28. The Flaming Skull with Nicole Mayefske of Big Mouth Tarot

This episode is a Wild Soul Interview with Nicole Mayefske, aka Big Mouth Tarot! Nicole is a Twin Cities based queer Tarot reader and Reiki I practitioner. Nicole is an extraordinary writer, an exceptional reader and a magnificent human being — it was such a joy to have her on the podcast. In this episode we’re digging into all the things—from the need to create a Tarot director of readers across the country (which Nicole is now working on!) to burnout as a Tarot reader with some powerful Tarot medicine around The Sun, The Tower, and the Queen of Wands, and the importance creating a Tarot learning and reading environment on your own terms. In this conversation, Nicole and I dive into: • The Tarot scene in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Twin Cities area + how there needs to be a Tarot directory for the readers across the country (6:50) • Her Tarot journey — how she came to find her first deck, how she taught herself, and how she chose her teachers (14:20) • Burn out, day jobs, and the importance of boundaries with Tarot readings (29:15) • Coming to Tarot and learning the Tarot in your own way vs. getting caught up in the ritual and “dogma” of how you’re “supposed to” do it (36:46) • Nicole’s written posts about the Tarot (46:00) • Transiting through The Sun card (55:50) • Chariot vs. The Tower card of the year (58:25) • Developing an understanding for The Hanged Man, The Moon, Temperance, and Wheel of Fortune (1:05:13) • Medicine story for the Queen of Wands and her connection with Vasilisa (1:12:37) • Using pop culture references in Tarot readings (1:20:12) Follow Nicole at: http://www.nicolemayefske.com/ and on Instagram at @bigmouthtarot _________ ABOUT THE PODCAST  Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards through an inclusive, trauma informed perspective, rooted in compassion, common sense, and critical thinking. Through a weaving of intuitively channeled downloads, answers to listener questions, and lessons around the cards, Tarot for the Wild Soul offers ways to view the Tarot as helpful, applicable medicine that can provide nourishment and clarity to us in our day to day lives. ABOUT LINDSAY Lindsay Mack is a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, and the host of TFTWS podcast. Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a non-predictive healing tool, one that is can assist us in differentiating the noise of our mind from the truth of our soul. Through her regularly sold out workshops, retreats and online Tarot courses, Lindsay has had the profound honor of teaching Soul Tarot to thousands of people from all around the world. As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse, trauma & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It was the healing from a breakdown in 2014 that fully birthed her into this sacred work and onto her soul path. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them. Honoring and acknowledging that this podcast is recorded on the unceded land of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, currently called Portland, OR, with the deepest respect to the Kalapuya Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe, and Atfalati Tribe. WEBSITE: www.tarotforthewildsoul.com FOLLOW US ON IG at @wildsoulhealing PODCAST EDITOR: Chase Voorhees PODCAST ART: Rachelle Sartini Garner