Your (Bonus) Channeled Tarot Medicine + Tarot Spread for November
Your (Bonus) Channeled Tarot Medicine + Tarot Spread for November
Welcome, loves! This is our ✨bonus✨ Monthly Medicine missive, an extra dose of channeled goodness to compliment the November Monthly Medicine download on Tarot for the Wild Soul podcast!
The theme for the month of November is One Moment at a Time
November is a huge month personally and collectively. With so much uncertainty and anxiety looming with regard to the US election, how can we stay rooted? How can we hold ourselves in the face of so much change, so many unknowns, and so much potential for fear? November invites us to take it one moment at a time. The cards we're working with during this cycle are going to help us to stay present with what is, and to tend to ourselves personally so we can be of greatest service to the collective.
The cards I pulled for the TFTWS November Monthly Medicine podcast (detailed below) don’t give a lot of context or fine detail about what the month will be about, or where it’s guiding us. The reading that came through for the month ahead did, however, provide a balm, a salve. Sometimes Tarot readings are like that. They provide nothing but the medicine, and none of the context for why we might need it, or in what way it might be useful. No matter what may happen with regard to this election, or with our own personal experiences this month, we can be nourished by the cards that are present here.
Our theme for the month ahead is One Moment at a Time because it’s ultimately the only way to work with what’s coming, and with what’s already here. As we wait for our test results, for news to break, for clarity to come, we can turn our attention to what is with us. We can read a book to our child, wash that dish, fold that blanket, take soup to our neighbor, show up in service, mobilize and protest. All we have is this moment, and we are being invited to allow that to hold us as we travel through the intensity of the coming cycle. We are not alone. We have one another.
Soul Tarot Reading for November:
Card for the month ahead: NINE OF SWORDS Rx and THREE OF PENTACLES
How the month will feel to us: ACE OF WANDS Rx
Deepest lesson of the month ahead: WHEEL OF FORTUNE
What we’re being invited to pay attention to most: SEVEN OF SWORDS Rx
What do we personally need: KING OF SWORDS
Diving Deeper: Bonus Collective Soul Tarot Reading for NOVEMBER
How to best work with the energy of the month ahead: Nine of Cups
Nine of Cups is the highest octave of hope. It is the clear song of the birds at daybreak, the pure light and sweetness of a child. It is a deep acknowledgement of the depth and tenderness of the heart’s desire, and the immense vulnerability it requires to actually hope that that desire will come to fruit.
There is a whisper, an undercurrent to Nine of Cups that is almost measurable. It is the hum and the song of our beloved dead, our ancestors, and everything that loves us, knows us, and wishes us well. It is a small, quiet thing, a card that encourages us, despite all odds, to get our hopes up – even if they might be smashed and destroyed in the process.
We don’t need to abandon common sense, critical thinking, or a more balanced mindset in order to feel into our hopes. This card isn’t about wild, unrealistic visions. It is about us connecting with the willingness to dream and wish for the best possible outcome, even if it has us feeling a bit unguarded.
Nine of Cups exists because it is in our best interest to keep the door to the heart ajar. Everything worth cherishing, every beloved thing, and every great work of art came from a heart that was willing to remain open in a cruel and unjust world. No matter what direction things take this month, it will be crucial to remain connected to what matters to us, and the world we hope to build for ourselves and the future.
Indeed, the best way to work with November is to stay tethered to those hopes, dreams, wishes, and visions, no matter how ridiculous, unwise, or silly they might seem.
The birds sing each morning at daybreak, no matter what the dawn brings. We have the same stuff within us, too.
What kind of support can we call upon for the month ahead: Three of Swords
The single most supportive thing we can do this month is to cultivate the willingness to feel our deepest feelings without bypassing them, distracting ourselves from them, or reacting from them.
Three of Swords, like all of the Swords cards, is a kind of a mindfulness exercise. This card usually shows up when we’re dealing with both a heart that is tender and full of pain, and a very noisy mind that is intent on distracting us from the pain of the heart. Our job is to honor and bow to the noise of the mind, while centering and tending to the wounds of the heart with our full attention. We might notice ourselves feeling hot, agitated, primed and ready for a fight – in November, it will be in our best interest to check in around that, so that we can ideally respond, rather than react. There’s nothing wrong with righteous anger, or frankly, with warranted reactions when circumstances are charged.
However, the important, unique (and frankly, magical) thing with Three of Swords is that our willingness to center the heart over the swirl of the mind actually often serves to shift our initial reactions. That first burst of anger, or desire for confrontation we were experiencing might morph, soften, or reshape into something new after centering our tender and bloody hearts. Our impulse to sweep things under the rug might shift into outrage and/or mobilization after tending to our heart.
The well of personal and collective support that we’re going to be longing for this month can be found and gained by our willingness to be with our heart and our feelings, no matter how raw. Giving ourselves the gift of time, space, and room for emotions to flow unbidden transforms things. It shifts the way we respond, and show up for one another, and helps us to tend to ourselves in deep and nourishing ways.
What can we reach for and open to more of this month: Page of Cups
Page of Cups is a card of sweet and wild childlike play. It calls us into a space of magic and imagination, and often helps to disrupt some of the blockages that most (read: likely all) of us have around connecting with this kind of energy. Play can be challenging for most of us, and Page of Cups knows that. It also tends to show up when we need it most, and it is always in our best interest to be willing to at least entertain this card when it arrives at our door.
I’m going to be blunt here – The energy of November on a whole is not likely to inspire playfulness in many of us. Most of us might even feel like the idea of play is downright silly, even ridiculous. But again, Page of Cups only really ever comes out when we need its invitation. Given that it is present for us this month, we may as well try to sense into a relationship with play that feels attainable and realistic for us.
It is also crucial to remember that the Pages help the Kings do their job. The Kings are contributors to the world, the leaders, the apples on the tree of the soul. The Pages are the roots, and there is no fruit without strong roots. Whenever our relationship to our place in the world or our service within it needs calibration, the Pages will show up. King of Cups cannot be the helper, healer, and epic space holder that they are without Page of Cups, and by extension, without a relationship to play. In order for each of us to show up in the unique ways that we will be called to this month, we have to have a connection to this Page, which by extension, effects our inner King.
Playing looks different to everyone, and it does not cheapen the seriousness of life. It enhances our capacity to be present with whatever life is throwing at us, and is a kind of a ballast to our soul. We are strongly encouraged to reach for as much of it as we possibly can this month.
One Moment at a Time: A Tarot Spread for NOVEMBER
My card for the month ahead:
What support can I lean on and be nourished by this month?
A card to help me to take things one step at a time this month?
What can I devote my attention to this month?
How might I be of greatest service this month?
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Thank you so much for these invitations and soothing balm as we head into November. I am curious, was it 3 of pentacles or 3 of swords for November? In one part is said 3 of pentacles but the write up was for 3 of swords. Clarity would be lovely! Thank you!