Welcome to May’s Intuitive Forecast!
…And a quick announcement before we begin! My Introduction to Tarot class is returning in Durham on the 19th! This one is such a joy to teach, and I do hope you’ll join me for an evening of exploration, experimentation, and merriment. Bring your decks, questions, and curiosity as we dive into the ins and outs of the tarot, practice readings, and learn to trust our intuition to interpret the cards.
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Now let’s talk about this forecast!
This reading really surprised me when I turned over the cards. After a period of (relative) calm in our readings with no majors in sight, May brings us two powerful archetypes to work with: the deeply transformative path of Death and the placid surrender of The Hanged Man.
If you’ve been feeling a change building, this month is when it comes into focus - perhaps in a glaring way that has us instincitively shrinking away from the spotlight - and requires us to keep going, dare to openly celebrate and continue what’s working well (and rapidly), and to balance all the fire and movement with wise practical decisions in our everyday lives.
🎧 Listen in and see how these cards might shape your May.
Scroll down for monthly themes, what’s in and what’s out, and a custom tarot spread 👇
Best always,
THEMES FOR MAY
Success + forward motion
Real time feedback
Confronting personal change
Growing meaning + coherence
Removal as protection
Healing steadiness
Intuitive Impression
It’s a blindingly bright day and you’ve just run into the center of a field. Squinting, you try to catch your breath and realize you’ve come farther than expected. Sounds of vibrant conversation - a party? - emerge from ahead.
In
Crowing your accomplishments from the mountaintops!
Self-confidence, self-celebration, rewriting any beliefs that visibility = conceitedness, inviting misfortune
Enthusiastically taking yourself seriously (and your work, creative projects, plans, etc.)
Motion, innovation, and collaboration
Time to process feelings like an emo highschooler
Messiness over smug detachment
Prudent financial decisions
Pacing how you spend your energy and resources
Out
Obsessing over your domestic life - clean less this month!
Nitpicking how you present yourself; you’re ready right now
Inaction, especially if you’re choosing to philosophize instead of participate
Futile exercises of control in the face of change. The Wheel of Fortune (2026) + Death (May) = global and personal transformation that’s happening of its own accord
Minimizing your skills, accomplishments, and visions for the future
FALSE MODESTY
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TAROT SPREAD
There’s a funny thing happening this month: we’re trivializing our successes at first glance, labeling them as frivolous, silly, or simply not that deep when, in reality, they’re offshoots of a larger story of transformation. The small is much bigger than it seems! And our task this month is to look beneath the surface and honor what we discover.
From Left to Right:
Card 1: An unknown part of your journey/message from the subconscious or higher self
Card 2: The crux of the moment, the deeper current - what you’re expressing
Card 3: Something you’re doing - a Six of Wands success - that’s reflecting the deeper change of cards 1 & 2
Card 4: Another thing you’re dong that reflects the deeper change of cards 1 & 2!
GUIDING QUESTIONS
Prompts for journaling and reflection
What is working right now? Like amazingly, abundantly, and surprisingly? How can you 1) ease into this and 2) keep going?
How can you create space to sense into the larger change you’re undergoing? Think intuitively, somatically, environmentally. This month is less about hardcore analysis than it is trusting what’s already happening and feeling into your experience.
In what ways do you tend to remove yourself to feel safety, control, or calm? How have you done this in the past and how can you resist this pull in May?
UNTIL NEXT TIME!
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