Mel and Alyssa are tarot card readers and friends who are passionate about tarot as a medium for healing, empowerment, and liberation. Over the course of this podcast, they explore each of the 78 cards of the tarot in depth addressing history, symbolism, popular meanings, personal anecdotes & their individual relationships with the card. As a duo, Mel and Alyssa are critical and thoughtful while creating a fun and playful learning environment. Join us as we explore the tarot!
Mel and Alyssa are tarot card readers and friends who are passionate about tarot as a medium for healing, empowerment, and liberation. Over the course of this podcast, they explore each of the 78 cards of the tarot in depth addressing history, symbolism, popular meanings, personal anecdotes & their individual relationships with the card. As a duo, Mel and Alyssa are critical and thoughtful while creating a fun and playful learning environment. Join us as we explore the tarot!
The Arcane Dames Podcast will no longer be releasing new episodes. We are sad to announce the end of this project before completing all 78 cards of the tarot, and we both still have an incredible amount of love and gratitude for our listeners. Mel and Alyssa will continue to share our tarot knowledge & spiritual journeys on our own platforms, and we hope you can continue to follow-along and keep learning with us on our separate journeys.
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Join Mel & Alyssa for a deep dive into the energy of the Nine of Wands! We discuss the heaviness of this card, how we get ourselves into it, and how we can get ourselves out.
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Mel & Alyssa finally tackle Alyssa's favorite card in the Tarot: The High Priestess! Join us for a chat about intuition, truth, and the power of knowing.
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In this episode Mel & Alyssa explore the fertile energy offered by the Ace of Pentacles! We deep dive into all the different types of new beginnings this card can signify, and discuss how we navigate the tension between our personal power & structural forces when it comes to finances and success. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Mel & Alyssa explore their contradictory views of The Moon card. Is it a mystical card full of potential for divine understanding, or is it a deceptive card shrouded in mystery and bad intentions? You'll have to listen to find out!
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In this week's episode, Mel & Alyssa catch you up on their 2024 goals and intentions before diving into an episode all about SPEED. We share our best Eight of Wands prediction stories and dive into all the different ways this card can show up in your practice.
New Year Intention Setting Retreat
Sunday, January 14th 9-11:30am
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In this honest & personal episode, Mel & Alyssa discuss the role of the Seven of Pentacles energy as it relates to their own careers, ambitions, and doubts. We explore more traditional meanings for this card and are candid about the frustrations that can accompany its energy.
New Year Intention Setting Retreat
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In this surprise Bonus Episode, the Mel & Alyssa share their winter traditions around everything from the winter solstice to Christmas & New Year's! Tune in to hear us chat about gift giving, celebration, honoring the cycles of nature & manifesting for 2024!
Sign Up for Our New Year Retreat! Mindful Meetup | Kelsey Lynn Yoga
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Join Mel & Alyssa for a juicy conversation exploring the role of The Hierophant in our social, cultural & spiritual worlds. We discuss the virtues and vices of this energy, our ex-Catholic aversion to authority, and how we can keep in touch with our own personal power even as we consult spiritual teachers and authorities for advice and guidance. You don't want to miss this one!
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Deep dive into the dreamy & romantic world of the Knight of Cups with Mel & Alyssa this episode! Hear all about the compelling imagery, possible interpretations, and juicy situations associated with this card. Be prepared to be serenaded by Mel more than once and listen in as we spill the tea about the behind-the-scenes of professional tarot reading.
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Through an enriching conversation about family, relationship patterns, and Christmas traditions, the Dames explain how they view the Four of Wands in the tarot. Creeping up on the winter solstice, Mel & Alyssa are their most introspective selves in this cozy yet candid episode.
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In this episode, Mel & Alyssa explore the energy of the Earth Goddess that is the Queen of Pentacles! We discuss how we experience this energy in our own lives and, as two air signs, are honest about our struggles to fully embody this Queen. You'll also get a window into our varying experiences with smoking weed and a discussion on how to embrace the Queen of Pentacles when you have a fear of structure. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Mel & Alyssa discuss the divine inspiration and clarity that often accompanies the appearance of the Ace of Swords. We also dive into the limits of this type of idealistic clarity in navigating complex situations in the real world. This is one of those weeks where you come for the tarot lesson & stay for the anti-capitalist rant. Enjoy!
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The Arcane Dames are back for a witchy woo-woo Season 3, and we're kicking it off with The Magician! Tune in to catch up with Mel & Alyssa and hear all about their personal manifestation techniques, how they incorporate the five elements of The Magician card into their own practice, and some tips and tricks for going deeper with this card.
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The Arcane Dames emerge from their hiatus to bring you a very special Halloween Bonus Episode! Join Mel & Alyssa as they discuss all of the witchy and non-witchy traditions that make this holiday special. We dig into body image and food norms surrounding Halloween, our personal autumnal rituals, Cemetery etiquette, and what we're calling in for the witch's new year.
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Mel & Alyssa take a break from their hiatus to share a bonus episode all about the autumn equinox, Mabon, and catching you all up with what we've been up to between seasons! In addition to covering the basics, tune in to hear us chat about the podcasts and audiobooks we're loving right now, what being queer means to us, and the difference between toxic positivity and radical optimism.
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Mel & Alyssa celebrate the conclusion of another successful season of the Arcane Dames Podcast! We play another round of the infamous Tarot Truth or Drink, the game where we have assigned "truth" questions to each tarot card. We pull cards and decide whether to tell the truth, or drink! This episode is particularly saucy as we pull the Two of Cups, The Lovers, and the Knight of Wands. Don't miss it!
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In exploring the final card of Season 2, Mel and Alyssa discuss the factors that can make listening to our own internal compass so difficult when it comes to decision making. Listen along as the Dames unpack their struggles with asking for what they need, feeling heard, and ultimately learning to trust their intuition over any external factors.
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Hi Arcane Babes! We're proud to bring you our highly anticipated collaboration with the Romanistan Podcast! Hosts Jez and Paulina treated us to an eye-opening conversation about the roots of fortune telling in Romani culture and the significant impact the Romani people have had on tarot as a form of divination.
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Works and creators mentioned:
The Hoodoo Tarot - Book Summary & Video
The Sibyls Oraculum - Book Summary & Video
Lisa Boswell (divinationandfortunetelling.com)
Romani Design
Loly By Zita Moldovan
Giuvlipen Theatre Company
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In this unfiltered conversation, Mel and Alyssa explore how to balance working and maintaining your personhood under the oppression of capitalism. We share a refresher of the Tarot court and look inward to our past experiences of embodying this Knight card's energy.
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