What can the Strength card teach us about authenticity and fear? How might being with our shadows and unmet needs open up space for courageous communications?

Join Mallory Dowd and I for an illuminating, alive conversation on the tarot card of 2024: Strength.

We explored the themes of fear, authenticity, our relationship with identity, how authenticity interacts with time, shadow work, and what it means to communicate with courage, honesty, openness, and thoughtfulness.

We also reflected on 2023, which was a Chariot year, and what that year brought up for us, some of the challenges and the lessons.

Mallory is a tarot reader and writer whose perspectives inspire deeper engagement with life. Mallory is also a dear friend. I admire Mallory's portal-opening questions and her genuine curiosity about the responses these questions bring up. 

Throughout this conversation you'll hear us both challenging, clarifying, and adding to each other's ideas, and freely sharing personal anecdotes from our lives about the Strength card.

Mallory's bio:

Mallory Dowd (she/they) is a professional intuitive tarot reader, artist, mystic, teacher, and psychotherapist. As a perennial student and Mercurial being, Mallory’s work shapeshifts and interweaves the gifts of divination, self-compassion, oracular magic, earth-based spirituality, loving presence, creativity, laughter, co-regulation, and play. Mallory is interested in how we cultivate curiosity and the courage to live and express truthfully. She resides in Seoul and offers tarot readings and spiritual guidance globally online and as recorded divinations.

Find Mallory on instagram or visit her website.

People & resources mentioned:

• Pema Chödron's When Things Fall Apart
• Lindsay Mack
• David Bedrick's work on unshaming

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