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A chapter is closing. This week, the  World  arrives—not as an abrupt ending, but as a quiet completion. Something you've been circling, learning, grieving, or becoming has reached its natural conclusion, creating space for an entirely new landscape to emerge. In this episode, we explore why this season isn't asking for more effort, but for deeper alignment. We talk about the intensity of...

Welcome to  Part Two  of the July Monthly Tarot Forecast. After an unexpected Mercury Retrograde recording mishap, these readings arrived twice—and somehow, that feels perfectly aligned with July's medicine. This month isn't about forcing the destination. It's about learning to ride the current. In this episode, I share intuitive tarot and archetypal guidance for: Cancer ♋ Queen of Pe...

The energy shifts this week from the restorative embrace of  The Star  into the electric spark of the  Ace of Wands —but not without resistance. In this episode, we explore why inspiration, desire, creativity and even love can feel both exciting and uncomfortable at the same time. What if the thing you're longing for is already arriving... and the real work is allowing yourself to receive it?...

June asked us to let the tower fall. July asks us to rest. In this first part of the July forecast, we explore the medicine of  The Star  and  The Chariot —two cards that remind us that healing isn't only about effort. Sometimes it's about allowing ourselves to be restored. This month invites us into a deeper trust: trusting that what isn't unfolding may be just as loving as what is, t...

This week’s tarot forecast carries us out of June and toward July with the medicine of  The Star . After the intensity of  The Tower  and the choices of  The Lovers , this week feels like an exhale: a moment of replenishment, recovery, and remembering that you are not doing this alone. In this episode, I explore what it means to let your system recalibrate after a season of high voltage, where you...

When everything feels like too much, what if the answer isn't doing more but putting something down? This week, Kirsten explores the energy of the  Two of Pentacles reversed , alongside the  Devil reversed  and  Emperor reversed , revealing a collective invitation to stop juggling, stop forcing, and reconsider the stories we're carrying about responsibility, achievement, and control. If yo...

Something has shifted. After last week's Death card energy, this week's Nine of Wands invites us into a different relationship with ourselves, our exhaustion, and the stories we've been carrying. What if the collapse wasn't a failure? What if it was simply the completion of a process that no longer needed to continue? In this episode, we explore the house of cards that has fallen a...

This week’s tarot card is  Death —and despite its reputation, this is not a card of endings for the sake of endings. It’s a card of  resurrection . As we continue moving through the powerful Lovers + Tower energy of June, many of us are feeling both intensely full and strangely empty at the same time. The system is expanding. Old structures are straining. Plans are shifting. Desires are intensifyi...

June arrives carrying a powerful invitation: activation. This month brings together two of tarot's most transformative archetypes—The Lovers and The Tower—creating a potent combination of choice, expansion, awakening, and profound personal growth. In this episode, we explore: ✨ The deeper meaning of The Lovers card beyond romance ✨ Why June may feel like a crossroads or fork in the road ✨ The s...

The Queen of Swords arrives this week with one message: get clear. In this episode of the  It’s Giving Mystical  podcast, we explore the energy moving us out of emotional fog, distraction, fantasy, and indecision — and into radical clarity, truth, and self-authority. This is a threshold week. A week for powerful decisions. A week for cutting through the noise and asking: What is actually true for...

Something shifts this week. In this episode of  It’s Giving Mystical , we move from the fiery awakening of the Ace of Wands into the deep reversal energy of The Hanged Man — a card of surrender, truth, attunement, and irreversible perspective shifts. Kirsten explores what happens when the body begins recognizing truth before the mind can explain it. This episode is a meditation on authenticity, de...

The Ace of Wands arrives this week like a spark returning to the body. A remembering. A reawakening. A reminder that you are not done yet. In this episode of  It’s Giving Mystical , we move through the energetic arc from the Ten of Wands to the Seven of Wands and into the life-giving warmth of the Ace of Wands — the tarot card of vitality, desire, inspiration, creativity, sensuality, and renewed l...

There’s something fascinating happening collectively right now… a strange nostalgia for the quiet of quarantine, for sourdough and slow mornings and being forced back into ourselves. In this week’s episode of the It's Giving Mystical, we explore what that longing might actually be pointing toward: the body’s pacing, the sacredness of ordinary life, and the deep human need for space to simply ...

This month feels big. Like… quietly revolutionary. We’re working with the energy of the The Hierophant and The Devil—two archetypes that, on the surface, couldn’t be more opposite. One represents the sacred, the institutional, the “this is the way.” The other holds the body, desire, instinct, the things we’ve been taught to question or even reject. But what I’m seeing for May is something differen...

This week’s energy is a powerful threshold moment... moving out of April and into May, from mid-spring into the beginning of summer, and into a deeply transformative energetic shift. We’re working with the  10 of Wands , and the message is clear: you are being asked to release what you’ve been holding onto… even if it once felt good. This is a week of noticing where you are gripping, carrying, or...

This is a special (and very fun) unedited episode of  It’s Giving Mystical... recorded on Take Your Child to Work Day with a very special guest: my daughter, Lilah. Together, we pull cards for the younger generation... looking at what’s unfolding this week for Gen Z, especially around big decisions, truth coming to light, and the pressure of choosing what’s next. The energy of Judgment leads the c...

Feeling stuck, frustrated, or like nothing is moving? This week’s tarot message explains why and what’s actually unfolding beneath the surface. This episode is a deep dive into the Four of Cups and the subtle but powerful shift from stagnation into movement. We explore the collapse of external authority and the return to your own internal knowing... your body as your compass, your truth as your gu...

This week brings a subtle but powerful shift. With Mars now direct, something in your body is waking back up—your energy, your clarity, your sense of direction. And paired with the Ace of Pentacles, we’re stepping into a moment of receiving… but not in the way you might expect. This isn’t the full picture. This is the seed. In this episode, we explore how to recognize and  honor  what’s being plac...

This week’s energy brings  fast movement, powerful communication, and a surprising amount of misinterpretation —and that’s not a problem, it’s part of the medicine. We’re in an Eight of Wands week, where things are  in motion, messages are flying, and energy is building … but what’s landing isn’t always what was sent. This episode explores: Why communication is inherently imperfect (and why that’s...

This week carries a strange mix of momentum and miscommunication. Even with everything technically moving forward, things may feel… off. Messages missed. Meaning lost in translation. Energy slightly scrambled. And instead of rushing to fix it or assuming the worst, there’s an invitation here: slow down, soften, and give people (and yourself) the benefit of the doubt. Because underneath the noise,...

This month feels big. Like… quietly revolutionary. We’re working with the energy of the The Hierophant and The Devil, two archetypes that, on the surface, couldn’t be more opposite. One represents the sacred, the institutional, the “this is the way.” The other holds the body, desire, instinct, the things we’ve been taught to question or even reject. But what I’m seeing for May is something differe...

April arrives with a powerful invitation: to slow down, take stock, and  choose alignment over urgency . This is a month where the material world (Emperor) meets the mystical (Temperance)… where structure and surrender begin to speak to each other—even if they don’t fully understand one another yet. If you’ve been feeling pressure, overwhelm, or like something is shifting beneath the surface… you’...

This week’s tarot reading points to the  Two of Pentacles —a moment of overwhelm, resource management, and the strange, disorienting feeling of doing everything… and still not quite landing anywhere. If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, emotionally dry, or like you can’t quite “catch up” with your life—this episode names that energy clearly. There’s a deeper invitation here around  self-reliance...

This is your tarot reading for the week ahead, March 20th–27th, working with the  Three of Wands —a card of clarity, self-trust, and stepping into a new chapter after deep emotional clearing. After an intense week of grief, endings, and energetic release surrounding the Pisces New Moon and the astrological New Year, this reading explores what it means to  stand at the edge of your life and choose...

A tarot reading for the week of  March 13–20 , exploring the energy of  The Empress, Death, and the Five of Wands reversed . This episode looks at how deep transformation often happens quietly—and how March may reveal the new life that has been growing beneath the surface. If the past few years have changed you in ways you can’t quite articulate, this reading speaks directly to that feeling. This...