We Like Da Moon

Hey there! It's another witchy Wednesday and your resident cardslinger, Susannah, is here to ramble on at you about the full moon. No howling included. Tune in for a discussion of ritual, timing, and Susannah managing to both sound completely out there and very boring. Too witchy for the Muggles, too scientific for the witches...   transcript: Hey there! Welcome to the Antifragile Tarot Podcast. It's another Witchy Wednesday and I am your resident cardslinger, Susannah. So, I had recorded an entire episode of this podcast and I had decided to type it up and read it off of a script, because it's a pain in the butt to transcribe the entire thing and I thought maybe it would be a little more cohesive if I went off of a script. Turned out, I really didn't like it. I sounded kind of robot. One of my coworkers tells me that I sound like the Microsoft Word paperclip if it was personified, which would come from years and years of doing customer service and phone-based work, but I really don't want this to be like that. You know, I want it to be like you're siting across from me, and we're chatting about tarot, or witchy stuff, and I would love to be able to do that more often, but it's hard with schedules and the stupid time-space continuum, as my husband likes to say, so instead, we've got podcasts. And, I realized that Wednesday, the day that you are listening to this, or not the day that you are listening to this but the day that it is released, is a full moon, and it gave me a really good excuse to re-record everything, so here we are. And I would like to talk to you today about timing. This isn't precisely tarot-related, this is more of the miscellaneous occult stuff that I said I was going to go over, but there are tarot things involved, so sit tight. Before we get started, I do want to issue a slight correction. Last week I was talking about the Rider-Waite tarot system, and I got so excited in referring to it as the Smith-Waite that I stumbled over Pamela Coleman Smith's name. I called her Pamela Smith, for some reason. It's actually Pamela Coleman Smith. She is the artist who drew each of the 78 cards in the system that most people refer to as the Rider-Waite system. But there is a deck, that is actually one of the decks that I inherited from my mom, that is probably the catalyst for me starting Antifragile Tarot, and it is the Centennial Smith-Waite, which I like because it's recolored to fit the artist's original vision, and the name, instead of using the, uh, person who commissioned it and the publisher's name, it uses the artist's name and the person who commissioned it, in that order, which I think is pretty cool. And I'm a feminist, so it pleases me the lady's getting her due.  But we're not really here to ramble on about that. We had enough of that ramble last week. What I do want to talk to you today, about, are moons and timing in general.  So, even the most mundane people I know who have no interest in the occult, or who are like super Christian and want nothing to do with witches, and freak out when they see my pentagram, will, you know, make jokes about the full moon. I work in a hospital as my full-time gig and people are always joking about whether it's a full moon. And you will have medical professionals who swear up down back and forth that the full moon is a crazy time. Personally, in the emergency room, it's always a crazy time. But I was going to do a paper for my Psych 101 class about whether or not there was any real correlation between working... like, hospital admissions, particularly psych admissions, and full moons, because even if there's no occult explanation, I think that the power of suggestion is super-powerful, ha ha, but Idid some preliminary research and I realized that the answer is really gonna be no, even though experience does count for something, and as I mentioned in my last episode, I think it's important that we don't take anything as totally settled.  And one thing that comes u