Where we are this week

Queen of Wands

Solar Plexus Chakra

I identify strongly with the Queen of Wands. She is an independent thinker, a passionate do-er, and a dazzling star of the show. But for all her warmth and generosity, she is also the most likely to kick you in the ass to get your spirit into high gear. She is about achievement, accolades, and grit – she doesn’t sit by the side likes, she leaves it all on the field. That’s what’s being asked of us, especially this holiday season. Because while we have had some major darkness to deal with, we need to remember that others are still depending on us to show up and glow up. And instead of wallowing in our wounds, the Queen of Wands urges us to get up, put our grown-up panties on and start getting to work to make our vision a reality.

Messages from our Guides

Page of Swords (R)

Throat Chakra

I always have trouble with the Pages, partly because of the way I was trained in Tarot, I’ve been taught to view it as “younger” energy, more about communication than action, like the town crier shouting the good news. Today I view them more like interns – eager, ready to work, the banner bearer for my cause. Here, the Page of Swords thinks he’s helping by running around with scissors, snipping at every string of connection he finds. He’s like the mystic gurus who all “disconnected” themselves from humanity’s collective and led their followers into believing that Trump and the Insurrection were good things. The world is sharp and so he wants to clap back but only hurts others in the process. The sharp edges of the world require our care, not our reckless reactions. We need more sweet and less sharp.

Messages from Lady Gaia

Three of Pentacles

Sacral Chakra

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be recognized for a job well done. In fact, Mother Earth applauds our recent successes in our work, our home life, and the furtherance of our craft. What we put out into the world right now matters but not to the exclusion of others. Today’s cards reinforce that we are but a part of a bigger whole. And if we’re chasing fame, it will be short-lived. Only when we contribute our true talents, including our passion, our failures, our joys, and our lessons learned to the whole can we truly be strong as a people. You have something significant to contribute, but is the desire for immediate recognition causing you to give up before you see the masterpiece we’re creating together?

Messages from our Ancestors

A powerful move

Solar Plexus Chakra

What qualifies as a power move in the spiritual realm? Staking our claim of sovereignty while balancing the sovereign rights of others. Our ancestors this week advise us to be mindful of what we do with power. Because it isn’t just our own sense of sovereignty aka. self-determination/freedom that matters, it’s the experience of it for others. An unlike what our world might tell us about the source of real power, it’s truly about being able to stand firm in your truth and fight for the right of others to stand in theirs. That doesn’t mean absolutism, but rather collaborative approaches that recognize the duties and rights we collectively hate.

Messages from our Future Selves

Two of Cups

Heart Chakra

Love is truly on the way, not just for our personal lives, but for the world around us. Taking a cue from the messages last week, this card shows us that when we are acting from the heart instead of ego we invite so many more blessings. So instead of constructing artificial barriers between us and others, we can instead offer a new glimpse into ourselves, see the sparkling newness of first love in another’s eyes – what form that love takes will organically grow on its own…if we allow it. The primary message this week is to let go of the need to control how, when, or why new relationships enter our lives. We cannot control another’s heart any more than we would want someone else to control ours. So, just let go and allow it to happen as it was meant to.

Mother Mary

Knight of Cups

Third Eye

Who else had to take a bit of a leap of faith with the card above to believe that new love is coming into our lives? And as usual, arriving with the cheeky, sarcastic reminder is Mother Mary reminding us that often we are poisoning our hopes with our anticipated disappointment. By deciding ahead of time who is and isn’t worth our attention, and by smashing sour grapes during the first few dates, we are poisoning the well, signaling to the universe that we’re going to find a way to keep ourselves lonely. Intentions that are imbued with the bitter taste of disappointment will consistently always fail to deliver. We cannot expect good things to come of our unresolved anger, passive-aggressive resentments, or formulaic pick-up lines. We have to stop poisoning our hearts against love.

Death

crown Chakra

That we each have been going through our own mini death’s this year is not surprising to anyone. We each have had to face our shadow selves, the parts of ourselves that we thought had died, but instead have been puppeteers in the corners of our lives, jerking us around from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other. We need and deserve peace – but sometimes, the only way to achieve that is through the death of our old beliefs, and our old proud personalities. Those old points of pride might now feel like a costume rather than an identity. For me, the death card is always more about the death of an ego identity than the death of structural paradigms. Much can be gained in surrendering to the source and allowing these cycles to play out. For only in the death of these old egos can we make a way to transform ourselves into the heroes our future needs?

Six of Cups (R)

root Chakra

There is a shared nostalgic memory of selling lemonade on the corner in the summertime. We each have a picture in our minds of some impossibly cute kid with a glass pitcher full of home-squeezed lemonade and a cardboard sign on a table with numbers and a cents sign. It is a quintessential American folk tale of entrepreneurship where presumably little Johnny or Suzie there will graduate to mowing laws and babysitting (according to their socially accepted gender assignment). We all have this shared image, but how many of us truly have this as a memory? I don’t know about you, but my mom didn’t trust me with a glass pitcher, and sitting in the hot sun sorta sucked.

This is all to say, especially as we approach the holidays this week, don’t let the false nostalgia distract us from the real memories that we are here to create in the here and now. Not only are many of those memories more like collective fairy tales, but often we use those fairy tales to shame the memories we do have as “not good enough”. We are asked to untangle our roots from the collective wishes planted by media or the bad memories of childhood so we can live in the here and now, setting down roots with new families who truly are there for us.

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