Hello and welcome to Terrell Bytes. I'm Teresa Read the Terrell Lady. I'm the author of the tarot coloring book and the co-author of Terro for Trou For Troubts. I'm also your host for this podcast series. This is episode 151 of Terobytes, the podcast where I just shout short, entertaining, bite-sized lessons on how to retero.

And for today's episode, our topic is diving into dust to onyx.

And my special guest is Courtney Alexander.

Hello, Courtney.

Sorry, I had the phone on mute.

Hello, thank you again for having me back. I'm so excited.

Well, we had to have you, we had to have you back here on tarot bites because you have built an amazing fan base with your dust to onix tarot deck. I love it.

Uh, I'm excited to get that travel size version as you know, and I know it's coming out soon.

And anyhow, some of my listeners wrote to me and they said, we want Courtney Alexander back on tarot bites because they love your deck

and they want guidance on how to work with it deeper.

So here we are.

And like I said, I'm a huge fan of the deck too, and I cannot wait for

that baby deck. But anyhow, what I want to begin talking about is invocation. Now, you mentioned

at the beginning of the companion book about writing to your ancestors, your guides, your spiritual

court angels, higher deities, and, and you know all of that can you talk

more about this as in why someone might want to do an invocation before reading with your deck

and any tips about creating an invocation um invocations are really important because you know when we're going into this space, you know,

we are opening up our channels, right? And so it's like, you know, when you open up your,

doors, right? It's like putting a screen door there, right? Like you just want to kind of create an extra

barrier for a particular, only particular

energy to be able to come through.

And so being in the practice of being very intentional about who and what you're invoking

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