December tarot forecast 2023

New Moon - 12th (Sagittarius)

Fall Ends - 22nd

Christmas -25th

Full Moon - 26th (Full Cold Moon)

Year Ends - 31st

A Note: This is the last time we’ll be using the Ancient Roman calendar as part of the monthly analysis. I am wondering what new things people might like to see in the New Year. Should I try out new decks, a new spread, or format? Let me know your thoughts in the comments! 

Next year I am also starting up a personal newsletter with a different approach to the month ahead. Follow @angel_intentions on Instagram for upcoming details!

In Ancient Rome, December was the tenth month of the year. Its name comes from the word decem, Latin for ten. Today, December is the twelfth month in our calendar. Numerologically, this means we have completed an old cycle and way of being and believing, in order to start again. We are incentivized by a greater cause, with perspective to how we can be of greater service towards the collective. The reading this month speaks to a greater narrative - to us as individuals within a greater ecosystem of suffering around the world. We sit in duality and discomfort. We are being asked to redefine happiness as being part of a greater meaning and service. We are being asked to consider not just those who share our fireplace, but also those who have none. The year ends on a very different note than the way it started, and this month encourages us to process it all.

Energy of the Month: Reversed Page of Cups ~Seven Seas by Echo & the Bunnymen~

The reading for this month shows that we will need to prepare for an underworld descent and apply spiritual medicine to many areas of our lives. Fall ends in the last week of December. Days get darker. We are being prepared for ego dissolution and navigating the unknown with but our faith to guide us. In this process our understanding for what is possible expands. We grow as adults but also retrieve the child self (the true self and the dreamer) we left behind to survive. We may feel at the passive mercy of what is occurring in our lives and the world. It is important not to kill or suppress our raw or natural instincts and responses in the attempt to seem agreeable to society. They can help us harness our energy and strength and regain our will. Without this, we cannot see ourselves clearly. This month, we will see if we can be courageous with ourselves by representing what we believe in.

As a page, we first must learn to find balance while getting in tune with and navigating these emotions. We must walk the line between self care in a vulnerable time and becoming aware of collective suffering. The path historically laid before us feels maligned. It can feel that we must rely on only ourselves as a compass, but this solitary path can lead us uncertain of the next step. All we can see is our reflection in a golden cup –the idealized version of ourselves. This does not give us an accurate understanding of where we are or how we need to get there. We need to watch where we step. We need practical actions and resources to fulfill it. Trying to fulfill our ideals in this state can leave us feeling discouraged, disoriented, overwhelmed, and ungrounded. We struggle to approach the path to our ideals with sacred intention. To find our way, it may be necessary to distance ourselves from those we don’t align with and our old identities. This allows us to find true belonging and strength in relationality, community and the collective. We will be able to better thrive, ground, and recognize ourselves in those around us.

Love: Ten of Wands ~Gush by bdrmm~

In Love, the ten of wands asks us to analyze what we are trying to veil from the other, in order to look more put together. We are worried we will preemptively let someone in before we are ready, before we have all our ducks in a row and have it all sorted out. We are underestimating the magnitude of what we have to accomplish, and this may even grow into an ordeal. For those of us who are not in a partnership, love itself may feel like a stressor or a burden. We don’t want to bring anyone into this or have them experience us like this. It is okay to relieve yourself of the additional task of pursuing romance, but we should still turn to our inner circle for help. In a Western, hyper individualistic society, we may feel we have to take everything on ourselves. But we are communal beings, and some of the things we are asked to take on, or feel we must take on, really take a village. In partnership, when we finally let on everything we have been taking on or had been thinking to accomplish, the other feels stupefied of having heard of it or been reminded of it for the first time. They wonder if this is what they’ve become –someone we didn’t feel like we could bring into our confidence. The key is to have this communication earlier on, and see where you can course correct. 

The beauty of this card is that we have put together a strongly constructed goal–something that brings purpose and meaning to life’s struggles and suffering. It has everything we need to steer it forward. It is like a raft, a vessel, or even a ship that will carry us forward and strengthen our resolve. A lot could be accomplished here if we can bring others on board. A long distance can be traveled, if we can go in the same direction. Each wand seems to be like an oar. We cannot steer all the oars at once on our own, but together the oars could be moved together in unison. Together we can use a strengthened will to move the ship forward through the sea and light the night.

Money: Reversed Tower ~Cities in Dust by the Siouxsie and the Banshees~

This month, more than any other, we are feeling the pressure of time. Time to produce or achieve certain goals. Time to figure ourselves out and gain clarity. Time makes us feel as though we are crumbling under pressure. We have invested a considerable amount of time into a certain dwelling, or career, or financial way of expressing ourselves. We’ve come to identify ourselves with our investments, and for any of that to be forced to change would cause a considerable amount of grief for all our efforts, and discomfort at having to redefine it. These things offered a container and a structure with which to safely define ourselves. We would feel as though we are free falling and directionless without it. Where were we really going? What would our inner Page of Cups have to say about it? One way to answer this is –what would we reach towards if we were to find ourselves without these structures or containers? 

Like those on the quest to Oz, we may have trekked all this way hoping for an answer, a way home, a resolution, and higher knowledge. Reality starts to crumble when we realize that the wizard is not all powerful and cannot fix it all. The two fallen figures in this card clutch to what at first seems like an unreliable ground that won’t hold them. At a closer glance, it seems like the one sturdy, safe, and grounding part of the foundation. This is likened to the yellow brick road, the ideals that gave us hope and resolve and led us on this journey in the first place. This is what strengthens us and helps us find our way back. It seems like money is the area in life where we have most tried to seem contained, but lightning, a rose, or a dragon topples the tower and the sky sheds tears of regeneration. Perhaps the tower was the one that needed slaying. We may have been mistaken about who or what needed to go. Everything falls out and becomes destabilized. We find the parts of us that could not be contained. What do we want to recollect? 

Work: Reversed Eight of Cups ~Earth to Jay by Jay Arner~

The reverse eight of cups in work, preceded by the reverse Tower in money suggests that our sense of work identity is a key destabilizing factor this month. Perhaps we have had a moment of insight that cannot be retracted. Some dream that we talked ourselves out of and now we are in a place of wondering what is worth pursuing. The inner voice telling us not to change anything at all, to keep our egos safe.  The cups of dreams, intuition, creativity have spilled, along with the networks that supported them. It seems like they are always spilling and not being replenished, that they are staining everything. We are left with a sense of what they were supposed to be, and what was supposed to fill them. We spent our efforts flailing and trying to catch them, only to get spilled on and splashed at. Maybe we even feel others are pitying or laughing at us, like a waiter who spilled a tray of wine. Our arms however are now free, to devote ourselves to the clean up instead of the serving of others. To spill something is to draw attention to something. We have the option to stay in a repetitive cycle, transfixed on what was lost, or to really use our focus to recollect ourselves, to clean up after ourselves, and to refill our cups in new and sustainable ways. 

Health: Reversed Knight of Cups ~Medicine by Momma~

The reversed Knight of Cups appears in our Health sector to as a call to reconsider the motives of our health and healing goals. Are we pursuing health because we want to appear a certain way, to appease someone, or are we recognizing an issue and addressing it? The underworld journey inherent in the reversal of this card will also lead us to the medicine–a sense of renewal, purpose, and newfound commitment. We are reminded to approach our health in a sacred manner, because our bodies are in themselves sacred homes and temples. To treat our ailments, we need to address what our true Holy Grail is. What feels truly loving and restorative? Is our path helping to heal the collective narrative of what health “ought” to look like? Will it give us the strength to fight the collective battle? Will the medicine bring color, energy, and enthusiasm back to our lives? This month it is suggested that we will struggle with a poor grip on our horse, that which feels instinctually right for us. This part of us even seems gagged and tamed, with a golden yoke. It wouldn’t even know what to do with itself if it were released and set to run free. We seem ungrounded, but in this card, as in the Tower, we still have the yellow brick road to help us regather ourselves and pursue what matters. 

Spirit: Reversed Ten of Cups ~Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears~

In Spirit, collective joy, understanding and reciprocity feel like a pipe dream given what is taking place in the material realm. Seeing what has been unfolding is making us feel dejected, as though we are all losing a grip of true meaning and purpose, in service of humanity. We want to drown these sorrows and experience a dulled sensation of them. How much can we truly commune, feel mirth and warm sensations in these times? Our attention is drawn to one large cup, which is tipped over to its side, as opposed to the other cups which have spilled out. In it is a flower. A reminder of the beauty, the preciousness, and the brevity of human life. In it is the reminder of sweet joy and a taste of the divine. We should make the most of freedom and pleasure, knowing that none of this is forever, and even those who want to rule the world will change hands. We can find bliss in the now by holding hands as the walls of the Tower come tumbling down. We can find solace and strength in each other. We are asked to fight through a indecision and lack of vision, to renew and find it again and again. In never giving up, in keeping hope alive, in honoring ourselves and those around us, the dream presented in the ten of cups can never truly be defeated. 

November Forecast 2023

Día de los Muertos - 1st and 2nd 

New moon- 13th (Beaver, Scorpio)

Thanksgiving - 23rd 

Full moon - 27th (Beaver, Gemini)

A note: This month, I will be supplementing the tarot reading with the Offerings Oracle, an Espiritismo deck which helps connect us with the desires of our good spirits and ancestors. This is a way that we can tend to our altars, beyond the confines of capitalism.

The name for the month of November is derived from the word novem, Latin for nine. This is because November used to be the ninth month of the Ancient Roman calendar. In today’s calendar, it is the eleventh month. Numerologically, this means we will be reaping the rewards of what’s been learned on our solitary journeys. We are in an autumnal period where we are prepared to shed what no longer serves us to make way for new growth. We will also be transforming other aspects of ourselves that we’d like to keep, but want to relate to in a new way that is more in alignment with who we’ve become. In a newer sense, we will be exercising our wills this month for moral strength and purpose. Rather than using sheer force, we will be cocreating with the wild aspects of our psyche.

For the new moon, we may want to focus on where we want to build our home, and what we are most passionate about. For the full moon, we’ll want to think about preparing shelter for the upcoming gestational winter period. 

Though this month is more dedicated towards our solitary will and goals, we will also want to be thinking about familial themes. The month begins with el Día de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday in which the lives of the ancestral deceased are celebrated. This reminds us that even when we are focused on individual growth, we are still supported by and in connection with our ancestors. At the tail of November, Thanksgiving will ask us to consider who is family, how we connect back to them, and where we want to direct our gratitude. We may also spend extra time on fostering a gratitude practice this month.

Energy of the Month: Reversed Death ~You Make Me Wanna Die by the Shivas~

Offerings Oracle: Rest - Tend to the altar of the self by allowing the self to rest and rejuvenate. For ourselves, for our ancestors who could not, so we can regain the energy and capacity to pursue our dreams.

Other Tools: Ritualizing grief, sacred burial, eulogy

In October, Death presented itself in our spirit sector. We likely made use of the opportunity to approach spirituality in a new way, including incorporating ancestor work. This month, we are asked again to work with Death in a more holistic sense. Where are we struggling to let go of old ways of operating that are holding us back? These are typically carried over from old versions of ourselves that leave us feeling unneeded, unwanted, on our own, and not treated well. Yet we feel attached to and even infatuated with the inner critic or coach that reinforces these old ways, perhaps because they serve as a defense mechanism, feel like a familiar companion, or feel necessary to get ourselves on track. We are encouraged this month to let go. 

Communal energies such as those experienced during el Día de los Muertos further encourage us to ask our ancestors wise and well to help us work through this. They see and value our work in being the intergenerational cycle breakers, and want to help us succeed. Letting go may make us feel like we have lost our heads and our hands–as though we have become senseless, useless, and unable to function. When we feel this way, we need to find and operate from our core –not the face we present to others. Not the self we have become familiar with operating for so long because we knew no other way of doing so. This is the version of ourselves that was on autopilot. We need to strip everything down to the essential in order to ground ourselves in the new life we want to bring to fruition. We must do this in order to really see and bring about the change we want to see in our lives. If we operate the same way, things will go on in the same way. It takes change to make change. 

Love: Reverse Page of Swords ~Eddie My Love by Brigitte Calls Me Baby~

Offerings Oracle: Service- Being of service to our community, our loved ones and our partners can help us get out of our own heads. Giving back will help us to foster reciprocal, non-extractive relationships with the good spirits of our altar and the land. This translates back to our love lives as well.

This month, we feel like we are stumbling in our interactions with love interests, partners, or loved ones. It feels as though we do not know when to use the sword or when to put it away back into its scabbard. The sword in this case could be our voice in expressing needs or boundaries. We don’t know when to cut through or away at an obstacle, use the sword in our defense, or put it away in peace. We have a hard time finding a middle ground right now between overzealousness or restraining ourselves. Right now, the impulse is to overcome this by way of willpower. We are very much caught up in our own thoughts, and trying to think our way to a solution. The issue is that we are trying to do all this on our own within the confines of our minds. Communication improves through practice with a partner. We have a responsibility to communicate with others–so that they may meet our needs and we meet theirs. 

We may also find that we thought we knew ourselves and others more than we actually do. We need to engage with another to see where our understanding is limited. Some notions may need to be explored and strengthened further. The other has the ability to see through this, to see our true selves. This is what makes us love them or the idea of them. We yearn to find acceptance and validation from them, and are waiting on it. In reality, we must first give these things to ourselves: clarity, acceptance, and validation. In terms of love–it seems as though our whole torso and mind is full of love, that we are very heartful. But we are also positioned like an upside down hourglass. This card in tandem with the Death card suggests that we need to finish filtering an issue from the past that is preventing us from taking a fresh approach in love. When we can do this, it will help ground us back in reality and alchemize our love efforts to gold.

Money: Queen of Wands ~Rich Girl Mood by Dounia, Kehlani~

Offerings Oracle: Moon- We are encouraged to work with the lunar calendar and her phases and cycles. Perhaps now that the eclipse has passed, we can slowly get back into a manifestation practice and moon ritual practice as well.

The Queen of Wands shows up to remind us to foster the inward part of our relationship with manifestation and money; the attitude that supports the wealth we are seeking to call in. Rather than win the lottery and lose it all, what we’re looking to do is build the stability and knowledge required to maintain an adequate sum. We are encouraged to note the ways in which we are creatively wealthy, confident and secure within our own being–without worrying about how much others have in comparison to us. When approaching financial decisions, we want to feel selective, cool, and collected. We want to tailor an approach that feels right to our unique values, and remember to make room for an element of fun. After all, this is part of the financial incentive.

Death informs this card in several ways–it reminds us to enjoy ourselves while we are here, and what we have acquired we cannot take with us. This card focuses mainly on the individual relationship with money, however we are also mindful of wanting to save some wealth for the future, to assist those who come after us. Our choices become based on our core values as such. In embodying this card, we have a firm grip on what we want our financial life to look like, and how we want to act on it as well as defend it. We are entering a state of flow and receptivity. The Queen builds up her ideas and gets them into sharper focus, before they become fully engendered into the persona. 

Work: Reverse Queen of Pentacles ~Queen of Pentacles by Cary Grace~

Offerings Oracle: Gratitude- Adapt a 7 day gratitude ritual, attached to something you practice as a regular part of your routine (drinking coffee, for instance). See how life starts to feel after a full week of this practice.

In work, our sense of self worth is challenged. In American culture in particular, work as a system can feel oppressive. We accept this because it is associated with gold and grain – but how do we quench our thirst for life, and where do we find enjoyment? We go through a cycle of emotions and perceptions in regards to work – we view it with suspicion and shame when we lack it, and idealize those who seem to have perfect security and status through it. All the while we know that in our current capitalist system, wealth is a zero sum game, where some of the populace must ultimately take on the consequences of plague and ruin. Against this, we try to build a fortress.

It may help to see the system from a macroscopic lens, so that we can challenge our thinking in regards to ourselves. Where might we be internalizing oppressive values and inflicting them on ourselves? Where are we giving away our power? Where are we not setting up boundaries at work because we are not recognizing our inherent value? Where are we not recognizing that our time, health, and wellbeing are important, or that we are deserving of dignity and care? Where are we embodying insecurity, whether that’s accessing what we need to survive, or feeling like our self worth depends on what others think of us and our status? Perhaps we feel we fall short because we aren’t a main provider in the family, or we don’t have a high enough career status. Is this a genuine need, or do we have all the essentials? November is a good time to question limiting beliefs that may be pushing us towards or keeping us in jobs or dynamics that are not serving us. There is an opportunity here to shed old values and identities, to allow ourselves to undergo an initiation or renewal and rebirth.

Health: King of Pentacles ~Live Well by the Palace~

Offerings Oracle: Enter a trance state and meet with your good spirits in the astral realms. Some things can only be known beyond the veil.

Additional Tools: Nature, Detailed Manifestation, Discipline, Routine

Healthwise, we have the full support of our ancestors and our good spirits. They have differing opinions on the road to be followed, but there is a common consensus when it comes to our health and wellbeing. Health makes us free, wonderfully breathing, blessed and cleansed. It allows us to live well and reap what we sow. It allows us to take our lives and our futures back, and expend our energy into what we are becoming. The King of Pentacles looks far out into the future, and is clear sighted. He is confident in his ability to physically manifest what he envisions. 

The king is grounded and sturdy in his older years, and looking out for his long-term health. He has a strong grasp on the parts of his health he is responsible for, and cocreates with the cards he’s been given. The king sees the value of a holistic approach to health, and the careful balancing of physical, mental, and spiritual health. He is well equipped by his lifestyle in this pursuit. He takes care with where to exert his energy, reviews and makes changes to his routine as need be, and shows up continually for his practice.

The king gazes intently, slowly, with the intent to savor as much as possible out of life. This provides the motivation necessary to build a consistent and disciplined practice; one that will lend him regenerative power. Rest and rejuvenation is a part of this practice. Taking on physical challenges and witnessing growth is another. Experiencing nature and understanding how we live in reciprocity with it, and seeing the preciousness of life is a third. He is focused on experiencing physical goodness and enjoying the state of bodily existence. Health grants him the freedom to pursue life in the way he sees fit.

Spirit: 5 of Pentacles ~Truth by Alex Albert~

Offerings Oracle: Sun - Sun bathe, work with solar colors and flowers. Stretch your arms up to the sky as the sun pours strength, energy, vitality, and courage into you.

Additional Tools: Ancestor Work and Offerings, Love

This November, we may feel riddled by imposter syndrome, internal battle, feeling dumb and defenseless. We may feel heavy and weighed down by the earthly experience. This sensation affects and becomes entwined with the spiritual experience.We feel stuck in the earthly to do list, the need and the struggle to manifest. We feel rather human, limited, and flawed. We feel vulnerable and forget we are not alone in our suffering. As though the things we’ve built could easily slip away. But we do have resources – beginning with our strongest ally (the self), community, our ancestors, and our practice.

Overcoming this kind of pain can strengthen us into fighters. Like Pandora’s box, we have flaws, shadow and darkness that we are trying to hold in so no one finds out about them. What we must realize is that everyone has these qualities. It is okay to open the box and let our dark parts (as well as our bright parts) shine. We can have faith in ourselves when we do this. This is more reflective of the truth, and will allow us to better access truth. We are ennobled when we consider there are a million paths in life. Which future do we want to lean into before we die? Even negative thoughts, habits, or experiences could be turned into valuable lessons. The key is in working and trying to love, so that compassion and love can preside.

September 2023 forecast

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.

August Tarot Forecast 2023

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. 

Per the Roman calendar we've been following thus far, August, named after Augustus, is the sixth month in the year. He is associated with the imperial cult and the Pax Augusta, in which Rome experienced relative peace with but a few exceptions. His medicine includes working with the Emperor to recognize the inner divine within and entering an era of peace. Numerologically speaking, six is a lunar and cyclical number. It is little surprise that we will be experiencing both a Blue Moon and a Super Moon. August pushes us forward into revisiting old cycles using the moon's intuitive eye and to evolve in doing so. Nor is the Gaelic Lughnasadh to be forgotten–the feast of harvest. This signifies we'll be reaping the rewards of the month prior. August is going to be a transitional period for many, given that we are also experiencing Venus Retrograde in Leo, which asks us to be more deliberate in the areas of romance and finance, as well as Lion's Gate which brings about accelerated transformation. 

Energy of the Month: Six of Cups ~Spinning Away by Brian Eno, John Cale~

This month we find connection to the intuitive through a playful exploration of the external. Tap into simplicity through doodling, journaling, or simply stepping out under the stars and admiring their beauty. Enjoy the process of creating, or the great creation itself, in the present moment without a thought to the destination or the outcome. This act of enjoyment can be incredibly healing. To find an activity we truly enjoy, we can reminisce and recreate. Think about how we can recreate positive cycles in our emotional psyche. That which makes us feel stable and supported. That which honors the self, the mirror and the duality. 

The Marseilles version of the card recalls a table set with six glasses of wine. To be swirled around and enjoyed in a sensory way. It denotes relaxation, mirthfulness, a night in, and creature comforts. There are six cards in this monthly tarot reading, and a glass is given to each. No matter how the cards are spinning, we are doing okay. We have both come home and become the home that people come to. We can tell stories around the table about past memories and experiences. We are a happy and generous host. Coming back full circle, having a stable sense of home invites play. It invites art, playfulness, nonjudgmental enjoyment, in which we can enjoy the happy little shifts and surprises. 

Sit outside under the moon and the stars. Recharge under their light. Work with lunar energy this month. Let her stir the imagination, and stir you through dreams. 

Love: Moon ~Dreams by the Cranberries~

Seeing the Moon in the love sector, recalls the wolf and the dog as the couple in question. Perhaps one is a bit more restrained and living in the material realm than the other, but they are both made of the same primal nature and howl under the moon together. Together they can live wild, free and uninhibited dreams together. Free from the walls of societal expectations and constraints, true to the more animalistic parts of the self, and the waters of their lunar psyche. This card showing up in the month of the super moon and the blue moon feels especially fitting and powerful. The Moon showing up in upright position in Venus Retrograde also shows it's not such a scary time - - rather this is a time to get quiet, work with our dreams and go deep. 

In love we are not static beings. We are always changing. And our dreams shift along with us as we gain experience. But our needs, wants and desires are impossible to ignore. They cannot be tamed or civilized, they must be born. These dreams want to come to life in manifest reality. When we can meet each other in this way, sharing our truth openly, it feels raw, scary and unknown, but ultimately rewarding. This love with lunar qualities is the love we couldn't find before. Two amazing minds with liberated psyches figure out a path in the dark together. And in howling under the moon together and reaching for each other's dreams, we become a part of each other's dreams. 

Money: Reversed Sun ~Gamma Ray by Beck~

This card showing up in reverse position in Venus Retrograde denotes that while in love we are doing well working with lunar qualities, in finance we are not quite assimilated or ready to live out in the sun. Instead of looking to ourselves and feeling confident in the light of our own sun, we look to another to show us how to live. We try to hold onto another person's way of life instead of holding onto something stable that will truly support us. Or we interact with others in a very transactional way because we are operating from a scarcity mentality. Like an Icarus in reverse, a lack of self worth has us suffering under external heat and pressure, instead of staying grounded in the cool waters of our intuition. 

When we feel like we're falling, the advice in this card is to hold out for now. Right now it feels like we either have to sacrifice abundance or our true passions. It feels like we cannot have it due to societal structures or other circumstances out of our control. With the latter, we feel unstimulated and wondering what we've lost. We feel stagnant and confined to the backwater. Never once realizing that we are the deadly force the world needs to watch out for. This realization is the key to challenging these perceived obstacles and reconnecting with money in a way that's authentic to the self and allows us to do the work we are meant to do. 

Work: Reverse Page of Wands ~ Solar Pilgrim by Twain~

In a reversed position, the Page of Wands is tired of playing the job and career game. They have an ardent will to do things their own way but not the savvy or experience to sustain it in manifest reality. The body is also tired from so much doing and trying. This is the call to recharge and take care of ourselves while we are still healthy. We seem a bit headstrong right now. It is as though we threw ourselves onto a trail with no map and no research, but the simple will to find our own way. Others would run from this situation because the path seems uncertain, and one that would have to be paved for the first time. This is an admirable energy, but perhaps not the most practical as we are doing things the hard way. It feels as though we're embodying a sunken cost energy - we've come so far down this route that we can't just turn around or ask for help now. But what we really want is to get pulled out of and rescued from the situation. 

In addition, it looks like the page is stubborn about old ways of being and operating that once worked for them but no longer do or may not even be available anymore. They're not resistant to flexibility and a new way of doing things. .As though to make up for a lack of experience. Perhaps there's also a frustration of there not already being a path being laid out already. Why does there have to be this tiresome practice of learning? Our way of operating in the world feels heavy and unwieldy. We aren't rooting our wand into the earth and intuition, nor working with universal energy, but rather depleting our own will and energy. We will get burned out this way if we keep trying to work it out this way. Perhaps it is time to sit down and take a rest, and regather strength for the journey. It may be helpful to find another hiker on the trail and ask for directions, which would better inform our own path. It is time to retrace our steps. 

Health: Reverse Ace of Wands ~Flames by Rey Pila~

Rather than go full force into a new health initiative that we are so eager to jump into, this month we are asked to consider taking a step back to build a stronger foundation for more sustainable action. It seems like right now we are shaking the club (the conduit of our will) in frustration. As though we keep shaking a tree's branch for fruit to no avail. We are yet unaware that there are better tools we could use that would wear us out less, such as a ladder and a basket. We may even feel at the mercy of external forces when things don't go our way. 

It is as though we are striking a match repeatedly and getting increasingly frustrated when no spark comes out. Or the flame doesn't catch to the wick and we're at risk of burning ourselves as the flame travels up the match towards us. We're assuming that we are the problem but it is likely a faulty match or box or wick. At this stage the hand's grip on the wand isn't too steady, so the will to keep going could be lost easily if we don't encourage it in little ways. We start wondering if one little match is even enough. Our ambitious spark is precious, so if this is happening we should take a step back and look into how we can better approach these obstacles, as well as the tools at hand. Is there a way to work smarter, not harder? We need to give the situation a bit more breathing time, research, and renewed energy so that the spark can really catch. 

Spirit: Page of Swords ~Freedom is Free by Chicano Batman~

As the Page of Swords, we stand firmly in our beliefs with our heads on straight and a sword in our hands. We've had a spiritual awakening - - an aha moment so to speak. We've been able to cut through the programmed societal conditioning and recognize the divinity within self, and nature, and the values of freedom, freedom of speech and belief among other things. We know no one can take that away from us now that we've gotten a hold of these firm values. 

We feel unencumbered at this stage of the journey and eager to learn and take on new challenges. We're ready to start the hourglass and begin to delve into the deep and hidden knowledge of nature and fate. As the page, we aren't influencing anyone yet but we have found ourselves. We are sharp students full of ideas to express even if we are still gaining experience. We have lots of theoretical knowledge and what others have done to draw on. We feel equipped and strengthened by ideas. This is an excellent time to start gaining experience by applying our ideas in the manifest world, and engaging with others. This is how we can best refine what we know as it applies to life itself.

January Forecast

New Energy in 2023

January has a special meaning to us. It is our first foot forward into the New Year. We emerge from intentions we may have set in the Winter Solstice. Days get shorter and we learn to make the most of them. We wrap up 2022 in a celebratory way before ultimately parting ways with it. In some cultures we even burn the old year in a definitive way, to end an old chapter and hearken the new year. It is the first opportunity we get to shed a snake's old skin and either make new goals or rededicate ourselves to our goals, life's purpose, motivations, ambitions, and our true path.

Energy of the Month: Hierophant ~A Letter to my Younger Self-Ambar Lucid~

Recommended tools: Working with the Future Quantum Self in the Akashic Records, Writing a Letter from your Future Self, Visualization exercise

Astrological Correspondence: Creativity, Self-expression, recreation, relationships, offspring

This month, the Hierophant calls on us to embody our future selves in order to shorten the gap between the starting point and our desired goals. Imagine that you are already your most successful self and in the place where you want to be, with all the positive habits and routines that you've developed. Treat yourself the way you would if you were already happy with where you are. Now emulate those helpful habits and routines in your daily life. Perhaps this version of you takes daily vitamins, meal preps, reads half an hour before going to bed every day, and listens to classical music. It is time to start acting as this version of you and follow your own roadway to the success that this version of you already has. Write a kindly letter from your Future Self to the current you, so that you can read it whenever you falter or whenever you need a word of encouragement. This version of you is so compassionate towards you and whats the very best for you. 

The Hierophant also calls us to release the attachments that obstruct our path and get in the way of communication with the divine and our future self. We want to become a clean slate, an open cup for divinity to fill and speak to us. Then we can more readily transmit divinity message to us. This is how we can awaken to the power of the divine and our passion for conveying its message. Even if we don't feel like we know it all (in truth,  we never do), we may also step up to teach if a student comes our way or if we feel called to do so. Do not doubt the wisdom you have gained from experiences. 

Love: 5 of Pentacles ~Maybe October- Dekker~

Tools: Mirror Work, abundance, "I am enough."

The presiding energy this month in love is: "How can I be exactly what is needed. Maybe another  week, day, or year, I will be better or stronger." We may be feeling particularly lacking in the financial sense. We may be feeling that we are not contributing enough financially or domestically to the relationship. Or we may be wanting a relationship but feeling like we arent in a financially stable enough place to pursue one. We may be comparing ourselves to our partner's contributions and feeling down on ourselves for it.

But if the situation were reversed, we would be supportive of our partner in the same way they would be for us. It's okay to be experiencing setbacks and to accept lovingly given support. It is okay to build up our strength until we can contribute in a way that we would want to. It's okay to build ourselves up to a place to be able enter a relationship too.

Money: Chariot ~Chariot-Page France~

Astrological association: Social Life

Recommended tools: Parts Work (Internal Family Systems)

In money, you are asked to be the Bringer of your own future. To swing your way from dreams to happy endings. This can be accomplished when you achieve unity over your ambivalence. You must overcome the oppositions within, so that you can throw your entire being into the direction of your goals. Through strength of will, you can bring together contrary tendencies and have them work together as a team with you. You can make money the sphere of your personal action. This is the time to choose your financial path and autonomy, to become the triumphant master of your fate. The best way to harness this energy is to work with the Hierophant first, to follow the true path made evident to you when you become receptive to divine will. Without this guidance there is a risk of subjecting yourself to the Wheel of Fortune, but combined with the energy of the Hierophant,  the Chariot becomes unstoppable.

Work: 3 of Wands ~Into the Great Wide Open- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers~

Tools: Flow State, Creativity

In work this month, we have a lot of opportunities for personal development. This is the time for looking ahead, towards growth, expansion and exploration. You have a lot of creative enthusiasm,  and a spontaneous and intense energy. This is the time to seek and embrace enthusiastic work, to create from a State of flow and joy. If you do this, you will tap into relentless motivation. This is a good time to make plans for studies, travel, creative businesses and collaborations. Accept whatever changes life may have brought your way, and think in terms of the big picture. Embrace discovery and learning, and embrace the new. Be bold, have faith, and see you are able to create from this space. 

Health: 3 of Swords ~Loveletting-Sons of an Illustrious Father~

Recommended tools: Sacred tear energy, emotional release, trauma-based yoga, reading and learning 

Our health this month ties in deeply with our emotional state. We must resolve the our struggles in the emotional sphere so that they do not manifest in the physical sphere. There are many difficult emotions to be dealt with, particularly for those of us who have painful associations from the holidays. The holidays may accentuate grief, for that which we do not have. We may feel isolated in our experiences when we feel surrounded by others who do not share in this difficult experience. In this life we all must at some point experience pain, suffering, loneliness, sorrow, rejection and even betrayal. We must release this energy, and cry out. But we must also be wary of giving into the emotion so fully that we only identify with it and forget to let go and move on. We must accept loss and face reality in order to grow and move on. Growth is what results from pain. We learn how to overcome suffering. We learn through the consequences of our actions. We may also let go of what may have been comfortable but is no longer serving us...but it is necessary to have more rewarding experiences in the future 

Spirit: Hermit ~End of Beginning-Djo~

Astrological association: Personal beliefs, philosophy, religion

Recommended tools: Meditation, Solitude, Introspection

The Hermit signifies the end and the beginning. It represents who we are when we enter this world and when we leave it. The Hermit proactively ended the relationship with the old world (and the old year). With this, we can venture into a mysterious future that we have yet to master. The Hierophant serves as a bridge that leads to a known ideal, whereas the Hermit ventures into the unknown. It is the highest mission, birthed from deep crisis. It is a lonely but rewarding path that leads to wisdom, experience, and deep reflection of the path we've led up until this point. This inevitable crisis leads us to the profound change that we seek in our lives, to get to the goals and ideals that we seek to establish in the new year (of which January is a symbol). This step cannot be skipped. But we can choose whether to perish or to be renewed. Faced with nothingness, it is here that we release ourselves from the attachments holding us back. This spiritual pilgrimage is where we can overcome our doubts. We learn how to fight injustice, and we learn of our own errors that have shaped our past. This will teach us the prudence that we need when creating our own futures.

A blessed New Year to you all on this path. ✨️ 

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