☽ Card Reading for the new moon in Pisces ☾
☆ 2/20/23 ☆
Pick a card between 1 - 7 and scroll below.
What card did your soul choose?
1 - THECLA ❤︎
THE PROPHETESS OF TRUE POWER
I call my power back from all times and all places. I am my own.
WHEN YOUR SOUL SELECTS HER CARD:
Thecla's story echoes from the ancient world to the modern world: "your life is up to you." Yes, there is the power of prayer, of faith, of asking for all possible spiritual support. But there's also divine will within each of us. It's will that's aligned with the soul's purpose. We remember what true power is when we divest all outside authority of the power we had been giving them.
Power is calling back all the control we give to others to dictate our lives our potential life partners, our family members, our culture, and even our ego's idea of who we should be.
Thecla reminds us that we do not need permission to be who we are. We can cut our hair short and baptize ourselves. We are not bound by anything except the dictates of our own souls. Her mudra is one of awe and wonder.
We have all the power right now within us to take our life into our own hands. That's the source of fire itself, the divine will to call back our spiritual authority and claim this life as our soul's own.
2 - ENHEDUANNA ❤︎
THE HIGH PRIESTESS
I am one with my soul.
And my soul is a legacy of love.
WHEN YOUR SOUL SELECTS HER CARD:
Over 4,000 years ago, the high priestess Enheduanna wrote in The Exaltation of Inanna, "Most precious lady, beloved by An, your holy heart is great." And in The Sumerian Temple Hymns, "Whatever enters you is unequaled, whatever leaves endures." She is the limitless love and the inexhaustible power that moves through us when we merge with the soul.
We each have a personal myth. We each have an ishta deva, a personal deity who inspires and compels us to bring heaven right here on earth by moving us with the fierce conviction that we're divinely led. Enheduanna encourages us to integrate our light and our dark, to bring our unconscious aspects of self into consciousness.
The high priestess is often described as the guardian of the unconscious. She is that aspect in all of us that holds the veil of awareness that separates us from our inner depths.
Enheduanna is about meringue the awareness of our soul, and all the love and power it gives us, with our individual personality or ego.
What Swiss psychologist Carl Jung would call personality 1 and personality 2.
Enheduanna wants you to live and breathe your soul. She wants you to become so intimate with it that there is no longer any separation. And there are no more excuses or apologies for how powerful you are. You are the high priestess. "You are this eternal," she whispers. "Your holy heart is this legendary."
3 - SEKHMET ❤︎
THE RED LADY
I am pure strength. I honor my anger by giving voice to it.
WHEN YOUR SOUL SELECTS HER CARD:
Holy rage, sacred anger, and positive aggression -these states of being are crucial aspects of the divine feminine. It's the female power that ends wars, that brings home missing children, that seeks justice for the earth and for those who can't defend themselves.
The brilliant artist and mystic William Blake relates that "the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God" The feminine has for too long been disassociated from rage and anger. If we can't embody the fiery emotion of anger, it often festers or expresses itself in subversive, manipulative ways. Or it leaves us anxious and frustrated.
Positive aggression, acting with love on behalf of what breaks our hearts or enrages us, is what allows us to become agents of change to better our lives and the world around us.
Sekhmet wants us to come face to face with our true strength. Power doesn't come from passive-aggressive behaviors. We don't have to fear expressing our anger directly to an institution or a person who is acting unjustly. Sekhmet wants us to see that anger is an essential emotion.
And Sekhmet is the sacred call to move that anger from pure emotion into conscious action. She wants us to act with conviction and from love. She wants us to create the healthy boundaries we need so we aren't injured again and again. Or so that we can free ourselves from a destructive pattern it's time to end. We have a divine right to draw a sacred circle around us at all times. The protection we invoke for ourselves and others helps move us from feeling helpless to taking loving action.
4 - PARVATI ❤︎
THE GODDESS OF DEVOTION
I am a love that doesn't leave.
When I commit to love, my soul evolves.
WHEN YOUR SOUL SELECTS HER CARD:
What is soft, gentle, and nurturing, like water can be far more powerful than what is inflexible and fierce. The energy of this mountain goddess is about the strength we can give and receive when we devote ourselves to the healthy bonds of love. Parvati is about the divine feminine potency of being a calm, benevolent presence, especially when something seems to threaten a deeply meaningful relationship.
Transformation with this goddess calls for a softening. When a situation is hard, even painful, Parvati is suggesting that you allow your fist to unfold. Open and release what is clenched in fear or stress. Remember that your love is a mountain that cannot be moved.
And that this bond between you is holy; no human hands or words can ever break it.
The answer of what's next or highest for you can be found through the subtler act of simply abiding. Not reacting, not running, not hiding: a deep reservoir of power can surge up from within us when we choose to remain present. Letting devotion inhabit us in moments when our ego has typically fled infuses us with the capacity to transform all of our relationships.
Devotion is not attachment. It's letting go of the illusion that you and this lover, this friend, this child or family member, this soul within you can ever really be separate from you. Devotion brings us home to the point and purpose of every relationship: love. A love that can never leave, and that like a mountain can never move. A love that evolves the soul.
5 - MARY OF NAZARETH ❤︎
THE MOTHER OF GOD
I am blessed.
My courage gives birth to the divine.
WHEN YOUR SOUL SELECTS HER CARD:
I've always imagined that Mary was terrified to hear an angel loudly announcing that she was meant to be the Mother of God. Her surrender to Gabriel's words feels so courageous and too unacknowledged. Mary has no idea what she will have to meet with, what will be asked of her, or what this love for her son will put her through. But she says yes nonetheless so that she can be in service of the divine.
Mary's acceptance of her role has been in the shadow of the Christian story-uncelebrated because she is seen as so divine.
But she was human too. She could have said no. Her courage could have faltered. But she aligned with the light. She heard Gabriel's words, "Be not afraid," and allowed the divine story to work through her life.
And she let joy dictate her response.
Mary leads us to trust that we can say yes to what feels light. It doesn't have to make sense or work with the timeline the ego has mapped out for us. In the midst of our ordinary, everyday lives, we can say yes to the angel who greets us in the space of our heart and let the energy of joy give birth to the divine through us.
6 - LAKSHMI ❤︎
THE GODDESS OF ABUNDANCE
I choose to feel abundant.
Wealth is an inside job.
WHEN YOUR SOUL SELECTS HER CARD:
Abundance looks different to each of us. Some people have incalculable material wealth but are bereft of a sense of purpose or a greater vision for their life and so are left feeling lost. While others are considered poor in financial wealth but walk around radiating love and the kind of light that has an inestimable worth. Lakshmi is the auspiciousness that begins to bloom in our life when we align our every action with the work our soul has come here to do.
Lakshmi reminds us of the ultimate goal, which is not making money, but being able to know our true bliss. What makes us feel lit up like a glow stick while we're doing it? What work doesn't feel like work at all? Lakshmi is a wink to find that vocation, that bliss so that what is within us comes into full bloom through something we can do and show the world.
Lakshmi represents both the gold we can hold in our hands and the gold we can become by doing work that feeds our souls. She's the reminder that true abundance doesn't come from our bank statement. It comes from a state of mind we enter when we know we are contributing great worth to the world in the effort of becoming more love.
7 - LALITA ❤︎
THE RED GODDESS
Playfulness is a spiritual power.
Laughter leads me back to the light.
WHEN YOUR SOUL SELECTS HER CARD:
Answers arrive from disengaging with the energy that created the problem or question, to begin with. We so often hold tight to what we desire with a grip that actually inhibits it from arriving. And we often take the soul by the collar and demand to know an answer right now. But when a desire is an imperative, there's an inability to be playful, imaginative, and childlike with how and when that desire will arrive.
The secret to desire is holding it lightly.
The secret that the red goddess knows is that we already have everything we desire. So we can trust that what the soul craves is and always has been ours. This is the levity that sparks a shift, a change, an expansion--this is the moment that we remember we are not separate from what we desire or from the divine.
Lalita is that brilliant moment in a fight between lovers or friends when suddenly someone mispronounces a word and both crack up laughing. She's the levity that comes when we loosen our death-like grip on what we think we desire. She's the gorgeous, much-needed reminder that we don't have to suffer our way to what we want most. The path to what we desire and to becoming the soul we need to be in order to receive it can be paved with joy, with divine play, and with a sacred process of lightening up all along the way.