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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 week carries the energy of “the king is dead, long live the queen.”
Not destruction, but transition.
Not loss, but evolution.

Something old—an identity, a struggle, a way of relating to your life—is quietly falling away so something softer, wiser, and more deeply sovereign can take its place.

In this episode we explore the surprising tenderness of the Death card, the fertile power of the Empress, and how the Five of Wands reversed signals that a struggle may be dissolving faster than you expected.

The road may suddenly feel easier.

And when it does, you may realize something beautiful:
the challenge was shaping you the whole time.

We explore:

✨ The Empress & Death together — why this pairing signals a profound but gentle rebirth
✨ “The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen” energy — the shift from old structures of power to something more creative, embodied, and alive
✨ Why you may not fully see how much you’ve changed over the past few years
✨ The surprising compassion inside the Death archetype
✨ Your life as a sacred garden — tending yourself with patience and devotion
✨ Five of Wands reversed — when competition, friction, or conflict suddenly dissolves
✨ Why some challenges exist to sharpen us rather than defeat us
✨ The moment when resistance drops and the path forward becomes easier
✨ Recognizing the quiet pride that comes from growth

Notice where something suddenly feels lighter.

A problem that felt complicated may resolve.
A challenge may soften.
A path that felt blocked may open.

When it does, pause long enough to recognize:

You’re not the same person who began this journey.

Something in you has grown stronger, wiser, and more capable.

And now the garden is ready to bloom.

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And if you want to explore this work more deeply, you can learn about Mystic Rising, my community devoted to living and embodying these archetypal energies together.

Sending you so much love — and a little Friday the 13th magic. 🖤

In this episode:The Invitation for the Week

A March tarot reading guided by The Empress and Death, exploring divine timing, spring awakening, desire, transformation, and the quiet inevitability of what is ready to bloom.

In this episode, Kirsten reflects on the rich, fertile energy of March and the particular medicine of The Empress: abundance, pleasure, creativity, trust, and the refusal to rush what is still ripening. Paired with Death, this month’s reading opens into a deeper conversation about clearing, change, the long work of transformation, and the surprising beauty that can emerge after a difficult season.

This is a reading about learning to trust your own timing. About letting desire expand you without forcing it into form. About allowing life to move at the pace of life. Kirsten explores the difference between urgency and true desire, the way pleasure changes the body, and the possibility that something new is already arriving — even if you cannot fully see it yet.

The episode closes with individual tarot readings for each zodiac sign, beginning at 31:26.

If March has felt full, creative, slow, lush, emotional, or quietly transformative, this reading will meet you there.

This week’s tarot energy is The Queen of Wands—a return of passion, courage, and creative fire after the release of limiting beliefs revealed through The Devil reversed.

If February felt heavy or revealing, this week may bring something different: a spark coming back online. The part of you that remembers you’re here to live.

In this episode, Kirsten reflects on the moment when we suddenly see the invisible rules we’ve been living by—beliefs inherited from childhood, culture, or old versions of ourselves. Once those stories are seen, something shifts.

There is power in witnessing.

There is power in naming what’s true.

And there is deep freedom in realizing you don’t actually have to play by that map anymore.

This week’s energy moves us into Queen of Wands territory—bold, fiery, passionate, and unapologetically alive. She doesn’t worry about being accommodating. She’s not here to shrink. She’s here to live fully while she’s here.

After the heaviness of recent weeks, this energy may show up as:

• a sudden surge of passion or desire
• speaking something out loud you didn’t plan to say
• creative inspiration returning
• anger or truth rising to the surface
• a renewed sense of agency and personal fire

The Queen of Wands reminds us: you’re not dead yet.

And sometimes the medicine for exhaustion isn’t more restraint—it’s a return to aliveness.

There may also be a little “beautiful oops” energy this week. Something spontaneous, messy, or unexpected that ultimately brings more life into the room.

Spring is beginning to whisper again.

The fire is returning.

And the Queen of Wands invites you to step back into your vitality.

• Reflecting on The Devil reversed and the beliefs we didn’t realize were shaping us
• The power of witnessing old stories and inherited rules
• Entering the energy of the Queen of Wands
• Why women are often called “too much” when they stop accommodating
• The return of passion, desire, and creative momentum
• Seven of Swords reversed and truth coming into the open
• The playful, unpredictable magic of “beautiful oops” moments

In this episode

This week’s card is The Devil in Reverse, and it feels like a long exhale.

After weeks of heaviness — the 10 of Wands, the 10 of Swords, that Eight of Swords feeling of “even if I stand up, now what?” — there’s something shifting. Not dramatically. Not loudly. But cleanly.

In this episode, we talk about what it means to loosen the chains.

Where are you taking life too seriously?
Where are you bound by old vows, old habits, old narratives that don’t actually fit anymore?
What are you feeding with your attention?

The Devil reversed doesn’t scold. It doesn’t shame. It simply says: you have more choice than you think.

We explore:
– information overload and nervous system collusion
– the difference between devotion and obligation
– building legacy (10 of Pentacles + Three of Wands) one small daily act at a time
– rewriting commitments without drama
– letting February’s heaviness melt like snow before spring

There’s relief here. There’s clarity. There’s a subtle but powerful shift toward alignment.

You don’t have to carry everything.
You don’t have to participate in every myth.
You don’t have to keep agreeing to what drains you.

The chains are looser than you think.

Let’s cut them gently.

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. ✨