43. Creating Spirit-Driven Art with Mary Evans of Spirit Speak Tarot

It’s Eclipse season, and I have a phenomenal guest on the podcast this week! Joining me today is the amazing and magical Mary Elizabeth Evans, aka Spirit Speak Tarot! Born in Nashville and currently residing in Joshua Tree, Mary Elizabeth Evans is an artist, a teacher, a creator, and a Tarot reader. She is the creator of the Spirit Speak Tarot deck, The Divina Tarot deck, and the Vessel, Iris, and Road to Nowhere Oracle decks. Together, Mary and I discuss her origin story, how she found Tarot, how she began to intersect her spirituality and intuition with art, the birth stories of her many, amazing decks, and working through the Tower, Justice, Hanged Man, Temperance, Nine of Pentacles, and Queen of Pentacles Tarot cards. I’m also offering some energetic medicine on the New Moon Solar Eclipse and how to view its energy as the Tower reversed in the Tarot. Topics discussed in this episode: • Partial New Moon Solar Eclipse in Cancer July 2018 (0:50) • Mary’s journey growing up in Tennessee and finding the Tarot (17:30) • Learning the Tarot through self-teaching and demystifying the role of the reader (24:25) • Mary’s connection with her artistry, creativity, and spiritual connection  (30:00) • Creating the Spirit Speak Tarot Deck (34:45) • Mary’s creative and spiritual process of creating tarot and oracle decks (38:45) • The process of publishing a Tarot deck (41:47) • Creating the Vessel Oracle Deck (44:35) • Creating the Iris Oracle Deck (48:30) • Creating the Divina Tarot Deck (54:13) • Mary’s changing relationship with the Tarot (56:32) • A sneak peek of Mary’s upcoming Tarot deck (58:22) • Mary’s move to Joshua Tree and feeling a call away from the Tarot toward other work (1:01:53) • Working through The Tower card in the Tarot (1:03:57) • The medicine of the Justice card in the Tarot (1:06:01) • The elusive Hanged Man and Temperance Tarot cards (1:09:27) • Loving the Nine of Pentacles and the Queen of Pentacles Tarot cards (1:13:54) • Mary’s clothing, jewelry, and adornments (1:15:50) _________ 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