Welcome. Wherever you are on your journey, this sacred pause is meant for you. A chance to reclaim your intuition and deeply listen to your heart. 🧭
Ease into this marking of time. There can be a lot of pressure to make January a month of makeovers and goal-setting. Capricorn season is, after all, a cardinal earth sign.
Yet. Go gently. Dream. Remember your connection to your soul. Your unique capacity to love this world is a gift only you can offer.
“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them and the point is to live everything.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
This New Year spread is one I created for guidance that you can return to all year. The video contains the full messages from each card.1 Get comfy and pull out your journal for additional reflection. You can choose to listen or watch.
Below is the abbreviated message for each question. I’d love to hear what resonates with you. 💗
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Main Message from Spirit
The Empress in Reverse
We are the dream and the imagination of someone else. We come from the stars. We're born of the Universe and that means we have a lot of power and a lot of Love.
How can we tap into the nurturing, loving mother energy of Mama Gaia? How can we see ourselves as the children of Mama Gaia, who then also have a responsibility to each other and our mother to honor that act of creation?
Where is your intuition correct?
Four of Pentacles
This is about holding onto the idea that we have to do it all on our own. Our intuition is saying that it's time to let go. It's time to move beyond the idea of security we've created for ourselves because we've outgrown it.
We all crave stability. We all crave that stable footing and foundation. And we can have a lot of ideas about, well, you know, I did X, Y, and Z to get where I am now.
And you don't want to rock the boat.
But our intuition is guiding us to take a risk and shed that old skin that's constricting us from our next level of growth. You've outgrown your current level of stability. You're ready for something bigger.
It's time to venture out.
It's time to explore new territory.
How can you tend to your heart?
The 8 of Wands (Traveling)
Give your heart more credit than you have been. It has the capacity for new adventures. It has the capacity to experience new things.
It has the capacity to love again.
There was a post that I just put on my Instagram and it was something I shared a couple of years ago but it stood out to me again. The quote is, “I’m no longer willing to let the excuse of old pain keep me from experiencing new love.”
Let your heart beat to a new song, a new dance, a new person, a new place. Paired with the Four of Pentacles, there could be this connection between a new place and love for some of you.
What dream or desire needs transformation?
The Hermit (Aloneness)
There's this idea of needing to seclude yourself or move away from a situation or environment in order for you to reconnect to your own light.
Perhaps you’ve been idealizing creation in a vacuum, thinking you have to go on a writer's retreat or have six hours of solid time every day to make your dreams happen. Or believing you need solitude or to live in a certain place or you’re not going to be able to be the person you want to become.
The Hermit is reminding us that this light is something we carry with us everywhere we go, even in a crowd of people, even during a chaotic day.
The goal of the Hermit is not to remain isolated and alone in order to shine your light.
It’s to remember that your light is always within you.
The purpose is to reconnect to that light and then to carry forward and share it with others.
What’s not in alignment with your higher self this year?
Queen of Wands in Reverse
The world needs your specific light. The world needs your unique way of being.
See how many candles are lit? See how bright she's shining? And she's just totally zenned out. She's on this comfortable cushion, she's chilling with her cat.
She's owning her essence, owning her magic.
So what's not an alignment is to doubt yourself. Doubt isn't cute. Playing small isn't cute anymore.
It's time to stand up, show up, and be your true, full self.
What would Love have you know?
Integration (Temperance)
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
- Mary Oliver
What love wants us to know is that our dark and our light are both needed.
They're part of our wholeness. They're part of our fullness.
I think so many times we try to shove our human parts to the side and focus more on our spirit or our soul and we try to bypass our physicality and put our bodies and our senses and all of these things on the back burner and we say, “You're not as important as our intuition or my connection to spirit.”
This card is telling us that we need both. We can embrace our humanness and our spirituality at the same time. We don't have to choose. We don't have to say it's one or the other.
Where can you trust more deeply?
Transformation (Death)
It seems like there are some things we’re outgrowing in 2024 that we need a little bit of a nudge to release. Sometimes if we don't pay attention the first time, that message can come through a little bit more strongly And again, there's nothing to fear in that, you know, it's all for our highest good.
If we don't grow, we die.
When you look at nature, you see it's constantly changing and it's so alive with promise and potential. How it is to live on this planet is to constantly undergo change and transformation.
So how can we begin to welcome that instead of fear it?
What will bring you joy?
7 of Pentacles
Finding joy in the anticipation of what we're growing and what we're building, knowing that it takes time.
In the Osho Zen tarot deck, the word for this card is patience, which is not one of my favorite words but I think there's joy in every circumstance and there's this kind of like contentment in this card of knowing that you are building something.
You're growing something that has this potential to be something really big and nurturing it and trusting that and giving that your full attention but also not suffocating it. Not letting yourself become anxious about the process but really enjoying it.
What will bring you healing?
New Vision (The Hanged Man)
We've outgrown an old way of being, and there's healing in release.
There's healing in trusting the mystery. In this picture, he's rooted to the earth. And yet you also see this big, expansive sky.
Remembering our connection to Mama Gaia and remembering our connection to the stars and carrying that vision within us as a way to heal any limiting beliefs, any doubt, any fear.
Final messages from Spirit
Turning In (4 of Cups) in Reverse
We can trust the downstream ebb and flow of life.
We can trust that maybe we felt like we were in a place where we were stagnant, where we weren't seeing that growth that we wanted, but below the surface, things were happening.
Below the surface, transformation was occurring.
We just couldn't see it on the outside yet. We couldn't see how the water was gently kind of wearing down the rock that was standing in its pathway, finding new ways around the obstacle.
Ten of Pentacles in Reverse
To me, in reverse, the Ten of Pentacles is talking about obligation and responsibility and the negative aspect of using those things as an excuse to not feed or nourish our own soul.
This can come up for parents or caregivers or for people that maybe are part of a really big family where they have a very specific role and it's been defined for a long time. Maybe the way that you want to grow or transform is in opposition to that defined role or the way people expect you to be
It’s time to let go of that. It's time to break free from that sense of obligation.
You're not going to fail the people that you love by being true to yourself.
That's something that we're told a lot, especially as women that we have to sacrifice our needs and our wants and our desires for others but I think what we really end up sacrificing is our true aliveness and that doesn't benefit anyone.
Oracle Card Messages
The Hand of Fatimah2 & I am becoming consciously aware of my inner being3
Thank you so much for tuning in to the New Year guidance. These messages are timeless and here for you to come back to at any time.
Wishing you peace, love, and joy. 💗
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I used the Light Seer’s tarot deck and the Osho Zen Tarot Deck
This oracle is from Alan Fairchild’s Rumi Oracle deck
This is from Abraham Hicks’ Ask and it is Given Oracle deck
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