At Wyldwood RenFest, Finbarre Snarey meets kings, jesters, cartographers, reenactors, makers, mead converts and an extremely composed Ural owl. Come along for casual sword talk and stay for the Farkling! Discover permanent jewellery, medieval chaos and the realisation that home can be a field full of fabulous nerds.

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Have a tarot or oracle deck you no longer use? Offer it to Tarot Amnesty

Tarot Interviews credits

• Host and producer: Finbarre Snarey
• Executive producer: Nicola Snarey
• Theme music composer: Amelia Lawn

If you enjoy Tarot Interviews, you may also like Tarot DMs by Finbarre Snarey. A companion series where guests chat over messenger apps and draw three cards to shape the conversation.

If you're curious about the cards we use, visit The British Tarot Archive.

Disclaimer:
The Tarot Interviews podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not constitute professional, legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals where appropriate.

Beans on Toast, Jess Silk, Amelia Coburn and GANS join Tarot Interviews for a Bearded Theory Festival 2026 podcast episode. Meet the festival fire crew, traders and everyday festival-goers too. Ready for some beautiful nonsense? Hit subscribe and discover which cards came up. Episode contains some strong language. Image: Beans on Toast, photographed by Finbarre Snarey.

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Discover more on the Tarot Interviews website and on Instagram at @finbarre

Have a tarot or oracle deck you no longer use? Offer it to Tarot Amnesty

Tarot Interviews credits

• Host and producer: Finbarre Snarey
• Executive producer: Nicola Snarey
• Theme music composer: Amelia Lawn

If you enjoy Tarot Interviews, you may also like Tarot DMs by Finbarre Snarey. A companion series where guests chat over messenger apps and draw three cards to shape the conversation.

If you're curious about the cards we use, visit The British Tarot Archive.

Disclaimer:
The Tarot Interviews podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not constitute professional, legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals where appropriate.

Tarot Interviews returns with a new run of special episodes that invite you beyond the studio and into the middle of festivals, events and creative spaces.

We'll start at Bearded Theory Festival and see where the cards take us.

Coming soon.

Support future episodes: https://ko-fi.com/tarotinterviews

Discover more on the Tarot Interviews website and on Instagram at @finbarre

Have a tarot or oracle deck you no longer use? Offer it to Tarot Amnesty

Tarot Interviews credits

• Host and producer: Finbarre Snarey
• Executive producer: Nicola Snarey
• Theme music composer: Amelia Lawn

If you enjoy Tarot Interviews, you may also like Tarot DMs by Finbarre Snarey. A companion series where guests chat over messenger apps and draw three cards to shape the conversation.

If you're curious about the cards we use, visit The British Tarot Archive.

Disclaimer:
The Tarot Interviews podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not constitute professional, legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals where appropriate.

Carrie Harris writes novels, comics, and games set in original worlds as well as for exciting licenses including Marvel, Warhammer 40k, Miraculous Ladybug, Arkham Horror, and the World of Darkness. She's also an editor, ghostwriter, and writing teacher, and she's passionate about mental health support for creatives. Her most recent book, THE FORBIDDEN VISIONS OF LUCIUS GALLOWAY (Aconyte Books, 2024) is a slowburn horror about a gay black academic in the 1920s which challenges traditional Lovecraft tropes.

Find out more at https://carrieharrisbooks.com

Support future episodes: https://ko-fi.com/tarotinterviews

Discover more on the Tarot Interviews website and on Instagram at @finbarre

Have a tarot or oracle deck you no longer use? Offer it to Tarot Amnesty

Tarot Interviews credits

• Host and producer: Finbarre Snarey
• Executive producer: Nicola Snarey
• Theme music composer: Amelia Lawn

If you enjoy Tarot Interviews, you may also like Tarot DMs by Finbarre Snarey. A companion series where guests chat over messenger apps and draw three cards to shape the conversation.

If you're curious about the cards we use, visit The British Tarot Archive.

Disclaimer:
The Tarot Interviews podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not constitute professional, legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals where appropriate.

Kit Whitfield is an English novelist and essayist based in London. Her debut novel, published in 2006 as Bareback (UK) and Benighted (US), was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, and optioned by Warner Bros.

Kit is the author of the Gyrford duology - In the Heart of Hidden Things (2022) and its sequel All the Hollow of the Sky (2023) - both longlisted for the BSFA . These novels are set in a fictional pre‑industrial English village and centre on a family of fairy‑smiths who forge iron to repel spirits.

Beyond fiction, she has written a series of critical essays titled What’s on Shudder?/Essays on Horror for Ginger Nuts of Horror.

In her earlier career, Kit trained as a chef and a masseur, and worked in various roles including website editor, quote‑hunter, toy‑shop assistant, and publisher.

Discover more at https://kitwhitfield.blogspot.com/ and https://gnofhorror.com/whats-on-shudder/

Support future episodes: https://ko-fi.com/tarotinterviews

Discover more on the Tarot Interviews website and on Instagram at @finbarre

Have a tarot or oracle deck you no longer use? Offer it to Tarot Amnesty

Tarot Interviews credits

• Host and producer: Finbarre Snarey
• Executive producer: Nicola Snarey
• Theme music composer: Amelia Lawn

If you enjoy Tarot Interviews, you may also like Tarot DMs by Finbarre Snarey. A companion series where guests chat over messenger apps and draw three cards to shape the conversation.

If you're curious about the cards we use, visit The British Tarot Archive.

Disclaimer:
The Tarot Interviews podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not constitute professional, legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals where appropriate.

Nova and Mali are married nonbinary lesbians who love fostering kittens and making inclusive gay art projects. Nova is from Michigan and Mali is from Germany and Texas, and they live together in Lansing, Michigan with their cats, Sam and Cosmo.

Discover their latest project Star Crossed: A Queer Tarot - a gorgeous new set of cards celebrating LGBTQ+ identities and disability representation. Now live on Kickstarter, the deck is a love letter to queer resilience and artistic freedom.

For more information:

Website: novaandmali.com
Instagram: nova_mali
Bluesky: novamali
Tumblr: novaandmali

Support future episodes: https://ko-fi.com/tarotinterviews

Discover more on the Tarot Interviews website and on Instagram at @finbarre

Have a tarot or oracle deck you no longer use? Offer it to Tarot Amnesty

Tarot Interviews credits

• Host and producer: Finbarre Snarey
• Executive producer: Nicola Snarey
• Theme music composer: Amelia Lawn

If you enjoy Tarot Interviews, you may also like Tarot DMs by Finbarre Snarey. A companion series where guests chat over messenger apps and draw three cards to shape the conversation.

If you're curious about the cards we use, visit The British Tarot Archive.

Disclaimer:
The Tarot Interviews podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not constitute professional, legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals where appropriate.

Beth Sage Phung is a nonbinary, first generation Asian-American writer and voice actor. They have poetry published in the Boats Against the Current magazine and the second Poets Underground Anthology, as well as various pieces posted on their Instagram account. Their voice acting talents can be heard most notably as Cassius in the audio drama Syntax.

Their writing highlights their personal experience with their identity and interpersonal relationships, as well as their time spent working as a teacher in American junior and high schools. When not working at their day job, they find moments here and there to put pen to paper.

Support future episodes: https://ko-fi.com/tarotinterviews

Discover more on the Tarot Interviews website and on Instagram at @finbarre

Have a tarot or oracle deck you no longer use? Offer it to Tarot Amnesty

Tarot Interviews credits

• Host and producer: Finbarre Snarey
• Executive producer: Nicola Snarey
• Theme music composer: Amelia Lawn

If you enjoy Tarot Interviews, you may also like Tarot DMs by Finbarre Snarey. A companion series where guests chat over messenger apps and draw three cards to shape the conversation.

If you're curious about the cards we use, visit The British Tarot Archive.

Disclaimer:
The Tarot Interviews podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not constitute professional, legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals where appropriate.

Cassandra Snow is an author of Tarot & Occult books, full-time Tarot reader and creative witch about town. Their latest book project is Tarot In Other Words. This book is an essay anthology on queer tarot topics that Snow curated, edited and contributed to.

Order Tarot In Other Words now!

Support future episodes: https://ko-fi.com/tarotinterviews

Discover more on the Tarot Interviews website and on Instagram at @finbarre

Have a tarot or oracle deck you no longer use? Offer it to Tarot Amnesty

Tarot Interviews credits

• Host and producer: Finbarre Snarey
• Executive producer: Nicola Snarey
• Theme music composer: Amelia Lawn

If you enjoy Tarot Interviews, you may also like Tarot DMs by Finbarre Snarey. A companion series where guests chat over messenger apps and draw three cards to shape the conversation.

If you're curious about the cards we use, visit The British Tarot Archive.

Disclaimer:
The Tarot Interviews podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not constitute professional, legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals where appropriate.