Happy Friday the 13th! I hope you all have had a great day. I definitely have. Thanks to @cultpartynyc for hosting me for readings and to @goldendomeschool for organizing the goddess of love procession, and to all the awesome people I got to meet today.
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Onto the card: The Sun is pretty much the main “everything is cool” card. Even the creepy old books that seem to predict some new way of feeling shitty in each card tend to agree that The Sun is pretty good.
And I think that’s because as creatures living on earth, we are LITERALLY SOLAR POWERED. There’s a reason ancient (and current) people worship the sun, and it’s the reason we just feel happier on sunny days. We talk about light as a metaphor for understanding. We say we feel “warm” when we experience kindness. We sense the sun’s elemental life-giving nature even if we aren’t conscious of it. That’s The Sun card, just shining some clarity, energy and joy into your life today.
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The sun is always there, even when we don’t see it, so this clarity and light is also constantly available to us. You can tap into it when you need it. If you’re having a tough day, invite some Sun card energy. The Sun also works with the inner child, who also always exists, so you can access this energy through things that are fun for kid-you. Go outside and run around, draw a picture of the sun, sing a song, play. It might sound hokey to adult-you, but it is incredibly effective. Playing and connecting with the sun energy helps remind you not that things could eventually be ok, but that they ARE ok right now, and that there’s a giant ball of scientifically proven energy out there keeping you and everything you know alive, day and night. It’s such a weird, wonderful confluence of events that add up to your existence, and it’s good to remember how young, small, and special you are.

New moon/Samhain/Halloween/All Souls Day reading:

How can we release fear?
Strength.
Deal with the scary things up close and personal. Hold them gently, especially the scary parts of yourself. When you can be soft and close with the things that inspire fear, and with the parts of yourself that experience fear, you'll find that fear naturally has less of a grip on you.
What cycle is closing?
The Moon.
We're moving out of a period of unconscious knowing, deep dreaming, and instinct. It's a weird place, and can be hard to grapple with because its very nature is pre-language. But if we can be present to the lesson of The Moon, even if we don't understand it at the time, we'll come to a place down the road where looking back, it will make perfect sense. We're moving toward that place now.
How can we be more in the flow?
Four of Wands.
Celebrate life, it's a dance. Connect with other people in joy and excitement, and give your energy a creative outlet. By being in the flow, I mean participating and creating, giving and receiving, without trying to control or scheme or explain everything. We can flow more, and more easily when we take time for pleasure and fun. Energy put into pure fun recharges us.
What cycle is opening now?
The Sun.
This is a beautiful counterpoint to The Moon. This is when all of the recent mysterious stuff will start making sense. We're moving into a cycle of expansion, clarity, warmth, energy and joy. So enjoy it! Look back on the last month, times that were dark and hard. Now you'll start to see how they were in fact lessons, and what they meant.

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