by christel | Jan 18, 2023 | Clarity Readings
#1. Formulate your question to be as broad as possible while still constraining it to the subject matter you want to explore. The reason for this is to avoid prefiguring the response with your expectations. (This is sometimes difficult and sometimes impossible when...
by christel | Jan 17, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
Not all conflict comes from lack of understanding. Sometimes there’s good reason for severing connections. Anger gets repressed, as if it’s not a totally normal, healthy human emotion to have and express. Love isn’t accepting abuse or maintaining relationships that...
by christel | Jan 16, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
I have Pluto on the brain as I usually do these days. It’s been squaring my natal Aries sun for several years and will be dancing with my Aquarius ascendant for a decade. If you were born between 1984 and 1995, your natal Pluto is in Scorpio—a heavy, karmic placement...
by christel | Jan 15, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card, Expanded reading
My question to the cards today is about what to expect coming out of this retrograde season. Right now Mars has gone direct, Mercury will go direct this week and Uranus next week. But it seems we are not done with our reckoning with the Lower World (interpreted both...
by christel | Jan 13, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
This card echoes yesterday’s journey into ancestral karma, which is filled with mixed emotions. I don’t have an ancestor, recent or otherwise, that I feel particularly connected to. In fact, when I look/feel into my family history on both sides, what I see is...
by christel | Jan 12, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card, Expanded reading
This morning I sat down to try and see through the intensely painful feelings that keep coming up, disproportionate to anything that’s actually happening to me. What came out in the cards is a movement from 6 to 7, from strict hierarchical control to organic merge of...
by christel | Jan 11, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
There’s a fiery, electric feeling in the air today. This Queen becomes the link between the lower world yearning for connection with the divine, and the heavenly realms reaching down to meet and elevate the natural. She is enthroned, at peace with her eyes closed even...
by christel | Jan 10, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
If you’re on a spiritual path, you probably feel just like this wizard: aware of a vast, transcendent, multidimensional reality while feeling stuck in limbo on the earthly plane. This contrast is full of friction especially now, as the first grey shades of dawn appear...
by christel | Jan 9, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
It’s hard to think about having power without assuming there is a subject—person, tool, idea, domain—that you have power over. Being power rather than wielding power is a possibility that has been denied us for a long time. The panther may be caged and separated from...
by christel | Jan 8, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
Repression is the character and purpose of the constructed world we live in right now. The socioeconomic, built world of financial, religious, gubernatorial, educational and scientific systems that seem entirely interwoven with how we move, live and be are intended to...
