Hello and welcome to Terabytes. I'm Teresa Read the Tarryl Lady.

I'm the author of the tarot coloring book and the co-author of Terro for Troubled Times.

I'm also your host for this podcast series.

This is episode 141 of Terobytes, the podcast where I just shout short, entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to read tarot.

And for today's episode, our topic is taro for creative inspiration.

And my special guest is the artist Michelle Sakai.

Welcome, Michelle.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

Well, I am very, very intrigued with the work that you're doing.

I mean, you have an exhibition coming up really soon called the Arcana series and its interpretations of the taro. And it looks so amazing.

I pinked at your site. The images are stunning. So of course, I want to know how did the tarot

inspire you to create this series?

How does this come about?

So I've been on the spiritual path for many, many years now,

and tarot kind of came into my life maybe about 10 years ago

when I was first introduced to the Motherpiece cards.

And just, and here and there, I would, you know, I was always attracted to them, all different, not just those cards, but all kinds of cards and even affirmation cards, angel cards.

And, you know, I think about the rider deck, I often felt like I wanted

to update these cards and bring in my own healing and inspiration. And, you know, also we have changed so much, cultures changed and just kind of

bring these cards into 2019.

And, you know, there's a million ways to interpret these cards.

And so for me, it was just about being authentic to me

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