120 episodes
The Tarot Diagnosis Shannon Knight
-
- Health & Fitness
-
-
4.9 • 87 Ratings
-
Hey there! I'm Shannon - a licensed psychotherapist in private practice who also happens to love tarot. Each episode I work to demystify tarot and explore its connections to mental and emotional health while implementing its inherently helpful tools to better understand ourselves and those around us. Join me as I unravel common struggles related to our behavior, thought patterns, emotions, and relationships while pulling cards to facilitate growth and to help create the life and relationships we all desire.
-
Leaving the Church & Finding Tarot
This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, I’m joined by Cami Ostman - a former Internal Family Systems therapist who has journeyed away from organized religion, into tarot and therapy, and now into storytelling.
Cami vulnerably explores her experience of entering and exiting a fundamental religion, how pivotal tarot has been in her personal healing journey, and how she has transitioned from one healing profession into another.
Throughout the episode, we talk about Eight of Wands, Ten of Pentacles, Page of Swords, Ten of Cups, Six of Swords, and The Magician. Even now, writing out those cards I feel like they make such perfect sense for this conversation on the different versions of ourselves and the various lives we will inevitably live.
Learn more about Cami and The Narrative Project here.
Have you heard the news?! The first official Tarot Diagnosis spread book is now available! Purchase a hard copy of "Tarot & Self-Discovery: A Therapeutic journey with over 200 Spreads" here. Want a digital version instead? Download it here.
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!
Have a topic you’d like to hear about? We’re always interested in hearing your suggestions! Click here to submit a topic!
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 Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis
Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound
Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com
Music by Timmoor from Pixabay -
The Cards You're Dealt: A Conversation with Theresa Reed aka The Tarot Lady
This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, Theresa Reed (aka @thetarotlady) joins me to discuss life’s most difficult moments and her new latest book “The Cards You’re Dealt - How To Deal When Life Gets Real.” Our conversation explores grief, loss, tragedy, and the role tarot can play in helping us to navigate life's difficulties.
Theresa and I touch on societal pressures, why we often neglect certain types of grief beyond death, and we challenge toxic positivity and our societal discomfort with acknowledging mortality. We spend some time discussing the importance of breaking the silence around unrecognized grief and the significance of creating space for open conversations.
We open the episode with the Seven of Swords and Two of Wands, and Theresa makes a powerful connection between our two cards.
Theresa's book, "The Cards You're Dealt," is praised for its acknowledgment of various forms of grief experienced in everyday life, not just related to death. It emphasizes the need for curiosity about our emotions and internal worlds, allowing individuals to navigate unexpected waves of grief more effectively - all with the help of tarot.
Learn more about “The Cards You’re Dealt” by visiting Theresa’s website here: www.TheTarotLady.com
If you love The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, one of the best and easiest ways to support the podcast is by giving a review on whatever platform you listen on. It really is a HUGE help and allows more people to see our podcast!
Have a topic you’d like to hear about? I’m always interested in hearing your suggestions! Click here to submit a topic!
Don't forget to subscribe to the email list to get all kinds of free mental health and tarot goodies, as well as access to the exclusive membership community The Symposium!
www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com
Follow us on Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis
Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound
Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com
Music by Timmoor from Pixabay -
Logic & Magic: Finding Harmony in Opposition
This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, I tackle a topic I think many of you have pondered yourselves. How do we find harmony while we’re rooted in logic, but long for magic?
A Symposium member reached out to me recently and posed an insightful question. I had already planned on doing some work with The Hanged Man this week, and I felt her question paired so well with that anchor.
I begin the episode by exploring the concept of logic and magic through the lens of The Hanged Man. Then The Hierophant, Hermit, and Ace of Cups all make their presence known. I spend quite a bit of time talking about Dialectical Behavior Therapy and dialectical thought and how that seems to be the most appropriate avenue for finding harmony in opposition.
The question asked is below:
“Hello! I have a question and I think it is a difficult one, but I do not know who I can talk with. In general there are two sides inside of me. I believe in logic. I understand how Tarot cards and horoscopes are working from the psychological side. I know deeply why I am using them and how it helps.
But there is also another side of me who is really interested in all the spiritual things. About mystery and energy flow. And it is more about chaos theory and that everything has meaning. And this part makes me believe in all "magic" things.
So my question - how do you manage these two sides and have a clear mind for decisions?”
I can't wait to hear your thoughts on this!
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!
Have a topic you’d like to hear about? We’re always interested in hearing your suggestions! Click here to submit a topic!
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 Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis
Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound
Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com
Music by Timmoor from Pixabay -
The Psychology of Money with Mimi Cirbusova
This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, Mimi Cirbusova joins me to explore the personal stories and baggage we carry around about money and personal finances.
Mimi is brilliant at taking a topic often dominated by shame and infusing it with compassion and understanding. We use tarot to help us explore our money scripts (take the quiz here), find out what experiences contribute to our money stories, discuss how to regain a sense of financial power when you’re feeling anxious and overwhelmed.
I’m surprised and not surprised that we both somehow pull all of the cups for this episode…but it makes sense. Money is such a delicate topic that often brings up a ton of emotions and discomfort. Let us know if you ended up pulling cups alongside of us too!
Mimi will be hosting an exclusive workshop on the same topic inside The Symposium this month AND we will be LIVE on Instagram on Thursday Nov. 9th at 6pm ET. So come hang out with us!
You can learn more about Mimi by visiting MeadowSweetMoney.com or by following her on Instagram @MeadowSweetMoney.
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!
Have a topic you’d like to hear about? We’re always interested in hearing your suggestions! Click here to submit a topic!
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 Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis
Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound
Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com
Music by Timmoor from Pixabay -
Justice & Cognitive Dissonance
This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, I have an epiphany about the Justice card. You’ll hear me realize why this card has always frightened me, made me squirm, and want to shove it back in the deck (or in the trash) and pull again. It was such a profound moment, even my partner was like… “Oh sh*t!”
I tackle the psychological concept of cognitive dissonance and somehow explore Temperance, Five of Swords, Seven of Wands, Nine of Wands, Queen of Swords, and The Fool all within a relatively short amount of time.
Side note: Thank you all for making this space encouraging, safe, and uplifting so that I knew it would be okay to share my own personal experience with this card so publicly.
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!
Have a topic you’d like to hear about? We’re always interested in hearing your suggestions! Click here to submit a topic!
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 Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis
Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound
Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com
Music by Timmoor from Pixabay -
The Reality of The Wheel of Fortune: A conversation with Sarah Thibault
This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, join me for a candid and personal conversation about the Wheel of Fortune and how we can humanize an often elusive, or superficial archetype. Sarah Thibault, host of The Side Woo podcast joins me and together we talk about how we can reclaim the Wheel of Fortune by viewing it through the lens of power and control, karma, comparison, radical acceptance, and ritual. Yes - all of that. And somehow it all works.
We also explore traditional and modern depictions of this archetype while exploring how the images pertain to modern emotional and psychological experiences - like navigating the social media algorithm and not losing our inherent sense of value in the process.
To learn more about Sarah, check out her podcast The Side Woo, subscriber to her substack Art Date, and browse her captivating artwork.
Speaking of the algorithm: 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!
Have a topic you’d like to hear about? We’re always interested in hearing your suggestions! Click here to submit a topic!
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 Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis
Audio Edited by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Sound
Contact: DeepResonanceSound@gmail.com
Music by Timmoor from Pixabay
Customer Reviews
Incredibly Insightful
A talented blend of insights, The Tarot Diagnosis brings it all together in an intelligent and well thought out way. I look forward to new episodes popping up!
Mental Health and Healing
So much insight and vulnerability packed into one podcast. What I love about it is that I think I know tarot pretty well and I wish I had pursued a psychology degree, but Shannon either finds new ground or expands my awareness. Like today, she opened up the Justice card that I too struggle with. And then she reiterated what cognitive dissonance means and it hit me like a lightning bolt that the tension of my current situation is grinding me down, not my inability to flourish or even cope.
Speaking of not just coping but flourishing, that is exactly what this podcast has done since Shannon became the sole host. It has always been such a rich, thoughtful, fun podcast and I admire how Shannon didn’t lose that thread. She just wove it into a new iteration that has been inspiring to see. It was a make or break moment and she made it.
I have gotten so much healing from this podcast and it’s criminal that I haven’t written a review before today. Hope I’m not running into a word limit ;D
Farewell episode
I truly believe that when we have a Tower moment we need time to recenter and find our new direction. You’re going to be so amazed at the creativity that is waiting within you and will now flow into the program. Gratitude for what was, time for grieving will help you heal and alchemize pain into medicine.
Top Podcasts In Health & Fitness
You Might Also Like