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The past few months have been filled with closing doors. If you are astrologically inclined, you’ve probably heard once a month that a once-in-a-lifetime transit is occurring, shifting us into a new era. If you’re pattern recognition inclined, you may have noticed that the spring has been a period of major shifting for you and/or many around you. Something is being rebooted, and a new season of life is gearing up to start.

Funnily, this dialogue around chapters can at times feel misleading. It implies that anything in our lives is a clean break, which is simply not true. We are complicated beings that are constantly in motion. New chapters are beginning all the time in small ways. If you’re entering a seemingly new chapter of your life right now or in the near future, remember the things in your life that are remaining stagnant. Remember how those stable things were once new, exciting doors. Embrace the shake-up and the come-down that will follow.

Enough future talk. Let’s see what the cards have to say about the month.

BOTD: Ten of Wands

A slow trudge to the finish line is among us. Have you been overbooking yourself? Maybe carrying baggage that’s no longer yours or was never yours to begin with? It’s time to set it down for good. Where we’re going, there won’t be room for dead weight. This month will be spent figuring out what this extra weight seems to be.

This heaviness may not even be inherently awful but simply inefficient. Imagine having a work bag you carry around. You realize one day that you never read the book that’s always in there, and all the extra “just in case” items would work better sitting in your work locker. I spent a year carrying my lunch in my work bag and struggled with back issues all summer, only to realize this winter that my problems would be solved if I started carrying a lunch bag. My back has been much better since.

Card 1: Queen of Cups

My queen of the deck has returned to bring us into ourselves. This month starts day one with a full moon in Scorpio, which the Queen of Cups is associated with, so pay close attention to what emerges over the first weekend of May. Whatever hidden depths we’re holding, it is not a time for judgment. We’re approaching this with curiosity and care.

About a year ago, I pulled this card during a single-card reading for Substack. During one part of the message, I said: “[The Queen of Cups is] not interested in your games, your stories, your lies and beliefs around what your feelings mean. She just wants your feelings. She wants to sit with them. She wants to hold them. She just wants to hear you. That is what the Queen of Cups is about.”

Card 2: The World

A portal closes shut. The last of what needed confronting has been confronted, and we are stepping through to the other side. We’ve gone through a long but necessary process of requiem to settle into this final hurrah. The World card not only appears at the end of a notable journey, but also when something fated is present. This is a point of closure that couldn’t be avoided.

The World is a very reassuring card to receive. Whatever endings come this month will give a sense of closure. These endings may also not be cut-and-dry finishing points either. More often than not, we are completing cycles. As this ending occurs, a new chapter is on the horizon. When it comes, we will forget the feeling of this closure. Sit in this moment of a journey fulfilled. Try to sense where destiny wants to lead you.

Card 3: The Hanged Man

Last month, the Hanged Man ended the month after a period of frustration. We felt slowed down and had finally succumbed to our lack of control. By the end of this month, the Hanged Man is suspended in the liminal space between old and new. Thematically, the Hanged Man is quite similar to the Fool. They both embrace the unknown and trust a higher power to guide the way. The difference is in their approach—yin versus yang. The Fool is our yang, actively progressing down a new path. The Hanged Man is more yin because the only choice made is not to take further action until the divine intervenes. Instead of hurling ourselves to the other side, we wait for change to actualize in its own timing.

Entering a state of trust that change will come can feel passive and slightly delusional. In fairness, much of the rhetoric around change has a “take the reins of destiny” tone. However, trust is how we learn to get soft and move in ways that the tension of defensiveness would never allow. A state of trust brings ease to the process of moving through the unknown.

Summary:

This month is the last hurrah for a long procession toward the future. There is something that we’re still dragging along that needs to be released. The first part of the month asks us to confront this energy head-on with compassion and openness. This unraveling will be the final piece in closing a long-running cycle. We take a second to enjoy this moment of completion, settling into the space of the new. There is no rush to fill it with our ambitions. We’ve learned to trust that what is meant for us will come in its own timing.

I feel a lot better about this month than I did when I saw that Hanged Man again. If you would like your own personal reading, you can book a session on my website or upgrade to a paid subscription for this newsletter and request a card reading. I’m wishing you all the best as we continue to close out these cycles and prepare space for the new to emerge. Until next time!

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