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This week, the Seven of Wands arrives with a simple message: give me a minute.

Something is shifting underneath the surface—old plans, desires, identities, and things that once felt incredibly solid may suddenly feel less certain. Rather than rushing to replace them with a new answer, this week asks us to create enough space to hear what is actually emerging.

We’re talking about:

• The Seven of Wands as permission to pause
• Why something that once felt certain may suddenly feel like a mirage
• Protecting your space without closing yourself off
• Learning what is—and isn’t—worth fighting for
• Boundaries, intimacy, and the Two of Cups
• Why love doesn’t require sacrifice or self-abandonment
• Letting your nervous system set the pace
• The deeper August invitation: don’t force clarity before clarity is ready

Your creativity, sexuality, passion, and life force may be reorganizing themselves right now. You don’t have to understand the transformation while you’re inside it.

Take the time you need. The right relationships, opportunities, and containers won’t require you to abandon your own pace in order to belong.

It’s Giving Mystical is a weekly tarot podcast exploring the cards, archetypes, energy, and invitations shaping the week ahead.

August asks something very different of us.

This month is less about pushing harder and more about learning what true power actually feels like. Together we explore the beautiful tension between Strength and The Moon—between courage and surrender, clarity and mystery, action and trust.

In this episode we explore:

• Why sustainability is the spiritual question of August
• How gentleness can become your greatest source of power
• The deeper meaning of the Strength and Moon cards together
• Why uncertainty isn't a mistake—it's part of the initiation
• Working with your body instead of overriding it
• The medicine of slowing down, protection, and becoming "findable"
• Monthly guidance for every zodiac sign

If you've been craving certainty but life keeps asking for trust, this conversation is for you.

✨ Individual zodiac readings begin at 25:11.

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This week we're working with The Sun, one of the most joyful cards in the Tarot, but maybe not in the way you expect.

After several weeks of Court Cards, we explore how the people around us become mirrors for our own evolution. Which relationships nourish you? Which versions of yourself do different people call forward? And what happens when those dynamics no longer fit?

Then we turn toward The Sun.

Yes, it's a card of vitality, confidence, creativity and life force—but it's also an invitation to respect the intensity of solar energy. In a culture that constantly tells us to push harder, know more and control the outcome, this week's message reminds us that not every path forward is linear.

Sometimes the detour is the path.

Sometimes the Moon knows something the Sun doesn't.

If you've been feeling pressure to figure everything out before eclipse season arrives, this reading offers another possibility: enjoy what is, trust what you can't yet see, and allow life to unfold without forcing every answer.

• Why back-to-back Court Cards point toward relationships
• How other people activate different parts of ourselves
• The deeper meaning of The Sun card
• Solar energy vs. lunar wisdom
• Why detours may be exactly where you're meant to be
• Finding joy without rushing toward certainty
• Trusting the nonlinear path

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In this episode:

The energy has shifted. Can you feel it?

After the intensity of July, this week's reading brings a completely different invitation. Instead of pushing harder, manifesting faster, or trying to figure everything out, August arrives with a softer kind of power.

In this episode, recorded from the Portuguese countryside (dogs barking, ATVs and all), Kirsten explores the tarot energies guiding us into August 2026: Strength, The Moon, and the Page of Cups. Together, these cards remind us that not everything in nature moves in a straight line—and neither do we.

If you've been feeling vulnerable, confused, exhausted, or strangely directionless after the Aquarius Full Moon, this episode is your permission slip to stop forcing the next chapter.

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is soften.

• Why August always carries the medicine of the Strength card
• The deeper meaning of the Moon card during a Wheel of Fortune year
• What this energetic shift means after July's intensity
• Why your life doesn't have to unfold in a straight line
• The wisdom of the Page of Cups and falling back in love with being alive
• Condor Medicine, thermal winds, and learning to stop forcing your path
• How rest, wonder, and creativity become spiritual practices

• Where am I trying to force what wants to unfold naturally?
• What if softness isn't weakness—but wisdom?
• What part of me is asking for rest instead of more effort?
• What am I ready to fall in love with again?

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This week, the Queen of Wands arrives with one clear message: you are allowed to want what you want.

As we continue moving through the healing and restorative energy of The Chariot and The Star, this week's tarot invites us to stop apologizing for our desires and start trusting the quiet confidence of our own fire. Where have you been shrinking to make others comfortable? What pleasure, project, relationship, or dream is asking for a little more courage?

In this episode, we explore:

• Why the Queen of Wands is the perfect card for Leo season
• The difference between magnetism and force
• How Siren energy and the Queen of Wands complement one another
• Why your environment matters more than you think
• The permission to claim more space, joy, and pleasure
• What the reversed Queen of Cups on the bottom of the deck may be asking us to set down

Plus, Kirsten shares a simple reminder that feels especially alive this week:

We're not creating a beautiful life—we're already inside one.

This isn't a week to overthink. It's a week to step into the sun, follow what feels alive, and remember that your desires aren't the problem—they're often the invitation.

✨ Card of the Week: Queen of Wands
🌟 Monthly Cards: The Chariot + The Star

What if this isn't just another week... but the threshold of an entirely new era?

In this week's tarot forecast, we're exploring the powerful transition from The World to The Fool—one of the most profound movements in the tarot. As astrologers point to a rare planetary alignment and the Cancer New Moon continues to echo themes of home, safety, and belonging, the cards invite us to begin again—not from naivety, but from wisdom.

This episode explores:

• Why The Fool isn't reckless—it's deeply trusting
• The sacred relationship between endings and beginnings
• Creating true inner safety before taking the leap
• The symbolism of the Master Number 22
• Christ Consciousness and building a life from the heart
• Why hope is a spiritual practice
• How to stop fearing mistakes and start trusting yourself
• Beginning your next chapter with open eyes and an open heart

Sometimes the greatest act of courage isn't knowing where you're going.

It's being willing to take the first step anyway.

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 the Fire Horse year, balancing powerful yang energy with intentional softness, the medicine of returning to the body, and why your nervous system needs time to acclimate to the life you've already called in.

You'll also hear reflections from my own journey through the shamanic medicine wheel as I prepare to enter Condor initiation, and why altitude adjustment may be the most overlooked part of transformation.

In this episode:

• Why The World represents completion—not perfection
• How to navigate powerful momentum without losing yourself
• Siren medicine and returning to pleasure as life force
• The shift from effort to alignment
• Why your body often changes more slowly than your soul
• Honoring endings so new beginnings have solid ground

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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 Pentacles & The Empty Room
Leo ♌ Nine of Pentacles & The Seed
Virgo ♍ Knight of Swords & Agape
Libra ♎ The Tower & The Kiss
Scorpio ♏ Nine of Wands & The Mirror
Sagittarius ♐ Eight of Swords & The Destroyer
Capricorn ♑ The Hanged Man & The One
Aquarius ♒ Two of Swords & The Castle
Pisces ♓ The Temple & Page of Pentacles
Aries ♈ Four of Swords & The Mother
Taurus ♉ King of Pentacles & The Fault Line
Gemini ♊ Page of Swords & The Stone

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?

We talk about:

• Why July feels like an energetic pivot point
• The Ace of Wands reversed and what it reveals about our relationship to desire
• The hidden ways we limit joy before life does
• The wisdom of "May it be infinite while it lasts."
• Why your body is your most sacred instrument
• Navigating this powerful astrological weekend without fear
• Learning to trust that the Universe is co-creating what's next

This week is an invitation to stay one breath longer with what feels alive.

✨ The universe may be building something even bigger than you can currently imagine.

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, trusting the currents that are already carrying us, and remembering that the universe may be protecting a future that's even more aligned than the one we've imagined.

Inside this episode we explore:

✨ Why July feels like a month of restoration after June's intensity
✨ The surprising question: Why would I want something the universe doesn't want for me?
✨ The deeper meaning of The Star as nourishment, replenishment and being held
✨ The mystery of The Chariot and the power of effortless movement
✨ Cardinal Cancer energy and emotional leadership
✨ The difference between forcing and magnetizing
✨ Human Design "half channels" and mutually beneficial relationships
✨ Why July favors collaboration over isolation
✨ Condor medicine, wu-wei, and riding the thermal winds instead of exhausting yourself
✨ Making room for wishes to arrive by trusting divine timing

If June rearranged your foundations, July helps you settle into what remains—and discover what wants to grow from there.

✨ Individual zodiac readings will be released separately in Part Two. MERCURY RETROGRADE ;)

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