Hello and welcome to my tiny tarot practice.

My name is Amelia Hruby and this podcast is practice is my tiny tarot practice.

I've been reading tarot since early 2016 when I

ordered a deck off of Amazon while I was out at a bar -- shout out to the Whistler and my friend Michelle who I was with that night.

And since then I've had an off-and-on relationship with the cards

I started reading for myself during a time when I was really struggling to find my place in the world and I remember how often the hermit

And the Tower came up during those early years of reading and getting to know my deck.

Since then I have gathered many many tarot decks, I certainly have over a dozen in my home at this point, and books about tarot and new spreads and ideas and practices and courses along the way.

Sometime in late 2021 I felt really called to start a more formal study of Tarot

I had been reading on different decks for myself mostly by pulling cards and then looking to the guide books that came with the duck to tell me what they meant

and for the first time my practice after over five years of reading tarot I was actually feeling called to the Rider Waite Smith deck

which is considered a more one of the most.

Popular common perhaps traditional Decks that people read from a deck that had always felt very sterile and even masculine to me

but I thought really called to that Dock and I felt really called to study tarot as opposed to just turning to it as a tool and a time of need

and so in late 2021 I spent a few months doing card pulls and studying the major Arcana and sharing those Explorations with a dear friend shout out to Lillian if you're listening to this and

I

Found myself taking courses like various courses from Lindsay Mack or a course on body-positive tarot with Virgie Tovar and I really just felt like I wanted.

Even more I felt my relationship to this tool evolving from one of simple.

Support perhaps to a desire to get to know it in a deeper way and a spiritual way I would say.

And that corresponding with me starting to read more for friends with acquaintances reaching out hearing that I'd done a reading for someone else wanting a little to hear how my Approach atera what I was doing with the cards.

That'll happen in the fall of 2021 and then it was 20 22 and I found myself immersed in my life and my new business and all of a sudden I looked around and it was May of 2022 and I hadn't.

Studied a single card I'd barely pulled a single card and the first five months of the year I was feeling so.

Spiritually devotional e thirsty.

Thanks to my mentor and friend Mary Grace for pointing that out to me for using that word It Feels So apt I felt

parched I felt dehydrated I felt like my I was so caught up in my day-to-day life that I was not paying attention to my practice that I was ignoring

my spirit and so I decided I wanted to recommit myself to my tarot practice and I wanted to do that with a little bit of

accountability and a little bit of care and I also wanted to do it in a way that would really support me learning the cards me really

integrating what they mean into my practice and into my body and into my teachings and all of my work.

And I knowing myself I know that one of the best ways I learn is through synthesizing and sharing

I was a teacher at a university for over five years and what I learned is that like teaching was my favorite way to learn so

I'm not here to set myself up as a teacher I don't claim to have any expertise in Tarot really I'm here to share I'm here to learn and I'm here to participate in this beautiful.

Actors that have been passed down for so many years.

So if you're tuning into my tiny Taro practice and you know me from any of my men and creative Endeavors if you've read 55 minutes to mantras or listen to 50 feminist States or you know about my

podcast Studio softer sounds this will probably feel like a very natural extension of me as you've gotten to know me with a very specific area

I have practice in the tarot and if you're new to me

welcome I'm so excited you're here and it's such a joy to get to know you this podcast is short form

I called it my tiny Taro practice for a reason episodes will come in around 5 to 10 minutes at most I'm going to explore the tarot card by card starting in the minor Arcana with the suit of Wands and we'll go from there I'll share new episodes most Sundays.

Most Mondays and Thursdays.

And I'll keep exploring the tarot card by card suit by suit through the minor Arcana and then eventually into the majors.

If you're completely new to Taro if words like my Jermaine are minor Arcana and major Arcana don't really mean anything to you and I highly suggest you check out the link to my book shop reading list in the show notes that'll.

Provide you with some of the books that I read to get to know Taro a little butter and to give you a bit more of an introductory.

Relationship to just to give you an introduction to what

Taro is you know I called this podcast my tiny Taro practice because it really is about my practice and I'm sharing that with others because I have no through my human designed in my lived experience that that's one of the most special ways that I can learn and invite others to get to know me an end to my

actor so if you're brand-new to Taro check out that list if you've been reading town for a long time still look at it they're great

x and x on it and of course if you make a purchase of that link I get a small.

Percentage of your purchase and that's a way to support this ongoing podcast like to keep this podcast on going if you enjoy taking a card by card approach to tarot with me.

I bring everything that I am

to this podcast to my tarot practice to the practice I share here so I will always bring a feminist approach to Taro I will always be thinking about power and gender and care and compassion and support as I weave my.

Interpretations of the cards together
I'll always have in mind how these tools can help us connect with our intuition can help us

resist capitalist patriarchal white supremacist Norms in our society whether I'm naming it in that language or not that is what I'm intending to do.

In my interpretation of tarot I'll also say in the sense that I say I'm not an expert I'm not going to this podcast is not going to

take you into tarot history or again teach you about where the cards came from or even an overview of the cards themselves necessarily

each episode will be

very very personal interpretation of the cards and really I'm here because I want to develop a personal relationship with each card and the Tarot deck I want.

No longer rely on guidebooks no longer rely on these books I've collected about tarot I'd like to have my own interpretations I understand there can be danger and divorcing yourself from a tradition I completely believe that it's important.

You're going to hold up a tool or use a tool or be a professional.

Tool user professional tarot reader I think in that case it's very important to present the context of the cards and these tools that you're using

but I'm not presenting myself as such if even if I ever do offer readings through this podcast which perhaps will come in the future it's not in the form of tarot being my profession it's in the form of tarot being my practice and I'm here to share that.

Practice with you and invite you to develop your

own practice I hope that this podcast can kind of create many many more card by card podcasts lots of other people talking about their interpretation of each card so many of us exploring our personal practices through this shared.

Tess I'll add one final note which is that this podcast is unedited

I'd say I Channel it but I'm not sure I'm channeling it from anywhere I'm speaking from the heart.

And I'm releasing perfectionism I'm releasing my podcast editing practice as I embrace my Tarot.

Tess and I think I feel a little self-conscious about that

because I do run a podcast Studio I do want my clients to think of my work as thoughtful and edited and carefully crafted

but this is a space where I'm inviting myself to be a little more free to explore and to be thinking about

the words I'm sharing more than the production of them so I'll say that here and then I think.

I'll release any stress or shame that may arise if the sounds a little off or I say something wrong or I need to go back and start over.

Thank you so much for tuning into my tiny tarot practice I'd be happy to receive notes or voice messages or care in my inbox at hi@ameliahruby.com if you want to reach out and otherwise.

I think it's time for us to begin. Thank you for being here.