Incandescent Tarot Podcast

Episode Description
August continues the themes of presence, attention, work, and dedication brought into focus last month; this time, however, we’re feeling less self-conscious, directly immersing ourselves in the busy complexity of the Ten of Pentacles. In doing so, we’re accessing new layers of peace and healing, including some surprising insights and epiphanies, as we practice embodying The Star. We might be tempted, though, to tip a little too far into reverie, fantasy, and wishful thinking as the Seven of Cups tempts us to distract ourselves from the realness in front of us, whether as an escape or act of self-protection. The Three of Wands is our opportunity card, a direct next step from our opportunity last month, the Two of Wands. So we’re gifted with some linear growth! How exciting. Note where you’re secretly committing to budding projects, plans, and self-directed visions for the future. We can enjoy this time in-between vision and structure by exploring, experimenting, and remaining open to inspiration.


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In Episode 7 of Seeing Tarot, artist Anna Rose Stabler and tarot reader Gina Wisotzky continue their card-by-card exploration of the tarot, arriving at the second court card in the wands suit.
Rather than defining cards through fixed meanings, this podcast explores what happens when you live with tarot over time: through art-making, daily life, season, conversation, and sensory experience.
This month’s focus: The Knight of Wands
Here, we dive into the element of fire as expressed through the questing, impatient, and energetic Knight.
Listen in to learn all about the process of creating the Knight of Wands, the card’s connection to getting things done, and why axe body spray may encapsulate this card’s charm and dingusry.
About the Hosts
Gina Wisotzky The founder of Incandescent Tarot, Gina has been reading and practicing tarot and the intuitive 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 Stabler Anna 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 / Instagram / Tumblr
About the Series
Seeing Tarot is a collaborative podcast documenting the creation of a tarot deck from the ground up. Through ongoing dialogue, Anna and Gina explore symbolism, artistic process, intuition, sensory experience, and the evolving language of tarot.
Rather than offering definitive meanings, the series approaches tarot as something lived: relational, interpretive, embodied, and continually unfolding through attention and conversation.


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Episode Description
All the emotion from June gives way to abundant growth. We’re invited to sit securely on the throne of the King of Pentacles, trusting that we’ve learned enough to tend to what’s coming into full bloom in our lives. Those lives, meanwhile, are bustling with activity, work, and connections that need all of our attention and resources, as shown in the maximalist Ten of Pentacles. Our challenge, however, is to not take this intensity as a reason to reinvent the wheel - charging into fresh ideas, systems, and investments of all sorts like the Knight of Pentacles. That would be a surefire way of avoiding the newness that’s on the horizon along with the abundant goodness we’ve been working so hard to cultivate. Instead, the Two of Wands asks us to look for a spark that’s not directly tied to our day-to-day life right now. This isn’t some practical edit or innovation, but a new and likely creative offshoot that could take us someplace considerable, though for now it’s just time to dream and envision what could come while enjoying whatever it is we’ve discovered that's lighting a fire within.


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In Episode 6 of Seeing Tarot, artist Anna Rose Stabler and tarot reader Gina Wisotzky continue their card-by-card exploration of the tarot, arriving at the first court card in the wands suit.
Rather than defining cards through fixed meanings, this podcast explores what happens when you live with tarot over time: through art-making, daily life, season, conversation, and sensory experience.
This month’s focus:
The Page of Wands
Here, we dive into the element of fire as expressed through youthful energy: vigorous, vibrant, and awkwardly enthusiastic.
Listen in to learn all about the process of creating the Page of Wands, the importance of beginner’s mind, and why Paul Atreides is the ultimate PofW in fiction.
Page of Wands Moodboard

About the Hosts
Gina Wisotzky The founder of Incandescent Tarot, Gina has been reading and practicing tarot and the intuitive 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 Stabler Anna 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 / Instagram / Tumblr
About the Series
Seeing Tarot is a collaborative podcast documenting the creation of a tarot deck from the ground up. Through ongoing dialogue, Anna and Gina explore symbolism, artistic process, intuition, sensory experience, and the evolving language of tarot.
Rather than offering definitive meanings, the series approaches tarot as something lived: relational, interpretive, embodied, and continually unfolding through attention and conversation.


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Welcome to Elemental Explorations, a podcast and practice following water, fire, earth, and air through the seasonal shifts of the equinoxes and solstices hosted by Bethany Carder of My Resonant Frequencies and Gina Wisotzky of Incandescent Tarot.
Together, we move with the elements as living guides — through breath, sound, movement, image, myth, and deep listening. Gina brings the wisdom of tarot as an embodied and intuitive language, helping us listen to the symbols, archetypes, and relational patterns moving through the Fire Body. Bethany brings astronomical astrology and stellar somatics as a way of attuning to the living sky, the solar rhythm, and the body’s relationship with Earth, season, and cosmos.
In this episode, released on the Summer Solstice, we turn toward the Sun and the Fire Body — the heat that animates, clarifies, transforms, and calls us into motion as we cross the threshold from spring’s waters into the fullness of summer light.
Episode Overview
Moving from the Moon-Water Body into the Sun-Fire Body, this episode uses astronomical astrology, stellar somatics, and tarot to explore solar vitality, digestion, radiance, and expression. At the Summer Solstice, the Sun illuminates this Taurus-Gemini threshold, where embodied earth meets breath, voice, curiosity, and exchange.
The fire body is our internal hearth: warmth, circulation, metabolism, expression, and the capacity to turn experience into energy. Through breath, humming, laughter, and deep listening, we work with the body’s rhythms directly: Breath of Fire awakens heat and alertness, humming organizes the system through vibration and the vagus nerve, and laughter gives activation a pathway into expression, release, and rest.
Fire becomes not force, but the body’s capacity to metabolize experience without burning out.
Brief Safety Note
These solar practices alter respiratory and circulatory rhythms. Breath of Fire, or Kapalabhati, is not recommended during pregnancy or while navigating high blood pressure, cardiovascular conditions, vertigo, hernias, gastric ulcers, epilepsy, or severe respiratory concerns.
If you feel dizzy, strained, or overwhelmed, return to natural breathing. Your autonomy is central to this practice; pause, soften, or rest at any time.
Closing Practice
In the spirit of Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening, we open to fire as teacher and living guide. Our closing soundscape follows a simple elemental arc: solar winds, sunrise, cicadas, fire crackle, lava flows, seismic rumble, and sunset fire crackle amid the hum of crickets, and Koshi fire chimes.
We invite you to honor your own fire body through simple acts of attention and tending: step into morning sunlight, cook with presence, sit near a candle or hearth, listen to cicadas or crickets, feel warmth on stone or skin, hum into the chest, laugh from the belly, breathe with rhythm, and rest before the fire becomes too much.
Notice how fire lives in your place: in heat, dryness, growth, combustion, electricity, digestion, decay, repair, and renewal. Learn who tends fire where you live — on the land, in the home, in community, in ceremony, in ecological care — and consider how your own vitality is connected to that wider tending.
We honor Indigenous fire tenders whose relationships with fire have shaped and protected living landscapes across generations. This threshold invites us to learn how Sun and fire shape our own places, and who is tending the ecological health of the lands we call home.


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