6.23 Hypothesis: Weekly Collective Reading No.6
It's hotter than hell because we lowkey in it.
Forecasting:
Learning 🐚
I love that the shell card came out during the first scorching week of summer. Very on brand for Cancer season. If spending time at the beach, listening to the water, the ritual of the tides pulling in and out will center your nervous system.
Learning is what you make it. It can be an opportunity to travel beyond your limited view and experience, but it can also be abused. This is a moment to ask yourself what you are choosing to learn and what that is signaling to your body. You have more control over your knowledge when you think.
Also a good time to learn and connect with other people/cultures unlike your own. Life long learning is a gift you can take advantage of every single day. Some of you may be considering mentorship or teaching others in some capacity. Cancer season advises you to listen to what creates your emotional waves and ritual. Share that.
Knowledge. is. Power. and. Passion. The two can coexist.
Data Collection:
During water seasons, I move back to my Light Seer Tarot.
4 of Swords ⚔️
Ace of Swords RX ⚔️
Judgement RX 📝
Notes:
It is important to regulate water with earth. Overflows of passion, noise mixed with a healthy dose of grief and fear are prevalent. If you do not know how to swim, you sink. 4 of Swords indicates a temptation to dissociate. While mindful breaks to wander, relax and create are always a good idea, checking out of your mind and body isn’t. Water can be slippery or stagnant. Your move. 🌊
Current events personally and globally may have you feeling like you should hit pause on projects, ideas, dreams and adventures. I love the Ace of Swords in this deck in particular because it shows the mind as a staircase/spiral with light piercing through the center. Our minds and dreams are our most powerful and special tools, portals that create new realities, habits, processes, art, connection AND innovative ways to thrive in a world that needs our help. The most dangerous thing you can do is freeze.
Judge and you will also be judged. Be careful whose news/input you are consuming. Discernment is key. Pick one to two folks who share news in an unbiased and factual manner. Beware of doomsday dopamine hits. It is okay to feel BIG feelings, but it is not okay to make them everyone else’s problem. You are only helpless when you tell yourself so.
Prescription:
Water scrying, ritual baths, observing water and it’s movement, ecosystems, ability to give life and to destroy it. Altars/offerings devoted to the Moon and/or Water deities, divination with shells and items you collect outdoors, hydration!!!, humming, studying/tracking your cycles (particularly menstruation), observe what moon phases affect you and why, limited scrolling time, swim to the surface, incorporating seaweed, seamoss, and other oceanic ingredients seasonally into meals/supplements (if good for you), breathwork that matches the tide.
In addition, I recorded a video on the books about Water Magic I have in my library if you would like any recommendations!
Here is an old 💧 spell I created:
Housekeeping 🧹
New Moon in Cancer Wed June 25th: Let your emotions be transmuted through some flowing movement like swimming, stretches, a walk or yoga. Cancer placements, manifest focusing on the specific areas in your chart/house themes. ♋️
Mercury moves into Leo: Speech will become clearer and more impassioned, share things you are attracted to. ♌️
Venus in Taurus: There is beauty to be found everywhere in everything. Get creative with how you can bring in longevity and sustainably that both feels and looks good. A great transit for singers (particularly if you have mercury in taurus as well). ♉️
Mars moved into Virgo: A time to collect data, facts, and streamline what you can to free yourself up for what really matters. Be mindful of digestion and eating enough/drinking enough fluids. Pick up a hobby that requires precision in a way that feels good to you. ♍️
Long Term Transits:
Jupiter in Cancer: Power and abundance lie in caring about others and something beyond yourself. ♋️
Saturn in Aries: A passionate and resolute reckoning. Reinventing the wheel. ♈️
Pluto in Aquarius: Innovative new systems and thinking that support the 98%. Practical and creative at the same time! New digital age, it’s also okay to go analog if your best work isn’t done there. Generational shift. Mutual Aid. ♒️
I spent my Summer Solstice (and half birthday) in the woods by a lake in north Jersey. Most of the week was in Hermit mode, but on Friday two of my dear friends drove to spend witchy time.
We walked the spiral meditation path,
Stuck our feet in the water and sunbathed
In the evening we formed a tarot circle where a presence joined us. The house lights/power flickered on and off VERY specifically three times in a row. It has been a moment since I had a paranormal encounter!
The spread we used was The Horseshoe Spread. I last performed this spread during the Winter Solstice, and my life has changed dramatically since then. It felt right to revisit it at the halfway point of the year so be warned! It will guarantee some wake up calls/results!
In the Holistic Tarot, they advise reading the spread as follows:
The Signifier (you) is in the center of the shoe.
Card 1 (The Catalyst): placed ABOVE the Signifier Card also in the center
To the Left of Center: Cards 2, 4 and 6 are laid out with 6 being the end of the shoe.
2: Near Future (next 3 months) 4: Present Outlook 6: Recent Past
To the Right of Center: 3, 5, and 7 are laid out with 7 on the end of the shoe.
3: Setting/Environment 5. Hopes/Fears 7. Outcome
To read the spread:
Begin reading the Signifier in the center. Next jump far left at 6, and read 6,4,2.
SKIP 1. You will finish with that card.
Continue over to 3, 5 and 7 and read in that order.
When you have concluded, go back to the center and finish with card one.
If you try it, let me know how it was for you!
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