Messages from our Guides

Five of Cups (R)

Solar Plexus Chakra

The grief we feel, particularly when our beliefs, systems, and legacies start breaking apart is profound…make no mistake about it. It’s a dull ache that keeps getting reopened with each news story. But right now the best antidote we can offer is gratitude. Telling someone “Thank you for being there for me” is a bigger help than we may realize. Offering gratitude for the people and circumstances that have been supporting you, making a gesture of good faith to heal a rift, or expressing support. Be outwardly effusive in your expressions of sincere praise this week – it will be a boost to more than just yourself.

Messages from Lady Gaia/Mother Earth

Ace of Swords

Crown Chakra

Despite the badness we see in the world, we cannot let it deter us from grasping the opportunities that are in front of us today. Yes, we don’t know whether this time next year we’ll be living in a dystopian post-project 2025/pre-Bell Riots hellscape, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t write the book, produce the event, or live the dream while we can. Especially right now, listen for those chances that feel like you’re being pulled by the crown (chakra) toward something incredible for you. Once you tune into that feeling it will be unmistakable, even if it seems impossible. Lean into that divine yes.

Messages from the Ancients

The Empress

Sacral Chakra

So, in any reading, because of the guides I work with, and the energy I embody in my personal rituals, when the Empress comes up, it’s a signal I don’t ignore. For the ancestors/ancients to bring this to the forefront is to remind us what has been missing from our leadership, and what has been essential to our survival. People do not survive become they are the most powerful, often it is because they receive the most nurturance and protection. It is found in the healer who sets the broken bone, the volunteer at the soup kitchen who turns donated food into nourishing meals, or the grandmother who babysits while the parents go back to school after a job loss. Kindness, compassion, and hope are all around us. We are going to see the rise of the nurturing leader, but only if we truly connect back to those who nurtured us to where we are now.

Messages from Our Future Selves

The Wayfarer (The Lovers)

Third Eye Chakra

Our fates are intertwined within the agenda of our highest self, the deepest calling of love. When we reach the crossroads, when we act from that higher self, the one that sees all (including ourselves) from a lens of unconditional love, we pull ourselves closer to the fated world we truly want – one where that love is honored. But to that, we have to keep choosing love…over and over. Sometimes that means choosing the love we have for our family to move to another city or choosing the love that we have for ourselves by leaving a bad job. However, don’t confuse love for guilt, or shame for affection. Put your trust in the decisions that bring out our highest forms of love.

Messages from Mother Mary

Meditation (The Hanged Man)

Root Chakra

I don’t usually associate the Hanged Man with mediation so much as a deliberate, strategic reorientation to a new mindset or process. Not that this can’t happen in mediation or that mindfulness isn’t a part of that shift, but the point of this card – what will help us identify our highest sources of love, our deepest roots of strength will be found in meditating on the role that nurturance (or the lack thereof) had on how we view the world, the perceptions and internal narratives that trigger us. By contrasting and comparing how patriarchal strength has relied on definitions that put people into harsh boxes, we may be able to see the paradigm shift of adding nurturance as an essential quality of survival. How do you fit into that paradigm? Pray, mediate & listen.

Extra Card

Undercurrents

Five of Wands (R)

Root Chakra

I promise I’m not trying to get all toxic positivity here – I’m the last person who wants to spiritually bypass – but there are a few people who keep focusing on the glass half-empty scenario, totally forgetting that the glass has poison in it anyway. Instead of lamenting the struggle, look for the ways this is saving you from a worse fate. Can you imagine how hard it would be without the protection and help you have available now? Here are a couple of quips that illustrate the undercurrent this week:

Stop should-ing all over yourself.

Anticipate struggle and struggle is all you’ll get.

Stop looking for struggle in all the right places.

You can ask the driver of the struggle bus to let you off at the next stop.

Final Advice

Nymph of Cups (R)

Third Eye Chakra

Lived experience matters. Generationally many of us had to grow up way too fast, assuming adult emotional roles long before we were developmentally ready. That experience is embedded deeply within us, written into the genetic code we’ll pass on to future generations, just like a different generational code was written and handed down to us. But if we are to be the pattern breakers and soul shakers that build up a new earth, we have to acknowledge with some sincerity how that parentification was too much, too soon. We have been conditioned to consider worst-case scenarios that we forget we’re not seeing the full picture…that there is also a best-case scenario that lives beyond the reaches of our imaginations. Before acting, consider whether you’re holding the current person/situation responsible for a conditioned outcome-response scenario in your history.