63. Ask Lindsay: Unexpected Pulls, Throwing out the guidebook, and Reading for others

It’s Ask Lindsay time on Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast! The episode where I answer your questions about Tarot, magic and everything in between. Some of the topics covered in this month’s episode: •How to redefine cards for ourselves when the traditional meaning doesn’t support or resonate with us (8:13) •How to read decks with additional cards that the creators added in (19:05) •Does pulling a Tarot card when you feel anxious feed obsessive tendencies? (21:56) •Is it unethical to read Tarot for other people without their permission? (24:15) •Trusting the cards you pull: is it magic or just randomness? (26:35) •Calculating the card of the year when the entire system of honoring time is Christian-based and you don’t follow Christianity (30:03) •How to use spirit/intuition to help tweeze out insecurity from the genuine “not ready” and do you know when you’re ready or not ready to read Tarot for other people (34:44) •Ten of Pentacles as a card for getting to know the Tarot more deeply (38:30) •Can you upset the Tarot by asking the same question more than once? (44:10) •Working with traumatic thresholds (46:36) •How can you reconcile your own interpretations with the Tarot deck creator’s — should you throw out the Tarot guidebook? (56:33) _________ ABOUT THE PODCAST Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking. Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives. ABOUT LINDSAY Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast. Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world. As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them. Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe. WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner