BTW 50: 7 of Pentacles – Practice More Failure! with guest Flora Pacha

When the 7 of Pentacles comes up in a reading it's a sign that we’re worried about all the ways we might fail. But the 7 of Pentacles offers us an opportunity to turn failure into an act of rebellion and … pleasure.

In this episode we discuss the relationship between the 7 of Pentacles and the Chariot card; its correspondence to Saturn in Taurus; how 7s usually portend and initiation of some kind; and analyze it all through the lens of Jack Halberstam's glorious book, THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE. We also go into a discussion of the relationship of the 7 of Pentacles to gardening; how plants teach you about love and loss; abuelita knowledge; how to recognize when a plant wants to work with you; creating refuges; how fungi create networks of intelligence; and what we should do if we know the world is ending tomorrow.

Our guest this week is queer artist, herbalist, and plant lover Flora Pacha, previously known as La Loba Loca, host of the WildWeeds Podcast, teacher of feminist brujeria workshops, keeper of pigs, and tender of lands. We love them and we can’t wait to introduce you! Join us.

To find out more about our ACE OF PENTACLES: ABUNDANCE MAGICK WORKSHOP  either scroll down or visit our website. www.betweentheworldspodcast.com/shop

Questions to ask yourself if you're worried you're failing:

• by whose standards am I failing?
• who benefits from my believing myself a failure?
• who benefits if I love myself more in all my failure? Truly, like which groups of people or beings benefit from your resistance to imposed notions of success?
• how can you throw your failure back in the face of the status quo, or whomever it is that says that you’re failing? Like truly, what would it look like to thumb your nose?
• ask yourself, how can I open up a dialogue here, instead of operating on a dominator model?

References in this episode include:

• Saturnalia, University of Chicago. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/saturnalia.html
• The Queer Art of Failure, a book by Jack Halberstam
• 7 of Pentacles, a poem by Marge Piercy

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Learn More About Our  Guest Flora Pacha (formerly known as La Loba Loca)

Our guest this week is queer artist, herbalist, and plant lover Flora Pacha, previously known as La Loba Loca, host of the WildWeeds Podcast, teacher of feminist brujeria workshops, keeper of pigs, and tender of lands. 

Visit their website: https://lalobaloca.bigcartel.com/

Follow them on Instagram: @flora.pacha

Listen to their podcast: Wild Weeds Podcast

Join their Patreon: Flora Pacha

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CURRENT WORKSHOPS  - ACE OF PENTACLES: ABUNDANCE MAGICK

Abundance is already present, but remembering that can be a challenge in a culture that’s modeled on scarcity. True abundance includes rest, love, nourishment, inspiration, security, and pleasure. In this workshop we will establish a new relationship to abundance, inspired by the natural systems of the earth and the wisdom tradition of the tarot. 

This workshop includes:

• Invocation to call in abundance whenever you want or need to
• A beautiful PDF including special correspondences, FAQs, deities, a reference list and more
• A tarot spread for abundance
• 3 easy abundance rituals for daily use (or whenever you need)
• 1 expansive ritual done in the live workshop to call abundance into your life right now
• An abundance meditation you can use whenever you need to get into that state of flow
• And so much more!

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Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

Check out Mind Your Practice - Carolyn's new podcast with arts consultant and author of Make Your Art No Matter What, Beth Pickens.

Mind Your Practice is geared towards artists and writers looking for strategies and support to build their projects and practices (plus loving pep talks). There’s even a club - “Homework Club” - which offers creative people a framework for keeping their projects and practices a priority with *actual homework* and optional accountability groups made up of other artists and writers!

You can visit MindYourPractice.com for more details or listen wherever you stream Between the Worlds.

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CONTRIBUTORS:

Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer, composer). The BTW logo collage was created by Maria Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes.