a bit of a long holiday break. Listen in as the girls talk about their plans for the future, their PantheaCon adventures (coming February 16-19, 2018 to a DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose), and their plans for this new year. Their words for 2018 include Faith, Community, and Connections. Connect with jaymi at Inner Compass Tarot Coaching or on twitter @jaymi_elford. Find Rose Red on Twitter and Instagram at @RoseRedTarot.

Rose Red and Jaymi chat with the purveyor of creative decks, Maree Bento. Maree is the creator of the Antiquarian Lenormand and Tarot decks and a wonderful reader. She stops by to chat about her creativity, inspiration and informs us about her upcoming project, the Divine Muses Oracle. In this episode, we mention a few decks including Pixie’s Astounding Lenormand, Pam’s Vintage Tarot, and the Esslin decks.

Our favorite jet-setting tarotista, Mary K Greer,  takes some time out of her busy schedule to chat with Rose Red and Jaymi. Mary’s a very busy instructor in 2018. She’ll be teaching at PantheaCon, and at the now sold out Readers Studio in New York. She’ll be traveling back to China to teach at least twice more. And she’s running a wonderful tour of Britain and Scotland with her “Tarot Magic in Merlin’s Britain and Scotland” program. (Sign up by the end of November 2017 to secure your spot!) Mary also gives us many tales about Pamela Coleman Smith, as she is in the process of writing a book with US Games, Inc. about the artist extraordinaire herself. This book is due out in 2018, as well. The girls have decided that Mary is welcome to tell more tales at any time!

Rose Red and Jaymi catch up with the Metaphysical Men: Fred West and John Hijatt. This dynamic duo runs the Divination Suite every year at PantheaCon in San Jose, where attendees hang out and chat about all things divination. The guys are also very active in the divination scene; John is working on self-publishing a 35-card Christmas Oracle deck (due out this winter season). He also records the Heathen-based podcast, Gifts of the Wyrd, and teaches rune/oracle classes at their local metaphysical shop. While Fred organizes the San Diego Cartomancer Collective, which connects readers to one another. Accessible to all levels, share spreads, techniques, and learn from one another. 

Sing it with us, “It’s a small world after all…” This week Rose finds out how Elizabeth Leggitt has a mutual friend in Jaymi. We discuss her creative process and uncover how she developed her own tarot deck. We learn the happiness of winning not just one, but two, Hugos! and unpack some symbolism inside her art. Find out more about Elizabeth at her website and go check out the book Retrograde by Peter Cawdron (featuring her wonderful cover art). We also highly recommend you check out her Harbinger series. Amazing work!

In this episode, the girls call upon Arwen Lynch Poe (check out her Patreon!) to help Jaymi sort out some writing issues by using advice from her book, Mapping the Hero’s Journey. She also gives us the scoop about her vision for The Cartomancer magazine, and her other awesome projects, like the tarot blog hop (note, this is a closed group, so you’ll have to ask permission to join the fun!). Planning on doing NaNoWriMo? Go get her book. While you’re at it, go subscribe to The Cartomancer, too.

Fall is rapidly approaching. Pumpkin pie, hoodies, and Halloween decorations… ravens. Wait, ravens? Yes, ravens. This week we talk with Matt and Hope Hughes once more about their newest creation and Kickstarter, the illustrated Edgar Allen Poe book. Come with us on this journey as we learn more about Poe, his works, his spiritual beliefs, and this fantastic project which kickstarts on September 12th. If you act fast, you can record some sound bites of your voice to one of 3 Poe poems for them to select from and use in their Kickstarter campaign. Check www.eapoebook.com for more details.

In this episode, we used our random character generator to conjure up “a satyr line developer” by the name of Satyros Phil Brucato, an award-winning author. We discuss his sordid history of gaming, from his involvement with White Wolf Game Studio as the line developer for Mage the Ascension, and Sorcerer’s Crusade games to creating the urban fantasy Deliria, Faerie Tales for the New Millennium. We talk about the Mage: The Ascension tarot deck and using playing cards to create unique resolution systems. As a bonus, he tells us more about the Dreamdancer Oracle, a collaborative production with Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. Warning: explicit cussing does occur in this week's episode.You can find Phil, and more on his prolific creative projects, at:Facebook: Phil Brucato, author groupBlog: https://satyrosphilbrucato.wordpress.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/philbrucatoTelesterion bandArt of Mage book (look for the revised version at drive through RPG)

This episode kicks off a new series we’re doing about RPGs and tarot. Andrew Robinson joins Rose Red and Jaymi to discuss how their favorite hobbies cross over together. In this long episode, we discuss how tarot can be used for conflict resolution, character creation, and campaign designs. We share some of our favorite RPG created decks, and we share various ways to tie your tarot decks into your homebrewed tabletop adventures. Time to bust out the deck, dice, and character sheets and get playing.For more information on the games we mentioned check out:Swan Song Tales of Arcana Castle Falkenstein / Deadlands 7th Sea: Sorte deckDrew’s first Destiny spread for 7th SeaD&D d20 system: Tarot Magic supplement Classic D&D Deck of Many Things (22 card deck that does all sorts of stuff to your characters, good and bad). Mage: the Ascension deckMage: the Awakening deckShadowrun deck, with a book supplement due later in 2017Twitch RPGs: Geek and Sundry’s Critical Role (D&D) and HyperRPG’s Death From Above (

It's Jaymi's birthday week, so we're taking a hiatus to allow her to celebrate her solar return and be with friends and family. As such, we're rebroadcasting the episode in which Charlie and Rose Red interview her and hand over the reins.

Cynthia Fisher is a prolific tarot, Lenormand, and oracle creatrix. She has over 20 fantastic and unique decks on her Etsy store at Two Koi Moon and she’s got no signs of stopping. Rose Red and Jaymi spent some time chatting to Cynthia about her creativity, processes (she does hand-drawn and digital art), and what’s next on her long list of creations.(Editor note: we had some audio issues with this week's episode. We tried our best to fix them, but you'll hear some blips. We apologize but hope you still enjoy this week’s episode.)Samples of Cynthia's art at artwanted.com/gonedigitalFacebook groups: the cartomancy club (tarot, oracle, Lenormand) and the black cat altar deck page