Career Crossroads Reading: Balancing Academia, Dharma & the Call to Transform | Cauldron Her Daddy
In this episode of Cauldron Her Daddy, hosts Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley welcome Dr. Sarah Carlson for a reading focused on her uncertainty about balancing her academic career in learning and cognition with her growing passion for yoga, meditation, and her Dharma Collection offerings. Sarah shares how Dharma Collection supports inward connection through restorative movement, ritual, guided meditation journeys, and evolving projects like Stories with Dharma, plus upcoming sacred ceremonies and a retreat in Nicaragua. Sarai offers a tarot-and-chakra reading highlighting impatience, taking stock, institutional constraints, integration over either/or choices, and legacy-building, with animal-guide reflections from prior pathworking. Meredith adds astrology and human design insights, including Sarah’s Chiron return and Pluto transits, emphasizing grief, transformation, informing as a manifestor, and aligning energy with supportive spaces.
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As always, Sarai uses the Fifth Spirit Tarot deck
00:00 Podcast Welcome
00:33 Sarah’s Crossroads
02:36 Dharma Collection Intro
03:58 Offerings and Origin Story
06:39 How to Find Dharma
07:43 Tarot Reading Setup
08:49 Root and Sacral Cards
14:07 Solar Plexus and Heart
18:17 Throat and Legacy
23:18 Third Eye and Crown
28:57 Guides and Gifts Recap
31:40 Astrology Transits Begin
34:07 Adventure Versus Stability
35:17 Butterfly Grief Process
37:52 Feeling Disappointment Fully
39:04 Human Design Gate Five
43:15 Manifestor Profile Insights
46:28 Pluto Transit Breakdown
50:39 Witch Shed Sign
54:49 Anger And Informing
59:05 Failure And Replanting
01:05:55 Middle Age Gifts
01:09:08 Wrap Up And Offers
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Work with Sarai: saraijohnson.com
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