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I'm the author of the Terrell Bites. I'm Teresa Reed the Terrell Lady.

I'm the author of the Terrell Coloring Book and I'm your host for this podcast series. This is episode 15 of Tarro Bites. The

podcast where I to shout short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to re-tero. For today's episode, our topic is the

higher fin. So let's begin. I gotta have a little confession for you guys here.

When I started learning Tarot, this was the hardest card in the deck for me.

You know, for one, I didn't know how to pronounce this name. I know it sounds kind of silly, but I think there's a lot of people who aren't sure how to pronounce it.

And two, you know, it was just hard for me to relate to this figure.

And I always say it might be that I had a problem with authority

when I was younger, like most young people do.

And you know, when I was a kid, I grew up in a household

that was actually really

religious and in some ways pretty oppressive. You know my father made it clear

that men ruled the roost and sometimes I felt that the church seemed to put that energy out there as well.

You know, and I often wondered why I couldn't be a priest.

These were the thoughts I had as a really little girl.

And you know, one day when I was about five I got in big trouble because I was caught

playing priests and handing out penises communion. Now my mother thought that was

totally blasphemous. You know after after all, girls aren't priests,

we don't get to do that sort of thing.

So I still laugh at that, and I think in the back of my mind

when I started learning Terrell,

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