The Tarot and The Food Oracle with Sevante Wulkan

In this episode of Closer to Venus, host Johnny Burke interviews Sevante Wulcan, a fourth-generation intuitive, channel, author, and food healer. They discuss her development of the Food Oracle Healing Deck, which blends food with the spiritual insights of archangels, ascended masters, and the Tarot's Major Arcana. Sevante shares her unique journey, from her intuitive family background to her current work in high vibrational wellness and intuitive food therapy. The conversation explores the relationship between food and spiritual healing, the channeling of food messages, sacred geometry in food, and the impact of high vibrational foods on overall wellness.

00:00 Introduction to Sevante Wulkan

00:36 Discovering Intuitive Gifts

01:28 Understanding Psychic Abilities and Mediumship

02:21 Early Experiences with Tarot

03:44 The Mystical Journey of Tarot

07:35 The Birth of the Food Oracle Healing Deck

16:27 Channeling Food and Spiritual Connections

20:26 Sacred Geometry and Food

22:48 Practical Applications of the Food Oracle Deck

25:07 Conclusion and Contact Information

Transcript

Johnny Burke:  Welcome to Closer to Venus. I'm Johnny Burke, and today's guest is Sante Welcome. She is a fourth generation intuitive, a channel, author of High Vibrational Wellness and a food healer. She's also the host of a globally recognized, nourish Your Soul Show. In this episode, we will discuss how she developed the Food Oracle Healing Deck, which shares how to eat through the eyes of archangels, ascended masters, and the Tarot's Major Arcana. Savante, welcome to the program.

Sevante Wulkan: Thank you. Very glad to be here.

Johnny Burke:. So you are a fourth generation intuitive, so did you recognize your skills very early on, or how did that work? 

Sevante Wulkan: I think so. I came from a pretty hippy dippy family. I always knew that my great-grandmother was the town psychic in Russia, and that was sort of ingrained. I knew that my mother was an amazing animal healer, and so I kind of thought that that was the norm. I remember as a kid, I was running around with tarot cards and Oracle cards and all my friends were, busy playing Go Fish and crazy eights and I had crazy tarot cards. So I think early on I knew I was a little left to center, if you will. And, yeah, I think my gifts came in early because I was able to tell people things that I saw in these cards and it kind of just stuck as a lifelong thing.

Johnny Burke: So, you obviously have psychic abilities as well, right?

Sevante Wulkan: Yeah, I think so. Yeah. 

Johnny Burke: How is that different from mediumship? is that part of your skillset as well, or not really? 

Sevante Wulkan: That comes up a lot- Psychic mediumship. I think about people who are mediums. I see it as someone says, I'm going to a medium, they are poised to talk to the other side, bring in a loved one. Talk about those of who have transitioned. I don't see that that often. I mean, I do incorporate that into my readings, but I wouldn't say that that is something I do on the consistency. Every now and then I will for sure get messages like that, but I don't see that as mediumship. Psychic, as I am intuitive to something that's going to come forward or what I see. I think that's very much more bridging right here than spending time over there.

Johnny Burke: You mentioned tarot cards, that you were playing with when you were younger when the other kids were doing whatever they were doing.

I think the tarot seems to be one of the most misunderstood modalities. What kind of influence did the tarot have on you, when you were younger?

Sevante Wulkan: Well, to be honest, I was totally scared of it. I think if anything, I was freaked out as a child. Seeing the devil card and the tower card and seeing some of these cards, I didn't understand what it was all about, but at the same time I was comfortable. It's like a part of me was scared, maybe the human side of me, but a part of me felt like there was this mystical adventure that I am yet to, experience until I grew up and learned more about what it is that I was looking at -the lovers card, and the strength card, high priestess, that actually is my card, birth card if you will. And so, some cards I just felt like at home with and other cards. Yeah, I think there was some fear. 

I don't do tarot readings all the time except I know tarot because I've just kind of grown up with it. I think my passion for elements, which is a very strong part of the journey of tarot, is something I'm more passionate about. If anything is that aspect, and that has carried into my other works for sure.

Johnny Burke: So in order to really understand the tarot, in your opinion, does it really help a lot to be psychic or can, someone who has no skills, can they actually do readings themselves?

Sevante Wulkan: Well, I would say yes. It's just like, can you read food? And I know we'll get into that later with the Food Healing Oracle deck. How can you look at cauliflower and suddenly do an intuitive reading? You can, and I teach you how, and I think people who are taught to understand symbolism, metaphors, intuition, trusting your own intuition, trusting your gut of what you see, I think it can be learned.

And for those who highly evolved into accessing those esoteric arts and studying what that all is, they can read it better and they can dive deeper into the mysticism of what you're seeing on those cards. When I later took and kind of merged those worlds and started pairing up the major arcana- all 22 with what 22 foods relate to my teachings. I've found it totally fascinating, and tarot just continues on. I mean, that Rider–Waite  deck is the Bible for so many people. I mean, it's the quintessential way to read tarot. It's the way you do it, it's the standard and everything's based on that.

I love offshoots of variations of the tarot deck where people just took it a little bit and kind of ventured out a a little bit more, and that's why I love Oracle. I think Oracle cards just give people that creative opportunity to express themselves and be intuitive and follow guidelines. It's a little bit looser than the structure of tarot with their major arcana, minor arcana court cards and what have you.

Johnny Burke: What I always thought was interesting is I interviewed someone a while back and he said that the tarot was an ancient book of wisdom hidden in plain sight. I thought that was really intriguing to say the least.

Sevante Wulkan: I love that. I love that. My take on that, is what's hiding in plain sight is that we're all walking the hero’s journey. That to me, at least from the major arcana's perspective and everything else is life. But for me, when I hear you say that, I thought, oh, when we go through zero to 22, we go from the fool and just coming in all the way to the universe. We've walked this journey of life and a lot happens in between. That is what everybody's doing on this planet. That's what I think is so fascinating about it.

Johnny Burke: Once I heard that, I never really forgot it, even though I still don't really understand the tarot myself. 

Sevante Wulkan: What did he mean by that? When he said that, 

Johnny Burke: What he, was referring to is that-

Sevante Wulkan: Maybe the archetypes?

Johnny Burke: It was hidden in plain sight because it wasn't a book that a despot o, a tyrant could just burn, which happened several times over the millennia. It was a deck. And what are you supposed to do? Burn all the tarot decks? We've heard about books being banned and things like that, 

Sevante Wulkan: Yeah. 

Johnny Burke: Are they going to ban the tarot too? How do they do that?

Sevante Wulkan: I doubt it , when you were just talking, what came to mind and I think about tarot  is archetypes. And so how we are all living these archetypes, you know, we are the teacher. Some of us are the students, some of us, hopefully all of us are both. And the fool

Johnny Burke: Some of us.

Sevante Wulkan:  Right. And the hermit. Sometimes you just need to go inside and that's where you got to do the real work. Magician, I love that. Like we have to remind ourselves that we have the alchemy of the divine if we tap into it. I love the archetypes and all that is shared in those major arcanas big time. Yeah.

Johnny Burke: You come from a line of healers, you just mentioned that earlier. What really inspired you to become a food healer of all things?

Sevante Wulkan: Yeah. So here's where it gets fun. I must have been an early young girl, single digit by six to eight, and I was just running around the metaphysical store. When my mom was getting a reading and the reader looked down and said, “your daughter here, she died of food poisoning In a past life.”

Johnny Burke: In a bookstore?

Sevante Wulkan: In a bookstore I remember as a child, Dhammapada, California. It wouldn't be surprising if she ended up having a career to balance out that karma in food. As I grew up, I was always super hyper phobic around food. Meaning I was checking expiration dates, always checking to see if there's mold. I was hypersensitive to food preservation, and I don't even know where it would've come from at the time growing up but now it made sense. So as it would turn out I did go to college for food science, dietetics, and nutrition. I ended up becoming really interested in food and the why and the chemistry of it, I mean, really became a little bit of a science nerd, but yet I grew up completely in this enlightened spiritual family.

 I was lucky enough during college or towards the end to start working for a celebrity chef. She was very spiritual, and I started to [switch back into seeing food as this conscious being alive and energy, frequency and vibration, and we have to pray over the food. Or if we're in a bad mood, leave the room. I started to just look at food as more of this conscious being in feeding this temple. That was 35 years ago and through the years I’ve got more into food healing and understanding food and being a foodie and being around, chefs and being a chef, and my daughters are now chefs. I just kind of evolved into seeing food in a bigger way. About five years ago really is when it happened. 

The idea about taking all of my passions kind of came together and it was 1111. I was taking a food healing course and a colleague and I started talking about passions of other things. And food was, at the time, we were meditation recording artists and the idea of I channel food and can we see the higher wisdom of Mother Earth or the guides of this deck? And what does Mother Earth want to say about food on this planet? At this time, it was just pre covid. So really that is where everything kind of came online for me. I sat with it and realized that Mother Earth, Mother Gaia, had something to say about food. And I sat and got quiet and, 60 foods kind of channeled, divided up between the colleague I wrote the first deck with and I understood that food had some messages.

I started looking at the spirituality of food. I started looking at the chakras, how it relates to nature's five elements. started blending them all with actually food as a science and what that food was really doing for the body on the physical. And then I just started kind of looking at creating this whole program around emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual wellness. And it just evolved. It was not a plan. It just was like, okay,  this is the time on the planet where we have to elevate our temple, move ourselves into a greater state of wellness and longevity. And I think this is a roadmap that is supposed to be born. And then covid hit the, the, the exact time I released this deck, and I was like, okay, now I have a better idea of why garlic is protection and elder berry is immunity and ginger is feelings. And it just started to look at what foods were going on when everything was hitting that February, March of 2020.

Johnny Burke: So, can you give an example of how you do a reading with the food Oracle deck.

Sevante Wulkan: Yeah. Not only do I do a reading, but there's 60 cards. It's all plant-based, so it's fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts and spices. 

Johnny Burke: All right. No animal meat.

Sevante Wulkan: No animal meat. No animal proteins. Yeah, no dairy. It's pretty much really what mother nature intended Simple. From the plants, the bushes and the trees. Growing up with that hippie dippy mom, she used to say to me, and this is kind of why I've written all my books in terms of ingredients, she'd say more than three, leave it be. I heard myself, telling my daughters as I was raising them, she'd say if there's more than three on the label, it's not going on the table.

I was growing up hearing like keep it simple and look for foods and then when I was praying and meditating about all this and talking to spirit, it was, look for the foods of the most high vibrational look for the foods that are raising the vibration of your body, not the ones you can't pronounce, not the ones in the inner aisles. And so I just started to become very adept at it. And then 35 countries later this deck went out to the  world. And then two years later, for two years people said, we love this. We have been craving blueberries, which is the word clarity. And blueberries are for the eyes and blueberries, let's just say, or the air element.

 I just started to make this grid of understanding how everything was connecting with one fruit, and then took 60 of 'theem. And then people kept saying, what about this food? What about that food? And two and a half years later, after hearing that and hearing that, chefs were starting to make intentional meals based on the foods of the food healing Oracle deck. We decided, okay, we've heard you and a second deck came out. So another 60 foods. So now there's 124 foods that have gone through this wisdom of channeled collective understanding what it means, what is the picture that's on there that has something to do with the word. You can read a card five ways. What chakra is it doing? And we've gone to  create an actual modality called intuitive food therapy from it and certify other people who want to go deeper and understanding when they're reading a card, now they help others. And it's kind of mushroom from there. Pun intended.

Johnny Burke: Can someone actually look at a chart and see which foods are the highest vibrational, or is it a little bit more complicated than that?

Sevante Wulkan: That's a great question. I think there is a way to look at a chart, and it goes back to the amazing Dr. David Hawkins who created a vibrational frequency chart. It's a pyramid and it looks like chakras as you go up. And when you look at the frequency of words, let's just say rage and anger and hate and jealousy, and even grief, those carry a lower vibration, if you will, when you're caught in that you aren't attracting much of anything but more of that. And those listed were on his scale of like a hundred. And as you start to do the work, start to clear out and raise your vibration into more healing, more into love, more into joy, more into peace. You go up the scale and now you're at like in the eight hundreds. 

So there really is a scale. So when I'm looking at those higher vibrational, it actually looks like the chakras, the yellows, and the pale whites as you go up. So there are foods that are color vibrational matching, actually. When you think about red, you know, like, I'm mad as heck or, you know, might as hell and red is like a cynic and red from being anger that's in the lower vibrational level. And acidic is what the pH scale would say is also in the twos. So I just looked at that and I thought, well, that's pretty amazing because I channeled, let's just say the artichoke. And if you're looking at a pH scale, and acidic is two. Turns out that artichokes are 13.99 and on a pH, so they're all  the way the opposite end. So they would be more bringing you into healing. And it turns out that I channeled that the artichoke is the forgiveness card. Think about artichoke. It protects a heart. It's covering up your heart. And when you're mad and you're not forgiving someone, you put up these walls around you, right? Think of an artichoke with those thorny shark leaves, and you pull back the layers, do the healing work. Your heart kind of shines again.

Johnny Burke: How exactly do you channel food? Does it give you impressions? Are there words or how does that work? 

Sevante Wulkan: Well, it's a unique skillset, at least in the inception. Now I teach it and you read it when you have a food healing Oracle deck. When I was first coming in, I would sit with the word and, the food and meditation. I would look at the picture that felt like this is the picture to represent tomatoes.

 I would start to get messages of what Spirit wanted to say. I would see, more, I would just freeform, right? And I would get really clear ' cause I have a background in food science and I understand food I can go to some of the chemistry . And so I started looking at, what are tomatoes doing for the body? And then I would branch it out systematically. What is tomatoes doing for the body, emotionally, spirit? What are tomatoes doing for the body, mentally and then spiritually? And I would look at this EMPS as way that this food was talking to me. Not just what you do, but what happens to your body when you eat it on a physical. So then it started to come forward to me, and then I'd say, okay, well what does tomato mean to me from a chakra standpoint? On the element side? So yeah, it's a fire element. It's red

Johnny Burke: All right.

Sevante Wulkan: it's our action card. So then a system was born and it's been pretty accurate. When people pull a card, they tell me I was just craving that. I just went to the store that last night and got it. I hear all the time that these cards are so on point, you can't make this up. I do these shows and people come up and I say, do you want a one card reading? And they're like, yes, but I need to tell you something before you pull a card; I have heart disease. Okay. And I know that Mother Nature was pretty whimsical and wise, and that's why a lot of our foods look like the organs and the body parts. 

Johnny Burke: Yeah, they do. You're right. 

Sevante Wulkan: So the  red bell peppers look like the chamber of heart and they're good for the cardiovascular. When I laid out my cards, that's what she picked. 

Johnny Burke: You mentioned something about Spirit a moment ago. You've had contact with Spirit. What about the archangels and the ascended masters? How did you start contacting them?

Sevante Wulkan: I think they started to contact me. I've always been channeling the different archangels and ascended masters. I guess I'm a fan of them all. And I also was at the time a big fan of the Seven Sacred Flames, the  Seven Rays of Life that Aurelia ones wrote. That beautiful book used to travel the Mount Shasta quite a bit. And I started to look and go deeper into hearing what does Archangel Michael really want to say about the first ray of light being blue in that context. I do work with other channels who've channeled the 28 rays of light, and I'll be writing about that next year, but at the time, I was just staying in the realm of the seven rays, and I started to see that the angels have color and food is color.

And I started to understand that food has a vibration that the angels, it's almost like protocols, even days of the week that represent the colors. So what foods would represent the Blu ray of light, the green ray of light, Archangel Raphael, Master Hilarion, you know, this green energy around the heart and healing and money and what would represent that? And I started to look at what foods I've already felt were deeply connected to the heart chakra and just started to make some understandings that we've been guided. And now I'm opening up a little bit of a channel two or a path at least to allow people to see sort of the bigger story about eating more simply, the bigger to go smaller to have the greatest effect on our consciousness. 

Johnny Burke: Apparently you do talk about sacred geometry and food. To begin with, what's been your experience with sacred geometry?

Sevante Wulkan: Well, I think I've always loved sacred spirals. So I started to really enjoy studying more about Fibonacci principles and the perfection of nature. And then as I was curating photos for the Food Healing Oracle Deck, I started to see that sacred spiral show up quite a bit of food, and I was fascinated by that. So if you cut a stock of celery, you'll see that perfect sacred geometry. That's perfect Fibonacci, same thing in kale. 

 It's representing fertility, but not so much physical birth, but more about really staying in your understanding that your heart's calling you to, express something new and to kind of lean into it. It's a good time for that. That's what kale's about. Red cabbage, I started to look at all the little perfect patterns. I told you with the degree in food science, I was under a microscope and started to see sacred geometry patterns in food. And that blew me away that everything's been so cosmically, arranged and orchestrated, and it just goes over so many people's heads. Some people might eat the rainbow and that's amazing but imagine instead of just eating the rainbow and you have a salad of, blue and red and purple and green, but you actually had a salad of spirit and joy and love and acceptance and peace, and you ate that. As you're eating the salad, you are intending that frequency to harmonize with your cells so much higher in doing so. 

That kind of ties in the teachings of Dr. Moto who said, Hey. I'm putting the word love on water and I'm seeing a crystalline structure that’s perfect. And then when he looked under the microscope and the word said, hate, it was completely distorted and incongruent. And he's like, Hey, there's something about frequency in water. And I said well, food is mostly made out of water, so I'm going to take that same concept and I'm going to put a word onto food. Hence the Food Oracle Deck and created a frequency that matches the food.

Johnny Burke: And a frequency chart of some sort 

Sevante Wulkan: But instead of a chart, it's laid out in cards.

Johnny Burke: Yeah. Okay. 

Sevante Wulkan: and a book. The book comes with it. It gives you a guide,

Johnny Burke: So what type of people are going to benefit from the food Oracle the most?

Sevante Wulkan: People who want to understand how to shift into a greater space, which is  everybody, how to eat better, how to understand your cravings. How to open up your refrigerator and look and say, I want to have Brussels sprouts tonight. Or when they go to the grocery store and they're saying- I call it soul shopping. What should I have for dinner? And their eyes lock on something. They can understand better what's going on with them. Did they have a bad day at work? Is there a promotion they got passed up for? Or what is it that is calling them to eat that versus that? And when they can start creating patterns and anybody could do it. That's why I say trust your gut ; it's a real thing. Trust the intuition of what you need for your body, your soul's well ahead of you. When you get those cravings, when you're shopping, going to the farmer's market or the grocery store, that's spirit already well ahead going, it would be great for your body to come back into balance. If you had some mangoes,

Johnny Burke: What about chocolate? Or is that verboten?

Sevante Wulkan: Totally not verboten. It's in our deck. Chocolate is indulgence - it's actually an indulgence card. If you saw the card, there were four discs, desserts, but chocolate is all about self-care. And being able to be okay with indulging in things that raise your vibration when you're depleted, is to indulge in something that brings you back in harmony and center when you're so busy being something to everybody else. Chocolate's giving you that permission. But chocolate also is a major powerhouse antioxidant, and it's great brain food. Anything brown is good for the brain. Brown or black? Black beans, black berries, black sesame, chocolate. That's all air element. That's all great for brain health.

The third deck, which I'll eventually finish, I've kind of elevated that and that's more of like directly discussing cacao versus chocolate. 

Johnny Burke: Right. One last question. What about pizza? Or did that not make the deck?

Sevante Wulkan: I gave it some thought. I thought about the tomato in there and I thought about maybe putting on a little basil, but then I decided no.

Johnny Burke: I didn't think it would make it, but we get the general idea. So, Savante, very cool stuff. I think a lot of people are going to find this interesting. So in the meantime, how can our listeners find you online?

Sevante Wulkan: At ciftofficial.com at CI ft, which stands for the Center for Intuitive Food Therapy.

Johnny Burke: All right, excellent. Um, I'll put that note in or I'll put that link in the show notes and the transcript as well. You've been listening to, you've been listening to Closer to Venus. I'm Johnny Burke. If you enjoyed today's episode, please consider subscribing. In the meantime, you can find more at closertovenus.com.