With 2025 coming to a close, what better time for the first-ever collective tarot reading on the show?

Hero Cait DeMello, a confidence and empowerment coach, guides Chandler through the different energies rounding out the year and setting the tone for 2026.

Cait frames tarot as a tool for clarity and perspective, not fortune-telling, and explores themes like reclaiming inner strength, softening how you control your emotions, and honoring grief as a pathway to clarity and creativity. Grounded and direct, this reading invites you to choose your purpose from within and begin the new year with resonance, not resistance

What You Will Learn

• [00:13:03] Challenge structure: The spread focuses on challenge, latent energy, release, call-in, perspective shift, and advice to carry you into early 2026.
• [00:14:20] Reflection energy: Many reversals signal revision, second chances, and re-evaluating how you’ve been handling life.
• [00:15:15] Inner strength reframe: The reversed Strength card highlights resisting your own power and looking outside yourself for worth.
• [00:17:05] Survival mode patterns: The Five of Swords shows inner fighting—clinging to what defines worth and creating resistance instead of release.
• [00:19:13] Releasing control: The Father of Cups asks you to let go of rigid, structured control of emotions and allow true expression.
• [00:23:32] Calling in legacy: The reversed Ten of Pentacles invites ending the era of “not worthy” and making a meaningful mark you can feel.
• [00:28:40] Perspective shift to nurture: The Mother of Cups guides compassionate self-protection—honoring feelings without making them wrong.
• [00:30:52] Grief as guidance: The Five of Cups encourages moving through anger, sadness, and frustration to clear energy and reclaim creativity.

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