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Want a quick and easy tarot reading to try - no sp Want a quick and easy tarot reading to try - no spread required? Swipe through! This tarot reading centered around the Hermit was inspired by something I was reading yesterday that may eventually share in my stories. Tarot spreads and questions often present themselves to me when I’m reading or meditating, so I always jot them down! This one felt perfect for the Fall Equinox. Autumn is delicious and bright in so many ways, but it is also a journey into darkness. The Hermit helps us sort through what needs to be illuminated and what needs to be left behind or put to rest, at least for now. After chatting this morning with @the_current_hermit about leaning into this wise Hermit energy, I figured it was a sign to share it today. 🕯 Let me know if you try it, and Happy Equinox! 🍂
About last night! 🧿 I said in my stories I’d About last night! 🧿 I said in my stories I’d share some more candle magic ideas as well as how the Bible can be an empowering and comforting mystical text for rituals and magical workings if it resonates with you so… Here’s what I did last night. 👇🏼 P.S. @prayersandflorals is a QUEEN about this kind of stuff and she’s helped me dust off my Bible so check her out. ✨ Full moons are a great time for banishing negative thoughts (black candle) and illuminating or calling in the positive attributes you want to fill that beautiful heart space that you just cleared out (blue candle). Black thread is often used for cord-cutting - releasing shit that’s holding you back, so I tied the two candles together, put them in a deep fireproof holder (not shown), lit them both, and did my reading and meditation. You can pray. Tap. Recite a mantra. Sing. Dance. Whatever your practice looks like for you. The DIY-ness is part of the magic in my opinion. I’ve been working on releasing anxiety and calling in calm and peace, so I incorporated Isaiah 35 into this candle ritual (I highly recommend it for those struggling with anxiety). In my stories I was talking about how we don’t necessarily have to throw out our Bibles just bc we don’t agree with the modern church as an institution. So this can be a way to embrace and merge your spiritual worlds if you’re in a similar boat. I haven’t done this much in the past but it feels a bit more authentic and natural to me, which is usually a good sign when you’re doing any sort of spiritual work. If you feel really silly or performative or clumsy, you might need to alter what you’re doing a bit. When the candles burned down to where they were tied together, the flames merged and set the thread on fire too, cutting it loose and creating a magnificent uni-flame that felt so powerful and purifying. (Also why you need a safe dish. We don’t want a Friends boyfriend bonfire situation up in here.) And that’s it! I use these candles because they are small and will burn out in one sitting and come in every color. They’re linked in my bio! This was a bit strange to share tbh! So let me know if it even helps you. 🖤💙
full moon and autumn feels 🌕🍂💖 Credit: @ full moon and autumn feels 🌕🍂💖 Credit: @thestorytellerco / @morganharpernichols
The 5 of Cups depicts the delicate dance between d The 5 of Cups depicts the delicate dance between disappointment and gratitude, between sorrow and joy. We can and should recognize a broken heart, an unfulfilling job, a confining living situation, an unavailable friend, whatever those spilled cups may be for us. No spiritual bypassing “good vibes only” denial or delusion here! That’s for sure. BUT we also need to (preferably sooner rather than later) turn around from those spilled cups and focus on the blessings in our life. Those are the upright cups behind us that we could spend our entire lives taking for granted and neglecting because we are obsessed with the ones that got away - or were never ours to begin with. I had a therapist once who almost never asked me to talk about my past. She said it didn’t matter and people spent way too much time in therapy telling the same stories over and over again when they should instead be looking at their present and toward their future. It was a take I hadn’t heard before from a therapist! (Her speciality was also addiction recovery, so I think that no-nonsense take-action urgency is what she was bringing in with her - also interesting!) So the 5 of Cups doesn’t necessarily tell us it’s time to “get over it.” It might be! But it is at the very least asking us to investigate how we are interacting with our negative emotions right now and to what end. Are we grieving? Or wallowing? Are we processing? Or obsessing? We need to take an honest look and make that call for ourselves. 🖤
One of my recent faves by @katja.perez 🖤💕🌙⁠⁠
CLARIFIER CARDS! When to pull them and why?⁠⁠ CLARIFIER CARDS! When to pull them and why?⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ A clarifier card is when you draw an extra, additional card to help further explain - or clarify - the meaning of a card you’ve already drawn. ⁠ ⁠ As a rule, I say no to clarifier cards. But there are exceptions as always. ⁠ ⁠ ✨ Tarot and intuition are by definition vague. Those who constantly draw clarifier cards are often uncomfortable with that and want to keep drilling until they get an obvious and unequivocal response. That’s not how tarot works.⁠ ⁠ ✨ Tarot is also about trusting your intuition. If you let your ego take over, you will always go down the rabbit hole of omg but what if this and actually it could also mean this other thing and oh no but what if… Stop. That’s not what tarot is about. ⁠ ⁠ ✨ And, some of us aren’t misunderstanding the first card. We just don’t like what it has to say! So we pick a clarifier to soften the blow or add uncertainty and hope into the situation bc we weren’t ready to hear that initial message. ⁠ ⁠ BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS EXCEPTIONS! For me, it’s usually Aces. Aces indicate a new opportunity or beginning of some sort on the horizon but are by definition pretty vague. They don’t say what kind of opportunity or how we can stay open to it or what to do when it comes. So I often draw a clarifier to give me more info around that. ⁠ ⁠ Death is actually another one for me. It’s an ending that ushers in a new beginning. A transformation, crossing through a portal. So I often draw a clarifier to give me further insight on what may be on the other side. ⁠ ⁠ WHAT TO DO INSTEAD of going down the clarifier rabbit hole? Try this sequence:⁠ ⁠ 1. Sit with the card. Meditate on the imagery. If the figure in the card could speak, what would they say to you?⁠ ⁠ 2. Journal it out! The act of journaling actually helps unlock thoughts and insights you can’t access otherwise. Writing is magical. ⁠ ⁠ 3. Look it up in a trusted source. There may be an angle or symbolism or connection that didn’t occur to you. We are always learning!⁠ ⁠ 4. Fine. If you’re still genuinely stumped, go for that clarifier card. 😌⁠ ⁠ How often do you pull clarifiers and how do you decide if you need one?
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