The Tarot Diagnosis

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I open up about my surface-level relationship with The Fool and the journey I took in search of depth and meaning . It was during this month-long journey that I started to apply various psychological principles to the first card in the Major Arcana – like the theory of attachment , the experience of anxiety , and the liminality of identity development . H...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I explore the pain and confusion inherent within an abrupt farewell and speak candidly about my former co-host’s departure and what my vision for the future of The Tarot Diagnosis is - all while pulling cards of course. I have a lot of conflicting thoughts and feelings about this episode, but I think it's a necessary part of the process. Join me as I...

After a brief hiatus, we are back with a new episode and a GUEST! Jordan Hale joins us this week to explore the magical world of dreams and how to incorporate tarot into a dreamwork practice. Jordan is a psychotherapist, writer, and performer. She hosts her own podcast called Psyche Magic , where she interviews artists and healers about working with the subconscious - via dreams, tarot, and spirit...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we dive into the often ugly (but all too familiar) world of Grudges and Revenge. Inspired by several listener questions over the past year, we tackle the shadow side of our inner worlds, the enticing and obsessive desire to consider revenge, and why we have such difficulty letting go of grudges. Join us for this very Three of Swords episodes, where we cha...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we talk about the extremely common, but very uncomfortable topic of intrusive thoughts .    We all have them from time to time. Sometimes it’s easy to brush them off, and sometimes they can be deeply disturbing. It seemed only right for us to talk about the nature of these thoughts, and what we can do to help manage them.  King of Cups and The Lover s ope...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we explore the intersection of fantasy and reality - where daydreams meet the realities of lived experience. True story: in 1997 Luna took a job working at a summer camp where a reality show called Bug Juice was being filmed and featured Luna as one of the camp counselors. The show aired on The Disney Channel and developed a pretty big following. Every on...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we take a philosophical journey through the often elusive world of Self-Worth.   We explore the various factors that can contribute to our sense of self-worth, as well as the challenges that can arise when our sense of self-worth is compromised. People will talk about self worth (and its first cousin, self esteem) all the time. It’s hard to spend 10 minut...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we explore an often universal phenomenon that so many of you have asked us to talk about: Imposter Syndrome . Imposter Syndrome is a phrase that gets thrown around lot in our world, but what does it really mean? And - if it’s something we struggle with, what can we do about it? We have a remarkable start to the episode as we both pull a Page - which sets...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we get real on a topic that we’ve been noticing personally, professionally, and within the greater tarot community - feeling Stuck in a Rut. It’s a normal part of our human experience to feel stuck and like every day is the same and to wish we felt more inspired and engaged. But just because it’s normal, doesn’t mean it feels good. First cards of the epis...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we finally get around to tackling a topic that we all can relate to… procrastination . Inspired by a question from a listener , the cards guide us through an enlightening conversation about exploring the roots of procrastination. From Three of Wands to Death , Queen of Wands , Page of Wands , Knight of Swords , and Three of Pentacles , we dive deep into e...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we began with a phrase that we fell in love with: Letting Ourselves be Seen. And, as is always true when we pick an idea based on a title- we had no idea where this topic would take us. Because let’s be honest- it could have gone a lot of different ways. We began with Eight of Wands and Four of Pentacles, then we visited with Two of Pentacles, Nine of Swo...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we are exploring Relationship Ruptures, where we peek inside the inner workings of how fractures and upset happens in relationships and what we can do to both prevent and mend them. What’s unique about this episode is that we take you farther behind the scenes than we ever have and talk about a recent rupture we had between the two of us. We decide to use...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we thought it might be fun to do a deep dive into a specific card, and no place better to start than with The Fool. We’ve actually been spending time with card all month long inside The Symposium, with the monthly theme of Playing the Fool (which is also the title of this episode), and have been delighted and surprised by all the twists and turns we’ve go...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we step into the world of personal identity and navigate the often uncomfortable experience of having to figure out who we are and who we want to be. We have to say, we knew it would be an important conversation, but we were really blown away by the direction it took. We begin with Strength and Reversed Star , then we create a roller coaster of the major...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we decided to do a few rounds with an adversary we all know in Taming the Inner Critic . We all have a critic’s voice in our head - and some of us have multiple critic’s voices. A quick Google search will offer some quick advice about how to quiet this voice, but we wanted to go a step farther and move beyond “symptom management” and really dive deep into...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis we wrestle with the age-old issue of temptation.  Honestly, we both came into this episode a little bit nervous, because as therapists we are trained to be non-judgmental. How could we talk about temptation without it sounding like we were judging a behavior? Spoiler alert: we figured it out. It all began with Knight of Cups and Justice - an equally baffling a...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis , we emerge from our not-so-long winter hiatus during December and bring you a brand-new episode to kickstart your new year. This week we talk about Ambition - what it is, where it comes from, how it saves us, and how quickly it can become shadowy. The Moon and Six of Cups start us off, setting the stage for us to talk about the subconscious influences and messages...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we explore the expansive landscape of Managing Expectations . We begin this journey with the Three of Swords and the Page of Cups - an unlikely pairing, but one that really captures the topic and all of its rocky terrain, the potential for joy, and for heartbreak. We talk about the spaces in between, and how to engage with our expectations more thoughtful...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we are thrilled to bring to you our second interview ever! We had a chance to sit down with Sheila Ellis , the owner and creator of Writual Planne r - a spiritual lifestyle brand focused on providing tools and resources to connect people to their personal tarot practice with more ease. You’ve probably seen us post images and reels of us using Writual Plan...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we explore the concept of scarcity and abundance. These words get thrown around a lot and often conjure up intense emotions - including anxiety. So, it was no surprise when we opened the episode by pulling The Tower and Nine of Swords . There is plenty to unpack with this topic - including spirituality, mental health, privilege, and social media. We invit...

Here’s the thing, we all have a bit of a cynic inside of us. And that’s not a bad thing - except for when it starts to get out of control. This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we explore our inner cynic, recognizing the ways in which it serves us, and discussing how to recognize when it has moved from being helpful to being harmful. There’s a ton to discuss with this topic - including all of...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we wade into the sometimes healthy, sometimes not-so-healthy, yet always tempting waters of Escapism. Inspired by a listener’s question, we explore and untangle all the ways in which people find ways to escape, why we feel a need to do this, and how to recognize when it’s gotten a little out of hand. From Page of Pentacles and The Moon, to Three of Cups an...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we tackle the often talked about, yet enigmatic topic of self-sabotage .  We all do it from time to time (some of us do it seemingly all the time), but the real question is, “Why?” Because it can sometimes seem impossible to figure out how to manage self-sabotage, we often don’t fully understand what, exactly, we are trying to manage.   Fro...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we take a trip into the shadowy world of Secrets . Research shows that people have on average 13 secrets - five of which they have never told another person . We get really curious about why this happens, and what having secrets does to us, and for us. Join us for this revealing conversation , where we journey from the Three of Swords vs. Three of Cups ,...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we do the gentle work of Healing Defensiveness . We went into this episode not exactly sure what direction we would go (which is actually pretty typical for us), but it ended up taking a ton of unexpected twists and turns, and in many ways turned out to be a bit of an upside-down episode that was incredibly enlightening and personal for the both of us. Le...