Have you ever known something deep down — really known it — and then talked yourself right out of it? Friend, this episode is for you.

This week I’m sitting down with one of my favorite humans on the whole planet (and my actual bestie), Bonnie Koenig. Bonnie is a tarot mentor, meditation teacher, and somatic breathwork facilitator — and she teaches tarot in a way I’d never heard before. Not as fortune-telling, nothing spooky — but as a mirror. A tool that hands you gently back to yourself and helps you hear the quiet knowing that’s been there all along.

We go everywhere in this one. What tarot actually is (and why it gets such a bad rap), the years Bonnie spent genuinely afraid of the cards, and the self-doubt so many of us carry — “I can’t trust this because it came from me.” She shares her cottage story and she lovingly demystifies the cards everyone’s scared of — Death, the Devil, the Tower — which turn out to be some of the most hopeful ones in the whole deck.

And then? She reads my three-card pull live on the show. I asked the cards how I can grow this podcast and reach more of you.

This is Earth School at its finest: the very thing that was hardest for Bonnie to believe about herself became the exact gift she now gives everyone else.

In this episode:

* What tarot really is — and the myth that keeps people away from it

* Why Bonnie feared the cards for years, and what finally changed

* Her very first reading ever — and the 40-year tarot reader who became her friend

* The self-doubt thread: “I can’t trust this because it came from me”

* The cottage story: how the cards helped her stop spinning

* The “scary” cards, demystified with so much love — Death, the Devil, the Tower

* Reading with your intuition first (guidebook last!)

* A live three-card reading, right here on the show

Where to find Bonnie:

* BonnieKoenig.com — hop on her email list for a free guide to start reading tarot with just one card

* Her six-week private tarot mentorship — learn the cards and your own language with them

* Her podcast, Tarot with Bonnie and Peter (with Tarot with Bonnie coming soon!)

Come keep this going with us in The Living Room — my community over on Substack. There’s only one door in, and it’s at tiffanycarson.ca.

This week’s question — I’ll answer first, then I want to hear yours: What’s something your intuition keeps nudging you about, that you keep talking yourself out of?

Take a deep breath with me, let the hard stuff blow away, and go find something today that makes you laugh. Until next time, friends. 💛

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