TAROT TUESDAYS: 05/20/2025
Weekly Tarot Reading: On Embracing Your Inner Wisdom and Natural Magic
Over the last three months, as I’ve moved into my new home and transitioned to a new chapter of my adult life, I’ve been focused on cultivating the energy of ease throughout my day. From work, to exercise, cooking and doing self care, my intention through each activity is to move with ease. To cultivate comfort. To capture the energy of rest and solitude in every breath I take.
As soon as I moved with this purpose, I knew it was where I needed to be, and subsequently, where we needed to be together. So, in the last few weeks, I decided to sit with that.
I sat with the feeling of emotional abundance I had curated and let it speak to my soul–let it show me, gently and kindly, what my purpose in this life is: to eradicate loneliness with unconditional love. And with that, a new purpose for this community was born.
Welcome (Again) To Postscript Thoughts
Moving forward, Postscript Thoughts will focus on creating content that allows you to cultivate ease throughout your healing journey. In the past, we’ve explored girlhood essays, video podcasts, creative collections, poetry, and short stories together (and had so much fun doing it). Now, we will focus on all of the same outlets, but with the intention of sharing stories that remind you that you are NEVER alone in this life.
Here’s what that means for you:
Free, open-access healing essays, poetry, and more, once a week, every week on Saturday Afternoons, 2:22 PM EST.
Premium, closed-access guidance through tarot readings, once a week, every week on Tuesday Afternoons at 2:22 PM EST.
Premium, closed-access to the Postscript Thoughts Creative Archives, Workshops, Video Podcasts, and more, 24/7, on demand.
As a gift to each and every one of you (there are nearly TWO THOUSAND of us now, and I cannot believe it–thank you so much for being here), our first Tarot Tuesdays reading will be free to all members of the Postscript Thoughts community.
I hope that something in these messages resonates with you and propels you into a deeper, more intentional relationship with your healing journey, creative work, and broader life this week.
TAROT TUESDAYS: 05/20/2025
But FIRST… everyone say hello to our new friends, Earth Woman Tarot by Tarn Ellis and The Green Witch’s Oracle Deck by Arin Murphy-Hiscock & Sara Richard.
I have sat with the energies of these decks for a long time, not knowing how, when, or why they wanted to be used. I’m so excited to have found their home here, reading for our community.
The Reading
Three cards: one for present energy, one for energy to be integrated, and one for guidance. A Green Witch oracle card then inspires our weekly creative action.
CARD ONE: THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
I couldn’t think of a more fitting card to come out as the first card of the first reading for our collective. When I first received this deck and was learning her energy, the Wheel of Fortune was the first card that I got to know. Her energy is sweet, gentle, and complex. When I first saw her, I immediately noticed the word “TAROT” in the wheel (T at the top used twice to create the word). Upon reading the guide, I learned that the author intended for it to be read as “TORA”, meaning “Law”. Now, this is how I interpret the energy of this card.
Our collective’s present energy feels in flux and incredibly beautiful at the moment. We are in a communal energy of seeing what is on the surface and desiring to go deeper, whatever that means to you–deeper into your emotions, deeper into a new version of your becoming, deeper into the book of your own life. Read it backward, forward, and pay attention to the spaces between the lines. There may be a story yet to be uncovered if you consider it from a different angle.
CARD TWO: THE THREE OF SWORDS
This is the first time that I have encountered this card in this deck, and it immediately brought me to tears. In traditional tarot, the three of swords is depicted as three swords piercing through a heart. Here, it is depicted as three swords penetrating a human woman’s heart. In this deck, the three of swords energy feels amplified–more human–as if the emotional burden is something unique to your person, life, and becoming.
The energy to be integrated this week is, no doubt, heavy. There have been words left unsaid, hearts left wounded, and emotional nutrients left untapped by our collective this week. The energy around us feels humid and heavy, yet strong. Like the woman in the card, we’re standing tall in a barren forest, with active wounds in our hearts, reaching for the gift (rain) the earth has provided for us in the confines of our current reality (the forest).
When paired with The Wheel of Fortune, we learn that we can integrate this energy by looking at the situation from a different perspective–if the woman in the card focused less on the rain around her, and more on her surroundings, she’d see the clearing behind her, two trees away, and be able to walk toward it.
As I type that, I can feel the eye roll you just made (yes, you 😉), and I get it. I have been there so many times. There is truly nothing more annoying than someone who doesn’t carry the emotional burden you do waltzing in and claiming that if you changed your perspective, you’d change your reality.
That’s where the next card comes in.
CARD THREE: QUEEN OF WANDS
If you know anything about Tarot, you know that the Queen of Wands is absolutely that girl. She is HER. Wands typically represent creativity, passion, and action. The queen of wands represents the receptive, intuitive embodiment of this energy in its highest form. She has completed cycles, she has integrated her work, and she has utilized all of it to walk through life in a way that magnetizes her to the things she most desires–creative abundance, actionable insight, emotional luxury, and a spotlight to accompany all of it. She infuses herself (the color red of her clothes and jewels) into the world around her (the red flowers growing around her space) and basks in it daily.
In the Queen of Wands card, we can find so much guidance. She encourages us to get clear on what fires us up creatively–what lives within our hearts–and to call it in inevitably by identifying the buds of those energies around you and asking them: “How can I best nurture you today?”
In looking at her energy along with the first two cards, we can gather that she wants us to use the elements around us (represented by the mercury, sulfur, salt, and water alchemical elements in The Wheel of Fortune card) to find new ways to nourish our wounds.
Here are a few ways to do this in practice:
Do you desire to go with the flow more? Perfect. Sit with a source of water for five minutes each day–your shower, a bath, the local reservoir, or even a glass of drinking water. Dip your toes into it (or sip it if it’s a water source you need to consume) and imagine the water gifting you the ability to flow with the waves of life. Thank it for providing you with this new skillset. Do this daily, and watch as the way you interact with the world changes over time.
Do you ache for grounding and security? This is the perfect opportunity to bring the outdoors in. Plant a flower at your desk. Bring a succulent into your kitchen. Let the earth live in your home alongside you. Nourish it daily, speak to it, and thank it for reminding you that security has found its home in your life through the plant being near you.
Don’t have a space to call home right now? That’s okay–home is where YOU are. Cultivate a sense of belonging and warmth through the items you keep on your person. Use a dried version of your favorite flower as a bookmark. Carry a material object (think wood, or rocks, or paper) from someplace that has the energy you want to cultivate in your next home with you at all times. Believe that it is with you always and will reveal itself to you in due time.
Struggling to adapt to a new routine? Change in our physical life is uncomfortable. It’s messy. And, it’s incredibly jarring to our physical bodies. It can impact our sleep, our capacity to socialize, and our ability to show up as we hope to in our community each day. If you’re struggling with this, this reading urges you to find micro moments of peace and breath within the newness. Are you transitioning from WFH to the office? Perfect. Place an object on your desk that reminds you to breathe, and every time you look at it, inhale for 3, hold for 3, release for 3.
If we do this (whatever ‘this’ means to you–be it one of the above or another practice entirely), then we will cultivate the energy in our lives to create abundantly. To inspire. To nurture the next generation of our very own ideas, and work, and muses.
ORACLE DECK: SAGE
In the Green Witch’s Oracle Deck, the Sage card represents wisdom, purification, and harmony. The card reminds us that Sage is a reassuring, grounding herb. In the guidebook, it highlights that the Sage card reminds us that inspiration can be found from unlikely sources, and being in harmony with your environment is the best way to unlock that inspiration. The card urges us to reflect: “How can you help facilitate the communication of wisdom from your surroundings?”
The Green Witch's Oracle offers us Sage this week—a perfect companion to our tarot journey. Just as the Wheel of Fortune invites us to look beyond surface appearances, Sage encourages us to seek wisdom from unexpected corners of our lives.
Notice what's been hiding in plain sight–perhaps that book you've passed over a dozen times suddenly holds the exact message you need, or a casual conversation reveals profound insight.
This week, the Sage card invites us to create a "wisdom collection" ritual.
Each day, document something unexpected that taught you something, whether it's a pattern in nature, a stranger's kindness, or a challenging moment reframed (our Queen of Wands would love this sentiment–a reminder that we are already in communion with creative magic in our everyday lives).
Remember, as Sage teaches and our Three of Swords reminds, our wounds often become our greatest teachers when we allow our environment to offer its medicine.