It was a really good thing we were given the message ” you are worthy ” this past week because we were definitely tested. The internet went off the rails in its relentless critique of black bodies inhabiting new versions of characters we were conditioned to view as white. We’ve been trying to force ourselves into pre-defined categories that ultimately just bind us to old patterns of the past. Whether it be the confines of gender, race, sexual orientation, or what we view as “healthy”, we get upset when people defy the boxes we’ve tried to categorize them in. But that kind of disruption to our nice, neat organizational hierarchies is exactly what is called for in the world we’re creating.

That’s in a world that truly values equality we recognize the boxes are just illusions meant to separate and divide us. They are lies fed by patriarchy and white supremacy, by religions and governments to create classes of deserving and undeserving. By controlling how these lines are drawn, who is included vs who is excluded, these structures are created to protect power. They label nonconformists as “deviants” and punish those who step outside the pre-determined roles we’re supposed to have. Just like in Loki, the variants who defy their cosmic programming to be heroes or winners are “pruned” to make way for the conformists, those who unconsciously play into the master plan under someone else’s control.

Americans are good at talking the talk when it comes to “freedom”. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, freedom of marriage to our chosen beloved. And yet, for all of our good talk about freedom, we’re not great at honoring when someone is exercising theirs. We reject their exercise of freedom because they’re from a category that isn’t supposed to be free – they’re supposed to be on a leash, they’re supposed to be tethered to a particular, social role that helps us feel superior to them. We “prune” them through our knee-jerk cancellations, all because they deviated from the path we decided they belonged to.

That doesn’t mean we can’t hold people accountable for clinging to opinions that ignore objective facts, it’s that we’re often quick to reject whatever threatens our sense of superiority over another. We’re quick to reject arguments that poke holes in our own. We’re quick to reject characters that don’t resemble our head cannon. We’re quick to cancel anyone who points out that the Emperor has no clothes. We talk circles around our point, using every fallacy in the book because the priority we place on being right is often more important to us than any priority we place on equality and dismantling the comforts of supremacy. We’ll even force a confrontation, force someone into silence, and force a result all to pre-emptively prove ourselves right.

But force is not power. True power cannot be taken, only given away. True power cannot be forced, but offered. True power cannot be controlled, only channeled. This is a core lesson we are all learning right now. Our manifestations aren’t arriving because we forced a square peg into a round hole, it’s because we shifted our tools and priorities to align with our true source of power within, Love. We are finding true love not because we coerced someone into a relationship with us, but because we offered freedom and trust and it was reciprocated with gratitude. We are finding success not because we stepped on others to get there, but because we held the door open for others to take a seat with us at a collaborative table (or maybe that’s just me 😊)

This week’s reading employs the Revelations Tarot by Zach Wong, a great deck to show us our mirror image – what we think we’re projecting vs. what’s actually being said. Here we are being shown the difference between divine feminine power (aka intuition) vs. toxic masculine control (aka bullying) and how the latter will eventually succumb to the former. but first, we’ve got to retrieve what was taken from generations before us, find grounding in the traditions that honored earth’s rhythms in order to truly align with our power again.

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Undercurrents & Final advice

With the Seven of Pentacles reversed in the undercurrents this week, we need to be cautious about what we’re prioritizing. Our efforts are a bit scattershot, distracted, and unfocused. We’re jumping at shadows and half-assing our execution as a result. This is all about the burnout we’ve been facing. This has been an exceptionally hard month of transition & loss for some, delays and misunderstanding for others. We need to take some to sit down in what remains of Virgo season to organize ourselves. Engage in a sort of reset ritual before the Equinox to soak up the rest of this powerful earth energy, grounding into the soul of earth itself in order to maximize our efforts with less stress, trauma or confusion.

The Two of Wands reversed delivers a strong rebuke against trying to force anything this week. The channels won’t align well thanks to Mercury Retrograde being more mischievous than that scamp, Loki. Be very wary of how our impulsive reactions actually manipulate our opinions, how assumptions combine with insecurity to compel us to force agreements, coerce cancellings, and serve our victimhood narratives. Instead of relying on things like love spells that ignore the other person’s autonomous right to consent, use our energies to pray for alignment with our highest selves, to make us an agent of good in our relationships, projects and workplaces. Any attempt to force things will boomerang back at us with a vengeance.

Blessing

May the blessings of Divine Love find give us comfort this week as we open our hearts to new and old ways of accessing our intuitive wisdom. May we have the courage to reject the messaging of a dying patriarchy as we boldly create a world that welcomes authenticity, collaboration and equality. We trust in our intuitive gifts we as we model how to approach the world with discernment, patience and curiosity

I am with you always in love 💖

So may it be.

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