Slow Tarot for the Aries Initiation

Reading by Julie Kelton, music by Beth Bradfish. Slow Tarot is an offering of a collective tarot spread for the month, wisdom to unfold with us as we meet this turbulent, beautiful world. We are well into Taurus season, now, with many planets lingering in Aries, which has been the site of so much activity this past couple of weeks. Are you feeling the spark? Are you letting your frustrations guide you? Are you learning to embrace the chaos? The spread for this month offers much to work with, Strength crossed by the Page of Wands, King of Cups below, 3 of Cups reversed left, The Tower right, and 5 of Wands above. Rooting into emotional intelligence and our hard-won practices of regulation can serve our hopeful visions, while things crash, bend, and break around us. With Uranus in Gemini, things are speeding up and the chaos of our information environment is becoming clear. How can you stay rooted in compassion and care, without getting lost in the undertow? We are living through a time of massive change, and at times it feels like too much to process. The time for superficial relationships, hollow parties, and meaningless busy-ness is behind us. There is too much at stake now, too much exposed and revealed. To go on with business at usual, now, when so much is exposed and crumbling, is to miss this moment entirely. What helps you tend to your fears, grief, and anger, so that the fiery, brave part of you can step forward, with a glint in their eye? Our work of self-knowing and healing isn't occurring despite the turbulence around us, but in conversation with it. A constant push and pull between self-steadying and outward-facing activity, between grieving the horror, devastation, violence, and injustice, and saying the thing, hearing the call, jumping at the chance to tend to the wound, with whatever medicine you have. The time is now, to stay steady, and be brave, friends. Love and reparent the wild creatures within you so they can guide us through the madness. More to come with this spread at highlowtarot.com/slow-tarot. Thank you for listening.