Happy October! Consider this month’s forecast energetic group reading my treat to you. Want even more of a treat? Consider doing a one on one tarot or Akashic reading with me! 

This is the last month of my tarot level 2 mentorship course (only the final project remains), so I’ve learned a lot of new spreads, and how to engage with the cards in an Espirista framework :) My interpretations below include intuitive playlisting and imagery from the Marseilles deck. 

October is the tenth month in the contemporary calendar, but its name comes from octo, meaning eight in Latin. This is because it was the 8th month in the early Roman calendar. On the 14th we’ll experience the new moon, and two weeks later we will experience the full Hunter’s moon. We will then enter the liminal space that the thinning of the veil affords as we approach festivities such as Halloween, Samhain and el Dia de los Muertos. Numerologically, we will be completing the thing we’ve been working hard at most recently. In terms of our bigger picture goal, we will now engage with it from a level of expertise that we’ve achieved to the degree that we’ve reached a state of flow. We’re closing an old chapter that no longer serves us, to give way to the work that we thrive in.

Energy of the Month: Ten of Pentacles  ~Sagrada Familia by Curawka~

 Tools: Beautify, decorate, protect, enjoy, sing

This month, we are asked to see how we are a part of the community as a whole, and in what ways we want to give back to it. We have reached a point in life where our garden is bountiful and there is lots from the harvest to give to everyone. We reach a point where we realize it is not simply a matter of having wealth or abundance–we are wealth and abundance. We see we are a part of nature and the medicine that heals hearts, beginning with our pueblo (town). We place the medicine or the wealth in the hands of the children, the future generations, and in doing so become a part of the holy family. We paint the colors and sing the songs that reverberate healing and community, and the beauty and the mystery of life. We realized that this kind of wealth is regenerative and it comes to us because we are in a state of flow–divine receiving and giving. Hands are held out to receive the pentacles, and our hands are held out to like antennas to sense where they are needed. Like a good omen we shine bright, held by intuition and supported by action. We are stabilized by our own wealth and have enough that we can give back out (while we continue to receive). 

We connect well this month with childlike energy and delight, a connection with our ancestral gifts, and ancestral blessings and protection. We can embody what we desire, imbue a sense of safety around us, and create a fun atmosphere so that others can enjoy what we have enjoyed receiving. We are encouraged to give offerings at the altar so that the spirits are happy. They have given us so many blessings throughout the year, and now it is their turn to receive and enjoy our thanks. 

Love: Reverse Knight of Wands ~Darkeve by Lutalo~

 Tools: Rewilding

This month, there is a wild part of our nature that feels it is being unheeded and untended to. It feels like we are clothing or costuming this part of ourselves so it can suit a role. This however, is the primal part that we really want to be acting from so we can ensure greater depth in a relationship. As a result, we seem to be especially sensitive and easily emotionally wounded. We may be tempted to be reactionary from this space of hurt. We need to take a step back at the bigger picture and see if the reaction is suitable to what is actually taking place. It also seems like something that on the surface seems to draw all our attention and that seems worth getting impassioned about. It is hard to focus on the actual relationship (or pursuit of it) due to this distraction. The strength of our willpower and ability to act seems to be divided in half. 

By the end of the month it may feel like our heads are spinning or we’ve lost our minds a bit from this. It’s an ordeal we need to get through in order to return to the long-term journey we need to get back to. It is important to recognize this so that we do not let it engulf the entirety of the month, or worse threaten the foundations we’ve been building in working on or towards relationships. It is better when we stay still for a while, and allow ourselves to feel held and contained, so that we can act from a secure space. This month the sense of dealing with our own problems, and not wanting to be on our own when dealing with them. But rather than reach for just anyone, or simply commiserate, we need to establish a partnership in which each person feels they have something to believe in. 

Money: Four of Swords ~Who We Are by Hozier~

 Tools: Rest and Recovery, Boundaries, Meditation

We rest and recover in the dark and the stillness. In the past, sacrifices were made–chasing an someone’s else’s idea of a dream or success—whether that was a parent’s idea or a societal idea. In this stage, we felt like we were living a phantom life in pursuit of a certain financial lifestyle, and when we sharpen our focus on it, it hurts. This phantom time, as well as the restful period we are asked to enter in October is not wasted time, but rather time spent defining who we are. Right now, we are like a gardener prioritizing the sacred percolation of ideas in our mind–using a cage of firm boundaries to keep external elements, and influential ideas that might have once harmed us. We need this quiet time to help us grow strong and in an aligned direction. In time, we will be ready to thrive when living according to the values that align with our true essence, our hands held open to the abundance of life. We need to use this month to think about who we are and what works for us when the material is cut away. From the perspective of the death of the short-lived life of a flower, how do we want to be seen and admired? We are getting ourselves to the place where we realize the nature of our core, a dancing figure. When we discover this nature, we can then pursue our liberation, our release and align with this self. 

Work: Queen of Wands ~Queen of Wands by Spellling~

 Tools: Do it scared

This month, the Queen of Wands asks us to assess and confront our fears in work. She is the inner fire that motivates us in life. As such, she has magical and transformative abilities when we work with her. Are we afraid of pain, and want to live in our comfort zones? Or are we afraid of power and what it looks like to truly succeed in our ambitions? Where we may once have shied from what feels like danger, the imposter syndrome, and making it within a patriarchal system, we are now asked to confront these fears. In money, we were asked to really see what matters to us from the perspective of death, in order to inform how we really want to live.

We need to remember that we have the power to protect the desires of the essential self – we have the club (as this suit is called in the Marseilles deck) in our hands. Like a fierce mother bear, we become willing to defend our desires with a protective might. This is everything we have at our disposal in the material realm, including that which we’ve already manifested. The queen encourages us to use it to defend our will, our ideas, and the ambition we wish to birth. This month we are clear and levelheaded about what we want to work towards in the realm of work. We are centered by noble and enlightened ideals. The more we pratice defending and acting on these ideals, the more rooted and confident we will become. Intuition and mental clarity and enlightenment will strengthen these actions. When embodying Queen of Wands energy, we look out and forward, and do not waste our time looking back on the past. Then we can hold the harvest of our enlightened actions.

Health: Page of Swords ~This Must Be the Place cover by Kishi Bashi~

 Tools: Experiment, Advocate, See the Bigger Picture 

This month, the Page of Swords encourages  us to see our health from a long-term perspective. We want to maintain a youthful and energetic optimal health for as long as possible. We recognize our body as a place we want to feel at home in. Feeling this sense of being at home in the body may take a bit of trial and error at first - - making things up as we go along. We are enthusiastic and willing to try new things to see what best works for us. Regardless, we ultimately feel clear headed and grounded. From this space, we know we cannot go wrong. This month, we will tackle the blind spots in our approach to health. We will also have a breakthrough in terms of how to support our health for a lifetime. The Page of Swords enables us to be outspoken advocates in regards to our health–whether we are in the doctor's office or we need to keep firm boundaries in social settings. We are learning to be a valiant hero in regards to our health, and act on our ideas. This is a good time to pursue physical activities that make us feel youthful enjoyment, and eat foods that make us feel energetic. 

Spirit: Death ~Nascer, Viver, Morrer by Tim Bernardes~

 Tools: Shavasana, Death Cleansing, New and Full Moon Rituals, Altar and Ancestor Work

Life -- a cycle of being born and dying. To be born, we truly wake up and see life in all its strength and magic. We are conscious of the self, and we interface with our desires, love, capabilities, and will. In the monotony of prosaic life we can lose sight of our aliveness, in the highs and the lows. We lose ourselves in the world, in our minds, dreams, and in being. But life presents a rare infinite moment to live. Death comes as a reminder -- through the presence of nonexistence. It is beyond luck and chance. It proves that life precedes it. It is the great uniter of humanity, for it is the commonality we all share. It is also the great separator of the ego from the whole. It is the great experience.

Death strips us down to our core and enlightens us as to who we really are, the self without embellishments or pretenses. It has the potential to bring out the best and highest of ourselves when we are made aware of and live according to its principles. How will we allow Death to transform our approach to spirit? What spiritual avenues do we want to pursue from it's perspective? What practices are the spinal cord to our existence (that which we cannot live without)? Values like rest, intuition, dream, and spirit may serve as the critical and central function of the self in which we operate. Death also reminds us that we are seasonal, cyclical beings. We must let go of old seasons and hearken in the new. Also, now that fall is upon us, this may be a sign to focus on ancestor work. It is now our turn to hold space for them, in gratitude for their assistance. We should hold space for them in such a way that later, when we are gone, we would like to be received.