Stage Cards with Sasha Graham

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Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:spirituality

4.9 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Episode 102: Stage Cards with Sasha Graham. If you look closely at some of the cards in the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, you'll see that some of the scenes on various tarot cards seem to have a stage backdrop. What's that all about? Tarot expert Sasha Graham, author of Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot has answers. In this fascinating discussion, Sasha talks about how artist's Pamela Colman Smith's theater background might have influenced these images. She also teaches how to interpret these cards. If all the world is truly a stage, then Smith certainly brought that element into the Rider Waite Smith Tarot!

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to Terabytes. I'm Theresa Read the Terrell Lady. I'm the author of the Terrell
0:25.7	Coloring Book and your host for this podcast series. This is episode 102 of Terabytes. The podcast where I dish out short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to
0:36.7	re-terrow. And for today's episode, our topic is stage cards. And my special guest is Sasha Graham, the author of Llewellyn's complete book
0:45.2	on the right-of-way Smith-Taro, A Journey Through the History, Meaning, and the Use of the
0:49.4	world's most famous deck. Welcome, Sasha. Hi Theresa, it's a pleasure to be here.
0:55.0	I'm so glad that you're able to be here with me again. I loved our discussion on the history of the
1:00.3	right-of-way Smith deck in a previous episode, so this is a real treat for me.
1:05.0	Well, I am happy to be back.
1:07.0	Well, we've got a very interesting topic today.
1:10.0	We are going to be talking about stage cards cards and I know that you've talked about these previously
1:16.2	in other places.
1:17.8	So I'd like you to tell my audience first of all what are stage cards.
1:21.4	Well, okay, so stage cards well okay so each card in the rider weight
1:26.4	smith deck actually
1:28.8	super fascinating because they are very mysterious,
1:32.6	their presence, the fact that they even exist
1:35.9	inside the writer Wade Smith deck
1:37.8	is kind of a mystery, right?
1:39.2	And all of us tarot readers, it's the mystery
1:42.3	that gets us into the cards right to begin with.
1:45.1	So it was really, I was really kind of excited and titillated when I discovered that 13 of the Rider Waite Smith cards are stage cards, meaning they are
1:58.9	literally illustrated as if the action on the card is taking place on a theatrical stage.
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