This card shows up for me when I'm starting to push myself too hard. It says, remember that you're doing this stuff because it's fun. Don't squeeze all the joy out of your work because you're trying to meet some arbitrary goal. You're not playing life to win. You're playing because life is always new every moment, and you can learn to love the changes if you change with them. You can take something seriously and still let it be fun and surprising.
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I was literally making a List of Things I Need to Accomplish to be Successful today, mostly to control my feelings of worry about the unknown. Rather than honoring my fear, my impulse was to numb it out with control.
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I'm really glad I pulled this card and sat with it, because now I see some more of what was going on with me, and I don't have to continue the same way with that. Like, I can make a list, but rather than be all pushy and should-y, I can make a list of what I want to experience, and steps to get there. I'll be just as organized and efficient but I won't be making myself miserable by playing pageant mom to my inner child.
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So if you're getting all control-freaky on yourself today too, see if you can pull back. See why you're reaching for control. Then find the original spark of fun in what you're doing.
Daily Tarot: The Hierophant
When I pulled this card a few weeks ago, the message was about our own individual connections to spirit, and the invitation to realize our potential as a teacher in our own right.
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Today another aspect of The Hierophant is coming through: connecting with tradition and the wisdom of our elders. Because while nobody else has spiritual authority over you, a lot of people have really amazing lessons to share.
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So today we're invited to tap into our own cultural spiritual traditions. Where have people in your ancestry lived? What were their practices and beliefs? If you can talk to one of your relatives or a teacher, that's great. If not, do some reading. You don't have to adopt any of it, just see what comes up. You might find something really interesting, that informs your own current practices.
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It's important to know where your beliefs come from. That's part of taking responsibility for your own soul. Don't just accept any belief without checking into it. And no appropriation of other cultures.
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I've got some trauma around being forced into very unhealthy evangelical Christianity as a kid, but I've started looking at the roots of that belief system. And I lovvvve reading and reconnecting the folk magic of Ireland and GB, where most of my ancestors are from.
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Anyone have an ancestor story or important teaching they want to share here? I'd love to hear it!
Daily Tarot: 3 of Cups
Oh hey look who's here, it's all your friends and they brought cups and a pumpkin for a dance party and they're playing your song.
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The 3 of Cups is about the healing and creative magic of friendship and community. But it's about experiencing that magic in the moment, not thinking about it. When this card shows up, it's a reminder to get out there and spend some quality time with your friends. There are lots of reasons to hang out in a group but it's also just really fun, and that's reason enough right now.
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Go have that dance party. Connect with the fun in the moment, and reflect on the magic of it all later.
Daily Tarot: 3 of Swords
Today, pain is front and center. It's not necessarily an extreme pain, and it's not the only thing going on, but it's the only thing we can think about. We're so zoomed in on the details of how and why we hurt that we're not seeing anything else.
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The invitation of 3 of Swords is to remember that we experience pain, but we don't have to compound it. Everyone feels this card sometimes, no matter how evolved they think they are. In moments of pain, we can choose to be kind to ourselves, which includes reaching out for help or another perspective when we can't see past this feeling. We can choose to be open. We can choose to let our painful experiences build our compassion and empathy, rather than making us bitter.
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This is subtle and takes practice, but the Swords experiences have so much opportunity for self-love in their tough-seeming lessons. Once you get used to noticing but not judging how you feel, your inner experience can change in some really amazing ways. This is a great opportunity for you to be nice to yourself, like really nice, the way you are to your best friends. Take good care of you.
Daily Tarot: Queen of Swords
I pull this card a lot when I'm visiting my mom—I got it twice in a row when I was here last month. She's back in the hospital, so if you have any extra good vibes, please send them her way.
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For me right now, the Queen of Swords (and the part of me that is her) says, ok, I know you're scared and sad and angry and those are all legit feelings. Sometimes you need to let your rational mind work in service of the emotional stuff. Use that sword you've been sharpening to cut through some clouds.
I will help you understand these emotions rationally, cut them into small pieces so you can process easier, not so you repress them and avoid feeling.
And I will help you remember to bring the newspaper and flowers and the hairbrush to the hospital, and help you call doctors and billing departments. I will keep your mind clear so you can be a good caretaker and advocate, but not so you'll intellectualize and over-analyze.
I will take your emotions and translate them into words so you can talk to other people, not so you can isolate and push people away.
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There's a lot of other important stuff about the Queen of Swords, but my entire chart is in Libra right now and I'm cutting off here (swords!) before this turns into a textbook.
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I hope this clear-eyed Queen helps you, too. Hug your family, hug yourself, let your mind serve your heart.
Daily Tarot: Strength
Strength appears when we need to be reminded that we are amazingly strong exactly as we are right now, and that we're ready to integrate and heal a layer of our fear and trauma.
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All of the parts of you are here for you to own. There's nothing there to be ashamed of, or avoid. Not your anger, trauma, fear, lust. Deal directly with the parts that feel scary. Strength is being able to hold those parts of yourself gently without letting them run the show.
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Strength is also a reminder of your connection to spirit. You're not alone, ever. Anytime you need help from the universe or other people, ask and you will receive it.
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If big scary stuff is coming up for you, please be gentle with yourself. Ask for help if you need it. You are ready to start making friends with all parts of yourself. You are so strong.
Daily Tarot: Judgement
Wake up.
Something beautiful is happening.
Your heart is cracking open, getting bigger, holding more light.
Your light ripples out to the people around you. All of your personal growth and healing serves the collective.
You're healing the collective not just through your example, but through active work that only you can do. You are here for a reason and it's time to start fulfilling your purpose.
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Wake up.
It's time.
Now is when you step into your soul path, and you leave behind whatever limits you.
You are perfect and whole, so it's time to stop hiding from yourself in distractions, addictions, and self-sabotage.
You are connected to everyone and everything else so it's time to stop indulging in the illusion of separation.
You are worthy of whatever help and support you need so you can shed these patterns and rise up.
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Wake up.
We need you.
The beautiful thing happening is that we're all waking up.
It is a joy and an honor to be waking up together.
Daily Tarot: The Empress
The Empress is an invitation to bring out your beautiful, soft, fertile, creative, wild, free-flowing, nurturing, inclusive, receptive side.
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If that's easy for you, #blessedbe, get out there, gorgeous, and lead the way for the rest of us.
If it's difficult, read on.
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For most people, receiving is HARD. We are so so so conditioned to be tough, structured, analytical, controlling. There's a huge imbalance in our culture, where we privilege the masculine/active and denigrate the feminine/receptive. Here I mean the energy, not necessarily female-bodied or male-bodied people, though because of the privileging of masculine energy, male bodies and "male" behaviors are also deemed more acceptable. (Even thinking of sex and gender as either/or is a patriarchal way of seeing.) This is a dimensional shift that's started (praise goddess), and it feels like it's speeding up.
The Empress says it's time to open to the divine feminine, on the individual and collective levels.
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So for today:
Where can you receive love?
Where can you appreciate beauty?
Where can you create?
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Where you find yourself trying to be tough, explore being soft instead. The more you can be gentle with yourself and open to receive, the more you'll be aligned with Empress energy, and the more you'll be able to create and heal.
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I'm also thinking of The Tower today, and the image of the Emperor and Empress falling. The Emperor gives structure to the free-flowing Empress energy, and together they can build something. But when what they've built no longer serves, and is broken apart, the energy holding the Tower together is released. That energy is then available for us to work with again.
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My greatest hope for this world is that as we dissolve the structures of separation and oppression, that we free up more of the Empress energy. That we can reconnect to softness and beauty and nature, that we can re-create our world so that all beings are safe and free.
Daily Tarot: The Magician
The Magician reminds you that you ARE magical. You're a channel for creative energy. You can pull ideas out of the realm of potentials for bring them into the material. As above, so below, and you're the missing link of in-between.
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You have all the resources you need at hand right now. But don't confuse the resources with the creative power. You won't be more magical if you get more or fancier stuff.
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And definitely don't confuse the divine creativity you're channeling for your own power. This comes through you, not from you, using it for selfish reasons is a big no-no. Magic is not about having power over anything or anyone. You're as much an instrument as the tools on your table. Your personal power is linked to your free will, the ability to desire a change or creation, and say yes to making it real.
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So work big, create great stuff, stay humble, and stay magical.
My ride's here
My ride's here
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Daily Tarot: Daughter of Cups
Today we are invited to tap into the sweet, playful, innocent inner source of love that we all have inside us. Even if you think you're too damaged or jaded, I promise you it's there. Ask it to show itself clearly and it will. Just try, in full earnestness.
Allow yourself to move through the world with curiosity, like you don't already think you know what will happen. Like you're not expecting to be scared or shamed by anything. Like you're precious and it's safe to play.
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This can be light and easy if you take it minute by minute, make it a game.
For the next 5 minutes, act as if you are totally safe and free and full of love.
What would you do? How do you feel? How is that different from usual? I'm asking, I want to know.
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For me, right now I just want to say that I love you, thank you for being here.
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(Posted super late, I pulled this Saturday afternoon but it's got the same juice whenever you read it.)
Daily Tarot: 4 of Cups
I was super resistant to this message and wanted to pull another card. But that's why it's important to look at exactly this one card. The places we're resistant to look are the ones that hold the most potential for growth and truth. The obstacle is the path, and all of that.
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So today, your invitation from the 4 of Cups is emotional processing. Dealing with your feelings, the old dusty shit you don't want to look at. Striking a balance so you process each feeling as it comes up. Allowing it to flow through you, not holding on or wallowing, and not pushing it away or grabbing for any new feeling because it lets you avoid the hard stuff.
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This card is blending in with some of yesterday's message from The Moon. Stuff is coming up, and it is uncomfortable. Please know that if you're feeling this, you are not alone. I am too, I bet lots of us are. Please talk to someone if you're feeling a lot of feels. You don't have to do all of the sorting out and processing on your own.
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And stay with it, even though it's uncomfortable. Comfort is a drug, that shit'll kill you. You are making progress, even if you can't see or feel it yet. Stay awake, stay alive.
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All my love today, people. I am here in official witch capacity for readings and energy work, but also feel free to dm me if you just need to touch base with another human.
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Thinking, praying, holding space for everyone affected by the fires in the Columbia Gorge, hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the earthquake in Mexico, genocide in Myanmar, white supremacist lawmakers in the US, inequality everywhere.
Daily Tarot: The Moon
The Moon shows up when knowledge from our unconscious is coming to the surface.
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When things start to surface, they can come through in vague impressions, dreams, gut feelings, symbols, synchronicity. They form so slowly and subtly that we don't always see them right away. And if we catch a glimpse out of the corner of our eye, we get startled. That lobster isn't supposed to be there! All of this nebulous stuff goes against what the rational mind likes. It's uneasy, sitting in The Moon's energy.
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It doesn't have to be rational to resonate with us. It doesn't have to be easy, to be what we need. What is coming up, that's part of us. It is here to help us. It's here because we need it and we're ready to integrate it.
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It is very tempting to treat this as a quest, a mystery to solve. Go into the darkness, bring stuff into the light and dissect it. What I'm getting here is that we're invited to just hang out with the weird formless stuff. The point, if there is a point, isn't to nail stuff down and explain it. We don't have to make everything conscious. That whole questing, explaining, measuring, analyzing way is very solar. The lunar approach is to let it be, and let yourself dissolve into it.
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Here's a heckin lunar dream I had: I was talking to someone I've never met in waking life, and they said "I carry a space inside me to be whole. There's so much mystery in the world. I became a deep thinker to savor it, turn it over in my mind, but not to try to figure it out."
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Please enjoy this nugget, from my unconscious to yours. Part of our whole-ness comes from being in touch with the void.
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We're still swimming in all of the primordial Pisces full moon energy, so if you're feeling this, too, let yourself soak it in. It's part of you, it's safe, and you will understand what you need to understand. See if you can enjoy the fact that part of you is a mystery too big to be explained.
Daily Tarot: 8 of Wands
There's a lot of fast-moving fire energy in the air today. You've done your thing and sent it off into the void and now it's in the process of becoming. Whether that's a spell, an application, an exam.
The important thing to remember in 8 of Wands is that once you've done the thing, it is out of your hands. Don't try to grab for an arrow when it's flying through the air. Don't try to stir your cake batter while it's baking.
Right now pay attention to you. Make space for your ideal outcome in your life. Make yourself a better guardian for the energy that's on its way. Get ready for those Wands to come back to earth.
When they do, that's when you can pick them up and see what you've created or called in. Then you can work with them, but not before.
Try to think of this as anticipation and excitement rather than nervousness. You're creating something, and that's pretty exciting.
Daily Tarot: Teamwork!
Guest post from the universe, via this basketball card on the ground this morning.
We're invited to work with others to create something bigger and brighter than we could ever do alone, and to remember that all people are on our team. There is no point trying to fight or outsmart each other. We are all in this together. There is no winning or losing, just teamwork.
Our teammates help draw out ideas we're carrying, they hold us accountable, and they inspire us to keep trying.
If there's something you've been wanting to do but you're afraid of doing it alone, bring in a team to work with you. And show up to support other people. Cheer from the sidelines and hop in the game when you're needed.
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Thank you to everyone who's been working to support our fellow humans today. We have a lot more to do, let's keep each other going.
DACA Calls to Make
Mercury retrograde is over!
Can I ask you to put some of your communication juice into supporting DACA?
Here are a couple ways you can help:
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Text RESIST to 50409 to fax your congressional reps and governor.
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Call the 9 AGs who are trying to end DACA and tell them you support it.
Ken Praxton (TX): 512-463-2100
Steve Marshall (AL): 334-242-7300
Leslie Rutledge (AR): 501-682-2007
Lawrence Wasden (ID): 208-334-2400
Derek Schmidt (KS): 785-296-2215
Jeff Landry (LA): 225-326-6079
Doug Peterson (NE): 402-471-2683
Alan Wilson (SC): 803-734-3970
Patrick Morrisey (WV): 304-558-2021
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Show up to a protest if you can. There's one in NYC at the tower today from 11am on.
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And share this info and encourage everyone you know to offer their support too.
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Thank you!
Defend DACA
We have to #defendDACA. Sign petitions, talk to your neighbors, call your reps. Get ready to call a bunch of DAs on Tuesday morning. Go to the tower in NYC tomorrow at 11am if you can.
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(Personally I don't care if anyone ever "contributes," just being a person is enough to deserve safety and freedom.)
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#Repost @jessica_lanyadoo
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The world has gotten v crazy v quickly (slash has always been crazy). We talk about being right w your soul and we talk about intersectional feminism and of course we talk about equality - but talk is just one step.
TODAY WE MUST ACT
Go to my stories & I have hella links for you to do simple actions to defend the DACA from your phone.
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What is DACA?
It's means Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It allows immigrant kids who were once undocumented to b able to live in the U.S. without constant fear of deportation. It's a humane law and MUST B DEFENDED.
So please join me in doing what's right. ✊️✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
You can't call yourself a spiritual person and do nothing, say nothing, and feel nothing about this.
STAND W DREAMERS, MY LOVE. ✊️✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Stand against hatred, xenophobia, and oppression in all of its forms &
Stand on the right side of history. 🖤
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Image RP @contrastcollect
Daily Tarot: Two of Pentacles
In the Two of Pentacles we put balance into motion, like the wheels on a bike. You stop moving, your bike falls over.
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The two wheels here could be a lot of things, today their names are "do a little more" and " do a little less."
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Where's a place where you're overdoing it? Pull back a little there. Where's a place you're slacking? Go harder there. No judgement on what you've been doing, no explaining why. Readjust and keep moving.
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There's a rhythm to life and you get used to whatever rhythm you have going, so it's important to check in to see if you've gotten used to a wonky rhythm, like riding with a bent wheel (OR A CARD IN YOUR SPOKES #dadjoke #notsorry).
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You can't ever really compartmentalize your life. There's no separation between work-you and home-you. It's all you. You only have this one you and that's why you balance where you put your energy.
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So that's our deal today. Check in, adjust, keep moving.
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Happy Labor Day if you're in the US, if you have the day off or if you're reading Instagram at work (or taking a quick break to post at work like I am). This is the day dedicated to work-rest-play balance. I want to talk about magic work and day jobs cause I have a day job and freelance gigs too and it's important for me to be all out on here. So if there's anything you want to talk about with THAT part of life balance, please comment.
Daily Tarot: 9 of Pentacles
Appreciate what you have. Let yourself really feel all the abundance in your life, by being still and paying attention.
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This isn't the kind of feeling I find easy to hold onto. I'm always like, hey spirit guides, are you *sure* I shouldn't be working constantly, there's a lot of stuff to get done and I put a lot of my self-value on work. They're like, nope, just for one day, chill out, actively appreciate what you do have, what you've made, how far you've come. Hood your falcon, no seeking today.
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Just for one day. I'm in the car and as I wrote that Heroes came on. I could be king and you could be queen and maybe we already are all the time but just for one day we can put our attention on our royalness. Out of all of the little threads of who we are, let's pull this one to the top today.
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So there is stuff I have to get done today, a lot more moving boxes and cleaning, but I'm appreciating how beautiful it is this morning. Mist rising on the hills that I have eyes to see, a jacket so I can be comfortable outside, my sister's new house and land where I can visit, enough money to cover my rent and take a few days in the country, my cousin driving me around, bushes full of blackberries, pond full of trout. I am grateful.
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Back to Brooklyn tonight, back to work tomorrow. Happy Sunday everyone.
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I have a few openings this week for readings and reiki - dm me or email me to set up an appointment.
Daily Tarot: King of Cups
Short and sweet and late cause I'm in Vermont helping my sister move and I am about to lose phone service.
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So! The King of Cups is the master of the water suit, he's experienced a wide range of emotions and ideas in his life, so he can be in the flow and not be dissolved. Creative, sensitive, empathic, charismatic, the kind of person who can own their feelings and hold space for other people's feelings.
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Today we're invited to embody this energy. How can you take responsibility for your own feelings today? How can you get to a place where emotional maturity means allowing your feelings, keeping your own shape while all of life flows through and around you? How can you have fun and be a good friend without overindulging or enabling or taking on other people's emotional labor?
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Hope you're all having a lovely Saturday. It's going to be like 40 degrees here tonight!