✨ 11-01-24: New Moon In Scorpio

Seven of Pentacles ✧ Three of Pentacles ✧ Nine of Cups ✧ The Lovers

A little late again, sorry! But still relevant. Just need to work on getting myself on a proper schedule in the coming months.

As this new cycle begins, there's a need to ground ourselves in the here and the now, to spend less time upset about what may have happened in the past, or worrying and fretting about how the future is to unfold. Reflection serves a point, as does having goals we wish to work towards—but neither matter if you remain frozen where you are, afraid you'll never be enough, afraid you'll never make up for or recover from what's behind you.

You may have recently asked yourself what the point is. Maybe you've missed or have yet to see tangible results from your work, or you figure everything is for naught anyway. Why enter a relationship if there's a chance it will end prematurely? Why take care of yourself if you believe you're just going to drop the ball somewhere down the line? Why communicate if you're used to being misunderstood? Why reach out if you're used to being ignored?

Change and growth are processes. They take time and steady commitment. You know you can't plant a seed and expect flowers to be blooming from the same spot the next day. You know canyons weren't sculpted in a week. Why do you expect personal growth, a skill, a project, or a relationship to meet the desired result instantaneously?

When it's a matter of getting ahead of yourself, and anticipating a loss, or a fall: Is the beauty of spring and summer any less because their beauty is impermanent? There are memories to make, lessons to learn, conversations to have, songs to sing, warmth to soak up. Endings or the occasional stumble do not change what once was. Maybe happiness isn't permanent, but neither is sadness. Neither is despair. You have to look at the bigger picture, consider your life like a woven tapestry. Every thread an experience, every thread making up the whole; all that you've been, all that you are, all that you will be or could be. You just need to start weaving.

It's time to take what you've learned thus far and implement it. With the appearance of The Lovers, just as last time this may have to do with an act of rebalancing, or with a relationship. It may be time to reexamine what it is you value and why, and what choices you can make to align with those values. Particularly relevant is anything that might've come to mind if you happened to read last month's new moon reading in Libra. As a major arcana, this is long term energy. Do not expect a shift overnight, but with time and commitment.

Material matters are of significance with two cards from the pentacles suit. Tangible steps are most powerful this month. Tending your health by making adjustments to diet or beginning exercise, tending your appearance by keeping up with your hygiene or getting a haircut or finding clothes you feel more comfortable in, exploring your mind and your feelings through music, through journaling, and enriching all of these spheres through your senses; all are options to consider. It's just important that no matter what you do, you do something, preferably something you can see or sense a difference from, even if small. Small wins are still wins, and might help give you motivation to keep moving forward.

With the Nine of Cups is an indication you have everything you need to make these changes. You may find it helpful to take account of what you do have, and what is going right, especially in the moments of experience. This can be in the form of more one-off gratitude lists, but a gratitude journaling practice overall will likely be the most beneficial. When you note how nice the sun felt on a given day, or someone's company you enjoyed, the good meal you made or how much better you felt after getting a shower, it's harder to miss all the small things that make life worth living

Related Songs: Loti by Eidola, Trust Love by Jeff & Casey Lee Williams, Know Where I Belong by Varia, Wilt by Holding Absence, Bloom Of Mice & Men

Credits: Sun & Moon divider by Saradika over on tumblr, deck is the Sacred Rose Tarot by Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman.

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