{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Alighted Way","title":"The Dragon Within","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1646,"description":"\n🎙️ Episode Summary\nIn Episode 21 of The Alighted Way, Colleen hosts a warm, wide-ranging conversation with Carmina Trisic—a self-described “professional demystifier of mysteries” who works with creativity, imagination, palmistry, tarot, and numerology at The Divine Mine in Calgary. Colleen shares that one of her own first tarot readings, with Carmina in the early 2020s just before the COVID shutdown, was a turning point that opened up her spiritual life and set her on the path to becoming a tarot reader herself.\nCarmina traces how dragons entered her world—not as creatures she possesses, but as a symbol she embodies. Born in 1964, a Wood Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, she recalls finding a dragon-shaped piece of wood on a hillside in Chile, glimpsing a dragon while buried in autumn leaves in a Calgary park, and the “three dragon girls” she met at art school. The dragon, she explains, lives in the mystical, ethereal realm and can take any form the moment needs.\nThe conversation opens into big, playful ideas: reframing the old “slay the dragon” myth, the zodiac as a “zoo” of archetypes, and Draco—the constellation known as the Watcher—as the etymological root of the word dragon. Carmina describes channelling dragons through her intuitive side-profile portraits and her tarot work, where doubt becomes a trusted tool, and each client picks their own cards. It closes on an invitation to expand the mind, plant the seed of your potential, and let your own spirit navigate the ship.\n\n🔥 Key Moments\n00:07 — Welcome, and how Colleen and Carmina met: a life-changing tarot reading before the COVID shutdown\n02:36 — How dragons entered Carmina’s world: imagination, artists and scientists, and being a Wood Dragon (1964)\n04:30 — Signs everywhere: the dragon-shaped wood in Chile, a dragon in the leaves, and the “three dragon girls” at art school\n06:46 — Dragons as passing signs, and messages in the clouds after her brother passed\n08:15 — Embodying the dragon within: quiet, then...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Qx71gYctu8hmD7NyHwFHkFEFqBqvfMvvBDfxiWo8EkY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kNDMy/YzY1MWI5MTBjZjRj/NzgxNmI4NDc2YTEy/ZTZkYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}