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Welcome, loves! This is our ✨bonus✨ Monthly Medicine missive, an extra dose of channeled goodness to compliment the September Monthly Medicine download on Tarot for the Wild Soul podcast!
The theme for the month of September is En Route
This September really feels like a portal to me, and all of our cards in both the Monthly Medicine and Bonus Medicine reflect that. Between the Eclipses – which always excavate, illuminate, and clarify, usually to an accelerated degree – and the lead up to the Fall/Spring Equinox on September 22nd, we are going to be working with some huge energies this month.
September is transformative, full of opportunities for massive growth and expansion. In order to support ourselves through these wild evolutions, we are being invited to focus on two major resources in the coming month: 1. more rest, play, and pleasure, and 2. more active and direct connection with whatever wise spiritual counsel/helping practices that we lean on in both hard times and good. That kind of deeper relationship to our practices will offer a healing refuge to us, and the emphasis on extra play and rest is never a bad thing, but is especially important when we’re moving through huge spirals of growth and change.
Our theme for the month ahead is En Route because it’s going to be so important that we remember that we’re actually on our way to somewhere better and more supportive than we currently are. We aren’t stuck, blocked, or broken. We are on our way, already making tracks, even if it doesn’t always feel that way. We have been in the chrysalis for so long that it’s easy to forget that we are in the process of becoming something completely new. This month, as we begin to make our way out of the chrysalis, we are encouraged to remember that we’re already on the journey.
Soul Tarot Reading for September:
Card for the month ahead: TWO OF WANDS AND THE HIGH PRIESTESS
How the month will feel to us: TEMPERANCE and THE CHARIOT
Deepest lesson of the month ahead: NINE OF PENTACLES and KNIGHT OF WANDS
What we’re being invited to pay attention to most: KNIGHT OF PENTACLES
An Aligned Action to take: THREE OF WANDS
Diving Deeper: Bonus Collective Soul Tarot Reading for SEPTEMBER
A message from our guides and wise inner knowing for the month ahead? DEATH
In September, we are changing, transforming, in the midst of a metamorphosis. As such, we must treat ourselves with immense care and profound tenderness. It is so vulnerable to be bridging a gap between who we’ve been and who we are becoming. Our skin can feel so thin, and our hearts can feel so soft in these kinds of seasons. We must be kind to ourselves.
Death being here as the card pull for this question is part of why there are so many invitations to infuse more pleasure, fun, and spaciousness into our lives in the September Monthly Medicine podcast download. Not just because we deserve to experience more play at any given moment, but because we need it to counterbalance the massively powerful invitations that will be present with us in the coming month.
The Death card is serving up some crucial reminders to the thinking mind, especially in light of the immense invitations of the month ahead: we aren’t stuck, we’re transforming. We aren’t broken, we are growing. It isn’t odd for us to feel potentially dysregulated, contracted, and out of sorts in moments – it would be strange if we didn’t feel this way during such a big transitional time.
How well can we treat ourselves in times of intense rebirthing, when everything we know appears to be changing, and there is anxiety and excitement in equal measure around all of the things that are ready to be birthed from us? Death card is here to help us to honor our immensely tender hearts in the wake of everything we are moving through this month.
What kind of support can we call upon for the month ahead? THE HIEROPHANT
The single most supportive thing we can do for ourselves in September (and beyond, but especially in September!) is to check-in around our more automatic beliefs and stories. Is it true? Are we absolutely sure it’s true? In times of massive change, transformation, and awakening (*gestures around at Eclipse season*), it is so important to keep our feet on the ground as much as we possibly can. The Hierophant can help with this.
The Hierophant is an invitation to become our own wise conduit for Spirit and intuitively channeled guidance. It isn’t ultimately always going to be a card that leads us to a teacher – more often than not, it’ll have us looking into the mirror on that front. It is a card that arises when we’re being invited to trust ourselves and our knowing, while holding a space of humility, knowing as humans that we are imperfect and prone to bias and assumptions. We are always learning, always discovering new things, always growing. How do we strike a balance between the two of these things: our humanness and our connection to the divine?
We can work with The Hierophant for deep support this month around the theme of questioning – noticing our patterning and getting curious about what’s at the heart of it, and where that patterning came from. This is highly connected to the work we will be doing with the Death card this month, as well, as both are very useful when it comes to sweeping out old cycles that no longer serve us.
This month, we are being invited to be open to nourishing wisdom wherever we can find it, while holding the truth that we don’t require anyone other than ourselves to provide an access point to that wisdom. We can trust in ourselves and our bodies. We can listen to ourselves. We can call upon our Guides and know that they are here for us. And when we need external support and guidance, we can call upon the beloveds, professional processors, and chosen kinfolk to be there by our side. We are not alone, and we don’t have to do this alone. We can trust in ourselves.
What can we reach for more of this month? SIX OF PENTACLES
In September, we will be invited to reach for whatever offers us a greater sense of balance and equilibrium in our lives. To take a nap, tap out when needed, go out for a soak, a hike, for some delicious food, and/or spend more time with our friends, family, and ourselves. Whatever helps us to feel more topped up and supported, that is what we need to reach and stretch our arms out to in the coming month and beyond.
Six of Pentacles is an energy of sacred reciprocity, of equitable balance, of giving and receiving. I have always loved the Motherpeace Tarot’s image of this card, which is of a bodyworker receiving bodywork. In Six of Pentacles, we often discover that we need to fill our cups up to a greater degree, and are highly encouraged to do so.
This month, we are shedding so many skins, peeling off so many layers, and shifting so radically that we’re going to need some significant TLC to balance all of the deep work that we are transiting through. We deserve to be in aligned relationship with Six of Pentacles all the time, but unfortunately for so many of us, there are significant systemic barriers in place that prevent us from doing so. This card reminds us that we can start really small, we can reach for whatever might be accessible for us right now. One step at a time.
What can we let go of that no longer serves us: THE DEVIL, Rx
The biggest thing we’re being invited to let go of this month is bullshit stories from the mind that keep us locked in cycles that actively hold us back. The Devil is a beautiful card, a liberatory card, and often comes up in seasons of big expansion and growth, which is most certainly what we will be traveling through in the coming months. The Devil showing up in a reading is a strong signal that we are onto something, that the brain knows that something new, unforeseen, and unfamiliar (read: expansive) is on it’s way or is already here with us. In these situations, the brain tends to try to protect us by potentially pulling us into old patterning that slows us down or stops our expansion in some way. The Devil Rx is usually a bit lower in volume than The Devil right side up is, but the message is still the same: in times of huge soul evolution, when we are moving from chrysalis to butterfly, we can expect to feel massively tender, which typically makes the brain wig out, which leads to that part of us trying to get us back on some familiar, solid ground again. The butterfly used to be a land dwelling, crawling creature, and they are perfectly safe. We are perfectly safe. Change is scary and intense, and we are still safe within it. The more we can communicate this to our system, the gentler this powerful transition will be for us.
Sweetness for the Journey: A Tarot Spread for SEPTEMBER
My card for the month ahead:
What support can I call upon for this transformative month ahead?:
What kind of sweetness and space can I offer myself through this journey?:
What might be important for me to lay down and release in the month ahead?:
What might be important for me to reach for more of in the month ahead?:
Absolutely gorgeous nourishment and support. Brimming over.
The last few ddays have been somewhat of a 'what the actual fuck' energetically.
Let's just say that your post helped my land back in okness. ❤️
Thank you so much for this, Lindsay. Listening to the podcast and reading this, I keep thinking about the song "Movin' Right Along" from The Muppet Movie. Kermit and Fozzie are together. Sometimes they get turned around but they're on their way, and they're going to get there eventually.
https://youtu.be/Q6NQcO9KTBY?feature=shared