Greetings, all, and welcome to our first card pull for the month of May! Hooray!

(And before anyone asks, no, I will not keep up the rhyming for the entirety of this post.)

Welcome one and all to Mermay! Unfortunately, my art skills leave quite a bit to be desired. However, as is tradition now, I'm bringing out my Oracle of the Mermaids deck to read with for the month. It isn't one of the decks in my regular reading rotation. In fact, if you go back through the tags, I only ever pull it out in May. But it feels right as we start to shift into the warmer months, so.... here we go!

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 Telepathy, and despite the fact that I'm sure the name calls to mind the image of someone reading someone else's mind, that's not exactly what this card is getting at.

No, this card is indicating something far different: issues with communication.

There may be something that needs to be said this week that someone is potentially struggling with and they're hoping that whoever it needs to be said to is picking up the signs they're trying to put out into the world. The problem is that the other person might either be missing those signs or outright ignoring them, and this can lead to all kinds of problems. Not directly telling the other person what's going on can lead to boundaries being violated or needs not being met.

Unfortunately, people are not mind readers. And while it can absolutely be scary to communicate things like this to someone else, the other person isn't going to know what's going on unless they're told.

It's okay to be afraid to speak, though. We're all a little afraid sometimes, but it would be to your benefit this week to take a chance to speak up. You might surprise yourself at how quickly you can get to the heart of things.

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Greetings, everyone, and welcome to our first card pull for the month of April!

We're utilizing our Cozy Witch Tarot Deck for this month! If the art style looks familiar, that's because it's done by the same people who did the Believe in Your Own Magic Oracle that I utilize for vibe checks while streaming. I'm quite fond of those two decks as the art's pretty cozy and feels like a warm blanket. Not to mention that I don't think I've seen a more "me" tarot deck in my entire life.

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?"

And this week? Well.... you saw our answer.

Yeah. That's right — the Tower.

The Tower always brings with it the image of everything around you collapsing into chaos, and it's easy to look at this card and be under the impression that going to be the case every single time you see it. I've been reading tarot for years, and I still have moments where I look at the Tower and immediately panic upon seeing it.

I will not lie to you all. Upon seeing the Tower this week, panic was certainly my first thought, but then I realized that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

See, the Tower is actually giving us a heads-up that change is on the horizon for us this week. It may be sudden and we may not realize whatever it is happens to be falling apart until it's too late, but unlike a lot of times when this happens to us in real life, we actually have a warning. We might actually be better able to plan for the eventual chaos.

But remember in that planning that sometimes, attempting to repair the structure isn't necessarily the best path forward for us. Sometimes, it's genuinely better to let it all burn to the ground because whatever it is isn't suiting us anymore. 

Change is hard. Sometimes, the process of change is smooth, but it's usually destructive and messy, which isn't necessarily bad. Human beings aren't meant to be stagnant entities. We're meant to grow and change and outgrow certain things if they don't suit us anymore.

Try to remember that going into this week, folks, and let whatever the change is happen. You'll probably be better for it in the long run.

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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.