Hello and welcome to Terobites. I'm Teresa the Tarryl Lady. I'm the author of the

tarot coloring book and the co-author of Tarot for Trou for Troubled Times. And I'm also your host for

this podcast series. This is episode 124 of Tarot bytes, the podcast where I dish out short,

entertaining, bite-sized lessons on how to read tarot.

For today's episode, our topic is tarot and talismans. And my special guest is my friend

Lori Lytle from Inner Goddess Terrell. Welcome, Lori. Well, hi, Teresa. Thank you so much for

having me here today. Thank you so much for being here and for suggesting this very

interesting topic. Oh yes. It's something that has been on my mind a lot lately and that I've

been working with and getting really excited about it. So I'm so happy to share it with you today.

Excellent. And you know, the first thing I have to ask you for people who are listening that may not

know what a talisman is. Can not know what a talisman is.

Can you explain what a talisman is?

Yeah, sure.

So when I started, how can I say, even just to back it up a little bit, I've always had a thing for amulets, talismans, lucky charms,

so anything that you consider a protective or lucky item that

you can wear or carry around with you. So since I was a kid, this is something that I didn't

even think about. I was always either wearing or carrying something that gave me luck or a feeling of

extra confidence and power. So then over the years, and I didn't think about it

that much, Teresa, you know, so over the years I've been looking into it a little more deeply because

I'm really drawn to these symbols and protective items. And so I started to think about the

difference between something like a lucky charm and an amulet and a talisman.

So I think the big difference and why I've chosen to work with talismans is that they are,

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