Tarot Reading: Insights as Mercury Retrograde Ends and What You Need to Know
Cards pulled in this reading: Ace of Wands, Six of Pentacles, Eight of Pentacles, The Magician, The Fool, Wheel of Fortune, Seven of Pentacles.
INTRO
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Tarot Reading: Insights as Mercury Retrograde Ends and What You Need to Know
Just spreading the cards out, I'm going to begin to hover my hands over the cards. If you'd like to join me in this practice, please feel free to. Just breathe, close your eyes, whatever it is that you like to do to just connect and tune inward, okay? What do we need to know this week? Not rushing through it, trusting that our teams are guiding us now. Oh, a lot of cards here. Okay, all right, so we have two cards, one card, and then four cards that came together. So let's see what's going on.
So this week, first cards, first card is ooh, Ace of Wands, beautiful. Okay, so new beginnings. If you are watching this the week that it was recorded, today is October 3rd, and Mercury just stationed directly. Now, we still have other planets throughout your grading. There is still lots of stuff going on astrologically, but I find, at least in my own life, that Mercury, like, I feel that retrograde a lot more than the other retrogrades, at least in my conscious mind. It just went direct, yay! And so I feel like Ace of Wands is actually referencing that, kind of like the challenges, the sticky energy, the resistance, is now in the past. So, what do you want to start fresh? What do you want to refocus your energy either back onto, as in a past project that maybe has been paused, or something that's new that you want to begin now? Now, Ace of Wands does not say, you know, dive in headfirst, go for it, like, go, go, go. It's more of this idea and this revisitation of an idea or of a project and letting you know that the energy is on your side to begin again. It doesn't have to be quick, but it just has to be just there, right? The decision, the intention to begin something, whatever that is for you. That could be a project, it could be a mental state, it could be a habit, whatever it is, but this is a great week to start fresh with Ace of Wands.
You also have the interesting Six of Pentacles. Six of Pentacles is all about giving and receiving, and this week, they're asking you, while you are most likely naturally a giver, someone who shares so much of who you are with others, where do you actually need to receive more now? For the past two weeks in our previous videos, we have been doing a lot of work around opening up the heart space and asking for what we need. So maybe you've been doing that, and now it's time to receive it, especially in regards to the new beginnings of the Ace of Wands, right? So whether this is in work, or in relationships, or in personal development, your team is saying you've done the work of energy expulsion, of putting things out there, now is the time to receive back. Yes, so where do you need help again? This question again, where can you ask for help and where can you accept the help that's coming to you? Because it's likely that once you decide on this new beginning, naturally things are going to start flowing to you to help you bring it about. I don't want you second-guessing those things. I want you to accept them with open arms, open heart, with gratitude so that you can actually bring to fruition what it is that you've decided on. Yes, Six of Pentacles. There is a side, like a sidebar with this card that if other people are asking you for things and you have the resources and that are, you know, you're able to help them, feel free to, you know, do that this week, but more so it feels like the previous guidance that we got, more about accepting what is coming to you. Okay, all right, very exciting.
All right, then we have this single card, Eight of Pentacles, keep doing the work. So they did just reference the past two weeks' readings about this heart opening, right? This vulnerability of being seen and showing the world who you are, asking for what you need, declaring for what you want, all of these things. Eight of Pentacles says keep going. This is also in reference to any of that stickiness they mentioned around the retrogrades that have been making you maybe feel like, "Oh my God, I just, I can't do this anymore, like, this is too hard." Eight of Pentacles says, "Don't give up. Don't give up. You're actually almost there. Keep putting in the work." But that's the key with the Eight of Pentacles, it is work, yeah. Manifestation, co-creation, it's not just, "I want this to happen, please let it happen, I'm ready to receive it." It is, but it's also, "I need to do the work in order to make the space then and to create the opportunity for the receiving of the energy." So, your key takeaway with this Eight of Pentacles card is please don't give up, don't stop right. We have new fresh energy now as of literally today. So, please take advantage of that, or if you don't like those words, maybe lean into that and trust that you're almost there, so don't give up, keep going, keep going, keep going, okay, okay.
And then we have these four cards, so we first have The Magician, oh, I love it, I'm gonna come back to it in a moment. The Magician, wow. The Fool, this is beautiful, oh my gosh, all these major cards. Wheel of Fortune and the Seven of Pentacles, okay, I love this, okay, so pretty much this is amazing, okay. I'm gonna, don't get carried away, Frances, come back, come back. The reason I'm so giddy inside to the point of, like, not even being able to focus on this is because if ever there was a week for you to go after your dreams, this is the one, but not to get discouraged if they don't come to fruition now, okay.
So, the Magician says, you can do anything, you have all the resources you need within yourself, around yourself to do whatever you want to do. You have this special Magic Touch that not everyone else in the world has, right? The Magician says that you truly can do anything you want. The guidance with this card, though, it's kind of like a magic spell, right? And you can do anything, you can, you have magic, so you can make anything happen, but you have to follow the spell, you have to follow the recipe. So, the Magician card is saying, you can do it all, you can do whatever you want, but a) what is it, what's the end goal, and b) how are you going to get there, what's the plan, or what are the ingredients, the resources, the steps? Now, write it down, follow it because the Magician energy can oftentimes actually feel really overwhelming. A lot of us are the ones that are like, "I want to do this, and I want to do this, and I want to do that, and I want to do that," and so we have all these big dreams, but it feels really challenging to embark on any of them because we don't have that clear plan. So, to tap into that expansive energy, write down what it is you need to make it happen and then follow that plan you laid out for yourself. Yes, and they're also saying, go for it, take the leap. You don't need to know all of it. So, in regards to the guidance they just gave with the Magician, make the plan that you know to be true now, and then go for it. Or even if you can only get to step two of the plan, right, and let's say there's a big gap between step two and step ten where the completion is, still embark on step one, step two this week.
Maybe not, this is the planning week, right? But when they say still embark, they mean don't let the fact that you don't know the whole thing stop you because The Fool asks you to go for it anyways, right? They're saying this is the yes that you've been waiting for, jump, go for it, yeah. Again, if you're feeling ready this week to do that, please do. Again, we're in that new vibration, energy, um, but somehow, and I, and it's not somehow, it's because of this card here, which I'm gonna get to in a moment, um, you know what? I'm going to rephrase it. It's not don't get started, it's don't get discouraged if you're not getting immediate results, that's what it is, which echoes Ace of Wands, right? Start the journey, but if it's not an overnight result, it doesn't mean that you should be stopping. They're actually asking you to please keep going, keep pushing, as Eight of Pentacles suggests. So, the Magician says, you have it all, but make your plan. The Fool says, go for it. If you don't know the whole plan, that's okay.
This is the yes you've been waiting for, this is a new adventure, embark on the journey with faith and with hope and trust in the universe that you're gonna be okay and they're gonna take care of you because anything can happen, Wheel of Fortune. They're kind of saying, it's kind of that quote, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take," that's kind of the energy of the Wheel of Fortune card right now, is like anything can happen, but if you don't, if you don't go, if you don't jump, if you don't try, nothing's gonna happen for you, right? It sounds a little bit morbid, but that's kind of the energy that's coming through this week, is you, you have everything, go ahead, jump, take the risk because why not you, why not you, right? You're the Magician, you can do anything you want, and the energy within you and surrounding you is on your side. And finally, again, I'm going to explain this card now why I keep saying, and maybe it won't happen overnight, is because of the Seven of Pentacles. Seven of Pentacles says, plant your seeds, right? Now, maybe you're already in the planting seed phase, maybe you've been in that for a while, right? Maybe it's been five years or five months or five days or five weeks, whatever it is, of trying and nurturing your garden and trying to get it to bloom. And they're saying, just wait, you're almost there, right? It doesn't mean just because, if we're talking about a garden, just because there are no blooms, there's no flowers everywhere, does not mean that there's not so much work being done underground. The way that I like to think about this, I live in California near a desert, well, California's a desert, but a desert is very close by, and they have these things in deserts called super blooms where, I think in other landscapes as well, but I find it really moving in a desert because there'll be years and years and years and years of just nothing, and then one year, we'll get a year of rain, and the entire desert blooms into a field of flowers, and I just sit there thinking, gosh, these seeds have been lying dormant under the earth for years, waiting for the perfect time, and the perfect time always comes when the conditions are right. And so, that's what I feel like they're saying this week, start the journey and have patience and trust because when the conditions are exactly right, which they will be as long as you continue on that path you laid out for yourself, you're gonna have your own personal super bloom, yeah. How poetic, wow. Thank you, that is such a beautiful, beautiful way to close this, yeah.
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With gratitude,
Frances
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