Mabon Tarot Spread and Ritual Ideas

Autumn ready.

Mabon blessings gorgeous souls!

Occurring on the autumn equinox, or fall equinox for my American friends, Mabon and marks the late harvest celebration and preparation for the cooler days ahead.

The earth begins to slow down, dropping leaves, bringing cooler days and longer nights, reminding us it’s okay that we also slow down, pause and prepare for the season ahead.

An extra magickal time for the witches among us, this is a time to get your pumpkins ready and start preparing for the witchy season!

Traditionally a harvest festival, Mabon is about more than Pumpkin Spice Lattes (click for my PSL Spread!). It’s a time to prepare, stock up, preserve the fruits of your harvest.

But most importantly, it’s a festival of gratitude.

Not only is it a great time to be grateful for all you’ve received over the last few months, but also to be grateful to yourself for showing up and creating the life you now get to live. And if you’re not where you want to be, it’s still a good time to be thankful for the good you do have in your life while you keep working towards creating even more.

The exact date and time of the equinox always changes, but Mabon is usually celebrated between the 21st to the 22rd of September in the northern hemisphere and the 21st to 22nd of March in the southern hemisphere.

Yep!

Looking for some Mabon rituals?

As always, you can celebrate Mabon or any of the sabbats however you like. But here are some ideas that may be useful in helping you develop your own rituals.

Gratitude

While it’s wonderful to write in your gratitude journal, it’s even more magickal to tell others how much you love and appreciate them. Take some time over Mabon to tell the people you love just how much they mean to you. Not only will it make them feel wonderful, it will make you feel all warm and fuzzy too.

Giving and receiving

During your harvest you may find you have something to spare. It’s a great time to give away anything you no longer need to someone who may find it useful. Whether it’s giving clothes and blankets to homeless shelters, donating books or just gifting on a tarot deck that no longer resonates with you, giving something away can make room for more space, love and abundance in your own life. When others gift you something at this time, gratefully receive.

Cooking

I’m not really much of a cook so I don’t have a lot of advice here, except to say that traditionally this is a great time to make some jam or chutney, pickle some cucumbers (is that even how you make pickles?!) or onions. Bake some delicious vegan cookies, or even get the slow cooker out and start prepping some yumo recipes for the cooler days ahead.

Take stock

All of the sabbats are wonderful opportunities to take stock of where you are, where you’ve been and where you’re going, but Mabon is extra since it’s the late harvest. If you don’t count your blessings you may not have enough to see you through winter! J/K, of course you will have more than enough love, luck, blessings and magick, but it’s nice to know just how much! Take some time to write down everything you’re grateful for in this moment, everything you’ve achieved, experienced and are grateful for from the last three months and then start thinking about where you want to go next. There’s no hurry to get there, but no harm in knowing the direction you want to go in.

As part of your ritual you may like to work with this tarot or oracle spread!

Pour yourself a cup of chai and grab your deck. You can use any cards you have - tarot, oracle, angel, Uno, it’s all good. You may like to take some time to journal on what comes up for extra insight.

1. What has grown

2. What to keep

3. What to give

4. What to receive

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my totally free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and Mabon blessings,

Vix

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Ostara Tarot Spread and Ritual Ideas

Spring has sprung!

Ostara blessings gorgeous souls!

Ostara is the pagan fertility festival that marks the spring equinox.

The early Christians merged the story of Jesus’ resurrection and new life with this pagan celebration of the new life of spring to create Easter. Symbols of chocolate bunnies and crucifixions have made this time of year (in the northern hemisphere at least!) quite the mash-up.

But whatever and however you choose to celebrate, it really is a time of joy, light and promises of new growth and fresh starts.

Ostara is all about welcoming the spring and the reawakening of the earth. As the flowers begin to bloom and the sun rises higher again we feel that spark of light within us returning as well. Longer days are on their way, summer is just around the corner and we have so much to look forward to!

A festival of fertility and creativity, Ostara is the perfect time to sow some seeds, plant some intentions and prepare to nurture them into growth.

Remember, dreams don’t work unless you do. Plant your seeds and dreams but don’t forget to water them!

In the northern hemisphere Ostara is celebrated between March 19th to 23rd and in the southern hemisphere it is observed between the 20th and 23rd of September.

Spring vibezzz.

Looking for some Ostara rituals?

As always, you can celebrate Ostara or any of the sabbats however you like. But here are some ideas that may be useful in helping you develop your own rituals.

Planting intentions

This is the perfect way to work with the energy of Ostara and the spring equinox. Just like we plant seeds so they can grow, planting our dreams is an important part of the manifestation process. Write down your dreams and intentions on pieces of paper and plant them in the earth. Make a plan for how you will support their growth. Remember and nurture them and see what grows.

Another way to plant intentions is to take some seeds and whisper into them what you would like to see grow in your life. Plant the seeds into the ground or a pot and nurture them!

Self-love and self-nurture

As you start to notice the beauty of nature waking up all around you, notice your own beauty also! How is your body changing and becoming more beautiful every day? Take some selfies and share them with the world! Take ritual baths with flowers and essential oils, take time for your own self-care, skin care rituals, get your hair done, early nights, whatever floats your lotus.

Altars & Decorating your home

With all the beautiful flowers, wildflowers, wattle and other magickal gifts from nature at this time of year there is so much you can use to decorate your altar and home with. Fill your home with flowers and create an Ostara altar with flowers, plants, seeds, images of hares, Jesus, whatever takes your fancy!

*A note on Eggs

It’s common at this time of year to celebrate Ostara or Easter by decorating eggs and placing them on your altar or around your home. Unfortunately, most eggs these days come from factory farms and there is nothing magickal about the egg industry. Please consider working with images of eggs, ceramic eggs or other types of eggs that are cruelty-free. Causing someone else’s suffering for your magick is never worth it imho.

If you have a spell or ritual you usually do with an egg, try performing it with a seed instead. A seed is simply an egg that grows through the earth instead of through a living being, so why not go straight to the source?

As part of your ritual you may like to work with this tarot or oracle spread!

Pour yourself a cup of chamomile tea and grab your deck. You can use any cards you have - tarot, oracle, angel, Uno, it’s all good. You may like to take some time to journal on what comes up for extra insight.

1. Seeds and dreams to plant

2. What they need to grow

3. How to nurture them and yourself

4. How to prepare for their arrival

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my totally free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and Ostara blessings,

Vix

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Full Moon in Pisces Tarot Spread

A full moon in Pisces is the most mega moon for all things psychic, deep and dreamy.

This may not be the easiest moon for some, especially if you’re not familiar with visiting the very deepest depths of your soul, but it is much needed. The magic you can uncover from diving deep can be so powerful and it’s always worth the journey.

If you are wanting to expand your intuitive abilities, wake up your psychic powers or take that spiritual development course you signed up for but haven’t looked at yet, this is the the moon to do it!

The full moon in Pisces is also a time to rest and receive rather than push and try to make something happen.

In fact, we could probably all use a couple days in bed or on the couch over this moon! If that’s not available to you, at least try to honour your downtime. Avoid looking at your phone and absorbing other people’s stuff, and just do things that can help you “zone out” and relax not only your physical body, but also your mind.

This is the moon to catch up on 90s rom coms, to drink huge mugs of tea and fall asleep reading books about astral projection.

It’s also a very occult-y and magickal time! So if you’ve been planning a big spell or ritual for a while, this is a great time to do it.

In its shadow, Pisces can bring a little too much navel gazing, a touch of the blues and tiredness. Listen to your own body and your intuition and always do what feels right for you. Take what resonates here and leave the rest.

Looking for some rituals ideas for this full moon?

• Spiritual development or psychic practice

• Deep dive journaling

• Astral travel

• Dream work

• Big mama tarot readings

• Working with the mermaids

• Bath rituals

• Shadow work

• Spells to boost intuition

• Spells for protection

• Shamanic journeying

The best time to use this spread is within three days after the Full Moon in Pisces, but you can use it anytime you want to dive deep into your own inner world.

Also, check out the Pisces Season Spread for more Pisces vibes!

So go ahead and grab your deck, tarot, oracle, angel, whatever you have, and lets dive deep!

Here’s one I made earlier with the Goddesses Among Us Oracle coming soon!

1.a message from your subconscious

2.message from the mermaids

3.Where to dive deep

4.Magic to be found in the depths

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and deep magic,

Vix

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Xanadu Tarot Spread

Xanadu!

Xanadu is one of the greatest movies of all time.

It came out the year I was born and I honestly can’t imagine a world in which Xanadu didn’t exist.

This is the movie that taught me to believe in magic, to believe in myself and to believe that I could make my own dreams come true.

Xanadu is a story about following your dreams. On roller skates. With Greek muses by your side and an ElO soundtrack. What could be better than that?

I’ve seen Xanadu countless times. As a child I listened to the vinyl on repeat - repeat as in turning the record over continuously. I choreographed dances to all the songs in my living room, and on Saturdays I got my dad to move the car out of the garage so I could practice my skating while I listened to my Xanadu cassette tape that was recorded off the vinyl. There really is nothing like the sound of a tape played out of an 80s tape player that was recorded off a scratchy record. Ah, those were the days!

I saw Xanadu on the big screen for the first time 9 years ago at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. It was incredible.

Olivia Newton John passed away just a few weeks ago and of course, I watched it again. And I cried. I cried at the start when all the muses take off to go and do their lightwork on the planet and help the souls who need them. I cried at the end when all the muses went back to Mount Helicon. I cried because it’s such an incredible creative piece of genius, and Olivia Newton John was such an incredible Lightworker who was really was a muse as an inspiration to so many of us in so many ways.

Olivia Newton John Forever

And sure, it’s a movie that some people didn’t like.

Honestly, if you don’t like Xanadu, I think maybe you just don’t get xanadu.

Or maybe you’re just from a different soul group. *Shrug!

I really do believe that part of the reason we resonate so deeply with certain movies or bands or musicians or authors or other creative work is because the creators are a part of our soul group, sent here to help inspire those of us who are on that frequency to do what we came here to do.

Watching Xanadu is like opening a portal into magic and dreams and believing in miracles.

It’s pure magic and pure heart. I’ve never been able to find out much info about the writers Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel. They don’t even have Wikipedia pages! But whoever they are, I have no doubt that they were channelling something magical AF when they came up with Xanadu.

One of the things I love most about this movie is that they just went for it. They didn’t hold back. They didn’t try to make this movie normal, or cool, or like every other movie that was out and popular. They did something different and just fully committed to the magic and made it as fun, quirky and wonderful as they wanted it to be.

And while the critics will say whatever they want about this movie and every other piece of art in the world. I just say WOW! Imagine creating something as incredible as Xanadu. Imagine knowing you inspired millions of people to take up roller skating and to go and make their own dreams come true.

And honestly, the lightcodes that will download into your heart and mind when you watch Xanadu will get you vibing so high, get you on your highest path and stay with you forever.

And now for a card reading spread!

As always, you can use this spread any cards you have - tarot, oracle, angel, Uno, it’s all good. You may also like to take some time to journal on what comes up for extra insight.

1. Your big dream

2. Your muse

3. How to make it happen

4. How to be someone else’s muse

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my totally free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and believing in magic,

Vix

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New Moon in Virgo Tarot Spread

Virgo is such an honest, down to the earth, smell the roses and put them on your altar sign, and when the new moon moves in here it’s a great time for healing, manifestation and moving on.

When we’re hanging out in Virgo we have an opportunity to pay attention to the details, and if you really want to manifest your dreams, you can’t ignore the nudges, niggles and the dust accumulating in your sacred spaces or in your own energy field.

The little things may not seem important most of the time, but it’s often when we make the smallest change that we see the biggest impact.

Dusting down your altar can make you feel more connected and clear, tidying your desk can help you work more efficiently and one little mindset shift can change your whole life.

This isn’t about sweating the small stuff, it’s about taking care of the details so the universe can work on the big picture stuff for you!

Ever heard the phrase - look after the pennies and the pounds take care of themselves? This is how to manifest in the sign of Virgo. Look after the small stuff and the rest takes care of itself!

Virgo is also all about getting organised, and if you really want to live the life of your dreams, sometimes that means taking care of the mundane muggle stuff.

It’s not always that fun to fill out forms, make phone calls or look for a better deal, but in Virgo this is all part of the manifestation process.

We all want to live in our dream house, but the reality is that in order get it we have to do more than visualise. This new moon is all about figuring out how to make that down payment!

Work out what you want and what you need to do to make it happen.

Virgo is an earth sign and deeply connected to the material world, so you may want to focus on your material manifestations this new moon.

The shadow side of Virgo is that it can make us a little too prone to perfectionism. Focus on self-love, healing and connection to nature as you navigate the Virgo new moon. You don’t have to be perfect, you only have to be you!

LOOKING FOR SOME RITUALS IDEAS FOR THIS NEW MOON?

• Manifest your dream house

• Organise your magickal items, books and decks

• Clean, clear and cleanse your altar or magickal space and create it anew

• Energy healing or reiki

• Ancestral healing

• Rest

• Spells and manifestation for work

• Reconnect with nature

• Flower magick

• Self-love spells

The best time to use this spread is within three days after the new moon in Virgo, but you can really use it anytime you want to connect with the Virgo vibes.

Also, check out the Virgo Season Tarot Spread for more Virgo magick!

So go ahead and grab your deck, tarot, oracle, angel, whatever you have, and let’s get organised!

Here’s one I made earlier with the Angels Among Us Oracle.

1.Details to notice

2.Where to step back

3.where to put your effort

4.How to anchor your dreams

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and smelling the roses,

Vix

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Full Moon in Aquarius Tarot Spread

Although Aquarius is symbolised as the water carrier, it is an air sign, which means this full moon is all about getting your mind right.

The full moon is a great time for releasing, and the full moon in Aquarius can help you to release the mind’s limitations - the old stories, blocks, beliefs, all the junk you’ve been told that just isn’t true for you anymore, or probably never even was.

So much of who we end up becoming is based on what other people have told us we should be.

It’s only later in life, and usually when we got on a path of personal and/or spiritual development that we begin to question it all.

An Aquarius full moon shines a light on our uniqueness and reminds us that who we are is wonderful.

We don’t have to try to fit the mould. We don’t have to be carbon copies of everyone else on Instagram.

In fact, it’s in your uniqueness where you’ll find your own path, your own way, and your own purpose.

We’re all here to do something different. This moon can help you find your thing, embrace it and go your own way.

Aquarius is also concerned with activism, with standing up for what’s right and living a life in alignment with your ideals and ethics. Take some time this full moon to check-in with yourself here. How can you be more of an activist for the things you believe in? How can you walk your talk? How are you being called to help the world?

Looking for some rituals ideas for this full moon?

• Journal on the beliefs and stories that hold you back then rip out the pages and burn them

• Clear out your closet and donate anything that isn’t “you”

• Experiment with fashion and make-up magick

• Cut your fringe/bangs (go on, you know you want to! :P)

• Take a deep dive into your life purpose stuff.

• Purpose manifestation and spells

• Take action on a cause you believe in

The best time to use this spread is within three days after the Full Moon in Aquarius, but you can use it anytime you want to connect with your inner weirdo and make a difference in the world.

Also, check out the Aquarius Season Spread for more Aquarius vibes!

So go ahead and grab your deck, tarot, oracle, angel, whatever you have, and let your freak flag fly!

Here’s one I made earlier with the Tarot Wide Open coming to Kickstarter soon!

1.how to release limitations

2.how to own your uniqueness

3.something to believe in

4.how to help the world

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and doing you,

Vix

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Lammas Tarot Spread and Ritual Ideas

Harvest ready.

Lammas blessings gorgeous souls!

Lammas is the pagan harvest festival celebrated between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox.

As a harvest festival Lammas is all about celebrating your abundance, sharing the wealth, honouring your inner and outer growth and enjoying the last little bit of summer before the weather turns towards cooler days.

It’s a time to reap what you’ve sown, to recognise and celebrate all your success, to take stock of how far you’ve come and to be mighty darn proud of yourself too!

We don’t often give ourselves the credit we deserve, and Lammas is a perfect time to sit down, count our blessings, look at our growth over the last season and really claim and activate that within us.

Celebrated on the 1st of August in the northern hemisphere and the 1st of February in the southern hemisphere, Lammas is a festival of joy and abundance to recognise and celebrate all the good things in your life.

Lammas mood.

Looking for some Lammas rituals?

As always, you can celebrate Lammas or any of the sabbats however you like. But here are some ideas that may be useful in helping you develop your own rituals.

Gratitude

Gratitude rituals are a fantastic way to “harvest” all the good in your life. Take some time to write down everything you’re grateful for. Start a new gratitude journal or jar (where you pop a little gratitude in every day). You can even make a gratitude board in the same way you’d create a vision board, but instead of adding images of what you want, add what you’re grateful for. Gratitude is such a powerful spiritual practice and always helps you open up to even more.

Abundance and prosperity spells

Any abundance or prosperity spells will be more potent at this time. Be sure to do this after you’ve already done some gratitude work and you’ll be amazed at the results. Your spells can be as simple as just writing down what you want, saying it out loud to the universe or doing a candle spell with some gorgeous abundance oils like cinnamon, chamomile or basil.

Serving others

While it’s wonderful to revel in all you have and all you’ve achieved, it’s even more fun to share all you have with others. Perhaps you can donate some time, items or money to a charity, or maybe you can help someone in need in your own family, friendship circle or community. Giving back not only helps others, it also expands your radiance and your ability to drawn more good to you.

Being present

Take some time this Lammas to meditate on the present moment. Find the joy in the here and now.

As part of your ritual you may like to work with this tarot or oracle spread!

Pour yourself a cup of ice tea and grab your deck. You can use any cards you have - tarot, oracle, angel, Uno, it’s all good. You may like to take some time to journal on what comes up for extra insight.

1. What has grown

2. What is ready to harvest

3. What to keep and be grateful for

4. How to enjoy the fruits of your labour

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my totally free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and Lammas blessings,

Vix

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Imbolc Tarot Spread and Ritual Ideas

Imbolc vibezz

Imbolc blessings gorgeous souls!

Imbolc is the pagan fire festival celebrated halfway between winter solstice and the spring equinox.

Saint Brigid is associated with this festival as she is the pagan goddess of fire, growth, new beginnings and spring.

Celebrated on the 1st of February in the northern hemisphere and the 1st of August in the southern hemisphere, this is the time of year when those of us who live in frosty places start to notice the longer days and some signs that spring is in the air.

In the UK where I used to live, the snowdrops and daffodils would often appear around Imbolc. Here in the colder part of Australia where I now live, I’m seeing spiders appearing in the bathroom again. A sure sign that spring is on the way! :P

As a festival of renewal, Imbolc is the perfect time for some spring cleaning, whether that’s literal or spiritual.

Whatever you’ve been using to keep you warm all winter is no longer needed and it’s time to let go, release, burn away the old and start looking towards the newness of spring and summer.

Light those candles and call in Saint Brigid!

Looking for some Imbolc rituals?

As always, you can celebrate Imbolc or any of the sabbats however you like. But here are some ideas that may be useful in helping you develop your own rituals.

Fire rituals

Write down everything you want to let go of and not carry with you in the next season. Light the paper and watch it all burn while you hold the intention to let it all go.

Spring cleaning and Decluttering

While it may not sound very spiritual, nothing shifts and clears energy like a good clean out. Declutter your wardrobes and drawers. Donate anything you’re no longer using. Get a little Marie Kondo or go full on minimalist and let go of all the “stuff” that’s holding you down.

update your Altar

This is a fantastic time to shake up your altar, or if you don’t have one, a perfect time to create one! There’s lots of details about how to do this in my book Witch, Please. Get creative, change things around, add some spring flowers and an image of Saint Brigid. Oh, and don’t forget to light some candles of course!

Cleansing spells

Cleansing or banishing spells will work well at this time of year. There are many ways to do a cleansing spell, but I like to take a white candle, dress it with any cleansing oil (something like sage, rosemary, pine, eucalyptus or mint works well!) and light it with the intention that I am clear and cleansed in all directions. Let it burn down and then dispose of the remaining wax immediately.

As part of your ritual you may like to work with this tarot or oracle spread!

Pour yourself a cup of spicy cinnamon tea and grab your deck. You can use any cards you have - tarot, oracle, angel, Uno, it’s all good. You may like to take some time to journal on what comes up for extra insight.

1. lessons from the depths of winter

2. what to cleanse and burn away

3. How to prepare for the spring

4. what to look ahead to

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my totally free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and Imolc blessings,

Vix

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New Moon in Leo Tarot Spread

A new moon in Leo!? Well dust off your dancing shoes and throw on a sequin kimono because this is going to be a big one!

Leo is a big, proud, fierce vibe and combined with the bright new anything can happen energy of the new moon, this moon really is all about going big or going home.

There is no way to get away with playing small during a Leo new moon, and this is the perfect time to look at all the ways you do play small in your life that aren’t serving you. As the new moon portal opens, lay down all the ways in which you hide your light for the (perceived) benefit of others, all the ways you people please and “dim to fit in".

This is a new moon to get honest with yourself about what you really want and how you want to shine brighter in the world. Where and how do you want to be seen? What do you want to be recognised for?

While Leo can be a sign with a little bit of ego, it also brings questions around how you want to help and support and make a difference in the world. We all want to be seen and acknowledged, but many of us also want to do something good, helpful and worthwhile to be seen and acknowledged for.

Take some time this new moon to really tune into your purpose path, the ways you want to use your big heart and bright light to be of service and help the world.

If there’s one thing this new moon is here to do, it’s to remind you that you are here to live a big and bold life, that you deserve to be seen and recognised and loved for all you do.

No more playing small this moonth, it’s all about rising, shining and letting the world hear you ROOOARRRRRRR!

LOOKING FOR SOME RITUALS IDEAS FOR THIS New MOON?

• Manifest, manifest, manifest - go BIG with your manifesting! Nothing is too crazy or big to put out there!

• Confidence and courage spells

• Shadow work - dive deep into fears and beliefs that keep you playing small

• Meditate on your purpose

• Clear and charge your crystals

• Make some citrine gem water or aura sprays

The best time to use this spread is within three days after the new moon in Leo, but you can really use it anytime you want to connect with the big, fierce vibes of Leo.

Also, check out the Leo Season Tarot Spread for more Leo magick!

So go ahead and grab your deck, tarot, oracle, angel, whatever you have, and let’s go big!

Here’s one I made earlier with the Goddesses Among Us Oracle coming soon!

1.what keeps you small

2.How to bust through it

3.How to be bold

4.How to live big

If you found this spread useful be sure to check out my free e-book Tarot Spreads You Can’t Live Without and if you share your spread on socials please tag me - I’m @newagehipster333 on IG and @newagehipster333 on FB and I’d love to connect and see your readings! :D

With love, light and being bold,

Vix

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Alternative and Empowering Tarot Card Meanings | The Tower

I wrote a blog post many years ago called Rebuilding with the Tower which is still totally relevant and you may want to check that out that post too if you’re struggling to interpret the tower tarot card, but in this post I wanted to share a different and even more empowering take on the Tower card.

Last weekend I watched Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2. They are still such great movies, and apart from the casual racism and sexism of the mid 80s (which honestly wasn’t much worse than in today’s movies I gotta say), they have really stood the test of time.

On Monday morning I pulled the Tower card in my own reading. I’m no stranger to this card, and I think most of us who are on any kind of spiritual journey have seen the Tower pop up quite often!

As I looked at the Tower card from the Fifth Tarot I had a bolt of lightning realisation that the Tower moment is literally what happens to Johnny Five in Short Circuit! :o

Without giving away any spoilers, Short Circuit is about a robot who gets struck by lightning and gains consciousness. He becomes “alive”.

And that’s exactly what happens to us when the lightning hits the tower!

The Tower has often been associated with enlightenment. It’s only when the bricks of BS or worldly junk fall away that we’re able to really see the spiritual truth.

The Tower is one of those cards that often brings fear to the hearts of those getting a reading. Even more so sometimes than the Death card. The imagery of the Tower is intense. It’s people being thrown out of towers, getting impaled on sticks, everything burning to the ground. It’s no doubt people are a little alarmed when it comes up.

But if we reframed it as a card of enlightenment we could see it so differently.

Assuming we are actually on a journey towards enlightenment of course.

Sometimes the fear of this card is related to the resistance we have about our own spiritual journey and the changes we are being called to make in our lives to reach that enlightenment we seek.

Many of us want to live our spiritual truth, we want to gain insight and work on our own spiritual development and ascension journey. But we also don’t want to give up our 3D comforts or have to make any changes to do it. And that’s when the Tower gets scary. When it takes away the things we think we need and want in order to show us a better way.

Think of it like this - you’re sitting on the couch with a big fluffy blanket eating chips and zoning out with bad TV. You haven’t moved in months. You know you kind of do want more for your life, but you’re also really comfortable and chips are tasty and blanket is fluffy. And you don’t really know what’s outside anymore, so you just stay where you are, even though on some level you know it’s not really in alignment with your best and highest good.

The Tower is like your kitchen catching on fire and you having no choice but to haul your ass off the couch and fix your kitchen and then your whole life.

You might resent it at first, but it may just be the best thing that happened to you.

In Short Circuit , not only does our friend Johnny 5 get hit by lightning which gives him conscious awareness, he then goes on a spiritual journey which is often where we go from this light bulb moment. It’s not the easiest journey when you’re awake and aware, but it’s so much better than living life as a robot or a couch potato.

The entire movie feels like a metaphor for the spiritual journey, and if you watch part 2 it just continues!

The Tower is the moment of realisation. The moment you realise - woah, what’s with all these walls I’ve built? Why am I in this tower of my own making? It’s the moment you realise you can get out of there. You can rip down those walls and be free.

The Tower is about liberation, enlightenment, a deeper realisation that something needs to change in your life so that you can be free.

Of course then we have the whole journey to go on from there. What do we do when our tower comes crumbling down and the rest of the world is still living in theirs? How do we navigate the world without living in a tower of our own making when that’s the societal norm?

Although the traditional Tower card represents people falling to their deaths, if you are on the spiritual journey and willing to do the work, the Tower is nothing to be afraid of.

In fact, for many of us on the spiritual path, The Tower card is the moment we’ve been waiting for. The insight and illumination we’ve been seeking to help get us to the next point on our journey.

If you identify as a lightworker, good witch, yogi or you’re on the ascension path, this card is a big hello from your spiritual guides and angels that you’re on your highest path and that you will break through, align and find your way to deeper truth, love and enlightenment.

So next time you see this card in a reading remember it’s a symbol of enlightenment, a chance to step forward on the path of ascension and become more awake and conscious and purposeful in your life.

The Tower from the Modern Witch Tarot and from the Fifth Tarot.

If you’ve pulled the the tower card in your tarot reading and are looking for some empowering meanings, try one of these:

• Enlightenment

• Illumination

• Realisation

• Spiritual downloads

• Epiphany

• Clarity

• Light bulb or lightning bolt moment

• Consciousness

• Higher consciousness

• Crown chakra activations

• Light codes coming in and activating

• Loud and clear divine guidance

• Guidance or knowing you can no longer ignore

• A spiritual calling

• Waking up - the spiritual alarm clock going off

• Moment of truth

• Insight

• Awakening

• Kundalini Awakening

• Destiny calling

• Spiritual journey

• Path of Ascension

• Destruction of all that is no longer in alignment for you

• Rebuilding

Always take what resonates and leave the rest. Maybe the Tower card has a totally different meaning for you, and it’s all good.

We all see the world and the tarot differently and that’s what makes it such an incredible tool. We all get what we need from it.

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With love, light and enlightenment,

Vix

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