The New Sensitive

Welcome to September's Tarot reading! The theme for September is Open Your Mind to the Truth Around You. With three swords cards, we will definitely be investigating our mind's desperate attempts to protect us with fear-based thinking or catastrophizing, and we'll be asked: Can we leave that old way behind? Can we choose new truths, that we're capable, that we're surrounded by abundance and care, that everything might just be working out for us? Doing this may feel challenging because this kind of fear-based protective thinking has deep ancestral roots for many of us, but the invitation is here in September: Open your mind and eyes. Don't let your mind's automatic thoughts run the show. Choose to see your gifts, light, and worth, all around you.  

• Main card for September: Two of Swords (giving yourself time to see and process your thoughts)
• What do our highest selves, guides and the universe want us to most learn during September?: Nine of Swords (working with fear-based thoughts more productively)
• How will September most feel? Nine of Pentacles (self-worth, abundance, our birthrights)
• What is the most aligned action we can be taking in September for our highest good? Judgement (breaking ancestral trauma/curses/patterns)
• A message of support from our highest selves and spirit guides for September: Six of Swords (you can navigate this transition with care)
• September's animal support card (from Colette Baron Reid’s Animal Spirit Oracle): Turtle spirit (slow and steady wins the race)

If you’re in the DMV/Loudoun County/West Virginia area, I’m launching in-person NEW MOON JOURNAL CIRCLES this September! Come join me for the first one at Studio 101 in Leesburg on Thursday, September 10th, $22. Tarot, journaling, sharing and intention setting in community.

Oh, and PS: I’m dreaming and mulling over a brand-new year-long community offering starting in January…my first live course in ages… all about going after one big, hairy, audacious, it’s never-too-late sort of goal. A big old mix of ritual, community, co-working, spirituality, working with the seasons of the year… Stay tuned - I’m going to be sharing more in October about this!

In this month's Tarot reading, August invites us to tend to the garden that is ourselves. While the energy of the Three of Wands encourages expansion and looking toward new horizons, the deeper message is that sustainable growth begins with self-nourishment. Spirit reminds us to care for our bodies, honor our emotional needs, trust the timing of what's unfolding, and plant intentional seeds that will flourish in months ahead. With Buffalo as our animal guide, we're reminded that when we nurture ourselves with patience and purpose, the abundant universe will provide.

• Main card for August: Three of Wands (expansion, travel)
• What do our highest selves, guides and the universe want us to most learn during August? Queen of Pentacles (self-nourishment)
• How will August most feel? (some impatience, but take care of our garden and trust the process)
• What is the most aligned action we can be taking in August for our highest good? Ace of Cups (be vulnerable, nurture your emotional needs)
• A message of support from our highest selves and spirit guides for August: Ace of Pentacles (plant seeds of purpose and self-care habits)
• August's animal support card (from Colette Baron Reid’s Animal Spirit Oracle): Buffalo ("The abundant universe will provide")

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Ready to deepen into Tarot as a tool to help clarity, boundaries, and decision making in your life? Plus, learn to read for others?! All in a like-minded community where you can share and explore your spirituality in a safe and non-judgmental space? Then come join Catherine for a weekend Tarot & journaling retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains August 21-23! All details here, just a few spots left.
• I'll be starting in-person NEW MOON JOURNAL CIRCLES! In Leesburg in Studio 101, monthly beginning Thursday, September 10th at 7pmET. Link to come!

With two Queens showing up in the reading this month, July asks us to truly to commit to internal self care and internal belief and visions. Particularly, with the Queen of Wands, the question to ask yourself is: “If I were a witch, and could wave my wand to transform any situation as I wanted it to be, what would that look like, and how could I start to bring that into reality?” July looks like a fast month that will also ask us to set boundaries, investigate our thoughts, and not burn out. In Feng Shui, July is peak yang - the most fire energy of the year - and particularly in the year of the Fire Horse, burnout can be a concern. So take good care of yourself, slow down when and where you can, and ride the wave of this month.

Main card for July: Nine of Swords

• What do our highest selves, guides and the universe want us to most learn during July? Queen of Wands
• How will July most feel? Knight of Swords
• What is the most aligned action we can be taking in July for our highest good? Queen of Pentacles
• A message of support from our highest selves and spirit guides for July: Six of Pentacles
• Animal support card (from Colette Baron Reid’s Animal Spirit Oracle): Scarab Beetle (magic works through you)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Ready to deepen into Tarot as a tool to help clarity, boundaries, and decision making in your life? Plus, learn to read for others?! All in a like-minded community where you can share and explore your spirituality in a safe and non-judgmental space? Then come join Catherine for a weekend Tarot & journaling retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains this August! All details here, just a few spots left.
• Join me Tuesday, July 14th, for a workshop inside our Trust the Universe membership: Tarot to get unstuck. I don't know about you, but I feel like a lot of us are more ready to expand, but bogged down in the liminal sticky space of what is done... but we're not sure what's coming next. Just hanging in the void! Cool cool cool. Well, Tarot to the rescue! I'll talk a bit about the Moon and the Hanged Man card, who teach us how to sit in, and grow through the liminal space, show you how to use the cards to cut through the noise, get clear on what's really going on, and find your way forward. We'll also have time to practice reading Tarot for one another! Two hours, $44, cancel anytime, register here.
• Want to get a mini Tarot reading from me in person? I’m doing mini readings on July 12th at Potomac River Interiors in Brunswick, Maryland! Details here (scroll down), only a few openings left.
• I’d love to start doing more Tarot readings for paid subscribers, so don’t forget, if you submit a question (fully anon) here, I may bring it on the podcast, or answer it in a Tarot reading here!

I hate to be on repeat but, as with the last several months and readings, Spirit and your highest selves want you to feel good, receive abundance, take care of your body, have lots of pleasure, take up lots of space and shine your light. Sounds easy - but it’s not. Learning to love yourself, receive abundance, and let life be easy are some of the most challenging spiritual lessons we can learn. But it’s time to step up and own them. Are you ready?

• What do our highest selves, guides and the universe want us to most learn during June 2026? The Empress
• How will June 2026 most feel? The Emperor
• What is the most aligned action we can be taking in June 2026 for our highest good? 9 of Pentacles
• A message of support from our highest selves and spirit guides for June 2026: The Moon
• Animal support for June: (from the Spirit Animal Oracle deck) Koala - “Spirit has a plan”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Come join Catherine for a weekend Tarot & journaling retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains this August! All details here.
• Local western Loudoun/NoVa/DMV friends: come join me and my friend, herbalist Cree Catlett, for Tarot & Tea: A Solstice Ritual on Sunday June 20 from 2–4:30pm, in Leesburg VA.
• I’d love to start doing more Tarot readings for paid subscribers, so don’t forget, if you submit a question (fully anon) here, I may bring it on the podcast, or answer it in a Tarot reading here.

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com, or @catherineandrews on Instagram.

Come join Catherine for a weekend Tarot & journaling retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains this August! Early bird pricing available until May 15, all details here. 

May brings swift movement and energy, with two Knights guiding us, and a call that asks us to step into the potential for joy, and our potential for leadership through our voice and our words. You may feel more clarity - as well as perhaps some impatience - but as long as you align with your authenticity and truth, May will be a beautiful month of growth.

• What do our highest selves, guides and the universe want us to most understand about May 2026? The Moon reversed
• What is the lesson of May 2026? 9 of Cups
• What is the most aligned action we can be taking in May 2026 for our highest good? 7 of Pentacles reversed
• A message of support from our highest selves and spirit guides for May 2026: Knight of Swords
• A message from May's full moon: King of Swords
• Animal support for May: The Otter - you are never alone/presence/friendship (from the Spirit Animal Oracle deck)

I’ll also be doing a Tarot workshop Tuesday, May 12, 7pmET, inside the Trust the Universe membership. We’ll be doing a spread about finding our purpose, and practicing reading for each other, too. $44, cancel anytime.

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com, or @catherineandrews on Instagram.

Come join Catherine for a weekend Tarot & journaling retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains this August! Early bird pricing available until May 15, all details here. 

April seems like a big month (all majors and a Queen court card!), but a month really aimed at helping us uncover our highest good and our highest power, by going inward with incredible self care. It's okay if you feel a bit inner this month, a bit focused on you and not the world around you; this is to help your light eventually shine its brightest, which, as a lightworker, will help the whole world around you.

• What do our highest selves, guides and the universe want us to most understand about April 2026 for our highest good? The Hermit
• What is the lesson of April 2026 for our highest good? Queen of Pentacles
• What is the most aligned action we can be taking in April 2026 for our highest good? The Hierophant
• A message of support from our highest selves and spirit guides for April 2026:  The Sun

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com, or @catherineandrews on Instagram.

March is a month of contradictions. There's energy coming in for authenticity and new habits and embodied behaviors, but you may have to go through some grief, healing and rest to get there. Stay tender and take good care of yourself!

• What do our highest selves, guides and the universe want us to most understand about March 2026 for our highest good? Knight of Wands
• What is the lesson of March 2026 for our highest good? Ace of Pentacles
• What is the most aligned action we can be taking in March 2026 for our highest good? Three of Swords
• A message of support from our highest selves and spirit guides for March 2026: Four of Swords
• The animal energy and wisdom to embody in March 2026 for our highest good: (From the Spirit Animal Oracle Deck): Moth spirit - surrender

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com, or @catherineandrews on Instagram.

Tune in for two short but sweet personal stories that reminded me of this important truth: the universe wants nothing more for us to step into our self-worth, to receive the gifts that are already all around us, and that we will be rewarded for stronger boundaries, too.

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The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com, or @catherineandrews on Instagram.

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This week's episode is about something I call the Good Girl Job identity. It's the way that so many of us — sensitive women, perfectionists, high achievers — have learned, very deeply, to locate our worth inside our work. To be "good" people by having "good" jobs. And how, when our soul starts to outgrow that container, the experience can feel less like a career shift and more like... an identity crisis. A small kind of loss. How do we deal with that? And what comes next?

We're going to move through this gently today. I want to help you understand where this comes from, why it's so hard to release, some steps for beginning to loosen the grip — and I'll also be sharing a little bit about my course, Feng Shui to Quit Your Job, which opens on February 19th, because I think it speaks directly to what we're exploring here.

Ready for help from your home, me, and a community to start making the moves to quit your job?

ENROLL IN FENG SHUI TO QUIT YOUR JOB AND BLOW UP YOUR BIZ

Starts Feb. 19th.

Let Feng Shui consultant and life/biz coach, Catherine Andrews, guide you through a pop-up course and community for the sensitive soul ready to prepare to leave their draining corporate job, and launch their healing, creative or soul-led work.

Over four weeks we'll go over Feng Shui and  manifestation principles guided towards helping you create a plan to leave your job, as well as get you energetically set up to find the next steps to your soul-led work. We'll also go over practical things, like creating a savings plan, regulating through fear, and more. 

The course includes two live two-hour workshops, as well as four weeks of a private online community where you can ask Qs and receive coaching and Feng Shui counsel. Lifetime access to the materials and workshops.

Join Feng Shui to Quit Your Job and Blow Up Your Biz here (pay in full $222 / payment plan) 

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com, or @catherineandrews on Instagram.

Today I'm taking all of your Q&A about quitting your job: the money stuff, the mindset stuff, the health insurance stuff. 

But the reality is this: a lot of this comes down to self-belief, self-worth, and getting out of "I can't" or "I have to" and victim mindset. 

So tune in for all the details as well as a necessary tough love pep talk on why, yes you CAN DO THIS.

Ready for help from your home, me, and a community to start making the moves to quit your job?

ENROLL IN FENG SHUI TO QUIT YOUR JOB AND BLOW UP YOUR BIZ

Starts Feb. 19th.

Let Feng Shui consultant and life/biz coach, Catherine Andrews, guide you through a pop-up course and community for the sensitive soul ready to prepare to leave their draining corporate job, and launch their healing, creative or soul-led work.

Over four weeks we'll go over Feng Shui and  manifestation principles guided towards helping you create a plan to leave your job, as well as get you energetically set up to find the next steps to your soul-led work. We'll also go over practical things, like creating a savings plan, regulating through fear, and more. 

The course includes two live two-hour workshops, as well as four weeks of a private online community where you can ask Qs and receive coaching and Feng Shui counsel. Lifetime access to the materials and workshops.

Join Feng Shui to Quit Your Job and Blow Up Your Biz here (pay in full $222 / payment plan) 

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com, or @catherineandrews on Instagram.