Greetings, gremlins, and welcome to our first proper card pull for the month of July!

As it's a new month, it's time to switch up decks, and we're bringing my beloved Believe in Your Own Magic oracle deck out for this month. I'm doing this for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's generally a very good deck for vibe checks, which a lot of my weekly readings tend to be. The second is because of the way some things have sort of shaken out over the course of last week here in the United States. Now more than ever, I feel like it's important for us to focus on what we can do for ourselves and the energy we can bring to things moving forward.

While tarot can absolutely be good for this, I felt like we could all use a bit more encouragement going forward this month.

Now, as always, before we get to this week's reading, please make sure you are all nice and cozy before you continue reading this post. This is not necessarily a reflection of what card will be drawn. In fact, I'm typing this bit before I've even drawn a card. However, I find that coziness helps put me in a better space to receive whatever message the cards may have for me.

Also, please remember that this is a general reading for the collective. It might resonate with you or it might not, and that's fine. Take what you need from this or don't. It's entirely your choice.

Now that we've gone through our reading preamble, let's get into our card for the week and answer our usual question: "What do my followers need to keep in mind to live their best lives this week?"

Our answer comes in the form of Mural, reminding us that we're allowed to be our own first priority sometimes.

It's so easy for us to get bogged down in the chaos of everything or putting other people's needs ahead of our own that we often neglect ourselves. While there is a time and a place for this and sometimes that's absolutely necessary, doing that doesn't allow us that much time to breathe or even tend to our own needs.

Remember, you're important, too. You're not a secondary character in your own story. You're the main character. It's okay to put yourself first sometimes. Besides, if your own energy is depleted, how can you give it to someone else? People cannot possibly run on empty, my dear gremlins.

So this week, make yourself the priority. Work on replenishing your own energy reserves before moving on to someone else. You are more than worth it.

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Greetings, gremlins, and welcome to our first card reading for the month of June! And by pure coincidence, this reading happens to correspond with the first of the month! Isn't that fun? I feel like that doesn't happen that often.

This month, we're conducting our readings with the newest deck in my arsenal, the Egyptian Art Nouveau Tarot. We've read with this deck once before last year shortly after it's release, so you may remember that it's a new favorite of mine. Not only does it speak to one of my favorite periods in history (although I think everyone probably went through an Ancient Egypt phase as a kid), but the authors of the deck took the time to consider which cards of the Major Arcana best suited the gods of the period. It's a gorgeous deck and I feel lucky to own it.

As always, before we get to this week's reading, please make sure you are all nice and cozy before you continue reading this post. This is not necessarily a reflection of what card will be drawn. In fact, I'm typing this bit before I've even drawn a card. However, I find that coziness helps put me in a better space to receive whatever message the cards may have for me.

Also, please remember that this is a general reading for the collective. It might resonate with you or it might not, and that's fine. Take what you need from this or don't. It's entirely your choice.

Now that we've gone through our reading preamble, let's get into our card for the week and answer our usual question: "What do my followers need to keep in mind to live their best lives this week?"

Our answer this week comes in the form of the Hierophant, represented by Osiris in this particular deck. In case anyone may be unfamiliar, Osiris is a deity of many things including fertility, agriculture, and life. Most, however, would probably know him as one of the deities of the afterlife and the dead due to one myth in particular in which he was killed by his brother, Set, and then brought back to life by Isis. This particular duality ultimately combined with the Egyptian concept of divine kingship, effectively making Osiris the king of the realm of the dead.

It's actually fairly appropriate, then, for Osiris to be the Hierophant, as he is a bringer of knowledge. Sometimes, clarity can come not from within ourselves, but from those around us. Sometimes, the lessons he brings may be a bit more traditional than we might be expecting, but it will ultimately help us get to a place we want to be. The Hierophant can also represent someone stuck in their ways, someone who is unwilling to change. They can be withdrawn and unwilling to listen to others around them even though they might need to. 

This week, the Hierophant reminds us that we may need to reexamine our personal beliefs and potentially learn how to adapt from others. This might result in a break from convention, but you could just as easily wind up somewhere a bit more conventional that you might not expect.

Listen and learn and see where it takes you. You might be surprised.

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If you enjoyed this post and are perhaps interested in acquiring a reading of your very own, I do keep tarot commissions open over on my Ko-fi.

I also have a shop full of all of the commission readings you can find up there, plus a couple of extras I won't be sharing anywhere else. You can find it over here.