# Fate vs. Free Will in The Prophecy

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Podcast: [The Swiftie and The Scholar](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-swiftie-and-the-scholar-7423818)
Published: 2026-04-23T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swiftieandscholarpod/episodes/Fate-vs--Free-Will-in-The-Prophecy-e3iaj9v
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## Resource

We are getting witchy today as we dive deep into The Prophecy from Taylor Swift’s 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department. Uncle Jerry teaches us about some specific references to tarot and the occult in literature, and how that shaped a few of his interests. Angela tells the story of a tarot reading that Taylor received from a friend, and how she thinks it inspired this song. Works Cited: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats – William Butler Yeats – Aff Link Rosicrucian Fellowship The Secrets of the Belline Oracle – Sylvie Steinbach – Aff Link Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards – The Morgan Library Visconti Sforza Tarot Cards Cards – Stuart R. Kaplan – Aff Link Miniature Rider-Waite® Tarot – Pamela C. Smith – Aff Link Rider Waite Gold Foil Tarot Deck – Aff Link The Original Rider Waite: The Pictorial Key To The Tarot: An Illustrated Guide – A.E. Waite – Aff Link Tarot Revelations – Joseph Campbell, Richard Roberts – Aff Link A to z Horoscope Maker and Delineator – Llewellyn George – Aff Link A Treatise on the Astrolabe – Geoffrey Chaucer – Aff Link Antithesis – Rhetorical Device Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories – Isaac Bashevis Singer – Aff Link The Miller’s Tale – Geoffrey Chaucer Morphology of the Folktale – V. Propp – Aff Link Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index Taylor Swift’s Tarot Card Revelation Proves None of Travis Kelce Romance Was Accidental Inclusio The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix Follow Us: Patreon ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ Threads ⁠Angela’s Instagram⁠ Uncle Jerry’s Instagram

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