I Am Death

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05/17/23 • 43 min

We’re baack... all hail The Sunset. Season 4 begins with The End, ‘I Am Death’ as Sarah and Eliza join minds in contemplating The Great Mystery.

XIII - SANTA MUERTE

“A profound transformation, a renewal, a true and proper revolution. If it is life that generates death, than death generates life. We are connected to all that surrounds us, to the people who have come before us and to those who will come from the cradle to the tomb, from the coffin to the womb, in a continual exchange and a continual regeneration not of opposites but of complementary elements. Santa Muerte brings with it new projects, changes, cuts and the necessary abandonment of what we keep stationary and entangled, like the past or suffocating ties. These changes however are not always pain-free but can bring with them trauma, anger, violence and loss including an immobility when we refuse to take on these transmutations.

The advice of the dead: Accept the changes that are offered in front of you, without fear of cutting ties and cutting yourself off from your old positions, old ideas or preconceptions. A mutation is imposing itself.” - Santa Muerte Tarot, Fabio Listrani

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

Intro by Krizstina Lazar, (excerpt from 8th House Interview 5/9/22) The Wildwood Tarot, Talk Death/ Understanding Autism & the Hyperfixation on Death, The Witches of Eastwick, The Buddha Dharma, Duhkha (suffering). Ram Dass, Medicine Woman Tarot by Carol Bridges, Santa Muerte Tarot

8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. All rights reserved. Find us on Instagram, and Eliza's Tarot in her Etsy shop. We’d love to hear from you! Send your questions, comments & suggestions to us at: [email protected].

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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We’re baack... all hail The Sunset. Season 4 begins with The End, ‘I Am Death’ as Sarah and Eliza join minds in contemplating The Great Mystery.

XIII - SANTA MUERTE

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

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.

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Eliza's Interviews: Evvin Marin

This one goes out to Nate, Happy 50th (in Spirit) May 11, 2023, to my dinosaur brother and bird friend through time and space!

Evvin Marin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Massachusetts. Evvin and Eliza discuss witches in history versus their archetypal status, chronic illness, the creative process, perception, intuition, Tarot spreads, and the power of finding one’s voice... and one’s people.

Find everything Evvin at: evviemarin.com

Original interviews recorded on April 12th & 14th, 2022

Mockingbird

My curtain swings in sleeve, a gondola unswayed, remonitored. At this digression’s consent, congealed in shadow, I wipe the meringue from the sill.

Modified in frame, the masses graze in suspension, one string’s descent upon the herd, the valley forges unto my eyes one image.

From this lofted perch I sit, I move across my mesa. Each member in rally a full makeover....... achieved. A new sector’s incision, finding the place beneath ones neighbored. I do not contend.

The worn, inbound lanes in sight, I find my place within: I seek outbound. The brush relays the density as it bears no trails yet made. With a step, I travel in a Mockingbird.

-Poem by Nate Cook

Cardamom Clove

Tread the footfalls.

Fall down breathless.

Scatter petals,

Pink and restless.

Would you wander

Where the light fades?

Ultraviolet,

Sweet on new shades...

If you would sin like cinnamon,

Cardamom, clove,

Get a mouthful of sugar,

Tiptoe over the ghosts,

You would get rich like criminals

But gentle as lovers.

All creatures of sun,

Come on and turn the day over.

Dicentra spectabilis,

Lantern of hearts.

Not all who fade

Go traveling.

Not all who glow

As phosphorus

Are lost.

Lyrics by Evvin Marin

Original artwork and musical composition for this episode courtesy Evvie/Evvin Marin 'Echo with Ink' and 'Cardamom Clove' by Mocking Cricket mockingcricket.bandcamp.com/album/phosphorus-lost

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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I Am Temperance

“Difficult feelings require expression, not suppression. Keen your grief. Speak your rage. Forge your purpose. Pull the personal pain out of your soul for the fuel to make something tangible from it. Show the world what it is, and what it should be. Bring your regular practice to another level through the implementation of a grander vision and a deeper desire. Find inspiration in the elemental world. Observe the will and the dance of Fire. Sense the mystery and the wisdom of Water. Bring balance into your life. If you feel too withdrawn, add activity. Stretch your legs, your arms, your neck, your mind. If you feel too busy, add quietude. Turn off the music, the program, the monologue, the lights. Balance is not a static but a living process.It is a measured flow, a graceful dance performed every day.” -Ellen Lorenzi Prince, Dark Goddess Tarot

*Episode cover art features The Cosmic Tarot and The Pacific Northwest Tarot

Acknowledgements & Mentions:

78 Degrees of Wisdom, Rachel Pollack; Dark Goddess Tarot & Tarot of The Crone, Ellen Lorenzi-Prince, Guardian of the Night Tarot, MJ Cullinane; The Pacific Northwest Tarot; Pholarcos Tarot, Carmen Sorrenti; Interim Tarot, Linda Benjamin; Medicine Woman Tarot, Carol Bridges; The Druidcraft Tarot

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.