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Divine day my LOVE!

This is a Tarot reading for the week ahead. I am writing this on Saturday July 27th from my kitchen in our new place that I call “The Guadalupana Cottage”.

If you are reading this post a week, weeks, months or years from the date that this was written, trust that this message is for you and appearing at the time that you are needing to hear it.

Thank you for tuning in and let’s get into the reading.

Life is a dance, a paradigm of multiplicities.

How does one grieve, tend to sorrow and yet keep the heart center open for what is to come?

At this point, you are at a space where your focus is on what once was.

You long to go back to the way it was.

This could be in your personal life as well in the context of the collective.

Missing the past, grieving the past is normal … romanticizing the past also normal…- especially if it involved close connections with loved ones, the presence of loved ones or simpler easier times.

You may never get over what you have lost or once was.

There may always be an ache in your heart or soul and depending on how life is flowing, sometimes that ache feels more intense and sometimes it is fleeting, a soft subtle whisper.

What the High Priestess represents in this reading is the call for you to root in a belief, a devotional practice that supports you as you move with and through the energy of the 5 of Cups. Not to abandon your sorrow/grief/past but rather to tend to it in such a way that allows the alchemic process of transmutation … of planting seeds of possibilities from the tears that you have shed. To honor the past by being present to what is in the moment.

Through the 8 of swords, the High Priestess shows us that there is no turning back

You can choose to stay captive by the ghosts of the past, haunted by what once was and still there is no way back.

The High Priestess extends her hand so that you can see that you have a second choice.

You can choose to slowly turn around and see what glimmers of hope and possibility are floating around in your atmosphere.

No shade or shame on what you choose.

I have held myself captive many times and I tell you, it easy to stay in that space of despair, anger, resentment… longing. You get complacent after some time and your suffering becomes a shield of illusionary protection that only serves to distance you further from the center of your truth. Then at some point you awaken, realizing how much of life you are missing out of by keeping yourself captive and that my friend is heartache which turns into regret that with time poisons the soul.

What will you choose?

How will you engage with the energies of the five of cups?

Life is a dance.

It is a flow, represented in the two of pentacles.

No easy answer or easy way around the five of cups - there may be moments of ease but it is never easy per se.

If this reading is speaking to you, I invite you to open to the messages of the High Priestess.

Return to a practice of releasing and rooting.

Be patient, kind and gentle with yourself.

Abandon your notion of timelines and measuring your grief and growth.

Seek support systems of kin folk and resources that feed your soul.

Within time the dance becomes less and less restrictive …

Within time, you reach behind, grab the two remaining cups and cross over into new thresholds of existence.

Be well precious SOUL!

Thank you for tuning in!

xo

Nicole P