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In today's episode I'm doing our quarterly check-in for July, August, and September 2026 — walking you through the overarching energy, the potential pitfalls and how they might show up, and the blessing waiting for you in each month… plus what it all means when I connect the three months into one story.

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Hey, beautiful soul. Welcome in for another episode of Spirit Speakeasy. Can you believe that we have stepped into the energy of Q? Yes, it is finally here. And if you are feeling some stirring, some undercurrents in the energy, maybe the energy pressing on your heart that a change is coming. This episode is for you. In today's Spirit Speakeasy, we are going to do our quarterly check-in and look at the energies for the months of July, August, and September of 2020-six and I'm going to give you the format in case you don't remember the way we did it last quarter, but I also invite you to go back to it, would have been in April that reading for those last three months, so that you can see how these themes and potentials and potential challenges and potential blessings actually showed up in your own life. So we're going to go through month by month, July, August, and September. I'll read the energy for each month individually, and then I will look at all the cards together and kind of talk about the overarching themes, the overarching potential pitfalls or challenges, and the overall blessings that could be available to us in this three months. So, here's the format: the first card is going to represent the overall energy happening. The second card is going to represent the potential challenge or caution or guidance or warning, as far as like what we need to have a heads up on, and the third card is going to represent the potential blessing that can come out of the energy of this month, if we are available for it and harnessing the energy properly, so you guys have been loving not just the weekly readings on the podcast, but these quarterly readings, and I think it does do something for us to not only look at the energy, but you know, if you want to take it to the next level, sit down with your own calendar and make some notes about the month ahead, so that you know, stepping into that month. Okay, I want to be aware of this. I want to make sure I'm greeting the energy like this to just give yourself that little bit of advanced love, advanced assistance, right? Because who doesn't need a little bit of that, especially if you are someone who's been feeling a lot of uncertainty, and I think we all are feeling uncertainty in different areas, but I've just been having so many clients in this last little spell, this last quarter, just unsure of their purpose, of why they're here, of who they're supposed to be in the world, kind of feeling that stirring of like I feel like there's something else for me, or I'm not quite getting it, but I don't know what that thing is. If you have been feeling that way, these quarterly readings will really help you in the energy. Let's dive right in. So, I'm going to start with the month of July, and then we're going to go into August and September, and a little just exciting tidbit for you guys, just around the corner from now, so mid July, I am going to start releasing all of the video versions of the podcast. The platform I use is now supporting Apple Podcast Video, so if you are an Apple Podcast listener, which probably about 70% of you are, the videos will now be right in the Apple Podcast platform, so you can see the cards, or you can see whatever I'm doing, or who I'm talking to, so look for those just around the corner, and they'll be for the weekly readings as well. So, let's dive right in with the energy of July, and the first card is kind of the crowning or overarching energy for the month, and we have here Queen of Cups. Now, what do we know about Queen of Cups? Well, the suit of cups often has to do with our emotions, our relationships, how we're showing up in those relationships, and as an emotional being in this world. Queen of Cups is a really beautiful energy, because she's evolved in our, in her emotions, in our emotions, is we're supposed to be evolving, and just know the invitation this month for you is to really be stepping into this more evolved version of yourself.
Now, that doesn't mean light and love all over the place, and no realistic opinions or views, that means looking at the hard things, working through the challenges, being honest with yourself within yourself about your feelings, and doing all of that work internally, so we're not kind of spilling it all out onto others, those that we love in our lives, the relationships we have, the connections and communications we have, even those secondary and tertiary connections. We want to be showing up as this evolved, grounded, wise, able to see several perspectives without getting dragged into the emotions. That is the invitation of the overarching energy for this month. Of Queen of Cups is a wonderful card, because we all have emotions, right? It's just sometimes we don't want to address them, or we don't want to look at them, and this, especially in this energy of July, is really inviting us to get more honest within ourselves to find maybe new ways to be processing our emotions, so that we're not shoving everything down, because looking at the rest of this spread, shoving down the emotions is just not going to work any longer, and those things are going to become the thorns in our side, the stumbling blocks that don't let us move towards what we truly desire, right. So, while I'm saying this. What I'm aware of for the month of July is that when we are showing up to evolve to become our better, brighter, stronger self, often what happens in the world is that those things, unlike that energy, will show up. What do I mean by this? It could be that you are trying to, let's just say, in your family construct, right? Maybe you've got kids at home, maybe you have a partner, maybe there's people you cohabitate with, and maybe you're going to try to step into this energy and be the more evolved person who collects information but doesn't get sucked into an argument, right, or who listens intentionally and to hear and to process and to give constructive feedback or support, and maybe it's going to show up in your world that people are challenging that, or kind of poking at your hot spots that used to get you before. Now it's not a guarantee, right, but this can come in very subtle ways, opportunities essentially for you to practice stepping into this more evolved version of yourself. This is, I've talked about this here before. This might be silly, but where I see it sometimes is in traffic, and it's not necessarily like flowing traffic. It's, it's to be quite frank with you, sometimes it's tourist traffic in San Diego, and it's a great opportunity for me to practice being involved in my emotions, not getting upset by the little stuff, right, going with the flow, recognizing on the grand spectrum of things, do I need to be upset about this, or is this giving me a little extra time to listen to this podcast that I'm listening to, probably, so just know that that is the invitation here, and you are the one in your life, because you're sensitive, because you have some gifts that you may or may not know about. You're the one being asked to be the leader in this energy. So, let's move on to the next card, which is the potential challenge this month. This is really interesting. Card in this position, this is this page of wands. Now, page is the first in the suit cards in any suit. So, in playing cards, it is.. I can't believe.. I can't remember this.. it goes Jack, King, Queen, King, Ace. Well, in tarot, it, the page is kind of right below the night card there, which would be the 10. So this page really represents new opportunities. Why would that be a challenge? So often the new opportunities with the page, especially page of wands, it might not be a whole new opportunity, right. It might not be a complete new job we're stepping into, or a new skill that we're building, although it could. This is often a revisit, or a next chapter of something we've already been curious about, or working with, or have done before. And now we're going to pick it up again, right. So, a couple things with this card.
One, I think it's important to recognize that while we all have lots of passions and gifts and things we want to do in this world as human beings, we probably can't do them all at one time. So, some of this energy here is just being aware of not overloading your plate, if possible. Summer's busy for a lot of people, and if you are one of our friends in the Southern Hemisphere, it is winter time for you, and I know winter is busy for you guys in a different way. So, really, just knowing that there could be lots of new opportunities coming your way, and that could feel overwhelming or challenging, because he's feeling good, exciting next chapter potentials, because wands means it's something you're passionate about, something you actually care about, something that holds your interest, or that keeps coming back to you as a nudge, or something that you're wanting to dive more into, and it's just this understanding of checking in with your emotions, how do you really feel, and making sure that we're not just chasing the shiny new object that we are like. If it's a spiritual practice, for example, sometimes we can resist going really deep into our spiritual practice and want to just hop to the next thing, right. Maybe you're someone who is hypothetically developing your mediumship or your intuitive abilities, and it's getting to the point where you're going to have to really get discipline and go deeper, but instead you're seeing all these ads and workshops for channeling and cards and pendulums and moon work, and you know all the things, it's not that we can't do several components or several disciplines. It's just knowing that there might be so much energy, so much excitement, so many wonderful things happening this month, or so many things that we want to participate in, that it could feel overwhelming, or it could spread us too thin. And our next card is the blessing card, and it actually makes this make so much more sense, so I'm just going to shift over to that. This blessing card for the month of July, potential blessings, if you choose to accept them, is this two of swords. I would have initially thought these cards would have been reversed in this order, but this is the, this is the format I set up beforehand, so what I know about this, we're just talking about a potential pitfall or challenge being too many opportunities, too many things we're passionate about and want to dive into, right? Too many vacation beaches we want to go to, too many fun parties to attend. This two of swords is perfect right here as the blessing card, because the blessing is acknowledging one, like we said, we can't do all the things, and two, maybe all of the things are too much. Two of swords is about choices. The interesting thing here, and why it's a potential blessing in this two of swords card, the figure holds two swords across their chest, kind of making their arms into an X across their chest, and then holding the swords, and the figure is blindfolded. Now this is a nod to that justice figure, the symbol of justice that we always think about with the scales and the blindfold, because justice is supposed to be blind court, you know, judges are supposed to be neutral and non partial, so this is asking you to not just get excited and leap before you look, so to speak, it's asking you to really step into this most emotionally evolved version of yourself in kindness, in love for yourself, for your gifts, for whatever these opportunities are, and being very realistic with yourself in a kind way about maybe it's which of these opportunities to prioritize, it's certainly which of these opportunities to say no to, and I have to say, for me this is a deepening of your ability to work with boundaries, and that's part of the blessing, being honest with yourself and with others, because swords are about communication, often. Sometimes they're about wisdom. In this case, it's about choices, and just realizing you get to choose yourself, right?
So you get to honor how you feel and what feels aligned for you, and that might not be the same as what was aligned for you six months ago or six years ago, but it is so important to keep working with boundaries, boundaries for ourselves, boundaries for others, meaning like what type of attitude and energy are we going to deal with and remember boundaries are for us and it's not about telling other people how to behave, it's really about saying what we will engage with and interact with, and how we need to experience things. We're not saying how anyone else has to experience things, so with all of these potential wonderful opportunities and endeavors to take on, and projects to put your hands in. The potential blessing is this opportunity to choose. It's wonderful to have too many options, right? Sometimes it feels stressful, but it's a great problem to have too many ways to find solutions, too many ways to enjoy ourselves, and you're going to have to really get grounded and clear in this emotionally evolved version of yourself in that energy to make the wisest, most equitable decisions for you. Are you going to once again say yes to everything you can and spread yourself too thin and be packed schedule and stressed and doing a lot but not really getting the time to be present or enjoy it or are you going to be discerning and decide exactly what you have the bandwidth for exactly what you can hold and support and say yes to some things and say you know what I would really love to but I'm just not able to say yes to that. Thank you so much. Please ask again another time if that's what you mean, right? It doesn't mean that we have to be mean when we're saying no to something. Can you do it in the most emotionally evolved, grounded way, not just towards everyone else, but for yourself? I feel like with send. This is a big thing that we often work on, and a wonderful blessing that can come out of this is more opportunity for you to step into your true soul self, for you to have loving boundaries for yourself, and for you to be really honest with yourself about what you want to take on this month and what you're not going to take on this month and work from there, so that is July. Let's get into August, because I can see the building of the energy through this third quarter, which is having to pause, because it feels crazy to be saying third quarter, but nonetheless, here we are now in August again, we're going to look at the the overarching energy, we're going to look at the potential challenge or caution card, and then we're going to look at the potential blessing, which I love this so much, and hopefully you will see why it is so important in this reading for you to be doing that emotional evolution in July, because in August the crowning energy is the Judgment card. What does this mean? Don't be scared, judgment is not a bad card, and in this case, as the overarching energy, it's a Major Arcana card too. So I want to say this really is more about your long-term purpose in life, the way you're showing up, you as a soul, and this is really asking you to be honest with yourself, to take stock, to take an evaluation in August about the things that you're endeavoring to do in the world, and you are being called to some spiritual gifts, they're bubbling, they might be feeling like they're hiding under a rock right now. For some of you, you might have some access to your spiritual gifts, or you might already be getting that little nudge about, "Hey, I do want to develop my intuition, or "Hey, I do want to, you know, explore some of my gifts more, or "Hey, it is time for me to get a reading. This judgment card for the month of August is really asking you to assess as a soul self, right? And again, from July, from that emotionally evolved perspective of yourself, are there gifts that I'm aware of that I'm denying right now?
And just because we become aware of a gift doesn't mean that we have to run right out and hang a shingle, that's not the way to do it, but we can be honest with ourselves. Are there special parts of you? Maybe it's that you have an ability to lead, maybe that it's that you have a diplomacy and are a wonderful mediator. Right, it's not about how we display these qualities and gifts, it's about being honest with ourselves about how we've been living our life, who we've been showing up as, and is there any fine tuning that we want to do? And if you are still a soul walking on this earth, I'm here to tell you there's fine tuning for you to do. And remember, we have all these areas of our life. I kind of always think of it as like the pie, a pie of our life, right? And there's lots of slices, and one slice might be your career, or how you spend your day to day. One slice might be recreation and activity, one slice might be family connections, that kind of thing. One slice is your spiritual development, or gifts, or your connection to something greater than yourself. It doesn't.. I know a lot of people don't love the word like higher power. It could be source energy, it could be connection to nature. Everyone's pie is a little different in the way you slice it, but the main areas are still the same. So, in all of the areas of your life this August, you're being asked to look at where am I showing up as my true soul self, where am I hiding myself? Where am I denying gifts or interests or nudges that I'm getting, and it's just about acknowledging. And then we'll talk more about doing something about it next, because spirits just like get real with yourself and be honest. Stop saying you don't know what you know. Stop holding yourself back. This is your one wild and crazy and beautiful lifetime as this version of you in this specific physical body in this specific time period. And unfortunately, time is limited for us when we're in this physical body in this world. Are you wasting it? Are you putting on the back burner, something that you really know is for you, and remember, even if something's for you, doesn't mean you have to go super public, because initially when we start to feel these things, some people resist them, because they're like, oh, I don't want to work publicly, or, oh, I don't want to tell people about that, that's not what this is about, it's just about taking stock and acknowledging for yourself for the month of August. Now, the challenge card - this whole spread is quite interesting, actually. The challenge card is this King of Wands. This is often such a positive card, so why would it be showing up in a challenge position? King of Wands is. Sort of like Queen of Cups is a very evolved energy. King of Wands is a fiery, passionate energy of leadership and rising up to our potential as a soul. Why would that be a challenge? Well, on one hand, you might be very successful in the life that you've already created and not want to rock the boat of your life, and not feel like I want to take stock and look at where I could be stronger, where I could be more honest with myself, where I could be improving and developing. The other thing here is you could have some decisions to work through, as far as, like, oh, I used to believe this in my faith system, or in my spirituality, and now I kind of think this, or believe this, or want to investigate this. On my other hand, or you could be thinking, you know, I don't want to step into my power, I don't want to step into leadership, I don't want to step into the fullness of my soul.
So the juxtaposition, or the duality here is this soul self of you calling you forward, calling you more to expansion, to be that full soul self to live more and more fully aligned with those core qualities of who you are as a soul, and this King of Wands here has a challenge, just saying, like, this might be a little uncomfortable for some of us, and even if you're someone like me, let's just say, who has done a ton of work on yourself and continue to do work on myself, just for the record, and is already using some of your spiritual gifts and working professionally, it doesn't mean that we can't improve or fine tune or really look at our emotions underneath. Step more into leadership, step more into a hesitant to use the word public here, because that can mean lots of different things, and it's not for everyone, but there can be resistance here. So, essentially, this card is showing up to say, hey, pay attention to your resistance. Where are you being called to more, to want more, to experience more, to be fiery, a leader, to express your passion, to dive in a little deeper to your gifts, or something that is just calling your heart forward? And are you resisting? And get real honest about that with yourself, and look at the emotions underneath. Now, the blessing card for this month is so perfect and so fun. It is this eight of pentacles. Eight of pentacles, pentacles often has to do with our earthly pursuits, right? Could be career, could be actual money, could be abundance of different kinds, time, wisdom. In this card, we're being asked to learn everything we can about a subject, so what is coming to you in this overarching assessment that you're going to be doing in August? Of like, yeah, okay, that's the thing. I feel a little resistant, but let me sit with that. This is saying, learn more about it, learn more about that gift, or that skill, or that ability or that trip or that whatever it is that's tickling your internal soul passion, you're you're being asked as a next step to just look into it a little bit, just learn what you can, just dive a little deeper, investigate some different teachers, maybe watch some different YouTubes about the thing, and just learn more, and as part of that blessing of learning more, the what I know this is saying underneath in this specific spread is there are breadcrumbs there that will lead you to this next most authentic expression, if you're willing to look, if you're willing to keep pursuing, I don't love every YouTube video I see from every teacher, but I do frequently watch different spiritual teachers or people with different gifts or different philosophies or theories, both in spirituality and science. I don't agree with everything, but I'm learning, and even if it's a video that I just totally disagree with, let's just say it's a breadcrumb to somewhere else, because maybe I realize, oh, I don't want to move that direction, I feel like I want to move the opposite direction, or maybe I get so frustrated about a topic that it makes me really want to dig underneath, and then I'm learning more, developing, expanding, this is ultimately about your expansion as a soul in this lifetime, and August is the time to agree to do it. So, we have the ability, the free will choice to resist, but I wouldn't if I was you, and this could even mean in your own time over the next month or two in August, like reading a book about something you're passionate about, or interested in, or that you feel resistant to. Often, resistance, even though it's a challenge, the blessing that it can lead to, as we do more research, as we get more wisdom, come to more knowledge and understanding, is it can really help us clearly see what is for us or not for us, what we. Even if it's something we're not like amazing at the first time we pick up, if it's something that we just stay curious about, just feel like we want to keep dedicating ourselves to.
When I was working with a lot of professional athletes and semi-professional athletes and athletes trying to become professional, there's this hunger I would sometimes see with someone I keep thinking of, like specifically golfers, where they weren't particularly good at the game, but just so passionate about it, so in the nooks and crannies of fine tuning, you know, their wrist strength or their mobility in their spinal column, or and so in the nitty gritty, because they just couldn't put it down, it wasn't paying them, it wasn't their job, it was technically a hobby that they were really pursuing, but it was the joy of learning more about themselves, more about their body, the limits they could push through, that's what this card is offering as a blessing this month. What else can you learn about yourself? What else can you learn about the thing that you're resisting, and what else can you learn about these gifts or interests or other parts of your soul that are crying out to be acknowledged right now, and you know wisdom is always a blessing, whether we use it in a professional way or just for ourselves personally, more knowledge and wisdom is always a blessing if we choose to accept it, and the other little thing I want to highlight here for this month of August is be very aware of what you are focusing your time and attention to, so if you are in the month of August and you do this soul assessment with yourself and really see, like, am I aligned with my soul self, am I behaving and choosing and acting and and following through on those things that I really feel are a part of me. What can actually happen here is one, we can have more resistance, so that resistance is something to explore, and two, even if we decide not to use whatever it is we're learning to monetize, it's still expanding us as a soul, it's still getting to know yourself to a deeper level, and it adds to your overall expansion. So that's the energy for the month of August. I don't know if you can tell, I'm very passionate about these quarterly readings, because I really feel like these are these energetic currents that we can be using to help us move forward, especially if we're feeling stuck or overwhelmed or busy or aware of all of the many layers of things going on in our world now. As we step into September, there is a lot to say here. So this first card for the overarching energy of September is this five of cups what's so fascinating to me with this card? Is what this card actually is, is sometimes called like the crying over spilled milk card. So it's interesting because we've worked on ourselves, you know, in our emotional evolution and made some boundaries and choices in July, and in August we're really taking evaluation of ourself, taking stock, looking at our resistance, looking where we could step more into leadership in our lives, learning. And then this September theme here is crying over spilled milk. What does that mean? Well, one way we could look at it is maybe we have made some choices, and maybe we have done some research, and maybe we have realized some of the things that we're interested in just are not for us, or maybe we realize, oh, I can't possibly fit everything that I want. The other thing to know here is, over these next couple months, the way I keep feeling the energy is there are some things that won't come to fruition. There are some, you know, Walt Whitman. Is it Walt Whitman? No, it's Henry David Thoreau, the unmarked path, right? The path less.. I can't believe I can't remember this. I used to go to Walden Woods all the time. It's the path not taken, right? So, could you be having some sadness as you've taken restock over the things that didn't fully develop, the paths you didn't choose, the options that didn't kind of come fully available to you, or the things that just didn't work out, just didn't work out how we thought came to break down. This could be this is a very emotional card, and it does indicate that some change has happened, probably so far over this year. So, are there some things that have fallen away?
Are there some relationships that have shifted? Are there some parts of you that have changed or shifted? And what this card is wanting to bring our attention to is a few things. So, in the background of this card, there is a big long bridge that looks like a bridge in many beautiful cities in the US and other countries, and we can cross this bridge from the shore that we're standing on to the city where essentially in taro, everything is happening, right? Or we can choose to stand on the outer bank here and cry over our spilled cups and be sad. And be depressed and be grieving, and while we do need to grieve those things that didn't work out or didn't come to fruition in the way that we wanted, or losses of any kind, we also don't have to stay fully, totally in that energy all the time going forward. So, in a way, this card is a choice as well, for the month of September. Yeah, everything's not going to look the way it did before. Some things have changed, some things are still in flux, some things might not be possible in the same way anymore. But in this card, right behind the figure, there are still two of these cups, these chalices fully upright, not tipped over, not spilling, so there's still some stuff going okay, guys. There are still options and opportunities. We've learned a lot. We know ourselves more, so it's a different type of choice in the energy of September. Like, what are you going to focus your time and attention on? What are you going to focus your energy towards? Are you going to have a pity party for yourself, or are you going to process it and choose something else, and let yourself move forward? And two things can be true at once: we can be holding grief or understanding of the things that we hoped were going to work out that just didn't, and also realizing, hey, we still have a lot going for us, we still have options. There's still potential here. I still have some wonderful things to be grateful for in my life. My cup is still full in a lot of areas, and actually, there's a bridge, and I've learned a lot, and I'm a wise soul, and I can figure out how to get to that bridge and cross it and start a new endeavor. So that's the energy of September, and what I will say with this card is, in September I would expect kind of a push-pull energy, two steps forward, one step back, something being offered and then taken away, things looking like they're going to go a certain direction, and then quick pivot to something else. It does, in the overarching energy for us as a collective, feel a little bit muddy to me, and what I mean by that is, in our bigger societies and cultures and communities and countries and things, I think there's probably going to be a lot of smoke and mirrors, a lot of misinformation, a lot of, hey, look over there, and something's happening over here, distraction techniques, a lot of division, so just know that that is the energy. There is some potential challenge as part of this, and a wonderful blessing as part of this. The potential challenge here is the star card, which I think is so fascinating, because the star is about that core of who we are, our soul self, that North Star guiding us, right, that we do have guidance and support, that we are soul having this human experience. And on this card, this figure is tempering water onto the earth and onto into this like pond, she's got, she's kneeling on the earth and has one foot in the pond and pouring water into the pond, and pouring water onto the earth, which is a sort of balance, right? Not being too focused in our emotions, but focusing on them, not being too focused on our earthly pursuits, but focusing on them, not fully focusing in our emotions or our earthly pursuits, and realizing that there's a whole spiritual world that there is guidance now. Why would this be a challenge or a potential pitfall? Well, it could be that things are so loud or chaotic or undulating, like quick shifting, like we were talking about.
Oh, it looks like we're going to go over here and then we're going to go over there. It looks like this is going to work, and now it's canceled. There could just be so much happening in our world, and for us as collective and individuals, that we could lose sight of this guiding star, this north star. Right, so the caution here is, don't get so focused on whatever's showing up for you in September that you forget, or that you stop believing that you are divinely guided, that you are a soul having this, a human experience, that there is wisdom and intuition, especially how I was saying, I feel like it might be kind of murky or muddy in the energy, or things aren't super clear to us. The pitfall can be just only focusing on what we see or what's being presented to us, and not realizing. Okay, what do I know? I know that there's more going on behind the scenes. I know that I'm supported. I know that I have source energy or higher power team of guides and inspirers. I know who I am at the core of my being. I know what's aligned for me or not. All of that, you're being reminded here just not to lose sight of that, because it could be a potential pitfall with everything going on, that we just forget that we have intuition, that we just forget that we're a divine soul having a human experience, so it's why in July and August that connection with self, that assessment, that going within. And all of that is so important, so that we're kind of primed and pumped up by September to remember, oh yeah, I have intuition, I know who I am, I know what's aligned for me in the small choices, and I can continue forward knowing that even if I can't see all the pieces, I'm divinely guided, and this is this is good, everything's working out for me, and I will know the choice when it arises, and I can keep doing my best, right? So, resisting the urge to forget that you have a north star, that you have this internal compass, this intuition, this guidance. What is the potential blessing? Then the potential blessing is the Chariot card, which both of these cards, the Star and the Chariot, are Major Arcana. So, let's me know, like, major life pivots for us as individuals, or for us as a world, you know, collective in our countries and communities, etc. The Chariot card has to do with a couple things. This could be moving, like an actual physical move, as a blessing out of this, maybe stuff is messy and chaotic and confusing, and it looks like we were going to get an extension on our lease, and then suddenly they're going to sell our place, and so now we have to move, but it actually ends up being a total blessing, so it could be something like that, move, change, move of home, move of job, change of career, but remember this is a blessing. The other thing here is this card often indicates the energy picking up really quickly, so sometimes when things are really busy and chaotic, our human nature is to like slow down or want to go hide under the covers, that doesn't seem like it's going to be a total option here, but as a blessing, it feels like the energy in September is going to move really fast, so we might not have a ton of time to stew and brew and sulk in our own emotions. Keep it pushing, keep it moving, that's the blessing here. Everything is changing and pivoting so fast this month that it really can be a blessing that this is quick moving energy, because this also means with these quick pivots, while it might feel like something's being taken away, something's being given, that's the blessing, quick pivots, quick shifts, quick move from here to there, quick refocusing, right, maybe you have a business, and we've been focused in one direction, and with all the chaos, maybe some things didn't go the way we expected, maybe some things aren't moving forward or working out. There's fast energy, fast pivots, and all of a sudden some new contracts or new opportunities or new ways of working might show up.
His card also features not just a figure on a motorcycle, which it does, but also this figure has a wand reminding you that you are the magician, that's also a blessing, you have choices here, and in this car there are two sphinx, a black sphinx and a white sphinx, and one of the things this reminds us as part of this blessing and this spread is that things are not so black and white, but some things are black and white. The core of who you are, and knowing what's aligned with you and what's not, are as pretty black and white. And sometimes, if we are aligned with ourself and truly know what choices are aligned for us or not, it can become kind of black and white in the choices, right? Yeah, I was gonna go more into that, but I think you know what I mean. So, sometimes you know, as a soul in your core, oh, that's a no for me, I can't participate in that, or I won't let that go on in my presence, that's a no. So, as part of this energy, while it might feel like things are uncertain, and we're being asked to, like, figure out a lot, there's some things that are going to be figured out for you, or that'll be obvious choices as part of this blessing, and it does, whether it's a physical move or an energetic move or a move in your understanding, it does move us from one place to the next in September, so I'm interested to see the next quarter's reading, because we might be in a totally different place, and we will be so primed to be in such a better place if we have done this work on ourselves, this evolution in our emotional space, this taking stock of our lives and our gifts, and where are we in resistance, and where are we being called to be leaders in our lives. Now, one thing I'm going to say about the leader in our lives thing is sometimes when people say that it can feel like we're being asked to boss everyone around and make a ton of declarations and changes. It doesn't necessarily mean that, although it could. It's reminding you that for you yourself within yourself, even if you're in a family, even if you're in a community, which I think we all are in some way, you have the right, the ability, and kind of the divine calling as a soul to really be in integrity with. Yourself, you can't control other people's choices. You can lead by example of what you will and won't stand for, of what's right for you and what's not right for you. So, maybe focus on it that way. I'm going to go through now that we've done each month individually. I like to go through and look at the theme of the quarter, the challenges of the quarter and the blessings of the quarter, kind of all as one, I don't know, vibe. So, for the overall theme, if we're looking at all the theme cards, we got this Queen of Cups, we've got this Justice card, and we've got this five of cups. Now this is really emotional here, so there's going to be a lot of emotions in this quarter, July, August, September.
There's also going to be a lot of ability to reassess, to take stock, to look at ourselves, and if we can do it in a deep, honest emotional place, right, we can be more prepared for this energy of, you know, being sad about what didn't work out, but also realizing there's so much more potential, and hey, I'm still here, I still get to make more choices, I still get to create more, so I can really see why these rolled out the way they did, because it is guiding us somewhere, it is letting us know, hey, take a look at this now, because it might get a little tumultuous over here, and you want to really be grounded in your emotions, knowing who you are, maybe exploring some of these gifts, and certainly being very honest with yourself about where you are allowing yourself to be your full self and where you're holding yourself back, and maybe you need to explore why, and maybe you don't, but this is big potential this quarter for growth, expansion, personal reckoning, right, deepening our truth within ourselves, and that might shift the way we are in the communities in our lives, how we show up, it certainly will sort of position us as a leader in our own groups. The potential challenges here with this page of wands and king of wands and star cards, see how it's different to look at them, the challenges altogether. This page of wands is letting us know, like, yeah, everything might not be entirely certain. You might not see the path to get over this little mountain. There's a, there's a mountain in the card that looks like desert, and she's holding a wand and, like, excited and looking where to go, and she has life force energy, she has her power, but the path is not clearly marked or laid out, so you might feel like as all these emotions are rising and you're doing all this self evaluation that you're being called forward to the next part, but like you don't know exactly what it is or how it looks, and what do we, what do we do with that? Sometimes we resist, so when we can't see our full path ahead, which truly we never can, even if we think we can, we don't have that kind of control, and it can make us avoidant, it can make us cold, or want to go within, it can make us resistant to growth, to expansion, to stepping into our gifts, and if we really want to go all the way deep into the challenge, it can make us forget or totally resist that we're intuitive beings, and we might get into that way of feeling or being that well, I'm not supported, I don't have guides, I don't have intuition, I'm not good at anything, I don't know what's for me, I feel like I'm spinning in circles, that I'm lost, and I don't have any idea about what I want or how to make it happen, right. That's the challenge in this quarter, but again, the themes really showed us the way around this. This is just like, hey, watch out for this. Also, are you in resistance? Are you feeling frustrated, and like you want to give up because you can't see all the path lined out for you. Are you forgetting that you're divinely guided, intuitive soul? Here now, let's look at the blessings, because who doesn't like blessings? And again, these are interesting blessing cards for this quarter. So, in the blessing stack for the quarter, we've got these, the two of swords, we've got the eight of pentacles, we've got the chariot, so part of what this tells me when I look at these three blessing cards together. These two first blessing cards, July and August, these are minor arcana, meaning these are things for us to do or experience in our day-to-day lives in an everyday kind of way, meaning we have to be intentional, we have to be diligent, and this final card for September. This is a major arcana, meaning if we do these things in our day-to-day life, we can have so much movement, so much shift in the best possible way. Now, this first in this little stack of cards, this.
Two of swords, here is reminding us about boundaries and choice, and not just letting things happen to us, but being a participant and saying what we need or want, and making sure that we're being kind to ourselves and not taking everything on our plates. This next card, eight of pentacles, is like, but also, if there's something that you do want to learn about there's a blessing available that you can learn more now, expand more into your wisdom, get more information, which will make a lot of these choices a lot more clear, or you'll have a lot more skills to greet them, and if we do those things, set boundaries, make intentional choices, communicate clearly with ourselves and with others, use the wisdom we have, double down and get more wisdom, more understanding, more practical knowledge, or experience. We can really have so many beautiful changes throughout the rest of this year. Remember, this is a one year. I know we just talked about the themes and relooking at the themes. This is movement, this is change, this is setting you up for the future. This is putting you in a direction where, yeah, like we just talked about, you might not have the path all carved out for you, but you've got skills and a direction and a vehicle to move in, and you're divinely guided, so you really can get somewhere in this quarter, if you choose to harness and use and pay attention to the energy, oh, what a big spread with so much information for us, so much guidance, and lots of heads up. I feel like this was a lot of actual practical applicable action steps. I do love an action step, some of it internal, some of it external, and some of it like, hey, heads up, if you're feeling resistant, explore that, learn more about whatever it is you could be holding yourself back here, because when there's this potential for movement, for expansion, for us to step more fully into ourselves, that's a beautiful potential free will choice, guys. If we don't choose to do it, what are we doing? We're choosing to don't pass go and don't collect $200 right? We're choosing to stay where we are, and as we know, the energy is always moving. The world's always moving. We can try to stand still, but things are moving around us, and that leaves us feeling confused and left behind, and like we're not a participant in our own life. So I really want you to do this evaluation, get this expansion, get this wisdom for yourself, and you know, know that there might be some pivots and changes and shifts this quarter, but it is all leading us to the fullest expression of ourselves in this one year. It is so important to continue this evaluation, know who we are, what we want, where we can collaborate with others, where we are being asked to step into that leadership in our own lives. Something has become really evident to me that I've known before, and you know, sometimes that wisdom kind of like rolls back around to us, where it's like, oh yeah, I do know that, and I do see it playing out differently right now in the world. What I know is very few of us are going to have opportunities handed to us on golden platters with silver spoons. Most of us are going to have to create the opportunities that we want for ourselves, pull together the creative components. It doesn't mean the universe won't provide when things won't show up, it will, but we've got to accept. We've got to answer that email, call that person that said two years ago that they would do an event with us. We have to be the one setting up the thing, putting it out there, making our mission known. For example, we have to be moving the ball forward. No one is going to show it up and do it for you. I, you've heard me say this before. I have a couple of very lovely clients that I joke with.
Their part of their pie that they're wanting to fill in is their relationship, their private personal romantic relationship life, and I tell them that perfect partner, first of all, there's no perfect partners, there's people who work really hard on themselves and and do their best in our good souls, right, that perfect person or that ideal partner for you is not going to just show up on your doorstep wearing a T-shirt that says I'm the one, that's not how it's going to happen. It's going to be you using your free will, putting yourself out there, evolving in your emotional self, working on living your best, most fulfilled life, and then not shutting yourself away from others, finding new ways to be in community, to be in connection, right. There's lots of components here, but for whatever it is you're wanting to create an experience and grow into, you are required right now to be an active participant, to not just sit back and say, "Woe is me, nothing's happening. I can't see, and I don't have intuition, and I don't know what's next for me. It's an option, and you can actually do it, and be I sometimes say, sad Sally, you can be in your pity party for as long as you want, but don't expect that someone's going to come rescue you. Don't expect Santa Claus in the sky to grant your wishes, and magically everything falls into place in this one year, and in the way the energy looks in this quarter, there is an invitation you get to choose whether you RSVP or not. So I hope you will RSVP for this month, this quarter. Sorry, let me know how July, August, and September are rolling out for you. I would also love it if you would share with me anything from the April, May, June quarterly reading that came up for you, that shifted for you, that you recognized in your world. And what are you excited about in this quarter? Do you have a project or a trip, or something fun you're doing, or a girls' date, or whatever, anything. Are you, are you learning something new? Are you learning a new skill or endeavor? Are you being more of a leader in your life? What of this? Are you already feeling winds and whispers of? Please leave it in the comments, wherever you're watching or listening to this. And, as you know, we have the weekly reading to check the energy week by week, every Friday morning, wherever you get your podcasts on Spirit Speakeasy, and we have a new episode of Spirit Speakeasy every Monday, and we will just around the corner be looking at the astrological second half of the year. So I'm going to keep doing these quarterly readings. Let me know what other themes and topics you'd like to hear about in the pod. I feel like I have so much to say about so many topics, but I always want to hear what you want to hear about, and I have some really exciting things just around the corner as I'm stepping into more leadership in my life. So, please look for those if you are not already part of my email community, I would love it if you would be. You can go to my website, joyfulmedium.com and there is always some free offer on the homepage, whether it's a mini course or something. If you put your email in there, you will get on my VIP email community, where you hear about everything first. You're the first to receive the podcast, the readings, anything that I'm doing, as far as teaching, or I have free opportunities occasionally. So, you guys are the first to hear about it in my email community. You guys are my VIPS, and I'm so grateful for you being here with me today at the seat in the table with me, really just looking under the hood of this Q for 2026 July, August, September. Let's get through it together with all of the themes and potential pitfalls, and I'm so excited to hear about the blessings that show up for you. Big hugs, lots of love. Bye for now, from inside Spirit Speakeasy.