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shea in the catskills
shea in the catskills
69 episodes
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monthly musings by queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, library clerk + contemplative shea in the catskills
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monthly musings by queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, library clerk + contemplative shea in the catskills
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shea in the catskills
november 2025: the power of poignancy

In this episode:

  • blog post for this episode (with images + kitty pic!)
  • Ethan Hawke (h/t Amelia Hruby)
  • Study Tarot Series + what people are saying about it 🤓watch me talk about it
  • a new Correspondence offering: Upcoming Transits + Tarot Prescriptions reading
  • The Symbolic Lab with Trust in Community + what participants had to say about it so far
  • 2026 Symbolic Lab—Revolution: a Close Reading of Nemik’s Manifesto. 
  • My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings
  • N95 + KN95 masks + clean air (DIY version)
  • I recorded a new 8-minute video about the Study Tarot Series
  • Kening Zhu’s Labyrinth Library
  • Martha Crawford’s by-donation/pay-what-you-can community offerings 
  • Manchán Magan + his 2020 book Thirty-Two Words for Field
  • Jack Jenkins, a journalist covering politics + religion
  • Writer + organizer Kelly Hayes took this video
  • Bethany Karsten
  • Dean Spade’s recorded patreon Live 
  • Raqib Shaw’s Paradise Lost + Shaw’s method
  • crisis.acting 
  • When We All Get To Heaven podcast
  • virtual zine libraries! + this one, too
  • A woman stitched together 609 of her state fair award ribbons 
  • what Amanda Yates Garcia recently had to say about my new tarot zines box set 78 Faces of Power
  • Lettie Jane Rennekamp’s Many Queens Tarot
  • “A Torturous Sanitation Disaster Is Unfolding in Gaza’s Displacement Camps” by Sara Awad, October 25, 2025


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1 day ago
24 minutes 31 seconds

shea in the catskills
october 2025: the power of discernment

In this episode:

  • blog post for this offering (with kitty pic!) 
  • Patricia Ononiuw Kaishian’s Forest Eurphoria
  • 78 Faces of Power: the Elemental Tarot Zines limited edition box set 
  • Study Tarot Series
  • The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Curiosity + see what participants had to say about it so far
  • My books are open for readings + it’s easy to purchase gift readings
  • Michael Hoerger’s Instagram feed for Covid-19 info
  • a new 8-minute video about the Study Tarot Series
  • Mentored Independent Studies in Creative Abundance with Finn Schubert
  • Nina Hatfield’s co-resting groups 
  • Martha Crawford’s Dreamwork as Praxis workshop begins October 11 
  • a short story about Martha Graham
  • bodhisattvas in the streets
  • Congressional candidate ‪Kat Abughazaleh‬ sitting on the ground, wearing the mask, gets thrown around by ICE goons; here she is with a group blocking an ICE vehicle. Check out her campaign
  • clergy out there saying NO to this nonsense
  • anti-ICE little free libraries + feeding the bodhisattvas
  • Emily Hauser’s daily non-cooperation threads
  • everyday citizens serving on juries 
  • Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm by William C. Anderson
  • Beth Howard wrote a memoir + pre-orders are open
  • pre-orders are open for this year’s issue of The Rebis
  • Andor—actually!
  • The Q by Beth Brower + Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar + 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
  • Finn Schubert’s creative mentorship in digital liturgy
  • Omar Mendoza’s natural pigment paintings
  • people positively obsessed
  • Zohran Mamdani’s Until It’s Done series—part 1, part 2
  • making art (that’s Martha Crawford’s most recent Community Discussion playing in the background of the video clip!)
  • Joaquín Zihuatanejo
  • Global Sumud Flotilla

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1 month ago
33 minutes 16 seconds

shea in the catskills
september 2025: steady as she goes...

In this episode:

  • blog post for this episode (with kitty pic!)
  • Sheryl Weikal
  • a new Study Tarot Series cohort is starting in December…see what people are saying about it
  • The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Power + what participants had to say about it so far
  • My books are open for readings this month + it’s easy to purchase gift readings
  • WastewaterSCAN shows a continuous increase in SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater levels 
  • People’s CDC
  • Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
  • Feeding Your Demons online session with Michelle Teasdale 
  • Carolyn Yoo’s amazing newsletter 
  • Email Cory to get info about online bodywork sessions
  • LA leading the way
  • J.B. Pritzker offering a clinic 
  • an oyster farmer 
  • Collins getting heckled 
  • Tarek Loubani’a presentation 
  • Valerie Zink’s statement 
  • members of Congress facing a fed-up public
  • neighbors telling ICE + MPD to fuck off
  • Join SURJ for Rising Fascism, Rising Resistance + the Action Hour that follows it
  • Craft Fair for Gaza 
  • Anthony Moser’s “I Am An AI Hater”
  • ashley fairbanks
  • Tatreez: The Ancient Art of Palestinian Embroidery
  • Andor
  • Cultivating Audacity by Finn Schubert
  • How Do I Give Myself a Residency? by Yanyi (h/t Finn Schubert)
  • Victoria & Albert Museum’s youtube channel, esp this Agate Teapot 
  • the Study Tarot Series community made Major Arcana playlists
  • Isabella Rotman’s This Might Hurt Tarot
  • Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif was assassinated, along with 4 of his colleagues, on Sunday, August 10. Just two weeks later, on August 25, Israeli forces assassinated five more journalists
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2 months ago
20 minutes 25 seconds

shea in the catskills
August 2025: planting seeds for the next world

In this episode:

  • blog post for this episode (with kitty pic!)
  • Joanna Macy, May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025
  • Asking Good Questions +what people have said about it 
  • The Sameer Project
  • Tarot 101 + the testimonials
  • The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Communication + what participants had to say about it 
  • My books are open + it’s easy to purchase gift readings
  • fifth stage of malnutrition 
  • frighteningly numb
  • Beatrice Adler-Bolton recently wrote
  • The Sameer Project or Gaza Funds
  • Workshops 4 Gaza
  • use this toolkit
  • Transgender Strategy Center 
  • sign up here for Tamra Grace’s astro newsletter
  • Martha Crawford’s Open House, Group-Group + Community Discussions (use code 7YV1WYR for a 100% discount)
  • here’s what you need to know
  • Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck 
  • Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
  • brave souls protesting ICE in Ohio
  • nuns + grandmothers protesting 
  • join a Mass Meeting near you +/or the next SURJ Action Hour
  • Call the State Department to demand Christian Smalls’s release: 202-647-1512
  • Jeff VanderMeer
  • Hanif Abdurraqib
  • Talia Lavin’s writing, Notable Sandwich #129: Pan Bagnat + Writing Into the Wreck
  • Bryan Dunn’s “This Will All End In Tears” 
  • Dean Spade’s new podcast Love in a Fucked Up World
  • Mandy Patinkin loses control over his emotions 
  • Andrea Was Waiting To Give You This Gift
  • Hanging Onto Hope Amid the Horrors by Kai Cheng Thom
  • Carolyn Yoo’s Zine Lab 
  • donate to Elena's GoFundMe get a zine, artwork + sticker from me!
  • Dani Offline
  • The Correspondence with me + Cory Nakasue
  • Frank Duffy’s Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot
  • Beth Howard, author of Like Our Lives Depend on It: A Story of Anti-Racist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter
  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  • tearing families apart
  • Mass Meetings
  • raising money
  • Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This
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3 months ago
31 minutes 12 seconds

shea in the catskills
July 2025: dreaming demands work

in this episode:

  • blog post for this episode (with kitty pic!)
  • Using Tarot to Work with the Dead 
  • Trust in Desire + what participants had to say
  • In-Person Tarot Circle + Tarot 101 
  • My books are open + it’s easy to purchase gift readings
  • latest COVID strain + AMA’s YouTube page
  • Arts-Based Research as Collaborative Practice
  • When We All Get to Heaven 
  • The Struggle is Permanent: Keep Fighting by Mariame Kaba
  • “Nazi fucking cowards!” 
  • No Kings day: a compilation
  • SURJ’s Action Hour
  • Greta Thunberg 
  • storytelling as resistance
  • Kim Sajet
  • uterish
  • Kelly Hayes
  • artwork for sale by Elena Solano
  • MAMDANI!!!!
  • The Goodbye Line (h/t Prisons, Prose & Protest)
  • An Affront to the Sovereignty of the Earth by Alicia Enciso Litschi
  • The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 
  • All Fours by Miranda July
  • Ever Deadly documentary
  • Pee-wee as Himself documentary
  • Raquel Willis on Marsha P. Johnson 
  • perspective
  • Beth Howard, author of Like Our Lives Depend on It: A Story of Anti-Racist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter
  • Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot
  • Catherine Liu, Doomscroll, June 16, 2025
  • Ang Stoic, June 18, 2025
  • Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, “Empire, Fear, and Feelings,” June 22, 2025
  • Zohran Mamdani, June 24, 2025
  • Astra Taylor, Show more...
4 months ago
32 minutes 30 seconds

shea in the catskills
June 2025: protecting what's precious

In this episode:

  • blog post for this offering (with kitty pic 🐈‍⬛)
  • Trust in Care + what participants had to say about it 
  • my online workshops 
  • The Rebis
  • In-Person Tarot Circle 
  • My books are open + it’s easy to purchase gift readings 
  • Elena's GoFundMe here + artwork + other goodies + Elena’s artwork for sale 
  • The Whole Archive of Martha Crawford’s Community Discussions
  • watch-purchasing-consultation—for yourself or for someone you love—via this super-fun form
  • “Galactic Mountains” original watercolor painting by Elena Solano; check out her artwork for sale
  • here’s what you need to know
  • May Day demonstrations
  • Ben Cohen doing what needs to be done
  • this Gallatin School grad + Columbia students
  • trolling as protest + resistance
  • pushing back against the cops
  • a teenager does what the Democratic Party is too craven to do
  • how many billions of dollars in Medicaid funding will be cut from your congressional district?
  • The Antidote to Fascism is Mindfulness with Danielle Moodie + Jared Yates Sexton
  • the people of Omaha rejected anti-trans bullshit
  • my comrade Olga disrupting business as usual
  • Mariame Kaba on libraries
  • “Hex Fascists” print by artist Frank Duffy—purchase one here
  • Ann Friedman on libraries
  • the short documentary Quilters on Netflix
  • ransom notes from the GOP, a project by Mariame Kaba
  • Shogun
  • an artist using her platform
  • Hilma af Klint’s botanical watercolors
  • human beings creating beautiful things
  • A Quiet Storm online art gallery 
  • Heart as Political Principle
  • people’s obsessive special interests
  • Explore Livecams (h/t Dense Discovery)
  • Frank Duffy’s Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot
  • 78 Faces of Power
  • Yaqeen Hammad


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5 months ago
28 minutes 25 seconds

shea in the catskills
May 2025: on being self-responsive

blog post for this offering (with kitty pic! 🐈‍⬛)

  • artwork + goodies for sale: check it out
  • Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
  • The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Patterns + what participants have to say about it 
  • In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way 
  • My books are open + it’s easy topurchase gift readings
  • Martha Crawford is offering: Riding the Roller Coaster: Emotion & Contemplation + A Gathered Meeting to Support Helpers
  • Mediumship readings with Karin + clairvoyant readings with Monica
  • Here’s what you need to know about the coup underway
  • people showed up + showed out for #HandsOff protests last month
  • cross-racial, intergenerational solidarity
  • Missouri, Chicago, Alaska, LA
  • a powerful person doing something: 10/10, no notes
  • Urge your rep to fund libraries!
  • The facts about the Constitutional Crisis we’re in
  • join a May Day action
  • join a SURJ Action Hour
  • Joan Baez I Am A Noise + From Every Stage 
  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 
  • Iris
  • All About Disciple, an artwork by Robyn Love
  • “Save Your Humanity, Don’t Save Your Job” by Janine De Novais
  • 2024 Nature’s Best Photography Awards
  • 100 Days of Creative Resistance, particularly these pieces by Carvell Wallace + Christina Rivera
  • “Dear ones, it is time.” 
  • Mapping Lunar Beauty (h/t Hyperallergic)
  • cats co-parenting their kittens
  • 78 Faces of Power
  • Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona
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6 months ago
23 minutes 57 seconds

shea in the catskills
April 2025: alone with our mind

In this episode:

  • blog post for this offering (with kitty pic!)
  • I’m selling artwork: check it out
  • Asking Good Questions + what past participants have said about it
  • Study Tarot Series + what people have said 
  • The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Change + what people said about March's session
  • In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet’s Way 
  • My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings
  • Dream Work as Praxis with Martha Crawford + Mortality Workshop + the Group-Group
  • me.to.me to you: A Mutual Aid Show—an hour of original music. Proceeds go toward supporting three friends facing financial crises: Elena, Aurora, & Jay
  • Here’s what you need to know about the coup underway
  • people are pissed
  • people are refusing
  • people are brave + courageous + creative
  • people are getting it done
  • communities are creative
  • people ask why I’m still masking
  • Kelly Hayes
  • THE MOOMINHOUSE
  • people who are obsessed + use materials in unconventional ways
  • painter Chantal Joffe: All I’m Seeing Is the Beauty
  • What if We Ran the Economy? by Andrewism
  • Dean Spade in conversation with Thao Nguyen about Love in a F*cked Up World
  • Minimally Invasive Positive Fictionalization Gossip from the Middling Substack 
  • The Hydrant Directory
  • Wikitok (h/t Dense Discovery)
  • The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
  • 78 Faces of Power
  • Martha Crawford
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7 months ago
34 minutes 2 seconds

shea in the catskills
March 2025: feeling secure

There’s a coup happening in the USA: Here’s what you need to know

me.to.me to you: A Mutual Aid Show via zoom with robin herold: Friday, April 4, 7-8:15pm ET

In this episode:

blog post (with kitty pic)

Elena’s GoFundMe 

Asking Good Questions + what past participants have said about it

Study Tarot Series + what people have said 

Trust in Ground

The Correspondence + what people have said 

Beyond Love + Strife: A Venus Retrograde Workshop

78 Faces of Power

My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings

Sleep in Public 

The Challenges and Opportunities of Work Without Set Fees

Facing Ruthlessness and Ourselves

Cathy Pratt’s newsletter

Chris Kluwe

Protect and Resist with SURJ

what using your platform can look like

Milton, NY dems

this + this + this + this + this

Margaret Killjoy

Kai Cheng Thom

Chloë Bass

the OFMD Craft Fair

Campaign for Southern Equality's Trans Youth Emergency Fund

Leonard Peltier walking out of prison

#TeslaTakedown actions

Choosing the Uncertain Path by Martha Crawford

Not exactly inspiring

watching art get made

Ema Shin’s Hearts of Absent Women + Devoted Body (h/t Colossal)

Indigo: A World of Blue + In Search of Lost Colour

these prints + these quilts

knowing how to be satisfied*

satisfiable*

Leslie Feinberg

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8 months ago
30 minutes 42 seconds

shea in the catskills
February 2025: entering our villain era

In this episode:

  • blog post (with kitty pic! 📸)
  • Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
  • Online Workshops
  • The Symbolic Lab: Trust
  • The Correspondence + what people have said about the experience!
  • some goodies, the proceeds for which go to Elena’s GoFundMe🌈
  • My books are open + it’s easy to purchase gift readings
  • Sign SURJ’s Gear Up Pledge
  • 2025 offerings from unsung studio; our 2:1 tarot reading is ❤️‍🔥read all about it
  • follow me on bluesky
  • Martha Crawford’s Dream Work as Praxis, Riding the Roller Coaster: Emotion & Contemplation workshop + spring Mortality workshop 
  • donate to the Transgender Strategy Center
  • acts of public defiance like this + this + this + this + this
  • I’m getting my news from Kelly Hayes’s Organizing My Thoughts newsletter
  • mutual aid isn’t easy, but…eye on the ball
  • enter the blanket raffle: make a donation of $22 or more to Elena’s GoFundMe
  • perspective
  • Colossal
  • handmade artist books
  • Black Gold Tapestry by Sandra M. Sawatzky 
  • Portrait Artist of the Year + Elena’s 20-minute video of painting watercolor flowers
  • Emily Hall’s dreaming of a new world
  • Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, hosted by Margaret “Magpie” Killjoy: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South 
  • Meredith Whittaker’s talk Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
  • A Glimpse by Martha Crawford
  • Marie Howe’s poem “What the Living Do”
  • Luminous Void, the Leonora Carrington’s Major Arcana + Rosebud Tarot
  • Alejandra Caraballo
  • Dean Spade
  • Kelly Hayes
  • Martha Crawford
  • Survive the Tyrant.pdf
  • the C.I.A.’s very own Simple Sabotage Field Manual
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9 months ago
29 minutes 24 seconds

shea in the catskills
January 2025: trusting our experience

In this episode:

  • blog post for this episode (with cat pic!)
  • Dorothee Söelle
  • Study Tarot Series…check out the cohort schedules + what people have said about the experience
  • online tarot workshops 
  • The Symbolic Lab: Trust with me + Elena Solano
  • a new duet consultation called The Correspondence + a Venus Retrograde Workshop
  • My books are open + it’s also easy to purchase gift readings
  • me + Cory + Capricorn season on The Cosmic Dispatch: watch or listen!
  • Writer + teacher Janine de Novais on Bill Ayer’s Under the Tree podcast 
  • Dean Spade + Susan Stryker on trans resistance
  • Kimberly Garland’s Cosmic Flowers Coloring Book
  • Violet Blue’s Covid Safety Handbook
  • Elena’s GoFundMe campaign
  • Jennifer Armbrust’s Feminist Flourishing Framework
  • The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons
  • Daniel Hunter on Tactical Disobedience 
  • Conclave
  • Frank Duffy’s Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot + the guidebook
  • Martha Crawford’s Circling the Drain: Living Intentionally With Mortality 16-week workshop—Sign up for her newsletter to find out when she’s offering it next!
  • NPR Tiny Desk concerts: Doechii, TV On The Radio, The Magnetic Fields, Audrey Nuna + Hayden Pedigo
  • Isabella Rotman’s This Might Hurt Tarot
  • Daniel Hunter, founder of Choose Democracy
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10 months ago
30 minutes 58 seconds

shea in the catskills
December 2024: reorienting

In this episode:

  • blog post for this episode
  • Study Tarot Series + cohort schedules + what people have said 
  • Tarot 101
  • Help Elena cover emergency vet bills
  • US Consumer Strike 4 Palestine
  • buy from independent artists + spiritual workers
  • My books are open 
  • purchase gift readings
  • robin herold’s Sleep in Public
  • How Do I Take Action Where I Am? A Workshop Series for Grounding Ourselves in the Fight Ahead
  • Suzette Clough’s Painting With The Ancestors 
  • Workshops 4 Gaza
  • Grace Lee Boggs
  • There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body by Finn Schubert
  • creative, spiritual + cultural work
  • protecting access to abortion
  • taking the biggest risks
  • direct support to people in Gaza
  • Phoenicia Library + Phoenicia Food Pantry
  • Elena Solano’s feelingndealing + counseling services
  • robin herold
  • Beth Howard’s Working Class Love Notes
  • Gaza GoFundMe campaigns via Molly Shah
  • Martha Crawford’s groups, circles, writing + more
  • astrologers Cory Nakasue + Camille Michelle Gray 
  • Cosmic Dog House Press
  • Nina Hatfield’s Co-Resting Groups:
  • Beth fucking Howard + post-election mass meeting here + Working Class Love Notes
  • Daniel Hunter’s 10 ways to be prepared and grounded 
  • actions that are not protesting or voting by Frontline Medics via Mariame Kaba
  • action is the antidote
  • Robyn Love’s book Branks
  • Logan Grendel says it with the utmost clarity
  • Detour by Tusharr Madhavv
  • the Netflix doc Quincy
  • Wojnarowicz
  • Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own + an article
  • Margaret Killjoy
  • Mariame Kaba 
  • I worked my tail off 
  • Lane Smith 
  • long-time organizers + SURJ
  • Kelly Hayes
  • Gear Up cohorts
  • Daniel Hunter’s essay
  • Rebecca Solnit
  • Dayna Lynn Nuckolls 
  • break my heart in order to keep me moving
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11 months ago
29 minutes 23 seconds

shea in the catskills
November 2024: major arcana 13 death

In this episode:

  • blog post for this episode (including kitty pic!)
  • Ussama Makdisi
  • Study Tarot Series, cohort schedules + what people have said about the experience
  • In-person Tarot Circle 
  • Online Post-Election Gathering 
  • My books are open 
  • purchase gift readings
  • Aurora’s housing Go Fund Me
  • Elena Solano’s psychotherapeutic + coaching services
  • Valatie Community Theater presents Sam’s Point
  • Amiri Baraka
  • Scorpio season mood
  • anthem
  • Covid Safety 101
  • We can never say we didn’t know; we are all complicit
  • cats cats cats cats cats
  • organizing instead of agonizing
  • Found On The Ground newsletter
  • offerings
  • working class heroes
  • Kara Walker: Fortuna & the Immortality Garden (Machine)
  • Sarah Kendzior’s Hanging by a Thread
  • beauty + love in Palestine
  • Dan “Nuge” Nguyen’s art
  • Fall 2024 issue of Hammer + Hope
  • Sarah Kendzior
  • Liberation Tarot, artwork by Malak Mattar
  • not really counting
  • 1,000+ people a week
  • Covid-19
  • science + research
  • financial, logistical + political support
  • over 335,000
  • Living Intentionally With Mortality with Martha Crawford
  • Kelly Hayes
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1 year ago
25 minutes 30 seconds

shea in the catskills
October 2024: on being not-okay

in this episode:

  • blog post for this episode
  • Study Tarot Series…cohort schedules + what people have said 
  • In-person Tarot Circle 
  • My books are open—book thru calendly
  • 4 free Covid tests
  • Martha Crawford’s fall/winter groups
  • The Rebis is available for pre-order + a playlist!
  • excerpt from an article about the murder of Emmanuel Littlejohn
  • COVID via Time magazine
  • doing the impossible. every day.
  • Palestine teaches life
  • Matt Nelson 
  • cat videos, always cat videos
  • murdered 330,000 people, or 8% of the Palestinian population
  • listen to one US healthcare worker’s experience in Gaza
  • Crips for eSims, 3 families + Fidaa + her children
  • my new painting series
  • Kusama: Infinity 
  • Hamada Shoo + the date harvest
  • the world is vast + wide + deep, + that there are worlds within worlds
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams documentary
  • direct action
  • this short video about sculptor Beth Cavener’s work
  • Adam Elenbaas’s video 
  • Ann Friedman’s recent newsletters about ways to build community
  • Marcellus Khalifa Williams
  • executed 5 men
  • nearly 140 journalists in Gaza 
  • unidentifiable bodies
  • killing an injured civilian
  • listened to the voice
  • chasing down + detaining
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1 year ago
32 minutes 57 seconds

shea in the catskills
September 2024: the power of consistency

In this episode:

  • blog post for this episode, complete with kitty pic
  • Getting Thru It Together—Cory + I talked about it on The Cosmic Dispatch—watch or listen
  • Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
  • 2:1 tarot consultations with me + robin herold
  • My books are open—book with me thru calendly
  • Guidance From the Flowers: Connecting with the Ancient Wisdom of the Earth with Mary Kerns
  • did you know I also paint murals?
  • You might be interested in purchasing this rare, out-of-print tarot deck for me?
  • election season
  • Tarence Ray
  • Please break my heart by Jodi Rhoden
  • Kelly Hayes
  • Jeremy Flood
  • It would be funny if it weren’t true
  • steady diet of cat videos keeping me alive
  • Mary Oliver on Empire via Dr. Maya C. Popa
  • THESE TWO!!! 😭❤️‍🔥
  • Protests at the DNC
  • To Live in a Wild Sea by Guillermo F. Flórez
  • Dr. Ariana Brazier’s Imagination Playbook
  • Beauty is everywhere
  • Organizing can happen anywhere
  • robin herold’s Sleep in Public
  • Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens playing for her grandson
  • Alexandria Masse’s crochet insects
  • Fifth Spirit Tarot
  • my current work-in-progress, 78 Faces of Power
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1 year ago
29 minutes

shea in the catskills
August 2024: can you join us?

In this episode:

  • blog post for this episode
  • Malkia Devich Cyril
  • fundraiser for my friend Kerry, there’s still time to give!
  • Elena Solano + I are offering Confusion + Casting Spells
  • Cory Nakasue + I are offering Getting Thru It Together; Cory talked about it on The Cosmic Dispatch
  • new Study Tarot Series cohort begins in December + what people have said about the experience
  • 2:1 consultations with me + robin herold, you can read more about it here
  • My books are open—book with me thru calendly
  • Kelly Hayes
  • Alexis Pauline Gumbs reflective writing workshop—it was recorded
  • Gerti Schoen’s Microdosing Amanita Muscaria online course 
  • Agonizing? Organize!
  • general mood
  • In Bad Faith with Mohammed El-Kurd
  • cat ASMR 
  • nearly 200,000 Palestinians, or 9% of the population
  • Octavia’s Parables podcast
  • Stitching Freedom: Embroidery & Incarceration by Isabella Rosner
  • Jessica Mitford interviewed Black radical George Jackson 
  • Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time, esp Tarot + Blankets and Quilts
  • Resistance Revival Chorus’s 2020 album This Joy 
  • Fannie Lou Hamer’s Songs My Mother Taught Me
  • Southerners on New Ground (SONG) recently released the results of their strategic planning process, in the form of a Strategic Almanac
  • It’s not too late to start masking!
  • Mark Perlmutter, orthopedic surgeon
  • this blood-soaked, death-making country
  • CAN YOU JOIN US?
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1 year ago
25 minutes 46 seconds

shea in the catskills
a July Interlude

episode artwork by Elena Solano

in this episode:

  • blog post for this offering…with memes + kitty-pic
  • "Is this America?": Survival and Creativity in the Face of Electoral Foolishness with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • don’t agonize, organize
  • obsessed with things like this
  • my new favorite podcast
  • Tarot 101 online on Tuesday, July 23 at 6pm est (time zone converter) + what past participants have said about it
  • Elena Solano + Cory Nakasue
  • The Symbolic Lab. On Saturday, August 3 from 1-2:30pm est (time zone converter)
  • Getting Thru It Together: The Living Language of Divination #inthesetimes
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1 year ago
11 minutes 28 seconds

shea in the catskills
July 2024: a mid-year check-in

In this episode:

  • blog post for this offering
  • Charlie Claire Burgess
  • Tarot 101 + what people are saying about it
  • Online Tarot Circles
  • In-Person Tarot Circle 
  • me + Elena Solano, The Symbolic Lab + Confusion + Casting Spells on Saturday, August 3
  • me + Cory Nakasue + tarot + astrology in mid-September
  • My books are open—book with me thru calendly!
  • Saidiya Hartman
  • Hojin’s online art practice series
  • Martha Crawford’s Discernment and Emotional Function
  • Musical moods: inspiration, connection, rage (support artist Robin Herold on Patreon!)
  • Visualizing wealth inequality
  • “the goal is to have an endless war, not a successful war”
  • trying to eat my snacks in peace
  • The Rebis
  • New Yorker documentary about a Bulgarian tradition of dancing evil spirits away a young lad named Samih sat on a chair, played the Oud, and sang a song
  • Melissa Cody is at MoMA in an exhibit called Webbed Skies
  • Cultivating Solidarity: Responding to Political Repression + 5 Questions tool 
  • Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together by Dean Spade is available for pre-order! Use promo code F*CKED<3 for a discount…
  • 78 Faces of Power
  • “your silence will not protect you” —Audre Lorde
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1 year ago
19 minutes 51 seconds

shea in the catskills
June 2024: our thoughts + words are spells

in this episode:

  • blog post for this episode, with images
  • Nemik’s Manifesto
  • Tarot 101 on Tuesday, July 23 at 6pm est + what people are saying about it
  • Online Tarot Circles
  • In-Person Tarot Circle 
  • My books are open book with me thru calendly
  • Alice Sparkly Kat
  • The Cosmic Dispatch 
  • In Conversation With Lane Smith on my podcast; their forthcoming book: 78 Acts of Liberation
  • Lama Rod Owens
  • 2024 mood board: Careless Whisper, Yes, Sigi, Me every evening at around 7:30pm, Kamau Franklin
  • Palestinian Resistance
  • Working Class Love Notes
  • the most wonderful time of the year
  • artist Archie Moore’s kith and kin 
  • Survival is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • working class pianist at the public library
  • How To Survive the End of the World podcast—the sisters’ reunion
  • 78 Faces of Power 
  • Marie Howe
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1 year ago
20 minutes 1 second

shea in the catskills
In Conversation With: Lane Smith

Today I had the great good fortune of being in conversation with Lane Smith. Lane is a transmasculine nonbinary writer with over 20 years of experience as an activist, organizer, and Tarot reader. They have been involved in struggles against war, the death penalty, attacks on LGBT rights and body autonomy for marginalized genders and birthing people, police violence, and apartheid. They have worked as a social worker in prisons, and in the field of harm reduction with people who are at risk for HIV/AIDS. With a professional Master’s degree in Social Work and an academic Master’s degree in Humanities and Social Thought, Lane expresses their ideas in clear, nonacademic language in the interest of putting social justice values into practice. Lane is the editor of the Tarot & Politics zine, and a member of Solidarity Tarot where they live in Baltimore City, Maryland.

In addition to publishing the Tarot & Politics zine—a paid venue for Tarot writers and artists that prioritizes the voices of BIPOC, trans, nonbinary, queer, disabled and neurodivergent people—Lane is also author of the forthcoming 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World, available for pre-order now. + they also have a newsletter called Rebel Specters, which I highly recommend.

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Lane Smith on the interwebs: https://mxlanesmith.com/

78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World: https://bookshop.org/p/books/seventy-eight-acts-of-liberation-tarot-to-transform-our-world-lane-smith/20322387?ean=9781649632203

Tarot & Politics zine: https://mxlanesmith.com/publications/

Rebel Specters newsletter: https://buttondown.email/rebelspecters

The Rebis tarot magazine: https://linkin.bio/the__rebis

Armed Joy zine: https://eighteeneightytwo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/armed-joy-imposed.pdf

music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY 

shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

The Arcana in You ezine: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/the-arcana-in-you-ezine

study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series 
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

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1 year ago
1 hour 50 minutes

shea in the catskills
monthly musings by queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, library clerk + contemplative shea in the catskills