Sagittarius New Moon in Temperance: Choose Your Own Magic

12/11/2015

This was the first pic I took of Temperance. I feel like it's soft focus glow is to convey the angelic quality lol.

I’ve been sick this week, & way behind on all the things. I have a variety of chronic illnesses, & as a disabled fat brown femme, sometimes my internalized ableism still gets to me. I’ve done a lot of surviving by “pushing through it.” It can be anything from severe ptsd to not being able to breathe because of asthma to ignoring a flare of sciatica in my body as I walk the first half mile to the trolley stop, knowing there’s another half mile waiting for me once I get off. I knew the New Moon was this week, & I had all these plans (even wrote it in my planner!) so I wouldn’t be last minute writing, but I was just too sick to do it all. I really just want to share this part of my experience, the disabled & crazy parts of me, to gift myself space to take up so I can counteract how my survival so often dictates, “Smaller, Lettie, make yourself smaller.” Deep breath.

I drew this spread three days ago, & it has dutifully waited for me to finish our initial conversation. & while I was prepping to pull the first card, it totally jumped out at me! I was like, Oh, ok, it’s gonna be you! Temperance. That is the theme for this week, as well as for this moon cycle. Temperance is not a card I’ve spent a lot of time with, so it was kinda nice to sit with it & do some research. I actually found out that the correlating zodiac sign for Temperance is Sagittarius, too. Maybe that’s why Temperance was so excited!

The Temperance card depicts a non-binary angel who is practicing the every day alchemy of baking, while balancing so delicately with one foot in water & the other in the air. When this card comes up in a reading, it brings tidings of making sure you center yourself so you can complete long term or bigger goals, that’s why they are “testing the waters” with their toes. The waters that need to be tested can be related to emotion & spiritual matters. For example, are you ready & able to be responsible for your feelings? All of them? Do you all need a rest before continuing on? Are you asking your Ancestors or the Femmeiverse or your Guides for help? Are you sure you aren’t carrying emotional & energetic shit that is not yours? This Sagittarian angel babe is here to make sure your ducks are in a row!

This card also wants you to focus on your every day alchemy. What alchemy? you ask? This angel is demonstrating one of many magics you may or may not practice, the magic of baking; the taking of raw materials & combining them in such a way that the results yield often soft, warm, & yummy results that you can keep for yourself or share with others. Cooking is another magic. Sweeping your house, pouring salt in doorways, brewing teas & tinctures, & talking to your future ancestral self are other every day magics.

Another fun thing I like to do is share magics with friends. I once put together little jars of sea salt, rain water, dried lavender roses from my altar, & ash, & gifted them to femme loved ones. A few weeks ago, a femme friend of mine & I cooked together, all the while laughing & sharing stories, which was a much needed healing magic that reminded me that I can continue to femmeifest an abundance of sweet & sustainable things in my life. These are all important. What kinds of magic are you brewing? Take note, Precious Heart. Tis the season.

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I believe in your magic, pick your own card.

This week's Check in With You card choosing set up is correlating with the New Moon. You know how this goes:

Grounding can be real simple. All it means is being aware of your breath & energy & calling it back to you. Sometimes when someone worries or is thinking of all the things, their energy is sent out & about. This can cause confusion & lack of clarity. To ground for this exercise, you can sit or stand & start noticing your breath. Slowly begin to take deeper, slower breaths. You can relax & close your eyes if that feels ok for you. Now, send your energy through your body & into the ground beneath you. The Earth can totally hold whatever you are sending.Think or feel about your question // situation
Pick card 1 or card 2
If you have a clear question for the cards, great! If you don't, that's great, too! If you can't bring forth a concise question, just hold onto the feelings about your inquiry. Breathe with that intention. The Femmeiverse knows all the details.Scroll down to read about the card you picked. Now pick a card. I trust you know which one is yours.

The card you chose, the card that chose you, because healing in a two-way kinda thing.

1. Seeker of Keys

If you chose this card / this card chose you, you are being asked to take a moment to realize that more options have made themselves available to you. Perhaps this wasn't the case before, & there were only a few of these doors you knew of. But alas, you have struck a match! You now have new illumination & awareness on your side, & more doors, doors that were arguably there before! These doors are yours for the opening.

Seeker of Keys is accompanied by Eight of Keys & Seeker of Bottles, both worthy & generous soothsayers. Eight of Keys is a card that tells you to Go! Go! GO! You have everything you need already, no more prepping for you. The Femmeiverse is also excited for you to go in this new direction, & is showing you with some fireworks, like a going away hurrah! Which direction? you say? Let's go there, with the Seeker of Bottles.

Seeker of Bottles is the real card in charge here, don't be mislead that it came last. This journey began that one time your heart was full, you felt supported, & you let out a long exhale, closed your eyes, & told yourself you could, in fact, have it. You dreamt it, felt for a moment that you could reach right above you & pluck that dream from the ether & actually live it--that dream job that nourishes you back, that creative project that's been simmering in the back of your priorities, that far off place you're spirit's been wanting to visit or grow a new life in.

The Femmeiverse is letting you know that circumstances have changed. Scarcity is not in charge. That ever strong dreamy heart of your is.

Options, options, options!

2. The Instructor

The Instructor foretells --ships that will remind all parties involved that survival was not for naught. Mentorships, where you get to experience learning & sharing! Femmeships, where you can celebrate softness, strength, & magic! Loveships where snuggles, good food, & maybe even orgasms are part of the deal!

& in all of these layers are opportunities to share with each other that hard won wisdom of your survival--the stories you carried even when you'd lost hope anyone would give a fuck, the rituals for connecting with your spirit while in solitude or exile, the scars. Oh, love, the scars. Those scars can breathe now, & be recognized as beautiful burning badges of your brilliance. You will meet someone(s) who can hold this space with you, & healing is inevitable. I feel like Seven of Bones is part of this. Seven of Bones, which is typically about root loss, the kind of loss you have no control over, is coming along for the ride because these new --ships can also be about root healing.

& Nine of Keys says that this was not your first choice, understandably, as this was the only hoop on fire! While you may be adept at maneuvering hoops & such, the one on fire is rarely first pick. Sometimes you gotta exhaust all the other seemingly less disastrous options before you are ready for the one that burns in your name. & you are. These flames can't hurt you now. Let them remind you of the warmth you are bringing back to your body as you come back to life!

We never survive alone.

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