Episode 97. Could ChatGPT be your New Psychic Reader?
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Episode Description:
Can AI replace a psychic reader — or make you a stronger one?
In this episode of The Inner Briefing, Marie explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and intuition, and what it means to use tools like ChatGPT inside spiritual practices like tarot, astrology, and Human Design.
You’ll hear how ChatGPT became a neutral co-reader and reflection partner during a real tarot spread — helping Marie identify themes, patterns, and projections she couldn’t fully see on her own.
But this isn’t a “AI will replace spirituality” conversation. It’s a discernment conversation.
We unpack what makes a good psychic reader, why neutrality matters more than certainty, and how AI can support your growth without becoming your authority.
We cover:
Can AI strengthen intuition and self-trust?
The difference between insight and energy sensing
Why ChatGPT can be helpful and misleading
The danger of AI validation loops
How to use AI consciously as a self-leadership tool
Because the question isn’t “is this right?”
It’s why does this resonate — and what is it inviting you to see?
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Transcript:
Marie Groover (00:02.2)
What if your next psychic reading didn't come from a mystic, but from a machine? I've been in deep conversation with ChatGPT lately. I don't know who hasn't, but for me, I don't just mean asking for help writing emails or outlining content. I've been using it to explore and deepen my practices and relationships to the mystical, to tarot, astrology, and human design.
Now, I wouldn't call myself an expert in any of these systems. I would say that I am a forever student. But through practice, especially reading for others, I've learned a lot. And lately, ChatGPT has shown up as a surprisingly powerful mirror, co-reader, intuitive testing ground, sparring partner, and discussion space, which got me thinking. And in this episode, I want to unpack these questions. Number one.
Can AI actually help you grow your intuitive muscles? Number two, what are the limits of its insight and where does it shine? Number three, is there such a thing as an AI psychic? If yes, would you trust it? We'll explore all that through real examples, including a tarot spread I pulled, interpreted, and then reanalyzed with ChatGPT. Spoiler, the results left me feeling seen, surprised, and even a little exposed.
By the way, Marie Groover here, and welcome to the Inner Briefing podcast, formerly known as the Spiritual 9 to 5. Don't worry, I will at some point cover the name change in a future episode. But for now, this is a podcast about self leadership, inner authority, and the future of working because I believe that working can be one of the most spiritual paths that we walk if we allow it. And by spiritual, I mean that working
is a massive opportunity to see ourselves and know ourselves and be ourselves fully. But let's get back to the episode itself and to chat GPT
Marie Groover (02:11.095)
I've always learned best through doing. Reading for other people is one of the most powerful tools for mastery and modalities like tarot, astrology, human design, the Akashic Records, Gene Keys, you name it, I've probably dabbled with it. And when you read for people, you get real-time feedback. You can feel the energy shift when something lands. You can also see it and feel it and hear it when something doesn't land.
If you're open enough, you get to troubleshoot together and learn in real time how to better translate, communicate, or integrate the information presented. Because of this, I especially love reading for people who are brand new or who have little experience or connection to tarot, astrology, or human design. Because, regardless of the modality that we dive into, these people are typically bit skeptical. They aren't trying to make the meaning or the information fit.
Actually, sometimes they're actively trying to make it not fit. This demographic of people, they ask really good questions and often they are honest when something doesn't sit right. They don't just accept things, they poke and they prod, which helps me refine my personal interpretations and my knowledge base. It keeps me open and curious. And being open and curious is the foundation to good learning and studentship. And good learning and studentship is the foundation to good teaching and guidance.
and mastery. That's one of the reasons that I love reading in corporate and team settings. It brings a fresh energy to modalities that can sometimes feel insular. And there's curiosity, connection, and shared learning happening in real time with people who often are skeptics. But of course, I don't always have a room of curious humans. So when I'm not reading for others, I read for myself. And anyone who's done that knows
It can be so much harder to read for yourself than for someone else. Why? Because we are human. We are biased. We're not neutral. We're attached. We want something to be true or desperately don't want it to be true. Or speaking from the eye, I know that I can find myself to be locked into a particular story or meaning or interpretation, to sometimes receive what I want to, not necessarily what I'm needing. And to be honest,
Marie Groover (04:37.687)
This usually creates more confusion and uncertainty than it does clarity. Because while we as humans can be great at deceiving ourselves, we also know when we're pushing it. Which is exactly where Chat GPT started becoming extra interesting to me.
Sometimes pulling cards when you're really in some big feelings can lead to more confusion and not less. You start spinning meanings, seeing only what you want to see, reinforcing narratives that may not be serving you, or straight up avoiding certain feelings or knowings based on your past experience and comfort zone. Or you just pull away.
Or you just pull way too much. And by pull way too much, I mean pull too many cards, right? And now nothing really makes sense. You can kind of get lost in the sauce of seemingly mixed messages and signals. By the way, skeptics are not wrong when they say you can make any card mean anything if you try hard enough. That's why neutrality is so essential in this type of work. And neutrality is a skill.
And it's a lot easier to be neutral when you're reading for someone else versus yourself. When you read for yourself, your stories sneak in, your fears, your hopes. And this is where Chat-GPT comes in or can be interesting. So some time ago, I had something heavy on my heart. I pulled a 10-card spread with the question, what would you have me know? I wrote out interpretations for each card.
I pulled together a full reflection and then I published it in the corporate psychics resources section in the journal. Then I forgot about it. A little while later, I was working on a tarot related project and I started playing around with Chat GPT. I was asking it about the themes behind the threes in tarot specifically and how they relate to the empress because the empress is the third card in the major arcana. So I checked out the three of cups, the three of swords.
Marie Groover (06:48.535)
the of wands and the three of pentacles. I shared my thoughts on this grouping based on my experience reading and through a few years of research, of my personal research, in addition to what little I know about the number three in numerology. Then I asked Chat GPT to share its synthesis and to point out anything that I might be missing based on what I shared with it. What came back blew me away. I was like, damn. And then I immediately thought,
What if I give GPT my spread from a few days ago? So I did. Not only did chat offer a completely fresh take, it picked up on themes that I had missed entirely. And where I had been subtly self-critical, chat GPT was much more gentle, much more neutral. It analyzed things without my emotional heaviness or weight. So I gave it my original interpretation, like the written reflection that I originally published to TCP's journal.
And then I asked for feedback. I asked, what did I miss? What was I maybe projecting? And the response from chat was so interesting and supportive. I actually published it as well. Chat GPT's interpretation of my cards linking right back to my original interpretation of my cards. I'm not going to lie. Publishing chat GPT's interpretation next to mine felt really vulnerable and exposing. I think it's because we have the tendency to feel that one is better or more legitimate and like
immediately want to remove our own take because it seems so limited and by we and our I mean I and mine. But honestly I had this knee-jerk impulse to say that these are my takes not the takes but ultimately I realized that that's the point. The value in exploring these tools and modalities and exploring tarot, astrology, human design, gene keys, whatever floats your boat.
and mixing that with Chat GPT or any other AI, it isn't in getting it right. It's not about knowing the right answers or pulling the right thing. It's in what the interpretation reflects back to you. It's what it means to you. It's how it lands with you. It's the way you feel when you brush up against it. It's why you agree or disagree. It's the reflection moment.
Marie Groover (09:13.687)
the moment you get to have with yourself as a result of interacting with these tools and modalities. In my opinion, it's less about what the universe is trying to reveal to you. It's less about the message itself, but much more about how you think and feel about the message itself. What are you revealing for you? What are you revealing for yourself? So that brings us back to the central question, which is, could ChatGPT replace your psychic reader?
Well, then we have to ask the question, what makes a good psychic reader? I would say someone who listens first and foremost, like really listens, not someone who's just like hearing your words and then projecting their own things onto them, but someone who's listens, who listens to you actively. I would say someone who reflects honestly. Someone who helps you see what you couldn't or didn't want to see in a way that is not projected or biased, right?
Someone who is neutrally helping you see what you could or didn't want to see. Someone who holds your experience without inserting their own agenda. ChatGPT does many of those things pretty well. It doesn't judge. It doesn't try to steer you. It responds based on what you give it, which means the quality of your question matters more than anything else, really. But there are gaps. ChatGPT doesn't sense energy.
It doesn't have intuitive hits. It doesn't feel you. And while it can get to know you, it also can really appeal to whatever's gonna make you feel good and keep using it. And sometimes it can get the technical stuff wrong. Like one time, it completely misread a birth chart that I uploaded. And...
If you collaborate with AI frequently, you probably already know that it's definitely not perfect, that it can hallucinate from time to time, that you should always double-checked any facts, technicalities, figures, or conclusions that it provides you, and that it's not something to completely rely on as an outsource for your critical thinking or total brain functioning, not even close. Like, the time that I uploaded a birth chart to ChatGPT, if I did not know astrology, I would have just
Marie Groover (11:32.77)
Taken what it said at face value and I would have been like, cool. These are the signs and Fortunately, I know astrology and so I put a chart in it wasn't my chart It was a client's chart and I asked chat GPT about it and I was like, wait a second Like you literally just said that the moon sign was this but actually the moon sign is this, know It was like something very very obvious and chat was like, yeah, you're right. I'm sorry so if you're not grounded in your own understanding
Chat GPT can be very misleading. It isn't always misleading, by the way, but it can be misleading. But if you are grounded, it can become a fascinating tool for synthesis. It can be a fascinating tool for deepening your clarity. And it can be a fascinating tool for pattern recognition, as well as a deepening in your ability to see and understand the tools and modalities that bring you back to yourself.
Something else I'll add is something that I've learned through practicing these crafts with hundreds of people, which is the most profound truths or the bits of information that feel the most profound and resonate for you the deepest, know, the bits that give you chills or stop you in your tracks. These are often not new pieces of information.
The most profound experiences that we have with psychics or coaches or literally anyone happens when a deep inner knowing that you already possess is articulated and reflected back to you in a way that you can now see it, be with it and hold it. And science and research actually supports this. Where what is net new is uncomfortable and almost always rejected at first.
But what is deeply known, whether we're consciously holding it or not, is recognized. Let me rephrase that a little bit differently. When we encounter new information, when we encounter new experiences, our bodies, our brains almost always just straight up reject it. This is why we have a confirmation bias. We're like, no, that's new, that's uncomfortable, that can't be right. But something that we know deep inside, something that we're familiar with.
Marie Groover (13:49.218)
whether we're consciously holding it or not, we recognize it when we see it outside of ourselves. So a lot of times we'll go to readers expecting for them to tell us something that we didn't know or something that we aren't seeing or can't see or that we don't have access to. Yet the most profound experiences and the most uncanny experiences are those which reflect back to us our own truths, our own knowings.
our own projected desires or ideas that we have connection to. Also, if you can hear that noise in the background, that's my dog digging his bed.
Marie Groover (14:29.453)
Now he's looking at me. And so anyways, this makes sense because it's the things that we know that we can actually validate, right? So it's the known truths that feel profound and it's also the known truths that we can validate. And so a good reader will never judge you or tell you what is real and true, but will always invite you back to yourself because ultimately you are the guide for your life.
You are the one living your life. And part of our lived experience is the mastery of being, embodying what we know, learning who we are, and becoming more and more ourselves. ChatGPT isn't your psychic. And actually, maybe no one really is. But like a good psychic, ChatGPT can be your mirror.
GPT can reflect to you ideas, patterns, symbols, and language in a way that may prompt deeper awareness. And in that way, it can function like a reading, not as truth, but as a lens or a perspective. And like any tool, it's only as good as the intention behind it. Use consciously.
It can sharpen your own intuition, enhance your spiritual practice, and even surprise you.
Marie Groover (16:04.173)
Like any tool, it's only as good as the intention behind it. Used consciously, it can sharpen your own intuition, enhance your spiritual practice, and even surprise you. I think it can enhance your intuitive readings. I think ChachiPT can help you flex your personal discernment and reflective muscles and be an amazing side-by-side tool to read for yourself or for others or to deepen in readings from others. However, I will add this caveat that I would never...
be reading for someone else with chat GPT open, like in helping me with the reading in real time. That's just myself personally. And what I'll also say personally is that I don't think chat GPT can replace the experience of sitting for a reading or the feeling of being profoundly witnessed and held by another human. I like to think of chat GPT as a kind of partner in meaning making.
for self-reflection. Not as a guru, not as a guide, as a collaborator, and I invite you to try it out and see if you feel or conclude the same. My one note of caution is that chat GPT and AI bots in general are really, really good at validating you and can sometimes favor that validation, potentially leading the witness, AKA you, versus
truly being completely neutral, yet Chat GPT especially is masterful at appearing completely neutral. And in this way, it can inadvertently narrow your lens in as much as it can expand it. So my word of caution is really, don't get lost in the sauce. If you do try it, which I think you should try it and see what your own conclusion is, but if you do try it, don't get lost in the sauce.
Which is also what I would say if you were consistently seeking psychic support as well. Your wisdom is inside of you. And if you're consistently outsourcing that, it's easy to get lost in something that isn't you at all. So, could ChatGPT be your new psychic reader? Honestly, maybe. But not in the way we typically think about psychic guidance. ChatGPT hasn't.
Marie Groover (18:32.183)
So, could Chat GPT be your new psychic reader? Honestly, maybe. But not in the way we typically think about psychic guidance. Chat GPT doesn't channel your ancestors, it doesn't feel your energy or hold space the way a trusted human reader can. But what it can do is help you sharpen your reflection, expand your awareness, and highlight patterns, archetypes, or blind spots that your own bias might hide.
if you are grounded and rooted in yourself. It's not here to tell you what's true. It's here to help you explore what might be true if you want to use it that way. So long as you don't become overly reliant. And the magic, as always, lives in how it lands in you. Whether it's a tarot deck, a birth chart, or a back and forth with an AI, the deeper question isn't, is this right? It's
Why is or isn't this resonating? What does this invite me to see? And what do I want to do with it? So no, Chat GPT is not your psychic But maybe, just maybe, Chat GPT can support you in becoming your own. If this episode resonated, please like it, share it with one person you think would also get into it or one person you want to deepen in this conversation with. If you haven't, give us a five star rating. It means the world.
And let us know if you've experimented using AI as a personal growth assistant, whether by analyzing a tarot spread or diving into your disk assessment or something else entirely. We are just getting started over here and we're interested. Until next time, big love and gratitude from our teams here at the Corporate Psychic and Essential Teams.
