This week’s tarot reading explores major endings, energetic overload, and the discomfort of transition as we move through Fire Horse energy, the Aquarius New Moon, and into Eclipse season.

The cards guiding us:

• 10 of Wands – Carrying too much / Overextension

• 10 of Swords – Final endings / No going back

• 8 of Swords – Uncertainty / Not knowing the next step

• The Hanged Man – Surrender / Holding the pose

This is a week about:

• Letting go of what is already over

• Releasing burdens you no longer need to carry

• Sitting in the in-between without forcing clarity

• Understanding the difference between surrender and stagnation

We are in a Fire Horse year — high action, high intensity, fast momentum. But this week calls for hydration of the nervous system, energetic conservation, and alignment over reaction.

If you feel:

• Stuck but unable to go backward

• Done with something but unclear on what’s next

• Overextended, emotionally or energetically

• Pressured to “move on” before you're ready

This reading is for you.

You are not stuck.
You are in a pause.
And the pause is strategic.

✨ Themes this week:
• Major endings
• Energetic shedding
• Alignment over urgency
• Surrender as strength
• Becoming someone new

Listen if you're navigating:

• A relationship ending

• Career transition

• Identity shift

• Spiritual recalibration

• Post-2025 integration

You don’t have to force forward motion.
The road will reveal itself.

This week’s tarot reading explores the Five of Pentacles, and what it means when themes of scarcity, lack, and emotional isolation surface. This episode offers spiritual guidance on transforming scarcity into abundance, trusting your intuition, and navigating uncertainty through the lens of tarot.

We also explore the influence of The High Priestess and The Hanged Man, and why this is a powerful time for perspective shifts, intuitive awakening, and embodied healing.

The Five of Pentacles is often associated with feeling outside of love, support, or belonging—but this card also reveals how these moments can become profound portals for transformation, resilience, and spiritual growth.

In this episode, we explore:

• The spiritual meaning of the Five of Pentacles tarot card

• How scarcity and abundance live in the body

• Why intuition becomes stronger during uncertain times

• The role of The High Priestess and Hanged Man in perspective shifts

• How to transform lack into creativity, movement, and trust

• Practices to reconnect with your body, intuition, and inner stability

This is a week for compassion, gentleness, and returning to yourself.

Even when you feel outside of certainty, you are not outside of love.

Trust what you know. Trust what is shifting.

This is the weekly energy reading for the week of February 6, 2026.

Alignment over effort & the fire horse awakening.

We have officially crossed a threshold.

With the arrival of the Fire Horse year, Uranus moving direct, and a powerful sequence of transits unfolding throughout February, the energy is accelerating in ways that are tangible, physical, and unmistakable. You may feel it in your body already—that sense that something is waking up, something is thawing, something is ready to move.

This week’s message centers around a profound shift:

Alignment over effort.

The work you did in the past year—what you released, what you healed, what you chose—has already carved the destiny lines you’re now moving along. The Fire Horse doesn’t create the path. It runs on the one that’s already been made.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why effort alone won’t create momentum in 2026—and what actually will

• How to recognize the difference between what’s aligned and what’s simply familiar

• The collective healing around self-acceptance and releasing the idea that you need to “fix” yourself

• The intuitive perception available through the High Priestess and the Hanged Man

• What the Knight of Swords reveals about courage, clarity, and rapid movement this week

• How to stay anchored as destiny accelerates around you

This is a moment of increased speed, clarity, and activation—but not through force.

Through resonance.

Through listening.

Through trusting what feels alive.

The Knight of Swords reminds us that clarity may arrive suddenly—and when it does, you may find yourself moving faster and with more certainty than you thought possible.

Your task isn’t to push harder.

It’s to recognize the clear bell when it rings.

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If this resonates, you may also enjoy:

• February Energy Reading: The High Priestess & The Hanged Man

With love,
Kirsten

A February tarot reading guided by The High Priestess and The Hanged Man, exploring surrender, intuition, stillness, and what it means to trust the Wheel of Fortune year.

In this episode, we explore:

• The High Priestess & The Hanged Man as a paired initiation

• Why February is an input month, not an output month

• Imbolc, the Leo Full Moon & the Wood Snake → Fire Horse transition

• How surrender creates momentum in a Wheel of Fortune year

• Zodiac messages for all 12 signs

This is your month-ahead reading for February—offered as a timeless transmission, so whenever you find it, trust it found you on purpose.

We’re meeting at a potent threshold: the Leo Full Moon, Imbolc (the halfway point between Solstice and Equinox), and the collective pivot from Wood Snake → Fire Horse at the Lunar New Year mid-month. Translation: the terrain is shifting… but February asks you to shift in a surprisingly different way.

This month carries the paradox of a Wheel of Fortune year (movement, currents, acceleration) paired with the deep yin medicine of:

• The High Priestess — receptivity, dream-space, the oracle, “hollow bone” listening

• The Hanged Man — surrender, reversal, perspective shift, purposeful release

Together, they ask for an experiment:
Hold the pose longer. Listen longer. Stay softer longer than you want to.
Not as stagnation—as fertility. As the kind of stillness that moults old layers and reveals what’s actually true underneath.

If February isn’t an “output month,” what is it?

• Let the river carry you (less forcing, more allowing)

• Anchor into “6th house” maintenance: body, home, money, daily rhythm, the basics

• When your mind insists it “knows,” try: “And… I wonder what else.”

• Call in support: guides, guardians, teachers (not to outsource power— to reveal nuance)

You’re not behind. You’re not wasting time.
You’re becoming more essential.

Aquarius — Queen of Swords + Squirrel Spirit
Back in your native clarity. Give yourself permission to be more self-focused than usual.

Pisces — Ace of Pentacles + Antelope Spirit
A small yes becomes a fast-moving blessing. Say yes to what’s easy and aligned.

Aries — Eight of Swords + Elephant Spirit
A familiar stuckness invites a new strategy. Your intuition can guide you even here.

Taurus — King of Wands + Porcupine Spirit
You’re lit up—don’t let old stories clamp down on new aliveness. Stay curious.

Gemini — Seven of Cups + Deer Spirit
Less urgency, more softness. Let the “right cup” find you when you stop scrambling.

Cancer — Two of Swords + Dove Spirit
Don’t rush the dilemma. The binary is likely false. Recede, breathe, let it clarify.

Leo — Hierophant + Hummingbird Spirit
The Beauty Way. Presence as devotion. Let sweetness be a spiritual practice.

Virgo — Queen of Pentacles + Rabbit Spirit
Tend your material world with reverence—body, home, money—and let luck meet you there.

Libra — Two of Pentacles + Turtle Spirit
Step-by-step is the spell. What feels impossible to hold will resolve more easily than expected.

Scorpio — Seven of Wands + Chameleon Spirit
Hold your space without overexplaining. Trust your boundary instincts—act confident until it’s true.

Sagittarius — The Fool + Electric Eel Spirit
A green-light month. Take the risk. Say yes to the new path and see what happens.

Capricorn — Knight of Cups + Panther Spirit
Notice where you dim yourself to “keep” love. The right love celebrates your bigness.

Bottom of the Deck — The Tower + Otter Spirit
Change is afoot… and you’re not alone. It may arrive softly, but it’s real—and it’s liberating.

February’s medicine is simple (not easy):
Surrender past your comfort point—one breath longer—and watch what falls away.

If this episode supported you, share it with someone who needs permission to soften without losing momentum—and come ride the river with me. 💫

The Heart of February: Stillness with MomentumA Practice for the MonthZodiac Messages + CardsClosing Intention

Well… here we are.

A full 22-minute episode recorded beautifully — on mute. 🫠
So consider this version a transmission that wanted to be said twice.

In this week’s episode of It’s Giving Mystical, we’re standing in the liminal space between January and February, closing out the Magician + Justice energy and moving toward the High Priestess and the Hanged Man — all within a Wheel of Fortune year that’s asking us to trust the current of life a little more deeply.

We reflect on last week’s Devil card as a final moment of clarity and choice:

What are you still choosing — and what are you finally ready to release?

From there, we enter the energy of surrender, vertigo, and trust — the feeling of leaning back into the river and letting yourself be carried. This is a month of doing what you’re already doing… but deeper.

The card for the week ahead is the Three of Cups — celebration, community, love, harvest, and remembering that we are not meant to do this alone. This episode explores the sacred role of joy and gathering, especially in times of grief, uncertainty, or collective strain.

Through a deeply personal story about family, loss, memory, and laughter — and reflections on activism, community, and chosen family — this episode is a reminder that:

✨ We are still here
✨ We are still together
✨ And that alone is worth celebrating

The Three of Cups asks us to keep one foot on the dance floor — even when things are hard. Especially when things are hard.

This is an invitation to honor your people, show up for the celebrations that matter, invest in the relationships that sustain you, and remember that joy, music, laughter, and community are not frivolous — they are powerful medicine.

Raise your glass.
Say L’chaim.
We’re still here. And it’s not over yet. 🥂

Aho,
Kirsten 💫

✨ It’s Giving Mystical — The Week of January 23rd ✨

This week’s podcast is an invitation into awakening to love—not just the soft, sweet version, but the kind that cracks us open, tenderizes us, and asks us to stay present with what we feel.

We reflect on last week’s themes of new energy, new channels, and the tension between what we’re maintaining and what we’re becoming. Awakening to love can arrive as delight—rediscovering what lights us up, what our hands and bodies love to do—and it can also arrive as grief, vulnerability, and a deeper sensitivity to harm, fear, and heartbreak.

I share reflections on the Three of Swords as a card of courage and lion-heartedness—how heartbreak, while never something we seek, is part of what makes us available to love, compassion, and brave presence in the world. We explore what it means to stay open without hardening, even when the world feels overwhelming.

This episode includes a deeply personal story about embodiment, boundaries, and learning to stay inside oneself rather than orienting from the outside in—especially as a woman navigating desire, safety, spirituality, and relationship. We talk about how subtle interactions can pull us out of our bodies, and how returning to breath, presence, and self-trust is a radical and necessary practice.

For the week ahead, we work with The Devil card—an exploration of choice, binding, devotion, desire, and the places where we may feel trapped or unconscious. The Devil asks us to look honestly at what we are in service to, where we’ve given away our power, and where reclaiming choice can liberate vitality, pleasure, and integrity. We also touch on embodiment, sexual energy, shadow, and the importance of integrating the spiritual and the material.

With Temperance and the Ten of Wands (Reversed) supporting us, this week offers the possibility of putting something heavy down, rebalancing how we carry our responsibilities, and allowing insight to arrive without overwhelm.

This is a long, winding, heartfelt episode—an offering for those feeling tender, fierce, alive, and in the middle of it all.
You are invited to move slowly, stay in your body, and remember: this too is a gift.

Sending you so much love.
I’ll talk to you very soon. ✨

Hello beautiful people. It’s me, Kirsten, and this is the It’s Giving Mystical podcast—your energetic weather report for the week ahead.

We’re halfway through January now, which means it’s time for a gentle but honest check-in. How are the Magician and Justice moving through your life? Where do you feel momentum—and where do things feel out of sync? This week invites you back to your breath, your intentions, and what you are truly devoted to calling in during this Wheel of Fortune year.

We’re also reflecting on last week’s King of Swords energy. What conversations were stirred? What words were spoken—to you, by you, and within you? Some of these exchanges may have healed. Some may have triggered. All of them mattered. Language is shaping reality right now, so notice how you’re speaking to yourself and the world.

The cards guiding us this week are The Tower (reversed) and the Ace of Cups—a powerful, luminous pairing.

The Tower reminds us that structures—both inner and outer—can only hold so much energy before they must change. But in reverse, this doesn’t feel like collapse. It feels like a gentle flooding, a release of blocked flow, an opening that allows life back into places that have been dry or constricted. The things you have built can no longer contain what your soul is becoming… and that’s a beautiful thing.

Paired with the Ace of Cups, this becomes something extraordinary:
an awakening into love.

Not the “falling” kind, but the remembering kind.
The kind that feels like, “Oh… there you are.”

This could be romantic. It could be familial. It could be spiritual. It could even be a deepening love for yourself. But whatever form it takes, it carries recognition, warmth, and the sense that you are not walking alone.

As we step out of the Hermit year and into the Wheel of Fortune, the universe is asking:
Can you trust what you cultivated in the quiet?
Can you bring your heart into connection now?

Justice reminds us that love is not meant to live in isolation. Love wants to be lived. Shared. Expressed in the world.

So this week, move a little slower. Let the energy settle. Let the heart open. And when you feel that spark of recognition—whether with a person, a path, or a new possibility—trust it.

May you awaken into love.
May your heart feel warm and alive.
May you remember you are not in this alone.

I love you. I’ll see you soon. 💖

Hello beautiful people. It’s me, Kirsten, and this is your It’s Giving Mystical podcast for the week ahead — the week of January 9th (1/9). A powerful threshold.

This is a big week astrologically, with potent alignments already stirring clarity, revelation, and momentum. After last week’s Chariot energy — the inhale before the pounce — we’re now entering the moment where the arrows are released.

The card guiding us? The King of Swords.

This week is about words.
Big words.
Healing words.
Disruptive words.
Truth-telling words.
Words that change the shape of what comes next.

The King of Swords is a translator — a bridge between the spiritual and material worlds. He carries clarity, but he also carries humanity. Unlike the Queen of Swords’ sharp black-and-white decisiveness, the King allows for nuance, context, compassion, and even a little wobble. And that wobble matters.

This is a week for:

• Important conversations

• Speaking before you’re 100% sure

• Listening deeply, even when it’s uncomfortable

• Letting yourself communicate imperfectly

When clarifying cards appeared — The Star, The Tower, The Moon — it became clear:
These conversations are tied to healing, restructuring, and your dreams.
They are determinant. They matter.

You may notice:

• Someone trying to speak to you

• A truth wanting to come through you

• A conversation that feels bigger than it looks

Bring beginner’s mind. (Earthworm energy from the Wild Unknown Animal Deck showed up as a reminder here.) Let yourself try. Let yourself get it a little wrong. There is medicine in the effort.

This is also a reminder that we are in a Wheel of Fortune year. Unlike the effort-heavy 9 year, this year invites revelation. Movement. New environments, new communities, new conversations you couldn’t have planned for.

One of the core practices this week:
✨ The breath.
Notice when you’re holding it — especially in conversation.
Give yourself one full, spacious breath.

That pause?
That’s where quantum leaps happen.
Not by force — but by spaciousness.

You don’t owe anyone immediate answers.
You don’t need to rush.
You are safe to pause.

This is not a Queen of Swords week.
This is a King of Swords week.

Ask yourself:

• What feels true right now?

• How can I best translate that?

• How can I listen with compassion?

• How can I stay present even when it’s awkward?

Let your words be planted in love, humanity, and care — not in cruelty, urgency, or the need to win.

Big words this week.
Be patient with yourself.
Be kind with your language — especially inwardly.
And breathe. Always breathe.

Happy week ahead. 💛

The Magician & Justice: January 2026

All right, hotties. 💋

Welcome to your January 2026 long-form episode — the one you listen to with tea, a blanket, and your nervous system exhaling in real time.

In this episode we drop into the energetic architecture of 2026 as a Wheel of Fortune year (a 10 year) — a year of expansion, destiny winds, right-place-right-time magic, and terrain that moves under your feet (in a good way… mostly). If 2025 felt like deep contraction, shedding, healing, and reworking the foundations, 2026 is where the world starts meeting you again.

• 9 year → 10 year shift: contraction to expansion, consolidation to momentum

• The medicine of the 1 + 0: your Magician clarity + the Universe’s protection (condor wings, baby)

• Why Wheel/Jupiter energy can be so benevolent — and also too much, too fast if you’re not grounded

• How the pace may really pick up mid-February (and why January is your anchoring month)

• “Don’t get carried away” (and also… learn how to ride it)

• The return of your mythic appetite — your hunger for life, beauty, creation, love, experience

• Why January matters (even if people say “the year starts at Aries season”) — the void is fertile, and Capricorn season helps you build what will bloom

Major Arcana theme:

• The Magician (January as a manifestation portal)

• Justice (11) as the next layer: swift movement, rails greased, the pot sweetened
  Together these cards say: you’re all in. And the universe is responding.

Oracle + animal pulls:

• Echinacea Destiny

• Martyr (light attribute: the transcendent desire to serve self and the world)

• Anchor to Fly (safety + freedom can coexist)

• Our Lady Who Sends the Angels (protection + guidance)

• Frog (healing, gentleness, restoration — moisture for the spirit)

We also name the energetic undercurrent: Phoenix / 10 of Swords reversed — fresh eyes, beginner mind, and a clear invitation to not carry last year’s residue into the new terrain.

A quick energetic weather report for each sign:

• Capricorn: Sun + Snake — be your own warmth before you seek it outside

• Aquarius: Queen of Pentacles + Crocodile — quiet stability… and an ancient whisper calling you forward

• Pisces: Death + Lizard — permission to only be in environments that nourish you

• Aries: Lovers + Panther — no more f*cking around; choose what aligns with your fierce heart

• Taurus: Seven of Wands + Frog — protect your healing; take up room for what you need

• Gemini: Two of Swords + Fish — mind vs. feeling; trust the current, don’t overthink the river

• Cancer: Ace of Cups + Swan — love + beauty; make art, write poetry, soften into devotion

• Leo: Knight of Swords + Firefly — inspiration is high; watch burnout and learn modulation

• Virgo: Knight of Wands + Buffalo — passion with grounding; trust your (charming) messiness

• Libra: Judgment + Oyster — a reveal, a pearl, an unexpected truth that becomes treasure

• Scorpio: Four of Cups + Deer — frustration softens with listening; widen perception

• Sagittarius: Chariot + Moth — make moves in the dark; cloak your energy until it’s yours

Ask for what you want.
Believe you’re allowed to have it.
And also: keep an eye on impact — who you’re bringing with you, who you’re building with, where you’re learning you don’t have to do it alone.

This is a building month. A clarifying month. A month where more comes into the field.
And we’re officially entering the Wheel of Fortune terrain — may it be more fun than last year, and may it feel like something we do together.

Talk to you later, friends. Bye. ✨

In this episode, we explore:Tarot + Oracle for JanuaryZodiac mini-readings (Tarot + Animal Spirit)The January invitation

✨ It’s Giving Mystical — Week Ahead | January 2, 2026 ✨

Hello beautiful people.
It’s me, Kirsten, and this is your It’s Giving Mystical podcast for the week ahead.

We are officially stepping into 2026—and we are doing it differently.

This week opens with Wheel of Fortune energy: a turning point, a shifting terrain, a year that wants to take shape in its own way. The 10 reminds us that change is not random—it’s protected, purposeful, and alive with destiny. The Onespeaks to your sacred role as the bridge between heaven and earth. The Zero speaks to divine protection, source energy, and being held as you become.

Together, they whisper:
You are not doing this alone.

This is a generative year.
After the shedding, fatigue, and deep initiations of the nine year, the ten year asks us to build, create, and allow life to meet us halfway.

For this first week of the year, the card guiding us is The Chariot.

Not as force.
Not as hustle.
But as contained power, pleasure, and magnetic pause.

The Chariot reminds us that true momentum comes from alignment—not rushing. From drawing your power inward. From knowing what is meant for you and trusting that nothing aligned will pass you by. This is the inhale before the arrow releases. The stillness before movement. The moment where the universe says, I see you… and I’ll sweeten the pot.

There is something deeply satisfying here.
A sense of recognition.
A sense of being met.
A sense that your intuition was right.

This is not a solitary week.
There is mirroring, communication, allyship, and confirmation.
You may feel seen—by another person, by your community, or by life itself.

As we move toward the Cancer Full Moon, themes of home, care, ambition, and emotional truth may surface—but overall, the energy feels warm, collaborative, and validating. Harmonious. Supportive. Alive with possibility.

Let yourself feel good this week.
Let yourself feel proud.
Let yourself enjoy the turning of the wheel.

You’re all in.
And the universe is responding.

✨
If you feel called, this is a beautiful time to ritualize the year ahead—through tarot, intention-setting, sankalpa work, or simply naming what your heart truly desires.

Here’s to being wide awake for what’s coming.
Here’s to pleasure, power, and momentum.
Here’s to 2026.

I’ll see you soon. 💛