Welcome to Salt, Sage & Stardust—a weekly conversation between Keryn Rose, an intuitive energy healer, and Dr Vicki Haspels, a Tarot Coach. This is a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the deeper threads beneath everyday life. Each episode, Keryn & Vicki explore the energy of what’s been, what’s shifting, and what’s quietly guiding us forward. With a touch of insight, a little humour, and a whole lot of heart—they’re here to remind you that there’s magic in the ordinary, wisdom in your own rhythm, and healing in simply showing up
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Dr Vicki Haspels
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Keryn Rose - Intuitive Energy Healer
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Episode 65 - How Do I Stay Open When the World Makes Me Want to Shut Down?
In this episode, we explore what happens when life feels like too much and our instinct is to withdraw, close the doors and shut out the world.
We talk about the ways overwhelm can show up in the body, and what might change if we begin to recognise our capacity before we reach the point of shutting down. What if the message isn’t necessarily I need to shut everything out, but simply I’ve reached my limit?
Along the way, the conversation moves from either/or to both/and. We explore the difference between limits and boundaries, and whether knowing when we’ve had enough might actually allow us to remain more connected to life. Can we care and protect ourselves? Can we participate and step away? Can we remain open without being available to everything?
Perhaps staying open isn’t about taking everything in. Perhaps it’s about learning to stay connected to ourselves as we engage with the world — knowing when to continue, when to pull back and when to say, not this.
Can we allow ourselves to belong to the whole of life without requiring ourselves to hold all of life?
🃏 THE TAROT — Four of Pentacles
The Four of Pentacles brings us back to protection and what happens when we hold everything close in an attempt to keep ourselves safe. Sometimes protection is exactly what we need. But this card also invites us to notice when protection begins to become disconnection.
Maybe the question is: Am I protecting myself so I can remain connected to life — or has protecting myself started to disconnect me from it?
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When you feel yourself wanting to shut down, what might change if you asked yourself, Have I simply reached my limit?
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25 Sept 2026
Episode 64 - Have We Forgotten How to Disagree?
In this episode, we explore what happens when someone sees the world differently from us, and why disagreement can sometimes feel like something much bigger than a difference of opinion.
We talk about what happens in the body when a deeply held belief is challenged, and how quickly difference can be interpreted as danger. Can we create enough space between reaction and response to become curious about what is happening within us, and about the person standing in front of us?
Along the way, the conversation moves from disagreement to understanding. Can we understand why someone believes what they believe without needing to believe it ourselves? Can we remain open to another perspective without abandoning our own? And perhaps underneath it all sits an even more vulnerable question: does belonging require agreement?
Maybe we don’t need to agree in order to remain in relationship. Maybe we can trust ourselves enough to hold our own perspective while allowing someone else to hold theirs.
What might become possible if neither of us has to win?
How about we simply say: I’m seeing it differently — and I’m still seeing you.
🃏 THE TAROT — Queen of Wands
The Queen of Wands reminds us of the power of knowing who we are without needing someone else to agree with us. Secure in her own voice and perspective, she can remain open to what others bring without being diminished by it.
Maybe real personal power is being able to say: I don’t need you to agree with me for me to trust myself.
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How comfortable are you allowing someone you care about to see something very differently from you without either of you needing to change the other’s mind?
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18 Sept 2026
Episode 63 - Why Is It Sometimes So Hard to Ask for Help?
In this episode, we explore why asking for help can feel so much harder than it sounds.
We talk about the beliefs and expectations we carry around independence, capability and vulnerability, and how our families, culture and experiences can shape what asking for help means to us. We also explore knowing our own limits, finding the people we feel safe enough to ask, and allowing someone to say no without making their answer mean something about us.
Along the way, the conversation takes us somewhere we didn’t quite expect — from the difficulty of asking for help to our ability to receive it. Can we accept someone’s time, care or generosity without immediately wondering how we can repay them? And what if allowing someone to help us isn’t a sign that we’re less capable, but an invitation into relationship?
Perhaps asking and receiving are simply two parts of the same human exchange — an opportunity to let kindness move in both directions.
🃏 THE TAROT — Page of Pentacles
The Page of Pentacles invites us to consider the foundations we are creating for the life ahead. When we allow ourselves to ask for and receive help, perhaps we are also cultivating kindness, generosity and goodwill as part of the life we are creating.
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How comfortable are you asking for help — and how comfortable are you receiving it?
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