Weird Studies

Episode 180: The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot

Episode  |  November 20th, 2024  |  1 hr 21 mins

divination, magic, metaphysics, scholarship, tarot, trickster

Phil and JF resume their journey through the major trumps of the tarot with a discussion of the Magician card.

Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot

Episode  |  June 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 19 mins

archetypes, occult, psychology, religion, tarot

Phil and JF continue their series on the tarot with a discussion of the twelfth major arcanum.

Episode 163: The Source of All Abysses: On the Devil Card in the Tarot

Episode  |  February 21st, 2024  |  1 hr 10 mins

divination, esotericism, evil, religion, tarot, the devil

Phil and JF continue their occasional series on the major trumps of the tarot with a discussion on the fifteenth Arcanum, the Devil.

Episode 146: An Air of Great Power: On the Chariot in the Tarot

Episode  |  May 10th, 2023  |  1 hr 17 mins

christianity, hermeticism, mysticism, super fly, tarot, technology

JF and Phil discuss the seventh major trump of the tarot, the Chariot.

Episode 138: Yours and Yours Alone: On the Death Card in the Tarot

Episode  |  January 18th, 2023  |  1 hr 15 mins

death, impermanence, symbolism, tarot

Phil and JF continue their occasional series of episodes on the major arcana of the tarot with a discussion on arcanum XIII, Death.

Episode 122: Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the Star Card in the Tarot

Episode  |  May 11th, 2022  |  1 hr 20 mins

fate, metaphysics, occult, tarot

Episode 114: On the Wheel of Fortune, the Tenth Card of the Tarot

Episode  |  January 19th, 2022  |  1 hr 34 mins

divination, esotericism, religion, tarot

JF and Phil continue their occasional series on the major trumps of the Tarot with a discussion on the tenth major arcanum, the Wheel of Fortune.

Episode 103: On the Tower, the Sixteenth Card of the Tarot

Episode  |  July 21st, 2021  |  1 hr 16 mins

tarot, tower

Phil and JF continue their series on the major arcana of the tarot with a discussion on The Tower.

Episode 84: Mona Lisa Smile: On the Empress, the Third Card in the Tarot

Episode  |  October 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 19 mins

archetypes, divination, tarot

Phil and JF discuss the third major arcana of the traditional tarot deck.

Episode 77: What a Fool Believes: On the Unnumbered Card in the Tarot

Episode  |  July 8th, 2020  |  1 hr 8 mins

archetypes, literature, occult, tarot

JF and Phil discuss the figure of the Fool in the tarot, society, and literature.