In this newsletter:

• Solar Eclipse in Leo Details

• Your Guides for Eclipse Season: The Empress & The Hanged One

• Receiving With The Empress: A Ritual (for paid subscribers only)

Happy New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo!! 🌑☀️🦁♌

We officially enter eclipse season today, Wednesday, August 12th at 10:37am PT. Which will be followed by a lunar eclipse in Pisces at the end of this month.

I’ve spent a lot of time talking about eclipses because…well…they are kind of a big deal. They indicate times of significant beginnings and endings, ready or not!

But I’m curious how you experience eclipse season.

Have you noticed anything happening in you during these seasons? Are you noticing that there something the sun and moon want you to pay attention to?

You can read more about my take on eclipses in this previous special edition post.

But in general, I don’t recommend doing a lot during this time. Not even setting intentions. Instead, allow yourself to receive what wants to come through for you in this season. I believe the universe creates this magical moment in the heavens to get our attention. What does it want you to know?

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be doing the same and taking a break — even from writing. Because honestly, it feels like there is already a lot going on, not only in the astrology, but in life. And not just mine, but in the collective. It’s exciting. It’s holy. At times a bit unnerving. But I’m here for it. We all are!

So I invite you to join me in taking these next few weeks of eclipse season and beyond to see where you can be more present and receptive to what’s unraveling, ending, and what wants to be created next.

And we can find some beautiful support for this in the archetypes of the Tarot.

Your Guides for Eclipse Season: The Empress & The Hanged One

One of the tarot cards associated with receiving is the Empress.

The Empress receives because she is a queen. She is creativity. She is fertility. And she knows she can’t be either of those things unless she makes time to sit on her throne and rest. She knows she must nourish and love herself, and enjoy the abundance surrounding her in order to offer her gifts to others.

And I’ve got a special meditation on the Empress to help you do just that.

The Hanged One is also a great card for this season, and is actually associated with the Empress through numerology (the Empress is a three card, and the Hanged One is a 12 card which is also a “three” card 1+ 2 = 3).

Like the Hanged One, eclipse season doesn’t ask you to push forward — it’s asking you to to tune in. Honor what arises. Release what you’re ready to outgrow. And become aware of what’s wanting to emerge.

I know it’s summer still here in the northern hemisphere, which can be a really busy time. But I encourage you to check your calendar and see what’s really necessary? Is there anything that can be postponed or missed? So you can make room for you, for nourishment, for appreciation, for attention? Even if it’s just a few minutes a day that you need to schedule in your calendar.

You can even enjoy this simple ritual — take 2-3 minutes for it, or 20-30 minutes. Both will have beneficial effects in helping you become present and receive.

NOTE: Rituals are for paid subscribers only. For only $5 per month (or less with a year subscription), you can receive THIS ritual PLUS all past rituals, journal prompts, and more including the complete series of Major Arcana cards from past cycles!

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In this newsletter:

• Full Moon in Aquarius Details

• 7 of Swords: What’s Your True Motive?

• Medicine of the 7 of Swords: Releasing the Past, Moving Into Your Future

• Signs You Might Need 7 of Swords Medicine

• Full Moon Ritual With the 7 of Swords(for paid subscribers only)

Happy Full Moon in Aquarius! 🌕♒🏺

This lunation occurs on Wednesday, July 29 at 7:36am PT and is astrologically powerful!!

We’ve got the sun in Leo lighting up the moon on the othe side of the zodiac in Aquarius. But we’ve also got the sun conjunct Jupiter (this means our sun is at/near the same degree of Leo as this large planet of expansion). AND we’ve got the moon conjunct Pluto (it’s at or near the same degree of the planet – yeah, I called it a planet – of revolution, change, transformation).

So we might notice some truth being illuminated for us, and with Jupiter in the mix, it probably won’t be subtle.

While the sign Aquarius relates to going against convention, innovation, and understanding ourselves as individuals who have a place in the collective, Leo is associated with big courageous heart-centered action, wanting to be seen, heard… and most of all, adored.

With 2 influential planets in each of these signs, we may find ourselves getting clarity on why we do the things we do. Is it to receive adoration and attention, or are we doing it in service to something bigger than ourselves?

Are we breaking rules for the sake of needing to be different? Or because we have brave hearts?

These questions are at the center of the 7 of Swords, a card that is traditionally associated with the moon in Aquarius. And a closer look at it can be supportive as we move through these astrological energies.

7 of Swords: What’s Your Motive?

In the 7 of Swords, we see a figure who sneaking away from a camp making off with several swords: five in his arms, with two still standing upright behind him. He’s looking back over his shoulder as he goes, wondering if anyone’s watching.

Traditionally, this card is interpreted as deception, theft, or getting away with something.

Some interpretations suggest this figure might be some sort of Robin Hood figure. Is this theft somehow for the greater good? Maybe.

But what always stands out to me is the fact that he is moving forward, but looking back.

When I teach tarot, I love asking people to get a sense of a card’s meaning by assuming the position of the main figure(s). And this one is such a great example. I invite you to try it now.

Imagine your hands full of heavy, sharp items that should be carried with care, running ahead but looking back over your shoulder. This is high risk behavior. If it’s dangerous to run with scissors, it seems foolish to run with five swords!

Also, when you’re in this position, running forward, looking back, there is a somatic wisdom that comes through: your body knows you’re doing something wrong or have crossed a line, whether morally, legally, or otherwise.

He’s not looking at what’s in front of him or what this act will cost in the future. He’s only checking if someone sees him. We might even wonder if he wants to be seen.

Swords are weapons, though in the tarot they represent truth, discernment, and mental activity like thoughts and ideas. And that’s what he’s taking away from someone, or a group of people.

It’s also interesting to me that he only took five swords, not all seven.

Is he leaving behind only part of a story or truth with this camp? So that they don’t have all the information they need.

This could be manipulation and even oppression — deciding for others they only get part of the truth.

Whatever it is, it doesn’t feel honest. Or honorable.

Another possibility this card reflects is self-deception. Is the figure choosing what truths he’s willing to hold? And unwilling to take/look at the whole truth (all seven swords)?

So what are we to make of all of this?

7 of Swords Medicine

When this card comes up in a reading, I often sense that someone is not looking at the whole picture. They may be taking risks that ultimately won’t be good for anyone, including themselves. It’s a refusal to look at the potential consequences of their actions and they’ve likely justified actions they know in their hearts are not quite fair. To themselves or others.

When we look at this card through the systemic lens of Family Constellations, the backward gaze could represent the search for an unmet need not received from his caregivers when he was a child. Perhaps the figure on the card is still looking to his past for recognition, love, belonging. As if he’s thinking, “hey look at me” – I am doing this high risk behavior to get the attention I never received. He may just want to be seen.

In constellation work, we call this a disorder of love. And as long as he’s looking behind him, he can never orient towards his future. Towards being seen for who he truly is, and for the unique gifts and potential he’s meant to explore in this life. Instead he is still oriented towards the past: to trauma, old patterns, and what was missing.

The medicine of the 7 of Swords asks us to consider:

• Where might you be doing something in your life that doesn’t feel quite aligned, but you believe might help you feel seen, loved, safe?

• What are you trying to get away with, that you know in your heart isn’t quite right?

• What truth are you avoiding about yourself?

These are not easy questions. And they’re not questions meant to shame us.

Wanting to have our basic needs met, like being seen and loved, feeling like you belong, feeling a sense of security, is human nature. It’s how we survive.

And parents and caregivers aren’t perfect. They may not be able to meet all these needs. It’s quite likely they had caregivers who weren’t able to meet their needs. This is not about excusing or even forgiving neglectful behavior, it’s about acknowledging the reality that it happens. And it happens a lot. Even from the “best parents” and the “most loving families.”

AND, we get to choose what we want to do with that fact.

Will we continue to look for that need to get met by people (similar in nature to our parents or caregivers) who are unable to give it to us? Will we stay locked in that pattern of searching or can we accept what was and turn towards our future?

When we acknowledge we can’t change the past, it allows us to explore how we can create a new path for ourselves. A path that doesn’t repeat old scenarios, but instead holds our gifts, our truths, and gives us the opportunity to organize our lives around our potential rather than what was.

So the deeper question might be: What would change if you accepted how the past played out (because you can’t change it), stopped looking over your shoulder, and instead turned towards what is here now. Towards what feels aligned, and whole, and true for you. And moved towards your future.

I invite you to experience that in your body. Starting in the position of the figure on the card, running away holding all of these swords while looking behind you.

And then stop, drop the swords, and turn your whole body, heart, and head towards the future. What shifts for you? What do you notice in your body?

It might feel scary. Or liberating. Or exciting. Or all of the above. But also take note: does it feel right? Does it feel honest? Does it feel true for you?

And yes, I acknowledge this seems like an oversimplified solution to what could be a longstanding pattern. But the very simple act of planting this seed, allows something new and wondrous to grow.

Signs You Could Use 7 of Swords Medicine

If you’re…

• Carrying a story or wound from your past you haven’t looked directly at

• Noticing yourself feeling worried about being caught, judged, or found out

• Finding yourself acting from a need to be seen or validated rather than from what your heart actually wants

• Aware of a sense of loyalty to an old pain or an old way of feeling loved that keeps you stuck in a pattern instead of the future you would like to build

…7 of Swords medicine could be just what you need to step into a deeper truth of yourself that feels more aligned with your heart.

This is just what this Aquarius full moon, and its companion aspects, are supporting you to do now.

And I’ve got a compassionate ritual that will help you feel more aligned, more whole, more free to be who you truly are.

NOTE: Rituals are for paid subscribers only. For only $5 per month (or less with a year subscription), you can receive THIS ritual PLUS all past rituals, journal prompts, and more including the complete series of Major Arcana cards from past cycles!

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In this newsletter:

• New Moon in Cancer Details

• 2 of Cups: Is it About Romance? Or Something More?

• Medicine of the 2 of Cups: The Healing Wisdom of Commitment

• Signs You Might Need 2 of Cups Medicine

• New Moon Ritual With the 2 of Cups (for paid subscribers only)

Happy New Moon in Cancer! 🌕♋🦀

The New Moon in Cancer occurs on Tuesday, July 14 at 2:44am PT. Cancer is associated with home, heart, and your inner world and this lunation is an opportunity to set new intentions around these areas in your life.

AND there’s a bit of weightiness to this new moon. The astrology over the next week is powerful. We have a once in a lifetime configuration being called Barbault’s Basket, which, simply put is a favorable configuration between the outer planets (Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto).

There’s a bit of hype in the astrology world over these aspects which will continue to unfold at different degrees over the coming months. Many believe this basket formation, also called a cradle, is ushering in a rebirth in the collective. Frankly, I love this idea, and I may need to give it its own post.

On a more personal level, we also have the Nodes of Fate (North Node & South Node) getting ready to shift signs.

What does that mean?

The Nodes are the points where the paths of the Sun and Moon cross and where eclipses occur. Astrologically, they mark karmic points: where the South Node designates what we’re ready to release (old patterns, shadow issues, karma) and the North Node indicates what we’re growing towards – sort of like our “North Star.”

The nodes shift signs roughly every 18 months, and each shift closes one lesson and opens another.

Over the next two weeks, we’re closing out that 18-month cycle of the South Node in Virgo and North Node in Pisces. This transit has been teaching us where we’ve been too rigid in our daily routines, where we’ve been over-giving, overanalyzing, over-perfecting, overcontrolling — the shadow sides of Virgo.

Meanwhile the North Node in Pisces has been leading us away from these shadows and into surrender, trusting in life and the path unfolding, leaning into more compassion for ourselves and others, and listening more to our intuition rather than the endless loops of the Virgoan analytical mind.

Many of you may be feeling it acutely right now. Uranus is in a loose square to the Nodes. Venus is sitting right on the South Node. Old patterns, and the discomfort of finally releasing them, may feel up close and personal right about now!

Many of us will feel we’re at a choice point. The Nodes are asking us to take another step towards karmic release and embracing a more conscious version of ourselves. It’s not easy work.

But we’ve got support from the card that’s showing up to meet us here: the Two of Cups.

2 of Cups: Is it Romance? Or Something More?

Like all the twos in the tarot, this card also depicts there is a decision to be/being made. Upon first glance this card seems to indicates a romantic coupling. We see two figures coming together with a palpable sincerity and vulnerability. They extend their cups towards each other as if to toast or perhaps consecrate their mutual fondness of each other.

But a deeper look at the images here show us there’s more to this card than a budding romance.

Between the cups, a caduceus arises. This winged staff with intertwining snakes is associated with Hermes, god of healing and communication. Crowning it we see a lion’s head, typically associated with Mithra, an ancient Iranian deity of contracts, covenants, and strength.

The invitation here goes beyond a romantic encounter. It’s inviting us to commit.

And commitment doesn’t only apply to a romantic partner. It can apply to a project, a practice, a way of living — and maybe most of all as these nodes close out a cycle, a commitment to yourself.

Medicine of the 2 of Cups: The Healing Wisdom of Commitment

They might be triggering words. Commit. Commitment.

Some of us may hear it and think: burden, prison, trap.

But this card suggests that commitment can be something much more than a burden.

Instead, it can become a vessel (like the two cups coming together) for both giving and receiving profound healing (caduceus).

We see the two cups coming together as extensions of the figures on the card. And I think this is key. This isn’t a commitment formed out of social obligation or conditioning. It doesn’t stem from what they think they “should” do or an external ideal of romance. The cups are extensions of themselves to each other.

Their commitment comes from their hearts that see the potential for healing (whether they’re aware of it or not). Because the heart is not just an organ that beats in our chests. It has a complex neural network, similar to the one in our brains, that allows the heart to learn, remember, make decisions, feel, and sense independently of the brain.

Your heart has an electromagnetic field that extends out in all directions around the body, sometimes up to several feet away, allowing it to sense information beyond the body.

Researchers at the Heartmath Institute have performed fascinating experiments showing that the heart has pre-knowledge of future events, and then sends that information to the brain.

As if its expansive field allows it to pick up on the future. 😲

So when we tap into the heart, when we choose to commit to something from our hearts, we have a strong anchor and powerful wisdom to draw on for that commitment.

Because in the commitments we make to projects, practices, relationships with others, or with ourselves, problems will arise, shadows will fall, and uncomfortable truths can surface. During these times we may want to drop our cup of commitment and run away.

What the Two of Cups reminds us is that if we return to the heart, we remember our reason for entering the commitment. In the heart we may find the strength (that a deity like Mithra might offer) to work through the shadows and discomfort.

And it’s through that process, of sticking with something in challenging times and connecting with the heart of that commitment, that we can find that powerful medicine. We can find the courage to look at our shadows, work out problems and move compassionately through discomfort.

This is the kind of medicine that can propel us into that next phase of our personal evolution, our life purpose, and deepen our understanding and connection to whatever we committed to: ourselves, a partner, a way of living, a passion.

Back to those Nodes of Fate

As the nodes take their final steps in Virgo and Pisces, many of us may feel we are being presented with a choice: Will we commit to the ways we’ve carried for so long, that may no longer serve us? Or will we release karmic patterns and commit to creating a new path for ourselves?

To support you in finding your answer, the Two of Cups reminds you of the wisdom already in your heart. It reminds you that when you choose to commit based on the heart’s intelligence, you’ll have a powerful ally in moving through challenges to that commitment.

That’s the difference between a commitment that becomes a prison and one that becomes a path. One you may have taken on because you thought you should will eventually feel like something you’re dragging. And the one that comes from your heart will carry you.

(And sidenote: Your heart can also tell you when that commitment is no longer aligned with your path. It happens.)

Signs You Could Use Some Two of Cups Medicine

If you…

• Have become aware of some shadowy patterns or behaviors you have that may be holding you back

• Are ready to release some patterns, but aren’t sure you have the wisdom, strength, or support to do it

• Have had trouble making decisions or important choices about where to focus your energy

• Are noticing many of your decisions are made for external reasons, instead of based on what you desire

• Have been feeling this nodal shift as restlessness, or a pull to release an old pattern around perfectionism or overgiving

…it’s time to take a sip of the medicine from the Two of Cups.

And I’ve got a lovely ritual for you to do just that. If you’re finding yourself with a decision or choice you need to make, particularly during this time as the nodes shift into a new cycle, check out the practice below.

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In this newsletter:

• SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

• Full Moon in Capricorn Details

• 7 of Pentacles: How Does Your Garden Grow?

• The Medicine of the 7 of Pentacles: Communing, Listening, Learning

• Signs You Might Need 7 of Pentacles Medicine

• Full Moon Ritual With the 7 of Pentacles (for paid subscribers only)

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Happy Full Moon in Capricorn!! 🌕🐐♑

The Full Moon in Capricorn is exact at 4:57pm PT on Monday, June 29^th and it marks the halfway point of 2026!!

Capricorn has a reputation for ambition, achievement, and planning. And it always shows up this time of year inviting us to stop and ask: Is this where you expected you would be at this point of the year? Was this how you expected 2026 to unfold? 😅

If not, good news! On this same day Mercury goes retrograde in Cancer, kicking off a 3 week period for reflection and revision while tuning in to our senses and intuitive mind (Cancer) for more clarity.

Together, this Full Moon and Mercury’s retrograde offer powerful cosmic support for moving into stillness and listening for that deeper wisdom that that can illuminate a new way, or a better plan forward for the second half of 2026.

This is where the medicine of the 7 of Pentacles comes in!

Seven of Pentacles

In the Rider-Waite-Smith version of this card, a figure leans on a garden tool gazing at a large lush plant ripe with pentacles – one so ripe it’s fallen onto the ground.

And yet some of the plant’s leaves are browning at the edges. The figure carries a quality of contemplation, maybe even perplexity, rather than triumph.

In the Thoth tarot deck, this card is called “Failure.” Even traditional interpretations of this card often associate it with stalled progress, disappointing returns, or effort that hasn’t yielded what was hoped for. But when we stop there, we miss the deeper medicine present in this card.

But first, let’s sit with this word “failure” for a moment.

We live in a culture that has very little tolerance for failure. Productivity, output, and measurable success are the standards by which we are asked to evaluate ourselves and others. When things don’t go as planned, the instinct is often to look away. To bury what happened, to move on quickly, to avoid the discomfort of sitting with what didn’t work.

And in doing so, we overlook the gift and the wisdom within the so-called failure.

When I look at the figure on this card, I don’t see someone who has failed. I see someone who is willing to look. And that willingness, that quality of honest, non-defensive presence, is actually kind of rare in our world.

The plant before him is not a ruin. It is large and alive. There has been genuine growth, real effort, tangible result. And yes, some leaves are browning. Something didn’t flourish the way he imagined. But rather than turning away or doubling down on what he thought should work, he is doing something more courageous: he is listening to the plant itself.

This is the medicine of the Seven of Pentacles.

Not failure. But the willingness to stop forcing and pushing for something to happen in a certain way and to instead receive: information, cues, clarity.

To tune in rather than judge. To use your inner senses, your intuition, your felt sense of what is actually happening, rather than measuring the garden against an expectation or standard.

As a wellness coach and as somebody who experienced a chronic condition for years, I’ve noticed there is something similar in how we relate to illness. When the body gets sick, there is either a tendency to ignore it, hoping it will just go away. Or there is often a rush to fight it, fix it, get back to normal as fast as possible.

But illness, like a browning plant, is a messenger. It is often pointing to a pattern, a stress, an emotional weight that needs your attention. Illness isn’t an enemy. It’s information.

What I love about the figure in this card is the loving gaze with which he observes this plant. It speaks to the nature of seeking to understand, rather than avoiding or fixing, as a way to decide how to best move forward.

He’s not just using his logic to try and figure it out, but instead seems to be communing with the plant, perhaps intuitively asking what it needs, how can he serve? And staying still long enough to listen for the response.

Getting to the Root

And there is something else here to discuss around this idea of so-called failure: whose idea of success are you measuring against?

So much of our disappointment comes not from genuine failure but from a mismatch between what we projected something should become and what it actually wants to be, or is fated to become.

We do this with our bodies, our projects, our careers, our relationships, our families, ourselves! We hold in our minds an image of how someone or something should grow, how they should look, and how they should move through the world. And when they don’t match our expectations, we call it failure.

But the plant doesn’t know your plan. The plant knows its own nature.

That creative project has its own spirit.

Your body has its own wisdom.

The deeper invitation of this card is to drop the projection. To stop assessing by the standards of what you thought should happen, and to genuinely ask:

What is actually here? What does this really need? What is this trying to tell me?

Signs You Might Need 7 of Pentacles Medicine

If you’ve been…

• Avoiding looking closely at something in your life because you’re afraid of what you’ll find

• Finding it hard to acknowledge where something didn’t work without spiraling into shame or self-criticism

• Expecting a person, relationship, or situation to be different — to match an idea you have of how it should be — and feel frustrated when it isn’t

• Moving quickly past disappointment rather than letting yourself feel and understand it

• Feeling like bad things happen to you, forgetting that most things happen for you

…this Full Moon and the 7 of Pentacles may be just the medicine you need.

And I’m sharing a powerful ritual with you here so you can start working with this medcine!!

Because right now, at this halfway point of the year, you are being invited into the practice of honest presence and deep listening.

Not to judge what you’ve built. Not to “perform” optimism about where things are going. But to actually be with what is. To look at the garden of your life with open, curious eyes, and ask what it is trying to show you.

Because it can be challenging to move forward if you don’t understand the past. You may simply repeat the same patterns, bring the same projections, make the same choices, and wonder why the plant keeps browning in the same places.

This is not failure. This is the work.

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In this newsletter:

• New Moon in Gemini Details

• 10 of Swords: The Truth Awaits

• The Medicine of the 10 of Swords: Letting the Truth Land

• Signs You Might Need 10 of Swords Medicine

• New Moon Ritual With the 10 of Swords (for paid subscribers only)

Happy New Moon in Gemini! 🌕♊🧑‍🤝‍🧑

The New Moon arrives on June 14th at 7:54pm PT, in the sign of Gemini, highlighting communication, curiosity, duality, and the stories we tell ourselves.

New Moons always usher in a new phase – but these next few weeks will be a phase like no other. The universe is prepping us for deep personal transformation. An inner revolution if you will.

Because in the coming weeks we’ll be experiencing a number of tense astrological aspects, such as Venus in Leo to opposing Pluto in Aquarius, both squaring Chiron as it moves into Taurus. And Venus will be followed in the coming weeks and months by several other planets doing the same thing.

What does this mean?

As the planet of change and revolution, Pluto will be asking us to let go of parts of ourselves — beliefs, relationships, habits, ways of communicating, emotional patterns, and old wounds — that no longer serve who we are becoming.

It’s going to be a big ask. And it’s probably going to be very uncomfortable.

But in a more supportive aspect is Neptune in Aries – which as I mentioned before is all about dissolving false parts of our identity, so that more of our true nature can emerge. As well as Uranus in Gemini, which is here to liberate us from the outdated stories we tell ourselves and unhelpful mental patterns.

This leads us to our card of this new moon: the Ten of Swords.

Ten of Swords: The Truth Awaits

The Ten of Swords is not subtle.

In the Rider-Waite-Smith version of the tarot, a figure lies face down on the ground, ten swords piercing their back, the sky above them dark and stormy. On the surface, it appears to be a card of defeat. Of endings. Of something that has been brought, finally and completely, to the ground. 😜

And yet on the horizon, the sky is beginning to lighten. The sun is rising in the east. A new day is dawning.

Traditionally, the Ten of Swords signals rock bottom. The end of a painful cycle. Betrayal, loss, the collapse of something that could no longer stand.

Those ten swords represent not only the truths we didn’t want to face, but the very structures and stories we built trying to avoid them. The mental loops. The defenses. The walls we erected to feel safe, quietly, one sword at a time — until we were more imprisoned than protected.

The Medicine of the 10 of Swords: Letting the Truth Land

There is something the universe has been asking of us lately — a lot, actually.

Growth at a pace that might seem unreasonable. Change that touches the things we thought were fixed. And many of us (including myself) have been responding the way any reasonable person might: by bracing. By putting up defenses. By clutching harder to what we know, what feels familiar, what has always kept us safe before.

But the 10 of Swords shows up to remind us that the growth being asked of us right now — as uncomfortable, as disorienting, as genuinely hard as it is — is being asked because we are ready. We just don’t know it (or believe it) yet.

And so we’ve been holding on. Resisting. Maybe even stamping our feet a little, like a child who knows they have to go but absolutely does not want to.

And who can blame that inner child? This IS scary. This IS freaking uncomfortable. And this petulance, hiding, numbing out, however you might be dealing, is a survival response, trying to keep you safe the only way it knows how.

But here’s what I believe to be true: If you’re feeling uncomfortable about changes to come, something really important is happening. Something is being asked of you that matters.

The change you might feel afraid of, that you’ve been resisting because you were certain it would destroy you — is actually setting you free: from false identities, unhelpful patterns, toxic relating, and all those things that prevent you from fully stepping into your life.

Here’s the kicker! You may even know full well intellectually that this change is good for you!! And still be completely unable to receive it.

Because some part is still braced against the discomfort. The unknown.

The Ten of Swords is the moment when that bracing part of us finally exhausts itself. We finally accept that we are freaking uncomfortable, and still we must grow!

The discomfort has to be accepted first. And then, only then, can the truth actually land.

When it does, it might bring us to the ground. Not because it’s horrible, but because we’re exhausted from all the resistance!

And when we finally allow the truth to land, there is relief. There is clarity. There is a new way of being on the horizon.

The Ten of Swords says: Look east. The sun is rising. Tomorrow you won’t remember why you were holding on so tightly yesterday.

Signs You Might Need This Medicine

If you’ve been…

• More reactive than usual — quicker to anger, quicker to shut down

• Noticing a younger, more defensive part of yourself running the show: resistant, defiant, rigid, maybe even a little pouty

• Becoming aware deep down, what needs to change — and you are doing all the distracting things you know of to not look at it

• Drained! Exhausted from the effort of holding things together that have already fallen apart

…you’d probably feel a lot better with a dose of Ten of Swords medicine

How to Administer 10 of Swords Medicine

The Ten of Swords invites us to acknowledge discomfort. And this will likely be a process for most of us.

***Please don’t pressure yourself into acceptance as another way to escape the discomfort!***

Instead, we can ease into it. And I recommend approaching it from at least two angles. Starting with your body.

Because your nervous system is also trying to adapt to these changes.

One of the simplest ways to get started supporting your body is by consuming more (if not entirely) clean, nourishing foods, such as organic whole foods and lots of vegetables (especially fresh ones from the farmers’ market).

Avoid processed foods, stimulants, and too much sugar. And above all, make sure you are staying hydrated. When the body is clear, the mind is clearer. When the mind is clearer, truth has a better chance of landing.

Your inner child is also going to need some support. And this new moon in Gemini is the perfect time for a ritual to ease yourself into more of who you came here to be.

NOTE: Rituals are for paid subscribers only. For only $5 per month (or less with a year subscription), you can receive THIS ritual PLUS all past rituals, journal prompts, and more including the complete series of Major Arcana cards from past cycles!

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In this newsletter:

• Full (Blue!) Moon in Sagittarius Details

• 8 of Wands: The Time Has Arrived!

• The Medicine of the 8 of Wands: Anchor Your Rhythm

• Signs You Might Need 8 of Wands Medicine

• Full Moon Ritual With the 8 of Wands (for paid subscribers only)

Happy Full Moon in Sagittarius! 🌕🏹♐

This lunation is exact on Sunday May 31 1:45am PT. In the sign of Sagittarius, the moon is carrying the energy of expansion, vision, and optimism, and illuminating a bigger truth or the spiritual meaning of something you’ve been curious about lately – perhaps over the last 6 months. What’s coming up for you?

And then there’s the other side of the sky.

The Sun is in Gemini, and it’s not alone. With both Mercury, and Uranus (Mercury’s higher octave), there’s a kind of quickening happening. Things are moving. The pace has shifted. Ideas are multiplying, downloads are happening – and some of them may catch us off guard.

An energy not unlike the tarot’s Eight of Wands.

8 of Wands: The Time Has Arrived!

In the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, the 8 of Wands is one of the most kinetic images in the entire deck. Eight wands fly through an open sky, moving with clear intention toward the earth below. There is no human figure in this card. There’s no archers directing the wands.

In fact, we don’t know what force is moving them!

Something larger has set these wands into motion. They’re not flying because you threw them. They’re flying because it’s time.

For what you may ask? It’s time to move — or to allow something to move in you, through you, for you.

I often see the 8s in the tarot minor arcana as thresholds – where we hit a point of understanding what we can control, and what we can’t.

With the 8 of wands, the suit of our passion, desires, our vision – it’s as if the vision we’ve been forming is finally ready to manifest. But maybe we’ve been dreaming about it for so long, the reality of it actually occurring is uncomfortable. It was so much easier when it was just a dream!

In response, we may find ourselves feeling out of sorts, overwhelmed, and even trying to control how it all unfolds. But the 8 of Wands asks us:

What happens when you stop trying to direct the trajectory?

What happens when you let this dynamic flow to occur?

Will you let this dream you’ve carried, carry you? Can you surrender to it?

The wands are already in flight. They don’t need your grip. They need your trust.

And that trust requires something most of us find surprisingly difficult: believing that what’s arriving is actually meant for you. That you’re not going to jinx it, lose it, or somehow get it wrong. That the dream you’ve been quietly tending is the very thing that’s now in motion. The wands aren’t flying toward someone else’s life. They’re flying toward yours.

This is a card of divine momentum. And you don’t have to “keep up.” Your job is to stay centered while it moves you.

This links into the larger medicine of our card of the year: the Wheel of Fortune (read this post from the beginning of this year for deeper medicine).

Which feels like it is in full force as we begin to reach the midpoint of 2026.

In my previous post about the Wheel, I wrote about those beautifully dangerous and exhilarating merry go rounds you found in every park in the 70s & 80s. Standing at the edges of the spinning disc felt like a wild, dizzying rush. But in the center, everything looks and feels different. At the center, the pace seems to have slowed and your vision is clear. The same is true with the Wheel of Fortune, and even the 8 of Wands:

“When we’re anchored at the center, we’re better able to stay present and accepting of change.”

The Medicine: Anchor Your Rhythm⚓

When things accelerate, the nervous system often reads speed as danger. Even if it’s a change you’ve been dreaming of for years, or an unexpected opportunity you’ve been calling in for months finally arriving – that sudden change can create dysregulation that pulls us out of our center and into reactivity.

And when we’re reactive, we don’t meet the movement well. We overcorrect. We grasp. We say yes to everything or shut down entirely. Ease and trust fly out the window.

This is where I want to bring in the Ayurvedic concept of dinacharya — a daily rhythm, a set of grounding practices woven into the structure of your days. The idea is simple and profound: when the external world becomes unpredictable, your inner rhythm becomes your anchor.

Dinacharya roughly translates from Sanskrit to daily routines: the things you do every day to take care of yourself – ideally at/around the same times every day. Waking rituals. Nourishing yourself with good food. Moving your body. Finding time for stillness and quiet. Going to bed at a decent hour.

These aren’t indulgences when life speeds up — they are essential tools for health and regulation that tell your nervous system: We are safe. We are steady. We are rooted. And from that place of groundedness, you can meet the movement with clarity instead of chaos.

Dinacharya also protects you from the shadow of this card.

The 8 of Wands can also be the fire that burns too fast. When everything is moving, there can be a temptation to keep pushing. To say yes to everything while the energy is hot.

But without grounding, that same surge can tip into confusion, overwhelm, or burnout.

Your daily routines don’t put a brake on the momentum. They create the container that makes the momentum sustainable.

The medicine of the Eight of Wands is this: When life speeds up, routines and self-care become even more sacred. They help you hold the gifts the Universe is ushering you towards. They help you focus this energy and trust that all is unfolding as it’s meant for you.

Signs You May Need This Medicine

If you’ve been…

• Feeling your nervous system is getting a bit activated from the pace – maybe you’ve even adopted some unhealthy responses to this (numbing out, over-eating, self-avoidance)

• Having trouble sleeping, even when you’re tired — too many thoughts racing, too much trying to control the process or feeling like you have to figure it all out

• Waiting for things to slow down before you tend to yourself

• Saying yes faster than you’re discerning

…8 of Wands medicine may be just what you need.

And below I’m offering a sweet and simple ritual to help you work with this medicine and meet this powerful moment(um) with intention and integrity.

NOTE: Rituals are for paid subscribers only. For only $5 per month (or less with a year subscription), you can receive THIS ritual PLUS all past rituals, journal prompts, and more including the complete series of Major Arcana cards from past cycles!

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In this newsletter:

• New Moon in Taurus Details

• Page of Pentacles: The Gift That’s Been Waiting

• The Medicine of the Page of Pentacles

• Signs You Might Need This Medicine

• New Moon Ritual With the Page of Pentacles (for paid subscribers only)

Happy New Moon in Taurus! 🌑🌿♉

This New Moon is exact at 1:01 PM PT on Saturday, May 16th, in the grounded sign of Taurus.

This Earth sign is all about your resources — from material wealth to personal values, your sense of self-worth, and the natural gifts you were born with.

This particular New Moon is especially significant, because Uranus has just completed its eight-year journey through Taurus.

Uranus is the great disruptor. It shakes up what we assumed was solid and secure, and forces us to reimagine what we thought we knew. Over these past eight years, many of us experienced real upheaval (anyone remember that pandemic we had?) in the territory Taurus rules — our jobs, our income, our sense of security, or even our understanding of what we actually value.

Now Uranus has moved on. And this New Moon offers something we’ve been waiting for: a moment to exhale. To reflect. To begin asking a new set of questions.

Like: What actually matters now? What truly sustains me? And — perhaps most importantly — how do I really want to move forward now?

You know who else asks these questions? The Page of Pentacles! 🪙

Page of Pentacles: The Gift That’s Been Waiting

In the Rider-Waite-Smith version of this card, we see a young figure standing in an natural setting, flowers budding at his feet. He holds a single pentacle up before him, gazing at it with focused attention, respect, and curiosity. He’s in no rush. He is simply present with what he holds.

Much like the sign of Taurus this new moon is in, the suit of Pentacles is associated with the material world: our resources, our work, our bodies, and the ways we build something tangible and lasting. But Pentacles also point to something deeper than money or career.

They point to our natural gifts.

Not the skills we’ve acquired to survive in a capitalist culture. Not the roles we’ve learned to fit into someone else’s structure.

The gifts that we came into this life with, some of which we may be aware of and have developed, and others still waiting to be discovered.

The Page represents a beginning. He is young and green, and he knows it. And that’s exactly what makes him so free. He hasn’t yet learned to dismiss what lights him up. He hasn’t yet been fully shaped by what’s expected of him. He just holds his pentacle up to the light and wonders: What could this become?

The Medicine of the Page of Pentacles

The world is changing. Astrologers speak of the revolutionary changes Pluto in Aquarius is bringing. Historically, we’re in a moment of genuine upheaval and transformation. Thought leaders, visionaries, healers, and prophecies across cultures are naming the same thing: the planet and humanity itself is shifting. The old structures, the old ways of living and working and being are breaking down.

And that means we get to imagine and create what comes next.

So this New Moon is asking you something essential: Who are you, underneath what you’ve been told to be? What gifts are you carrying that the world actually needs right now?

Maybe you have a natural talent you’ve set aside or learned to override because it seemed impractical or indulgent. Maybe you’re already good at something, but it wants to materialize in a different way now.

Not that you need to blow up your life. The pentacles are a suit of development over time.

But this New Moon invites you to notice that after eight (potentially very disruptive) years of Uranus moving through Taurus, we’re entering a new era. And it’s time to thoughtfully consider (as the page does) what’s changed for you?

What do you want to cultivate in this next phase of your life that honors what you’ve learned, who you are, and what you feel called to become? How do you want to participate and co-create the new world that is being born?

Signs You Might Need the Page’s Medicine

If you’ve been…

🪙 Feeling like something in you is waiting to be expressed — but you’re not sure what, or how

🪙 Going through the motions of work that pays the bills but doesn’t feel like you

🪙 Sensing that your gifts are only being used in a limited way — or not at all

🪙 Feeling disconnected from what used to bring you joy or a sense of aliveness

🪙 Wondering what your place is in a world that seems to be changing faster than you can keep up with

…the Page of Pentacles has exactly the medicine you need.

So how do we do this? And how do we know what are true gifts are?

Check out my New Moon in Taurus ritual with the Page of Pentacles to gain more clarity and set powerful intentions and take advantage of the cosmic energy supporting this next phase of your life.

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In this newsletter:

• Full Moon in Scorpio Details

• 6 of Cups: Remember When…

• Signs You Might Need 6 of Cups Medicine

• Full Moon Ritual With the 6 of Cups (for paid subscribers only)

Hail Full Moon in Scorpio! 🌕🦂♏

Tomorrow is the full moon in Scorpio, exact at 10:23am PT.

Happening in the sign of Death & Transformation, we might expect this lunation to illuminate some truths about what needs to change or be released. Represented by the Death card in the tarot, Scorpio is connected to the grim reaper himself.

Lately, it feels like he’s coming for us all as this world continues to unravel.

I’m not talking total human annihilation, but I’m witnessing, like I assume many of us are, change, devastation, and grief on a scale I’ve personally never seen before.

It’s hitting closer and closer to home for many of us. Not just some distant news story in another state or country, but in our daily lives.

This time is birthing something new — but it is a difficult labor.

All the news reports we read or hear about are landing in our bodies, our nervous systems, whether we’re aware of it or not.

It’s so important that we take incredible care of our bodies, our minds. And each other.

Despite all the horrors going on, we have access to wisdom and medicine to navigate these times. To bring more ease and healing to ourselves. I think we’re all going to need it.

Here’s where I turn to tarot’s ageless wisdom to show us one way to access this medicine.

6 of Cups: Remember When…

In this sweet card, we see two children within castle walls, a guard in the background. They are safe and free to just be kids. An older child appears to smell flowers from a cup he is gifting to another child.

The scene evokes kindness, innocence, generosity, receptivity, pleasure, beauty, engagement of the senses, friendship, appreciation, and safety. Sounds pretty good about now, right?

Often this card is interpreted as nostalgia – a longing for the past.

The word nostalgia comes from two Greek words meaning “homecoming” and “pain,” and was once considered a medical condition of homesickness in soldiers. More popularly, it is typically considered a sentimental desire to return to a point or place in one’s life that felt happier.

Nostalgia often gets a bad rap for its sentimentality and tendency to romanticize yesterday in order to avoid present reality. And that can certainly show up as the shadow side of this tarot card.

But nostalgia has also been found to be good medicine that has psychological and emotional benefits, and EVEN physical benefits – particularly in reducing pain – according to a study published by the National Institute of Health1.

It’s believed that the experience of nostalgia creates a certain type of activity in the brain that leads to self-reflection, optimism, feeling supported, and can even awaken motivation. In fact it’s also been used to help treat addiction!

Because when we reminisce about a sweeter time in our lives, we remember what’s possible.

We re-experience pleasure, allowing our bodies to release some yummy endorphins that support nervous system regulation, foster ease and creativity, and help cultivate new ideas and new solutions rather than feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and like everything is out of our control.

Which I think we could all use some big doses of right now.

Signs You Need 6 of Cups Medicine

If you’re …

-Feeling the weight of the world right now (heavy thoughts, heavy body)

-Finding that uncertainty is playing a major role in your in your thoughts, causing worry and anxiety

-Checking the news obsessively, wondering what circus act will happen today

-Experiencing muscle tension and/or sleeplessness

-Struggling to keep any sense of optimism

-Unable to remember the last time you laughed at something that wasn’t dark humor

…it might be time to sip from these 6 Cups of medicine.

So I offer an elixir for these challenging times in the form of a ritual. I invite you to get a little nostalgic with me.

Not to ignore the harsh realities of the world, but to remember pathways back to hope, and to calm the nervous system so you can see the bigger picture of what’s unfolding in your life and in the world.

NOTE: Rituals are for paid subscribers only. For only $5 per month (or less with a year subscription), you can receive THIS ritual PLUS all past rituals, journal prompts, and more including the complete series of Major Arcana cards from past cycles!

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In this newsletter:

• New Moon in Aries Details

• Knight of Wands: Ready to Charge?

• Bringing Your Whole Self on the Journey

• Signs You Might Need Knight of Wands Medicine

• New Moon Ritual With the Knight of Wands (for paid subscribers only)

Happy New Moon in Aries! 🌑🐏♈

We are DEEP in Aries season — a time of electric energy, new beginnings, and passionate pursuits.

And this New Moon in Aries is on fire!

Exact at 4:52am PT on Friday, April 17, this lunation in the first sign of the zodiac initiates an entirely new cycle.

What makes this New Moon exceptionally fiery is the incredible concentration of planets in Aries right now: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune, and Chiron!! 😮 This is highly unusual and certainly the only time you’ll experience this new moon and all of these placements in this sign at the same time.

It’s raising big energy for fresh starts, new sparks and visionary quests to extraordinary levels.

You may be feeling it already. A restlessness to do something new.

A desire — or several — to make a move. Not just a baby step. The sign of the ram goes big and bold.

And the card that’s showing up to guide you through it? The Knight of Wands.

Knight of Wands: Ready to Charge?

In the Rider-Waite-Smith version of the card, we see the knight’s horse rearing up. This knight himself is focused and ready to go. The salamanders on his garment symbolize transformation, signaling that what’s beginning now has the power to change everything.

The Knight of Wands is the card of passion in motion. Of vision on the verge of becoming real. He’s bold, he’s inspired, he’s on fire.🔥

But here’s what I love about this knight — and why he’s different from the King or Queen of Wands…

He knows he doesn’t have it all figured out yet.

Like the other knights of the tarot, he’s still learning and growing.

And that rearing horse? That’s the moment right before the charge. That exciting, everything-is-possible moment where the energy is right there. But do we know where it’s going?

With all of these planets in Aries, there may be a lot of directions calling to you. A lot of possibilities, a lot of ideas, a lot of new dreams. And all of that is a beautiful gift.

But passion scattered in every direction gets nowhere.

The Knight of Wands asks you to focus your fire on the journey that supports your highest good and fuels your personal growth.

In other words, before you take off, take all that gorgeous, powerful, coursing energy and ask:

What does it actually want to pour itself into? Not what sounds good. Not what you (or others) think you should want. What is your deepest, truest vision? What direction is your passionate heart leading you to?

Because when you clarify the vision before you charge — when you know exactly what you’re galloping toward — that’s when this energy becomes unstoppable AND sustainable.

This doesn’t mean you need to linger in a state of hesitation. Instead it’s asking you to pause, feel into the fire in your heart, and allow it to illuminate the vision for this next cycle.

Bringing Your Whole Self on the Journey

And even as that fire rises in you offering clarity and vision, there may be a part of you that isn’t quite as confident as this knight.

Perhaps an inner child who’s feeling unsafe about this adventure. An inner critic telling you you’re not ready, not enough, not qualified to want what you want.

We might feel like those voices are slowing us down. But here’s what the Knight of Wands knows: ALL of the parts of you are valuable to your journey.

The Knight of Wands is young in his fire. He doesn’t yet have the full mastery of the King. But he is learning that he cannot bypass the tender parts of himself and still go the distance. That the drag he feels when he ignores them is real. And that passion can wither away if the heart is not whole.

So instead he pauses. Not to extinguish the fire, but to get information from these parts that will help him on this new quest.

He asks: What is the fear really about? What does my inner child need to feel safe enough to move? What is my inner critic actually trying to protect in its attempte to dissuade me from taking any risks?

Because he knows that once all of his parts have been heard and acknowledged, rather than bullied into acquiescing, something shifts. The drag lifts.

The passion and the fear and the vision and the tender places all find their footing together. And that is when he can truly charge. Not scattered, not bypassing, not burning out. Just clear, alive, and moving.

Signs You Need Knight of Wands Medicine

If you’ve been…

🔥 Feeling a surge of energy or inspiration but aren’t sure where to direct it

🔥 Pulled toward something new but second-guessing whether you’re ready

🔥 Ready to move but noticing your inner critic or inner child has some feelings about that

🔥 Excited about everything and overwhelmed by which direction to choose

🔥 Sensing a vision forming but needing help clarifying what it actually is

…the Knight of Wands has exactly the medicine you need.

So before you charge ahead or disperse your energy in too many directions, check out this New Moon in Aries ritual below to clarify your vision, get ALL of you on board with your new quest, and then take advantage of all this passionate Aries energy and get after it!

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In this newsletter:

• Full Moon in Libra Details

• 2 of Swords: Can You Even Relate?

• The Medicine for Delusion

• Signs You Might Need 2 of Swords Medicine

• Full Moon Ritual: Your Truths Will Heal You (for paid subscribers only)

Happy Full Moon in Libra!🌕♎⚖️

The “Pink Moon” occurs today, Wednesday, April 1 at 7:11pm PT, in Libra, the sign of relational balance and harmony. The moon is being “lit up” by the sun in Aries, lluminating issues on the the axis of self (Aries) and partnership (Libra).

The bold independent sign of Aries asks you to show up fully as yourself. And Libra asks you to bring that wholeness into connection.

Adding to this, Jupiter in Cancer forms a T-Square aspect with this Full Moon, intensifying what may already feel very emotional. Cardinal signs are signs of initiation, so the stakes are high — something new is ready to begin.

So this full moon is shining a light on how all of you — your heart, mind, body, and intuition — might come into deeper harmony and how that could transform your realationships and the way you relate.

This invitation is mirrored beautifully in the 2 of Swords tarot card — the very card traditionally associated with the moon in Libra.

The Two of Swords: Can You Even Relate?

In the Rider-Waite-Smith version of the Two of Swords, we see a woman sitting alone on a stone bench made for one, her back to the water. She is blindfolded and holds two swords crossed over her chest.

Her stance appears to block any real possibility for relating. The bench was never designed to hold more than one person, and her posture feels defensive and vulnerable at the same time. And despite how heavy those swords must be, she gripst them tightly, showing no signs of surrendering them.

Traditionally, the Two of Swords speaks to indecision, mental deadlock, the weighing of two opposing choices.

But a deeper look reveals someone who has made a decision: to narrow her understanding of a situation, through blindfolds and defensiveness, as a way to protect herself from a larger truth.

In other words, she chooses to delude herself.

Swords generally speak to mental energy, including ideas, truths, mental perceptions, patterns, and beliefs. We might say then that she is clinging to some belief, idea, rumination to protect her heart, or perhaps even conceal its emotional wisdom?

She has her back to the water, symbolic of ignoring her intuition and deeper knowing. And she's blinded to what’s right in front of her.

Why does she defend herself this way?

Perhaps she believes that looking at the reality of a situation, tuning into her heart, or listening to what her intuition is telling her would break her.

Or these senses may ask her to take an action, let go and grieve, or see something she's been avoiding.

Instead of opening to that wisdom, she leans on her rational mind, helping her to create stories to defend her choice. She might be choosing to ruminate incessantly as a way to avoid the deeper healing her heart longs for or to avoid the truth her intuition knows.

In this way, she’s chosen to delude herself. Which ultimately keeps her drained (those swords are heavy!) isolated, hidden, disconnected from herself, spirit, and consequently everyone else. She is quite incapable of truly relating.

The Medicine for Delusion

The medicine of this card asks her to make a more courageous decision: To lay down her swords and take off the blindfold. To face what’s in front of her, acknowledge the truth of her inner wisdom, and tend to the emotions her heart needs to express.

It asks her to face what she's been avoiding, even if that brings heartbreak. Because when she does she steps into deeper alignment and opens her self to deeper relationship with all.

Her intuition becomes clearer, sharper, more trustworthy. She moves through life with knowing rather than confusion. And even if heartbreak is part of that knowing, there is a deeper peace in this newfound clarity than in the exhausting work of defending, hiding, overthinking, rationalizing, and ruminating.

Because when she can do all of this she can show up more authentically in her relationships. Because when you defend, when you hide parts of yourself, when you rely only on the rationalizing mind and a distorted mental perception, you prevent true intimacy from occurring.

It’s easy to talk about this conceptually. But in practice, this work is no joke. If you choose the medicine over the poison of this card, thank you for your courage! It is the healing work of our times to more deeply understand ourselves, so we can remember our profound connection to others.

So during the few days around this full moon, you’re getting support to look at where you might be making decisions in your relationships — romantic, familial, with yourself — without consulting all of your senses?

Where are you relying on your mind to override what your heart and intuition are telling you?

What would it mean to lay down those swords, ruminations, and realizations and actually listen to what you already know?

Signs You Could Use 2 of Swords Medicine

If you’ve been…

-Finding yourself ruminating endlessly about a relationship decision without ever landing on clarity

-Searching for evidence that your intuition might be wrong because you don’t like what it’s telling you

-Intellectualizing your feelings rather than feeling them

-Withdrawn or defensive in a relationship because facing what's true feels too difficult

-Aware of what you need to do, but building alternative stories to avoid doing it

-Prioritizing keeping the peace over being honest

…it’s time for a taste of 2 of Swords medicine.

If you identified with some of these, it's also likely that you are experiencing confusion. When we ignore our own inner wisdom, sometimes it’s easier to just say, “it’s confusing” and shut down.

If you're sensing any of these patterns in your own life and relationships, and you're ready to lay down the swords and step into alignment, there's a ritual journaling practice below to support that medicine.

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In this newsletter:

• New Moon in Pisces

• Four of Wands Medicine

• Signs You Might Need 4 of Wands Medicine…

• New Moon Integration Ritual With the 4 of Wands (for paid subscribers only)

Happy New Moon in Pisces! 🌑♓🐟

This new moon occurs on March 18th at 6:23pm PT.

Arriving right before the Spring Equinox, this new moon carries an extra charge of renewal and new beginnings as we clear out some of the last remaining trials and lessons from the Piscean energy we’ve been swimming over the past few years (with both the Saturn and Neptune in Pisces transits).

But many of us aren’t arriving at this new beginning feeling fresh and unburdened. We’re arriving changed. Shaped by the past few years of upheaval, loss, dissolution, and transformation — personally and collectively.

Last month, I wrote about the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at zero degrees Aries — a rare cosmic threshold marking the end of one great cycle and the beginning of another. If you haven’t read that post yet, it’s worth a look as context for everything we’re moving through right now.

This new moon builds on that energy, asking us not just to begin again — but to integrate. To bring everything we’ve been through with us as we cross into what’s next.

And that’s exactly where the Four of Wands comes in.

Four of Wands Medicine

In the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, the Four of Wands depicts what appears to be a homecoming. Four wands form a gateway, and beyond it, a celebration.

But what’s interesting about this card is the central figure – the one “coming home” – isn’t pictured in the card. Because the focus in this card is YOU.

Instead of showing you a scene to observe, this card is a direct invitation that seems to ask: Are you ready to step through this threshold? To return “home” again?

We might often think of homecoming as a joyous occasion – coming back to loved ones and a place that may feel foundational in our lives.

But this card depicts a moment of hesitation. Where we might ask: Do I even want to return?

Because what often happens when we come back home after a journey – whether it’s returning after years in college or at a job in another state, a tour of duty, or even a really good vacation – is that we are different now. We’re not who we were when we left.

Over the past few years, we’ve all gone through so much change.

We’ve shed beliefs and versions of ourselves that no longer resonated.

We’ve learned things about ourselves, and the world – we didn’t know before.

You’ve probably expanded in ways that feel almost unrecognizable when you look back at who you were.

This is the moment before you walk through. This is the moment of integration.

So the medicine of the Four of Wands is asking us NOT to rush forward.

Which may feel a little uncomforatable right now because we currently have the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries, Venus in Aries, and within less than 48 hours of this new moon both the sun and moon will move into Aries kicking off the beginning of Spring. That’s a lot of planets already in, or moving into this fiery, fast-paced sign of new beginnings, that just wants to forge ahead at full speed.

BUT, before we take off, the four of Wands is an invitation to pause.

Before you step through that threshold, before we collectively step into the portal of initiation that Aries is opening, the Four of Wands asks you to stop at the threshold and really see yourself.

Not who you were. But who you are now.

What has shattered? What beliefs, what versions of yourself, what certainties have you had to release?

And just as importantly — what new understandings have you gained? What capacities have you discovered? What truths about yourself have emerged from all of this dissolution and reshaping?

This is the work of integration.

It’s not glossing over what was difficult. It’s weaving it all together — the loss and the learning, the shedding and the becoming — into a coherent sense of who you actually are now.

Because here’s the thing: when you walk through that gateway with this clarity, others will recognize you too. Not as the person they remember. As the person you’ve actually become.

And that recognition — that being truly seen and being ok and even EXCITED about who you’ve become, is what makes homecoming celebratory. It’s not about returning to who you were. It’s about coming home to who you truly are.

Signs You Might Need 4 of Wands Medicine

If you…

--Have been through lots of change in your life recently and might be feeling like a bit of a hot mess

--have grown and changed so much but are afraid of slipping back into old patterns and identities that no longer serve you — especially when you’re around people or places that knew you “before”

-- need a reminder to pause before stepping into your next phase to truly acknowledge and honor everything you’ve learned and become

--Are ready to be seen and recognized for who you actually are now, not who you used to be

--Are preparing for a new beginning but want to bring your whole, integrated self through the threshold — not leaving any pieces of yourself behind

…it might be time you to take pause with the 4 of Wands.

And if any of those hit, I’ve got a 4 of Wands ritual which is just the medicine you need in this moment.

And astrologically, this is the perfect time for this kind of ritual because we’re at the new moon at the end of the sign of Pisces — the exhale before the Sun moves into Aries, the sign of new beginnings and the first day of Spring!

Ritual speaks to the part of you that’s beyond words. It helps you acknowledge, integrate, and set your intention at a level the analytical mind simply can’t reach. It marks the threshold as sacred. And you as someone worthy of crossing it whole.

Let’s get to it!

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In this newsletter:

• Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo

• With a Mercury Retrograde Sauce

• 4 of Cups Energy

• Signs You Might Need 4 of Cups Medicine…

• Getting Started With the 4 of Cups (for paid subscribers only)

Happy Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo! 🌕♍🌾

This eclipse is happening Tuesday, March 3rd with maximum totality occuring at 3:33am PT. If you live in North America and feel inclined to get outside at that time, you may get a glimpse of this “blood moon.”

Because this eclipse is happening in Virgo, it’s ruled by Mercury — the planet of thought, communication, perception, and interpretation.

And right now, Mercury is retrograde. 🙃

Mercury Retrograde Sauce

If you’ve heard me talk about Mercury retrograde before, you know I don’t really agree with the pop-culture take that everything just falls apart during these cycles. I actually think Mercury retrograde is misunderstood medicine, meant to slow us down so we can be more mindful. To review, rethink, revise something in your life.

But even though I typically disagree with that pop-culture notion, I think I know where it came from. Because honestly, when Mercury is retrograde in the particular sign of Pisces, I do think our thoughts can get a little confused and scrambled.

Mercury is a planet that likes clarity. It likes logic. It likes conclusions, facts, timelines, plans. Pisces is none of those things.

Pisces is intuitive, emotional, nonlinear, symbolic, and spiritually attuned.

Mercury wants to think things through; Pisces wants to intuit or pray for a solution.

So when Mercury is retrograde in Pisces, the mind is asked to operate in a realm it doesn’t get and can’t control.

That’s why this eclipse is giving strong Four of Cups energy.

4 of Cups

The Four of Cups is often interpreted as a card about being closed off to an opportunity the universe is offering. But there’s also something deeper happening here.

In the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, we see three cups already on the ground in front of the figure. These cups represent what’s familiar — what we already know, what we’ve already experienced, what we believe we can manage or control. The figure seems focused on those three cups, as if he believes stability comes from keeping his attention ONLY on what’s “known.”

And then here’s this fourth cup being offered from the clouds. An offering, a gift, that he can’t even seem to entertain or comprehend. They think they have things under control and stabilized. Why change?

But the invitation of this card asks:

What if the thing that would actually stabilize you is the very thing you don’t recognize as stability?

Nobody would choose a three-legged stool over a four-legged one. Yet we do this psychologically all the time. We keep the job that seems to offer security and ignore other opportunities. We stay in relationships or pick the same type of partners because their energy is familiar. We cling to the three cups we know and ignore the fourth cup that arrives as an unknown.

Cups represent intuition, emotional truth, and inner knowing. So that fourth cup may be intuitive guidance, wisdom that doesn’t come from logic, evidence, or proof.

Which means this card could also be asking:

What is your relationship to your intuition and/or to Spirit (Source, the Universe, Creator, God, Goddess, etc.)?

Do you trust it?
Do you dismiss it?
Do you only believe what you can rationally explain?

Do you think the Spirit is here to support you? Or is it indifferent?

Because the figure in the Four of Cups isn’t just rejecting an offer.

They may be rejecting a way of knowing.

Those three cups could represent the forms of knowing we’re comfortable with: logic, experience, and emotional familiarity.

And the fourth cup represents intuitive knowing — the kind that can’t be predicted or controlled.

Mercury retrograde in Pisces may feel like it’s scrambling the mind. But what if it’s not scrambling it, but helping Mercury loosen its need to adhere to the familiar ways of knowing so another intelligence can speak?

Sometimes what feels like confusion is actually an invitation to listen differently. To tune into your heart’s response. To stay open and remember life is filled with gifts that expand our understanding of ourselves.

Sometimes that confusion is inviting us to simply ask: What if?

So this eclipse, and this retrograde (which ends March 20), take the opportunity to tune in to where you’ve mistaken familiarity for stability — and where life is offering you a fourth cup that would actually steady you, if only you were willing to receive it.

Signs You Might Need 4 of Cups Medicine…

If you…

--Aren’t feeling satisfied (or are feeling downright miserable!) in an area of your life, but you feel stuck or confused about how to make a shift

--Rely heavily and solely on logic for decision-making/life-choices

--Become completely dysregulated not knowing how something will turn out (totally human btw)

--Don’t believe you’re intuitive

--Don’t have a relationship with Spirit

--Are afraid of change because you believe you’ve got things “under control” and don’t want to lose it

…it might be time you take a sip from that 4^th cup!

Want a taste of 4 Cups medicine? Below are some ways to get started with the 4 of Cups…

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In this newsletter:

• New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Aquarius Energy

• What’s Your Vibration?

• The Collective Chrysalis

• Revisiting the Hanged One tarot card

• Working With This Eclipse

• The Great Saturn-Neptune Conjunction

• Getting Started With Raising Vibration Journal Prompts (for paid subscribers only)

Hello Beautiful Ones,

This is a big week – for each of us and the collective.

Tomorrow is an eclipse that many astrologers are saying will be the most significant of the four eclipses that will happen in 2026.

And shortly after, we’ll be experiencing the most anticipated transit of the year: Saturn conjunct Neptune.

In this newsletter, I’m breaking it down and bringing in some tarot-related wisdom so you can work consciously with this exciting and rare cosmic medicine that has the power to take us into new understandings and new ways of being.

New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Aquarius Energy ♒🏺🌑☀️

(You can read my deeper dive on working with eclipse energy in this previous post)

Eclipse seasons are accelerators of endings and beginnings. They offer course corrections — whether we feel ready or not.

The first eclipse of 2026 arrives with the Aquarius new moon on Tuesday, February 17 at 4:17am PT.

Many astrologers (like Pam Gregory and Molly McCord) are referring to this eclipse as a significant choice point for both individuals and the collective.

This won’t necessarily be the kind of choice where you declare: I’m moving in this direction.

It will likely be more subtle, and beyond words, making it important for you to notice instead: what is your vibration communicating to the universe about what you want more of in this next cycle?

What’s Your Vibration?

You may have heard of the Hawkins Chart or Map of Consciousness — a scale of emotional states ranging from survival-driven to soul-aligned. It suggests that our internal state, our vibration, shapes how we perceive pur reality.

Though not scientifically validated, this chart is widely used in spiritual and personal transformation communities to better understand how our emotions are affecting our energy and lived experience.

If this all sounds too “out there” for you, that’s okay. But I invite you to consider how your inner voice and even your body respond to the logic of this chart.

And ask yourself, when you observe your emotional state honestly, are you operating from survival strategies, or from a place of personal power?

The objective of this chart is to show that when you can make a choice to shift your paradigm, emotions, or state of mind, you have an opportunity to raise your vibration and improve your experience of reality.

This isn’t meant to bypass emotions like grief and anger. In fact, Hawkins said suppressing these emotions is the fastest way to descend the scale.

Instead, it’s the act of processing these emotions in a constructive way that allows you shift your energy to a higher frequency.

For instance, if you feel anger, perhaps a boundary was crossed. You have choices here. You can attack — which keeps you in anger — or you can set a clear boundary, which shifts you toward higher vibrations of courage and self-trust.

So over the coming days of eclipse energies in our fields, notice your thoughts and actions. Are you operating from a place of fear, shame, guilt, or apathy? Or are you cultivating feelings of gratitude, love, and peace?

And if you want to shift into higher frequencies, you can ask yourself these 3 simple questions to begin to change your vibration:

• What am I feeling?

• What is this emotion trying to show me?

• What wants to change?

The Collective Chrysalis

Admittedly over the past couple of weeks, I’ve felt waves of anger and outrage as painful truths surface in our world. I’m not suppressing those feelings. But I am spending more time in stillness — breathing, listening.

Because in that quiet, a message keeps returning to me:

This time is holy.

It turns out, holy doesn’t always mean peaceful. Holy means there is a sacred alignment occurring.

An alignment that couldn’t occur until what was hidden, is revealed.

An alignment that won’t happen overnight.

Similar to the caterpillar in the chrysalis, where it appears to dissolve into a gooey mess, a complete undoing of what it once was.

But in that goo of dissolution is its potential for becoming one of the most beautiful creatures on this planet.

That goo phase is holy. And that’s exactly where we’re at, individually and collectively.

We have the potential to become something much more beautiful that we can even understand at this moment.

Revisiting the Hanged One

The image of the tarot’s Hanged One has come to mind several times over the past week. Like the caterpillar in the chrysalis, this figure also hangs upside down, experiencing his own holy alignment with a higher vibration of himself.

The Hanged One (see original posts) reminds us that in order to align with our soul’s journey, sacrifices must be made. Whatever we’ve become attached to – a way of being, a belief, an emotion – needs to be relinquished if we are to become more whole and aligned with our divine path.

For the figure in the card, they have released pride, as they hang there, vulnerably. And yet there’s not a sense of powerlessness, but holiness as we see in the halo around his head.

Because transcendence doesn’t come from control. It comes from acceptance.

Working With This Eclipse

This eclipse isn’t asking you to push forward — it’s asking you to pause. To feel. To tune in.

Like the Hanged One, your power right now is not in trying to force or control anything… but in trusting a new perspective, an awakening.

Honor what arises. Listen to what your emotions are revealing. Release what you’re ready to outgrow.

Trust that what is dissolving is making space for what is becoming.

And that what is becoming, is better than you could even imagine.

The Great Saturn-Neptune Conjunction

This theme of surrender and transformation is echoed in the greatly anticipated Saturn–Neptune conjunction, arriving just three days after the eclipse, at 0° Aries — the very beginning of the zodiac on February 20th.

This is a rare cosmic threshold — the closing of one great cycle and the ignition of another. Both planets have just left Pisces, the final sign, and now meet at the very first.

The last time this conjunction occurred at this degree point was over 6,000 years ago!1

So what can we expect?

Aries is the sign of the self. Neptune is the planet of dissolution.

During its 14 year journey in Aries, Neptune will begin dissolving false identities — conditioning, limiting beliefs, inherited emotional patterns — roles we thought were us.

This could feel pretty disorienting and destabilizing.

Because what’s dissolving are parts of us that we believed were our identity.

It’s the chrysalis stage again.
The sacred unraveling.

But here’s the gift: Saturn is present.

Saturn brings structure, boundaries, and form. So while Neptune dissolves what isn’t true, Saturn helps us build what is. Together, they create a rare partnership between spirit and reality — dissolving illusion while grounding truth.

Though this profound evolution will happen over time, these planets will remain closely aligned for months, amplifying this process.

So how do you work with this energy?

Again, by embodying the medicine of the Hanged One – the tarot card that represents Neptunian energy!

This reinforces your invitation into stillness. Into surrender. And tuning in, perhaps to parts of you that you didn’t know were there.

Let yourself release what is falling away.
Let yourself become what is emerging.

Remember:

This is a holy time.

You are not losing yourself.
You are losing what was never truly you.

Below are some journal prompts to help you get started with raising your vibration — so that as the eclipse approaches you work consciously with this energy and choose the direction your life is unfolding toward.

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• Full Moon in Leo Details

• The Collective Call Into Shadow Work

• 5 of Swords Overview

• Full Moon in Leo Ritual With the 5 of Swords (for paid subscribers only)

Welcome to the Full Moon in Leo🌕♌🦁

This full moon is exact at 2:08pm PT on Sunday, February 1.

This lunation occurs in Leo, sign of creativity and self-expression, while the Sun shines from the opposite side of the zodiac in Aquarius, the sign of innovation, new ways of thinking, embracing our individuality as well as our relationship to the collective.

Leo asks us to look at the self: the heart, the ego, the need to be seen.

Aquarius asks us to look at the bigger picture: the collective, the future, the structures that shape our lives.

The tension between personal power and collective responsibility is being illuminated for all of us.

The Collective Call Into Shadow Work 👥

As I write this, I’ve just learned of another person being murdered by ICE in Minnesota. These federal agents appear to be given free rein – to harm to innocents and operate above the law – by an administration guided by self-serving greed, power, ambition, and a complete disregard for care, diplomacy, humanity, and justice.

I don’t typically bring my politics into these posts. I believe no matter who you are or what your politics may be, the wisdom of the tarot and shadow work is for everyone. I’d even say it’s some of the most important work the human race can engage in during this time of upheaval and division.

In many ways, we have arrived at this moment because we, personally and collectively, have generally been unwilling to look at our shadow, allowing trauma to stay buried, the ego to over-inflate, and fear to guide our choices.

It would be easy to place all blame on this administration for what’s happening in Minnesota. And while their actions are extreme, they also mirror something that lives within humanity as a whole.

That’s not meant to offend you or as an accusation. It’s an invitation.

An invitation to compassionately look into our own shadows, at even the tiniest ways we may be moving through life without care – for ourselves or others.

To notice where ego may be guiding our choices.

To ask whether we are acting from fear or from love.

To notice the impulse to punish — to make others pay for offending us, or for some perceived injustice, or for stirring our own fears by being different — for this is the emotional root of supremacy in all its forms: the belief that we must dominate or diminish others in order to feel secure.

To reflect on how we handle conflict and fear — with others and within ourselves.

To examine where greed, even subtle greed, might be shaping our behavior.

Sometimes greed looks obvious. Sometimes it looks like taking more than we need. Sometimes it looks like needing constant attention. Sometimes it looks like centering only our own needs in relationships or groups.

We live in a culture that conditions us to consume, to compete, and to believe it is never enough. Many of us have learned to shut down our empathy simply to survive in a world that constantly tells us we are not enough. All of this a breeding-ground for greed, entitlement, dominance, and fear. And sadly, none of us are totally immune.

This kind of self-examination is not easy. That’s why we’ve pushed most of this into our shadows.

But when we bring these patterns into awareness, especially in light of the tarot, we can see paths for transforming fear and shadows into wisdom, into more conscious choices instead of reactivity.

It might feel heavy, but the end result is an incredible lightening of the weight we carry in the shadows. It’s a return to connection and an empowerment to be more of the loving humans we came here to be.

This brings us to one of the more challenging cards in the Tarot: the 5 of Swords.

The 5 of Swords

In the Rider-Waite-Smith version of this card, we see a figure in the foreground wearing smirk of satisfaction. He’s holding more swords than he could ever use with two more at his feet. Behind him are two other figures. One is simply walking away, while another appears to be more upset, head in hands as if crying.

The clouds in the sky look turbulent and the water is choppy. There’s a sense of storminess or unsettledness in the atmosphere.

In the Thoth tarot deck, the card is named “Defeat.” I’ve often found this confusing because my focus was always on the character front and center, who appears to have “won.”

But what has he won?

What’s he going to do with all of those swords?

In the process of claiming them, he’s lost those who might have been companions? Supporters? Friends? Allies? They’ve turned their backs on him.

He stands alone.

Some interpretations of this card focus on the background figures – suggesting this is a card of accepting defeat.

Others focus on the central figure – suggesting that his greed to “win at all costs,” is ultimately self-defeating.

We don’t know the full context of the conflict, but it does NOT appear that sword-holder was in any imminent danger. Instead he seems to have disarmed the others as a way of asserting dominance — as though his insecurity can only be soothed by controlling others – even though they were never truly a threat to him. He is a bully.

The deeper truth of this card is that when we act from fear and insecurity, we risk losing the very things, and people who support us. For the moment, he thinks he’s won. The swords make him feel powerful. But now he is isolated.

He has also turned his back on the water — symbol of intuition, emotion, and connection. The swords dominate his awareness: thoughts without feeling, strategy without heart. Water reminds us that we are waves in one ocean. This figure has forgotten that he belongs to that ocean at all.

His smirk suggests he believes he is victorious. But he has lost what truly sustains him. And in feeding his fear, he has only created more of it.

This card offers an opportunity to reflect on how we relate to each of these figures in the Rider-Waite-Smith version.

If we reflect on sword-holder, we might ask:

Where have we acted out of our own fears and insecurities? How might that have taken us out of integrity with ourselves?

When have we needed to feel superior to others, or to control them, point out there flaws, and why?

When have we taken from others –even energetically – to soothe a deeper wound?

Where could we have acted with more compassion?

Where in our lives have we forgotten that we are all connected?

We can also reflect on the other two figures:

Where/when have we felt betrayed by someone we trusted? How did we respond? What did we come to understand?

Are we part of a group or partnership where the power dynamics are toxic – where one or more people need to control or feel superior – and how are we handling that?

In what situations is it simply time to walk away? Or if we can’t walk away, how can we refuse to participate in the power dynamic?

These are not easy questions, but worthwhile ones. Especially in times like these where the the mentality of the 5 of Swords is playing out on a global stage.

What we are willing to recognize and heal in ourselves matters.

When we live in integrity, it ripples outward.

We each have a role to play in shaping the world we want to live in. It begins by looking within. Not to shame ourselves or others — that would truly defeat our purpose —- but to understand and see where we might be out of integrity, and how we might make different choices.

I’m offering a ritual below to work with this card more deeply. Fear and insecurity live largely in the unconscious mind. Ritual speaks directly to that level of mind, helping us bring what is hidden into awareness and transform it through presence and intention.

Before we move into that, just a quick reminder:✨🪐☀️🌕🌙

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• It’s Only January…

• Focus on Astrology

• What Happened Last Week?

• New Moon in Capricorn Details

• Centering Ritual for 2026 (for paid subscribers only)

It’s Only January and I Forgot the Medicine of 2026

After sharing the medicine of the Wheel of Fortune with you on the full moon, I managed to completely ignore it myself. I drifted too far from my center, became disoriented, and eventually fell on my ass. Figuratively, of course.

It happens. Despite our best intentions, the excitement of wildly spinning can create a kind of temporary amnesia. Not much to do but dust yourself off and swear it’ll never happen again. 🤞🏼

The point is, we all misjudge ourselves and situations from time to time. As the pace of change accelerates in 2026, I encourage you to refrain from shaming yourself when you lose your center—while still taking responsibility, learning from what happened, and offering yourself grace and compassion. This is my wish for you.

And of course, this isn’t happening in a vacuum. Many of us are trying to stay centered while witnessing immense suffering, violence, and upheaval in the world right now. It can feel strange — even wrong — to focus on our personal lives when so much is unraveling around us. But tending to our own center isn’t a retreat from the world; it’s how we stay resourced enough to meet it with clarity, compassion, and integrity.

Focus on Astrology 🪐✨🌕☀️

With this new moon edition, I want to focus on the astrology. It’s been intense over the past week and will continue to bring significant shifts for many of us for the rest of January.

I was reminded of just how supportive astrology can be while doing 2026 forecasts for an event with 15 women this week. With so many major transits this year, I had to narrow the focus to what felt most potent.

As I started looking at how these transits would affect each woman’s chart, I saw an extraordinary web of wisdom and support available to us from the cosmos.

Seeing an entire year laid out so clearly made it obvious that the major transits, eclipses, and even the mercury retrogrades we love to hate are all pieces of a larger picture supporting our growth and evolution. When viewed individually, they can feel daunting. But taken together, it’s clear that everything is preparing and supporting us — if we choose to tune in.

Once you do, you may begin to see that these transits aren’t happening to you —they’re happening for you.

If you’re interested in having your 2026 major transits read with me, I’m offering a limited-time special for the next couple of weeks. These 30-minute Zoom readings are designed to help you connect the dots and feel more prepared as we move into 2026.

We’ll review the main themes of your year, explore where major transits will activate your chart, and look at how you can work with these energies rather than feeling caught off guard by them. You’ll also receive a 1-page PDF summarizing your key themes, along with a personal mantra you can return to throughout the year.

I’ll need your birth date, time, and place in advance, and because charts take time to prepare, I can’t take appointments scheduled less than 48 hours ahead. These readings are being offered to my Substack subscribers only! You won’t find this on my website.

If you’d like to book a reading, you can find a time here.

Feel free to email me with questions.

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What Happened Last Week?

Cardinal T-Square Putting the Pressure On:

When planets form a square (a 90-degree angle), it creates tension and pressure—different forces pushing us toward a decision or initiation. Over the past week, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Sun traveled together in Capricorn, forming an opposition to Jupiter in Cancer and a square to Chiron in Aries, the planet associated with our deepest wounds.

This “T-Square” may have felt very personal, opening up a core wound as pressure was building for you to initiate something new or make a difficult decision about how to move forward. And with Jupiter in Cancer as part of this mix – it all could have felt VERY big and emotional.

With Neptune and Saturn in the final degrees of Pisces, something you’ve been working through for the past few years is coming to completion. As uncomfortable as this T-square may have been, it’s preparing you — and everyone else — for what’s next.

It’s letting you know, you can’t carry all of your old patterns — especially those tied to your wounding — into the next phase. Something more is being asked of us as Saturn and Neptune prepare to move into Aries over the next month. This is a major initiation point, both personally and collectively, one that hasn’t occurred in over 6,000 years.

As part of this preparation, the new moon also begins a powerful series of conjunctions with Pluto, the planet of revelation, transformation, awakening, and rebirth.

In tarot, Pluto is represented by the Judgement card — the card of soul reclamation and a reconciliation with the truth of who you are and what you came here to do. It’s a big deal. You can read more about the Judgement card in my previous post here.

New Moon in Capricorn 🌑🐐♑

This new moon is conjunct all of the personal planets in Capricorn—the builder and climber of the zodiac. This rare configuration offers a potent opportunity to set intentions around all areas of your personal life: Your consciousness (sun), communication (Mercury), love, relationships, values, and finances (Venus), as well as your body, and what you feel is worth fighting for (Mars).

The new moon is exact on Sunday, January 18 at 11:53am PT. I highly recommend taking some time on Sunday to clarify your intentions—write them down or say them out loud. Let the universe know what you’re calling in.

Over the following 7-10 days, each of these planets, including the moon and sun, will then move on to make a conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius, creating an opportunity for deep personal insights to drop in. I suggest spending some quiet time each day and asking: What do you want to reveal to me about my personal life? What do I need to know?

Sure, it could be intense. It could also be incredibly liberating. But it will certainly be supportive of your own evolution.

If this all sounds a little overwhelming but potentially powerful, exhilarating, and perhaps the year you’ve been waiting for…welcome to 2026. It truly will be a Wheel of Fortune year.

So here’s a centering ritual to support you…

REMINDER:

If you’d like a deeper look at how to work with the planetary energies for growth, healing, and evolution—including when to act, rest, or review — sign up for your 2026 major transit forecast here. This offering is available for a limited time.

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In this newsletter:

• Full Moon in Cancer Details

• 2026 Card of the Year - The Wheel of Fortune

• Wheel of Fortune Medicine

• What the Wheel of Fortune Year Means for You?

• Getting Started With Wheel of Fortune Medicine (for all subscribers—happy 2026!)

Happy 2026 & a Super Full Moon in Cancer!

♋🦀🌕

This first full super moon of the year is exact at 2:04 a.m. PT on January 3, 2026. In the sign of Cancer, this lunation marks a turning point—bringing emotional clarity to a situation you’ve been wrestling with for some time. Things might get a bit weepy. It’s all good. Let the tears cleanse you. They’re preparing you for the bigger changes coming in 2026.

It’s no accident that this first full moon of the year is asking us to meet change with presence and centeredness—it’s introducing us to the core teachings of the 2026 Card of the Year in tarot numerology: the Wheel of Fortune.

2026 Card of the Year - The Wheel of Fortune

You might recall the 2025 card of the year was the Hermit. This past year asked us to go inward and connect more deeply to our inner light. To resist the tempting distractions of the external world and find more of our own wisdom, rather than seeking truth outside of ourselves. This reconnection to our spirit is healing, not only for ourselves, but for everyone around us – as we learn to be a light for others, simply by maintaining this inner connection.

This year, that slower, more contemplative energy shifts into the movement & momentum of the Wheel of Fortune the tenth Major Arcana card in tarot numerology (The ten comes from adding the numbers of this year 2+0+2+6).

As I describe in more detail in my original post about this card, The Wheel of Fortune represents a fundamental and universal law of life: change.

And when we look at the astrology of 2026, it seems clear that many of us – either collectively, individually, or both – will be navigating significant changes.

Almost all of the outer planets will move into new signs:

Uranus moves into Gemini, BOTH Saturn & Neptune move into Aries (all of which we had a little taste of last year before those planets retrograded), Jupiter will move into Leo this summer, and Pluto, the only other outer planet, completed its transition into its new sign Aquarius in 2025.

Having so many outer planets change signs within a short window like this is kind of a big deal. And all of them are moving into an air or fire signs, known for their faster, activating pace, as opposed to the slower, denser energies of water and earth signs.

With all of this in motion, it couldn’t be a more perfect year for Wheel of Fortune medicine. The wheel represents big and often fast-moving changes – the ones we welcome and the ones we don’t.

Wheel of Fortune Medicine

The wisdom of this card reminds us that change and cycles are part of our very nature. They are essential to our survival, our growth, and our ability to thrive.

And as part of those cycles, sometimes we’re at the top of the wheel, feeling expansive and energized. Sometimes we’re at the bottom of the wheel, moving through shadowy terrain that can feel uncomfortable, scary, or overwhelming. And yet, it’s often through these descents and dark nights that we gather the insight, clarity, and resilience that eventually carry us back upward.

The lesson of this card reminds us, whether we are rising or descending through transformation, to hold space for and appreciate BOTH. One is not better than the other – they are part of a continual process, and each offers its own gifts and wisdom.

When we’re on top of the wheel, we’re offered an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge how we got there, recognizing our own strengths and the connections, support, and experiences that got us there.

When we’re at the bottom of the wheel, we’re offered the space to grieve, reflect, and renew. To let go of what’s no longer working and begin again in a more aligned way.

If you’re the type of person who waits for disaster to strike when things are going well in your life OR if you tend to focus on just getting through the hard times as quickly as possible, the Wheel offers a deeper wisdom:

Be PRESENT to all of it.

Only through presence can we glimpse into life’s awe, beauty, and mysteries. Even when change is uncomfortable, presence teaches us how to alchemize our experiences into meaning and magic.

Change itself is divine.

And we honor it by sitting with whatever arises or falls away, allowing our bodies and emotions to be fully engaged. Because it’s totally ok to be angry, sad, frustrated, and scared about change. Just as much as it’s ok to feel joy and excitement.

But what’s key here is being with whatever we’re feeling. Because those emotions are essential for self-awareness, problem-solving and personal growth.

While numbing can sometimes be necessary for short periods, doing it habitually robs us of the fullness of our lived experience.

What the Wheel of Fortune Year Means for You

At its core, 2026 is asking us to cultivate presence—and one of the most powerful ways to do that is by learning how to center ourselves.

Think of those old school merry-go-rounds from the 70s & 80s, back before we started caring about so much about children’s safety!😅 When you stood on the edges of that spinning disc, everything seemed to move fast and feel overwhelming! But when you moved toward the center, motion seemed to slow down, and suddenly you could observe what was happening—sometimes wondering why the kids at the edges were laughing, screaming, or getting sick.

The same is true with the Wheel of Fortune. When we’re anchored at the center, we’re better able to stay present and accepting of change. From this vantage point, we can see the bigger picture rather than getting swept up in the dizziness of constant movement.

The invitation this year, then, is to know what brings you back to center. What practices, rituals, or thoughts reorient you when you’ve been pulled to the edges. Because at the center, you’re less reactive and more responsive to the transformations unfolding for you. And it’s from this place that you begin to see the wisdom in the change.

The deeper question this year asks is this: Can you surrender and trust the universe to do right by you and your soul’s journey? Can you allow yourself to believe that these changes are a gift?

Getting Started With Wheel of Fortune Medicine

There are many ways to work with the medicine of the Wheel of Fortune. Here are a few simple places to begin:

Find your center. Ask yourself: What brings me back to a sense of groundedness and inner wisdom? For some, this may be meditation or breathwork. For others, it’s time in nature, gardening, creating art, or working on a meaningful project. If you’re not sure what centers you, allow yourself to experiment. And when life feels chaotic or you’re facing a significant change, return to what brings you back to yourself.

Practice gratitude. Gratitude is a powerful way to stay present with life’s ups and downs. Take a moment each day to acknowledge what you’re grateful for—especially when change feels frustrating or unwelcome. Gratitude helps us recognize the resources and support available in any moment, making it easier to stay open to change with more ease and grace.

I’ll be sharing additional ways to work with Wheel of Fortune medicine in the New Moon edition.

In the meantime, consider making the image of the Wheel of Fortune your anchor for the year. Find a version of the card whose symbolism or artwork truly speaks to you, and place it on your altar or somewhere you’ll see it often — allowing it to remind you of the centering wisdom available to you throughout the year.

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If you’re feeling called to gain deeper clarity around the energies supporting you and the direction of your life this year, consider bookin a Personal Tarot Profile Session with me.

In this 30-minute session, we’ll explore your Soul and Personality cards, along with your current, upcoming (or recently completed) Personal Year cards—and how they interact with and support the collective 2026 Year Card. We’ll look at what these cards are asking of you and how you can consciously work with this wisdom to experience greater clarity, alignment, and trust in your soul’s path.

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Wishing you all the best in 2026!
💖Nicole

Dear Ones,

We arrive at the final new moon of this year in the sign of Capricorn, just two days from the solstice.

As we move into the longest nights of the year, I find myself reflecting on how much the dark has shaped me.

So before we celebrate the return of the sun, I want to pause and honor the dark. Because darkness is not something to rush through. It is where we rest. Where we listen. Where we come home to ourselves.

This past year has changed me in ways I couldn’t have imagined at this time last winter.

Not because everything was bright—but because I stayed. I stayed with my shadows. I stayed with the uncomfortable questions and self-realizations. I stayed when it would have been easier to distract, numb, or turn away (though honestly I did some of that too!).

I don’t say this as someone who did it perfectly or even gracefully. I say it as someone who kept returning. And each time I did, I reclaimed a little more of my light.

This “light” isn’t special or singular to me. It’s in all of us. And each day, we choose whether we will cling to familiar shadows or remember who we are, the light we are, beneath them.

Especially now, in a world that often feels heavy and strange, remembering our light feels less like a luxury and more like a responsibility.

This New Moon arrives like a deep exhale. A moment of darkness that isn’t empty, but fertile. New Moons don’t ask us to shine — they ask us to release and make room for the light.

So as the year draws to a close and we approach the return of the sun at the Winter Solstice, this is a potent threshold. One where we are invited to consciously lay something down.

🕯️In the quiet of these final dark days of the season, you might ask yourself:

What am I ready to leave behind?

What belief, pattern, or fear has served its purpose?

What weight can I set down so that more light has space to enter?

You don’t need to force answers. Let them come slowly. Let them come honestly. LEt them come from places in your body you’ve never or rarely listened to.

Write them down or even say them out loud. Offer them to the night, to the darkness.

I’ll be taking this week to do the same—to rest, reflect, and sit with the dark before the light returns.

May you give yourself that same permission.

May this season hold you gently.

May the darkness restore you.

And may the light that returns find you more spacious, more grounded, and more open to receiving your own brilliant light.

Merry Solstice, Happy Holidays & Peace and Love to You All,

💖✨Nicole

In this newsletter:

• Full Moon in Gemini Details

• 7 of Cups: Sooo Many Options!

• The King of Cups and the Taurus Full Moon

• Signs You Might Need 7 of Cups Medicine

• Full Moon Ritual: Alchemy with the 7 of Cups (for paid subscribers only)

Happy Full Moon in Gemini!🌕♊👯‍♀️

This full moon, peaking at 3:14pm PT today, December 4th, shines a light on communication — not just with others, but with ourselves. Gemini is a sign of duality, and it highlights the choicepoints in our lives: those moments when we’re asked to pick a direction. And as we all know, choice rarely comes without cost: Choosing one path often means walking away from another, and might include letting go of an old identity, habit, or dream.

This full moon may illuminate a fork in the road for you. How will you make a decision? Who or what will inform your choice?

This leads us to the 7 of Cups, a card that can offer some clues when we’re navigating several options or a choicepoint.

7 of Cups: Soooo Many Options

In the Rider–Waite–Smith deck, this card shows a shadowy silhouette looking up at seven cups in the clouds, each containing a different desire, fantasy, or temptation. While there are various interpretations of what each of the cups mean, here’s one common set:

• Human head: idealized love

• Shrouded figure: spiritual or mystical pursuits

• Snake: rebirth or psychic abilities

• Castle: home and security

• Jewels: riches and abundance

• Wreath: victory or achievement

• Dragon: sensuality or worldly pleasure

When this card appears in a reading, it generally signals that you’re considering many options at once. In its shadow expression, it can show up when we’re lost in fantasy or being seduced by possibilities that may not be grounded. But the deeper medicine of this card is about examining how you’re making choices and what is fueling your desire.

Are you letting your shadows make decisions, as the silhouetted figure might suggest?

What part of you is guiding your next step: intuition, fear, longing, ego, avoidance, conditioning?

Are external influences such as cultural messaging, family expectations, or outdated patterns shaping your choices more than your own truth?

The 7 of Cups is also tied to Venus in Scorpio, blending desire, value, mystery, and transformation. This card asks us to consider the values behind our fantasies and the frameworks through which we imagine our future.

As we slither out of 2025 and into 2026, this invitation becomes especially important.

We got a taste of some of the big shifts that are happening personally and collectively, as four outer planets entered new signs this year. With three of them retrograding back for one last review, we’re being offered a window to reassess our direction, release what no longer fits, and make choices aligned with who we’re becoming — not who we were.

So what’s coming up for you?

Is there something you know you need to let go of to make room for the next phase of your life?
What influences have quietly led you away from your own spirit? Your own inner wisdom?
Are there relationships, habits, emotional patterns, or self-judgments that are clouding your ability to see your true path?

Signs You Need 7 of Cups Medicine

If you’ve been…

-Trying to “figure out” your future

-Avoiding big decisions

-Statying stuck in fantasizing about your options but unwilling to take action

-feeling overwhelmed and doubting your ability to make the “right” decision

…tune in to the medicine of the 7of Cups.

The 7 of Cups works beautifully with the illuminations this Gemini Full Moon is offering. Here is a simple but potent way you can get started with the invitation of this card to create more clarity and peace around choosing your best next step.

NOTE: “Getting Started With” practices and Full Moon rituals are for paid subscribers only. For only $5 per month (or less with a year subscription), you can receive THIS ritual PLUS all past rituals, journal prompts, and more including the complete series of Major Arcana cards from past cycles!

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In this newsletter:

• New Moon in Scorpio Details

• What Is a Reversed Lunar Cycle?

• Your Friend in the King of Cups

• Staying Afloat With the King of Cups Ritual (for paid subscribers only)

Happy New Moon in Scorpio!! 🌑♏🦂

With Scorpio season finally wrapping up (phew — we made it), we welcome the New Moon on Wednesday, November 19 at 10:48pm PT.

The past few weeks may have felt especially deep, emotional, or intense — classic Scorpio energy, amplified by several planetary transits moving through the sign. Scorpio pushes us into our own depths to retrieve power and often uncomfortable truths.

But the intensity hasn’t been just the planets. We’re also in the midst of a reversed lunar cycle, which can feel a little disorienting.

What is a reversed lunar cycle?

A “typical” moon cycle begins with a new moon in the same sign the Sun is in, followed by the full moon in the sign opposite the Sun. For example, a new moon in Scorpio is followed two weeks later by a full moon in its opposite sign, Taurus.

This cycle creates a natural waxing and waning of energies: seeds of new energy, life force, and emotions begin to grow with the new moon—which is why we like to set intentions at this time.

Those energies rise gradually and peak with the full moon, which brings things to light — clarity, wisdom, emotional insight — especially around the intentions we set at the new moon.

Then the energies ebb over the next two weeks, giving us space to reflect, integrate, and release anything that no longer serves before the next new moon.

But about every 18 months, this cycle reverses when we have two new or full moons in the same sign. You might remember that we recently had two Virgo new moons. This reversed the cycle.

In a reverse lunar cycle, full moon energies seem to burst out of nowhere. So the cycle starts at the peak — with lots of emotions, wisdom, and energy — without any of the gradual build up. The full moons in a reverse lunar cycle might feel like we’re jumping into the deep end before we even had a chance to put on a swimsuit!

And if that wasn’t enough, afterwards there’s often a sense of scrambling to understand and process what the heck just happened – to reflect and release before we get to the the new moon energies two weeks later.

And once we do get to the new moon, we can still set our intentions, but growth may not seem linear or predictable.

I gotta admit, I’m not really a fan of these reverse cycles! And yet, I also see them as necessary periods (or powerful opportunities) for accelerated emotional and personal growth.

Of course each person will experience these differently, and the intensity may vary depending on where these lunations are happening in your natal chart.

But I wanted to make you aware of this because…well this is what we’re dealing with until around May of 2027. 🫠

Your Friend in The King of Cups

Although the King of Cups is associated with the sign of Scorpio, I think he’s the perfect archetype to help us navigate the intensities of a reversed lunar cycle. With his calm presence, even in intense waters, he’s here to remind you that you have support – from both inner and outer resources – to stay afloat.

He shows us that when we cultivate a longer and wider view of our lives, we remember that the waves of intensity will pass. And if we allow ourselves to be bathed and purified by these waves, rather than fighting them or wishing they weren’t there – when we surrender and accept – this is where growth happens.

It’s where we can move past emotional blocks that kept us stuck. It’s where we gain deeper understandings of ourselves and our patterns that allow us to make more conscious choices about how we want to live our lives. And it’s where we remember more of who we came here to be in this life.

Since we’ve got some time with this cycle (and will continue to experience it off and on for the rest of our lives), I wanted to offer another ritual for working with the King of Cups energy. It’s simple but can have a profound impact.

And you can do this ritual any time you feel overwhelmed with intense emotions, clarity, or life’s surprises—new moon, full moon or any not!

NOTE: “Getting Started With” practices and Full Moon rituals are for paid subscribers only. For only $5 per month (or less with a year subscription), you can receive THIS ritual PLUS all past rituals, journal prompts, and more including the complete series of Major Arcana cards from past cycles!

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✨✨✨Curious how this reversed lunar cycle is affecting your chart? Or just need some extra support coming out of Scorpio season? Check out my offerings for an astrology or tarot reading here. ✨✨✨

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In this newsletter:

• Full Moon in Taurus Details

• The King of Cups: Emotional Mastery in Deep Waters

• The King of Cups and the Taurus Full Moon

• Signs You Might Need King of Cups Medicine

• Full Moon Ritual: Alchemy with the King of Cups (for paid subscribers only)

Happy Full Moon in Taurus! 🌕🐂♉

This super moon is exact on Wednesday, November 5 at 5:19am PT and illuminates the values and resources that most need your attention right now.

As we move into the shadowy depths of Scorpio season, this moon shows us what we can lean on to navigate the underworld and the unfelt emotions that can rise up during this time.

Read on to learn how the King of Cups, the tarot court card associated with Scorpio, can guide and support your emotional world.

The King of Cups: Emotional Mastery in Deep Waters

The King of Cups represents the deep waters of Scorpio. In the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, he comes to us with deep presence and stability in a stormy ocean.

Though he seems unaffected, dispassionate, it’s not because he doesn’t care. He lives in the deep waters of love, generosity, compassion, and trust.

Through his time navigating these oceans, he has matured and grown wise. He has learned not only to withstand the impermanency of emotions, but to also understand their beauty, their messages, and deep care for our spirit’s evolution— rising from the primordial waters to help us reconnect with our ourselves, or with Source itself.

The Cup as Container

The suit of Cups is tied to the element of water and known to represent relationships, emotions, intuition, dreams, imagination. All of which can be “big” and boundless as the ocean.

But the cup itself is the container. It helps us hold an emotion (or intuition, dream, etc.) rather than be overwhelmed by its immensity. It allows us to be present with a feeling, rather than hiding from it, pushing it aside, or drowning in it.

The King uses this cup to contain, hold, cherish, understand, and allow an emotion to be, so that he can better understand its message. By honoring a feeling in this way, he learns where disconnection, old patterns, or distorted beliefs may be blocking his wholeness.

His cup—and his willingness to hold it—becomes a vessel for healing, clarity, and spiritual integrity.

Scorpio Season: The Descent and the Gift

During Scorpio season (which began October 23), the sun moves through this deep, watery sign, surfacing what we may have tried to hide in the murky depths of our being:

• Emotions we were afraid to feel

• Raw truths we didn’t feel ready for

• Unsettling dreams finding you sleep and seeping into your day

• Forgotten memories spontaneously being recalled

All of this emerges to show us where to focus our attention to bring healing, transformation, and emotional evolution—to prepare for the next phase of our lives.

Scorpio is also represented by the Death card in the tarot (see Death card series that begins here)— a reminder that this is a time of letting go: shedding patterns, behaviors, and beliefs that no longer match the frequency of who we’re becoming.

This King has mastered the art of surrender. The next wave could toss him into the sea at any moment. But he doesn’t fear or resist it. He knows he can’t control the ocean, yet he trusts the divinity within the water to hold and renew him.

The King of Cups and the Taurus Full Moon

The King of Cup can be the perfect guide for you through the rest of Scorpio season. A reminder that when you hold an emotion, allow it to be, you come to understand its meaning. You come to understand your needs. You heal wounds that you’ve had for years. Maybe even lifetimes.

He mirrors the energy of the Taurus full moon. A moment where on one side of us, we have the sun shining into the deep, emotional, mysterious waters of Scorpio. On the other side we have the moon in the grounded, stable sign of Taurus that highlights our values, our resources.

Similarly, the King of Cups is a steady force in our lives, even in deep and stormy waters. He reminds us of our power for growth and evolution, even and especially in turbulent seas.

“Don’t look away,” he seems to say to us. “Be with the turbulence. What does it make you feel? And what does that feeling reveal about who you are and what you need next?”

Signs You Might Need King of Cups Medicine

If you’ve been…

-having more dreams than usual

-receiving little reminders of a past situation(s) you thought you were complete

-experiencing deep or surprising emotions that seem to come out of nowhere

-feeling overwhelmed or dysregulated

…take a sip of the medicine of the King of Cups.

The King of Cups can teach us how to alchemize these dreams, memories, emotions, and overwhelm into medicine. Check out the ritual below—especially potent for this Full Moon period.

NOTE: “Getting Started With” practices and Full Moon rituals are for paid subscribers only. For only $5 per month (or less with a year subscription), you can receive THIS ritual PLUS all past rituals, journal prompts, and more including the complete series of Major Arcana cards from past cycles!

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