Hosted by Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul explores the cards through an inclusive, non-predictive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking. With over seven million downloads (and counting), T-WS Podcast is your top source for unique and insightful Tarot lessons, explorations into the cards, and monthly channeled downloads.
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How devoted to life are we willing and available to be? How much pleasure are we willing to embrace? It’s a BIG month, filled with lots of birth/bloom energy, while simultaneously holding a lot of space for ease, joy, and non-doing. I know I have spoken ad nauseam about my adoration of lilacs in various places in my work (see above for one of many), but they really are so special to me. They come and go so quickly, and I really do love to drink them in while I can. It feels like a death meditati...
We have the incredible, magical Sarah Potter on the TFTWS Pod today to speak about her brand new book -- Sober Magic, which is incredible! -- her Tarot practice, and all manner of mystical things. Sarah Potter is a professional witch, intuitive tarot reader, and spiritual guide known for blending ancient wisdom with a modern approach to mysticism. She is is celebrated for guiding powerful rituals that help others align with their intuition, manifest their desires, and live with intention. Whethe...
The Tarot for the Wild Soul Book Tour with Lindsay is here! From May 18th to June 3rd, I will be touring around with some incredible conversation partners -- join me for beautiful conversation, audience Q&A, and so much magic! CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE OR SIGN UP FOR AN EVENT (or go to tarotforthewildsoul.com/events ☺️ ) Cannot wait to see you all there!
Things are actually shifting, changing, and moving in the month ahead -- our 2026/Wheel of Fortune year finally living up to it's reputation. Our theme for the month of April is Rushing River, or Rushing Water, and we are invited to take the spirit of that image and apply it to our own lives. The river of our lives is not dry or slow moving this month; it is finally full and flowing, illuminating things clearly and helping us to grow. We are transforming and evolving this month, finally able to ...
Pisces season is such a powerful time to examine the material we carry that lives under the surface, under the waves, and outside of the realm of the unseen. It also could not be a more perfect time to dive into a rich conversation with the brilliant and beautiful Lisa Olivera -- it is such an honor to have her on the podcast today! Lisa Olivera is a writer, therapist, and creative who shares work centered around radical acceptance, cultivating compassion, and integrating our stories and full hu...
March wants us to remember that things are not always as they seem. It is so important in these moments to remember that nothing is permanent; nothing is forever. Our theme for the month ahead is Take Heart. This month, it will be so important to take heart, to stay closely tethered and connected to that deep, wise part of us. It will be so important to retreat, take space for ourselves, get regular reminders of the truths that we need reflected back to us. It will be so important to reach and m...
This episode features an in-depth, intuitively channeled tarot reading for the current eclipse portal, highlighting themes of surrender, expansion, and community through the Temperance, Devil, Three of Cups, Page of Pentacles, and Five of Swords cards. Lindsay also details The Soul Tarot Training, a 12-week practitioner program designed for deep, trauma-sensitive tarot work and innate gift cultivation. The reading emphasizes gentle self-care and discerning inner narratives during this potent period of transformation.
February is a beautiful, transformative portal, one that has the capacity to truly change and alter aspects of our lives that have been stuck and unyielding for so long. The theme for our month ahead is From Knot to Straight Rope. In February, we will likely be confronted with some of our deep "knots," ones that have felt perpetually twisted, confused, and tricky. We actually have the potential to unknot them this month, and smooth them into something new. Once that has shifted, what could be po...
2026 is finally here! We made it 🙌 Our theme for January of 2026 is Brand New Day. That's an incredibly accurate way to frame this cycle. With the dawning of this new year, it is truly a paradigm shift, and a pivot into a whole host of newfound energies and invitations. This is largely true of all new year thresholds, but it is especially true in 2026. We're working with some powerhouse energies this month, all to support our shift into this new paradigm. What cannot come with us into 2026? Jan...
Want a full deep dive on 2026? Check out Lindsay's offering, The Threshold , a channeled download for 2026 and your year ahead! In this Year Ahead episode, Lindsay Mack and Jeff Hinshaw explore 2026 as a powerful turning point after several liminal years. They reflect on 2025 as deeply Piscean, shaped by Neptune’s long journey through Pisces since 2011 and marked by the year of the Hermit and themes of grief, waiting, and dissolution. In contrast, 2026 emerges as a universal 1 year, aligned with...
We made it! The last month of 2025 is here! We are already on that sacred energetic bridge, one that guides us from one year to another -- this particular December is giving us so much to play and work with in order to be ready to greet 2026 with open arms. The theme of the month ahead is Compost . What unfinished business remains active and present in your life? What old cords need to be cut? What have you been hanging onto, or dragging your feet on for fear of messing up, making a mistake, or ...
Legend alert! Today we have the luminous and divine Pam Grossman on the podcast to speak about her brand-new book, Magic Maker (available for purchase here!)! Pam is a dream and a joy, and it was such a gift to speak with her about everything from the unassuming magic of growing up in suburban NJ, to working with The Magician card as a muse for the writing process of Magic Maker , to the importance of art, creation, and craft in devastating times (and so much more!). About Pam: Pam Grossman is a...
How can we wisely, tenderly, and radically care for ourselves in vulnerable, challenging moments? How can we show up for others when they are in the same state? This is (just) one of the big questions that this very big and significant month will be posing to us. November really has the capacity to reorient us, in terms of our work in this world, our purpose, and call to service. It has the ability to really shift the ways in which we habitually respond to ourselves and others. May we show up in...
The water is flowing, the metaphorical arrow is flying through the air -- finally, with the month of October comes the movement, clarity, and expansion we've been waiting for. The theme of the month ahead is Create, and if we're willing to work with it, we can make extraordinary moves in our lives. The big work we will be doing this month isn't actually in the act of creating itself, but the resistance and inner protection that lies between us and this proverbial river, or arrow. The key for us ...
WHEW, we survived that Eclipse and OMG, we have the incredible Jeff Hinshaw on the pod today to discuss their exquisite new Tarot deck, The Travel Tarot, created with Lonely Planet and Studio Muti! Together, Jeff and I talk about the creation process for the deck, their favorite cards, and so much more. Links to purchase Jeff's deck are in the show notes! About Jeff: Jeff Hinshaw is the founder of Cosmic Cousins and a dedicated teacher and guide in the realms of astrology, tarot, and spiritualit...
My book and Tarot deck have entered the villa (aka preorders are open and the cover is revealed)! Join me for this lil minisode where I share a bit about the book and deck, and then round it out with a channeled reading for Sunday's Eclipse. Thank you so much for being here! ****** Transcript can be found on Spotify! LINKS: Preorder or learn more about Lindsay's forthcoming Soul Tarot book and Tarot deck here! Curious about the images on the Soul Tarot deck? Check out a little preview here ! Got...
September isn't likely to be the month we want, but it is the one we need. The theme for the month ahead is Dissatisfaction, not necessarily because it is an altogether negative or unacceptable cycle of time, it's just not necessarily tending to our larger desires and concerns. It is a piece of tape for a very large leak -- not ultimately the most ideal tool, but there is medicine in what it's offering. Our job this month will be to: 1. Work with and surrender to the Eclipses, 2. Align ourselves...
Welcome to a new Ask Lindsay episode of the pod! Today, I respond to two beautiful listener questions, one about what we can do if we feel like a "Tarot fraud" and the other about how to cope with Hermit years when we're a future/planning oriented person. PS! Rewilding the Tarot, my eight-week Soul Tarot course, is currently open for enrollment for the very last time before it will be retired to make room for new offerings! To join me or to learn more, click the links below! ****** Transcript ca...
What do you do when you know you're complete with something, but aren't quite sure what lies ahead on the other side? Today on the TFTWS pod, we're talking about completion cycles and Anchor Cards to help to contextualize them, how to navigate intuition when you've also experienced trauma and have a very strong protector brain, and how I'm navigating this in my own life right now. In light of this subject -- Rewilding the Tarot, my eight-week Soul Tarot course, is currently open for enrollment f...
Wow, what a gift to share this conversation with the legendary Sanyu Estelle, aka The Word Witch! Sanyu is writing an incredible book called "The Cultural Origins of Tarot," and needs our help and support to truly be able to dive in and do the extent of research on it that the book deserves! Click here to support Sanyu's Indiegogo campaign for the book (which ends on August 18th!) PS, if you're listening to this after the deadline to contribute to the campaign, no worries! There are other ways o...
It is a supreme honor, joy, and privilege to be speaking with Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina Stevens on the podcast today, two exquisite Tarot readers and helping practitioners, co-hosts of the podcast Romanistan , and the authors of the beautiful book, "Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling." More about Jezmina and Paulina: Rooted in a Muchwaya Romani heritage of fortune-telling and healing, Paulina Stevens (she/her) has blended ancestral wisdom with modern holistic practices. Her expertise in taro...
Finally -- after what has felt like forever -- August gets things moving, flowing, and clicking again. The theme of this month is Catapult for a reason. This isn't a chaotic, frantic, frightening launch into the void. We have been preparing for this for a long time, a time when we finally get some clarity, or are able to move the needle in some longed-for way. The "catapult" in question is a sacred, measured, and joyful collaboration with the muses, a serve and return that we've been waiting for...
The theme for this month is Asking for What You Need. What is it that you need right now? How can you ask for it (to the degree that you're able to)? July wants to remind you that even the willingness to connect with what we need and desire is a spell. Writing it, praying for it, feeling it, and communicating that longing is all part of the process of tuning in with those needs. This is a watery, swirly, emotional month. It's going to bring us into some old stuff, some outdated debris -- once we...
June is a recalibration month of sorts. It's not that we won't be moving, working, and showing up where we're called to, but there will be quite a bit of emphasis on slowing down, tuning in, reevaluating, and perhaps more importantly, digesting. We might not always enjoy or appreciate that pace of things, but it is of huge benefit to us to lean into it. There's a lot to turn over and process before we can move forward into our next chapter. We need closure before we can move on, and that's preci...
Today, I am in conversation with the luminous, soulful, and delightful Danica Boyce, the host of Fair Folk podcast and Enthusiastica on Substack. This conversation is in honor of a beautiful workshop that Danica and I are co-teaching on Sunday, May 25th at 10am PST/6pm BST called Holy Homecoming: Reclaiming Magic in an Age of Illusion (you can sign up or learn more in the link in the show notes!) Together, Danica and I talk about how we came to the spiritual/helping work that we do, what magic m...
When we've lost our way, or are trying to find True North in our lives, the Tarot can be a beautiful tool to help us sense into our way again. But there is no deeper, clearer, finer compass in the Tarot than the Pages: four gloriously potent anchors that can assist us in coming home to the root of our heart, soul, and self. In today's episode, we discuss The Pages from a Soul Tarot perspective, looking at how they present themselves as sacred compasses, and how they occupy a very important role ...
Today is a special and extra tender Ask Lindsay episode of the pod, where I respond to a sweet listener's question: how do we recover a relationship with Spirit/our Higher Self, and our Tarot decks when we feel that they have betrayed us? ****** Transcript can be found on Spotify! LINKS: Book a 60-minute discounted May or June Soul Tarot Reading with me here ! Join me for Soul-Led Tarot , a beautiful weekend retreat at The Art of Living Center in NC from June 6-8th, 2025! Join us over at No Bad ...
The clouds are parting, and sunlight is pouring through the curtains. We open the doors and windows, welcoming the fresh air and the light. We allow it to illuminate and touch upon all of the areas of our lives -- both beautiful and challenging -- that have been obscured and unclear for so long. For better or worse, movement and clarity are coming to us this month. What will we choose to do with it? What will we build, foster, and create with this space and time? The theme for the month of May i...
As a collective, we are in a profoundly transitional time, crossing a bridge from who we were to who we are becoming. This is something that most of us are feeling on a personal level, too: who are we? What are we feeling called to offer to the world, and how can we be more clear and sure about how to go about it? Whether we are stuck at the gates with our writing process, in our careers, with our love life, with our next steps, or around another sensitive area, we are all feeling this call to p...
The theme for April is Chrysalis. We are no longer a caterpillar, and not completely in the in-between time of transmutation. We are now a fully formed butterfly, our chrysalis clear and transparent, right on the verge of eclosing and emerging from this container. April marks an important period of time where we will be engaging with the inner preparatory work necessary to come into the next iteration of our lives. This month will likely not contain a ton of big clear moments of direction, or a-...
