The Tarot Diagnosis

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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.

Recent Episodes
  • The Truth Behind the Two of Cups
    Jun 1, 2025 – 00:35:32
  • Lazy or Liberated? The Four of Swords & Eight of Pentacles go to Therapy
    May 18, 2025 – 00:26:59
  • Architecture of Stability: Tarot and Financial Wellness with Mimi Cirbusova
    May 4, 2025 – 00:47:54
  • Damocles: A Jungian-Tarot Psychoanalysis of Sleep Token
    Apr 27, 2025 – 00:29:05
  • Tarot Therapy: The Psychodrama of Tarot & Witchcraft
    Apr 13, 2025 – 00:22:58
  • The Wounded Caretaker: A Tarot Exploration
    Apr 6, 2025 – 00:33:28
  • Gaslighting, Over-Explaining, and the Page of Swords in Tarot
    Mar 30, 2025 – 00:31:19
  • Tending to Our Parts with Tarot
    Mar 16, 2025 – 00:36:29
  • Tarot Therapy: The Wands & Motivational Interviewing
    Mar 2, 2025 – 00:34:47
  • Why is Toxic so Intoxicating? | Understanding Relationship Dynamics with Tarot
    Feb 23, 2025 – 00:33:26
  • The Cognitive Magic of Tarot: A Conversation with Dr. Thomas Brooks
    Feb 9, 2025 – 00:50:06
  • Tarot by Omission: What's NOT in Your Spread?
    Jan 26, 2025 – 00:30:06
  • Tarot Therapy: Aces & The Stages of Change
    Jan 19, 2025 – 00:24:41
  • The Year of The Hermit
    Jan 5, 2025 – 00:23:10
  • Who I was, Who I am, Who I am becoming
    Dec 29, 2024 – 00:24:40
  • Tarot for Creativity with Chelsey Pippin-Mizzi
    Dec 8, 2024 – 00:53:32
  • Intuitive Manifesting with Brigit Esselmont of Biddy Tarot
    Dec 2, 2024 – 00:44:41
  • Stories we Don't Share: Tarot for Ancestral Shadows & Family Narratives
    Nov 25, 2024 – 00:24:11
  • Do no harm, take no sh*t: Processing Collective Grief with Tarot
    Nov 10, 2024 – 00:26:01
  • Pages of the Past
    Nov 3, 2024 – 00:24:20
  • Monsters & The Psychic Terrain {A Spooky Discussion with Candis Green}
    Oct 20, 2024 – 00:49:11
  • Functions of the Shadow: Complexes & Projections
    Sep 29, 2024 – 00:28:12
  • Coping with the News: With Journalist Daylina Miller
    Sep 15, 2024 – 01:01:17
  • The Culmination of Suffering: An Analysis of the Ten of Swords
    Sep 1, 2024 – 00:25:12
  • The Value of Neutrality in Tarot
    Aug 18, 2024 – 00:23:28
  • Tarot & Cognitive Distortions
    Aug 4, 2024 – 00:27:29
  • The Truth about Spiritual Bypassing
    Jul 21, 2024 – 00:25:56
  • The Burden of Healing
    Jul 14, 2024 – 00:25:07
  • The Golden Shadow
    Jun 30, 2024 – 00:32:05
  • How a Therapist Reads Tarot
    Jun 16, 2024 – 00:24:27
  • Tarot in Pop Culture
    Jun 9, 2024 – 00:45:04
  • Navigating Gender: A Tarot Exploration
    May 19, 2024 – 00:41:21
  • I Can Do it With a Broken Heart
    May 12, 2024 – 00:24:20
  • Tarot & Social Psychology
    Apr 28, 2024 – 00:25:10
  • Tarot for Your Existential Crisis
    Apr 14, 2024 – 00:24:37
  • Individuation with The World
    Apr 9, 2024 – 00:26:48
  • Judgement: A True Awakening
    Mar 18, 2024 – 00:41:49
  • Shadow Work with Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
    Mar 11, 2024 – 00:31:08
  • The Moon: The intersection of Astrology & Tarot
    Mar 4, 2024 – 01:01:29
  • Healing the Mother Wound
    Feb 25, 2024 – 00:32:23
  • The Perfectionist's Paradox: Exploring Overcontrol with RO-DBT & Tarot
    Feb 11, 2024 – 00:41:46
  • Coping with Tower Moments
    Jan 28, 2024 – 00:28:15
  • Tarot & Attachment Styles
    Jan 21, 2024 – 00:34:17
  • Terrible Tarot: A Conversation with Annie Buell
    Jan 14, 2024 – 00:46:16
  • The Psychology of Temperance & Strength
    Jan 5, 2024 – 00:18:05
  • Death and Transformation
    Dec 3, 2023 – 00:18:37
  • Leaving the Church & Finding Tarot
    Nov 26, 2023 – 00:47:43
  • The Cards You're Dealt: A Conversation with Theresa Reed aka The Tarot Lady
    Nov 19, 2023 – 00:31:11
  • Logic & Magic: Finding Harmony in Opposition
    Nov 12, 2023 – 00:22:20
  • The Psychology of Money with Mimi Cirbusova
    Nov 5, 2023 – 00:50:37
Recent Reviews
  • Pointsfortrying
    New Listener
    And I like it! Heard Shanon’s interview with Moon Beaming and followed up listening to a few episodes. I really appreciate the insightful sharing!
  • Heather390
    Best Tarot Podcast
    Amazing podcast! Thought provoking topics!
  • Babygurl(;
    Love podcast but one request!
    I think the insights and knowledge she shares is phenomenal, as someone semi new to tarot who’s still in their first year of exploration in of the craft I adore this podcast. If I could add one critique or note I wish she would put links to the different decks her & her guests use or discuss (if those decks are still available) because I’d love to expand my deck collection, especially with non traditional smith Waite decks. 🩵
  • crashboxdesign
    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!
  • PeppermintMochaMom09
    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
  • luminmil
    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.
  • Daylina
    My favorite podcast ever
    A year ago, Shannon and Luna inspired me to pick up my tarot cards again and integrate them into my mental health practice. Now I use their insights in conjunction with talk therapy to explore my subconscious feelings, desires, and motivations. I’ve read a lot of tarot books, but this podcast (and their paid symposium membership) have taught me more than I’ve learned in the 18 years since I picked up my first tarot deck. I love their voices and their chemistry and I cannot recommend TDD enough.
  • Imv2000
    Perfect combo!
    This is such a great podcast - not only does it combine my appreciation for tarot, but it gives me an extra way to reflect on my own therapy sessions - it absolutely doesn’t replace, but it inspires me to think of my healing patterns and how to address. I’m very grateful that Shannon & Luna (and their awesome voices) share their insight and wisdom in such a gentle way. I’m not familiar with all cards, and finding out more about them AND ways to weave them into my life + my own therapy has been a gift in itself. I also find myself listening to past episodes to continue to grow and reflect. Much gratitude to the hosts for sharing their time & talent!!
  • GLOzzyG
    Amazing!!!
    These ladies really give really amazing insight on tarot and how deep you can go. I love to follow along and pull my own cards which really put a lot in perspective for me. This is an amazing podcast for shadow work. 10/10!!! ❤️
  • Tess LaCoyle
    Hard to listen to vocal affectations
    Shannon’s vocal fry affectation is very annoying. I feel like the two are insightful and fun, but The voice gets in the way.
  • slofton88
    My sisters 🧿
    You 2 are the absolute best. Thanks so much🖤
  • Jennifreelee
    Always learn something new!
    I love hearing new ways to interpret the cards and deepening my understanding of them and how I can learn more about myself and the world around me.
  • usershmoozer
    This podcast is truly a gift !❣️
    This is a very important podcast. It is truly a gift and has the potentially to help notably change the way we approach mental health in today’s world. I hope literally everyone finds it.
  • tumulta
    Blowing my mind
    This show is a goldmine. Shannon and Luna take what made me curious about tarot as a tool of exploration and put it on steroids. It just get richer all the time. Thank you for your insights.
  • Sydneyelric
    Enchantedly encouraging
    I really love the themes and outlook that their episodes bring up. They bring up great conversations and different ways of thinking to have toward every day life with a lot of spirituality. I personally lack that spirituality (maybe even desire for it) and this podcast has really brought that positively into my life while also being helpful on mental health. This podcast has really been uplifting and knowledgeable. The way Shannon and Luna bounce ideas off of each other even if different opinions is like hanging out with two healthy and caring friends. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to the daily mundane small talk. It’s encourages you to check in with yourself and even others healthily. There’s tons of moments where I pause the episode and have to quickly text my significant other to include into their conversation. In which then, we bounce even more opinions and examples to the episode subjects. Absolutely wonderful and I’m excited for more to follow!
  • ashleec1028
    Absolutely brilliant!
    These ladies do an amazing job combining tarot with psychotherapy! They have a keen skill that enables them to see more than just what the tarot cards tell them, but also deeper and more meaningful perspectives from their experience in the therapy world. I have been able to relate in someway to every single episode thus far, taking from it a powerful message that is so... deep, however, Episode 9 speaks volumes to me. Every.single.word. If I didn’t know any better, I’d be convinced they did an entire podcast on my life.
  • Sydneypie3421
    Great combo!
    Love the combination of mental health and tarot!
  • KnightroExpress
    Very interesting content!
    I’ve always had a bit of a distant interest in tarot, never quite sure how to get into it. This podcast presents a wonderful way to interpret and think about the interactions between the cards and familiar situations that we may all experience. I can’t wait to hear more!
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