The Moon is Moon'ing again
Full Moon Tarotscopes
The word on the street is everyone is a bit malaise-y. It doesn’t help that in New York we’ve had day after day of rain and gloom. Perfect timing for a full moon and a little summer time sadness. This moon is in Aquarius and tons of astrologers can tell you more on what that means. However since tarot loves to go for the jugular and I don’t think anyone is in the mood for that (just me?) I figured gentler tarotscopes may be the mood. I asked simply what energy is available to support us right now?
I use these questions loosely, assuming most of us are aware of where we need support. Sometimes we’re not and that can be an interesting point of inquiry. However in general I’m a little less focused on where is the work to be done, and maybe more where does the noise need to be blocked out to come back to the self. We really can’t do shit until we are with ourselves. What are your feelings telling you? Where do you need your attention?
Take a moment to quiet the outside noise to hear your own. Even if it’s a little loud, you’ll always benefit from listening to it’s data.
xx. A
What energy is available to support us this Full Moon?
Aries | Aries Rising | Ace of Cups
The Motherpeace deck shows someone swan diving into a (large) cup surrounded by swans, which honestly I could chase that sort of perfect swim situation my whole life. However….it’s a metaphor and likely we won’t experience private swimming coupes flanked by swans. What is the energy available here? We’re being asked to dive into self love, newness in romance, art, dreaming, our intuition. The best the cups have to offer. I find this card is deceptively simple or easy. Most people walk around thinking they are clear on self love, they either do or don’t love themselves. There’s also often this resistance or like deep sigh, I’m trying. Self love however is a practice and not a fixed state. Ideally we are moving closer to it, staying connected to that self love but it’s not an end destination and you never move again if you get there. Checking in around that and what are ways you could be more loving right now, or meet yourself lovingly in this chapter of your life…tends to be revealing! What made us feel loved and with ourselves at 25 is different at 45. My therapist said to me not too long ago, what if I thought less about self protection, and more about self care. Asked yourself, what would be care in this scenario? At first I was like yeah no, not interested, care feels soft and protection feels safe. Well, she was right! It’s easier to steer yourself in and out of situations when the thought is care. Aries/Aries Rising how can you immerse yourself in a new chapter of love? Starting with yourself? Sure you could do x but is that a caring thing to do to yourself? Sure, you could shoot off into the night and pursue y but is that loving? Support and bolster yourself with how you need to love you today. This isn’t a pass fail test, its a gift.
Taurus | Taurus Rising | 3 of Swords Reversed
People avoid mourning because it’s painful. Who wants to mourn for what’s been lost? Ew. However, the stories we create avoiding it, or the shutdown to the pain makes it all a lot worse. The 3 of Swords invites some mourning, but it’s not just oh go be sad. It’s more acceptance of what harmed you will free you. Blaming yourself, excusing, all the ways we avoid behavior that makes us uncomfortable is occupying too much space in your mind and making this more of a wound than it may need to be. When I am tempted to keep ruminating, or diagnosing a situation I make myself boil down how I feel to toddler speak. I am sad. I am disappointed. That hurt me. I instantly feel space created and a little peace because I am no longer making a case for my feelings. I am just letting them be. When we cut the chatter it centers us and not the other. Your brain is asking you to center you, feel the feels so you can move ahead to what is for you and not painful. The heartbreak has happened, now the challenge is how to return to life outside your head.
Gemini | Gemini Rising | Strength
Strength sure is a bit about being strong, but really its about having courage, and integrity. It’s having the courage and integrity to stick with yourself and stay in service of your magic when it doesn’t feel easy to do so. It’s also a major so a card of destiny and a big ole plot point for you right now Gem. Strength is one of my favorite cards because sure it has to be a bit fought to be won but what it gives you no one can take away. It’s a profound deepening of self confidence and self trust. When we fully trust in and center our magic and let the spokes of our wheel be in service of it, our lives change. When we no longer question truths about ourselves we can access our power a lot more easily. Strength is a lesson in personal power. It teaches us we always have it, no one can take it, but it’s not always a popular choice when we wield it. That’s not the data to collect. The data to collect is how do you stay with yourself when it is hard? How do you prioritize what feeds you versus what is demanded of you?
Cancer | Cancer Rising | 8 of Wands
Action, travel, goal stalking is the move. Can you take the fire of Leo season to galvanize you into action? If you’re like no thank you, it’s swamp summer for me fair enough and I feel you. However, can you think about your goals? The 8 of Wands wants to take all that wands/fire energy and drive it somewhere. Meaning this is helpful energy for goal chasing, or quitting things. There’s supportive energy to either take off, or give up. Ideally we’d be giving up things that don’t work for us. You can go somewhere, so where do you wanna go? If someone could wave a magic wand, what would your wish be? There’s energy that wants to collab available.
Leo | Leo Rising | 8 of Cups
A very Full Moon support for you, what can you release that isn’t yours to carry? People sometimes call both the 5 and 8 of Cups the break up card. Sure, sure, can be that, however they’re both more about not settling for what isn’t truly for you. Can you take away what others want, or what they want you to be, and ask what do I want? What is my vision for myself? What do I need to embody to get there? There is no wizard wiser about you than you are. No one has the answer except you, so take a look and what you’ve acquired. What fits, what doesn’t, what did you take in a moment but now realize it was a phase? Return to your true self. See what’s there when you arrive.
Virgo | Virgo Rising | 9 of Pentacles Reversed
Something I have been thinking about is often we know on some level to really master whatever it is we want to in this life we have to go it alone. Yet most of us go around and around wondering where the posse of support is, or why everyone doesn’t want to go for the ride with us and take that as evidence we shouldn’t go for the ride. You may need to go for the ride alone for a bit Virgo in order to really master what you’re learning and doing. The 9 of Pentacles is a lot about gifts, talents, money and mastery. We are learning how to master these things about ourselves and often how to be paid for them. That’s both a bit metaphoric and modern. Really it’s figuring out what we want to give, how to give it and how to give it in a way that is sustainable and reciprocal. Gifts, purpose, destiny these are often unique to us, so why would a big crowd come along? Keep honing your craft, sure be a little sad if people don’t want to join but see if the joy you get back from doing what is for you can soothe that. It probably can.
Libra | Libra Rising | 4 of Pentacles
Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries support you! Remembering that you control the access to you. Emotionally, physically and spiritually. This also means we can overdo it. Walls aren’t boundaries. Check in around the yes’s and no’s. Has it been a bit of a free for all? Have you been a bit rigid? Boundaries are about what we will and won’t allow. Not changing or controlling others. Are you setting them for the right reasons or hoping for changes? Sometimes if the boundaries aren’t working it’s cause we’re ignoring part two. What’s the move when the boundary is crossed? Would a check in around consequences and actions help? It’s okay to be cautious, it’s okay to say no, it’s okay to give freely, it’s okay to be generous, just check in around the themes and see if you need a little bolstering somewhere.
Scorpio | Scorpio Rising | Judgement
Our second Major and another doozy. What a moon for you Scorpio! Judgement doesn’t sound great or like support, however what the card offers is affirmation you’re on track. You are on path. However….the ways you like to terrorize yourself have to go in order for the path to be kept to. You cannot doubt yourself the way you have, you cannot question what is for you the way you have, you have to trust this is where you are because its supposed to be that way. The old insecurities, stories, and doubts cannot come for the ride with you. They must be left behind. Ask yourself how do I benefit from believing nonsense about myself? Does it make me not ask for more? Does it make me not take risks? Support and feed what is wonderful about you, starve what is insisting that isn’t true. That voice is wrong.
Sagittarius | Sagittarius Rising | Justice
Justice yes is about truth, fairness, and the typical themes a word like justice conjures. It’s also about choices, consequences, truth and connection. There can be an element of timing here. What’s tough is Justice tells us things are how they are supposed to be. This doesn’t always feel great. What do you mean I am supposed to be here? We get plunged into swamps sometimes to learn how we got there. That’s not to say we flip to blame. Saying its my fault just turns the tap off, it doesn’t teach us anything. Justice wants us to learn the more honest we are with ourselves and others, the more connected and closer to harmony we are. My modern interpretation with this is it’s often speaking to people pleasing, and social white lies. It’s having a good intention, not wanting to hurt someone’s feelings but ending up somewhere because of that we didn’t want to be. Can you learn some diplomacy skills to be able to stay honest but not you know blow your life up hosing everyone with truth?
Capricorn | Capricorn Rising | The High Priestess
You have inner wisdom you got to sit tight and wait for it to speak. The High Priestess teaches us the valuable lesson of learning when to sit still. To trust, to sit between the realms and know we will be okay. Learning when action does not serve us and in fact is more a sign of distrust than strength. When the time is right we will know. This can be literally or metaphorically cause the High Priestess comes up a lot when people are POSITIVE they have to know something and have to know it right now. As a friendly reminder, anxiety has urgency, intuition does not. Intuition floats something up like hey go left, anxiety says go left otherwise you will die. They are not the same. We do not make the best decisions from a place of fear or anxiety. The High Priestess comes in to remind us the value of reconnecting with our wise mind, trusting it, timing and knowing we will know what to do when the time comes. If we don’t know it’s cause we’re not supposed to. We can either drive ourselves batty in pursuit, but really that’s telling us more about our relationship with uncertainty than anything else. The High Priestess often comes up at some kind of moment of initiation. Be with yourself while you’re initiated.
Aquarius | Aquarius Rising | Queen of Pentacles
She’s a self care queen! The thing about the Queen of Pentacles is she’s not just great at taking care of herself, she’s rooted in her value and doesn’t question it. Where do you need to take care of yourself and quit making a story about it? Where do you need to root into your value? Your value has nothing to do with anything external. That stuff is more bonus round. What do you value about you? What do you need to be unapologetic around? That sorry the price of admission for being me is I need x. This is not just self care. This isn’t I need and value pilates to be hot. Noooooo it’s more I need pilates because moving my body makes me feel better and I’m a better version of myself with that. If you need a manicure by all means, but ask yourself what’s the significance? Is it that you need a break and time to yourself and a bonus is painted nails? Maybe you just need the nails! That’s fine to, but can you do it dropping the story and knowing a Queen sits on a throne to receive people. She doesn’t go down into the melee and ask the people’s permission to be queen. She just is. Where do you need to be the Queen of your life? And trust you’re allowed to?
Pisces | Pisces Rising | The Star
Do you need a nap Pisces? Do you need some rest and healing? The Star offers the permission to take a pause, rest and renew yourself. We’ve often been through something when the Star shows up and we’ve been a bit rocked. This can be good or bad, and we need a second to come back to ourself. We’re stripped of our previous defenses and armor, and are very vulnerable. That doesn’t mean we’re at risk but its a good time to have some chats with your heart. What is your heart asking for? What would you ask for if you really let yourself be vulnerable?
Lemme know how your summer is going. If you need any more guidance I’m always around for readings.