🔮 A Note Before You Read:

As I mentioned in the prior post, I normally keep my tarot spreads tucked away in journals or whispered into incense smoke and not launched into cyberspace like spiritual confetti.

Yet… here we are. Again.

I wasn’t planning on sharing another tarot reading. This reading started as curiosity. About the collective energy I’ve been sensing. But somewhere in the middle of kings crumbling, soul tribes gathering, and exhausted witches laying down their baskets… I realized I wasn’t just reading the world. I was also reading myself.

This message also feels bigger than just me.
Maybe you’ve been feeling it too.
Take what resonates. Leave what doesn’t.

I’m still learning Tarot, so please bear with me. This is my interpretation.

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Disclaimer:
This blog post contains my personal interpretations of a tarot reading. It is shared for entertainment, reflection, and spiritual insight. It is not intended as fortune telling, nor does it make any guaranteed predictions.

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TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read)

In case your attention span has been fried by the chaos (same), here’s a TL;DR version of what the cards revealed. Full download below if you’re in the mood to time travel with me.

Spread Title: The Collapse, the Call, the Clarity

• 🏛️ King of Pentacles – Systems collapse. Power trembles. The old world breaks.
  
• 🔥 4 of Wands – But the people rise. Soul bonds form. A new foundation emerges.
  
• 🧺 Queen of Pentacles Reversed – The caretakers are tired. Healing requires rest, not martyrdom.
  
• 🌀 The Wheel – Karma turns. Cycles end. We surrender to sacred motion.
  
• 💔 2 of Cups Reversed – Old wounds resurface. Unspoken pains rises to be felt and finally freed.
  
• 🌞 The Sun – After all this? Illumination. Joy. Wholeness. A return to truth and light.

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🏛️ King of Pentacles – The Crumbling Throne of “Stability”

I asked what the current energies are trying to tell me.

He usually represents grounded leadership, wealth, and structure. But in a spread asking what the current energy is trying to tell me? He arrived slightly panicked, adjusting his golden cufflinks as the floor quietly gives way beneath his throne.

This king isn’t just a person—he’s a symbol of:

• Power hoarding
  
• Systems built on the backs of others
  
• The illusion that what we’ve always done is what we should keep doing

Feels like:
“The tower may not have fallen (yet), but the foundation is deeply questionable—and the king knows it.”

What I’m picking up here is that we’re witnessing more tremors of collapse disguised as confidence. The kings of the old world are still trying to throw parades while the ground shifts, refusing to see that their gold is melting.

This is the energy that whispers, “Shhh, trust the market,” as the market bursts into flames and sets your last bag of rice on fire.

We don’t bow to this king anymore.
We watch. We take notes.
We build bonfires and begin again.

🏛️ King of Pentacles Cliff Notes:

🏛️ Upright: Wealth• Structure• Leadership• Stability
🌀 Reversed: Greed• Stagnation• Systems built on shaky ethics

Current vibe: “Everything is fine,” says the king sipping vintage wine while Rome quietly burns.

Message: He’s got generational wealth, a bull on standby, and no clue what to do when people stop playing the game.

Reflection: We were told to trust the ones in power. But we’ve learned to trust the rumble beneath our feet instead.

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🔥 Gathering in the Firelight

So then I asked “What aspect is being revealed right now?”

Right after the King of Pentacles showed up clutching his gold like a dragon with trust issues, the 4 of Wands entered the scene like a quiet revolution.

This card is joy.
But not the hollow kind.
This is joy as resistance.

Where the King builds walls, the 4 of Wands raises arches.
Where the world feels fractured, this card is the moment you find your people, your purpose, your circle in the storm.

Feels like:
“The world is breaking, but the soul tribe is gathering.”

Maybe not physically (because, well, capitalism),
but energetically, emotionally, spiritually… the threads are pulling us together.

You may have noticed:

• You’re drawn to people who feel like home
• You’re less tolerant of surface-level nonsense
• You’re craving ritual, community, meaning… even in small, chaotic bursts

That’s the 4 of Wands.

This isn’t just a celebration. It’s a signal fire.

The King of Pentacles imagines throwing a billion-dollar parade.
The 4 of Wands says, ‘Cool. We’ve got soup, sage, and soul contracts under a tarp in the woods. And we’re doing just fine.’

🔥 The 4 of Wands Cliff Notes:

🔥Upright: Celebration• Community• Sacred Union• Coming together for a shared purpose
🌀Reversed: Fleeting joy• False harmony• Being left out of the gathering

Current vibe: “While the kings plot, the people dance under lanterns and start building something real.”

Message: You’re not alone. Collective energy is rising. The soul family is gathering—bonfires, not boardrooms.

Reflection: We gather not because it’s safe, but because it’s sacred. And because the fire still burns.

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🧺 An Exhausted Empress

So now I’m like, “Okay, cool.. so what’s next?”
Queen of Pentacles (Reversed)
Ah.. okay..

She’s the one who holds it all together.
The one who nurtures the chaos, pays the bills, stirs the soup, keeps the spreadsheets and the spells aligned.
She is the hearth.

But reversed?

She’s tired.
She’s feeling undervalued.
She’s been running on half-spilled coffee and quiet tears for months.

Feels like:
“You’re not lazy. You’re depleted. And this system was never designed to refill your cup.“

This is sacred burnout.
It’s what happens when those who carry the emotional and energetic labor of society aren’t allowed to stop.

She represents:

• The overworked healers
• The emotionally taxed empaths
• The single parents, caretakers, healers, witches, and weary souls who’ve had to mother the world while it collapses

The Queen of Pentacles reversed doesn’t scold you.
She lays down the basket and says:
“You cannot pour from an empty cauldron. And frankly? You shouldn’t have to.”

But the card’s presence is also a prescription:

• Ground yourself—literally. Touch the earth. Burn the incense. Hold the mug.
• Stop apologizing for not being productive during the collapse.
• Say “no” more often, and mean it.
• Rest is not a break from the revolution. It’s part of it.

🌿 The Queen of Pentacles Cliff Notes:

🌿 Upright: Nurturing • Self-care • Grounded abundance • The sacred feminine of the physical realm
🌀 Reversed: Burnout • Over giving • Imbalance • Forgetting your own needs while tending everyone else’s

Current vibe: “You can’t pour from an empty cauldron. Especially not during collapse season.”

Message: Reclaim your energy. Prioritize your healing. You are the hearth. Protect your flame.

Reflection: You are not the crisis manager of the universe. Let the basket fall. Let the roots hold you.

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🎡 A Divine Shuffle

I felt we weren’t done just yet. So I asked: “What is the next message?”
A cosmic mic drop. The Wheel. 🎤🌀

The card that laughs gently and ominously when we ask “what now?”
And yeah, sometimes it absolutely does just say: “Buckle up, baby. You’re on the ride.”
By the time The Wheel shows up in a spread like this, we’ve already seen:

• The kings unraveling
• The people gathering
• The caretakers collapsing

The card of divine timing, karmic cycles, timeline pivots, and full-system reboots.
It doesn’t ask if you’re ready. It just spins.

Feels like:
“A collective pivot point. The moment where the threads tangle or align.
The click before the timeline shifts.”

Not sure if the Wheel’s already spinning? You might be feeling:

• A strange pressure in your chest or gut
• The sense that “something” is about to change
• Dreams that feel more like visions
• Or a gnawing feeling that you’ve done this all before

That’s Wheel energy.
That’s cosmic deja vu with consequences.

But here’s the gift:
The Wheel isn’t random. It’s responsive.
It spins based on what we’re willing to release, reclaim, and rewrite.

This is not about waiting to see what happens.
It’s about choosing how you ride the spiral.

💫 The Wheel Cliff Notes:

🎯 Upright: Fate• Divine timing• Cycles ending and beginning• Karmic shifts
🌀 Reversed: Feeling out of control • Resisting change • Clinging to what’s already gone

Current vibe: “The universe just hit shuffle. You might land in a revelation—or a side quest.”

Message: Change is inevitable. Chaos isn’t always punishment. You’re not lost. You’re in motion.

Reflection: Some are still clinging to the old order with white knuckles and bad data.
Others are building altars in the wreckage and saying,
“Okay, Universe. Spin it. Let’s see where we land.”

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💔 Echoes of What Was

I pulled another card.
The 2 of Cups (Reversed).

The upright 2 of Cups is about connection: partnership, harmony, mirrored energy.
The reversal? It’s like looking into a mirror… and not recognizing the reflection.

This is the grief that doesn’t always cry.
The ache that lingers in the bones.
The spaces where love should have been, but wasn’t.
In this spread, after The Wheel?

Feels like:
“It feels like a soul detox.
When old ties, past pain, and unhealed fractures rise… not to haunt, but to release.”

We’re not just watching systems collapse.
We’re witnessing the collapse of illusions… about love, about safety, about people we thought would never abandon us.

This card may stir:

• Old heartbreaks resurfacing
• The pain of being unseen, silenced, ghosted
• A reckoning with where you’ve over-given and under-received

But here’s the thing.

The 2 of Cups reversed isn’t a punishment.
It’s a sacred severance.

A soul-deep reminder that healing doesn’t mean reconnection.
It means liberation.

You don’t need to carry these echoes anymore.
You’ve honored them.
You’ve cried through them.
You’ve written through them.
Now they can go.

💖 The 2 of Cups Cliff Notes:

🥀 Upright: Partnership • Soul connection • Unity of heart and spirit
💔 Reversed: Separation • Heartbreak • Misalignment • Unhealed relational wounds

Current vibe: “Old bonds are surfacing not to be rekindled—but to be released, finally and fully.”

Message: Feel it. Name it. Let it go. Healing begins when we stop carrying ghosts.

Reflection: Closure isn’t always a conversation.
Sometimes it’s just realizing they were never capable of showing up.
And you? You showed up anyway. That’s your magic. Not your burden.
Letting go doesn’t mean it didn’t matter. It means you’re no longer letting it define you.

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🌞 Illumination After the Storm

I felt there was one more message. Then I pulled The Sun.

After everything… after the kings fell, the soul tribe gathered, the caretakers collapsed, the Wheel spun, and the heartache surfaced, the Universe hands us this:

Light.
Joy.
Truth.

A soul-deep reminder that all of this was for something.

This isn’t naïve optimism or spiritual bypassing.
This is earned joy. Battle-born clarity.
The kind of light that comes after the storm when your boots are muddy, your hands are raw, but your spirit is still glowing.

The Sun is a moment of sacred affirmation:

• You are not broken.
• You are not too late.
• You are not alone.
• And most of all: You’re not crazy for feeling this deeply.

You see the absurdity, the collapse, the distortion… and you’ve still chosen to keep your heart open. That’s revolutionary.

In this reading, The Sun is more than hope. It’s arrival.
A signal that a new chapter is not only possible. It’s already begun.

You’re not in the dark anymore.
You’re standing at the edge of something new, illuminated by the lessons you refused to ignore.

Feels like:
“You made it through.
Not untouched. Not unchanged.
But awake.”

🌞 The Sun Cliff Notes:

💫 Upright: Joy • Truth • Clarity • Hope • Radiance • Soul illumination
🦋 Reversed: Naivety • Burnout masked as optimism • Ignoring the shadows

Current vibe: “After the storm, the sun doesn’t ask for applause. It just rises.”

Message: Light is returning. The path ahead is real. You’re not broken. You’re breaking open.

Reflection: Joy, in a world like this, is not frivolous. It’s an act of sacred rebellion.

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🛤️ Mapping the Collapse & the Clarity

A journey told in cards, each step marking the spiral many of us may be walking.

1. King of Pentacles – the old story ending
   
2. 4 of Wands – the soul family forming
   
3. Queen of Pentacles Reversed – exhaustion from carrying too much
   
4. The Wheel – divine timing shifting
   
5. 2 of Cups Reversed – healing old wounds
   
6. The Sun – clarity and emergence

From endings to emergence, the message seems clear: a collapse isn’t the end—it’s an opening.

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🕯️ One Last Message – But First, Frankincense

As I was putting together this blog post, I kept looking over at my Sacred Rebels Oracle deck. So I figured it was probably a nudge. As I was about to shuffle the deck, I heard something soft but clear in my mind: “but first, frankincense.”

So I lit some frankincense.
Let it spiral through the space.
Let it cleanse and prepare me for whatever was still waiting to be revealed.
A few slow deep breaths.

Then I pulled the card: 42 – The Word Wants To Be Written.
Of course it was 42. 😉
(Yes, 42. The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Thank you, Douglas Adams!)
A final reminder that it’s not about figuring it all out.
It’s about creating anyway.
Whether through writing, dance, song, spoken words.
Witnessing the collapse.
Channeling the light.
Telling the truth, even when it trembles.
Even when it burns.
Especially when it burns.

It felt like confirmation of everything I had just channeled: the story, the emotions, the truth rising through the cracks. This isn’t just about tarot. It’s about creating the world we want to live in, even while it’s still being born.

“You are ready to write. You are ready to bare your soul to the world. Even if it’s imperfect, unfinished, or raw—write it anyway.”

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🃏 Tarot Tips from the Trenches

Since this is apparently becoming a thing (and I’m still learning as I go), I figured I’d start including some of the basics I’ve picked up along the way.
Stuff that wasn’t obvious to me when I started, but might help someone else out there just beginning their own tarot spiral.

Court cards aren’t just people. They’re energy.
The Queen of Pentacles, for example, represents the sacred feminine of earth energy: nurturing, grounded, sustaining.
Feminine doesn’t mean “woman,” just as masculine doesn’t mean “man.”
These are archetypes—energetic patterns we all carry.
So if you feel like this Queen? That’s your sign. Your energy matters. You’re allowed to rest too.

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Note: For this reading, I used the Light Seers Tarot and the Sacred Rebels Oracle decks. The images shown are from these decks.

Light Seers Tarot by Chris-Anne
Available via Hay House.

The Sacred Rebels Oracle by Alana Fairchild
Available here.