The Tarot Diagnosis

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I sit down with author, storyteller, and tarot enthusiast Amanda “Mandy” Hughes from @HaintblueCreative . We explore the inherent narrative quality of the cards, and how we can utilize them for our own creativity . Plus, Mandy walks us through a narrative read of the cards and shares her Tarot Story Arc spread for storytelling. This was so fun to experien...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I explore why The Emperor is one of the most contentious cards in the tarot (along with The Hierophant, but that's for a later episode). I’ve long had a distant and detached relationship with this card until recently. Join me as I spend time unraveling this archetype’s shadow in order to reveal its light - which we don’t often allow to shine. Througho...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I had the opportunity to sit down with Sam and Aussie , a couple and castmates from the Netflix hit show "The Ultimatum: Queer Love," which debuted in May 2023 and follows five couples who disagree over whether or not they’re ready to get married. This might seem like a departure from my typical content, but Sam is actually a tarot reader and bo...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I sit down with a body positive photographer and content creator who’s on a mission to help folks learn to love their body. Ashley Fenison and I get really vulnerable talking about existing in a fat body , how to develop a relationship with a body that society is always telling us to hate, and how to comfort our wounded inner child . We open the episode w...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, I celebrate the 100th episode of the podcast by exploring the idea of manifestation, the psychology behind it, and the connection of this experience to The Empress. I spend some time hanging out at the intersection of manifestation and privilege and talk about the role The Empress plays within this space. The Hierophant helps us open the conversation, whic...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, I find myself sharing personal musings on the paradox of growth and change. I shed light on how so many of us seem to be experiencing significant changes right now. I went back and forth between a few ideas for this week’s episode, but I kept landing on how paradoxical growth and change is. On one hand it can bring us so much joy and fulfillment, yet on th...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , Sonia Fregoso, M.A., LMFT joins me to explore somatic healing practices and how tarot can act as our personal medicine and wisdom . We get vulnerable and explore the ancient healing practice of crying , discuss how tarot is accessible medicine, and get real about how we've become disconnected from our bodies. We begin by inviting in the energy of the...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I guide us to the tarot intersection of Internal Family Systems and Carl Jung's process of individuation . I have been deep in the world of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Jungian Depth Psychology the last few months - so, it’s not surprising that the theme for this week’s episode centers around both of these concepts. In fact, the workshop in The S...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, Nick Kepley from the In Search of Tarot podcast joins me as my very first guest post podcast shake up! We get nerdy about the importance of looking beyond the self , through the lens of The Magician . We peel back the layers of the card's overt and covert symbolism, while also exploring what it means to step outside of the binary , or all or nothing th...

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...