For the Shire: Coming Home Through Tolkien, Tarot and Jung
Episodes
Samwise the Brave: A Tarot Reading from the Edge of Mordor
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The nights grow longer and longer, and the days are dim. Samwise awakens at dawn and turns his face toward the dark East, imagining, somewhere far awa...
Arwen's Choice: Follow the Evenstar into the Night
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“He halted amazed, thinking that he had strayed into a dream, or else that he had received the gift of the Elf-minstrels, who can make the things of...
Will you look into the Mirror?
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will You Look Into the Mirror?Join us as we shine a light on Galadriel, one of Tolkien’s most enigmatic and powerful beings. We trace her sweeping a...
The One Ring
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mae govannen, dear listeners, and welcome to Season 2 of For the Shire.We begin, as all great tales do, in shadow, by turning our gaze to the One Rin...
The Gifts of Galadriel: Christmas Special
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“If Elves indeed still dwell here in this darkening world.” We're back! For a special festive episode where we explore the symbolism of gift givin...
Faramir: Steward of Ancestry
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"... modest, fair-minded and scrupulously just, and very merciful"... I am sure I did not invent him. I did not even want him, though I like him". Tol...
To the King: An Embodied Tarot Reading for Théoden Ednew
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Hail the victorious dead" 3 March 3019, The Battle for Helm's Deep It is just before dawn. The hour when it is always darkest. Theoden King waits in ...
The Beacons Are Lit: The Return of the King
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and...
Corners of the Mind: Hobbits as Ego Consciousness
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." We're back! And finally discussing a topic that prompted us to make this podcast in the first plac...
Dream Nidra from the Woods of Lothlorien
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this dream incubation Nidra. If you are new to Dreamwork, setting the intention to dream is important. In Yoga Nidra, this intention is ca...
Dreaming in the Misty Mountains
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ten withered outstretched fingersreaching into the darknesspalms searching for the pull of the Ring.He waits in the darkrelentlessly holding on.I lift...
Elrond: The Bridge Beyond Nightfall
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"His house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep, or work, or storytelling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixtur...
Palantíri: An Embodied Tarot Reading for Gandalf the Grey
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's just before dawn on the morning of 25 October, 3018 of the third age. The embers of the fires from the night before turn to ash. The stars dw...
Fellowship Part 2: Dharma and Death
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"So you have chosen death." In this episode we pick up right where we left off - on the banks of the River Bruinen. The Nazgûl have been washed away...
Fellowship Part 1: Dharma and Thresholds
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So be it, we shall discuss... the Fellowship of the Ring! We begin this episode in the Shire, where we find Gandalf entwining duty with dharma as he ...
Eowyn: Shieldmaiden of Experience
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this chapter of For the Shire we shine a light on a much beloved character, Eowyn. She is the Shieldmaiden of Rohan who rides to war with a broken...
The Integration of Opposites: Non Duality in The Two Towers
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome Mellons! Molly and Libby welcome you to this quest... to explore every crevice of Tolkien through the lenses of Tarot and Jungian Depth Psycho...