We've reached a turning point in the miniseries. From here on, the remaining constellations come as pairs of two cards rather than three, and today's is the very first of them. If your birth date reduces to a 5, your birth cards are the Hierophant and Temperance. Even if you're not a 5, please stay with me, this energy moves through all of our lives.

On this episode:

• The Hierophant constellation and its principle, the movement from received wisdom to lived wisdom, or doctrine to practice
• The two cards as a lifelong dance rather than a straight line: receiving (Hierophant) and integrating (Temperance), maturing toward becoming your own authority
• The Hierophant as the necessary gift of transmitted knowledge, with a shadow that lives at both extremes (dogma on one end, reflexive anti-authority on the other)
• Temperance as the alchemical work of blending doctrine with lived experience
• Hermann Hesse (a 5!) and his novel Siddhartha as a story that maps this whole constellation
• Tarot Psych itself as an example of this constellation lived out, and an invitation to you to do the same

References:

Greer, M. K. (2021). ⁠⁠⁠Archetypal tarot: What your birth card reveals about your personality, your path, and your potential.⁠⁠⁠ Weiser Books.

Hesse, H. (1922/2002). Siddhartha (S. Bernofsky, Trans.). Modern Library.

Related Tarot Psych Episodes:

• ​Episode 15: Birth Cards Miniseries - Foundations (start here if you're new to the miniseries)
• Episode 16: The Magician Constellation (Magician/Wheel/Sun)
• Episode 17: The High Priestess Constellation (High Priestess/Justice/Judgement)
• Episode 18: The Empress Constellation (Empress/Hanged Man/The World)
• Episode 19: The Emperor Constellation (The Emperor/Death/The Fool)

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We've reached the fourth constellation in our Birth Cards Miniseries! If your birth date reduces to a 4, your birth cards are the Emperor, Death, and the Fool. But even if you're not a 4, stay with me, because these constellations are energies that move through all of our lives. This is a constellation about power, but not the kind you'd expect. Its deepest teaching is that real power isn't control or holding on. Real power is the courage to let go: to end what's finished and to compost the old (Death), and to leap into the unknown (Fool), all while building the solid ground that makes that letting-go possible (Emperor).

On this episode:

• Why the tarot constellations belong to everyone, not just the people whose birth cards are a specific constellation
• The Emperor constellation and its guiding principle, as power being the courage to let go rather than the power to control
• How these three cards fit together: the Emperor as the container (the stable ground that makes change survivable), with Death and the Fool as the cycle of release and rebirth that spirals inside that container
• Why the Fool being numbered both 0 and 22 makes this whole constellation a loop, a spiral of transformation
• The three cards, each with its light side and shadow side: the Emperor (structure that serves life vs. the cage of rigidity and over-control), Death (composting the old to feed the new vs. clinging or compulsive destruction), and the Fool (the leap and beginner's mind vs. recklessness without grounding)
• Pema Chödrön (a 4!) as a portrait of this constellation, and how "when things fall apart" can become a doorway into something new
• A reflection practice for finding what's ready to end, and what's waiting to begin

Related Tarot Psych Episodes:

• ​Episode 15: Birth Cards Miniseries - Foundations (start here if you're new to the miniseries)
• ​Episode 10: Resilience Miniseries - The Empress & The Emperor: Creating Ideal Inner Parents for Trauma Work

References:Greer, M. K. (2021). ⁠⁠Archetypal tarot: What your birth card reveals about your personality, your path, and your potential.⁠⁠ Weiser Books.

Chödrön, P. (1997). When things fall apart: Heart advice for difficult times. Shambhala.

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We've reached the third constellation in our Birth Card Miniseries, and it might be my favorite in the whole deck. If your birth date reduces to a 3, these are your birth cards: the Empress, the Hanged Man, and the World. But even if you're not a 3, please don't tune out, because these constellations are energies that move through all of our lives, and this one showed up at one of the most important turning points of mine.

Content note: this episode includes discussion of eating disorder recovery, including my own, kept focused on the emotional shape of the journey rather than specifics. Please listen with care, and see the support resource below if you need it.

On this episode:

• ​Why the tarot constellations belong to everyone, not just the people born under them, and how a constellation can define a whole era of your life
• ​The Empress constellation and its principle, "Love and Creation"
• ​Why this is the most embodied constellation in the deck, and what "a labor of love" really means
• ​The three cards as three stages of one cycle: the Empress (conceiving and nourishing, including nourishing yourself), the Hanged Man (gestation and surrender, and why what feels like being stuck may actually be transformation), and the World (completion, wholeness, and letting yourself arrive): Conceive, Gestate, and Deliver
• ​A personal story about how this whole cycle moved through my own eating disorder recovery and treatment program
• ​Carl Rogers (a 3!) as a portrait of this constellation lived all the way out
• ​A reflection practice for finding which stage of the cycle you're in right now

Eating disorder support:

• ANAD national helpline: 1 (888)-375-7767
• The National Alliance for Eating Disorders offers a free, clinician-staffed helpline: call 1-866-662-1235 (Monday–Friday). You can also learn more at allianceforeatingdisorders.com

New to the miniseries and don't know your number? Start with the first episode in this miniseries (ep. 15) for Birth Card foundations, where I walk through how to calculate your root number and figure out your Tarot Birth Cards.

Related Tarot Psych Episodes:

• ​Episode 15: Birth Cards Miniseries - Foundations (start here if you're new to the miniseries)
• ​Episode 10: Resilience Miniseries - The Empress & The Emperor: Creating Ideal Inner Parents for Trauma Work

References:

Greer, M. K. (2021). ⁠⁠⁠Archetypal tarot: What your birth card reveals about your personality, your path, and your potential.⁠⁠⁠ Weiser Books.

Listen to ⁠"Tarot for the Wild Soul" ⁠Podcast by Lindsay Mack

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The second constellation episode of the Birth Cards miniseries! If your birth date reduces to a 2, this one is yours. We're exploring the High Priestess constellation and the theme that ties them together: knowing. Trusting your inner knowing, using it in the real world, and the (re)awakening that occurs when we're in touch with our intuition. Plus a quick story about Hans Christian Andersen (he's a 2!) whose private diaries and fairytales (like "The Ugly Duckling") embody all three of these cards.

On this episode:

• How you birth cards can help you name your life theme, map your growth edge, and reframe feeling stuck
• Interoception, the sense that points us inward, and why trusting your gut isn't "woo-woo."
• The High Priestess as inner knowing: the raw, interoceptive signal you have to cultivate and learn to use
• Justice as inner knowing made public: taking what you sense and testing it against the real world
• Judgment as awakening: the moment your inner and outer knowing finally click, and why these awakenings keep coming around for someone who is a root number 2
• A body-first pull you can try with your own Tarot deck to practice noticing what you feel before you know anything

If your birth date reduces to a 2, the High Priestess, Justice, and Judgment are your cards. New to the miniseries and don't know your number? Start with the first episode in this miniseries (ep. 15) for Birth Card foundations, where I walk through how to calculate your root number and figure out your Tarot Birth Cards.

References:

Greer, M. K. (2021). Archetypal tarot: What your birth card reveals about your personality, path, and potential. Weiser Books.

Damasio, A. R. (1994). Descartes' error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. Putnam.

The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen. (1990). (P. Conroy & S. Rossel, Trans.). University of Washington Press.

Related Tarot Psych Episodes:

• Episode 15: Birth Cards: Foundations (start here if you're new to the miniseries)
• Episode 16: The Magician Constellation (Root Number 1)

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The first constellation episode of the Birth Cards miniseries! If your birth date reduces to a 1, this one is yours. We're exploring the Magician constellation — the Magician, the Wheel of Fortune, and the Sun — and the principle that ties them together: Will and Focused Consciousness, or as I think of it, agency. Plus a story from Carl Jung's childhood (he's a 1!) that holds all three of these cards in a single, very human moment.

On this episode:

• ⁠⁠⁠Join my bi-weekly newsletter ⁠⁠⁠and come to my in-person Tarot reading event on Thursday, July 23, 2026 (more info in the newsletter or on my Instagram @drlaurarobu⁠)
• A quick refresher on the Tarot Psych way of using birth cards — name your theme, map your growth edge, and reframe the moments you feel stuck
• The Magician constellation and its guiding principle, and why I translate "Will and Focused Consciousness" as agency and conscious self-direction
• The three cards as three faces of the same theme: the Magician (focused will, and using power with integrity), the Wheel of Fortune (agency over your response to what you can't control), and the Sun (authentic self-expression, being seen, and the risk of burnout)
• Why Mary Greer says birth cards have nothing to do with someone's career or public persona — and why we're looking at twelve-year-old Carl Jung instead of the famous psychiatrist
• A reflection practice for finding where your real agency lives right now

References:

Greer, M. K. (2021). ⁠⁠⁠Archetypal tarot: What your birth card reveals about your personality, your path, and your potential.⁠⁠⁠ Weiser Books.

Jung, C. G. (1961). Memories, dreams, reflections. Pantheon Books.

Related Tarot Psych Episodes:

• Episode 15 — Birth Cards: Foundations (start here if you're new to the miniseries)
• Episode 8 — The Magician (through a resilience lens)
• Episode 9 — The Wheel of Fortune (through a resilience lens)

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The kickoff of a brand-new Tarot Psych miniseries all about tarot birth cards! Inspired by my own July birthday, this foundational episode covers what birth cards are, how to calculate yours, and the Tarot Psych perspective on what they reveal.

On this episode:

• What tarot birth cards are, and a simple two-step method for calculating yours by reducing your birth date to a single "root number"
• The nine tarot constellations and their guiding psychological principles, adapted from the work of Mary K. Greer
• Three ways to use your birth cards reflectively — naming your recurring life theme, mapping your growth edge, and reframing the moments you feel stuck
• A reminder that "scary" cards (Death, the Tower, the Devil) are mirrors, not a life sentence
• A closing reflective practice to try with your own birth cards

Find your constellation:

• 1 — The Magician: Magician, Wheel of Fortune, The Sun — Will and Focused Consciousness
• 2 — The High Priestess: High Priestess, Justice, Judgement — Balanced Judgment through Intuitive Awareness
• 3 — The Empress: Empress, The Hanged Man, The World — Love and Creative Imagination
• 4 — The Emperor: Emperor, Death, The Fool — Life Force and the Realization of Power
• 5 — The Hierophant: Hierophant, Temperance — Teaching and Learning
• 6 — The Lovers: Lovers, The Devil — Relatedness and Choice
• 7 — The Chariot: Chariot, The Tower — Mastery through Change
• 8 — Strength: Strength, The Star — Courage and Self-Esteem
• 9 — The Hermit: Hermit, The Moon — Introspection and Personal Integrity

Upcoming Event: Tarot Readings in Madison!6:30 PM, Thursday, July 23, 2026. Come say hi and pull some cards with me! Details on my Instagram (@drlaurarobu).

References:

Greer, M. K. (2021). ⁠⁠Archetypal tarot: What your birth card reveals about your personality, your path, and your potential.⁠⁠ Weiser Books.

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On this episode:

• Five considerations for when Tarot might not be appropriate in a therapeutic context
• Mental health diagnoses and personality traits that may be contraindicated for using Tarot
• Why and how a therapist must assess if a client possesses the necessary ego strength to use Tarot psychologically

References:

Ivtzan, I. (2007). ⁠Tarot cards: A literature review and evaluation of psychic versus psychological explanations.⁠ The Journal of Parapsychology, 71, 139–149.

Rosengarten, A. (2000). ⁠Tarot and psychology: Spectrums of possibility. ⁠Paragon House.

Semetsky, I. (2006). ⁠Tarot as a projective technique. ⁠Spirituality and Health International, 7(4), 187–197.

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On this episode:

• The traditional meanings of The Star card and its imagery of hope, renewal, and serenity after the storm
• The Star reimagined as an invitation to shift out of fight-or-flight and into rest and repair
• How the autonomic nervous system works—the sympathetic "gas pedal" versus the parasympathetic "brake," and the role of vagal tone
• Why chronic stress and unprocessed trauma keep us stuck in survival mode, and what that costs us (allostatic load and its links to anxiety, depression, and PTSD)
• The mindbody work of psychotherapist Nicole Sachs, LCSW, and her JournalSpeak method
• Why rest isn't the reward for healing but the condition that makes healing possible
• Practical prompts, a long-exhale breath practice, an expressive writing exercise, and a tarot spread for working with The Star

References:

McEwen, B. S., & Stellar, E. (1993). Stress and the individual: Mechanisms leading to disease. Archives of Internal Medicine, 153(18), 2093–2101. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1993.00410180039004

Sachs, N. J. (2025). Mind your body: A revolutionary program to release chronic pain and anxiety. Avery.

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On this episode:

• ​Two tarot events I'm doing this week on Thursday 6/4 and Sunday 6/7! More info on my Instagram
• ​The traditional meanings of The Tower card and its imagery of sudden upheaval
• ​The Tower reimagined as a symbol of uncertainty and the dismantling of rigid, foundational beliefs
• ​Key research on why uncertainty threatens us, why it's necessary, and how to build tolerance for it
• ​Why our relationship to uncertainty may be one of the truest measures of our resilience
• ​Why the ability to sit with ambiguity may be one of the highest forms of intelligence
• ​The Tower as a liberation card—how necessary collapse makes room for growth and possibility
• ​Practical prompts and exercises to work with The Tower in your own practice

References:

Brooks, A. W. (2014). Get excited: Reappraising pre-performance anxiety as excitement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1144–1158. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035325⁠

Carleton, R. N. (2012). The intolerance of uncertainty construct in the context of anxiety disorders: Theoretical and practical perspectives. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 12(8), 937–947. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1586/ern.12.82⁠

Carleton, R. N. (2016). Into the unknown: A review and synthesis of contemporary models involving uncertainty. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 39, 30–43. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.02.007⁠

de Berker, A. O., Rutledge, R. B., Mathys, C., Marshall, L., Cross, G. F., Dolan, R. J., & Bestmann, S. (2016). Computations of uncertainty mediate acute stress responses in humans. Nature Communications, 7, Article 10996. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10996⁠

Stolzoff, S. (2026). How to not know: The value of uncertainty in a world that demands answers. W. W. Norton & Company.

***Please keep in mind that the information shared on this podcast is not intended for diagnosis or treatment, or as a substitute for medical, psychological, or spiritual care. Always consult with your healthcare providers for personalized support.***

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On this episode:

• How projective tests are used in psychology
• Tarot as a projective tool in therapeutic contexts
• Comparison of Tarot with Rorschach and TAT tests
• The role of imagery and symbolism in self-understanding
• Empowered randomness and its therapeutic significance
• Case study: Tarot revealing subconscious truths

Takeaways:

• Tarot cards can serve as a structured yet ambiguous prompt for self-exploration.
• The imagery in Tarot contains universal human themes that evoke personal narratives.
• Using Tarot in therapy can bypass psychological defenses and access subconscious material.
• The randomness of shuffling Tarot cards acts as a catalyst for insight, similar to Jung's concept of synchronicity.
• Interpretations of Tarot cards are subjective and should be approached with care and transparency.

References:

Ivtzan, I. (2007). Tarot cards: A literature review and evaluation of psychic versus psychological explanations. The Journal of Parapsychology, 71, 139–149.

Pollack, R. (2019). Seventy-eight degrees of wisdom: A tarot journey to self-awareness. Weiser Books.

Rosengarten, A. (2000). Tarot and psychology: Spectrums of possibility. Paragon House.

Semetsky, I. (2006). Tarot as a projective technique. Spirituality and Health International, 7(4), 187–197.

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