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Drink from the Cup
The Cups Suit is about water. This element relates directly to the heart as a center of emotions and spirituality.
Water flows with gravity and finds it’s way to the ground. It’s incredibly powerful in this insistent path and cuts through rock to create canyons over time.
Our own hearts are the same element. Big feelings can be contained temporarily, but they will carve through to freedom, often becoming a churning eddy that bursts forth when time and circumstance set them loose.
In my experience, this ends up happening at inopportune times. I am so grateful for the stranger on the bus who held my hand while I openly wept. And all the others who were in the right place at the right time to nurture my tears unexpectedly.
Let Go to Let In
Today, I hope you’ll consider one area of your life that needs a little clearing up. It can be physical, mental, emotional, or energetic.
For any form of clearing, we start with attention.
What feelings need felt to let them move through you?
What thoughts need better noticed when they come up so we can pause and transmute them into a healthier version?
Where are we putting our energy too often that isn’t replenishing us enough?
What area of our spaces feels stagnant and cluttered?
Swords Court Cards and a Free Reading
Below is an offering of a free reading for the week ahead.
It focuses a lot on the power of the Swords Court, so I want to offer a short lesson in these cards as well.
The Swords Suit has the most intimidating images of all the minor arcana.
This is because it’s about the mind. The brain serves us best when it has focus and quiet listening behind it.
As the mind amplifies in intensity, or increases up to ten in the minor arcana suit, it often brings fears, anxieties, and neurosis.
What I try to help my tarot students understand is that the Swords Court cards do not reflect this darkness. They are simply the Air sign personalities who are more intellectual, logical, and mentally centered.
Happy Year of the Wood Dragon
Xīnnián kuàilè! (Pronounced “She-nee-an Kwai leh”)
Happy New Year!
I lived in Taiwan for two years teaching English, and loved the vibrant fun of ringing in the lunar new year.
Celebrate by wearing red clothes this weekend, hanging red decor from your door, visit your beloved elders to pay respects, and do NOT clean house on Saturday! Get chores done on Friday or Sunday instead.
The Wood Dragon is an abundant year for creative endeavors and laying down foundations for long-term goals.
Imbolc Rituals: Welcome in the Light
Happy Imbolc!
We are at the halfway point between Winter and Spring. While Groundhog’s day is a US tradition that has only been celebrated since 1887, there is ample evidence that the Neolithic Celtic people marked this point in their calendars with rituals up to 6,000 years ago.
Free Reading with Golden Girls
Thank you for being a friend, dear reader. It means a lot to me.
After the blizzards and record-breaking rainstorms around the US last week, I think we can all do with a little sunny daydream of a warm place with witty friends.
This week, I am sharing a longer form reading with you from my beloved Golden Girls deck.
Anxiety is a Beast: Tips to manage
This week, I had a little getaway planned with a group retreat. Sounds lovely, yeah?
Well, there was a snowstorm a few days before leaving. I only knew two of the 40 people going. I also had to put a lot of work on pause.
This combination created it’s own little perfect storm. Driving anxiety, social anxiety, and workaholic guilt all collided in my nervous system.
As many of us do, I wrestle with angst. Throughout my life, I have worked very hard to build tools to manage it that I want to share with you here.
New Moon reading for New year
The reading offering below struck a chord with me this time. Collective offering readings don’t always for me.
Confession: I have had the same resolution for years, and strongly feel like this is the year to enact it.
Over the last month, I have been making strides toward it, and it is bringing up a lot of feelings. And what has supported this shift forward surprised me.
Revolutionize Your Resolutions
A few weeks ago, I sent an image lining up how to make a SMART goal.
While that is an excellent way to align with realizing a reachable goal, today I want you to think about resolutions in a different way through the tarot lens.
As mentioned, the new moon on Jan. 11th next Thursday is a great time to really set forth on your path into 2024.
The week before is a great time to consider what progress you have made, and how you want to build on that.
It’s so easy to notice what we are not doing well, and it’s essential to take note of what we are accomplishing in order to keep on trucking.
As you look at the categories below, consider both what gains you made in 2023, and what ways you want to grow in these in 2024.
Free Reading for 2024
As mentioned in a past newsletter, it’s best to put off your resolutions until the first new moon of this year on January 11th.
In the meantime though, you can think about what you do want to call in that feels good to you.
I recently had a week where I went dancing three times for over an hour, and I was blown away at how invigorated and joyous I felt, despite a lot of stress in other areas of life.
So I already know that dance needs to be a part of 2024.
What is one thing that you know feeds your joy centers that you want to relish more in the months ahead?
Click here for a free reading that adds some further guidance to this consideration for the year ahead.
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