There has been a collective energy lately around emerging from our comfort zones, and this Monthly Reflection is no exception. As we enter into August, we are met with a sense of yearning, a sense that something is missing, and if we truly want it, we can’t stay where we are.

July Reflection - The Wanderer

This is a beautiful bonus card found in The Wandering Moon Tarot (a wonderful, high-quality deck). In the image, we meet The Wanderer, who appears to be sitting atop the moon alone. She looks out towards a crescent moon in the distance. She may be physically on this moon, but her mind and heart are elsewhere. This forms the basis of our reflection for July…

The monthly reflection comes a little late this month - moving home has been a little chaotic! But we’re back with quite a bang - two major arcana cards make quite the powerhouse combo here!

The Wayhome Tarot’s version of The World, called The Universe, is perhaps my favourite. Its beautiful imagery captures the complexity of a card that is mostly reduced down to being about accomplishment, achievement and completion.

Don’t get me wrong, it is about those things - but what does that really mean? Let’s break it down.

The months of April and May appear to mark an important turning point for us my friends! The areas we have been stuck are being brought to light, and while it might be painful, it is an opportunity to release and to forge ahead on a new and better path.

So, let’s break this down…

April Reflection: Three of Swords

This was a significant, albeit difficult, month.

The Three of Swords is our card of heartache, a card many of us fear to see, and the way the Wayhome Tarot depicts this has an interesting additional layer for us to consider.

We can see the blood red liquid as a signifier of the pain we hold within ourselves. It sits there, circling round and round within us, an endless loop…

March Reflection: Seven of Wands

If you’ve been following along with this year’s monthly reflections, you’ll know that, at the start of the month, we pulled the Seven of Cups for the outlook of the month ahead. At the end of the month, we see another seven in our reflection!

We began the month with the potential for distractions, but the Seven of Wands indicates we’ve handled those distractions rather well. These distractions came to knock us off our path, and we said, “No, thank you!”

As we enter the month of March and we see the first signs of Spring (or Autumn for my Southern Hemisphere friends), the Nine of Stars indicates that many of us are bringing big goals or dreams along with us, taking root through the course of February.

I’ve been doing monthly reflections sporadically on Instagram, and while they have been interesting, I’ve always felt like there was more to say than can be included in a caption! So, this year, I’ll be bringing it to the longer format here, to allow for a more expansive exploration of the cards, and I hope you enjoy coming on this journey with me!

And what a combination of cards to start with! Though tarot is always profound and insightful, it isn’t always quite so on the nose, but here we are, with our last card of the major arcana followed by the first card of the major arcana.

Quite simply, every ending comes with a new beginning. This is the cyclical nature of life.