This Aries full moon has been the first lunar cycle in a while that I lost grasp of. It felt more like remembering I’m 24 not 22. Remembering I live in Los Angeles and not some generic metropolitan city where young people congregate for a TV drama. It feels like a Monday but fresher, maybe a bit bloody, a proper hunter’s moon. Aries in all her fiery ram glory, ready to lunge with little persuasion needed.

I spent the weekend buzzing around, tentative of my quickness given the previous week’s lethargy. We went out dancing like the young folks we are, let our Sunday be slow and sleepy. It was the perfect weekend, rung in by the dawn of an idea.

I am a honeytrap for ideas. It’s probably the cardinal energy in my Cancer sun and moon, always burgeoning but not always closing. My loophole has become attrition, each idea feeding its predecessor. This one gained my trust because of how it attached to me. I entered two states of meditation — initially lying on my back to rest when it first arose, then opening my laptop to put on an incidentally meditative listening session. I entered a flow state I hadn’t visited since the beginning of the year.

Through this state emerged the bones for a workshop, an idea I had been wanting to execute all year but never had an answer for. This workshop would be a meditation on archetypes through the lens of the tarot, using a single card reading to assign each participant their “character” that embodies the current season of their life. Through a series of prompts, participants would confront their feelings around being this character and later create a story for this character’s journey based on their current experiences.

I’ve spent most of this year obsessed with symbols, how we choose them, and how the stories we give a symbol guide us through different phases. I’ve been embracing the way these archetypes return and evolve in meaning, constantly changing just like we do.

I wanted to turn this medition into an easy to follow workshop that could provide both a chance for self-reflection and a space for community. Talking to my friends about these archetypes we’ve identified in our own lives and how they appear to us has been grounding as the world grows more turbulent. It feels like connecting to a universal language that has been here for as long as humans have felt deeply about the world around them.

Combining my love for tarot, the tarot centered gatherings I’ve been conducting this year (one for every season if you’ve been keeping track), and my love for storytelling felt natural. Tarot is storytelling as much as it is a mirror. Why not practice creating our own stories for our lives? We see how powerful of a practice it is with things like personal myths.

If you would like to participate in this workshop, it will be on October 18th at 10 AM PST. We’ll be meeting virtually so more people who resonate with it can participate in this space. That being said, space will be limited to ten participants due to the nature of the workshop.

Registration is on a $25-$35 sliding scale, but if price is the only thing keeping you from it, email [email protected]. I’m willing to discount a few spots to get the right people into this space.

I hope to see you there in about two weeks. I sense it will be very fun and extremely special. Until next time.

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