Where we are this week

Seven of Earth (R)

We’ve been obsessing over the details, borrowing trouble to give us more things to worry about. The deck this week acknowledges that a) we’re dealing with root chakra issues (the root chakra is at the top while the crown chakra is stretching into the earth) and b) we are finding new dimensions of our lives that give ground-breaking insight into our lives. But we’ve become so obsessed with those detailed dimensions of past lives, ancestral healing, listening to every gurus and Instagram therapist who gives us conflicting advice. We’re missing the adivce that we need the most: our own wisdom. We are running around with our hair on fire, so triggered by the disrupted stagnation of the energy around us, that we don’t trust our own judgment anymore and have activated our flight response – impulsively throwing us into busy distraction rather than centered inner authority. We are running around in crisis because healing and releasing brings up all the old patterns of our old lives.

Hair on Fire

Messages from our Guides

Queen of Water

Last week we had the High Priestess in this position Here, we are challenged to value emotional honesty over stoic integrity. This is not the time for detachment, but rather to engage in the strength of this queen who confronts her emotions, not to master them, but to understand them and ultimately release them. The queen of cups knows that emotional maturity means finding our comfort with vulnerability. So, the message here is much the same as last week’s message: “Listen with our intuitive wisdom”, for the alignment is to open ourselves to the gifts of the Divine Feminine in processing all the grief, anger, disappointment, hurt, happiness, joy and elation we really feel.

Prioritize emotional honesty.

Messages from Lady Gaia

Abundance (R) vs. Six of Air

The card that was chosen for this main reading, Abundance reversed, is an indication of how ungrateful we’ve been. she’s not quite scolding us or guilting us, but showing us the immense abundance offered to us. But we’ve been rejecting it because it doesn’t show up the way that we want it to. Just because it isn’t gold plated or carries an exclusive label, doesn’t make it worthless. And just because we don’t have as much of a thing as someone else doesn’t mean we’re deprived. See all that the world is offering us in order to meet our needs – including, yes, help from others. All help is worth having.

All of this is to say that the Earth wants to see us win, but we have got to be willing to make some compromises to move forward. We cannot continue to carelessly discard every piece of trash, pretending like we don’t know where it goes. We’re in a state of radical honesty, when we have to realize that we don’t have the advantage in this negotiation – the earth will die and take us with her if we don’t give up some of our bargaining chips with her. She is signaling that our hard-headedness will be our ultimate demise. We have to stop resisting this message – she wants to be the wind at our back as we carry her into the future. but we have to be willing to work with her instead of against her.

See all that is offered and be grateful.

Are we negotiating in good faith?

Messages from our Ancestors

Heaven/Earth (R)

This equinox has demonstrated that there is a fundamental imbalance in our conceptualization of divinity vs humanity or heaven vs earth. In so many of our faiths, we have a superior god dictating terms to humanity, the slovenly, sinful weaklings under their command. We are conditioned to view our human existence as the practice round, a necessary evil in order to reach this promised land of our highest selves. the divine is pristine and perfect; we are dirty and flawed. But this card is showing us that the duality we’ve created between humanity and divinity is a false dichotomy, there is less separation between the divine and human than we think. We all have some divinity within us and our conception of divinity will always have some thread fo humanity sewn in to remain a plush, familiar reminder of these roles we choose. What messages or mottos from our families reinforced this paradigm?

We are divine beings having a human existence.

Messages from our Future Selves

Three of Earth (R)

Be careful about the seeds we are planting right now. We just got done with a new moon where we wrote out new intentions, and offered new seeds to feed our dreams for the months to come. However, our future selves warn that we might have sown some seeds of discord, borne from sour grapes, some thorn bushes of protection – all of which show us where we still need to tend to old wounds. In a few months when these intentions start to really sprout, don’t be afraid to prune back what will no longer nourish you like gossip, projected anger, or hopeless cynicism. Poinous seeds planted during this time will turn on us later – practice discernment and don’t get overconfident.

Avoid planting poisonous seeds.

Mother Mary

Intuition

Seriously, she had to choose a card wtih a spider on it? 😱😓 But this is the perfect card to depict the dark goddess and her gifts of intuition. During the dark moon, when all is still and the reflected sunlight doesn’t illuminate our path, we must move forward with trust, with memory, with intuition. But we’ve been taught to distrust our intuition, that it isn’t objective enough to be trusted. But just like a mother’s intuition isn’t always based on objective fact, but instead a “feeling” that we can’t perceive or even fully validate, it doesn’t mean it hasn’t saved countless lives. Intutiion is our birthright as a peoeple and Mary offers her assistance in atuning our intuiton to the right frequencies of growth.

Developing our intuition is an essential step in the journey ahead.

Eight of Air (R)

Is that really how it happened?

Union

We are destined to love ourselves as we love others.