Incandescent Tarot Podcast

Episode Description
We’re coming back down to earth in April after practicing honesty and clarity with the King of Swords in March. This month brings us fully back into the body, the home, and the material world, while giving us a new perspective from which we can plan our next steps.
With a strong two pentacles at the center of its reading, April emphasizes stewardship, presence, and participation in daily life. The Queen of Pentacles leads us into a space of care and attentiveness, while the Ten of Pentacles reflects a rich, busy, and interconnected environment. The Nine of Swords challenges us to notice old patterns of retreat or overwhelm, and the Two of Wands opens a quiet but exciting space for creative dreaming.
This is a full and fertile month: April asks us to tend what is already here, trust the stability we’ve built, and allow new visions to emerge without rushing to act on them.
Our Cards

Theme: Queen of Pentacles
April is rooted in care, presence, and grounded stewardship. After March’s King of Swords clarity, we now come into the body and the senses. This is a month of tending: to your home, your relationships, your environment, and yourself.
Rather than speaking or analyzing, the Queen of Pentacles asks: how are you showing up? How are you creating a space where you and your community can feel supported?
There is a quiet confidence here, so trust that you know how to care for what matters.
Environment: Ten of Pentacles
Life is rich and full!
The Ten of Pentacles reflects a world of many moving parts—people, responsibilities, relationships, obligations, and opportunities. It can feel like a lot, but it is also a sign of abundance and interconnectedness. It just might make you feel a little dizzy.
This is not a spacious month externally, but internally, you are being asked to cultivate steadiness. Notice just how capable you’ve become in navigating complexity.
Challenge: Nine of Swords
Old patterns of worry, overwhelm, or retreat may resurface.
The Nine of Swords suggests that moments of busyness or abundance could trigger familiar emotional responses such as rumination, anxiety, or the urge to withdraw. Yet this card feels slightly out of step with the rest of the spread, hinting that these reactions may be echoes rather than current truths.
Where might you be defaulting to old coping mechanisms that no longer fit?
Opportunity: Two of Wands
A gentle and exciting opening.
The Two of Wands invites you to dream, explore, and imagine what’s next without pressure. This is not a month for major action or overhaul. It is a time for curiosity, possibility, and low-stakes creativity.
Let yourself expand your vision. What if the best thing could happen?
Key Themes for April 2026
* Grounding into the body and daily life
* Stewardship of home, resources, and relationships
* Navigating abundance and busyness with presence
* Recognizing and releasing outdated emotional patterns
* Making space for creative dreaming without urgency
* Finding stability within complexity
🎡 Wheel of Fortune Context
April continues the grounded phase we entered in March, with no Major Arcana cards present!
This suggests a sustained period of integration where the dramatic shifts of earlier months are being metabolized into daily life. The Wheel is still turning, but now through routine, responsibility, and embodied presence.
This is a time to build, tend, and stabilize while quietly sensing what may be emerging next.


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Recorded on the waxing crescent in Pisces and released on the vernal equinox, this first episode of Elemental Explorations arrives at a threshold as the light just begins its return.
In this conversation, Gina Wisotzky (Incandescent Tarot) and Bethany Carder (My Resonant Frequencies) weave together tarot, astronomical astrology, and somatic practice to explore what it means to live as a water body: porous, rhythmic, and in relationship with the earth. An expansive practice and attunement, this recording invites you to take in at your own pace and return as needed.
Moving through the vernal equinox with the Sun and Moon in Pisces, we enter through the water body—attuning to the Moon and the wider Piscean field through sound, listening, and embodied exploration. An impromptu conversation about the Moon in its waxing crescent phase in Pisces, this episode weaves astronomical astrology and tarot into a reflection on emergence, sensitivity, and the living rhythm of the sky. Attuned to this moment within the lunar cycle, this offering follows the natural cadence of return, where with each phase we are given another chance to listen, reflect, and notice what this exploration is teaching us
What we explore together:
We open with the lunar moment itself — waxing crescent, just past new moon, the slow build before illumination. Bethany brings her six-year practice of attuning to planetary transits through sound and improvisation, arriving through health challenges and the discovery that lunar tracking was a way back into the body. Gina shares her own path to the moon: growing up in the countryside under a full-moon snowstorm, sending Lunar Dispatch voice memos with a long-distance partner, and now wanting something more formally somatic in her spiritual practice.
From there, the conversation moves through the full arc of the Moon card in tarot: shadow, siren call, the High Priestess as creature of margins, the intoxication of going too deep, and the necessity of bringing what you find back into the light. We talk about the Moon’s relationship to nervous system regulation, the 10 of Wands as a personal nemesis, the Nine of Swords as an honest mirror, and what it means to birth yourself through the moon.
Along the way, Bethany leads a grounding breath and embodiment practice, a full-body movement sequence mapped to the lunar cycle, and closes the episode with Pauline Oliveros-inspired deep listening - a water meditation followed by a slow, guided return. We close with an affirmation from Bethany’s teacher Krishna Kaur: I am the center of my world.
To see tarot spreads, visit the project website elementalexplorations.com
Cards pulled:
Seven of Pentacles · Seven of Wands · The World · Five of Wands · Knight of Cups
Practices included:
Belly breathing (4 in, 6 out) · Sounding for nervous system regulation · Lunar cycle movement sequence · Deep listening with water field recordings · Affirmation call and response
Resources:
Freesound — for sharing and exploring water field recordings from your own place
Cities and Memory — a global project of shared listening
About the Project:
Elemental Explorations is a collaborative audio and attunement series rooted in the seasons. With each equinox and solstice, we follow one element — through conversation, sound, movement, tarot, and somatic practice — as an invitation to come back into relationship with the living world and with yourself.
The Elemental Explorations Ecosystem:
www.elementalexplorations.com
myresonantfrequencies.substack.com
incandescenttarot.com
incandescenttarot.beehiiv.com



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In Episode 3 of Seeing Tarot, artist Anna Rose Stabler and tarot reader Gina Wisotzky continue their card-by-card exploration of the tarot, beginning in the Minor Arcana and moving slowly through the suits.
Instead of defining cards through fixed meanings, this project explores what happens when you live with their energy over time: through art-making, daily life, the seasons, personal practice, and conversation.
This month’s focus is the The Ace of Swords
In this episode, Anna and Gina discuss:
Why the sword suit contains some of the most dramatic imagery in tarot
The Ace as the brightness of the swords suit before its darker expressions appear
The relationship between thought, communication, and conceptual clarity
The iconic Rider–Waite imagery and symbolism: crown, mountains, and descending yods
The theatrical, almost comic, some might say emo, intensity of sword imagery (including the famous Three of Swords heart)
Anna’s artistic process designing a new Ace of Swords card
Wavy swords vs. straight, the abundance and drama of sqash vines, crowns as hierarchy and violence
Rhapsodizing about dendrites
The air element, the season of spring, and the mental landscape of the sword suit
Barren mountains as symbolic terrain for clarity and danger
Throughout the episode, the Ace of Swords emerges as both tool and threshold - a moment where ideas become clear and insight begins to form, hopefully in a potent, spiritually-informed direction!
Scents & Sensory Correspondences
Fragrance
L'Air du Desert Marocain by Tauer Perfumes
Vol de Nuit by Guerlain
Earthscence Incesnse by Fragile Glass
Natural Material
Galbanum
Pine, Fir, evergreens
Bracing citrus
Eucalyptus
Menthol
Metal
Environment
Rocky mountains
Evergreen forests
The desert at night
About the Hosts
Gina WisotzkyThe founder of Incandescent Tarot, Gina has been reading and practicing tarot and the intuitve arts for over two decades. Her work weaves tarot, writing, seasonal practice, and somatic inquiry through readings, classes, and audio reflections.
Incandescent Tarot/Alchemag
Anna Rose StablerAnna Rose Stabler is an illustrator whose work centers symbolism, still life, and narrative imagery. Her practice explores how meaning forms through visual language, material, and seasonality.
Website/Podcast/Tumblr


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Episode Description
March notes a welcome tonal shift in the spin of the Wheel of Fortune; after the lunar loopiness of January and the catalytic intensity of February’s Ten of Swords + Magician pairing, this month offers something priceless: no Major Arcana cards!
March brings us back to daily life, precise and grounded authority, and brave emotional seeking. The King of Swords anchors the month in clarity and discernment, while the Eight of Cups quietly invites heart-centered risk. The Six of Wands challenges our definition of success, and the Ten of Cups opens the possibility of genuine connection and fulfillment.
This is a subtle and potentially decisive month. March asks us to stand clearly in what we know, move toward what matters, and choose belonging over status and performance.
Our Cards
Theme: King of Swords
March is all about clarity, intellectual authority, and discernment. After February’s saturation and intensity, we now hold a single sword instead of ten! This is a moment of breakthrough and accomplishment: the period at the end of a long sentence. Trust your perception and stand confidently in your values.
Environment: Eight of Cups
The Eight of Cups shows a quiet but mature turning point. Nothing is being lost - the cups in our array remain upright - but we’re in search for something deeper to add. This is a month of walking toward meaning, especially if we can’t articulate it yet.
Take slow steps and emotional risks in the search of your ninth (and even tenth!) cup.
Challenge: Six of Wands
The challenge lies in how we define success: external validation, big wins, and personal riches? Or something else entirely?
The Six of Wands suggests recognition, applause, and visible accomplishment may be available, but staying there may create distance. Are we using achievement to protect ourselves from intimacy?
Opportunity: Ten of Cups
True opportunity lies in connection.
The Ten of Cups offers emotional fulfillment, belonging, and equal-footed relationship. If we follow the quiet pull of the Eight of Cups, we may arrive somewhere deeply beautiful.
Yet fulfillment itself can be confronting. What happens if striving softens? What happens if you are held and seen? This card asks whether you are willing to be comfortable in joy.
Key Themes for March 2026
* Emerging from intensity into clarity
* Precision in speech and decision-making
* Emotional courage without drama
* Redefining success beyond recognition
* Moving from solitary authority into shared belonging
* Integrating intellect and intuition
🎡 Wheel of Fortune Context
March represents a lull in archetypal intensity.
With no Major Arcana cards present, this month offers spaciousness within the larger spin of the Wheel. It is a moment to stabilize, integrate the lessons of The Moon and The Magician, and act from hard-won clarity.
Where January and February evoked disorientation and catalytic transformation, March invites grounded forward movement - hooray!
Monthly Reflection Prompts
King of Swords
* How have you been bravely working through difficulty?
* What sentence in your life is ready for a period?
* What feels undeniably clear to you right now?
* How can you act with precision rather than reaction?
* Where are you being asked to trust your perception?
Eight of Cups
* What are you ready to walk toward, even if you cannot fully explain it?
* What emotional risk(s) feels mature rather than impulsive?
* Where are you searching for your ninth cup? (It's okay if you don’t now yet, ninth cups often come into focus slowly.)
* What growth feels optional but necessary?
Six of Wands
* How are you currently measuring success?
* Are you resting on achievement and not moving projects forward?
* Where might recognition be creating distance?
* What would success look like if no one were watching?
Ten of Cups
* What would it feel like to have what you truly want?
* Are you comfortable being held and seen? How can you ease into more comfort?
* What happens when striving softens?
* What does fulfillment mean beyond achievement?
* Where are you invited into equal-footed connection?


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In Episode 2 of Seeing Tarot, artist Anna Rose Stabler and tarot reader Gina Wisotzky continue their card-by-card exploration of the tarot, beginning in the Minor Arcana and moving slowly through the suits.
Rather than defining cards through fixed meanings, this podcast explores what happens when you live with their energy over time: through art-making, daily life, season, and conversation.
This month’s focus: The Ace of Wands
In this episode, Anna and Gina discuss:
The negative space of the Ace of Wands and the fear of open sky
Fire as both creative impulse and destructive force
The pressure and impatience that can accompany new beginnings
How snow, illness, and disrupted schedules mirrored Wand energy in real life
Moving from inspiration (Wands) to intention and structure (Swords)
The sword as a forged tool: shaping energy, setting parameters, making decisions
Gardening and seasonal planning as embodied Swords practice
Sensory correspondences: cold green scents, ginger, roots, foliage
The relational nature of tarot and how one card evolves into the next
The conversation lingers on initiation not as pure excitement, but as something expansive and at times overwhelming. The Ace of Wands brings spark and desire along with exposure and intensity. The Ace of Swords follows as response: discernment, clarity, and the deliberate shaping of energy into form.
Over time, Seeing Tarot walks through the tarot by creating and exploring images together, allowing meaning to emerge through relationship and emerging correspondences rather than memorization.
References & Influences
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack
Twin Peaks by David Lynch
Scents & Sensory Correspondences
Ace of Wands
Fragrance
Aura by Thierry Mugler
Green and Amazingreen by Comme des Garçons
Natural Material
Fresh ginger root
Ginger tea with honey
Lush green foliage
Mineral and concrete accords
Environment
Cold green air
Dandelion growing through concrete
Expansive open sky
About the Hosts
Gina WisotzkyThe founder of Incandescent Tarot, Gina has been reading and practicing tarot and the intuitve arts for over two decades. Her work weaves tarot, writing, seasonal practice, and somatic inquiry through readings, classes, and audio reflections.
Incandescent Tarot/Alchemag
Anna Rose StablerAnna Rose Stabler is an illustrator whose work centers symbolism, still life, and narrative imagery. Her practice explores how meaning forms through visual language, material, and seasonality.
Website/Podcast/Tumblr


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