December - Monthly Reading

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Hello my lovely readers! This is a first for me as I don’t usually do monthly readings, but I got inspired to do so recently (maybe it’s that wonderful Jupiter energy ;) ).

I really enjoyed doing this reading, and it’s for anyone who reads this blog (past, present, future). And as an added bonus, I’ve infused Reiki into the reading, so anyone who views this will get a Reiki healing too!

Anyway, enjoy!

RESULTS

Pile 1: Judgement, The Emperor, Ace of Cups Reversed,  6 of Cups, 3 of Pentacles Reversed.

Pile 2: The Devil, Queen of Pentacles, Page of Wands and The Tower Reversed.

Pile 3: King of Pentacles, 2 of Swords, 3 of Cups and 5 of Swords Reversed.

Pile 4: Temperance, King of Swords, Page of Cups, Queen of Cups Reversed, 10 of Cups.

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Discussion

December brings the start of a new consciousness to your life. People all around you will want to assist you, the systems in place to serve you will actually do so. You’ll find help from the government and friends and allies around you.  Internally, you’ll be building a new foundation for you to stand on for the rest of your life. To be honest, this month sounds fantastic, according to the first pile.

According to the second pile, the chains of materialism will be liberated from you. You’ll be able to stand your own ground, holding your own in terms of finance and peace and comfort and safety. So much so that you’ll feel free to start exploring what else is out there for you. With all of this solidity, you’ll feel freer than before. 

Pile three indicates that a change in thinking will also occur. You’ll move from focusing on the negative to focusing on your friends and family around you, those who lift you up and help you enjoy life. However, this pile indicates that you may have to make a decision to focus on the positive, otherwise you could truly end up focusing on the negative.

The fourth piles suggests that if you keep everything in balance, walk the middle path, you’ll be able to handle anything that comes at you with wit and alacrity. There will be pressures on you to withdraw emotionally, but if you are able to keep balance and do lots of self-care, you’ll have an entirely joyous December.

Wow! What a month ahead for my readers! This is all looking wonderful and I truly hope you have a fantastic December.

I’ll be back with more monthly readings next year (maybe even a yearly one too ;) )

If you would like your own personal reading for December, click here.

My tarot decks

When it comes to Tarot, I’m a bit like Ash from Pokemon—gotta catch them all!

Which means I need to use quite a bit of restraint whenever I walk into a crystal shop or when on a tarot forum. As my dad (who initially taught me tarot) keeps saying, I only need one deck.

But, but, but! There are so many pretty decks out there!

So I didn’t write this blog post to gush about all the amazing decks available. I just want to gush about the ones I (currently—more might be in the mail) own.

Now that we’ve established my love of tarot, let’s get into the decks that I use with regularity.

First of all, I’ll talk about the deck that I use the most, the one that I feel the most connection to and the one that I use in the majority of my Reiki healings.

This deck is called the Transparent Tarot and it was created by a Reiki master. As you can see, you lay three or four cards on top of each other and you build a comprehensive picture to answer your question. When I do the One Question Reading, I typically pull 16 cards and put them into four piles each. This helps me get an in-depth understanding of what’s going on and I can give you details that wouldn’t normally come out in a 15 minute reading.

Whenever I use this deck, it gets straight to the point and tells me exactly what I need to know. The feeling I get from this deck is that if there is anything I don’t understand, this is the deck I turn to. It’s also a very spiritual deck and connecting to it gives me a warm and joyous feeling.

If you’d like a reading, click here.

Most of the tarot readings I do is for healing work, so this next deck is really quite special for me. The Medicine Woman Tarot Deck is based on shamanism and is a very grounded in reality. Unlike most decks, where the Pentacles suit representing coins in a world full of online currency, this deck represents Pentacles as a practical journey in starting a jewellery making business.

It’s down-to-earth and lovely.

Now, I believe that if you are to do anything in life, you have to have fun with it (especially spirituality). So these next decks are my ‘fun’ ones. But don’t be turned off by this, they also produce clear and insightful readings.

The first deck is based on my favourite childhood show, Sailor Moon. Using this deck reminds me of a time in my life when I got up early each morning just to watch Sailor Moon. When I’d go to school, all excited about what had happened on that morning’s show and applied the lessons to my life. It solidified my understanding that there was more to life than what the majority told us. It gave me role models to look up to and taught me how to be a better version of myself.

All this childhood joy and learnings come into each of my readings and, like the Fool card, I do the reading with an innocence, no expectations, and am thoroughly delighted by the insightful answers I receive.

The next deck makes my geeky side fangirl. The Zombie Tarot deck is full of surviving a zombie apocalypse in a humorous way and from the perspectives of both zombies and humans, and how, ultimately, we can work together.

Every time I use this deck, I snicker at what’s going on in the cards. From the Fool walking happily into a cemetery full of zombies to the Seven of Swords, where a woman kicks her lover down the stairs into a zombie horde while she escapes, there’s just so much humour in this deck that I can’t gush enough about it.

Again, don’t be fooled by the humorous nature of this deck, it gives insightful and on-point readings every time, with just a bit of laughter to brighten the soul.

The next deck is from the same creator as the Zombie Tarot. This one is called The Housewives Tarot, and before you cringe about the anti-feminist implications of this deck, let me tell you that it takes a more facetious and honest attitude about what it was like to be a housewife in the 1950s. What with The Devil card being a chocolate cake on legs and the Nine of Swords (aka the nightmare card) being the horrible and judgmental mother-in-law, you can see the humour and love that went into creating this deck.

Although, the deck does say it’s for ‘domestic divination’, don’t be fooled, it’s a lot more accurate and insightful than you think ;)

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Inspiration

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The tarot cards which inspire me most.

The first is the Star card. To me, it represents faith in the darkest moments of your life. When everything seems to be going wrong and you can’t see any way out of a terrible situation, if you can find faith, or hope, that will improve your situation, you can find your way out.

This is why I like this card so much, it reminds me that even when things look bleak, there is always a silver lining to every cloud :)

The second card that inspires me is the Sun card. To me, it represents that sense of unbridled joy when you get to the other side of your Dark Night of the Soul. When you’ve just stepped out of your bleakness, and found that light and life are welcoming—celebrating—you, it’s amazing.

You feel like you can be your true self, standing in your power and radiating your joy and love to everyone around you.

These are the cards which inspire me most. What about you? What cards inspire you?

If you would like a tarot reading with me