September 16, 2024: Community Tarot Reading For the Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, September 16, 2024
First Day of the Full Moon
Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus Retrograde
Foggy and warm

Happy Monday! Sounds counter-intuitive, but let’s make this a good week.

There’s a lot going on this week, between the full moon, the lunar eclipse, all the retrogrades, and the Autumn Equinox happening at the end of the week.

Let’s get to it, shall we?

Once again, I’m using the GREEN WITCH TAROT again by Ann Moura, with artwork by Kiri Østergard Leonard, available from Llewellyn.

This is a spread of mine, that I’ve developed over the past few months. It’s read from left to right, 5 cards. Any card that needs more interpretation can be built into further, above and below, with either more tarot cards, another tarot deck, or an oracle deck.

These interpretations are mine, based on my intuition and responses to the artwork. You may have a different experience. This is an overview of the week as it stands now; every decision we make from the moment of the reading can change the outcome. If there’s something in the reading that worries you, you have the information ahead of time so that you can plan, make better choices, or handle it differently than predicted for a better outcome. Tarot sets out possibilities, which you change through your choices and actions.

Left to right, the positions are as follows:
1. The Collective Energy of the Week
2. The Week’s Challenge
3. The Week’s Opportunity
4. The Week’s Stretch
5. The Week’s Comfort

This week’s cards:

The Collective Energy of the Week – The World Tree
This is the final card in the Major Arcana, an ash tree. It represents the completion of a cycle. Considering how challenging last week’s cards were, this is a welcome sign for the week’s possibilities. A cycle is complete, which means something new and potentially wonderful is opening up. A very positive card for the collective!

 

The Week’s Challenge – Two of Pentacles
The challenge this week is juggling things on the material plane. Keep an eye on finances and plan a little more carefully. You may need to juggle and jiggle the numbers and timing a bit to make it all work for you. You also may have the opportunity for a new way to earn money, or to learn a new skill that will lead to better financial footing. Be on the lookout for these so you recognize them and can see them as the opportunities they are.

The Week’s Opportunity – The High Priest
The High Priest is about structure and social orders. There’s an opportunity to make progress this week within an organized structure. You may need to do some studying and figure out how to work the system, but the opportunity exists to gain something you want and need by working within an existing system, rather than rebelling against it. Instead of feeling restrained by the Uranus Retrograde energy this week, make it work FOR you. This will not happen by sitting back and letting things fall where they may. This is about working the system.

The Week’s Stretch – Page of Pentacles
This card is about being a student. Learn something new. That ties into all the previous cards – a cycle ending so a new one can begin; juggling material needs (especially financial), and working the system.

 

 

This Week’s Comfort – Strength
The comfort of the week is that, although you may need to finagle and plan and study and work the system, you have the strength to do so. The warning in this card is, don’t be an asshole about it. Use the positive qualities of strength and self-confidence without being harmfully aggressive. Assertive is a positive; aggressive is not, in this case.

This has major arcana cards in the first, third, and fifth locations, with a minor arcana and a court card in the remaining locations. Big energy with positive potential, if it’s harnessed and used carefully, rather than recklessly or aggressively.

Do you have a similar response to these cards? Or do you have a different interpretation? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!