Spirit Gym with Paul Chek
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403 — History Isn't Dead: It's the Myth Living Through You Right Now With Letao Wang
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Did you know that to be gifted in the Tarot, you need to be a historian too?
Spiritual counselor and Tarot master Letao Wang shares how the dual studies of history and the Tarot intersect and how both affected his work and life for the better this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Letao and how to work with him at his Healing Kingdom website. Find Letao on social media via YouTube and Instagram.
Timestamps
3:03 Letao’s award-winning Tarot card decks.
8:13 “A myth is history and there’s no defined boundary between them.”
15:08 To be a good astrologer, you have to be a good historian too.
25:14 “Life is like a tennis game and astrology's like a weather report.”
27:41 How Letao selected the 36 historical figures who appeared in his latest Oracle deck.
31:31 The story of Yoshiko Yamaguchi and the ways it paralleled Letao’s life growing up.
39:46 How should you use Lateo’s Tarot card deck to gain insights into your life?
42:06 Using Lateo’s Tarot card decks in functional and non-traditional ways, like a meditation tool.
56:48 One of Letao’s goals with his newest Tarot card deck: Sharing very influential figures in Asian culture to a Western audience like Chiune Sugihara.
1:08:38 A meditation on sacrifice for the greater good.
1:14:48 “If we are unconscious of the myth living within us, we are unconscious of the choices we’re making.”
1:23:51 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse.
1:34:32 Knowing that Benjamin Netanyahu is a Libra could explain a lot of his actions as Israel’s Prime Minister.
1:40:25 Some positives to look out for during the remainder of 2026.
Resources
Legends, Heroes and Villains Oracle Tarot card deck by Letao Wang
Oracle of the Celestial Deities Tarot card deck by Letao Wang
Oracle of the Mythic Heroes Tarot card deck by Letao Wang=
Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It by Emily Hauser
Letao’s interview about the Year of the Fire Horse on BBC News on YouTube
Letao’s conversation with Gahl Sasson on YouTube
The work of Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Puyi, Nelson Mandela and Fritz Haber
Paul’s podcast conversation with Ernst Wilhelm
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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music
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