I can only describe it by making a noise. I felt this like,

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

coming through my chest into the rest of my body.

Um, and so that that energy that I was feeling in my body was going into my deck.

I'm Autumn Brown,

living in rural Minnesota.

And I'm Adrian Marie Brown,

author of Emergence Strategy, co-editor of Octavia's Brood,

writer, facilitator of Black Liberation Work,

Auntie Extraordinaire, Dula, and Pleasure Activist,

living in Detroit.

And this is How to Survive the End of the World.

Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.

In today's episode we are going to talk to you all and to each other about a shared

spiritual practice that we have of reading tarot.

Start over. Remember your innocence. The strength this card suggests is a much

deeper force that's found within. Trust your path. Take a plunge. Leap before you look. They are a master of focus,

compassion and self-control. Now you might ask what could this possibly have to do with learning from

apocalypse with grace-rigger and curiosity but our shared practice of

reading the tarot has actually been a source of enormous groundedness in

both Adrian and my life and because the tarot is a very old practice, a very deep practice because there are so many ways to engage with the tarot, so many ways to pull lessons from the

terror. We feel like it is actually a particularly pertinent and important

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