Tarot cards are GIANT compared to regular playing cards. How the heck do you shuffle them?! This week, the Tarot Podcast has a quick explainer episode for all your shuffling needs.

If you enjoyed this show and would like loads more tips on how to read tarot, check out my book, The Living Tarot, available wherever books are sold. Or, consider The Living Tarot online class! (discount for class available if you purchase the book – just email me.)

What are your shuffling rituals—and how did you come up with them? Write to me on the Tarot Podcast Discord server (if you’re a Patreon member - to sign up and support the podcast, visit patreon.com/thetarotpodcast). Or you can reach me through the contact form at thetarotpodcast.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

• YouTube version of the episode (so you can watch the shuffling videos!)
• Episode 25: Reversed Cards
• Benebell Wen’s DIY fanning powder video

For further exploration...

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The Tarot Podcast has TWO different interviews! with two different deck creators this week.

Here in Episode 36, we chat with Robert Place, the creator of the best-selling Alchemical Tarot. Bob drew the Alchemical Tarot in the style of 17th century alchemical engravings, and it became an instant favorite in the tarot community on publication in 1995. Along with Bob’s books, this deck is a crash course in Western esotericism, and we had a lot of fun talking about the wondrous synchronicities that accompanied his creation of this deck.

On Patreon, we have a written interview with Catrin Welz-Stein, the creator of the Tarot of Mystical Moments, a stunning and surreal woman-centered deck. At the end, there’s a one-card reading from me. You can check it out by visiting patreon.com/thetarotpodcast and signing up to support the show. (Thank you!)

Featured in the show art this week: The King of Coins, 5 of Wands and Lady of Cups (equivalent to the Page of Cups in RWS-based decks) from the Alchemical Tarot.

Robert M. Place is the designer and illustrator of over twenty Tarot and oracle decks: including the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Alchemical Tarot, The Angels Tarot, The Marziano Tarot, the award-winning The Tarot of the Saints, The Buddha Tarot, The Vampire Tarot, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, The Tarot of the Alchemical Magnum Opus, The Alchemical Tarot of Marseille, The Hermes Playing Card Oracle, An Ukiyo-e Lenormand (based on Japanese culture), The Raziel Tarot and The Burning Serpent Oracle (for both of which he collaborated with Tarot diva Rachel Pollack). His newest work, The First Occult Tarot, is a deck and book based on the descriptions written in 1781 by the Comte de Mellet, the first occult author to describe a Tarot deck.

He is the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, which Booklist has said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the Tarot.” He is the author of Astrology and Divination, Magic and Alchemy, Shamanism, Alchemy and the Tarot, and The Tarot, Magic, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism.

• Pick up a copy of the Alchemical Tarot
• Check out Bob’s website
• The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination [book]
• The Tarot, Magic, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism [book]

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• Become a Tarot Podcast member!
• Shop for cool stuff made by your host!
• Watch the episode on YouTube!

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