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It's the final episode of Season Six, and the final installment of this Season's Guest Host episodes! Today we're bringing you another conversation full of warmth and love between Guest Host Maria Minnis and Sarah Arantza Amador of Hawthorn Mountain Tarot.

Sarah Arantza Amador is an author and tarot reader living on the Monterey Bay of Northern California. A former university professor with a background in literary analysis, nonviolent communication, psychoanalysis, and critical theory and philosophy, Sarah works with the tarot to explore inter and intrapersonal connection and understanding. Find her online on IG @hawthorn_mtn_tarot and on Twitter @ArantzaSarah.

Maria Minnis is an unapologetically Black writer, artist, ritual facilitator, and tarot reader who teaches people about blending their spirituality with liberation work and sensuality. She has creatively worked with tarot for over 20 years and considers herself an eternal student of life, and thus the tarot. Her work is inspired by her belief that the end result of all magic should be to cultivate a more equitable and empathetic planet. Her antiracism tarot workbook, Tarot for the Hard Work, will be released by Weiser Books in Fall 2023. Maria enthusiastically drinks from the flowing firehose of life and wouldn’t have it any other way. Find Maria on Instagram @feminnis

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Today we're sharing a conversation that originally took place on The Tarot Diagnosis podcast. In it, Nick and Shannon discuss The Magician, and use this iconic card to investigate and trouble the notion of "Self" as it appears in Western ontology.

Shannon Knight (she/her) is a queer therapist licensed in both Arizona and Florida where she specializes in working with individuals and couples. Shannon received her B.A. in Applied Clinical Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology and her M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. Shannon currently resides in Arizona and when she needs to escape the heat, she’s traveling to find mountains and cooler weather with her partner and her dog Barley. She feels highly aligned with the Queen of Swords and is constantly trying to deconstruct her perceptions of Temperance and The Sun.

Be sure to check out Shannon's great work over on The Tarot Diagnosis podcast!

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Today's minisode is a live recording of Nick's Opening Remarks from the opening night of the Meet Me at The Margin virtual queer conference, which took place on Sunday, June 4, 2023. If you're feeling the FOMO, registration will remain open through June 12. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW!

Nick is also currently hosting the #PrideInTheTarot2023 card-a-day challenge on Instagram, and there's still time to join in the fun! Click here to view the prompts.

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Today's episode is first for us. It's a crossover/part two that builds on a conversation Nick took part in over on Britten LaRue's Moon to Moon podcast. In that episode, Nick shared his thoughts on The Margin, and mused on queerness as an unknowable, unspeakable power. Then Britten asked a question that sent both of their heads spinning in opposite directions.

Today, Nick and Britten are coming back together to hash it all out and share where their different experiences have led them since that first conversation. If you'd like to listen to part one of the conversation on Moon to Moon you can do so HERE.

Britten LaRue is a mystic, teacher, and author who channels the spirit and cosmic realms to conjure words that create cracks: cracks in who we think we are and what we think this reality is. A recovering academic and a single mom, Britten is more interested in questions than in answers. She creates potent offerings anchored from her deep trust that we are fractal beings who are dreaming new worlds into being together. Britten's book Living Astrology will be published in early 2024. In the meantime, you can learn and unlearn with her through her podcast Moon to Moon, on Instagram @brittenlarue, via one of her sumptuous workbooks, through one-on-one mentorship, or from inside one of her many learning containers. 

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The work of Stephanie Adams-Santos spans poetry, prose, screenwriting, and visual art. She/They are the author of the full-length poetry collections Dream of Xibalba and Swarm Queen's Crown (a Lambda Literary Award finalist). Their chapbooks include Total Memory and The Sundering (New York Chapbook Fellowship, Poetry Society of America). Stephanie’s short story "Night Flowers" appeared in the Latinx anthology Speculative Fiction for Dreamers. Stephanie was a Staff Writer and Story Editor on the television anthology horror series Two Sentence Horror Stories (CW/Netflix); their episode "Elliot" won a 2022 Gold Telly Award in Writing. As an inaugural fellow of The 2022 Ojalá Ignition Fellowship, they developed an original fantasy pilot based on the world and characters of the Tarot. In addition to her literary work, Adams-Santos is a professional Tarot reader and is making headway on an original Major Arcana tarot deck inspired by occult animism. In all her work, she is drawn to queerness, the uncanny, and whatever draws us closer to the primal source.

Charlie Claire Burgess is a queer and trans-nonbinary tarot reader, deck creator, writer, and artist. They are the creator of Fifth Spirit Tarot, a queer and inclusive deck for a world beyond binaries, and the author of Radical Tarot, a guide to reading tarot radically for personal and collective liberation. Charlie is currently at work on a second tarot deck, The Gay Marseille Tarot, and a book on queer devotion. They teach classes on tarot and queer magical topics online and in Portland, Oregon, and sometimes they record episodes for their podcast, The Word Witch.

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Nick's going solo today to explore the themes and concepts that will inspire Meet Me at The Margin - a month-long virtual conference for queer people who want to reclaim and re-story their innate capacity for ambiguity, paradox, and liminality, which will take place June 4-28, 2023.

Through a series of eight workshops facilitated by some of today’s most Marginal thinkers, participants explore queerness through the lenses of tarot, astrology, narrative therapy, eco-mythology, archetype, art, and more. Facilitators include Charlie Claire Burgess, Amy DiGennaro, Edgar Fabian Frías, Nick Kepley, Jonathan Koe, Elias Lawliet, Sophie Strand, Jaison Perez, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez.

Workshops will be held every Sunday (from 6-8pm ET) and Wednesday (from 7-9pm ET) in June, for a total of 16 hours of instruction. Captions will be enabled for all sessions, and recordings will be available through 7/31.

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