No. 92 Reconsidering Gender and the Divine with Nick Kepley
This conversation with Nick Kepley was over too quick! We know you will love his refreshing outlook on gender and tarot, and how he takes the time to be clear and thoughtful rather than boiling everything down to a hot take.
Some things we discussed:
How tarot is a chance to be very specific about what we want to say and be better communicators about gender.
Life is not black or white. Things are not binary and how that is the truth of our reality, but people want to so desperately crave a simple understanding of things.
How to use tarot as a tool to reconsider gender * A really interesting discussion about the history of tarot carts.
The journey of learning and discovery and not knowing it all and ultimately - just letting people just be whoever they are and how that's so simple and yet that's like the hardest thing.
About Nick:
Born and raised on the ancestral land of the Cherokee people (colonially known as Asheville, NC) Nick Kepley is a white, queer, non-binary Tarot reader, teacher, and writer who is actively committed to resisting the way society works to define us all. Nick believes in the power of words and the importance of representation, and much of his work is dedicated to re-centering marginalized narratives and questioning mainstream archetypes within the context of tarot, magic, and spirituality. He is the co-creator of the In Search of Tarot guided journal collection, founder of the Searcher's Symposium for Tarot Education, and host of the In Search of Tarot podcast.
“I am not trying to remove gender, I’m trying to expand it. Make it more open and more available, not less so.”