
shea✨ in the catskills
By Shea in the Catskills

shea✨ in the catskillsOct 21, 2023

December 2023: Orienting with the needs of the collective
Blog post for this offering (with kitty pic!)
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In this episode:
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- Online Tarot Circles
- room to join Study Tarot Series cohorts-in-progres
- Tarot #inthesetimes newsletter signup
- My books are open it’s easy to book thru calendly
- Guérin Asante
- Phoenicia Library
- Phoenicia Food Pantry
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) + their new National Member program
- Truthout
- Gerti Schoen’s online course
- The Dharma Tarot
- Móri, a gifted esotericist
- disrupt business as usual, protect forests + move decision-makers to action
- the organizers who helped Andy Beshear win re-election in Kentucky
- Beth Howard’s forthcoming memoir, manifesto, + how-to organizing manual Rednecks for Black Lives
- Michelle Alexander in Hammer & Hope
- Five Broken Cameras
- Can We Imagine Ourselves Surviving Together?
- Li: Dynamic Form in Nature by David Wade
- Martha Crawford

Episode 8: In Conversation With Roberta Aylward
Welcome to In Conversation With, my new series where I get to talk to my favorite artists, esotericists, writers, organizers, spiritual + creative workers + people who I think are doing really interesting shit in the world.
Today I have the great good fortune to be in conversation with Roberta Aylward, an artist living in Portland, OR. Roberta was born in Elgin, Illinois in 1969 + creative expression is essential to her understanding of the world + where she finds her clearest voice. She credits her high school art instructors, Martin Davis (Tucson, AZ) + Milton Harley (Nanaimo, B.C.) for providing a strong foundation for valuing art in her life. She received a BFA with a concentration in painting from The College of Santa Fe in New Mexico in 1991.
Roberta lives in Portland, OR with her husband, their 13-year-old son + their cat. She works in her home studio + practices drawing, collage + photography in service of her painting. Roberta exhibits her art on her website + in person, opening her studio to the public twice a year. Her work is included in many private collections + has been part of group exhibitions at The Painting Center in New York, Tacoma Art Museum, Oregon College of Art + Craft, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Umpqua Valley Arts Association + The Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery at Chemeketa Community College.
Roberta’s website: www.robertaaylward.com
Roberta’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/robertaaylward
Sign up for exhibition + Open Studio updates: www.robertaaylward.com/contact
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

Episode 7: In Conversation With Brett Barry
Today, I had the great good fortune of speaking with Brett Barry. Brett hosts + produces Kaatscast from Silver Hollow Audio, in the heart of the Catskills. He teaches podcasting + audio production in the Digital Media & Journalism dept. at SUNY New Paltz. Brett graduated from Syracuse University’s television, radio & film program + worked as an associate documentary producer for several years before launching a career in voice-overs in 2002. He returned to Syracuse 10 years later for a graduate degree in television-radio-film. Brett is represented in NYC by Access Talent for television + radio commercials, audiobooks, promos, + narration. He’s the host of public radio’s "Sound Beat," was the longtime voice of India’s English-language network, Zee Café, + the last announcer for the iconic soap opera Guiding Light. He has narrated more than 125 audiobooks + is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
Kaatscast podcast: http://kaatscast.com/
Silver Hollow Audio: http://silverhollowaudio.com/
Brett’s Voice: http://brettsvoice.com/
shea’s favorite kaatscast episodes:
Dowsing for Water with Bill Getz: https://www.kaatscast.com/dowsing-for-water-with-bill-getz/
Indigenous Catskills 101 with Justin Wexler:
https://www.kaatscast.com/indigenous-catskills-101/
“Listening To Taylor Swift In Prison” by Joe Garcia: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/listening-to-taylor-swift-in-prison
music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

November 2023: Aligning bit by bit
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode (with kitty pic!)
- Online Tarot Circles
- there’s still room to join Study Tarot Series cohorts-in-progress
- Using Tarot to Work With Regret
- Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- My books are open; book with me thru calendly
- rehearse the world
- Rising Majority webinar + time stamps
- 5 calls app
- call folks in Kentucky
- phone + text banks
- In Conversation With podcast
- Elena Solano’s offering The Grief Room
- Liturgical Book Club!
- Mike Davis
- UAW tentative agreement
- 13 Ways of Looking: Jenny Odell
- Colombian artist Doris Salcedo; her piece A Flor de Piel and Palimpsest
- How We Show Up with Mia Birdsong
- Season Two of Our Flag Means Death
- Disturbing the Meaning of Objects + artist Jessica Stockholder
- Indigenous Catskills 101 on the Kaatscast podcast + a handy Lenape Resources PDF
- Tricia Hersey
- The Philosopher’s Tarot
- Spolia Tarot
- Wayhome Tarot
- This Might Hurt Tarot
- rblack Tarot
- Howard Thurman
- adrienne maree brown
- values
- Dayna Lynn Nuckolls

Episode 6: In Conversation With Laetitia Barbier
Today I’m In Conversation With Laetitia Barbier. Laetitia is an intuitive counselor with a great passion for the human soul. She studied art history at the Sorbonne, and has been working professionally in the arts for over a decade. She had her first tarot epiphany at the age of 11, when she bought her first Marseille Tarot deck at a Parisian tobacco shop. A passionate and experienced tarot reader, Laetitia is a firm believer in the cards' empowering nature. Beyond their use as a fortune telling oracle, she views tarot as a visual tool that helps us bring clarity to the complexity of life, providing information and insights on decisions we’re facing, or shining a light on options that we might not have considered. Laeti is also an independent scholar + teacher. She has worked with Morbid Anatomy since 2011 as a programming director, head librarian, + occasional curator + shares her interest for antique divination cards and esoteric iconography via her popular instagram account @laetitia.cartomancy. Laeti’s gorgeous book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Laetitia’s website: https://www.laetitiacartomancy.com/
Laetitia’s book—Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/books/2d60hukqya5ejy6oydsq7i7d1c1k7l
Laetitia’s amazing IG account: https://www.instagram.com/laetitia.cartomancy/
Morbid Anatomy: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/
Morbid Anatomy’s patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morbidanatomy
music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

Episode 5: In Conversation With Jamie Sanin
Today I’m In Conversation With Jamie Sanin (she/they/any pronouns) is a visual artist, educator, + organizer living + growing in “New York's Hudson Valley,” historically known as the Eastern Door, shared ancestral territory of Mohican, Lenape, Stockbridge Munsee, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora—shouts to all teachers including Iron Path Farms!).
Raised in Washingtonville NY with B.S. in Visual Arts Education, Jamie’s interest in teaching sprouted from her own experiences with the arts; in addition to visual art, Jamie also studied dance, music, + theater from a young age. Each experience provided them not only with a breadth of cultural knowledge but also the opportunity to consider the importance of self care + community care via accessible arts, for which she is a fierce + dedicated advocate.
Through their artwork + events facilitation, Jamie aims to create cultural commentary using visual language + to use the arts as a vessel to foster strong connection + strong communities. She believes that the arts are a universal language + is dedicated to protecting them from co-optation by those who would abuse or oppress people thru gentrification, capitalism, art washing, + other forms of exclusion. Jamie's personal, professional, + creative work is centered around liberation, collaboration, + joy.
Jamie is also the proud founder of Celebrate845, whose mission is to organize, recognize, + celebrate marginalized + working class creatives via pop-up events across the “845.” Jamie is so grateful to have roots in the Hudson Valley + be a part of its creative community.
Jamie Sanin on the web: www.jamiesanin.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jamiesanin
Celebrate845: www.instagram.com/celebrate.845
Donate to Celebrate845 via Venmo: @Celebrate845
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/
book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book
Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book
study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

Episode 4: In Conversation with Cory Nakasue
Welcome to In Conversation With, my new series where I get to talk to my favorite artists, esotericists, writers, organizers, spiritual + creative workers + people who I think are doing really interesting shit in the world.
Today I’m In Conversation With Cory Nakasue—an astrologer, writer, and theater artist whose work includes choreography, dramaturgy, and video. She is currently the astrologer-in-residence at Poetry Barn, Chronogram, and Opus 40. You can also hear her on The Cosmic Dispatch, a podcast describing stories from the cosmos as they’re experienced on Earth. Cory holds MA degrees in Choreography, Performance Studies and Theater from Middlesex University, London, and California Institute of the Arts. She has maintained a movement education and therapy practice for 20 years called Body Intelligence, and she’s a professional consulting and teaching astrologer who fuses both modern and traditional practices. Her first poetry chapbook The Cosmic Event of the Body came out this year (Cosmic Doghouse Press). She lives in Kingston, New York.
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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October 2023: Conversations with the body
In this episode:
- blog post for this offering (with a pic of my cat)
- Study Tarot Series + what people are saying about it
- Asking Good Questions + what people are saying about it
- listen or watch my new In Conversation With podcast
- My books are open + now it’s super-easy to book with me thru calendly
- Let’s Talk About It: Mistakes
- Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way
- Ki Martinez’s sexual, healing, embodied support space
- JINKER
- Antarctica the Woman by Stephanie Krzywonos
- Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
- #StopCopCity: continue to act to resist
- Jackie Battenfield on Small Things Brought Together
- The Gallery That Destroys All Shame
- a simple thing
- Dayna Lynn Nuckolls
- Wheel of Consent
- The Art of Giving and Receiving
- “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass, via Mariame Kaba’s Substack

Episode 3: In Conversation With Elizabethanne Spiotta
Elizabethanne Spiotta is a chaplain, a spiritual caregiver, a widow, a mother, and she loves to walk. She is studying the Somatic Experiencing model of addressing grief and trauma as they arise in the body. Elizabethanne works 1-1 with clients where sessions consist of walking and talking—an approach based on the idea that movement is change, walking while exploring the relationship with grief and trauma offers new perspectives, ideas and curiosity. Everything shifts when we move. We have the chance to feel differently about what is in front of us. Moving forward, moving along. Elizabethanne also leads grief groups and disordered eating groups. She is located in the Hudson Valley but is also available for 1-1 and group sessions via zoom.
music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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Episode 2: In Conversation With Robyn Love
Robyn Love is the founder of Atha Yoga School + a certified Yoga therapist. She has decades of personal practice, over fifteen years of teaching experience + thousands of hours of training in the Viniyoga tradition. All of that is good and important but it doesn’t really convey her passion for sharing the profound wisdom of Yoga, particularly as it is presented in Patanjali’s Yoga Sūtra + other foundational texts. Robyn believes that the ongoing study + practice of a Yoga deeply rooted in abhyasa (daily discipline) + vairagyam (acceptance) honors yoga’s roots in India + takes up its invitation to explore what it means to be alive in a human body. Her teachers are Chase Bossart, Anita Claney, Dolphi Wertenbaker + Bhooma Madavan. Robyn also is a student in the Mountains & Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism. Her teacher is Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi.
Mastering Pranayama 2024 in-person training
Robyn Love’s artist website + Instagram
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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Episode 1: In Conversation With Camille Michelle Gray
Camille Michelle Gray is an astrologer, musician, writer, + civil servant from Washington, D.C. She started practicing astrology in 2017. Her consults are steeped in the soulful concepts & archetypal poetry of Evolutionary Astrology & are informed by the technical & traditional techniques of Hellenistic Astrology. Camille writes about astrology a lot, too—for her website, for social media, + for The Astrology Podcast with Chris Brennan. She is also a staff writer for a new astrology dating app that will be releasing later on this year! Be on the lookout for that!!
In this episode:
camillemichellegray.com for readings, @millymichelle on IG and Twitter
The Astro Bash Evolutionary Astrology conference in Borrego Springs, CA 9/28 to 10/2—REGISTRATION OPEN for both in-person and streaming
The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest
Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott, PhD
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
music: Wii music but make it hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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shea✨ in the catskills is a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, pleasure activist, organizer + contemplative.

September 2023: All together now
In this episode:
- Study Tarot Series cohorts + what people are saying about this Series
- Asking Good Questions on Sunday, September 24 at 10am est + what people are saying about this workshop
- Atha Yoga School’s next Let’s Talk About It Series: MISTAKES
- My books are open + you can now schedule with me thru calendly
- Suzette Clough + Painting with the Universe beginning September 20
- Virtual Politicized Practice Space for White Organizers, Activists and Community Workers
- The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand
- Heat Is Not a Metaphor by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Buried Passion—The Price of Silence by Mary Porter Kerns
- Ayanna Young’s convo with James Bridle on Modes of Intelligence
- Katherine May’s Enchantment + her Substack: The Clearing; her piece about Sinéad O'Connor + a recent post about community
- The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row (gift article)
- Mariame Kaba
- The Ritualists podcast
- Cosmic Doghouse Press
- Tarot as Questions
- SURJ + work that feels like a ritual.
- less prep, more presence
- Mariame Kaba + Kelly Hayes
- Kurt Russo on the For the Wild podcast
- blog post for this offering

August 2023: Making a life outside the walls of safety + conformity
In this episode:
- Blackbird Info Shop & Cafe in Kingston, NY
- Phoenicia Festival of the Arts
- Tarot as Questions
- Shout out to Christina Varga
- In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way in Kingston
- Study Tarot Series cohorts starting next month; what people are saying about this Series
- My books are open
- Aurora Brush + I talked about Cosmic Dog House Press + our collaboration—listen here
- Erika DeVries's gorgeous artwork
- The Cosmic Dispatch on Radio Kingston
- I’ll be talking FLOWERS with Mary Kerns on Sunday, August 6
- I’ll be talking ART PRACTICE with Jody Hojin Kimmel on Sunday, August 13
- Tune in live 4-5pm EST, or check out the podcast
- The conversations I’ve been having with folks in Kentucky
- Suzette Clough’s paintings
- the artwork of Karla Knight
- Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
- The 13th Step podcast
- Katherine May’s latest book, Enchantment
- Let This Radicalize You
- image + links in tarot offering are in this blog post

Laughing + Crying as Life Rushes Thru
In this episode:
- blog post for this offering (with cat photo!)
- Tarot as Questions
- Tarot 101 on Saturday, July 15 at 10am est + Tuesday, July 18 at 6pm est—see what past participants have to say
- In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way
- Radio Kingston’s The Cosmic Dispatch
- My books are open
- Study Tarot Series cohorts that are starting in the fall
- Cosmic Dog House Press
- Ritualists podcast + Rituals of Discernment
- Perdita Finn is offering a FREE online intro (register to receive the recording)
- SURJ phone bank
- Liturgical Book Club
- Robyn Maynard
- The Deep Sea
- Breaking the Romance Myth
- This conversation with queer poet Andrea Gibson + her poem Tincture
- Scalawag’s Abolitionist Media Guide
- Queer Portraits in History
- Lux Magazine
- T. Susan Chang
- This Might Hurt Tarot

June 2023: Getting Lost
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode
- Tarot as Questions
- Using Tarot to Work With the Dead
- Study Tarot Series + what people are saying about it
- Tarot 101
- Asking Good Questions
- Liturgical Book Club
- Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes + Mariame Kaba
- My books are open
- Essential Wrap by Chrissy Lawlor’s Workday Wear
- Cory Nakasue + The Cosmic Dispatch
- June 16 is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Woodstock
- Finn Schubert interviewed me about Taking Our Desires Seriously + his latest post, Maintenance as a Creative Act
- Showing Up for Racial Justice’s 3-year strategy (I do a little story sharing at 36:45!)
- Our Ancestors Don’t Need Healing by Perdita Finn
- The new season of the For The Wild Podcast
- Bayo Akomalafe’s series The Edges in the Middle with john a. powell, V + Indy Johar
- Kimberly Ann Johnson on Pleasure as a Pathway
- Karen Turner’s Intuitive Daily Stitching journals
- Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s 2021 documentary short Video Visit

May 2023: The Power of It Hasn't Happened Yet
In this episode:
- Pre-order Tarot as Questions
- Asking Good Questions + what people are saying about it
- Study Tarot Series
- My books are open
- sexual, healing, embodied with Melina Martinez
- Making Space: Rituals for Releasing Stuff with Peg Conway
- Oriethyia
- The 100th episode of Movement Memos
- Let This Radicalize You
- artwork by students at Essex Street Academy
- Justine Kurland collage
- You Didn’t See Nothin
- The Africas VS. America
- End-of-Life Dreams by Paul Lauritzen
- The Art Room at My Texas Prison by Brian Hindson
- This Might Hurt Tarot
- Tangle & Wend
- Bayo Akomolafe
- Mariame Kaba
- Kelly Hayes
- Action Hour
- calling offices to #StopCopCity

April 2023: Sacred Work is Done with Others
In this episode:
- Tarot 101
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- Study Tarot Series
- My books are open
- Frances Weller’s The Wild Edge of Sorrow via Dean Spade) is writing about flowers: It’s not what you think.
- everything ALTARS on The Ritualists podcast
- 10 Ways You Can Help Your Local Public Library .pdf
- Missouri legislators voted to defund public libraries
- Watch this talk by incoming ALA President Emily Drabinski; if you only have 90 seconds, go to 1:08:00.
- If you live in NY: contact your legislators about increasing library funding
- Check out this visual exploration of A History of Public Libraries
- Flower paintings by Joy Taylor
- a really beautiful show at the Olive Free Library through May 6th.
- Close Readings podcast; I loved this episode!
- short video about artist Cecilia Vicuna
- What if climate change meant not doom—but abundance? by Rebecca Solnit
- 4-part conversation with Zoharah + Michael Simmons, centered on Dan Berger’s new book Stayed On Freedom
- Proof the Dead Are Real (But What If There Isn’t Any?) by Perdita Finn
- This Might Hurt Tarot
- Mariame Kaba
- Maisie Brown
- Parabola’s Spring 2017 Issue, via Rob Breszny’s weekly newsletter

March 2023: Playing in the Dark
In this episode:
- Asking Good Questions + what people say about it!
- Reading Tarot Spreads
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- Atha Yoga School’s Let’s Talk About It: Death series
- Study Tarot Series
- The Ritualists Season 2
- My books are open
- Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
- Robyn Love offers Many Small Deaths: The Art of Living Courageously
- Perdita Finn’s Substack
- Making Space: Rituals of Releasing Stuff with Peg Conway
- Ann Friedman on Kinkeeping
- Hammer & Hope: A Magazine of Black Politics and Culture
- Chase Strangio’s When Cis Women Attack Trans Rights, Fascists Win
- Nia T. Evans’s Revolution is a Great Work of Art
- Hyperallergic’s A View from the Easel series
- A Love Letter to Libraries, Long Overdue
- More and More, I Talk to the Dead by Margaret Renkl
- Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday
- Tortuguita, body-cam footage, Cop City, Norfolk Southern’s toxic chemical release in East Palestine, OH
- The Wild Unknown Tarot
- Nawal El Saadawi

February 2023: On Liminality + Surrender
In this episode:
- blog post of this offering, with images
- calendar of tarot workshops
- Tarot 101
- Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
- Atha Yoga School’s Let’s Talk About It: Death series
- Study Tarot Series
- Liturgical Book Club
- My books are open
- Making Space: Rituals of Releasing Stuff. For info or to register: pegconway@gmail.com
- Perdita Finn’s Mothers of Mystery and Magic: A Four-Week Intensive
- at our backs & at our sides: reconnecting to our white anti racist ancestors
- ‘aBiogenesis’ by Markos Kay
- “The Men of China Hill” by Matthew Hahn
- Sasha Velour in “Wild is the Wind”
- From Loki to Behemoth by Rachael Talibart
- Really Long Distance by Miki Meek
- Lydia Polgreen’s Want to Understand L.G.B.T.Q. Life in America? Go to Alabama
- a single brain cell
- Tortuguita
- Stop Cop City.
- a prototype of militarized police training centers
- the City Council approved it anyway
- learn more about this movement to Stop Cop City
- the Wayhome Tarot

January 2023: Entering a Chariot Year
- blog post of this podcast (includes cat pictures!)
- tarot workshops
- Liturgical Book Club
- Study Tarot Series + a short video
- My books are open
- Painting with the Universe
- The Neighborhood Astrologer
- Camille Michelle Gray
- Kaatscast
- The Ritualists podcast + Peg Conway
- Monica Furlong’s Juniper, Wise Child + Colman + a book on medieval women mystics
- Small Things Brought Together
- Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross
- Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
- SURJ National Director Erin Heany on How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky
- Nimasprout, aka Nicole Gustafsson’s, Adventures series of artworks
- The Spacious Tarot

December 2022: What kind of art is this?
In this episode:
- Asking Good Questions workshop
- Study Tarot Series + what people are saying it
- Liturgical Book Club reading Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto out loud
- Book a reading
- The Ritualists podcast on Rituals of Healing and Money as a Ritual Ingredient
- I’m giving to the Phoenicia Library, the Phoenicia Food Pantry, SURJ, the National Network of Abortion Funds + Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition—Water Fund
- this conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer + Björk
- Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
- feature on Emily Wilson
- The Visions of Octavia Butler + Lynell George’s A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
- Season 3 of We’re Here on HBO Max
- The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
- Master of Light
- Lisa Sterle’s Modern Witch Tarot
- Visual Medicine + Suzette Clough’s Painting with the Universe class

November 2022: Cultural Shadows
In this episode:
- blog post for this episode, with images
- Asking Good Questions workshop
- Study Tarot Series; Here’s what people are saying about this experience
- Book a reading
- Alta Starr
- Finn Schubert’s Substack
- Energy First Aid for Any Home with Peg Conway
- Meeting the Ancestors: Sacred Doll-Making as Ritual & Prayer with Polly Paton-Brown
- Join SURJ for some delicious midterm actions
- Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
- The Liturgical Book Club
- Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Visiting Room Project
- Off Assignment’s Letter to a Stranger series
- I Will Not Be Purified—a collaboration featuring Sophie Strand’s words with music by Amanda Palmer + Gracie & Rachel
- Sophie’s book The Flowering Wand
- Kelly Hayes

October 2022: The Gift of Our Anger
In this episode:
- Asking Good Questions workshop
- Book a reading
- Learn tarot
- Tarot as Questions series
- Mary Porter Kerns’s new oracle deck
- This is why I’m investing my time + energy with SURJ for the midterms. We’re taking action to protect abortion access in Kentucky + many other things…CAN YOU JOIN US?
- The Ritualists episode 6 on Desire + Ritual + episode 7 on Rituals at Work
- The podcast series Mother Country Radicals
- Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
- Eleanor Hancock’s 9-minute video “5 Tools for Emotional Resilience.”
- Roots Deeper Than Whiteness class
- One of my favorite books is back in print: Waking Up to the Dark by Clark Strand
- Station Eleven on HBO Max
- This again #whateverittakes
- Can you join us?

September 2022: Generative Intersections
In this episode:
- Tarot 101
- Book a reading
- Tarot as Questions
- Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
- Perdita Finn’s Take Back the Magic fall classes
- delicious ready-made actions with SURJ
- The Ritualists podcast Episode 4 + Episode 5 with me + Peg Conway
- Suzette Clough’s Art Apothecary + Visual Medicine
- Vaskange’s Endless Illustration
- Ang Roell on BEES
- this account
- The Hustle Behind Bars by Beth Schwartzapfel
- Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines
- Way of the Rose community
- 54-day Novenas
- Perdita Finn
- Dayna Tortorici “Your Body, My Choice: The movement to criminalize abortion”

August 2022: Something to Remember, Something to Practice
Mentioned in this episode:
- Learn Tarot
- Study Tarot Series testimonials
- Book a reading
- The Ritualists podcast
- Tarot as Questions
- August 11 text bank with SURJ
- a perspective check
- adrienne maree brown’s sermon
- MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN: THE LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS
- Hudson Rowan’s “I Voted” sticker
- Alok on friendship
- Olivia Juliana
- “Thoroughly Loved” by Mary Porter Kerns
- Isabella Rotman’s This Might Hurt Tarot
- Alok on democratizing love

July 2022: You are a Personal Front Line
In this episode:
- adrienne maree brown + her meme curation + Emergent Strategy
- The Ritualists podcast
- Finn Schubert’s Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here + substack
- My books are open for readings in July.
- Somatics for Social Justice workshop
- Sarahana defeats incumbent
- join the Mid-Hudson Valley DSA
- The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel
- The Age of the Possible by Maria Popova
- adrienne maree brown’s StyleLikeU feature + this early StyleLikeU gem
- Resistance Revival Chorus
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- “The Theft of the Commons” by Eula Biss
- Summer of Soul documentary
- unedited conversation with adrienne maree brown
- quotes by Mariame Kaba

June 2022: Hope is Not a Feeling
- Learn more about abolition here, here + here
- Study Tarot Series
- Book a tarot session
- We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
- Tangle & Wend Atelier Canal’s June Garden Party Summer Salon in Brooklyn
- energy work with my friend Peg Conway
- Sarahana for NY State Assembly: the primary is June 28th; donate here, canvass here
- Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
- “Paradise” by Sybil Rosen
- Season 6 of How to Survive the End of the World podcast is all about love
- From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
- “A Bleed of Blue” by Amy Key
- Patrick Blanchfield on gun violence
- Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together
- 3am.tarot’s honestly, what the fuck? tarot spread using the This Might Hurt Tarot
- 3am.tarot's tarot spread ebooks
- My Broken Voice by Caitlin Seida

May 2022: Turning Points
- Book a reading with me
- Learn Tarot
- Painting raffle
- Movement Memos podcast
- Neighborhood Astrologer
- Bethany Saltman’s book Strange Situation
- Amazon Labor Union
- We’re Here on HBO Max
- Vaughn Smith, working-class hyper-polyglot who speaks 24 languages
- Our Flag Means Death
- Jerrod Charmichael: Rothaniel
- Writing about libraries by Rachael Nevins + antilibraries by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- Resmaa Menakem
- *abandoning myself to appear normal: this framing is via Melina Martinez’s Somatics for Social Justice course
- Bob the Drag Queen

April 2022: Abundant Attention
Episode notes:
Let’s Talk About It: Food & Eating Appetite
Perdita Finn has two incredible workshops
Dean Spade Is Asking Activists, ‘How Much Bolder Could You Be?’
adrienne maree brown on deep practice
Ecoerotica’s Instagram feed
The extraordinary story of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on the island of O’ahu in Hawaii
Listening to a podcast
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy

March 2022: Our Relationship with Vulnerability
In this episode:
Learn Tarot with Shea in the Catskills
The Flowering Wand by Sophie Strand
Virtual Co-Working Job Search with Finn Schubert
Canvass for Sarahana for State Assembly
Donate to Sarahana
SURJ Member Orientation
Movement Memos podcast
Worn by Sofi Thanhauser
Jessica Farrell’s Wilderness Diary series + on Kaatscast + at Roxbury Arts Group
WOJNAROWICZ documentary
A class I’m taking
Last month’s offering
Middle class worldview

February 2022: Meeting Each Other
In this episode:
Friends I’m No Longer Friends With podcast
Faith by Itoro Bassey
Robyn Love + I had a juicy, generative convo
Finding Freedom online workshop
Donna Haraway via For the Wild podcast
Esther Perel’s How’s Work? and Where Should We Begin?
Greek Myths: A New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins
Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive by Laetitia Barbier
Rachael Nevin’s essay on wintering
Ayanna Young in conversation with Tricia Hersey of The Nap Ministry
This Might Hurt Tarot by Isabella Rotman
artwork by Lauren Plummer

January 2022: Entering a Lovers Year
In this episode…
- Learn tarot with Shea in the Catskills
- Book a reading with Shea in the Catskills
- Atha Yoga’s Let’s Talk About It: Appetite series
- Finn Schubert’s writing + coaching
- Take Back the Magic classes with Perdita Finn
- Spruce NY: What are you pining for?
- Kusama: Infinity
- Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
- Finn Schubert’s newsletter
- Small Things Brought Together: ILSSA
- The Dark Exact Tarot
- Duane Kearns Puryear image, video + article

December 2021: Emotional Exchange
Mentioned in this episode:
- Learn Tarot opportunities with Shea in the Catskills
- The Phoenicia Food Pantry, the Phoenicia Library, Showing Up for Racial Justice, and the Line 3 Legal Defense Fund.
- Cynthia Barnett’s book The Sound of the Sea + a podcast interview with her about it
- the paintings of Calida Garcia Rawles
- On Being with Bessel van der Kolk
- Joanna Macy: The Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path.
- Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
- How to Survive the End of the World podcast Sibling Miniseries: any episode, but also this one with siblings Aurora + Ricardo Levins-Morales
- Ayana Young’s conversation with lichenologist Kerry Knudsen
- Some juicy novels: Matrix and Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, The Secret Life of Bees and the Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Sex Education TV series
- Shine Theory
- Audre Lorde reading Uses of the Erotic

November 2021: Elemental Trust
Mentioned in this episode:
- Tarot 101
- Study Tarot Series
- Book a reading
- This Land podcast
- CALL THE MIDWIFE
- A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
- Sophie Strand in conversation with Richard Povall and Mat Osmond as part of the Borrowed Time series
- Tami Simon of Sounds True in conversation with adrienne maree brown
- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
- All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
- This conversation between professor, lawyer, organizer and author of Mutual Aid Dean Spade + mycologist Peter McCoy
- Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth, Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis, Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller and Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

October 2021: Stories We Want to Hear
- Study Tarot Series
- Tarot 101, Thursday, November 11th, 5:30pm est
- The Rest Rail
- Let’s Talk About It: Aging and Beauty
- SURJ’s campaign to put a progressive in the Erie County Sheriff’s office
- Ayana Young’s conversation with Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
- These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home by Bayo Akomolafe
- Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles
- Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground on HBO Max
- Where Should We Begin: A Game of Stories by Esther Perel
- The latest episode of Small Things Brought Together with textile artist Mackenzie Kelly Frère

September 2021: Navigating the In-Between
Mentioned in this episode
- Tarot 101
- Study Tarot Series
- 5-week Tarot + Moon workshop
- ALOK on this episode of For the Wild podcast + a recent interview with the Man Enough podcast
- The Darwin Variant, and/or Love of the Fittest
- BBC documentary called Songs for the Dead
- HBO’s The Great Pottery Throw Down and All That Glitters
- Gurdeep Pandher’s joy wedded to place
- Robyn Love at the Bonavista Bienalle + this
- conversation with dowser Bill Getz
- Madeline Miller’s novel Circe
- Melissa Febos’s Girlhood
- Sophie Strand’s essay The River that Runs Two Ways + her convo with Angel Deer re: Myth, Mycelium, and Rewilding Masculinities
- @politicsoftarot
- Field Recordings podcast

August 2021: Solitary Pleasures
- Perseid meteor showers
- Study Tarot Series
- Moon + Tarot 5-week workshop
- Tarot 101
- Book a tarot reading with Shea in the Catskills
- This conversation between Amanda Yates Garcia, host of my favorite tarot podcast, and Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk
- this conversation with Roxane Gay, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Esther Perel
- The Art of Reassembly: A Memoir of Early Mother Loss and Aftergrief
- On Becoming an Alchemist: A Guide for the Modern Magician by Catherine MacCoun
- The Gentle Tarot
- Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age by Clark Strand
- “White Anti-Racism Must Be Based in Solidarity, Not Altruism” by Jesse A. Myserson.
- Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore

July 2021: Plugging into our Power
Mentioned in this episode
- Tarot 101 class with Shea in the Catskills
- Re-Witching Our Rhythms 5-week tarot + moon workshop with Shea in the Catskills
- The Rest Rail
- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
- The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku
- Praying for Your Heart’s Desire with Perdita Finn & Clark Strand on the Magnify Your Miracles Podcast
- Perdita Finn’s recent Instagram posts about working with the dead and praying the Hail Mary
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- Through the Night, a documentary by Loira Limbal
- I Will Not Be Purified, an essay by Sophie Strand
- Between the Worlds podcast with Amanda Yates Garcia.
- Octavia’s Parables podcast
- Organizers in Space: What Movement Organizing & Space Exploration Can Learn From One Another on the How to Survive the End of the World podcast
- Audre Lorde’s The Uses of the Erotic as Power

June 2021: This Sacred World
Mentioned in this episode:
This song by The Bengsons
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's piece in the New Yorker
Storytelling is an Emergency: An Ecological Reading of Scheherazade + all of Sophie Strand's writing
Rebel Witch: Carve the Craft That's Yours Alone by Kelly-Ann Maddox
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Southeast Asian Myths and Stories Tarot project article
White Supremacy Culture: 20 Year Anniversary webinar (if you watch this, please make a donation to the Earthseed Land Collective)
Tema Okun's new website whitesupremacyculture.info
Palestinian Liberation is a Racial Justice Issue
White People Recommitting to Racial Justice
The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment by Maria Nemeth
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

May 2021: Editing as a Creative Act
A new five-week course about learning the Tarot
SURJ’s monthly one-hour Action Zaps
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
The Bear by Andrew Krivak.
Call of the Wild: How We Heal Our Trauma, Awaken Our Power and Use It For Good by Kimberly Ann Johnson
The Art + History of Talismans with Natalie Labriola
podcast interview with Bethany Saltman
adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown’s incredible and incredibly nuanced conversation with Yaba Blay about One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by adrienne maree brown
An interactive piece about a tiny work of art
Corporate Colonizers and Greedy Patriarchs Day by Perdita Finn
beautiful piece by Clark Strand. this one, too.
The Chill Cricket: a new little storefront opening May 8

April 2021: Remembering How to Play
Discussed in this Episode:
- Let’s Talk About It: Money
- Re-Witching Our Rhythms: Using the Tarot to Work with the Phases of the Moon 5-week workshop
- Outlawed by Anna North
- The Battle of Manassas, composed by 14-year-old Thomas Wiggins in 1863 + his backstory
- Small Things Brought Together with photographer Jaime Permuth
- The Bengsons’ Sovereignty Hymn
- Big Vagina Energy
- Photographer Nicholas Bruno’s The Somnia Tarot series
- Manchán Magan’s Sea Tamagatchi series on IGTV
- Sophie Strand’s series about re-wilding gender and the Divine Masculine; here’s the introductory post; follow/friend her to read them all
- Cloistered nuns doing a viral dance
- Please give to Angel’s GoFundMe
- Learn more about my tarot work
- Shop for original artwork
- Read this episode as a blog post

March 2021: Embracing Complexity
Mentioned in this Episode:
What's Inspiring Me Now
- Robyn Love’s Small Things Brought Together with Jody Hojin Kimmel
- Radio Garden app.
- RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
- Radio Oran FM 92.7
- a link to a zoom talk with Manchán Magan about his book Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost words of the Irish landscape.
- Here’s teeny taste, with instructions for ordering in the image caption.
- Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- If you want a taster, here’s a podcast episode with Yunkaporta
- Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100
- And speaking of Max Dashu, check out the Suppressed History Archives!
- We Do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
What's Inspiring You Now
- The Revolutionary Practice of Black Feminisms
- Botanical Colors’ Feedback Friday video with Jordana Munk Martin, founder of the TATTER Library. (I recommend starting 11:30 in, as there were some technical glitches at the front end of the video.)
Link to Seven of Cups blog post with card image

February 2021: III The Empress
Mary Ainsworth Secret Teachings Study Group with Bethany Saltman
Merlin Sheldrake's book Entangled Life
Way of the Rose prayer circles