8th House Healers

Have you checked-in with your inner Emperor lately? They are the protector of your most precious knowings. They are the ever-constant gravitational force making it possible for us to freely create. In this episode, we converse on topics inspired by the Emperor archetype.Eliza surprises Sarah with some numerology-inspired synchronicities.The Extra Terrestrial (ET) himself is spontaneously channeled (it's quick--who can catch it!?)."You define what you see, many times without thinking. Realize, you have choice in your definition, in your response, to any situation. This is your point of power." ~ Medicine Woman Tarot "Command" card by Carol Bridges*Episode cover art credit: The Emperor card from Interim Tarot by Linda BenjaminAcknowledgments:The El Goliath Tarot by El Goliath; The Pholarcos Tarot by Carmen Sorrenti; The Emperor as ‘Command’ The Medicine Woman Tarot by Carol Bridges; The Dark Goddess (The Emperor as The Morrigan) and The Tarot of The Crone by Ellen Lorenzi-Prince; Samantha Fey (Psychic Teachers Podcast); Nancy Henrickson, author of Ancestral Tarot; ET, the Extraterrestrial8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Could consciousness be the source of all life? Do things exist because something with consciousness willed them to?In this first installment of Conversations on Consciousness, Sarah and Eliza discuss their understanding of consciousness compared to more common-knowledge definitions-- they may even try to make a few up as they go, you'll have to listen and see! Some big questions come up per yoozh, like, "What is life? What is awareness? Does consciousness only happen when we’re awake?". Of course, in true tangential 8th House Healers fashion we touch upon topics like haunted possessions, animism, thoughts as matter, and yes, even more. Hehehe….Episode cover image, ‘The World’ card, by Eliza, from her Esmerlize Tarot.Acknowledgements:New York Times Article: Your Unconscious Mind May Be Smarter Than You Are; Living in a Mindful Universe by Eben Alexander, MD; Maya Mirsky, The Convoluted Universe, by Dolores Cannon; Unwitting Mystic: by Mary Reed; Seat of the Soul: Gary Zucav; My Stroke Of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph. D; Life After Death with Tyler Henry; Tarot of Physics by Dan Horne & Corrine Kenner http://tarotofphysics.com/; Monica Bodirsky of Shadowlands Tarot8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 8th House Healers are headed off the beaten path of The Fool’s Journey as we welcome our first guest to our podcast, Eliza’s own mother, artist, writer, and educator, Deb Guerdat. Eliza’s conversation with mom, Deb, feels a bit like an extension of ‘I Am The Empress’ as her mother recounts some of the same stories Eliza shared from her own perspective. Join us for a fascinating glimpse into their connection with each other, and with those who came before them, bestowing them with strange and beautiful gifts (or curses) of music audiation, chronic insomnia, and extra sensory perception. Original interview recorded on March 5, 20228th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the womb-like High Priestess, consciousness is brought to form through the nurturing power of The Empress.In this deeply personal and raw episode, Eliza, whom identifies intimately with this archetype, shares her stories of finding and honoring her inner Empress, healing ancestral mother-wounds, grieving lost pregnancies, and understanding the verb of mother as it has played out in her life. We believe sharing one's story has the power to heal-- for when we're offered others' tools for understanding their wounds the capacity to heal our own has an opportunity to expand. Our conversation in ‘I Am The Empress’ delves far deeper into the mother archetype than the woman who packs our lunches and kisses our scraped knees. Mother is life-giver and caretaker, yes, but she is also Nature herself, biology, wildness, a portal between realms. Mother is sensual, blood and guts, physical form, fertile ground, passion and ferocity of love. She is dream-tender; never letting us give up, reminding us to eat, bathe, and rest while we pursue our life’s work. Mother knows best: when it is time to expel, extract, push, let go. “Her power is worldly and frankly sexual; her snakes, poppies, and forceful gaze remind us to treat Earth energies with respect, that she deserves - and expects - proper recompense for her bounty.” -Anastasia Kashian (American Gods Tarot)*Episode cover art features American Gods Tarot by Anastasia Kashian, Tarot of the Abyss by Ana Touriam, Death Mother from Dreamscapes Oracle deck by Matt Hughes and Esmerlize TarotAcknowledgments:‘Mysterious Dark’ by Sophia Faria in We’Moon Gaia Rhythms for Womyn 2022 Calendar (thanks, Erin!); Familiars in Witchcraft, Maja D’Aoust; Weston of Root Lock Tarot (rootlocktarot.com); Dreamscape Oracle Deck, art by Matt Hughes booklet by Jaymi Elford; Musical excerpt courtesy Kate Bush, 'Mother Stands for Comfort' from Hounds of Love EMI Records on 16 September 19858th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy International Women's Day to the mystical, High Priestess and sacred feminine in us all! This episode is dedicated to Null, Eliza’s rat (and brother of Void), who passed away peacefully in the hours following the recording of this episode. We feel honored that he was present for our discussion as he prepared for his journey to Spirit… Join us in discussing all it could mean to have The High Priestess archetype working for you in your life. In this episode, Sarah & Eliza pay homage to animal familiars, rat brothers Null & Void, discuss the Witch archetype, the symbology of water, lucid dreaming, prophecy, and Joan of Arc. They even discover they had the same dream the night before recording!*Episode cover art features The High Priestess card from The Wooden Tarot, background photograph by Eliza (Esmerlize)8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Perhaps there’s a certain magic in the air today, perhaps the bluejays know? Look for the ghost in the machine, the trickster at work… or play (which could explain the mysterious clicking towards the end of the episode). Things are not always what they seem.“Magician is no mere illusionist teasing the eye with sleight of hand. He can teach you how to see into the structures and forms that shape the cosmos and become conscious of the thread that links all things. Nothing is in isolation. Everything is as it seems until you peel back the skin that costs your eyes and hoods your vision from the universe’s miraculous luminosity. At first sight the Magician is merely an entertainer, or so it would seem. But what if, behind his cloak lined with talismans, shriveled frogs, small vials of colored liquid, and lead-filled dice, he is more? What if he really is a magus, a shaman, and a true manipulator of time and space? What if he is merely disguised as a pretender? What better way to hide the meeting of science and myth?”- ‘The Magician’ from The Archeo oracle deck & guidebook by @nick_bantock_art. In our second installment of 8th House Healers, Eliza and Sarah discuss the essence of The Magician's role in the Tarot--sharing insights into their experiences of this energy in their day-to-day lives. We share thoughts on sovereignty, manifestation, the magic of neurodivergence, the power of belief, and a touching story of one performing magician’s final act: dying with intention. *Episode cover art features Cephalopod Tarot by Kitsune Garcia, Esmerlize Tarot, Archeo by Nick Bantock, Bluejay by Emma Pyle, The Prestige cover illustrationAcknowledgements:The Medicine Woman Tarot, Carol Bridges; The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot; South Park Season 11, Episode 10, "Imaginationland"; The Pholarcos Tarot, Carmen Sorrenti (http://www.carmensorrenti.com/); KISS (the 70’s band); My Octopus Teacher documentary film; ‘Consider the Conversation: A Documentary on a Taboo Subject’ featuring author and grief expert Doug Smith8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Announcing the launch of a very special podcast! 8th House Healers is the brainchild of Eliza Harris, photographer, Tarot deck creator, thanatologist/ MSW and Sarah Cole-McCarthy, Sobriety Coach, pediatric OT, singer-songwriter, psychic medium, and now podcast producer. Guided card by card by the Fool's Journey of the Tarot, we take on all topics 8th house-related: occult, consciousness, psychic awareness, and all that lurks in the unexplored shadows of the universe. At the tail end of Mercury rx, and from high atop a mountain of technological challenges, in true Fool fashion, we take a blind leap onto the airwaves to share our debut episode. We hope you’ll come along for the ride as we discuss the essence of the Fool, archetype of new beginnings and seed of potential. In our premiere episode, we recount Eliza’s first mediumship reading (from Sarah) and Sarah explains her experience of identifying as a medium. To our surprise, the very Fool in Eliza’s life to inspire her inward journey of exploring the possibility of life-after-death came through in the reading! *Episode cover art features Tarot of the White Witch by Maja D’Aoust, Tarot of the Crone by Ellen Lorenzo-Prince, Esmerlize Tarot, and The Wildwood TarotAcknowledgments:Marseille Deck; Morbid Anatomy’s Tarot as a Medium: Reading For the Dead, Reading With the Dead with Rachel Pollack (Relationship Reading for Communicating with a Dead Spirit Spread adapted from Gail Fairfield); Pholarcos Tarot, Carmen Sorrenti; Rider-Waite-Smith (Pamela “Pixie” Colman Smith); Root Lock Radio: A Tarot Podcast; Tarot of the Crone, Ellen Lorenzi-Prince; White Witch Tarot, Maja D'Aoust; The Wildwood Tarot: Wherein wisdom resides, Mark Ryan and John Matthews, ills. Will Worthington8th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. Original podcast theme music, Dylan McCarthy (dylanmccarthymusic.com). All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/8th-house-healers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.