Eliza Interviews: Monica Bodirsky

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04/04/23 • 40 min

Welcome to Season 3- perhaps we’ll call it Season of the Witch? Last spring, Eliza interviewed several artists, healers, and Tarot practitioners, a few of which you’ve already heard from. We decided to devote an entire season to these conversations with our ‘8th House Guests’ and to (hopefully 😬) feature the remaining ‘Eliza’s Interviews’ series through 2023. We hope you enjoy!

First up, Meet Monica 🖤

Artist, illustrator, designer of Tarot and Oracle decks, author, seer, diviner, and practicing witch, Monica Bodirsky, discusses her Shadowland Tarot with Eliza, exploring the meaning and significance of shadow work in her own practice and the tools she created to help others to do the same.

In this episode, learn about cartomancy, oneiromancy, necromancy, ancestral veneration, bones and curio, scrying, the time-space continuum, and so much more as these two 'weird kids' discover bonds through deep conversation. Find all the latest amazing things Monica is up to at: monicabodirsky.com.

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

Carl Jung, the “persona”

Original interview recorded on March 24, 2022

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First up, Meet Monica 🖤

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

Carl Jung, the “persona”

Original interview recorded on March 24, 2022

Podcast cover photography, ‘The Lovers’, by Eliza/ Esmerlize (esmerlize.com). Original podcast theme music, ‘Languid Stars’, by Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com).

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers.

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I Am The Hanged Man

Associated with Pisces (Neptune), 'The Hanged Man' in Tarot denotes spirituality, limbo, liminality, sacrifice, surrender, martyrdom, allowing, acceptance, forgiveness, nature taking its course, inaction, perspective, vision, and reflection.

In this episode, Sarah and Eliza discuss what it means to practice presence in the in-between, trusting our knowing in times of unknowing, waiting, the wounds of trauma begetting preparedness, cycles of birth, death and rebirth. Eliza recounts her own alchemical lesson as learned from her beloved Frank rat from beyond the veil...

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

Medicine Woman Tarot, Carolyn Bridges; The Prairie Tarot- A Tarot of the American West, Robin Ator; The Wildwood Tarot, Mark Ryan & John Matthews; Brandi Carlile, Outlander book series by Diana Gabaldon

*Episode cover art features The Mirror from The Wildwood Tarot, The Hanged Man from The Prairie Tarot, Vision from Medicine Woman Tarot, (and an overlay of Frank’s skull)

Podcast cover photography, ‘The Lovers’, by Eliza/ Esmerlize (esmerlize.com). Original podcast theme music, ‘Languid Stars’, by Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com).

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Eliza's Interviews: Andrew McGregor

Andrew McGregor is a Toronto-based artist, Tarot reader, prolific deck creator, teacher, podcaster, and owner of The Hermit’s Lamp, a brick and mortar/online spiritual supplies store.

Andrew's journey has been one filled with unimaginable loss and trauma. Discover over the course of this conversation with Eliza, how he learned to navigate life after a near-fatal car accident as a teen, losing two of his three siblings within six weeks of each other as a new father, and, most recently, losing his original shop to a massive, electrical fire. Andrew’s is an incredible story of resilience, and the healing potential that endures within each of us.

Check out everything Andrew has to offer at: thehermitslamp.com

Acknowledgments & Mentions:

The Mythic Tarot

Suicide Prevention Resource:

Carly Boyce https://www.tinylantern.net/suicide-intervention-resources

Original interview recorded on March 31, 2022

Podcast cover photography, ‘The Lovers’, by Eliza/ Esmerlize (esmerlize.com). Original podcast theme music, ‘Languid Stars’, by Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com).

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.