Please enjoy this episode on the Emperor and the Four Fours, which TRIGGER WARNING includes the Death card (13). Sorry about it. We invoke death and we wonder about all sorts of things. This episode's topics include some music theory, orchestral conducting, Chinese pulse diagnosis, fatherhood, karma, rebirth, transformation, etc etc. It's all over the place but good vibes, for sure. Oh, Phil's made an emperorial outro featuring whale noises and some audio samples of his Lordship John Maclean....
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 14
We chill in the flesh and cover the Empress and the four threes. There's a bunch of good stuff in here! We try hard to penetrate into the substance of the number three. What is it, even? It's not even, that's for sure. We do get into some Christianity and Polyvagal theory and even some mathematics? Hard to say. Some downsides are Phil's embarassing Sanskrit pronuciations and at one point Ben drops the baton of the prayer bowl onto the prayer bowl and it makes a startling clang. You have all been...
Apr 06, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 13
It's the High Priestess and the Four Twos! Rubba dub dub. Wiggle wiggle, hip hop, flip flop. We get into all sorts of stuff and Phil records from his bathtub. Listen for a really resonant sonic experience. We talk about sympathetic vibration, entrainment, about the process of change... we allude to masturbation and Ben burps... there is much too much to mention. As a special treat there is an outro clip of the hilarious Jessa Reed impersonating the High Priestess with virtuosity and grace. The c...
Mar 30, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 12
We hope we're onto a more digestable format for distributing content here, folks, as instead of moving through a chaotic, clean sweep of the cards we are now going over them by number. Today is NUMBA ONE, folks. The Magician and the Four Aces. Listen to hear musings about mewing, music, magick, and manifesting. There's a teaser in here for some of Ben's freefrunning philosophy and some nifty thoughts inspired by Phil's prayer bowl. Listen to the end for some of Phil's music featuring a mantra to...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 39 min
It's the Tenth one and that feels special. It's the Court Cards too, and that's nifty. About roles, personality... Phil tries to squeeze the court cards into a string orchestra festival analogy and we talk about co-regulation in polyvagal theory. Outro music is Agaga by May Edda (feat Léon).
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Greetings once again. Today's episode is an overview of the Pentacles suit. All about goal-setting, problem solving, learning, growing and becoming Opulent. This episode is all about how to make your coffers groan under the lusty weight of their contents.
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 9
We have a reading for you, folks! Big bonus! Bing Bog! Bing Rog Bips! A reading for Phil and upon his heart we uncover guilt and confusion around his weed smoking, so we ask the cards (and Phil and Ben's own 'higher thoughts') to weigh in. Please enjoy and enjoy responsibly. Cheers xo
Mar 02, 2024•52 min
This one is another marathon but we promise it's worth it!! We are gathered together in the flesh in NYC for this episode, and that means we smoke weed together and get into some really interesting stuff. We cover the entire swords suit (although we conduct a short reading to determine our course, it not being initially momentous), and Phil relays his experience performing Tchaikovsky vioiln concerto on a stomach flu, turning it into a creative allegory of the unfolding of the sequence 1-10 of s...
Mar 02, 2024•2 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Oops. This is the end of episode 7 which got clipped. We were so disappointed when we heard the non-episode ending. By the way, the outro music is vibes of 8 cups by Phil.
Feb 26, 2024•15 min•Ep. 1
This is an ambitious (14-card) sweep this episode, folks, and we hope you will persevere in solidarity with us as we travel from the 7 of Wands all the way 1-10 of the Cups suit. It's truly an adventure and a collection of many many minutes, absolutely. Among the topics we brush against are Love, Entrainment, Addiction, western music theory, asceticism, feng shui... many many. xo!
Feb 24, 2024•2 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 7
The First episode we ever recorded! We are like awkward little podcast babies burping and spittling all over the microphones. We go over the first seven cards of the Wands suit. Outro music "Fanning out" for two violins.
Feb 17, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Major Arcana 19-21. Phil explores the boundary between a cough and a sneeze and Ben makes a mysterious wet sound. Other topics include Polyvagal theory, musical performance as mortification ritual, and lemonade enjoyed on porches. Brothers, behold, my brothers, They meet, two star-bound spirits in the sky encountering. In silence they gaze the one upon the other. He sings no more, And yet his sunburnt throat throbs with the song; And in her limbs the happy dance is stayed But not asleep. ~Kahlil...
Feb 10, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Phil gives Ben a reading!! Phil shares all about his philosophy with readings and Ben gets soul naked for everyone. Music at end of episode is title-less "Wheel of Fortune" music for two violins. Cheers!
Feb 03, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Ben and Phil go through 17-19 of the Major Arcana (The Star, the Moon and the Sun) and talk all sorts of things. Fun times had, rabbit holes plunged. Please enjoy. Music at end of pod episode is an eary draft of a collaboration between Phil and @gaieasanskrit. Very sweet, more to come. xo
Feb 03, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Hi! Here we delve into two of the Topmost scary cards in the deck, which be the Devil and the Tower, but we try to give them a really kind and positive spin so no one has to feel afraid if they draw these cards. Smooches for everyone! Also we talk about squirrels. There is sound of our father practicing piano in the background but we think this is a marked improvement to noise of radiator screaming (as was the case in our original Devil episode which we discarded). If you are sad to miss radiato...
Jan 27, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 3
#2 of our overview series. We're back and this week we review 1-7 of the major arcana, recorded prior to our episode last week... We recognize this is confusing and we apologize for this and also for our gaslighting references on air to 'previous episodes' which have not been released yet. We will get onto a linear timeline asap stat, folks. Please enjoy. xo
Jan 20, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Ben and Phil take a sweep through cards 1-14 of the Major Arcana... it's mostly 8-14. The rest of the deck is forthcoming! Sorry for all the burps and slurps, this one's particularly bad. The music coming off of Ben's phone @ beginning is something from a Minecraft soundtrack I think and Ben will be happy to let you know what it is if you ask him.
Jan 13, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
