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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. 💛

It’s Giving Mystical — Week of December 26

This week’s episode is an invitation to slow all the way down.

We’re in the liminal days — that strange, potent stretch between Christmas, the Solstice, and the New Year — a time that has long been understood as mythic time, outside the usual rules of productivity, urgency, and linear momentum.

In this episode, Kirsten explores the ancient idea of the 12 Holy Days — the days between December 26 and January 6 — and how they can be used as a powerful contemplative bridge between the year that’s ending and the one that’s forming.

Rather than rushing toward 2026, this is a call to stay with your life.

• Why 2025 isn’t over yet — and why wishing time away robs us of magic

• How the 12 Holy Days can be used as a gentle reflection on each month of the past year

• A simple ritual: giving each day to one month (January–December) — honoring what was, and sensing what’s coming

• The feeling of these days as out of time — sacred, strange, and deeply alive

This week’s cards speak to liberation, momentum, and integration.

• Eight of Swords (Reversed) — breaking free from mental confinement, outdated stories, and self-imposed limitations

• Eight of Wands — sudden movement, energy returning, something real taking shape

• Double Eight energy — manifestation, materialization, spirit entering form

• Temperance (appearing twice) — the reminder to pace yourself, to metabolize change rather than burn out on it

• Three & Six of Pentacles — collaboration, reciprocity, and remembering that your liberation lives within community

There’s an electric “I knew it” moment here — vindication, clarity, momentum — paired with a deeper wisdom asking:

How do I hold this energy without losing myself to it?

When energy finally moves after a long contraction, it can feel intoxicating — like anger, desire, or joy cracking something open.

This episode explores:

• How to ride the wave without getting stuck in the charge

• Why emotional highs can sometimes create their own hangovers

• How to come back to center, nourishment, and ground without dimming your aliveness

These final days of the year matter.

They are not filler.
They are not insignificant.
They are not something to “get through.”

There is a gift at the door — and you don’t want to miss it.

As Kirsten reminds us:

The worst thing is not discomfort — it’s numbness.
We’re here to feel, to experience, to stay awake to our lives.

Let this be a week of presence.
Of honoring who you’ve become.
Of staying open to beauty, mystery, and miracle — even now.

✨ Happy Holy Days. Happy Returning Light.
✨ And may you meet the threshold with open hands.

✨ Inside this episode:🃏 The Tarot for the Week:🔥 A Key Theme:🌑 The Deeper Invitation:

This week’s energy meets us at a powerful threshold.

As we move through the final days before the solstice, the tarot and the collective field are asking us to slow down, soften, and trust what’s quietly taking shape beneath the surface. What you thought you were working with at the beginning of the month may look similar but different now—because you are different.

We reflect on the King of Cups energy behind us, inviting emotional depth, honesty, and sovereignty as we learn to swim in deeper waters without losing ourselves. There’s a remembering here: I know who I am. I can be here, even when the terrain is unfamiliar.

This episode explores:

• The solstice as a time of untethering, quiet, and deep sensitivity

• Why this season asks for tenderness instead of performance

• The fertile void of a 9-year cycle ending—when identity dissolves and curiosity returns

• What it means to sit in emptiness without rushing to fill it

• The pressure building inside you—and why it’s not meant to be released prematurely

• Finding pleasure even in yearning, discomfort, and ache

Tarot for the Week
We pull the Two of Pentacles (reversed), signaling the end of limbo and false busyness. You’re done juggling what no longer deserves your energy.

Supporting cards:

• Ten of Swords — it’s truly over; there’s no life left in the old form

• The Tower (reversed) — the shock is settling, the dust is clearing

• Knight / Son of Wands — it’s time to move, follow desire, and choose life

This isn’t about forcing outcomes. It’s about honoring your vitality and allowing desire to guide you—not because it guarantees a result, but because of who you become by moving toward what calls you.

We also speak honestly about:

• Quiet heartbreak without a clear cause

• The complexity of the holidays—light and loneliness coexisting

• The necessity of art, connection, and truth as anchors in human life

• Letting truth transform you, even when it’s tender

As the light begins to return, you’re invited into a simple solstice ritual:
“As the light returns, so does this…”
Name what you’re calling back to yourself.

Be gentle. Float when you need to. Let the system re-organize itself.

You are not broken.
You are becoming.

Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah—however you mark this turning of the wheel.
I love you, and I’ll talk to you soon. ✨

Hello, my beautiful travelers.

This week’s episode of It’s Giving Mystical arrives straight from the portal of 12/12—Hangman month, Hangman day, Hermit year. A whole council of initiatory energies gathering at once… and we’re walking right into the depths with them.

Fresh off a massive Jaguar medicine initiation, I’m slightly spun, deeply grateful, and wildly in the in-between. So if I sound a little cosmic, just know: the medicine is medicining.

This week, the King of Cups / Shaman of Cups rises as our guide, pulling us from last week’s spark of Page of Wands desire into the emotional deep end—an initiation into the waters we want to swim in but might not yet feel fully at home in.

Inside this episode, we explore:

✨ Why 12/12 doubles down on Hangman + Hermit energy
✨ The shift from fire (Page of Wands) to water (King of Cups)
✨ What it means to navigate terrain where you don’t have home-field advantage
✨ Healthy respect for depth, emotion, and the unknown
✨ Whale medicine, hot springs, sovereignty, siren calls, and the ocean that will eventually have its way
✨ The difference between “Queen of Cups immersion” and “King of Cups mastery while trembling a little”
✨ Why emotional depth this week feels equal parts yearning and oh shit
✨ How resisting the waters creates more discomfort than answering their call
✨ The quiet initiation that comes from holding both sovereignty and surrender at the same time

Think of this week as an invitation into the kind of depth that cracks something open—not in a destructive way, but in a liberating one. The waters are rising. Something wants to be revealed. And you actually can navigate it… even if you feel like the away team.

This episode is a mix of tarot, shamanic insight, ocean metaphors, and honest post-Jaguar wobbliness. It’s tender. It’s powerful. And it’s definitely a ride.

Dive in, gorgeous.
Love you. 💙🌀

This week’s episode arrives on the heels of that wild Gemini Full Moon — jittery, electric, disorienting in the body, clarifying in the mind. If you’ve felt unsettled, sleepless, or like your system was being rewired… you weren’t imagining it. Something real has been clearing out, and as you land into this week, the ground beneath you is stabilizing.

We’re moving through an ending that is not cute or symbolic, but earned — the kind where you exhale and think, holy sht… we made it.*
Two cards are walking with us through December: XII The Hanged One and XXI The World, echoing that powerful 12–21 portal and the long arc of transformation since December 2021. Time has bent these last few years; we’ve moved through a maze, a gauntlet, a spiritual compression chamber… and we’re not the same.

This month offers two things at once:
✨ The final shedding of a 9-year cycle
✨ The prep work for the fire-horse energy of 2026

You have all the pieces — but December rearranges them into a completely new picture.

And for the week ahead?
We’re in the energy of the Daughter (Page) of Wands. 🔥

She’s the spark-tender. The first breath of inspiration. The raw-faced enthusiasm before self-consciousness sets in. This is your permission to:

• Let your freak flag fly

• Follow what turns you on

• Be a little wild, a little free

• Express without monitoring yourself

• Run toward the things that make you feel alive

There’s contagious joy in this card — cranes overhead, freedom in motion, the sense of “YES, this is what my body has been wanting.”

Let yourself surprise yourself.
Let yourself feel good.
Let yourself be seen in your fire.

We close with a blessing for the week and a peek into what’s coming next as Kirsten steps into Jaguar medicine — the West direction of the Shamanic wheel: shadow, death, tracking, and the liberation that follows.

May this week bring you that delicious feeling of:
Damn. It feels good to be alive. It feels good to be free. It feels good to be in this body. It feels good to be me.

The Hanged Man & The World – December 2025

In this month-ahead episode, we walk straight into the tender, mysterious heart of December 2025 — a 9 year coming to completion — with the Hanged One (XII) and The World (XXI) as our guides.

I share honestly from a very real and raw place: the anniversary of my mom’s passing (12/1/21), the ache of grief in the body, and the strange comfort of numerology, ritual, and mythic time. We talk about how endings don’t just “take something away”… they also quietly reconfigure what’s already here into something wholly new.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• The 9 Year coming to a close
  How 2025 has felt like five years in one and what it means to be in a collective year of endings, release, and karmic completion.

• The Hanged One (12) & The World (21)
  The mirror magic of 12/21, the ouroboros, and why December invites us to see our lives from a new angle using the ingredients we already have.

• Linear time vs. mythic time
  The tension between what’s “actually” happening in 3D and what you know to be true in your bones… and how to stop over-explaining your knowing to people who aren’t seeing what you see (yet).

• Grief, love & the illusion of separation
  The anniversary of my mother’s death, the train-track dream that changed how I hold loss, and why our stories of separation sit inside a deeper circle of never-ending connection.

• Jaguar in the West
  A peek into the next gate of the medicine wheel in Shamanism, the feeling of strapping into a big ride, and what Jaguar medicine might be stirring in you as we close the year.

• You already have what you need
  The branch, the velvet ribbon, the chandelier crystals — and the alchemical magic of recombining the “random” pieces of your life into something surprisingly beautiful.

• Ritual & reflection for December
  Gentle prompts to honor what’s ending, track what’s transformed in you this year, and prepare your heart for the new cycle of 2026 (Horse / 10 / 1 energy).

And of course, we close with tarot + animal spirit messages for every sign — from Sagittarius’ warm, sun-bright fire to Pisces’ invitation to let happiness linger just one beat longer.

This one is for the part of you that feels tender, in-between, and strangely hopeful.
May you feel the circle inside the line, the beginning inside the ending, and trust that you’ve had everything you needed all along. 💫

This week on It’s Giving Mystical, we’re moving through the energetic aftershock of that Scorpio New Moon — and wow… WTF. The cellular activations, the shedding, the quantum reordering? A lot.

(Also: why can’t I drink coffee anymore?? Rude.)

In this episode, we explore how the most mundane moments — a text, a tiny interaction, a micro-blip — can actually function as portals into something much bigger. Spirit loves to use the small doorways to reveal the big stuff, and this week’s energy has been highlighting exactly that.

Let’s talk about why your “outsized reaction” is actually an initiation. Why the boring disruption is medicine. And why your heart might be cracking open in the most unexpected places.

The Wheel of Fortune comes in as a blessing, a turning point, a shift in your favor — and it couldn’t be more aligned.

The Wheel (10) is the same archetype that governs 2026, so what you’re experiencing this week isn’t just a moment… it’s a preview of the energy that will shape the entire year ahead.

Something is turning. Something is opening. Something is aligning.

You softened somewhere you used to armor.

Y ou allowed something you used to defend against.

You said yes — even a little — and the universe is rushing in with more steps toward you than there are grains of sand in time.

We also talk about:

* The strange, holy discomfort of the Scorpio New Moon

* Why tiny things can trigger huge healings

* How to work with your hypervigilance instead of against it

* The magic of giving yourself “one more beat” of joy

* Softening your armor without losing your power

* What it means to enter a cycle of new relational karma

* The Wheel of Fortune + Ten of Cups combo blessing this week

* Ancestor energy, Thanksgiving portals, and a birthday tribute to my beautiful mom

If you’ve been needing a win, the universe is like: I got you, baby.

Stay open to the unexpected doorway it walks through.

Listen now to anchor the energy, claim the blessing, and move into the next chapter with softness, curiosity, and a wide-open heart.

✨ Card of the Week: The Wheel of Fortune