This episode explores what it means to take the reins of your own story, not through force or control, but through alignment, courage, and momentum. The Chariot reminds us that progress is rarely a smooth, straight path. Instead, it is the art of holding steady while pulled by opposing forces, and the choice to move forward even when the road is uncertain.

Together, we’ll reflect on:

• The tension between control and surrender.
• The sacredness of momentum.
• How The Chariot invites us to steer our lives with intention.

The card has been drawn. The story has been told.

This isn’t fortune-telling. It’s about reflection and story, about finding yourself in the quiet rhythm of persistence, in the work that shapes us as much as we shape it.

Tales from the Deck is a once-monthly bonus series within the What’s Your Story? podcast, as well as essays on Substack. Each card opens a doorway into the narratives we carry and the truths waiting beneath the surface.

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Every season has a thread — a fragile line of truth that weaves its way through each story. For Season 2, that thread has been about return: to resilience, to tenderness, to the quiet places inside us that teach us how to keep going.

In this final episode of the season, JD sits down with Christina Kingston — known to many as The Velvet Empath — to explore what it means to live with open hands and an open heart. Christina’s presence is both invitation and reminder: that empathy is not weakness, but courage; not just softness, but strength.

Together, they reflect on the power of vulnerability, the risk of feeling deeply, and the ways empathy creates connection where silence might otherwise linger.

As we close this season, may Christina’s story remind you that your own story matters too — and that the endings we reach are often thresholds waiting to become beginnings.

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In this episode of Tales from the Deck, we sit with the Knight of Pentacles, a card of patience, diligence, and the slow but steady commitment to the path ahead.

Where The Fool is the leap into the unknown, the Knight of Pentacles is the daily step, the faithful tending, the willingness to keep showing up even when progress feels invisible.

This isn’t fortune-telling. It’s about reflection and story — about finding yourself in the quiet rhythm of persistence, in the work that shapes us as much as we shape it.

Tales from the Deck is a twice-monthly bonus series within the What’s Your Story? podcast, as well as essays on Substack. Each card opens a doorway into the narratives we carry and the truths waiting beneath the surface.

In this episode:

* Exploring the Knight of Pentacles as a symbol of devotion and endurance

* The balance between patience and progress

* How slow, steady effort shapes both story and self

The card is on the table. The story is yours to enter.

If this resonates, share it with someone else who might need to be reminded that their softness is not a weakness it’s the start of healing.

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