welcome back to our final anniversary episode for knit a spell where we have our extremely special guest teresa reed the tarot lady joining us this week yay light from lantern presents knit a spell i'm magical maker katie rempe and i'm the maker of magic james devine join us as we stitch together the symbiotic relationship between crafting and the craft excited welcome teresa hey thank you thank you both so much for having me here any excuse to talk to you all i'm down and i'm ready i'm ready well quick introduction for any of you who don't know theresa reed the tarot lady teresa reed has been a full-time tarot card reader for 30 years probably over 30 years she's the author of many books including tarot no questions asked mastering the art of intuitive reading the tarot coloring book a fabulous book astrology for real life a no bs guide for the astro curious and co-author with shaheen miro of tarot for troubled times and a couple of forthcoming books create your own tarot cards a step-by-step guide for designing unique and personalized tarot deck and twist your fate manifest success with astrology and tarot you can follow teresa on instagram at the tarot lady i came to know theresa reed mostly through my friend madame pamita who raved about this tarot lady on instagram and then i started watching her regular morning tarot transits and tangents you watch it once or twice you're totally hooked oh yeah um teresa's real no bs full of love especially also there's a goat theresa welcome to our podcast knit a spell we're so glad you're here yes that was quite the intro and benny the goat is not here right now so what he's on location probably yeah he was in california last weekend he just got back he's jet lag
that goat yes this goat gets around teresa's patreon completely amazing whatever's going on in the news or in political things or or movie stars in your email box suddenly the chart appears within an analysis of what's going on and it's just when you're thinking about it thank you and you know this morning i went back and looked at the elon musk thing after today he acquired twitter and the synopsis the the astrological thing that we wrote about there in uh in patreon predicted pretty much almost exactly how it was going to go down so i love political astrology it's one of my passions and it's something i only do over on there you know i don't do it publicly because a lot of people aren't interested in that but i know people on patreon are very interested in it so and super affordable like that's what's so great you provide so much value on your patreon for just even the basic level it's marvelous if you're interested in learning a little bit about astrology you explain because of this and because of that there is this and i think that that's what's so great is you're learning you're teaching as you're reading the chart right on well that's the best way to learn it's the same way with tarot you know if you're looking at a card of the day some people aren't kind of the days kind of redundant i'm like that's how you learn that's the point it's coming into your face every day uh that is how you get it ingrained that it's like speaking a language tarot and astrology are languages and what is the best way to learn to immerse in it yeah that's the only i mean really frankly that's the only way to learn that's how i learned tarot and astrology immersing in it being in it every day of my life looking at all those charts looking at those cards every single day and i've been doing that now for over 40 years 40 years the secret to anything you want to do well right i mean knitting was the same thing i remember the first time i picked up a knitting pattern i looked at it and was like what the hell does any of this even mean like this is an instructions this is a different language it's just like anything even after years you can still learn more and what i really like about your writing in particular is it is very easy to swallow very understandable great references like that for me is always something that makes putting those connections easier and plus they're workbooks i love a workbook love them can't recommend them more highly so how did you get started our society doesn't teach tarot in kindergarten yeah um or astrology so how did you find or discover the metaphysical world or the spiritual world well i grew up in a rural area with farm folks my parents were both straight off the farm and eighth grade educated and for people who are straight off the farm and have very little formal education well how do you how do you navigate the world well a lot of it's by intuition my family is also very catholic so there's also a lot of catholic superstition in the family so i would say that that environment growing up in that really kind of left me open for things that were metaphysical now i will say also i'm not a religious person i never have been even very young it was just not my thing but i remember being really interested in certain aspects of you know why do you pray to that saint why are we doing this why are we doing that i wanted to know things i wanted to understand myself i wanted to understand how the world worked and i remember also at an early age being very very drawn to witchy things the back of the day my mother used to get the national enquirer and in the national choir this is i i swear this is my early indoctrination there was this big full full-page ad for a book called the magic power of witchcraft and i you can still see the ad go look for it and i remember when we got that inquirer of course i read the trashy stuff too but i would like pour over that ad and i was fascinated with the idea of making a money magnet or doing this or doing that so that stuff also got in my head early on and the way i came into all of this turning into astrology and tarot was when i was in high school now when i was in high school my big thing was music still kind of is and i ended up becoming friends with this gal who was a fellow misfit i never fit in in that small town i was oddball i had a lot of very progressive different ideas at a very early age and she was also kind of a misfit so we used to kind of see each other in the hallway and we were fascinated with each other because we stood out like a sore thumb and one day one of my friends said i'm with this girl in history class and i think you need to meet her because i think you'd like her and she described like two little things i said i know who that is i want to meet her and we met we became best friends who were both gemini's became best friends from that point forward kind of ditched the other girl and anyhow her mother was an astrologer her mother did astrology she was a pianist she was a psychologist um she was super educated which was really weird for where we lived most people there were again farm folks you know lower middle class middle class people but she was very very different stood out like a sore thumb and so she offered to do my astrology chart i'm like oh yeah sure i've heard about you know the horoscopes i read them in the green sheet uh which was a newspaper thing we had here in milwaukee in wisconsin so she did my chart and i remember saying wow this makes a lot more sense than anything my parents are telling me actually i needed to learn all about astrology and i applied my enthusiasm for astrology the same enthusiasm i have for music and i'm like i'm going to get my hands on this stuff and you know it was one of these times we went to the mall which wasn't something we did very often but we went to the mall and there's a bookstore called walden books they don't exist anymore i remember them you remember them yeah a lot of us do they've been gone for a long time and i was never one of those girls who would go to the mall and enjoy clothes shopping i don't care about that for me bookstore record store bookstore record store that's all i care about still to this day and so i went to the bookstore to get an astrology book and i remember i remember like it was yesterday i can still visualize exactly where it was in the store and exactly where the tarot deck was and i'm looking and i saw the marsia's tarot deck i'm like oh i've seen that in the movies i've seen that in this witchy stuff and so it was really completely like boom on impulse i bought that deck and i remember taking it home and you know unwrapping it and cellophane around it and it came with a little white book and laying those cards out i'm like what is this i need to know and one of the things i found because i'm a very visual person is the cards spoke to me pretty quickly even though i started with the marsai's most difficult deck of all it spoke to me i picked up on it very very quickly without a mentor without a teacher there weren't a lot of good books back then and the next time we went to the mall i went back in that bookstore and i saw a rider wait smith deck and i'm like boom you're going home too and that deck of course is very visual so for visual people it clicked in even further and uh i've had a tarot deck in my hands ever since that time and that's been again over 40 years and the the cool thing is when my friend's mother passed away i inherited her coveted astrology book the one i was never able to find anywhere it's mine it's wrapped in a plastic bag with all of her writing and marking in it it is one of my big treasures it sits next to my joan crawford advice book which is another one of my big treasures i love joan crawford that's his name
so that's how it started in a nutshell it's really growing up in an environment that was a little bit open to mystical things and having the good fortune of connecting with this person and her mother and then being in that bookstore and seeing it and just saying i'm taking this home i feel it i'm gonna go with my gut so was the tarot and the astrology kind of you were studying them both at the same time because i mean you're known as the tarot lady why aren't you known as the astrology lady because the thing is um they work very i use some very different well i shouldn't say i use them very differently but i became known more for tarot because i think tara is really good at down and dirty and fast information yeah and so i think it's ultimately a great tool for gemini's i again i took to it like uh you know duck to water and when i do readings the information comes like a ticker tape it is rapid it spills through me and it really works with that intuitive side of my personality and astrology i use astrology every damn day of my life i use astrology every single day and i follow astrology very carefully and astrology really appeals to my analytical side the reason why i became known for the terror lady is i was doing these down and dirty tarot readings in bars and stuff back in the day and doing an astrology chart requires you got to lay the chart out you got to like study the angles and you know i i can do that but uh when it comes to working with humans it's like no we're going to work we're going to go fast and dirty and you're going to get so much information you're going to be blown away yes so it's our one year anniversary for knitter spell and one of the reasons that we wanted to have you on is to see if you would be willing to look at the knitter spell chart i i've got the chart right in front of my face as well as the transits i'm going to share the image so that if anyone is watching the youtube they can see what we're seeing the first thing i would say with a sagittarius ascendant it's all about telling the truth and sagittarius has a lot to do with not just truth telling but philosophy so this is a really great place for you to express your philosophies about life and a lot of what your show is going to be about or maybe this is how people are going to perceive it is wow this is about you know broadcasting important message this is about broadening our horizons and i think it's going to be really helpful to really open people up maybe to new people new concepts also when i look at the virgo midheaven that shows me there's an element of teaching here that a lot of what people will come to your knit a spell podcast is because they want to learn things so there's a real element here about learning education broadening horizons so that is one big thing that stands out for me the other thing that stands out for me is the moon and jupiter were conjunct in the third house of communication and the house of communication i mean what a great aspect to have in the natal chart of your podcast first of all the moon conjunct jupiter this has this feeling of um we're really expanding on a topic we're expanding on a message and they're in aquarius aquarius has a lot to do with the occult with metaphysical things with um you know kind of like community the collective so together the moon and jupiter in aquarius in the third house whoa you got a big message you're bringing forward to the public and the public is here for it now also because the ascendant is is sagittarius well sagittarius is ruled by jupiter and jupiter sitting in the third house uh the house of communication conjunct the moon this feels really really uh auspicious for the podcast that again there's a good message here it feels like uh you're in your element so to speak and you certainly have a lot to talk about the other thing what i see too is we we want to look at mars in the seventh house so mars in the seventh houses in gemini mars is ambition and mars in gemini means talk talk talk talk talk we're here to talk talk talk and also the seventh house is relationships gemini's duality two people doing a lot of talking and that mars is also in a trine with that um with ted uh jupiter uh the jupiter uh moon aspect uh so what does that mean well that means also again we're communicating we have two people communicating and i see that as being a really good thing like you two feel like you're very natural for communicating with each other so you should feel pretty comfortable with each other maybe you fire each other up maybe you also like talking about a variety of things so we've got that the other thing i'm saying let's look at the sun there's a lot going on with that sun i mean the sun is in the fourth house of home and domestic affairs and it is also uh it's a stellium you got an aries stallion there and an aries stallion in the fourth house there's something very new there's something very different this is telling me that you're going far from home or you're doing something different than home base and so maybe even the original idea is evolving i mean that could be one way of looking at it but the mercury is about here we are we're communicating uh in aries we are communicating bold new ideas we also see chiron there's some aspect of healing taking place here the sun is a lot of expression and we're expressing again new ideas we're blazing trails and venus there's a lot of lovey-dovey energy here as well so it really does feel like you two are at home with each other and there's something about the podcast that has a good root but whenever it's aries i will see aries as but we're blazing a trail we're not going back to the usual home base we're doing something different it's kind of like if i had to describe this you've got a home and you've got a family and it's like yeah i love my family but i'm still gonna go off and do my own thing and i'm gonna be the first in the family to do this this this and this so that would be maybe a way i would interpret that so in a nutshell there's a lot of cool stuff going on here amazing wow i'm like i'm like blown away by so much accuracy in all of that i mean especially with the duality parts to hosts you know we talk about two topics that intertwine we nailed it jim yeah making and magic that duality is so interesting and we are a lot about teaching i love when people can hear like how someone reads i know you're not doing readings for the public it still is such a great way to hear the way in which she just tells it like it is she just gets in and makes it real or makes it like down to earth of course i couldn't help thinking about how i myself and am in aries and how katie is a virgo and how we have this stallion in aries and how our mid heaven is in virgo so that also is tripping me out as you're reading and it's just amazing amazing there's so much to astrology i mean that is like just looking at a glance the things that stand out to me astrology can take you down so many amazing rabbit holes which i love going down rabbit holes in astrology i'm always studying different things about astrology you never stop learning ever ever ever and i mean even if we look at the current transits what's happening for your podcast right now you've got a massive stellium right now in that third house this would be if i was doing this chart and let's say i'm doing it for you for like a business reading i'd be like oh my god this is the absolute time where you need to continue getting the message out there you need to refine it not be shy look at new ways that you can reach different people different audiences you've got this again massive stallion right now you can get your message out there in such a big beautiful profound way so this would be the time i'd say giddy up let's get going and also because saturn is now in the podcast third house it's time to build your structures to really build the structures around how you're communicating what tools are you using to communicate what social media are using to get the message out there where did where can you refine what are some things you can abandon that aren't supporting you getting your message out there you know and when saturn goes through that third house it could be a good time for writing but it's also a good time again to really get your communication style cleaned up hmm gosh we were just talking about that before you came on too so that's pretty funny astrology is accurate however the interpretations are not always accurate interpretation here's the thing with tarot and astrology and this is one thing i always say you're going to be wrong you're going to be wrong and nobody wants to hear that when they're learning tarot astrology they come to tarot astrology because they want to have control over their future i mean that's i got into it i wanted to understand myself i wanted to understand why i do certain things of course that's why i got into it and so i think a lot of people have this idea that that you're gonna be able to map out everything perfectly and you're gonna have complete control over your life and it doesn't work like that there are things you cannot see and human interpretation is very very messy and sometimes also you can't be objective on certain things so i always say okay if you're coming into this you're going to be wrong and that may sound like i'm the angel of death for teaching tarot and astrology i'm like no as soon as you get that out of your head as soon as you get that out of your system that you're going to be wrong you're going to be criticized you're going to miss the mark you're going to misinterpret well you know what that takes actually a lot of anxiety and eco out of it now it's no longer about the ego it's like let's just do the reading let's deliver the facts like dragnet let's do it in a way that's going to be helpful and let's hope that whatever information we're delivering will be something that people can use not any of this oh look at me i'm predicting the future i mean that's not ego driven yes i love it when we're right that feels great i mean who doesn't want to be right but that's not why you do tarot astrology you're doing it to guide to help to gain understanding and you know sometimes again when you make your mistakes and your interpretation you end up learning so so much from it you're not always going to be right and that is a very humbling thing i see once in a while there's a readers who'll say oh i'm 99 accurate i'm like that's
avoid those readers that's a scam how it works i mean i remember too when there was the election with um you know hillary versus trump everybody was saying because of the aspects she's uh and also because of what they were saying in media she's a shoe and she's going to win and i was looking at one thing in trump's chart i'm like but he's under his jupiter return oh yeah yeah but there's all this other stuff going i'm like you have a stupid return he's got a lot of luck on that day and i said i wouldn't count him out i had a whole bunch of people get mad at me like people who were my followers in my newsletter because i only said this in my newsletter and they jumped off my newsletter they thought i was supporting them i'm like no no no i'm just telling you there's some luck here and not that again with me being right but again a lot of people were interpreting things for hillary i think based on what they wanted to see or what they were hearing in the media and when you're doing tarot astrology you've got to get all of that crap out of your system you've got to not necessarily be i mean i thought i was going to be the only wrong one i'm like i'm the only one saying you know so you kind of just got to look at it like that and you know whether you're wrong or right ultimately that doesn't matter let's go out of it let's be objective let's try to look at this from a perspective of okay what are we seeing here and instead of looking at a million different aspects let's get down to the nitty-gritty what is the one important thing or the three important points that are standing out in this chart or in these tarot cards if you can come away with three takeaways we're good dial it down dial it down otherwise here's what happens you're looking at these like astrology i was like well i see this aspect of that aspect and then you're getting all muddled you're gonna be wrong and you got to dial it down and drill it down and get down to the root of what we're looking at here and you're going to have a probably a better interpretation and one most important point and pay attention to that what do you think is the biggest benefit of having at least a basic understanding of astrology in our lives yeah the basic well there there's a really good reason to have that because everything is energy we are made of energy we are all made of atoms i mean i'm made out of the same atoms as this coffee mug that i have here but it's arranged differently but it's energy energy energy and when you understand the energy of you and the energy of what's happening in the universe you are bringing awareness into your choices your thoughts your actions and your interactions with other people so for example let's say jim is an aries and i am a gemini i know right away okay we're going to get along pretty damn good right from the jump but then if i start looking at our moons jim what's your moon in virgo oh no no my moon is in taurus oh now his moon is in taurus minus and scorpio they're opposing each other and that tells me okay jim is just as stubborn as i am and so i know that if jim and i lock horns well now i know that i need to step back we've got to cool off and that way we preserve our relationship it's energy it's it's about learning how to respect the people in your life and respect the energy you know i know that when the planets are gnarly and when they're you know acting maybe in a way that's not beneficial to me or just not beneficial in general i lay low i'm not gonna say oh goody the moon is squaring mars i think i'm gonna go pick a fight with katie no i'm not gonna do that i'm gonna say okay this is a day that could be temperamental which by the way we have some temperamental aspects later tonight the moon is going to be conjunct mars and i was feeling kind of cranky today y'all i was feeling cranky i was in my temper i spilled this serene for the second time on my bathroom floor and i was down here yelling and i'm like okay remember tonight that energy you're already feeling that tarot lady let's calm down let's eat that tiramisu in the fridge let's calm the hell down and get re-centered because you've got an interview soon and i don't want to come to that interview with that energy i want to be aware of energy and i think a lot of people they sleepwalk through life they don't think about their words their actions how they treat other people they don't think about the energy what's operating around them they don't think about what the decision is going to mean 10 years from now and then they wonder this is the thing i will say how did i get here it's like that song by the talking heads how did i get here this is not my beautiful life it's like wait a minute if you pay attention to energy and your choices you're starting to live consciously you can't control everything though people get sick things happen and so we also have to keep that in the back of our heads but astrology and tarot for that matter they really give us a road map so at least we're not walking around in the dark or sleepwalking through life or conscious we can't control everything but that's why we have tiramisu in the fridge yes yes that's why they made cheesecake damn it yes oh my god because without cheesecake and tiramisu what is this life what is it how would the golden girls have handled it exactly well let's all consider that question as we step into a quick break and then we come back we will talk tarot with of course the tarot lady we'll be right back hey teresa what do you have coming out as far as books i've got two books coming your way in 2022. on may first create your own tarot cards is dropping this is a joint venture between me and the artist adrian hawthorne of ponopos it is a fun book that i wrote the intro she wrote all the instructions on how to create your own cards and there are 80 tear out cards in the back that you can pull out and you can paint it is a book for beginners so it's for anybody it's it's very easy to understand nothing complicated none of the artistic instructions are complicated either so it's for all ages it would make a great gift for those young people in your life too who have that artsy that artsy uh interest and maybe an interest in tarot the second book that's coming out is called twister fate manifest success through astrology and tarot and this book is all about how i use tarot and astrology when i work with clients to talk about business job career life purpose and also i really love to dispel the whole idea that you're born with a bad chart you're you're not going to make it in the world it's like listen we can't control everything but with tarot and astrology we can at least navigate things or find our way to a better life than the one maybe that we were born with and i actually have one of those charts that's considered a quote-unquote bad chart and i had a bad chart and i had a very hard start to my life but i really became through astrology aware of how to show up as the best version of me and how to turn those quote-unquote weaknesses into strengths and that's what it's all about it's turning the weaknesses into strengths but also looking at the good parts of your chart and amplifying the heck out of them that book comes out when again august 1st where can people go to find out more both books are available for pre-order right now on barnes and noble indie books book shop amazon so you can get that there you can also visit my website thetaralady.com click on books and you'll find the information about all my books order your books now pre-order them don't miss any of the stuff that theresa reid the terror lady has to offer you hey knitter spell listeners it's katie are you interested in a new knitting pattern that will help you knit with intent well then get ready because the self-love cowl has arrived and kits are available from uu yarns whether you're knitting for self-love abundant luck healing comfort joyous empowerment or even robust romance there's a colorway option for you go ahead and check out all of the options of this fun and interesting cowl that you can knit with intent to have a little magic worn around you at all times it also makes a great gift whether you're knitting one for yourself knitting one for a friend or simply looking to learn more you can do so by visiting lightfromlantern.com happy knitting magical makers and we're back so for round two i want to start off with a question let's talk about stalker cards what does a stalker card mean to you and do you have any that you find pop-up stalker cards are cards that come up again and again and again and again they're trying to get your damn attention and you know so often again we walk through life we ignore things now i'm somebody i pay attention to omens i pay attention to signs from the universe i get musical oracles all that stuff and when there's a tarot card that's coming up again and again i'm like oh what the hell is up with this let me see what is going on i remember a time i kept getting the eight of cups and the ada comes like i wonder what this could be travel moving on moving on at the time i was friends with somebody i was very very tight with this person and i was helping them build a metaphysical store and i asked about the friendship and i remember getting that card again i'm like what is this telling me this person seems pretty cool they seem legit and i even had a handwriting analysis person say why are you friends with this person and i'm like uh well they seem pretty cool and they're like
i'm like okay then i get the eight of cups again and again well anyhow it turned into this big terrible thing this person completely betrayed me and i had to get the hell out of dodge and so i was like oh my god that eight of cups was telling me get out get out get out the handwriting lady was telling me that well lo and behold of course because you know you don't you got to learn the hard way i was friends a couple of years later with somebody also i'm like oh this person seems really cool and i remember doing a reading are they cool i got that eight of cups i'm like and once again it was a repeat of the almost the exact same pattern now astrologically i've got some stuff happening in the 11th house i have to be very careful of my choice of friends i like to believe everyone's going to be my friend and learn the hard way and i know when they ate a cup shows up when i'm asking about a friendship it's always meant to me get away from this person now jim it did not happen for you so don't worry you you and i are meant to be together but i know that that's one of my stalker cards that is the card that tells me for me the message is get out get out get out this is a dangerous person for you so i've learned that and that's happened those are just two examples but it's happened for me on other occasions so i've learned what's your stalker card katie oh uh i have two typically uh death a lot of the time and the hermit which i always just perceive as uh stop it take a break i like to do a lot i'm very virgo those are always my reminder cards like stop look at yourself do you need to just chill for a few yeah what about you jim i it's the ten of swords seems to show up especially when i don't want the dinosaurs to course they know when you want them to
when i look at that the eight of cups too you know the person in that card is going off to the hermitage i mean that card is very similar to the hermit and i am actually even though i'm very friendly i'm quite a hermit i'm very much a lone wolf i love being alone i'm one of those weirdos moon and scorpio and so the eight of cups you know for me is like okay yeah we're needing to get the hell out of the situation but you know you're always happier when you're a lone wolf anyways and so jim that ten of swords i mean if it's coming up every damn reading what is it telling you well the the interesting thing that i really appreciate is learning from you and from other people about the ten of swords i've come into some peace with it for those not familiar the ten of swords has a person laying on the ground they seem to be stabbed in the back with these ten swords that are sticking straight up out of their back and it just seems like such an awful hopeless card on its face but there's things that i've noticed when looking more deeply the hand position in the brighter weight smith deck is the teacher pose so the person is laying there on their face but their hand is in a teacher-posed position which means there's a lesson to be learned in this card and i think that that's an interesting thing swords are the element of air so if i notice that there's no blood and that the swords are actually of the mind that this is something that has is happening in your mind so i've come into a little bit of peace like wow is what am i being imprisoned by what is the mind weevils telling me does that make sense to you i would totally agree with that i mean that's a beautiful interpretation and you know i also am a yogi and then hand position and yoga we call it the yana mudra and the yana mudra is all about tapping in again to wisdom into higher wisdom so i i'm not a promise but from a yoga perspective that really stands out and the other thing with the tennis swords i mean it always reminds me of a porcupine with quills you know and so i look at it like do you need to protect yourself is there something here where you're leaving yourself wide open and vulnerable to maybe somebody else or to your own stinking thinking what are you leaving yourself vulnerable where can you put those quills up to protect yourself god that's so good so the other side of our podcast is a making side magic making do you have any creative outlets that do you knit yeah look at my face yeah i i don't know it's not for everyone i don't and i've got a lot of arthritis in my hands it is that doesn't help but i love to cook cooking is my jam i love to cook i have like 200 cookbooks i love to cook i'm curious about food i'm obsessed with food i love to feed people when i was a little girl the other thing i used to do because i love going to the library a lot of times i would check out the like the junior cookbook and bring it home and i'd fantasize about all the recipes i was going to cook one day and i would read all my mother's cookbooks i would pour over them and like oh why don't you cook something more exotic why are we always doing this you know this stuff this german food and of course not cook her food but uh i i always just obsessed with food and so cooking is my outlet and cooking for me at the end of the day it means your day is done you're gonna go cook you're gonna forget about all this other stuff you get to cook i never look at it as a negative it's like you get to cook tonight now tonight we are making a salmon with a yogurt horseradish sauce and it's got chives and tarragon and potatoes and green beans and i'm just getting excited talking about it and by the way with cooking i don't care about breakfast and i don't care about lunch i eat the same thing for breakfast every day for lunch i also get like something that i also think about i live for dinner i live for dinner that is like my thing so that's what i make i make food mr tarot lady has it made in the shade he does and you know you know what mr terrell lady says he would always come home and say it was really good but you know when i've had it done your way i'm kind of like screwed i can't really enjoy anything the way i enjoy this food and i'm also known as the dessert queen in our family uh because i make some damn good desserts oh man your husband sounds like a smart guy first of all he has a great taste well you know my first husband when we got divorced he says oh the thing i miss the most is the cooking well that is the weight of the heart so i love to cook cooking i could talk about food i mean my hero everybody's got a personal hero and you would probably think my hero's probably a tarot or astrology person i'm like oh god no my hero is jeff jose andres that's my absolute hero i i i worship at the altar of chef jose and also anthony bourdain
but anthony bourdain passed away for me that that david bowie were the two deaths that really messed me up but anthony bourdain spoke my lingo i felt like um i think most people would say when you watch your shows and you just feel like i can hang out with this guy and just the thought of how much he loved and appreciated food and the way he would get into it with people that's how i how i approach food i love food i love to eat and anthony bourdain and chef jose andres those are my actual heroes chef jose is like that is a he's a saint in my opinion he is beating people all over the world when there is a war going on there chef jose when there is a disaster there is chef jose feeding people because food here's the thing many of us we don't speak the same languages maybe we don't even like the same things but you get us together over a good meal we break bread now we can come together even if we don't speak the same language even if we don't agree on the same things you get a good meal and you get people sitting down you get to see their humanness you get to see their connection oh there's nothing better than a good meal nothing better how does magic or how does spirituality how does that play into your creative expression the cooking is very magical again food is magical think about it it is magical i knew that from the time i was a little girl when we thought about gee we take this piece of bread at communion and it becomes the body of christ how cool is that yeah so i knew from a very early age the magic of food and again you know cooking you can put so much love into cooking and i'm very superstitious about food i will not eat food from somebody that i don't like if i don't like you and we're at a party together i'm going to find out what dish you made i'm not going to eat that it's either going to be made by someone i don't know so i don't know your vibe or by somebody i love because i feel that a lot of times when people are cooking if they have bad intentions bad juju whatever you want to call it you know you're putting that in your system hell no and you can also when you cook a good meal for someone you're cooking with love like last night the sunday gravy we are all sitting around we're we're watching the sopranos we're eating this food we're feeling all that love there's nothing but love that's what you want to feel that's what i'm gonna feel love fantastic yes i don't want to eat your potluck meal that was made out of obligation or resentment right yeah good call well i don't know if you saw but i i think that you're a fan of rupaul question mark the drag race yes well they finally announced an all-star seasons with actual past all winners have you seen who's on the cast i have not seen i know trinity the tuck is on there and i love i love trinity the tuck and by the way congratulations willow pill for winning this season i love willow pill i want to adopt willow pill willow pill if you're up for adoption uh call me yeah but um who's on it i don't know whoever i don't know who the whole cast is oh my god well yes trinity is on it jinx monsoon will be joining raja will be joining uh shay coulee so many good past winners no bianca del rio which i'm a little sad face about because she's my personal fave but you know um plenty of past winners so i think it will be worth watching maybe that's a chart to do or something to do in your patreon oh there you go fun that wouldn't that be a fun little thing great fun thing to do because i certainly do love first of all i think rupaul is amazing and i i love rupaul's drag race because it's so inspirational so i love them but i don't know who the whole cast is so gee i don't know i i do love shae kool-aid though i would not i would not be sad to shake if she could won and also for anyone who says they don't like scorpios rupaul is a scorpio and rupaul's [ __ ] awesome so i love scorpios now you all know i am like i am like the ambassador for scorpios anytime someone speaks bad about a scorpio like what's wrong with you scorpios are awesome they're intense they're passionate they're sexy they're psychic what is not to love about that here's something that i've noticed this is a tangent go for it jim people tend to speak bad about water signs more often than any other signs i think that's a manifestation of the fact that our society hates the element of water our society is not comfortable with emotions and is not comfortable with generally the element of water this is not because nature isn't is imbalanced because our i think our society isn't comfortable with emotions tends to be especially water signs that get such a negative wrap yeah geminis get a negative rap too it's considered one of the most hated signs i'm like why would you hate a gemini we are talkative we are chatty we are funny we are witty we're smart what is not to love about that but people get their little prejudices for whatever reason and you know i'm just like whatever you probably just met you just probably met a bad one one time and assumed they're all the same way and it's not like that every sign can express the high vibe and the low vibe and sometimes maybe you caught somebody on a low five day don't assume that that's the way they are 24 7 and don't assume that means the same thing for all signs yeah exactly aries gets it can get a bad rap yeah but aries is sexy so everybody kind of wants to be in aries first of all you've got every sign in your chart that's one thing also people don't realize because all the signs are present on the outer rim of your astrology chart just because you don't have a planet in that house or in that side doesn't mean it's not there you've got capricorn in you you've got scorpio and you you've got sexy areas in you we all got it yep you have it in you let's wrap up with a tarot card poll just one card to see what perhaps the future holds for jim and i here on knit a spell or sort of like the theme for the year perhaps all right let's go ahead and let's let's find a card for y'all thank you for doing this i'm so excited for a one-year anniversary this is so much fun well one year is the fifth anniversary so let me put the deck back together oh ace of wands you might blaze a new trail there might be new ideas there might be new directions something's going to change and it's going to help you to grow there's new fire new passion and i would say also this last year has been very much an incubation year now you're getting ready to birth new things i like the ace salons it's fiery it's sexy it's aries energy yes but really where are my horns when you see this card it says don't be afraid to make changes you know if you're feeling like you need some new directions you can go with it this year you can try new things i love those horns nice oh my god you can you can really again um move forward in exciting new ways so i don't know i think there's some real good growth happening here for y'all oh my gosh and new directions maybe if that was the card for this week what would you say to them be on the lookout for opportunities and grab those opportunities don't be shy don't be hesitant don't hold back channel your inner aries let's go go go let's go for it i love it oh teresa so much fun hanging out with you you are always a wealth of knowledge you're so generous with what you have i think that's one of the signature things about you i am so privileged to be around you and next weekend not this weekend but next weekend today's wednesday next weekend is mother's day weekend i am excited to hang out with you in chicago this is going to be kind of a soft not an official book launch but it is kind of the official book launch of create your own tarot cards you can get a signed copy of create your own tarot cards the book you can meet theresa reed in person everyone's wearing a mask at this event at the panopause studio in chicago this is one eighth from two to five and it's free there's no cost and also the ponte pal shop has a lot of other cool and cute things for sale too so if you like to shop for earrings and clothes and journals and all that stuff she's got some neat stuff going on there you no longer do readings for the public of course however your patreon as we had said before is full of useful information and teaching opportunities and all sorts of fun stuff could you go ahead and tell the folks a little bit more about that sure patreon is the place to connect with me that is where i do extended card of the day i do a live event every month hot dates i do political astrology there and if you are looking to learn about tarot business or astrology i have different tiers where we teach those topics there is a huge library of replays so if you are new there's lots of things you can go back to and listen to so i do a lot there also there's early sneak peeks at the monthly horoscopes too so that is my place where i love to jam with my folks and that is patreon.com forward slash the tarot lady i hope people join me there because i love to teach and i love to share information and this is also one of the platforms that's safe to do it on and what about newsletters social media upcoming classes that sort of thing sure um i do have a newsletter it comes out twice a month and you can sign up for free it's free and you can do that at the tarotlady.com on social media you can always find me at the handle the tarot lady i think the place that i'm going to be the most active on is going to always be through patreon or probably you know my morning lives as they are for right now and as far as upcoming events again the thing with panopause for create your own tarot cards that's the thing that's coming up on may 8th and any teaching and classes i do are usually 99 of the time on patreon i do have an australian astrology class for total beginners that's going to be dropping soon that's outside of patreon but we haven't finalized everything so i'm waiting to finalize the deal on that you have two great podcasts yourself and your blogs all of that is on your website at theterralady.com your astrobytes and terabytes podcasts that i've been on both of those they're fantastic so from one podcast to another go and listen to those podcasts yes you'll be so happy because you learn so much they're educational podcasts and one other thing too if you are an entrepreneur uh you know i love using astrology for business that is my jam i use astrology for my business uh every single day that i do business i'm checking those stars i have the astro biz digest it is a subscription for entrepreneurs and it gives you the lowdown of what's happening and how to max it out for your business forgot about that i'm gonna be signing up to her that one like immediately so it's genius so awesome one of my favorite things that i create jim you already mentioned your upcoming trip do you have anything else going on that's what i have for now but you know when i have something new all you need to do is go to thedivinehand.com and sign up for my newsletter because that's where i announce all the things that i'm doing what about you katie i saw that there's a new pattern did you make a shirt yeah i know finally a thing that's wearable that's not just an accessory it's a whole t-shirt uh it will be coming out in may so shortly and it will have a nice two color design it goes really well with my sun and moon shawl and again you can learn more by visiting lightfromlantern.com where you can find my newsletter as well or find me on instagram at lightfromlantern well again teresa thank you so much for coming on for being so generous with your time and information and yeah people who are listening don't miss out on all of the wonderfulness that is theresa reid the tarot lady go subscribe like and sign up for all the things all right thank you everybody here thank you love having you here alright everyone we'll see you next week thanks for listening everybody and don't forget 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