Tarot has come up in our world before, we've pulled cards together, done a year-ahead spread, sat with the imagery and wondered what it all means. But this time we're slowing down and going deeper. Not as experts or professional tarot readers. But as practitioners with a beginner's mind, genuinely trying to understand what we've been holding in our hands.

In this episode, we return to tarot with fresh eyes, exploring what the deck actually is, how our relationship to it has shifted, and what happens when you stop reaching for the guidebook and start trusting what you notice first. We move through the structure of the 78 cards, sit with The Fool, and talk honestly about what it means to let a card be a mirror rather than an answer.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

🌀 What tarot actually is and what it isn't

🌀 The Major and Minor Arcana and why the distinction matters

🌀 The Fool, and what this card is really saying about beginnings, openness, and the courage it takes to not yet know

🌀 What shifts when you sit with a card before you try to explain it

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Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck

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This New Moon in Pisces on March 18 at p.m. ET, opens a threshold between imagination and action, asking what you’re ready to bring into form. In this month’s reading, Liz Pratt of Fireside Healing offers a tarot reading centered on creative expression, trust, and releasing the patterns that keep your ideas at a distance. With themes of renewal, visibility, and devotion to what feels most alive, this reading invites you to move toward what calls you and allow it to take shape in a more tangible way.

Listen through to the end for a ritual to anchor this New Moon in Pisces.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

🌀 How to recognize and trust sudden moments of clarity or inspiration

🌀 The difference between staying in ideas vs actually moving into creation

🌀 What devotion to your craft looks like in a real, everyday sense

🌀 How joy and engagement can be a signal for where to focus your energy

🌀 The connection between creative work and tangible growth or stability

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Karmic Mirror is evolving, and just like the season shifting, something new is moving through the feed.

Michelle and Ally are introducing Karmic Currents to the rotation, a new episode format alongside their guest conversations and original episodes.

In this first Karmic Currents episode, one theme kept finding its way into every corner of the conversation: discomfort. Whether it showed up in the weight of a new business, the unexpected emotions that birthdays can stir, or the very human tendency to avoid what feels uncertain, discomfort had something to say.

At one point, the conversation turns toward an idea that felt especially resonant: we often get to choose our discomfort. We can repeat the same approaches that keep us stuck and live with the familiar frustration that follows, or we can try something new and face the kind of discomfort that stretches us, expands us, and asks more of who we are becoming.

🌀 Discomfort as a recurring visitor — and what it might be pointing to

🌀 The difference between repeating familiar discomfort and choosing the kind that leads to growth

🌀 Reality TV as an unexpected mirror for how we relate and connect

🌀 Astrology's very literal presence in the everyday chaos of life

🌀 What it means to experiment, be imperfect, and keep showing up anyway

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Forgiveness has been quietly waiting on our list of conversations since the early days of Karmic Mirror. In this episode, we finally sit down with it. Not to define it or solve it, but to explore the many shapes it can take in real life.

Together we move between personal stories and research, questioning the pressure to forgive quickly and reflecting on what it means to move at the pace our nervous systems can actually hold. We explore forgiveness as something layered and evolving, touching on boundaries, self compassion, and the ways our past experiences continue to live within us.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

🌀Forgiveness as something that unfolds over time, not something you force on a timeline

🌀The gap between what the mind understands and what the nervous system is ready for

🌀How forgiveness can be for your own healing without excusing what happened

🌀The weight we carry when resentment goes unresolved

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Desmond Tutu, The Book of Forgiving

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Dr. Robert Enright and forgiveness research

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The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius arrives on February 17, 2026, opening the first eclipse season of the year — and a powerful portal for quantum leaps, collective evolution, and fated new beginnings. This episode opens with a reflection from Ally and Michelle, followed by a channeled tarot reading from Liz Pratt of Fireside Healing.

In it, we'll explore Aquarius as an energy of innovation, community, and visionary thinking, and what it means to plant seeds for a new future when the stakes feel especially high and the path forward is uncharted.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

🌀 The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius and its themes of destiny, community, and radical change

🌀 What it means to acknowledge what no longer fits

🌀 The tension between individuality and belonging

🌀 How the Leo–Aquarius axis renegotiates identity and contribution

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What if rest didn’t require lying down and healing didn’t require fixing yourself?

In this episode of Karmic Mirror, we’re joined by Vicky Winkler, founder of Wildly Creative Wellness, a therapeutic art journaling guide and nervous-system-aware facilitator helping thoughtful, busy humans reconnect with themselves through creativity and play. Vicky shares her personal journey of “doing everything right” on paper while still feeling something was missing, and how art-making became a pathway back to herself—offering rest while awake, release without pressure, and trust without perfection.

Together, we explore art journaling as a somatic practice—one that quiets overthinking, supports nervous system regulation, and invites intuitive knowing to lead. Through doodling, intuitive making, and creative experimentation, this conversation reveals how play can be foundational rather than frivolous, and how safe discomfort can become a powerful catalyst for regulation, resilience, and self-connection.

This episode is a playful reminder that wanting more doesn’t mean something is wrong with what you have—and that sometimes the most meaningful shifts happen when you stop trying to think your way forward and allow the body to guide the way.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

🌀 Art journaling as a gentle, accessible pathway to nervous system regulation

🌀 The difference between sleeping and truly resting while awake

🌀 How creativity helps release judgment and quiet the thinking mind

🌀 Play as a practice for resilience, confidence, and emotional safety

🌀 The ripple effect of creative confidence into daily life and relationships

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Website: wildlycreativewellness.com

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In this reflective episode of Karmic Mirror, Michelle and Ally slow things down to talk honestly about January; as a moment of orientation, rather than the starting line we tend to feel pressure to sprint from. Recorded in the heart of winter, this conversation questions the pressure to set hard goals, choose a “word for the year,” or immediately know what’s next, especially when our bodies, energy, and the natural world are asking for rest, recalibration, and care.

The discussion moves through the tension many of us feel at the beginning of a new year: the collective momentum of “new beginnings” alongside a deeper pull toward slowness, experimentation, and listening. Together, they explore themes of self-trust, urgency versus alignment, planting seeds without forcing outcomes, and allowing clarity to arrive through lived experience rather than pressure. This episode is about permission — to pause, to play, and to let the season shape the pace.

In this episode, you'll explore:

🌀 January as a time for orientation rather than immediate goal-setting

🌀 The tension between collective “new year” energy and seasonal wisdom

🌀 Letting go of urgency and the pressure to have it all figured out

🌀 Experimentation, curiosity, and the value of planting seeds without control

🌀 Growth versus accumulation, and why more isn’t always better

🌀 Self-trust built through small, everyday moments

🌀 Honoring personal rhythms instead of following prescribed timelines

🌀 Allowing desires and direction to unfold rather than forcing clarity

This episode is an invitation to meet yourself where you are, take stock of what’s present, and remember that there is time; to rest, to listen, and to move forward in a way that feels aligned.

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The first New Moon of 2026 arrives in Capricorn, offering a moment to slow down and get oriented as the year begins. This shorter New Moon episode opens with a brief reflection from us, followed by a tarot reading from Liz Pratt of Fireside Healing.

Together, we explore Capricorn as an energy of devotion, discipline, and long-term commitment, and what it means to consider capacity and direction before rushing into new beginnings

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• The first New Moon of 2026 and Capricorn’s steady, long-game energy
• A tarot reading for the Capricorn New Moon with Liz Pratt
• Reflection on intention, responsibility, and sustainability
• Slowing the pace before momentum builds

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• @firesidehealing

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