Spiritually Grounded Podcast
by Where Shadow and Spirit meet in conversation to guide you toward clarity, awareness, and the freedom to know yourself.
Are you caught in the same emotional cycles? Replaying old stories, struggling to understand why certain patterns keep returning, or sensing that something deeper is guiding you? You’re not alone. Beneath every choice and challenge are two powerful forces at work, your Shadow (protector) and your Spirit (essence). One keeps you safe while the other calls you forward.The Spiritually Grounded Podcast is where those forces meet in conversation. Each episode is a guided exploration into self-awareness and transformation. I demonstrate how to use tarot, intuitive insight, and shadow work to help guests uncover the truth behind their struggles and rediscover their connection to purpose.You’ll hear real sessions, stories, and teachings that reveal how the past and future both speak through the present moment and how learning to listen can shift everything. Together, we’ll explore the unseen patterns that shape your life and learn to transform them into pathways for awareness, curiosity, a
Episodes
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The Moon: Walking Through What You Can't See
In this episode of Spiritually Grounded, we walk into the terrain of shifting shapes, obscured roads, dreams and synchronicities that feel both guiding and unsettling. The Moon is not a card of deception. It is a card of depth. It invites us into the spaces where certainty dissolves and intuition...
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The Star: Hope After the Fire
What happens after the Tower falls?After the illusion have burned away?When the noise goes quiet? In this episode of Spiritually Grounded, we explore The Star, a card of renewal, clarity, and reconnection to something larger than the self. The Star is not naïve optimism. It is the settling of the...
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The Tower
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The Lantern of Bone & Shadow live with Tarot by Chris
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The Devil
In this episode of Spiritually Grounded, I explore The Devil card not as something to fear, but as an invitation to awareness. The Devil reveals where we are bound by unconscious attachments found in habits, beliefs, desires, and emotional patterns that once helped us survive, but now quietly…
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Temperance
In this episode of Spiritually Grounded, Christopher explores Temperance, the card of emotional alchemy and sacred balance. He shares how learning to slow down, breathe, and stay present became the most challenging and transformative practice of his life. Through storytelling and vulnerability…
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Death
In this deeply personal episode, I explore one of the most misunderstood cards in the tarot. Death, not as an ending, but as a sacred transformation. This is the story of how I was erased from my family of origin and reborn into a new life built on authenticity, love, and spiritual truth. Through...
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The Witch and The Warrior talk with Willow about the candles she creates
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The Hanged Man
What happens when life turns you upside-down? In this episode, Christopher explores The Hanged Man, the card of surrender, perspective, and spiritual awakening. Sharing his own story of letting go of control, family expectations, and the illusion of stability, Christopher reveals how surrender...
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Justice
In this powerful episode of Everything Tarot, Christopher explores the Justice card as a mirror of self-accountability, moral clarity, and emotional truth. Through personal reflection and lived experience, he examines what happens when life demands balance and when the choices we make come full...
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A Conversation with William, Be Better
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The Wheel of Fortune
In this episode of the Everything Tarot Podcast, I dive into the mysteries of the Wheel of Fortune, the Major Arcana card that reminds us life is never static. We are always in motion constantly rising, falling, learning, and beginning again. I share how I’ve experienced these cycles firsthand…
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The Witch and the Warrior Series
In this episode of the Spiritually Grounded Podcast, part of The Witch and the Warrior Series, Christopher and Jessica come together to guide Cathleen through a transformative Shadow, Self, and Spirit reading with a three-card conversation that bridges emotional awareness, spiritual growth, and...
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The Hermit
In this episode of Everything Tarot, I explore the wisdom of The Hermit card and my own journey with isolation. For years, I hid away, mistaking self-isolation for safety, but tarot taught me to transform that experience into solitude — a space of reflection, learning, and spiritual growth. I…
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A Shadow & Spirit Conversation with Britt, The Escoteric Hoe
In this episode of Spiritually Grounded with Christopher, we explore a deeply revealing Shadow, Self, and Spirit tarot reading for Britt, whose cards illuminate a journey of perseverance, solitude, and rediscovering self-worth. The reading begins with the Five of Pentacles in her Shadow — the...
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Strength
What does true strength look like? Is it muscle, domination, or the ability to win every fight? Or is it something quieter found with patience, presence, and the ability to tame your inner storms? In this episode of Everything Tarot, I share my personal journey with The Strength card and how it...
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Desire, Shadow, and the Sacred Masculine: A Conversation with Radha
In this powerful episode of Everything Tarot with Christopher, I sit down with Radha, the creator of The Erotic Shadow Alchemy Path — where fantasy meets healing and pleasure becomes a portal to wholeness. Together, we explore how embracing our desires, shame, and imagination can become sacred...
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The Healer’s Path: From Isolation to Abundance with Hag Under the Wood
In this episode of Everything Tarot with Christopher, I sit down with Caitlin Hall, known on Substack as Hag Under the Wood, a writer, educator, and herbal practitioner who transforms her lived experiences into myth and healing through story. Using my signature three-card reading, facilitating a...
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The Lovers
The Lovers: Choosing Alignment isn’t only about romance, it’s about learning how to live in truth with yourself and others. In this episode, I share how my personal journey through marriage, divorce, and rediscovering love taught me the deeper meaning of The Lovers card. We’ll explore themes of...
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The Phoenix Within: Transformation and Shadow Work with Elizabeth Blackthorn
In this episode of Everything Tarot with Christopher, I sit down with Elizabeth Blackthorn, a practicing witch, astrologer, and community leader, for a deep and insightful three-card reading. Using my Divine Trinity of the Self approach by connecting the Shadow (past), Self (present), and Spirit...
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The Witch and The Warrior Series
In this episode of the Spiritually Grounded Podcast, we welcome Nicole Burkhart, who shares that she’s been facing what she calls a “Tower moment” a time of upheaval, endings, and awakening. Through a live reading, Christopher pulls The Star as her first card, illuminating a message of hope…
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The Hierophant
In this episode, we explore The Hierophant, the Major Arcana’s teacher of tradition, structure, and spiritual authority. At its best, The Hierophant offers guidance, community, and shared wisdom—but its shadow can trap us in rigid systems, outdated beliefs, and expectations that suffocate growth....
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The Witch and the Warrior Series
In this episode of the Spiritually Grounded Podcast, I share a powerful three-card reading for Imi, a psychologist and writer exploring her next steps as an author. The spread revealed the Seven of Wands as her past influence, the Seven of Cups for her present crossroads, and The Hermit guiding…
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The Emperor
In this episode of the Everything Tarot Podcast, I explore one of the most misunderstood cards in the Major Arcana: The Emperor. Too often he’s seen only as a rigid tyrant or an absent father, but the truth of the Emperor lies in how we embody his energy. I share my personal journey with the...
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The Empress
In this episode, we explore The Empress, the Major Arcana’s embodiment of creation, love, and self-worth. More than just a symbol of fertility or abundance, The Empress calls us to nurture ourselves first so we can nurture the world around us. Through personal stories and tarot wisdom, we’ll...
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Lessons from The Emperor
In this bonus clip from Everything Tarot, we explore The Emperor’s shadow side—when structure hardens into control and authority becomes a weapon. The Emperor teaches discipline, protection, and foundation, but when unexamined, his energy turns into tyranny. Discover how to recognize these…
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Tarot Talk with Willow
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The Empress
1. Nurture Without Abandoning Yourself * Notice where you’re over giving in your life. Write down one place where you constantly pour energy into others but neglect your own needs. * Practice setting a small boundary this week, not to withdraw love, but to show yourself that your needs are…
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Lessons from The Empress
In this clip from The Empress, we dive into the question: What are you nurturing? The Empress reminds us that self-worth grows from the seeds we plant within. Discover how honoring your own value allows you to create, heal, and bring abundance into every part of your life. This is a public…
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The High Priestess
In this episode, we explore The High Priestess, guardian of intuition, mystery, and inner knowing. She invites us to step beyond logic and into the wisdom that lives in stillness and silence. The High Priestess reminds us that answers are already within—we only need to listen. Through personal...
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The Magician
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The Fool
A reading from my article The Fool - Stepping into the Unknown This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarotchirs.substack.com
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The High Priestess
Where The Magician directs power outward, The High Priestess draws power inward. She is the guardian of intuition, of what is hidden, and what can only be revealed in silence. Her wisdom is not gained by doing. It is received by listening. She represents the sacred feminine principle of knowing:...
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Chat with Christopher| Everything Tarot
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How I do Tarot
Tarot, for me, isn’t about fortune-telling or predicting a future carved in stone. It’s a conversation. A facilitation of a dialogue between your higher consciousness, my own, and the source we both draw from. The cards do not hold the answer themselves. They act as the bridge that allows…
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About this show
Are you caught in the same emotional cycles? Replaying old stories, struggling to understand why certain patterns keep returning, or sensing that something deeper is guiding you? You’re not alone. Beneath every choice and challenge are two powerful forces at work, your Shadow (protector) and your Spirit (essence). One keeps you safe while the other calls you forward.The Spiritually Grounded Podcast is where those forces meet in conversation. Each episode is a guided exploration into self-awareness and transformation. I demonstrate how to use tarot, intuitive insight, and shadow work to help guests uncover the truth behind their struggles and rediscover their connection to purpose.You’ll hear real sessions, stories, and teachings that reveal how the past and future both speak through the present moment and how learning to listen can shift everything. Together, we’ll explore the unseen patterns that shape your life and learn to transform them into pathways for awareness, curiosity, a
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