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January: The Month According to Tarot

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January tarot reading
Soul Cards by Kristine Fredheim
Image by Victoria Constantino

As we begin a new year with a clean slate and set intentions for the days ahead, we are supported in our desires. This month sees the seeds we have planted gathering momentum for the manifestation of wonderful opportunities, collaborations, and partnerships. Setting the stage for us to kick off 2023 in the best way possible means preparing energetically, getting clear about what we want, and launching into what comes next from a place of greater harmony and stability. 

Q1: Overall energies of January: King of Pentacles & Ten of Cups

The King of Pentacles, when representing a person, is often someone in a position of power and authority. Here, that figure or energy is offering tremendous fulfillment and joy via the Ten of Cups. This combination can indicate a financial or career opportunity. These energies are indicated throughout the entire month of January, when they will be growing, developing, and gathering momentum for our tremendous benefit and long-lasting success and enjoyment. There is a wonderful opportunity here that may be developing rather quickly. We can support it by strengthening our confidence and self-belief, and by knowing our value and worthiness, expecting only success and continuous improvements for ourselves. 

Q2: Week 1: The Hanged Man

The start of the new year beckons a pause and comes, perhaps, with encouragement to see things from a different perspective. We could benefit from finding new ways of looking at situations and considering different angles, as well as pausing to consider the choices we can make for the year ahead that feel in alignment and that will benefit us in the days to come. Taking time to rest, relax, recharge, and refresh our energies can set a positive tone for the new year. Now is the time to set new intentions and do the inner work of shoring up our belief in our ability to succeed in all we desire. 

Q3: Week 2: Six of Pentacles

Six is a number of harmony and pentacles, representing the material realm, make the Six of Pentacles a card of stability and harmonious influences on the home front and in relationships, career, and finances. We are attracting new opportunities and strengthening our material stability. Relationships may see renewed or deepening commitment, and we may experience strengthening connections all around, we well as overall improved confidence, happiness, inner peace, and stability. Finding a sense of fun and engaging in joy-bringing activities can support positive manifestations and developments this week and beyond. 

Q4: Week 3: Two of Wands

Two elements or forces are coming together. When they unite, they create a synergy that ultimately generates a third, unique aspect. The Two of Wands sometimes indicates collaborations with fruitful  results, whether partnerships with others or with the higher self. We may find ourselves connecting the dots this week in many ways, and we can expect things to fall into place and begin to move forward. We may also be connecting with new ideas that we can bring forward to benefit ourselves and others. Creative collaborations, new projects, and career opportunities may start flowing in now.

Q5: Week 4: Ace of Pentacles

The Ace of Pentacles often indicates a new project or opportunity, as well as a new source of income. Something is on offer, ready and waiting for us to accept it. The new opportunities that the previous weeks have hinted at are coming forward in manifested form now. Expecting them, believing they will come, is a powerful way of ensuring their arrival. New ideas that feel exciting are always worth pursuing, and we can breathe life into them by believing in their success. Even small, consistent efforts we make toward a larger goal add up to something bigger in the long run. Taking time each day to work toward our dreams—writing a bit in the morning or evening on a book or business plan, working on a painting a little each day, taking fifteen minutes daily to visualize ourselves living and experiencing our dreams—means we are adding more momentum to our goals and they are gradually gathering force. 

Q6: Overall guidance for January: Eight of Wands & The Lovers

A beautiful romance or partnership is coming in quickly, fast and hot! Going with the flow and allowing ourselves to experience the exhilaration and pleasure of the experiences that are available to us now is a way of allowing the momentum to gather steam. The guidance now is to not slow down the energies by second guessing or doubting, and to leave anything that is not positive out of the equation completely to ensure the best and most fruitful possible experience. Allowing ourselves to feel completely the exquisite joy we were meant to experience will yield amazing results. This may indicate the love of a lifetime. For those already in committed relationships, a renewal of vows or rekindling of romance may be indicated. This lovely duo can also indicate a very promising and important career or creative opportunity, collaboration, or partnership.

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2023: A Look at the Year Ahead

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2023 Annual Tarot Reading
Soul Cards by Kristine Fredheim
Image by Victoria Constantino

The annual reading is a spread that takes a look at what the year ahead holds by exploring the energies of each month. Fully six of the cards for 2023 are from the Major Arcana, signifying major life changes. Sometimes it’s good to have a reminder that change can be positive, neutral, or negative, and we can choose to embrace or resist it, but going with the flow can make for a smoother ride. There may be a lot of opportunities coming up for us that we don’t want to miss, and some choice points as we figure out where we want to go next. 

January: Four of Pentacles

Where the suit of pentacles represents the material realm—encompassing home, family, career, finances, and material resources—fours represent stability. We may be seeking or finding greater stability this month. This is a great time to expand or start a business, seek new clients, begin a training or educational path, explore investments, purchase a home, change jobs or career, and say yes to new opportunities. Paying close attention to the opportunities that feel resonant can guide us to greater satisfaction and fulfillment. Things are not always what they seem; giving the unexpected a chance can lead us down a happy road.

February: The Magician

You create your own reality and the world is a vast palette with infinite ingredients just waiting for you to mould and shape them into your heart’s desires. Exploring a few questions can lend insight: What are you letting in? What are you blocking or resisting? Finding ways to come into stronger alignment with our innermost self can open the valve, so to speak, to let in more of what we have been asking for. The Magician knows their power and strength, and they expect things to go well for them. Positive beliefs and expectations are powerful and act as magnets that draw to us similar energies and experiences.

March: Nine of Cups

Following on from last month’s Magician, the Nine of Cups indicates fulfillment and an abundance of resources. This may indicate something arriving this month or that is waiting for us to be ready to receive it. Finding things that lift us up and bring us joy, peace, and happiness is a powerful way to reach a place of receptivity. There is a celebratory energy this month that we can tap into. Knowing that we are worthy and deserving of all we desire and believing that the good things we want will happen for us can help align us to their energies and creates a conduit through which they can flow to us. 

April: Eight of Pentacles

The Eight of Pentacles can herald recognition for a job well done and increase coming to us as a result of the work we do, whether creative or career-related. New projects are fruitful and this month may see us reaping the rewards of past efforts. Seeds we planted earlier are sprouting and ready for us to harvest. There is tremendous abundance available to us. Thanks to our focus and determination, and our commitment to the task at hand, wonderful opportunities are arriving. Remembering that alignment is more powerful than hard work can serve us well this month. It is through our connection to our higher self that we can receive inspired action, which is the most powerful action we can take. 

May: Knight of Swords

The first of two knights in a row, the Knight of Swords signifies a fast-moving energy that may bring a message. Wielding his sword, he cuts through anything that is unnecessary. In addition to being the bearer of a message and swift action, he can also represent outside influences that may present a challenge. Our guidance may be to stay the course and to strengthen our focus, knowing that we are always, inevitably, heading toward the destination we have set for ourselves. The only mystery is the path we will take to reach it.

June: Knight of Cups

Another messenger knight, the Knight of Cups can herald change, romance, or travel. This knight is typically associated with immaturity and frivolity and can encourage us to live in the moment, to do what is fun, and to allow ourselves to experience what thrills us. There need not always be strings attached, and in matters of the heart, we may experience something or someone fun and exciting who is not necessarily after commitment or anything long term. Entering new situations with the mindset of enjoying them for what they are without any further expectations can serve us well.

July: Two of Swords

This card often represents a choice point, and the need to look within to make a decision. What is right for us? What will serve us best? Which choice feels better? The suit of swords is associated with thought and the mental realm, but logic isn’t always the best determiner of outcomes. Paying attention to how something makes us feel and going in the direction of what lights us up or just feels better is a way of following our built-in emotional guidance that flows from the higher self. Relaxing and loosening our grip from the problem can allow the solution to arrive.

August: The Tower

Something is ending, and it is good that it does. The tower crumbles because it is not structurally sound; it is no longer safe and cannot support itself or those who wish to enter it. The infrastructure collapses because it is weak. It is time to let go, make our peace with something, and move on. One way of doing this is to focus on the better that we want to see in its place, the stronger, sturdier, stabler structure. The building is the fun part: what do we want it to look like? How will it be improved? How will it serve us? Visualizing the new and aligning with it can help us to move forward in productive ways.

September: Wheel of Fortune

The wheel is turning in our favor. Change, good fortune, and unexpected turns of events are indicated. Something is getting ready to manifest and we may see it come through this month. The universe is always conspiring on our behalf, and it’s time let it in. The path of least resistance is a way universal energies prepare us to move into what we’ve been asking for. Allowing ourselves to go with the flow and letting go of the desire to control outcomes can be just what is needed to allow us to step into that better place and experience the improvement we seek.

October: Ten of Wands reversed

Releasing burdens makes way for the better to arrive. A holdover from August’s tower card, there still may be some brush that needs clearing. This may refer to a cluttered vibration. Where we are holding onto the past or find ourselves remembering the past, we can choose to shift our thoughts, which directly inform our vibrational output, so that we are focusing on the good and anything we can find to appreciate. Imagining ourselves living the life we desire can be a good way of shifting our focus, clearing up our vibration, and bringing us into alignment with what we wish to manifest. Our thoughts inform our reality.

November: Temperance

Temperance is a card of balance, moderation, patience, and inner growth. This card may encourage us to seek ways to foster our inner growth, which informs our outward reality and the experiences we attract. It may also be encouragement to slow down, take more time for ourselves, and allow ourselves the space of quiet moments in which we simply breathe, relax, and be. Profound healing can happen in that space, which is also a place of energetically resetting.

December: The Hermit

This is the time to go within, to integrate some of the wisdom we’ve gained in recent months. Beginning with August’s Tower card, followed by October’s reversed Ten of Wands and last month’s Temperance, we may have experienced major shifts that we would now benefit from processing and integrating in order to find a place of inner peace. Sometimes, it’s a matter of giving ourselves the space to think and process what has transpired so we can make sense of things and clear mental clutter, preparing the way for more productive thinking and improved focus.

Energies of the Year: Justice

Seeking and finding harmony and balance are indicated throughout 2023. This year may see us experiencing tremendous change and growth, and we are advised to seek stability and balance, to stabilize in the positive aspects of our lives and in our growth. This paves the way for more growth and better outcomes, ensuring that the good will last and become even better.

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December: The Month According to Tarot

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December tarot spread featuring the Soul Cards deck by Kristine Fredheim.
Soul Cards by Kristine Fredheim
Image by Victoria Constantino

December is an introspective month, one in which we may find ourselves on a healing journey. We are so very supported by the loving universal energies that are all around us and we’re encouraged to allow that guidance to come through. The cards show us dealing with grief, pain, hurt, loss, or disappointment and working through the emotions to move on and learn what we can from what we’ve experienced. As we shift out of the lower vibrations and move up the emotional scale into a better-feeling place, we find peace, healing, and resolution. This month holds the opportunity for tremendous inner growth and we’re encouraged to do the inner work to allow the powerful transformations to take place within us.

Q1: Overall energies of December: Temperance

Seeking balance, harmony, peace, and resolution is the name of the game this month. We may benefit from moderation and patience. Doing so can promote our inner growth. We are reminded that our outward reality is a reflection of our inner one. 

Q2: Week 1: Nine of Swords

This card says we may be feeling tormented or agonizing over a situation, whether past, present, or future. We are reminded that diamonds are formed under pressure. Through grief and trials, we can transform our pain into something exquisite. For those who are creative, the guidance may be to turn that pain into art. Others may seek to channel this energy into healing and inner transformation. 

Creating, and allowing the creative force to flow through us in whatever way resonates for us, brings forth life-giving energies that also bring us healing and growth. Through the creative process, we may receive deeper understandings and increased awareness—what some may call downloads. Allowing new knowledge to arrive to us can promote our understanding and awareness, paving the way for a better, brighter future. 

Q3: Week 2: Five of Cups

This card encourages us to find a way to move on from loss and disappointment. The Five of Cups often depicts a solitary person, someone who appears to stand alone in their grief and sadness. Five is a number that indicates change and this card encourages us to find things that bring us joy or a break from the ordinary to help us shift the energies. This can help us to shake off the stagnant energies and move up and out of a challenging situation. The next challenge may be to leave behind the past for good, rather than continuing to return to it in our thoughts. The grass is greener where we water it. 

Q4: Week 3: The Hermit

Going within and doing the inner work can help us tremendously after the pain, loss, disappointment, and sadness indicated in the first two weeks of the month. Rather than staying focused on, and therefore giving more energy to, negative feelings, we are guided to find ways to shift the energy. There are many ways to do this, some of them being walks in nature, meditation, journaling, writing, making art, listening to music, playing an instrument, running or physical exercise, or anything that brings you to a flow state. This promotes our healing and provides us with greater clarity and understanding. As we open up to improved feelings, we can find a greater sense of our own value and worthiness and can ground into self love. 

Q5: Week 4: The World

As the last card of the Major Arcana, The World symbolizes completion and fulfillment. We’ve reached the end of the journey that began with The Fool, the first card of the Major Arcana. Inherent in this achievement are mastery and wholeness. In light of the cards for weeks one through three this month, the appearance of The World is significant. It indicates that you’ve done the work and have gone through pain and challenges to reach a place of healing, self knowledge, balance, stability, and self love. You are now ready to enter the next phase of life, greeting it as a better version of yourself and therefore welcoming, in the most fruitful and enriching way, what comes next. 

Q6: Overall guidance for December: Four of Wands

Four is a number of balance and stability, and as we go through challenging and difficult situations, we are guided to find a stable place within ourselves as well as in our external environment. Finding stability and security can bring us a sense of support, which can be crucial when our internal landscape is shifting. Finding a space of your own, a quiet place in which you can journal, create, process, decompress, and just be by yourself can be an important factor in allowing restoration, deep healing, and positive vibrational shifts to take place and to integrate.

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November: The Month According to Tarot

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Tarot spread for November
Soul Cards by Kristine Fredheim
Image by Victoria Constantino

Sixes indicate harmony and balance, and this month is bookended by sixes that indicate the overall energies and our guidance for the month. Like a harmonious gateway, these influences make November a container of time in which experiences and energies are flowing to us that can bring us to greater levels of harmony, both in our external, physical world (the Six of Pentacles) and within (the Six of Cups), which is where harmony begins.

November also contains two aces, the Ace of Cups and the Ace of Wands, pointing to the heart and emotional realm, and to manifestations, the will, and action. Together, they indicate that, through our emotions and the experiencing of joy and the higher emotions, such as appreciation and fun, we can allow our heart’s desires to strengthen, grow, and come into being. Something new is available to us this month, and connections and opportunities are waiting in the wings. Taking our attention off the things that have been slow to come and focusing instead on where we easily find happiness can speed everything up. 

Q1: Overall energies of November: Six of Pentacles

Pentacles are related to the material, physical realm, and this happy card indicates abundance with plenty to share. New opportunities may be on the horizon, and they could look like new clientele flowing in, new ideas, new business and career opportunities, and new partnerships and collaborations. These energies are there and available for us to harness and do with what we will. 

The universe may be calling you to make the most of the wondrous things that are coming your way, and to consider what exciting things you would do if you had plenty of resources—that is, without getting into a headspace of lack or observing what you don’t have. The idea is to keep the focus positive and be in the energy and the feeling place of having, doing, being, living your best and most ideal experience. This magnetizes it to you like nothing else.

Q2: Week 1: Ace of Cups

Cups are linked to the emotional realm and the Ace of Cups indicates new love, joy, and emotional restoration coming through this week. New beginnings are in the offing. Energetically, something new may be transpiring in the realm of the heart, and it may have to do with feeling new love or opening or healing emotionally. 

New, heart-centered connections may be coming into being now or may be in a place of developing energetically. Not trying to rush things and making peace with where you are, trusting that it will come about in the highest and best way possible, can provide the nurturing energies that are key to the healthy growth of the new that’s developing.

Q3: Week 2: Ten of Wands reversed

The upright Ten of Wands is a card indicating heavy burdens; reversed, as it is for this week, it indicates releasing those burdens. It’s time to let go. We may be carrying around energetic and emotional burdens that don’t benefit us. We may not even realize we have been carrying them. This week, our guidance may be to release anything that doesn’t bring us joy or make us feel aligned, and to cut the ties with whatever doesn’t benefit us in some way. This work is individual, and by necessity, the focus must be on the self. 

Considering what relationships, habits, routines, and energies aren’t serving us, we can begin to see what we need to release. Also looking at the mental realm and any self-talk or thoughts that play on repeat that don’t serve us, we may be called this week to revise our internal narrative. It can be helpful to replace each negative thought as we discover it with a more positive one and to monitor our thoughts to catch ourselves in negative patterns of thinking. This card can also indicate that something is on its way out, ready to exit our experience naturally, and we could see this play out in various ways. It’s time to make room for growth.

Q4: Week 3: Ace of Wands

The second ace to come in this month, the Ace of Wands may indicate something new coming about as a result of our intention and will. Taking inspired action from a place of alignment with our truth and higher self, or our inner being, is our ally, this week and beyond. Flowing with the path of least resistance can lead us right to the answers, things, ideas, and experiences we’ve been asking for. 

Believing in our desires is like watering a seed. Expecting them to come is like adding fertilizer to the soil. Ideas can be powerful manifestations. Running with ideas that feel good, inspiring, and exhilarating can lead to great things. We can benefit from choosing only positive expectations for ourselves, and doing so deliberately.

Q5: Week 4: Three of Wands

With the Three of Wands, one plus one equals three. Two forces coming together co-create and through their synergy, create something new. This could indicate a partnership or collaboration that leads to new ideas and manifestations. We may also be considering how best to navigate new relationships, opportunities, ideas, and physical manifestations that have come into our experience. 

Growth and the ways in which you express yourself, such as through music, art, dance, writing, or some other activity, are highlighted now. The message may be that we find alignment through what brings us joy, and we are encouraged to do those things more often, without getting hung up on the outcomes of our endeavors. When we allow pure creativity and inspiration to flow through us unfettered, the outcome is always wonderful.

Q6: Overall guidance for November: Six of Cups

Cups are linked to the emotional realm, and the Six of Cups indicates finding harmony through emotional renewal and restoration. Coming to a place of balance and peace may look different for everyone, as we are all individuals having our own experiences, distinct from one another with needs that are particular to us and us alone. 

This week may show us where we are out of balance or disharmonious with our own energy and intentions. Whatever finding harmony looks like for you, this month is a time to rejuvenate, rest, and restore your energy. This ensures your needs are met and that you are strengthened and brought into your best possible experience. From a place of strength, we can launch into what comes next. 

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October: The Month According to Tarot

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Image of the October tarot spread, including The Star, the Eight of Cups, the King of Pentacles, the Four of Pentacles, the Nine of Pentacles, and the Eight of Pentacles.
Soul Cards by Kristine Fredheim
Image by Victoria Constantino

October is a pentacles-heavy month, ushering in elements of financial abundance and stability. The energies now are supporting us in attaining a more prosperous way of living. Expecting manifestations and replacing outdated notions of greed with the deep knowing that we are all worthy and deserving of living an abundant, successful life of financial freedom makes more room for prosperity to flow into our experience. As Abraham-Hicks says, you cannot get poor enough to make poor people prosperous, but you can lead by example and show others what is possible. The cards say it’s time to live your best life, and bring a reminder that you are so very supported by universal energies that are always conspiring for your success. It’s time to get out of our own way and let the better flow in.

Q1: Overall energies of October: The Star

The Star is a card of hope and a signal of brighter days ahead. It may be time to raise the bar on our expectations for ourselves, as our expectations and beliefs are so very powerful and are a big player in what we allow to flow into our experience. When we doubt something, it cannot come to us but when we expect it, we magnetize it to us. The Star indicates new opportunities and positive developments, which may take place within ourselves, or in our manifest, physical experience—the external world in which we live, work, and play. 

Q2: Week 1: Eight of Cups

The Eight of Cups indicates a turning away. We may be striking off in new directions or setting our intentions that we want to go another route. Whatever we are flowing our energy toward, universal forces are aligning to support us in arranging the components that will allow the new to come into being. So much is being arranged on our behalf, always. We are guided to trust our desires and know that we desire them for a reason, and to remember that we are powerful and can indeed have whatever we wish. As we turn our attention and focus away from what is passing out of our experience and focus instead on what we want to move toward, we are aiding in its manifestation as long as we believe in it. What we focus on grows.

Q3: Week 2: King of Pentacles

The King of Pentacles represents a person at the top of their game, someone who is perhaps seasoned or experienced, maybe a leader or business owner, a figurehead or influential person. When this card represents an energy, it can indicate stability and financial success and rising to new heights. Being that this card is in the pentacles suit, it is especially relevant to our material and financial success and well being, and can indicate promising new business or career endeavors. If you are beginning a new venture, this card is favorable and says go for it! Good things are to come. Knowing this is so solidifies it.

Q4: Week 3: Four of Pentacles

The Four of Pentacles is material stability and success, financial well being, abundance, and prosperity. Being successful is one thing, being stable in it another. When we trust our own ability to be financially and materially stable, this flows more energies of stability to us. This card may come as a reminder that we are fully capable of being financially and materially stable and prosperous. It can also indicate that new opportunities or the acquisition of land or property are coming into our experience. There is a strong element of trust that comes with this card, which asks us to trust ourselves and our ability to succeed and prosper. 

Q5: Week 4: Nine of Pentacles

The Nine of Pentacles is a card of abundant material and financial success, perhaps indicating a windfall, inheritance, or influx of money, property, or resources. Whatever is on its way may be arriving this week or developing in significant ways that are preparing it to arrive into your experience. Whatever is coming, it will be enough to share with others and to enjoy. Soaking up feelings of enjoyment and fun draws prosperity and positive outcomes to us, and this card advises us to remain in those energies and milk them for as long as possible, to feel them for as long and as often as we can. This card says everything you’ve ever wanted is available to you; all you need to do is let it in.

Q6: Guidance for October: Eight of Pentacles

The Eight of Pentacles is guiding us this month to take stock and recognize how far we’ve come. It asks us to look at what we’ve accomplished and to take pride and pleasure in our good work and achievements thus far. Whatever we’ve been working on, we’ve come far and we should be proud of ourselves. Being in these energies brings us more good and allows more accomplishments, achievements, and recognition to flow our way. This can be a key to opening the pathway for us to receive the energies of abundance, financial stability, and prosperity that are so prevalent this month.

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September: The Month According to Tarot

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Soul Cards Tarot by Kristine Fredheim
Image by Victoria Constantino

This month includes its fair share of focus on both the material and the mental. To keep us from getting too heady about things, we’re reminded that it’s good to get out and have fun, to enjoy ourselves and live life, even if only to get out of our own heads for a while. We’re being guided to do the inner work, to be sure, which comes in the form of being more self-aware, paying attention to our thoughts and choosing ones that are more positive, therefore deliberately improving our vibration. We’re also reminded that we’re powerful, we’re worthy, and we’ve got what it takes to achieve our goals. But it’s also good to have fun along the way—in fact, that might be the most important part. 

Q1: Overall energies of September: Four of Pentacles

The Four of Pentacles brings a stable, grounded influence for September, especially in the areas of home, family, relationships, finances, and career. We may be asked to focus on solutions and imagine ourselves in the better circumstances we desire. Supporting those desires with the belief that we are worthy of living our dreams and fully capable of achieving and realizing them is a powerful aid to our manifestations. The Four of Pentacles says stability is imminent and not only possible, but ready and waiting for us to line up with it and receive it. Believing in our stability and happiness can help shore up our vibration.

Q2: Week 1: Six of Wands

Great expectations… This week, victory is at hand. Small and large gains may come in the form of physical manifestations, ideas (which are also manifestations), or vibrational improvements. Our guidance is to look for and nurture an improved mood and a more positive outlook, and expect good results to come flowing in. We can expect to see positive results. Our expectations are powerful, and when our expectations line up with our beliefs, we are capable of creating any set of circumstances and any manifested reality. A powerful aid this week may be to remind ourselves of good things we’ve already manifested. Expect great things to come to you and they will. 

Q3: Week 2: Five of Pentacles

This card can indicate a turning point or change in our material, physical lives. The guidance this week is to stay focused on the solution and forget about the issues and challenges, as those only hold power when we give our attention to them. What we focus on grows. To allow improvements to enter our lives, we’re being encouraged to spend time visualizing ourselves in the state manifested and to vibrationally line up with the energy of what we wish to create. If we want to experience more wealth, we can find the feeling of abundance on any subject. We may be abundant in a certain area, and finding a feeling of appreciating that abundance can help to grease the wheels on all other subjects and allow more abundance of money, positive relationships, opportunities, and anything else we desire to flow to us. This week, the advice is to focus on what’s working and forget the rest. 

Q4: Week 3: Queen of Swords

This queen is all about the power of the mind and guides us to focus on the positive—what serves us, what we desire, what is good. We may be called to use the power of the mind this week to shift our momentum and get it going in a more positive direction. Once we’re vibing or trending in positive directions, it gets easier to stay on a positive wavelength. From there, we can watch things shift around us for the better. It’s all about the energy we hold and the vibration we are projecting out into the universe. 

The Queen of Pentacles is a non-nonsense, clear thinker who knows her own power and is steady in it. This card can also signify that creative ideas are flowing in now in a most potent way. Pay attention to your ideas this week; write them down, but don’t just let them sit and grow stale. Act on them when you get the notion! There is tremendous power in inspired ideas. They are the gifts of the universe, the seeds that hold within them the possibility of great transformation, ideas that can change the world. 

Q5: Week 4: Seven of Swords

The Seven of Swords can signify a shift in thinking. If we have been doing the vibrational work and ensuring we are vibrationally in a good place, we can expect to see a shift in our thinking, focus, and point of attraction. This card can simply indicate the desire to do so. If we wish it, we can live it; if we dream it, we can do it. What we are being, where we are vibrating, magnetizes similar energies to us, thanks to the law of attraction, which states, that which is like unto itself is drawn. We are what we think; we live what we think. The Seven of Swords may urge us to shift our thinking in ways that benefit us and to think more positive thoughts to get more positive momentum going, which in turn improves our vibration and allows us to receive what we have been asking for. 

Q6: Guidance for September: Three of Cups

There is a celebratory, playful, collaborative energy at hand, ready for us to receive and work with, or rather, to enjoy. Positive collaborations may yield fruitful results, whether creative or professional. Our guidance this month is to have fun, to do things that bring us joy and take our minds off of the mental focus that is so prevalent this month. While it’s good to be aware of our thoughts and make the effort to focus in ways that serve us—which often means deliberately choosing thoughts that are more positive—this card also encourages us to lighten up and do things that give us a sense of lightness, freedom, and buoyancy. In moments of fun and laughter, we open the valve for good things to flow in; in that state, everything we have asked for can come to us. The key is to take our minds off of making something happen, to just have fun and let go, to truly enjoy ourselves in the moment. (Read: Fun is important!)

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August: The Month According to Tarot

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Soul Cards by Kristine Fredheim
Image by Victoria Constantino

As the eighth month of the year, August is associated with the energies aligned with the number eight, which, symbolically, is a lemniscate (the infinity symbol) turned on its side. Whatever it means to you, the number eight is filled with potent symbology that may include a reminder of our eternal nature and the infinite progression of things, of time, of change which is constant, and growth, evolution, and abundance. This month, the cards tell a story about trusting ourselves, finding balance and harmony, and letting in what we’ve been asking for, which may require making room by letting go of the old stuff. Some good, old-fashioned self care and fun outings with friends or loved ones may be in order to help us gain perspective over the weeks ahead.

Q1: Overall energies of August: Ten of Pentacles

Tens are often associated with completion and fulfillment. The Ten of Pentacles may indicate financial prosperity and the receiving of abundance and resources. It can also tell of prosperity in business and career as well as fulfillment in areas of life concerning the physical world, which may include relationships and overall life goals.

How to make the most of the energy this month: Because our expectations and beliefs inform our reality to a large extent, expecting things to come our way draws them to us like a magnet. We’re all capable of living abundant, prosperous, fulfilling lives in which we are living our highest manifested reality, and this card says great things are on their way. This month’s guidance is to practice living in the now moment, appreciating yourself and your experience wherever you are and whoever you are now. 

Centering yourself in the moment can help with releasing expectations, blocks, and resistance. Go easy on yourself; if you find yourself veering into lower-vibe energies like worry and fear, catch yourself, stop, and recalibrate. Practicing doing this produces positive results over time and steers your habits of thought and energetic momentum toward the positive, creating new energetic pathways and more beneficial habits and thought patterns, and ultimately, more beneficial outcomes. Reaching a positive critical mass tips the scales toward the positive and manifests what you’ve been asking for, instead of what you’ve been pushing against. Going with the flow can be key.

Q2: Week 1: Six of Pentacles

Associated with harmony, balance, and family, sixes are positive numbers to come up in a spread. This happy card tells of harmony on the home front, of balance and peace in finance, career, and relationships. The Six of Pentacles indicates joy in areas of life associated with the physical world, like money, love, jobs, and relationships. If that’s not looking likely this week, this card is gently steering you toward a mindset of balance and peace and reminding you that you create your own reality through your vibration, which attracts like energies (thanks to the law of attraction, which posits, ‘that which is like unto itself is drawn’). 

How to make the most of the energies this week: Consider where your heart is guiding you. What feels good? Who do you like to be around? What makes your heart sing? Who or what brings you joy? Go there, do that, be with those people. Doing more of what makes you happy leads to more positive outcomes in the end. Feeling good is your indication that you’re in alignment with your truth. Sometimes following your heart means tuning out distractions, going against the grain, and ignoring the often well-meaning advice of others. 

Q3: Week 2: Ten of Wands reversed

It’s time to release your burdens. The weight you’ve carried is unnecessary and most of the time, you never needed to carry it anyway. But we don’t always know the extent of our own burdens or how to let them go. Sometimes we’ve carried them for so long it feels like they’re part of us. Though the weight we’ve carried may have made us strong, we may have forgotten we’ve been carrying that heavy load; maybe we hardly even feel it anymore. But we don’t have to carry it any longer. We’re lighter without it, for sure, and more free—more able to be ourselves, unfettered and lighthearted.

How to make the most of the energies this week: Coming back to your truth, who you really are, your core essence of self, may be of the greatest importance this week and beyond. Though the journey may begin here, the full unfolding is often a process that takes time. This card’s message is to be gentle with yourself. Love yourself enough to let go of what doesn’t serve you. Loving yourself unconditionally is a powerful way to forgive yourself. Trust yourself and who you are now. Breathe. Relax. Flow. Know that you’re powerful, you’re amazing, and you’ve got this.

Q4: Week 3: Knight of Swords

Knights are often messengers and swords are associated with the element of air and the realm of thought. A new message or idea may be trying to make its way to you now. This could be a creative or intellectual idea or concept, such as a business idea, plan, or development. There may be an offer or opportunity awaiting you. If you work with ancestors or guides, they could be urging or encouraging you to take some action. This knight represents a quickly moving energy that is coming in strong and coming in fast. Whatever or whoever it is, it’s headed your way with sure and swift momentum.

How to make the most of the energies this week: Keep your energy shields up and protect your boundaries, as this card can sometimes indicate someone on the offensive. When it comes to acting on ideas and taking action, aligned action—which comes from a place of alignment with the higher self or inner being—is the most fruitful kind of action. Action for its own sake is like stabbing in the dark and hoping to spear an apple. Flowing where your emotions guide you can allow your mind to be the powerful receiver it is meant to be.

Q5: Week 4: Ace of Wands

Where wands are associated with the will, passion, intention, and manifestation, aces bring new beginnings. The Ace of Wands heralds new beginnings, opportunities, and perhaps job offers. Rekindling romance or sparking a new flame is indicated. You may be experiencing a rebirth or transformation of some kind. Allowing the new to flow to you without doubting it or pushing it away ensures you can receive more of what you’ve been asking for, but be aware: it may not arrive in the ways you expected it to. 

How to make the most of the energies this week: Remaining open to possibilities you may not have considered before can open the right kinds of doors. You may feel inspired, confident, ambitious, and spontaneous this week—go with it! Allow yourself to have fun and branch out; explore new terrain and embrace the unknown. If you’re a job seeker, put yourself out there and apply for new opportunities that feel aligned. Similarly, if you’re looking for romance, allow yourself to be found, whether that means joining a new platform or joining groups of like-minded folks in your area.

Q6: Guidance for August: Two of Pentacles

Balance, focus, choices, decisions… These are the focal points of the Two of Pentacles, and it’s what we’re being guided toward this month. When the path is unclear, we can tune into our guidance and trust the options that feel good rather than the logical decision, as our emotional guidance will never steer us wrong. When life feels like a balancing act, it may be good to take a time-out to gain perspective on what’s really important, on what can stay and what can go. This card can sometimes ask us to recalibrate and consider what is more deserving of our attention, to set priorities and choose where we spend our time.

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July: The Month According to Tarot

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Soul Cards Tarot by Kristine Fredheim
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The presence of so many major arcana cards in this month’s reading signifies major change and developments on the horizon. Something is transforming beneath the surface, or more accurately, in the energetic, and is preparing to make its way into the physical. Week four of July looks especially promising for manifestations, with the Eight of Wands signifying powerful momentum and rapid forward movement. With Strength coming in as the card signifying this month’s energies, we’re reminded that we have what it takes to move through this period successfully. We can call on our inner strength to prepare ourselves mentally and emotionally for the change that lies ahead.

Q1: Overall energies of July: Strength

If nothing is certain but change, this beautiful card gives us reassurance that we’ve got what it takes  to not only get through it, but to ride the wave and come out on top. Change can be positive, neutral, or negative, depending on how we view it, but even when things may not look as we had hoped or expected, we have the ability to choose how we are calibrated through it all. The Strength card reminds us that we’re powerful and our greatest strength is within. It can also appear when we reach certain milestones that we could not have otherwise achieved were it not for our strength, persistence, and tenacity. 

Q2: Week 1: The High Priestess

This enigmatic card guides us to the feminine power within. The High Priestess may ask us to consider what is hidden within, what is preparing to come forth, and what remains unseen, the catalyst behind our motivations. Our inner life may be in focus this week, and that can include the way we approach things, as well as our creativity, imagination, and spirituality. Our intuition may be heightened now and we could benefit from considering where it is guiding us before heading off in new directions or making significant choices. Our emotions may be trying to tell us something.

Q3: Week 2: The Moon

Coinciding beautifully with this week’s full moon, The Moon card may ask us to pay attention to how the full moon’s energies are affecting us. The sister card of The High Priestess, The Moon is also closely aligned with the hidden, the subconscious, and what some may think of as the shadow side. This week, our intuition may be guiding us toward something; our inner being or higher self may have a message for us in the form of wisdom, guidance, or images that flicker across the mind’s screen in quiet moments. The Moon may cast its light on secrets and mysteries. This week could find us separating truth from illusion as we attempt to figure out what is real and get to the core truth of the matters at hand.

Q4: Week 3: Temperance

Temperance is a card of balance, cooperation, harmony, and patience. This week, we may benefit from considering where we could use more balance in our lives. Something may be reaching a point of resolution and we could find ourselves easily untangling knots that previously, were not so easily unraveled. Patience serves us well now and we may find it more easier than ever to breathe deeply into a space of quiet peace and strength and call on our wellspring of patient reserves. In peace, the path will reveal itself. In harmony, we find resolution. We may discover great healing available in the quiet knowing that all is well and in discovering the well-being that is at the center of who we are. 

Q5: Week 4: Eight of Wands

The pace picks up now as fast-moving energy makes itself known. Energy is gaining momentum, gathering behind the scenes and building on what is growing, aiding the development of new manifestations. Energies are continuing to gather throughout the week as they prepare to make themselves known in some form or another. Expect new opportunities, change, and rapid developments. When faced with choice points, our inner guidance steers us toward what feels good, which is where we find resonance with our truth. 

Q6: Guidance for July: Seven of Cups

This card says dream big—there are no limits to what you can be, do, or achieve. The message this week is that what you focus on grows. The Seven of Cups may guide us to be mindful of what we give our energy and attention to and arrives as a reminder that we create our own reality. Backing up our desires with beliefs that we can have what we want, and supporting those wishes with the expectation that they are manifesting and will be ours, can be the powerful catalysts that help give powerful momentum to the change we seek to create. The universe is powerfully supporting us in manifesting our desires.

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June: The Month According to Tarot

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Soul Cards Tarot by Kristine Fredheim
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The cards for this month indicate change that may be coming via endings and new opportunities. It’s time for a freshening of energy and for building new creations. June, as the sixth month of the year, is a time of balancing and harmony—energies that align with the number six. Endings, change, and new beginnings are arriving to bring greater stability and improved ways of living, being, doing, and thinking. New approaches and ideas may make themselves known to us this week, and we are guided to flow with the energies that feel best to us, as that is the stream where we will find our truest alignment.

Q1: The June energy: Strength

This card says we have what it takes to succeed. Strength can arrive like a pat on the back, congratulating us for getting to where we are now. This card can also appear as encouragement reminding us of our ability to thrive, succeed, and rise above, and it can arrive when we may need to call on that strength, the strength we have built up ourselves through our lived and emotional experiences. The Strength card is associated with the number eight, which is the infinity symbol turned on its side and a reminder of our eternal nature. 

As infinite, divine beings, we are always only ever at one point on a timeline that goes onward forever. We are always growing, expanding, and moving forward, and our power—our strength—is in every now moment. We can recalibrate our vibration anew at any time by remembering that our power is in the now and stopping to ask ourselves: Where am I now vibrationally? Where do I want to be? What can I do to improve my experience right now? Finding our inner strength, that deep reservoir within of calm and alignment with our truth, our divine nature, allows us to move forward from a place of confidence and stability.

Q2: Week 1: The Wheel of Fortune

Traditionally, this card signals good fortune and positive turns of events. Something welcome and much anticipated may be manifesting or evolving in a significant way. Fresh opportunities and positive new connections could be coming about this week. Things could be turning around in a favorable way. With the revolution of the wheel comes the closure of a cycle, which could make itself known now or may be developing unseen in the nonphysical. The Wheel of Fortune is associated with the number ten, which signifies completion.

Q3: Week 2: Ace of Pentacles

Ones herald new beginnings, manifestations, and opportunities. The Ace is a fitting card to receive on the heels of last week’s ten. Something new is making itself known and could be associated with a new cycle. The suit of Pentacles is connected with earthly, conscious, physical manifestations, outcomes, experiences, relationships, and situations. Pentacles especially align with abundance, prosperity, and material possessions, including money and other resources. They are also commonly associated with a means of earning income, such as a business or career. New pathways are being created that have the potential to lead us in new directions.

Q4: Week 3: Death

Something is ending. With the cards of the previous two weeks, The Wheel of Fortune brought something energetically to a close, making room for what the Ace of Pentacles ushered in. This progression of events has allowed something to finally and completely make its transition out of our experience. We may need to do what is needed this week to finally let go of whatever has left. If what has exited is not readily apparent, taking time to breathe deeply, quiet the mind, and spend time in nature can help us to release any energies that it is healthy for us to release. This clearing makes room for the new to fully enter and integrate vibrationally into our experience.

Q5: Week 4: Queen of Swords

The Queen of Swords urges us to cut through the noise and clear out what doesn’t belong, what doesn’t serve, and what doesn’t matter. This can include anything from the past we’re still holding onto, whether emotions, energies, or situations that it’s time to move on from. She urges us to get clear on where we want to go, strengthen our focus, and trust that we have what it takes to succeed in our chosen path. 

This card can also encourage us to make changes to our lifestyle or habits that aren’t serving us in order to clear the way for a new, better path. With the changes indicated by the previous weeks, this queen could be urging us to do what it takes to find stability in the new path we are walking. We could do this through using our mental focus and inner strength to create something amazing and transform the new into something that will last and that will serve us well for a long while to come.

Q6: Overall guidance for June: Page of Swords

The cards of this month indicate change, especially endings and new beginnings. Like the Page of Swords, we may be using our wits, skill, knowledge, and intellect to navigate the new. We may be finding new ways of doing things, testing out methods, honing our abilities, and discovering new processes through trial and error. 

Ultimately, the suit of Swords, which is present this month with the Queen of Swords and with this page, is a suit of the mind and the intellect. Where the Queen is skilled at figuring things out and has a lifetime of experience as a problem-solver, the page arrives to remind us that we all start somewhere. Trusting ourselves and building confidence may be the name of the game now, especially as we are finding our footing on new paths.

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May: The Month According to Tarot

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Soul Cards Tarot by Kristine Fredheim
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The month of May has a strong focus on manifestation and the cards are guiding our attention to our vibrational output via our thoughts, focus, beliefs, and expectations. May is the fifth month of the year and the number five is all about change. The guidance for the month arrives to us via the Five of Pentacles, which asks us, in this context, to consider how we are thinking about our lives on the material plane; we may benefit from making changes to what we are focusing on in order to improve the manifested outcomes. You’ve got this, reminds The Magician; you have all the tools you need to create whatever you want. 

Q1: Overall energies of May: The Magician

The Magician comes in with a reminder that we create our realities. We get to mould and shape outcomes through what we focus on, believe, and expect. This month, we may become especially aware of our own power as we align with our truth and strengthen our confidence. Life on Earth affords us a great palette from which we can select the ingredients we want to play with and choose what to include in our experience. Knowing—believing—that we can have whatever we ask for brings it to us with surety. 

Q2: Week 1: Nine of Cups

This week, we are encouraged to revel in the feeling of abundance. When we find things to appreciate and spend time appreciating them, we draw to us more of the same. The world is rich with manifestations and experiences to admire and we may benefit from doing more of that, even if only in our daydreams. We get what we focus on, and this week we’re encouraged to choose what we focus on with care. We can decide to allow into our minds, and therefore our vibrations, only what we want to see grow.

Q3: Week 2: Knight of Swords

The Knight of Swords is a man on a mission. He goes after what he wants with single-minded focus. This is a good card to follow the previous two, as it offers encouragement to focus our attention and our thoughts only on what we want. This month is all about manifestation, says The Magician, and we have what it takes to create the change we seek. You can do this! says the knight. While this card seems action-oriented, the best action we can take is inspired action that comes to us when we are vibing high. It’s like they say: consider the source. If the inspired action comes when you’re not feeling so good, it’s better to get into a high-flying place and choose from there.

Q4: Week 3: Queen of Wands

Wands signify the will and manifestation, and this queen is very much in her power. She’s confident and creative, and her abundant life is evidence of her fertility and her ability to create what she desires. Let the mind be a fertile garden, says the queen. Do not let the weeds into your garden. Choose your thoughts with care and go easy on yourself if you falter. Simply pivot to choose thoughts that reflect what you want to focus on when you catch yourself in a place you don’t want to be. Flow and trust yourself. Practice yields improvement.

Q5: Week 4: Justice

The scales will balance. Where something has been off-kilter, it will be set to rights. Where you have made room in your life by clearing out what was old, what needed to go, and what no longer served, the universe will fill with what you are attracting, which is wherever you’re vibrating. Keeping your vibe high will bring to you only what is good and what you have asked for. Abraham-Hicks teaches that, when beliefs and expectations align, manifestations flow in to match them.

Q6: Guidance for May: Five of Pentacles

Five is a number of change and pentacles represent the physical plane, which includes home, career, finance, and any other aspects of the lived experience. The only constant is change, and meanwhile, we get to choose what we focus on. If this card is the guidance for the month, then it may be inviting us to change where we’re focused to improve our vibration. That could mean intentionally shifting our thoughts to the positive and focusing on the solution to activate what is wanted and allow the solutions to flow in. Doing this consistently can be a game changer.