May Tarotscopes

Hello everyone! The playlist for May is here. :)

The theme for May is The Art of Life. 

The art of life asks us to examine how we’ve been living and zhoosh it up if necessary. It asks us to cast away all our predispositions for over-analyzing, fantasizing, or promising without follow-through. 

May is asking us to live. 

This month is about investments. Investments in energy. In time. In money. In confidence. In reps. Continue to invest in the shifts and momentum April created. 

Once we connect to the green forces of nature all around us, it’s easier to connect to our own. 

This is a month to get outside. 

Do one thing you can manage in this theme every day this month, and by the end of May, things will be so much better. You will have lived and tried so much. You will have made so much art out of your life. 

—Excerpt is from Many Moons, which you can get here.

These Tarotscopes were written with your rising sign in mind. Read for that, or for your Rising, Sun, Moon, or any prominent placements. If the Tarotscope doesn’t track, come back and read it in a week or two. ;) None of this is a substitute for medical or professional advice.

Aries 
The Fool 

When I I wrote this Tarotscope for you, Aries, I did it in bite-sized little nibbles. Like a hummingbird, like a mouse, like a toddler grabbing peas. The focus was on curiosity, ease, exploration, and how words felt and tasted in my mouth and brain as I wrote them. There was no behemoth WHY to get to, no major finite words of wisdom I needed to deliver to you as if my life depended on it. Just a dozen fireworks shimmering in my belly by way of energetic transmission, and images offered up like h’ordeuvers for your imagination. 

The energy of the Fool is the energy you might be a bit afraid to try out, but it is always the energy you need. It’s the energy of getting unstuck by way of a committed root down, instead of a familiar numb out. It’s the energy of surprise, insights, innovation, and yeses, delivered up at a level you can handle.  

In May, this is what you’ll have to cultivate. Do not expect the external world to give you what you need: trust your intuition for solutions. Right now is not a time for staying on the well-trod path, or following anyone else’s advice exactly— color outside the lines in your life. Ditch the super serious, forceful urges to solve everything now, and allow silliness and irreverence in. Pathways open up when you create your own. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Lazy afternoons, ocean jasper, experimentation, committed changes at the rate your capacity can handle it, and comedy. 

Taurus
Knight of Coins 

A great strategy for May would a healthy mix of relaxation alongside some bigger “life administrative” tasks. This is the month to tend to health, wealth, and happiness, without feelings like shame or urgency that can sometimes accompany your efforts. Get the living will written and notarized, then lay down in a perfumed flower field. Say yes to lingering tea dates, and make that doctor’s appointment. 

Your season presents an opportunity to expand even more deeply into your worth, and this month, it isn’t about charging forward, but rather, a meander mixed with an upgraded mindset. For many years you’ve been redefining success on your terms, and following a compass all your own. In many ways, you’ve expanded past what your childhood self, or family, could even imagine. And yet, there’s still more expansion available to you, once you get out of your own way.

This is a month to get over your own unique methods of self-sabotage by taking action around those tender spots with a different energy. Patterns are breaking, slowly, each and every time you choose life and you choose to take life seriously: which involves serious play. There is a space for you to put down roots and settle into, with accountability and spaciousness. Green things need oxygen, and money loves joy.

Suggested spell ingredients: Jade, massages, our Money Alchemy workshop, at least an hour a week on “life admin,” and this episode about shame and money. 

Gemini 
Knight of Wands 

Fortune does in fact favor the bold, so long as the bold deliver on their promise. This is a month to move forward on a creative project or passion. Start by taking stock of some proud past projects or achievements: recount what worked, and what you wish you’d done. Reconnect with the qualities that helped you in the past, while understanding it’s time to move forward in a different way. Work smarter and prioritize the 20% of tasks that will help you see progress. 

As Jupiter moves into your 1st house of Self later this month, you’re poised for some wins. Get clear about what you’d like to expand, and how you can create more luck for yourself. The great benefic needs clarity and follow-through in order to deliver the goods. There are energy shifts you must make: if your baseline has been worry or stress, alchemize it through movement or art. 

The most successful folks are the ones who make challenging things look easy. The most successful folks are those who enjoy the process and who bring fun and cheer into the drudge, the organizing meeting, the protest. Keep it light and keep it moving. It’s time to pick up the pace. The world needs your best self, and so do you. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Dance classes, rubies, tantric sex, ginger shots, and confidence. 

Cancer 
10 of Pentacles 

Sometimes you feel trapped by the circumstances of your childhood that shaped your nervous system. Sometimes you can’t tell where others’ projections have snuck inside your self-concept. Sometimes you wonder if you unconsciously treat yourself poorly to fulfill others’ expectations, or make them feel less intimidated by you. Sometimes, your body feels like a house haunted by ghosts you didn’t let in. 

More than anything, May is a month for creating strong boundaries with the past by intentionally engaging with the present. You are ready to move on from some regret or relational dynamic that has kept you frozen. This next chapter is about building a kind of life that is not in response to those old patterns or haunted projections. It’s a month to create new patterns through the body, the nervous system, and your actions. It’s a month to invest in a thriving and abundant future. Whether that means buying land, quitting a bad habit, ancestral spellwork, or using that infamous 6th sense of yours to take a calculated risk or two, it’s time.  

The 10 of Pentacles is the homecoming card and the world-building card. You build worlds by coming home to yourself. When you create worlds of care and creativity in the present, you break up with the past. When your body becomes a safer space, so does the world.

Suggested spell ingredients: Dandelion root, 9 hours of sleep a night, one world-building activity a day, somatics, and tiger eye. 

Leo
Ace of Pentacles 

When the Ace of Pentacles comes up in a reading with a client I’ll often ask them, “Do you think you have to root down into where you are to grow, or do you need to leave the garden to grow?” That’s the question for you to ponder all May, Leo. Is it time to double-down on what you’ve been growing and building (this includes everything you’ve been thinking about growing and building), or is it time to leave the same safe garden, and go somewhere else?

The Ace of Pentacles suggests it is time to focus on material growth. This doesn’t necessarily mean money; this could mean getting better at time management or a skill. Maybe it’s time to love your body more or invest in a large community-based project. Whatever it is, you are hungry for results, and that is where your focus must be.  
How to know what to focus on? Look to where the seeds are in your life in the form of urges, instincts, or longings. Look to where you feel most frustrated and disconnected. Commit towards tangible growth. This kind of growth is a mature, grown-up kind. It’s being able to succeed and carry on through stressors and unknowns. It takes 300 repetitions for muscle memory to take hold in the brain and the body. It takes 3,000 repetitions for someone to keep the muscle memory secure in the face of pressure or stress. You are on the road to embodied competence, Leo. It’s time to get growing. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Sunshine, seeds, a tracker app, Money Alchemy, and resilience. 

Virgo 
6 of Pentacles 

This month highlights the everyday decisions that will support realignment around resources and your overall bandwidth. You can only do what you can do: for some of you Virgos that’s doing more in certain areas, but for most of you, it’s doing a lot less. (Especially when you aren’t asked!)

To figure this out, take out two sheets of paper. First, write down the best possible outcomes you’d like to experience at the end of this month. Do not edit yourself. Now, on the next sheet, write down the fears that plague you. Take a breath, and recognize that, most likely, neither extreme is going to happen exactly as you’ve written. Notice how much both your hopes and anxieties stem from the external, or things you can’t control. You absolutely can control your self-regard, the commitments you make, and the way you communicate.

Focus and purpose are the baseline of your dreams. A generally altruistic view of the universe and your capabilities are the fuel that moves you closer to self-actualization. Let this month clarify who you are and what you came here to do in this chapter of your life. May your thoughts and actions veer away from extremes and into a rebalanced reality.

Suggested spell ingredients: Money Alchemy, cinnabar, time spent in Child’s Pose, time spent making things with your hands, and this episode on the 6 of Pentacles. 

Libra 
Lovers 

Here’s a May pop quiz for you, Libra: take a breath, clear away shame, and answer the following applicable question: 

For single Libras: Would you date yourself? Be honest. Pretend you are a potential amazing suitor perusing your bedroom, lifestyle, or the inside of your heart. Would you back away slowly, or jump right into bed? 

For the partnered Libras: Ask yourself, would you (still) date you? Pretend you are your partner(s), interacting with you over the last few weeks. Are you a beguiling, enchanting date? Will they say you’ve shown up, shared, and displayed the main traits of a love machine/support system/awesome life partner?  

If the answer is a resounding yeses, then your task this May is to simply enjoy life as much as possible, and to give to those who need it most from that overflow. If your response was more ambivalent, here’s the good news: you can always change, you can always become the lover you want to be or experience most. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.*

Suggested spell ingredients: Discipline, dedication, rose quartz, love, and The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin, which is where the above quote came from. 

Scorpio 
9 of Pentacles 

May asks you to take a small, momentary step back in order to move forwards. You’ve been pushing yourself hard and putting undue pressure on yourself—work, worth, and embodiment have been at the forefront of your mind. You’ve been wondering if what you’ve been asking for, and working towards, is the right thing: how will you know you are truly where you need to be? How will you know when enough is enough?

With your face pressed too close against the windowpane of your life, perspective gets skewed. No one can unearth the answers they need while frantic on the sinking ship of never enough and perfectionism. Gaining clarity requires space and breathing room. That is what this time is about for you. Replace your inclinations towards self-doubt with assuredness. Grant yourself permission to embark on the process of a more expansive life. 

The world is transforming rapidly and so are you. The proof you desire begins with a practice of openness. From that place, you can apply your stamina and strategy.

Suggested spell ingredients: Spend 9 minutes drawing as many circles as you can. For another 9 minutes, fill them with past achievements & future dreams. For another 9, spend time clarifying and tracing the through lines that connect them all. 

Sagittarius
5 of Swords 

All around us, we see the impact of careless words and communication, of shots fired out of hate and fear. A vehement, defensive attack is permanent. Once it has happened, it cannot be taken back. The consequences ripple out far beyond the initial exchange. Instead of letting all that can’t be taken back drag you down, figure out a way to humbly move forward heart-first.

These times have brought much heartbreak, and that’s chipped away at your clarity and sense of self on some level. Some of this is needless suffering. While it is ok to experience lingering regret or resentment, you’ve got to figure out a way to shake it off. Some of what has occurred has highlighted what is most important: you are being asked to reorient towards some core truths and the greater purpose of your life.

The time has come to make some decisions around not letting losses define your future. You simply aren’t the same person you were a few years ago, and it’s time to reroute towards a more meaningful path. If there are some environments you are in that are particularly toxic, this month will highlight where to step back and cut cords. Self-forgiveness will help you move out of the storm.

Suggested spell ingredients: Therapy, this episode of the 5 of Swords,
self-forgiveness, selenite, and rededication to who and what is most important to you. 

Capricorn 
Page of Swords 

Things have been really overwhelming, and you are handling it well, as you always do, Capricorn. You’ve helped others, you’ve contributed a great deal to causes and communities, and you’ve spoken up against the world’s atrocities as much as you can. You are doing a fantastic job, as always. And also: there’s something in your personal world that needs a jumpstart, or simply more ease or pay-off. All the over-efforting has taken a toll, no wonder you are tired. In May make clarity and spaciousness your goals.

Hocus Pocus, it’s time to focus! When the Page of Swords comes up, it’s a nudge to step into beginner’s mind. In this case, it’s time to get meta and think about your thinking. What are your thought patterns, and do they serve you? It’s time to get specific. Figure out what blocks your flow. What habits or rituals can you experiment with to access your clearest, most intuitive self? The goal is a clear, focused, intentional mind that will think in the frequency you need most. 

You will need external support, either in the shape of a mentor, teacher, coach, or a spirit team. Be open to receiving messages from podcasts, audiobooks, the wind, or an old poem you wrote in your note’s app. There are solutions you can’t quite see yet, but they are on their way. Free your mind, and the rest will follow. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Dopamine fasts, clear quartz, meditation, morning pages, and curiosity.

Aquarius 
5 of Pentacles 

Feelings or thoughts of scarcity aren’t new to you, but the theme has been coming up a lot this year, Aquarius. You might be activated by situations happening in your personal life, and/or in larger global events and movements (as they become more and more the same).

In the current economy, the most important resources aren’t only money. Here are others: relationships, adaptability, future-visioning, intuition, and creativity. Ownership of land, food and water sources, and multiple income streams. You’ve got a ton of authentic relationships with a ton of remarkable people. You are incredibly adaptable (this is a realm where you thrive). You are naturally innovative, so it might be time to start thinking of other income streams or ways to collaborate financially with others. 

This is all coming up because of the state of the world being what it is, but you’ve been reflecting on sustainable abundance for longer, and now it’s time to implement some of those reflections. Let this month be a reminder to invest in all the resources that really matter. In 8 months, it will be your season, and the decisions you make now will have born fruit. Adopt strategies appropriate for these emerging paradigms. In doing so, you’ll experience deep enjoyment of life’s true riches.

Suggested spell ingredients: a ritual for sustainable abundance, foraged foods, trades or collaborations with friends, this episode on your card for the month, and a piece of amber placed on your altar.

Pisces 
Queen of Cups 

There is a wild, unbridled creative part of you asking for more space. What does uncensored expression look like for you, and how can you make it a part of your May plans and beyond? The depths are where you need to reside now, and while that might sound vague and scary, most of you will understand this assignment. Grant yourself the permission and time you need to go into the heart of your creativity, expression, and the overflowing fountain of intuition that resides within.

With Saturn hanging out in your first house, and this month’s pair of lunations activating your 3rd and 9th houses, the emphasis is on communication, spirituality, and the containers you create for these topics, both invisible and visible. This would be an opportune month for art making, writing, singing, and innovative rituals. See what happens when you commit to a month of consulting the Oracle that is you. 

This is all part of a larger process of self-trust. The more you trust yourself, the more you trust in your intuition. The more you trust in your intuition, the more you will trust your creativity. There is an exact frequency that you emit that is needed right now. Can you trust that honoring the calls of your heart will open up pathways for you that you can’t even imagine? Answer the call within, and watch the world outside shift. 

Suggested spell ingredients: A digital detox, morning birdsong meditations, lapis lazuli, Money Alchemy, and trust.