Embracing Change with Courage

This episode focuses on embracing change while also recognizing the importance of facing your fears with ancestral wisdom.  

• The audacity to embrace new opportunities and honor ancestors 
• Understanding past conflicts through the lens of the Ten of Swords 
• Encouraging self-love and sovereignty for deeper intimacy

Chapters

• 0:29 Weekly Spiritual Guidance and Messages
• 10:54 Healing Past Wounds, Finding Hope
• 21:29 Abundant Gratitude and Expansion

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:29

Hello, butterflies, hello, hello. Welcome to Monique's Tarot. How are you, butterflies? I hope all is going well. As we welcome in the energy of this week To get things started here, let's burn a bit of Palo Santo, welcoming in those messages from the spiritual guides and also clearing out that energy that no longer serves us. As always, butterflies, it is such an honor to bring these messages to you all each and every week. I hope that 2025 is bringing some fresh, exciting energy to each of you, that you're finding time to really connect with yourself and ground yourself in everything that you do and, most importantly, that you're finding peace within your spiritual journey and growth and opportunity. It's been such an exciting year so far. I feel like I've been taking some time to really honor the moment and step into the moment with ease, as we're in this winter season, and allowing myself to just be at pace not moving too fast, rushing too fast, going too fast, but really be at a pace that works for me and keeps my body and spirit supported. So I hope you all are feeling that too. On the podcast, thank you all so much for giving it five stars on Spotify, connecting with Apple Podcasts, connecting on YouTube and also subscribing via the newsletter. It's so wonderful to see the newsletter just go up in the subscribers. So thank you for sharing so much with your communities and connecting with Monique's Tarot in this third season of the podcast. With that butterflies, let's get into a guided message for the week ahead. Calling and messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead. Calling and messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead. Calling and messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead.

Speaker 1: 2:54

I love this butterfly. It's so cute. There's an energy of fierceness with this butterfly, a voracity with this butterfly. You can see it has a yellow belly and what's beautiful about a yellow belly is there's a lot of willpower in that. That solar plexus that will to kind of go on and do more and achieve more is really coming through here and you can see with its brown kind of wings. Here the yellow really is the accent. It's like an unexpected accent here where you don't expect much from this butterfly, but in the end there's a lot of surprise and just honor that comes through with this bright red. You can't help but respect and honor someone who has red on that bold energy, that courageous energy and also with willpower. So this is a butterfly that really knows its strength and isn't really about the flashy flashy but can bring it out every now and then when needed.

Speaker 1: 3:58

It says here I am thankful for many things and my gratitude attracts abundance into my life. I am thankful for many things and my gratitude attracts abundance into my life. Yes, butterflies, what are you grateful for this week, what have you been grateful for this year so far, and how is that gratefulness and honoring what you currently have? How is that attracting more into your life right now? It's a beautiful energy, beautiful, beautiful energy. I want to bring in some melanated energy here in January. So let's bring in some melanated energies.

Speaker 1: 4:46

Butterflies Calling in messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead, calling in messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead. Okay, so we have this energy here of have the audacity. Have the audacity. You can see here that there's a torch that's lit with sparkles coming out of it, bright, orange energy again in that willpower, that solar plexus energy that's coming through here. But have the audacity, it says, when you think about the journey of your ancestors and all they went through the joy, the pain, the tears and the laughter to place you in the position you are in now understand that the torch has been passed to you. You must have the audacity to try something new every day, to carry your generation and bloodline forward. The audacity to love, the audacity to succeed, the audacity to start over and over again, the audacity to reach new heights. Muster up the audacity today to milk the endless possibilities of your life and pay homage to your ancestors. And it says here I'm inspired by my ancestors and look forward to carrying the torch. Are you carrying that torch, butterflies? Are you ready to carry that torch? I think many of you are. As the spiritual guides are bringing in, you're ready to carry that torch. It's just a matter of grabbing it. Let's bring in one more oracle here Butterflies Calling in messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead, calling in messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead, week ahead Calling and messages from your spiritual guides for the week ahead, clearing out cluttered energy.

Speaker 1: 7:12

So what's coming through here? If you feel distracted butterflies, clearing out cluttered energy is also coming through here as you're working to carry that torch. I'm seeing here true love. It says your wholeness and safety lie within, not from a partner. But this sovereignty actually leads to the deepest intimacy for you to stop using others. Let me stand on my own feet, dear divine, and know true love. Beautiful, butterflies. So I'm seeing that the spiritual guides are saying the collective across the board here this week. You have a lot to be thankful for. You're bringing in true love and there's inspiration from your ancestors to carry the torch Like. There's so much legacy and energy here. That's beautiful.

Speaker 1: 8:03

Okay, let's get into your base tarot here, butterflies. And I feel called to bring in some animal energies, strong, some animal energies here from the animal kingdom, calling in messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead calling and messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead calling and messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead Calling and messages from the spiritual guides for the week ahead. Okay, butterflies, let's get into this energy. And there's two cards I'm already seeing that I want to clarify. So let's bring in the truth deck here. Let's put some clarifiers in here. Very swift energies coming through, very swift energies coming through. Okay, so, within your Elevation of Spirit here, butterflies, I'm seeing the Ten of Swords. I'm seeing within your Healing the King of Swords, the Chariot, within your Work and Business Endeavors. I'm seeing the Tower within your Personal Life. And then I'm also seeing the Star card here within your Unexpected Surprises, and again I've pulled clarifiers here because I know with the Ten of Swords and the Tower there'll be some questions. So I've pulled clarifiers here because I know with the Ten of Swords and the Tower there'll be some questions. So I already brought clarifiers across the deck.

Speaker 1: 10:54

So with the Ten of Swords energy, within your elevation of spirit, I'm seeing that there's some past conflict with a group on what was being said within the group, almost like there's past gossip that was being said here. With the Five of Swords, there's a lot of chatter and conversation here. You can see here there's a big bird and a little bird. You can also see there's some maybe relationships that wanted to happen that didn't happen here. With the cracked eggs here, the ten of swords, things that people expected in the group to be birthed that weren't birthed, almost as if people thought that they would connect more but they didn't quite connect the way they wanted to connect. I am seeing that this is an old issue of the past and it's almost like there needs to just be one last discussion of it. That happens with this Ten of Swords energy, so it can be laid to rest. I don't really see a current defense with it. It's more like someone just really needs to say what's on their mind so that the group can be at peace. And I'm also seeing here within your healing we have this king of swords energy, so separate from how some of you are elevating. You have to deal with the past here with that 10 of swords. You have to really deal with those past conversations to really elevate and get past it to the next level.

Speaker 1: 12:23

Some of you in your healing you may be a Gemini Libra Aquarius or know a Gemini Libra Aquarius directly. For some of you this feels like a father energy. If you have a father, that's a Gemini Libra Aquarius. But there's this energy in here of the seven of Wands in the past. There's almost like a defense, like some tough conversations. I'm just getting heavy father energy, but I see that that is passing. Some of you are starting to see this king of swords for who they were and what they were limited by and you're no longer fighting that battle, you're just letting it be, if you know what I mean. You're just kind of letting it be what it was and you're not trying to fight it and battle it.

Speaker 1: 13:12

So there's a lot of conflict, conflicting energy that's happening here and your elevation of spirit and healing, but it seems like it needs to happen, like the old ways need to come out a little bit. This also could be an authoritarian figure that's coming in here. That's really having people examined. So think about, like, on a national scale or a public scale, there could be someone. Or international scale, there could be someone who really has a very sharp tongue, very smart, very swift way of kind of moving through and speaking with people. But with the Seven of Wands here, it's like these past conflicts are still coming up, like they can't be forgotten. They're still coming up and there's a need here. If we want to elevate as a collective, we have to acknowledge what happened. We can't act like it didn't happen and there's just a lot of chatter that's happening about the past that's coming in with this, either for yourself personally, but also on a global scale across the collective there.

Speaker 1: 14:26

So very intense energies. Be mindful of that, butterflies, and make sure that you are keeping your protections with how you are talking with people. Be mindful of how people are talking, because it feels like there could be some people that are just on edge here, especially this week Now, within your professional life, with work and business endeavors. I am seeing that chariot kids hearing energy. So some of you are charging forward, which is beautiful to see here, and I am seeing here that we have a Knight of Swords energy. So a lot of communication, a lot of talking about how should things go, how should things happen, listen to everything, especially if there's someone younger from the past that had some ideas with this Knight of Swords Very smart, very bright, very logical, a really good communicator. Just be open to what they have to say. I do see that you will be moving forward with what they have to say. Whether you take that or not, you're moving in a very clear direction. You know exactly where you're looking to go, but be open to that communication that's coming through. I see a lot of good confidence for many of you and knowing exactly what's needed now within your personal life.

Speaker 1: 15:47

Here I am seeing the tower. It seems to be connected here to a queen of cups, so a cancer Scorpio or Pisces feminine energy. There's something here where this doesn't feel very romantic For some of you. It could be, but there's a softness to this energy, a certain age to the energy, almost as if this Cancer, scorpio or Pisces is moving through a tough medical time. I'm also getting the energy of this is like someone who's maybe moving through a little bit of seasonal depression that could be coming through for some of you, but it's a very soft, somber energy. It almost feels like not quite a passing, but it just feels like someone is energetically lower and they're not themselves, like they're moving through a transformation. There can be some very somber conversations that come in here. Be open to that.

Speaker 1: 16:50

It's almost like there's a very tough moment because of this happening within the family or because of this happening within your relationship, because of what this Queen of Cups may say Either not being emotionally fulfilled or just feeling like I can't go on with this. If you are, that Queen of Cups may say either not being emotionally fulfilled or just feeling like I can't go on with this. If you are that Queen of Cups yourself, really ask yourself how did you get to this point? What are you feeling, and is what you're feeling truly the full situation, or is it maybe some depression, internal thoughts? Think through that very clear so you can have good discernment before you say things in a way that can be harmful. The good thing with the tower is that it is at the end of the deck here, so it's kind of the end before the beginning, again before we get to the full card. So allow yourself to have this moment of just like. This has to happen. I have to go through these tough moments. I have to move through the situation but know that a new beginning is right around the corner from the tower. But to get to that new beginning you're also going to have to be brave enough to step out into it. So be mindful. If this is you and have that open space. If you are coming into connection with someone who has a little bit deeper emotions and they have some things to say within your relationships and in your families, be open to those conversations.

Speaker 1: 18:18

Now I am seeing here, within unexpected surprises, there's a lot of hope. So, bringing in some Aquarius energy with the star, I think it's needed this week. It's beautiful to see there's a lot of optimism that's going to come in unexpectedly. Lessons this week feel very tough. The energy feels very rugged, very rigid, kind of combative. But there is hope that's coming through here. Look forward at that hope. Look up at that star. Allow yourself to hold on to that inner priestess energy. I see that there will be some across the collective that are not trusting what's happening and again this feels like a very international, large-scale event that's happening. So allow yourself to come into this energy of newness, to come into this energy of renewal and just be. Just be in that energy. Let it happen, because there's hope and optimism on the other side.

Speaker 1: 19:24

Again, with all of this tenseness, the spiritual guides are bringing in some wholeness and love here, with true love. Again it says your wholeness and safety lie within, not from a partner, but the sovereignty actually leads to the deepest intimacy for you to stop using others. Let me stand on my own feet, dear divine, and know true love. There's a torch that's being called for many across the collective to have the audacity to hold that. Are you ready for it? The spiritual guides are saying many of you are butterflies, but again it says here you're inspired by your ancestors and look forward to carrying the torch. There's a call here, after moving through this spread, of stepping into that collective energy. This feels like a collective call to look at what's happened in the past, to look at what's really happened to us and step forward into new light and find that star energy, find that optimism. And again, your butterfly mantra this week says I am thankful for many things and my gratitude attracts abundance into my life. I am thankful for many things and my gratitude attracts abundance into my life. Let's close things out here.

Speaker 1: 20:45

Butterflies with a unicorn oracle, make sure we are drinking water with these readings. Butterflies, this has been a very deep one. Thank you, spiritual guides and ancestors, for your messages, calling and messages from the spiritual guides Okay, action. We have a unicorn here running through the woods with a light, with that torch energy, with their unicorn lit up here, and it says action. We have a unicorn here running through the woods with a light, with that torch energy, with their unicorn lit up here and says action. It says now is the perfect time to act, take inspired action toward your dreams and move forward with confidence. Move forward with confidence.

Speaker 1: 21:29

Butterflies, you have everything you need within you to be grateful, thankful and expansive this week. With that, that is all I'm being called to read at this time, sending you all off safely into this abundant week of intention and real conversations with Palo Santo. I want to thank each and every one of your ancestors and spiritual guides that guided you to this reading. I want to thank each and every one of you for continuing to subscribe, read, rate the podcast connecting with the space, sharing your comments, sharing your energy. Being such abundant spiritual beings, giving back your light energy to the world, thank you for showing up each and every day for yourself and connecting with Monique's Tarot. I look forward to our next Reading Butterflies. Until next time, bye.