Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we are speaking to visionary artist and tarot historian Robert M Place.

Robert is an author and the creator of several of the most exciting decks in recent times, including a personal

favorite of mine, the alchemical tarot.

We talk dreams, symbolism, neoplatinism, and a story of these funny little pieces of paper and their impact on the world.

Robert, thank you very much for your time.

You're welcome.

All right, so we have a traditional first question for first time guests which is Robert were you a weird kid?

Oh yeah.

Well how weird do you want me to describe how weird I was? Oh yeah yeah, yeah, we've had some doozy so far.

We've had, uh, yeah, haunted houses and, you know, um,

indigent military families, that kind of thing.

But how weird were you? Well I lived in

with a basically very normal suburban house hall but I was I knew I was an

artist from the time I was you know could talk. I mean I knew it was an artist before I

could talk I just didn't know how to say it so I mean there was something strange

about the way I could just draw from the moment I would pick up a crown I mean from a very like you know when I was about six

I was already during realistically. Well, were you from an artistic family or were you kind of? No, no, that's the thing.

No, they had no sense of taste at all.

So the artistic thing came first.

There was always going to be the career as far as you could tell.

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