The Tarot Diagnosis

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we tackle the age old question, what does it mean to be a good person? Or perhaps more importantly, "Am I a good person?" We begin with The High Priestess and end with the Queen of Cups. Along the way spend time with (weirdly) a whole bunch of pentacles. We also geek out on some psychological theory and get into not only how we might define a good person, but also why it’s important to us as humans. No matter how you feel about yourself, this is a fascinating conversation that you’re not going to want to miss. We’re wrapping up our month-long exploration in The Symposium on the idea of Depression vs. Burnout. It’s been an incredible month, including a fantastic workshop and meetup. In September, we’re going to be tackling the issue of Tarot and Money Work. We’re really excited because we think that we’re coming at this topic from a very different approach. If you’re not a member of The Symposium, now might be the perfect time to join! You’ll even have access the almost a years worth of Symposium content! Decks Used: Crow Tarot & Tarot Vintage Check out the Work by Dolly Chugh here that Shannon mentioned in the episode! If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we decide to get creative and talk about The Art of Unlearning. In the spirit of this topic, we began this episode not entirely sure what direction we were going to go. We were surprised to discover all of the twists and turns we came across along the way, including how much this topic related both to therapy and tarot. Get your Page energy ready and join us in this week’s episode where we explore all the cups and spend some quality time with Two of Swords. Also! Our monthly theme in The Symposium for September is Tarot and Money Work. As therapists, we’re really looking forward to approaching this topic from a slightly different perspective. If you’re not a member already, click here to join before September 1st to make sure you’re part of this month-long journey into Tarot and Money Work! Decks Used: The Art of Tarot & Tarot Vintage If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

In this week’s episode of The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we get down to business in talking about a subject near, but not-so-dear to our hearts: Hustle Culture. It’s unavoidable in today’s world to go untouched by the draw and push to engage in hustle culture. So, we wanted to step back and ask ourselves (and tarot), what is this really all about?  We started with Judgment and Knight of Wands. The cards went flying from there. Join us for this frank, and in many ways, highly personal episode as we try to unpack what hustle culture is, and how we can best respond to it. Decks Used: Tarot of the Abyss & Tarot Vintage If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we talked about a topic you are definitely not going to want to miss (small joke intended)- FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out. This is a phenomenon everybody has experienced at least once or twice in their life. The strong sensation that somehow, we are being left out of something, or missing something very important, And it makes us a uncomfortable to think about it. Shoutout to our Symposium members for inspiring this episode! Listen in as we get real about FOMO, while pulling all of the cups and the swords. There’s a couple real gems in this episode so you really don’t want to miss out ;-) Decks Used: Spacious Tarot & Tarot Vintage If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we get into the a topic that feels really pertinent right now: Starting Over. It’s not just in our own lives (although- for sure it is), this also seems to be an idea that is circulating a lot in our collective communities right now. There seems to be a pull towards it being time to scrap what we have and begin again. Sometimes we go into this idea kicking and screaming. Other times, it’s more of a dream or desire we have, but in the end, many of us are feeling it. Lots of Swords make an appearance this episode - but The Ace of Cups steals the show. Join us for this lively conversation about the pros and cons, pitfalls and salvations in the process of staring over. It’s a good one! Decks Used: Modern Witch & Scorpio Sea If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we decide to have a little fun with the concept of… synchronicity. This is an idea originally discussed by Carl Jung to describe the phenomenon of when a random event happens that seems to be filled with meaning - so much so that we feel a little blown away. As therapists who love tarot cards, we find this idea fascinating, and love trying to walk the very thin line of the reality of the inexplicable, and the realities of magical thinking. We start off with Two of Wands and Eight of Swords, and then go on a fascinating journey, bringing us through Page of Cups, The Hanged Man, The Lovers and Two of Cups and, of course, The Fool. You won’t want to miss this super nerdy, totally surprising, and story-filled episode.  Decks Used: Hush Tarot Gilded Tarot If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we realized that we’ve been doing a series unintentionally. So, we decided to start doing it on purpose. In our episode last week, we started talking about the idea of cognitive distortions - which are habitual thought patterns that people commonly fall into that distort reality. There are a ton of different cognitive distortions that we as therapists can identify, including: black and white thinking, generalizing, labeling, magical thinking, catastrophizing, personalizing, and mind reading. We’ve already talked about catastrophizing in our episode “Dumpster Fire Season," and did an episode called “Magical Thinking.” This week, we decided to make this series official and tackle the congestive distortion of blaming. We’ve all engaged in blaming behaviors - and honestly, we all probably will continue, at least a bit from time to time. But as soon as we pulled Rx Hermit and Judgment cards, we knew we were in for one hell of a conversation and we get real about how this shows up in our own lives. Join us as we move though the Three of Swords and The Devil, spend time with Ace of Swords, both upright and try to find the balance between Queen of Swords and Queen of Cups. Decks used: Crow Tarot Hush Tarot If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we take on an emotion we all have experienced: regret.  If you think about it, it’s such an fascinating thought pattern. We do something, it’s over, (or maybe we don’t do something) and yet- it stays with us, along with all sorts of imaginary realities about what *might* have happened if we had done something else. That’s a strange thing we humans do. We open the episode by pulling Four of Swords and Ace of Cups reversed (um, those are perfect for this topic), and take some interesting journeys along the way - including a brutal realization about Three of Swords, and a lively debate about the role of The Empress. You won’t regret taking some self-care time to listen to this episode (see what we did there?) Decks used: Tarot Vintage Tarot of the Abyss If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we tackle a topic that’s been on our list for a very long time: Difficult People. We start with Wheel of Fortune and Seven of Wands, and then quickly discover that talking about people being difficult is hugely complicated… because sometimes we are the difficult person. But sometimes we aren’t - and the difficult people in our lives keep telling us we are. It’s super confusing, so we turn to all of the Fives to help us sort it out. As always, we shift between the theoretical and the practical, and go deep into the dynamics of the “how’s” and “why’s” of difficult people, and then get real about what we can do in real life situations. Ultimately, this is a conversation of moving from Two of Swords to Two of Cups - and we loved every minute of it. Want to be a part of the conversation? Come join us in The Symposium! This Wednesday, June 15th, we are going to be offering our monthly live workshop! This month we’re exploring how we can use Tarot to set and maintain Boundaries. Sign up now and you can be part of the workshop, pull cards, with us, and get to be a part of the dialog around this super important topic! And if you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health related tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we thought we might lighten things up a bit and talk about the purpose and need we have for play and to have fun. “Talk about play” we thought, “It’s going to be so cheery!” Enter Page of Cups Reversed, Page of Pentacles, Five of Wands, The Emperor, The Devil, and Three of Swords as the first cards we pull… Okay, so talking about having fun turns out to be harder than we thought it would be.  But- we are so glad we did! Join us as we talk though some therapy theory, talk about the magic of sand trays, and get real about how what we sometimes think is fun, actually isn’t.  We felt a lot better after this conversation, and we hope you will, too! Speaking of playing… We had the most fun in our most recent meet up - The Reading Room, a monthly meet up in The Symposium where we take turns practicing reading for one another.  We know, it’s a little nerve wracking trying to read of others when you’ve been focusing mainly on reading tarot for yourself, which is why we carved out this very safe, quiet, and playful space where Symposium members can have a supportive place to just try. If you want to have a gentle place to play and practice tarot with the support and insights of others, you can join The Symposium by clicking here. And if you’re not ready to play with others yet, don’t forget that we have some fun workbooks in our online shop. Ready for some Tarot for Identity Development? Or Relationship Manifestation? Yes, please! And if you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, please be sure to hit those 5 stars and write us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. It really is a HUGE help to us and allows more people to see our podcast! Don't forget to subscribe to our email list to get all kinds of free mental health related tarot goodies on our website, as well as access to our private membership community The Symposium! www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com Follow us on TikTok and Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com Music by Timmoor from Pixabay