Aloha friends,
This week’s letter is infused with the magic energy of the islands. I’ve returned to Hawaiʻi to celebrate a dear friend turning 40. It’s been a beautiful whirlwind of a visit.
Visiting here always feels like coming home. I became an adult here, growing from an awkward teen into my mildly more responsible mid-twenties before moving back to the mainland. I’ve returned for stretches here and there, and I can’t tell you how often I seriously consider making this place my home again.
For now, I’m so grateful to be here to spend time with dear friends and old friends and the land that supported me through such a formative time in my life.
So, this week’s letter is all about what you need to feel supported in your life. Take a moment to lean into where you need more support and pick a card.
xo,
Natalie
The Cards:
Decks: Pagan Otherworlds & Inquire Within oracle
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The Hanged Man & Begin Again
This pairing asks you to look at the problem or issue you’re facing from a new perspective, perhaps even letting it go altogether.
Beginning again or starting over might just be the supportive medicine you’re seeking, and something you can give to yourself.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to burn it all down, whatever it is. It simply means that the way you’re looking at things or pushing to try and change things might not be in your best interest, even if you can’t see it yet.
Trust that what’s meant to happen will happen with ease when you are aligned with it. For now, reflect on how letting go or looking at things with a fresh view might be the key to changing everything.
Keep trying, keep moving forward through this, but from a truly aligned place. That means instead of thinking you know the answer and direction to go, rely instead on what feels right.
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Plant a seed and wait & ten of swords
The best support you can give yourself right now is to stop trying so hard to make something happen. It’s exhausting, and creating from a place of exhaustion is rarely a fulfilling experience.
Whatever road you’re traveling, it’s taken it’s toll. It’s time to release the intensity of effort and striving. Support yourself by connecting to a simple desire: what is it that you truly want?
Plant that seed of desire and release the “trying so hard” that you’ve been doing. Take a small step in a new direction today and tomorrow and the next day.
Do this with ease and joy and trust that if you stay the course (we don’t dig up seeds we plant but instead just have faith they’ll grow, right?), your life will feel very different someday soon.
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You already are & 9 of Pentacles
A beautiful reminder that so much of what feels external and outside of yourself is also available to you always.
You carry within you so much wisdom and healing power AND the ability to choose. Choosing to look for the abundance (9 of pentacles) that surrounds you every day is something only YOU can do.
Nothing outside of yourself can make you feel differently about something, no matter how dire it might seem. It’s always in your power to choose your outlook. Always.
Pull back before you make an decision out of habit. Is this decision aligned? Does the next move you’re about to make—whether it’s speaking or thinking or doing—support the highest version of you and how you want to show up?
You already are. You are magic. You are here.