Welcome to the September forecast! Happy news–I got published in the Huffington Post about my experience reading tarot at a bar. It has been a lifelong dream as a writer, and I was able to reflect on my growth as a tarot practitioner. 

 

As an ever evolving tarot reader, I am now learning to read the cards in an Espiritista framework. Interpretations combine intuitive Playlisting and imagery from the Marseilles deck. 

 

Though we understand September to be the ninth month of the year, it is named after Septem, meaning seven. This is because September was the seventh month of the ancient Roman calendar. Numerologically speaking, this suggests we will be reaping the rewards of hard work of something we have been working on continually. This also falls in line with reaping the harvest, and the Harvest full moon we are expecting on September 29th. At the same time, we continue to put in the work and direct our will towards a bigger picture goal that has been brewing for even longer. Astrologically speaking, we will be experiencing Mercury Retrograde until September 14th, when there will be a New Moon. Perhaps we will be shedding old patterns of thinking, expression, and boundaries, which will prepare us to better hold space for the incoming harvest at the end of the month.

 

Energy of the Month: Knight of Pentacles ~Gypsy, cover by Gardens and Villa~

 

This month, the Knight of Pentacles signifies a return to the true self. We live by the divine spark that guides us, thus externalizing it as the sun. We find ourselves pursuing that which is most natural to us and our true earthly selves. This lifestyle we've chosen fits us like a glove. At this stage in our journey, how we live and what we do is between us and the earth. As though no one is watching, we feel true to live to our authenticity, no longer beholden to external pressures. We know who we are, what we and our inner child are - - and we are willing to protect it as the precious apple of our eye. This enlivens our day to day labors and gives them a purpose. It motivates us and gives us something to go home to. We are willing to do heroic deeds for it. 

 

We are intuitively guided down the yellow brick road to our dreams, which, as we physically manifest to, further informs the direction of our path. In doing so, we are building a path that is made to last. We are willing to protect this dream, this self, and that which gives us pleasure through real tangible actions. Perhaps once there was fear and trepidation in regards to pursuing this path, but this is no longer the case. Love is guiding the way, the kind that makes your inner child, your inner free spirit happy to see. This energy is not coming from a naive space–rather, it is life that arises from decay. We have suffered difficult battles and losses, but became all the wiser and more experienced for it, and found this energy all the more worth fighting for. 

 

Love: The Emperor ~Water your Garden by Magic City Hippies feat maye~

 

This month, the Emperor guides our values in love–whether we are seeking a relationship or in a long-term partnership. Experience has wizened us and now what we value in a partnership is attentiveness in sunshine or storms. We want a relationship that feels consistent, fertilizing, and that can be relied on through all seasons. We know how to make time go slow around this person. We are confident that you can boost one another to help when there is a sense of stagnation or unsureness of how to grow. We attract goodness and security in relationships, because we are embodying these traits of the Emperor in ourselves. We’ve got this–the ability to find love, embody it, and continue in it. The relationship feels like a comforting place to go to. In the partnership, there is a sense of each person inspiring the qualities of having it together, being organized, standing strong and defined. There is a looking out for one another, endowed with and speaking with a caring intent. This partnership is very grounding and forward looking.

 

Money: Strength ~Lion by Saint Mesa~

 

This month in the money sector, Strength us to bring the inner lion out–representative of the innate, wild drive within us. This is the call received by the untamed aspect of our psyche and persona unaffected by societal values. What is that deeper drive lurking within? The idea which excites us most and gets the blood flowing? We have reached a stage where we can work with this aspect of our inner selves without having to overpower or suppress it. From the outside, it may be fearsome to heed this side of the self–the self we are taught to tame, kill, or avoid. But from the lion’s mouth appears the source of our abundance, from which carbon pours forth. And like Midas, our hands, our labor in working with this carbon, are the gold that transforms and transmutes. Our desires have become hardened and refined like diamonds, and made all the more precious from the external pressure put forth on them. 

 

Work: Reverse King of Pentacles ~The Melody of a Fallen Tree by Windsor for the Derby~

 

This month in the work sector, we are confronted with old traditional work values that are no longer serving us. We are primarily driven by this focus of not losing coin or not having the future taken away from us. But this is more of a feeling than a perception. In looking only to the past however, we are not focusing on our present and we are placing ourselves in a precarious situation. The past way of operating is too heavy to bear and handle. In embodying the reverse King of Pentacles, we take on more than we should. This is unbalancing and not adding security the way that we think it is. 

 

We may be tempted to leap back into an old career or an old job that no longer holds space for our growth and wisdom. The past was a transient dynamic, a fallen tree in a frozen field. What we need to do is place our ear to the ground and listen to the voice within, rooted to nature, ancestral healing, our bodies, and our wisdom. Right now we are operating under a sense of urgency. In pursuing a calling, our hopes and dreams appear to rise and fall. If we don’t understand the cyclical nature of life, this could seem wildly unsettling. Instead of demanding results or a timeline from the thawing soil, we should ask what we can do in order to tend to it. We need patience to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, allowing space for a new chapter, a new tree to arise.

 

Health: Ace of Pentacles ~First Light by Hozier~

 

September brings with it a fresh new perspective in respect to health. Each morning is made to feel like a bright new opportunity with which to tackle routine, habits, and goals. We see the untapped potential of what we envision and we are ready now to make it material. In the Virgo season it is also helpful to make detailed plans and routines, and tend to the little details especially at the outset, when we want this new seed of an idea to grow. We are whole and integral, and encouraged to seek what is good for our personal growth, in order to flourish and thrive. We envision ourselves radiating health and a state of wellbeing. Our body becomes the personal sun around which we orbit the rest of our choices and activities. We see a glinting opportunity for ourselves and are encouraged to pursue it. We only have one body, one life, on this one beautiful earth, which makes it all the more precious. We must hold onto it for what it is, and carry it with us always. We are the coin and the piece of gold transmuted by the sun’s warmth. Our body is the most precious thing that allows us to tune into nature, to create, and to experience. While we are in the process of gestation, we can also look to past lives and work with our dreams to inform our path to growth.

 

Spirit: The World ~Dancing Barefoot by Patti Smith~

 

In Spirit, we have reached the far end of a long journey to birth ourselves as we truly are, and survived all the tests to make it there in one piece. This is the version of ourselves that is free to dance barefoot–secure in ourselves, connected with the earth, grounded, and thriving. We have worked hard to create beautiful work–ourselves. We deserve to celebrate it and ourselves. The wreath represents victory, and perhaps also serves as a kind of frame we can display that victory in. We are encouraged to celebrate this period, to hang it up, admire it, and share this victory proudly with others. Our spirits that surround and support us celebrate this victory as well. This version of ourselves is the root connection–recognizing the harmony of all suits, and engendering the virtues of the major arcana that precede it. This is our recreated self–the hero or the heroine. This is the version of ourselves that we can say we are proud to have lived by, at the end of it all. We have practiced courage, reason, wisdom and strength. And when we go through another cycle of growth, around the wheel again, we can take all of our capabilities and all we have learned into the next situation.