The Tarot Card Catalogue

Danielle Christmas
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The Tarot Card Catalogue is a weekly podcast about tarot, mythology, folklore, fairy tales, legends, and storytelling. In each short episode, Danielle Christmas pairs a single tarot card with a myth, folktale, literary text, or historical story to explore how narrative can transform our understanding of tarot symbolism and meaning. From Baba Yaga and La Llorona to Persephone, Medusa, and Cinderella, The Tarot Card Catalogue examines the intersection of tarot, archetypes, literature, and folklore through thoughtful, accessible conversations. If you love tarot, myths, legends, symbolism, and the art of interpretation, pull up a chair and open the next entry in the catalogue.

  1. 21h ago

    Nine of Swords & Orestes

    What happens when we explore a tarot card through the lens of mythology? In this episode of The Tarot Card Catalogue, Danielle pairs the Nine of Swords with Orestes, the ancient Greek prince pursued by the Furies after killing his mother, Clytemnestra. Traditionally, the Nine of Swords is associated with anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, guilt, and the fears that grow larger in the darkness. But what happens when the thing keeping you awake isn't an irrational phantom? What if the nightmare has a legitimate claim on you? Orestes cannot escape the Furies by running from them or simply being purified of his crime. His torment ends only when Athena brings the nightmare into daylight, where accusation, guilt, justification, and consequence can finally be heard.  By placing the Nine of Swords into conversation with Orestes and the Furies, this episode explores guilt, consequence, moral reckoning, accountability, private anguish, and the possibility of moving from torment toward resolution. Maybe the Nine of Swords isn't always telling us that the monsters aren't real. Sometimes it's asking: What truth needs to be brought out of the dark? Written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis. Learn more about Danielle and her work: https://linktr.ee/danielle.christmas Book Readings, Mentoring, & Workshops: http://www.sibylslab.etsy.com

  2. Oct 29

    The Tower & Medusa

    What happens when we explore a tarot card through the lens of mythology? In this episode of The Tarot Card Catalogue, Danielle pairs the Tower with Medusa, one of the most enduring and complicated figures of Greek myth. Traditionally, the Tower is associated with catastrophe, sudden upheaval, revelation, collapse, and structures that can no longer stand. But the card usually captures a single instant: lightning strikes, the tower falls, and two figures tumble toward the ground. Medusa asks us what happens next. By placing the Tower into conversation with the later tradition of Medusa as a woman transformed by catastrophe, this episode explores trauma, transformation, destructive power, aftermath, survival, and the unsettling ways catastrophe can continue acting through the people who survive it. What if the person struck by lightning eventually becomes lightning? Written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis. Learn more about Danielle and her work: https://linktr.ee/danielle.christmas Book Readings, Mentoring, & Workshops: http://www.sibylslab.etsy.com

  3. Oct 22

    Seven of Wands & Boudica

    What happens when we explore a tarot card through the lens of history? In this episode of The Tarot Card Catalogue, Danielle pairs the Seven of Wands with Boudica, the first-century Iceni queen who led a devastating uprising against Roman rule in Britain. Traditionally, the Seven of Wands is associated with courage, resistance, boundaries, defending your position, and standing your ground under pressure. But what happens when holding your ground is no longer enough, and righteous resistance begins to become retaliation? By placing the Seven of Wands into conversation with Boudica's story, this episode explores resistance, vengeance, empire, justified anger, escalation, and the unstable boundary between defending something and becoming consumed by the fight itself. The Seven of Wands asks us to hold our position. Boudica asks a harder question: What are we actually protecting and is it still the same thing we were protecting when the fight began? Written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis. Learn more about Danielle and her work: https://linktr.ee/danielle.christmas Book Readings, Mentoring, & Workshops: http://www.sibylslab.etsy.com

  4. Oct 15

    Temperance & Cerridwen

    What happens when we explore a tarot card through the lens of mythology? In this episode of The Tarot Card Catalogue, Danielle pairs Temperance with Cerridwen, the mysterious figure of Welsh tradition whose legendary cauldron produces transformation, inspiration, pursuit, and rebirth. Traditionally, Temperance is associated with balance, patience, moderation, healing, integration, and alchemy. But what happens when we place that serene angel beside a cauldron tended for a year and a day, only for its transformative power to spill somewhere completely unexpected? By placing Temperance into conversation with the story of Cerridwen and Gwion Bach, this episode explores active alchemy, creative transformation, tending, control, unintended outcomes, and the volatile work of bringing different things together. Maybe Temperance isn't the card of waiting for things to settle. Maybe it's the card of keeping the fire going while something changes. Written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis. Learn more about Danielle and her work: https://linktr.ee/danielle.christmas Book Readings, Mentoring, & Workshops: http://www.sibylslab.etsy.com

  5. Oct 8

    Queen of Cups & Lamia

    What happens when we explore a tarot card through the lens of mythology? In this episode of The Tarot Card Catalogue, Danielle pairs the Queen of Cups with Lamia, the grieving mother of Greek myth who became one of antiquity’s most enduring monsters. Traditionally, the Queen of Cups is associated with compassion, intuition, emotional depth, receptivity, and care. But what happens when an enormous capacity for love encounters a grief it has nowhere to put? By placing the Queen of Cups into conversation with the story of Lamia, this episode explores maternal grief, emotional overwhelm, tenderness, attachment, monstrosity, and the cost of remaining open to feeling. Rather than treating Lamia as the Queen’s opposite, we ask whether she might reveal the shadow already contained within the card: what happens when tenderness survives, but has nowhere safe to land? Written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis. Learn more about Danielle and her work: https://linktr.ee/danielle.christmas Book Readings, Mentoring, & Workshops: http://www.sibylslab.etsy.com

  6. Oct 1

    The Devil & The Minotaur

    What happens when we explore tarot’s Devil card alongside the Minotaur? In this episode of The Tarot Card Catalogue, Danielle pairs The Devil with one of the most famous monsters in Greek mythology: the Minotaur. Traditionally, the Devil is associated with bondage, temptation, compulsion, appetite, shame, and the traps we struggle to leave. But what happens when we place that card beside a creature who didn't choose his chains, didn't build his prison, and was nevertheless blamed for what he became inside it? By placing the Devil into conversation with the myth of the Minotaur, this episode explores captivity, inherited structures, shame, self-blame, monstrousness, and the difference between being trapped by our own choices and finding ourselves inside a labyrinth someone else built. Written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis. Learn more about Danielle and her work: https://linktr.ee/danielle.christmas Book Readings, Mentoring, & Workshops: http://www.sibylslab.etsy.com

  7. Sep 24

    Five of Swords & Medea

    What happens when we explore a tarot card through the lens of mythology? In this episode of The Tarot Card Catalogue, Danielle pairs the Five of Swords with one of the most devastating figures in Greek mythology: Medea. Traditionally, the Five of Swords is associated with conflict, hollow victories, discord, betrayal, and winning at a cost. But what happens when we place that card beside a woman who achieves the most complete victory imaginable and discovers that victory itself has become another form of loss? By placing the Five of Swords into conversation with the story of Medea, this episode explores revenge, betrayal, strategy, grief, maternal loss, and the dangerous moment when intelligence stops building and starts looking for a target. Written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis. Learn more about Danielle and her work: https://linktr.ee/danielle.christmas Book Readings, Mentoring, & Workshops: http://www.sibylslab.etsy.com

  8. Sep 17

    The Moon & Little Red Riding Hood

    What happens when we explore a tarot card through the lens of folklore? In this episode of The Tarot Card Catalogue, Danielle pairs The Moon with one of the most enduring and recognizable fairy tales in Western storytelling: Little Red Riding Hood. Traditionally, the Moon is associated with illusion, uncertainty, dreams, intuition, fear, and hidden truths. But what happens when we place that card beside a story in which danger doesn't announce itself as danger at all? By placing the Moon into conversation with Little Red Riding Hood, this episode explores deception, instinct, manipulation, the uncanny, and the unsettling experience of recognizing that something familiar has become profoundly wrong. Written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis. Learn more about Danielle and her work: https://linktr.ee/danielle.christmas Book Readings, Mentoring, & Workshops: http://www.sibylslab.etsy.com

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The Tarot Card Catalogue is a weekly podcast about tarot, mythology, folklore, fairy tales, legends, and storytelling. In each short episode, Danielle Christmas pairs a single tarot card with a myth, folktale, literary text, or historical story to explore how narrative can transform our understanding of tarot symbolism and meaning. From Baba Yaga and La Llorona to Persephone, Medusa, and Cinderella, The Tarot Card Catalogue examines the intersection of tarot, archetypes, literature, and folklore through thoughtful, accessible conversations. If you love tarot, myths, legends, symbolism, and the art of interpretation, pull up a chair and open the next entry in the catalogue.

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  • Creator
    Danielle Christmas
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 The Tarot Card Catalogue
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