Lughnasadh, Contemporary Witchcraft Topics, Rainbow Moonstone, Tarot

Embracing Lughnasadh: Harvest Rituals, Contemporary Witchcraft, Rainbow Moonstone, and Tarot Insights

Join us for a magical journey in this episode as we celebrate Lughnasadh, the ancient Celtic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. We’ll delve into the history and modern practices associated with this vibrant sabbat, sharing rituals, recipes, and traditions to help you honor the first fruits of the season.

In our contemporary witchcraft segment, we explore current trends and discussions within the community, providing insights and advice for both seasoned practitioners and those new to the craft. We cover everything from ethical spellcasting to integrating technology into your practice.

Discover the enchanting properties of Rainbow Moonstone, a gemstone known for its mystical connection to the moon and its ability to enhance intuition and spiritual growth. We’ll discuss using this beautiful crystal in your magical workings and everyday life.

Lastly, our tarot segment offers a deep dive into selected cards, uncovering their meanings, symbolism, and applications in your readings. We’ll also provide a simple spread to help you connect with the week's energies.
Tune in for a blend of ancient traditions and modern magic, designed to inspire and empower your spiritual journey.

Transcript

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Music, hello everybody, and welcome to intentional spiritual living with Brian. This is season three. Episode Three. Have a lot of fun, exciting things, in my opinion, to talk about today. And I hope you feel the same way. We're gonna start off talking about lunaza, which was on August 1, and how to honor the energies of lunaza, or the first harvest, with a ritual. And we will design that together, and that is something you can take away from the podcast and go practice. Then we're introducing a new section that we're going to do for the next several episodes. I might keep it forever. It depends on things evolve, but a lot of people talk to me about witchcraft today. What's what's changing in witchcraft, what's staying the same, what's outdated, what's relevant right now. How do we integrate technology all these things? And so I would like to pick a couple topics, maybe three topics per episode. I tend to talk pretty fast, and kind of shed light on that and demystify anything that you may be hearing about. So we'll be talking about witchcraft today. We will continue down our path of how to build your crystal Toolkit, which we're doing 10 episodes in season three. And all 10 episodes, we'll pick a new crystal. We started with clear quartz, the master crystal. We moved on to carnelian, and this week we're going to do rainbow Moonstone. And finally, we will do our weekly Tarot card pull, a three card pull, and dive deep in what the universe wants us to know and how to deal with those energies as they come about. So with no further ado, we got a lot to talk about. Let's get started. You. Ha lunaza, that time of year. I actually love the first harvest written after and to honor the great God, Lou, l, U, G, H, but pronounced blue, the god of light and skill. And this is a time, this is a Gaelic or Celtic slash Scottish festival. My last name is Campbell. I have lots of Scottish roots, so it's near and dear to my heart. I've been to Scotland many times, and I just love the ancient ways that Scots, especially pagan Scots, celebrate the festivals. And lunaz de is certainly one of the best ones. And so first of all, lunaza is how you say it, Lu, Naza. If I were to spell it phonetically, just l, o, u n, a, z, A, but of course, it's spelled l, u g, h N, A, S, A, G, H so you would think that it would be lunaz de, but it is Lu Naza, and it's after the god Lou. And so it's this time where we're beginning to harvest. The weather's warm after the cold winter and the spring and the work that's been put involved, we are able to harvest fruits and grains. And so the festival is to give thanks for that. And as you will see, we can actually give thanks and ask for other harvest. And it doesn't have to be fruits and grains, it can be anything. So let's get right to it. And you'll want maybe on this one to listen to this a few times, because there's a little bit of steps here. It's basic stuff, but there's a lot going on for this ritual. Let's get right to it, our lunaza ritual. So what you will need is your altar, or a sacred space, if you don't have an altar, seasonal fruits, grains, bread and other harvest items, wherever you live in this world, whatever that would be here, it would be things like corn and soybeans are grown, tomatoes, that type of thing, where we're just now harvesting those some chime candles, preferably in yellow or gold. Those are the colors for lunaza and the first harvest incense. I prefer to use frankincense exclusively. A small cup of wine, ale or another beverage. If you're too young for adult beverages, any sort of apple juice or grape juice will do the trick. Some fresh flowers, a bowl of water, a sprig of wheat or a small sheath of grain, if you don't have access to sprigs of wheat hailing here in Ohio, I can find any farm to grab them from. I grew up on a farm, so I just have to call my brother, but I understand not everybody has that a grain of rice would do. It's a ritual. It's symbolic, and a piece of paper and a pencil to write with. Let's get right to it. So let's prepare for our ritual that's. Get in the mindset of the energies of lunaza. So we're going to cleanse our ritual space, and we're going to light that frankincense incense and walk around the area. I like to walk in a counterclockwise rotation and allow the smoke to purify the area that you're working in. Why counterclockwise? For me, because I this craft is nothing normal about it, and I like to break tradition. It's that simple, and then start beginning to set up your altar with the seasonal fruits, grains, bread, flours and candles and bowl of water and the cup of beverage, whether it's wine grape juice, apple juice and a sprig of wheat. We want to arrange those and a sort of Cornucopia beautiful, beautiful way on your altar. Once you've got that set up and you have cleansed your space with the frankincense incense, you should start feeling the energies come around. There's something really magical when you when you cleanse out an area, and you do it with intention, and I've talked about this in other podcasts, and I'll talk about it at the end of this ritual. But give this your all. Give give it the best chance to to to honor God Lou, to honor the good things that we have received this harvest. I know that some of us might not always feel like we're receiving good things, and it feels like a tough time and stuff, but there is always some good to be thankful for, and that's the most important thing to remember with nunaza. So now that we've got that altar set up, let's, let's open our circle. Stand by your altar center and ground yourself. And I said, ground yourself. I mean, push them feet into the earth. Push your feet into that floor. Be present there. Take some deep breaths. Light your candles and say the following, I call upon the energies of earth, air, fire and water. I invite the spirits of this sacred, sacred space to join me in this celebration of lunaza. May this circle be a place of love, light and protection. Hold the sprig of wheat or grain in your hands and say the following, great God, Lou, god of light and skill, I honor you and thank you for the gifts of the harvest. May your blessings shine upon this celebration and upon all who partake in this sacred time, hail and welcome Lou, now just breathe in your space as we're about to give gratitude for the harvest. Just take it all in. Feel the energies surrounding you. Pick up the bread that is on your altar and break it and say the following, with this bread, I give thanks for the abundance of the earth. I honor the hard work and dedication that brings forth this nourishment. Blessed be the harvest. Place a small piece of bread and a few fruits into the bowl of water as an offering. Take the paper and pencil and write down something you are grateful for from this past year, and something that you wish to harvest, a goal, something that you're falling short on, an intention in the cupping. See in the coming season, read aloud what you've written, and place the paper under the bowl of water, raise the cup of beverage and say, I drink in celebration of the harvest and the bounty of the earth. May this season bring joy, prosperity and growth to all. Take a sip and then share the beverage with others. If you're celebrating in a group. Share the bread and fruits, taking a moment to appreciate the flavors and the abundance that they represent. Again, you can do this solo, but if you're doing it in group, share again. This is a good time to breathe in these energies, to think about what you're thankful for, to think about your shortcomings, to think about what didn't work out, your way, to think about what did, and thank the earth for the bountiful harvest. We are now ready to close the circle. Thank God, Lou and the spirits of the sacred space for their presence. Great Lou, spirits of this place, I thank you for your presence and your blessings. Go in peace and power as I close this circle, extinguish your candles and say, the circle is broken, but unbroken, May the love of the goddess be ever in my heart. Merry meat, Merry Part and merry meat again. And it is done. Friends. After your ritual, take the bowl of water with the offerings and pour it outside, returning it to the earth. Keep the paper with your intention in a special place. I'd like to keep this one for the NAZA, because it's a reflection of what we're thankful for and what we still need, and it's a great way to revisit it. By keeping it in a special place. A great place would be a drawer in your altar or near your altar, and that is it, friends. We. Do a section coming up on the Wheel of the Year and how lunaza fits in there. But this is a great, great Sabbath to celebrate, and I hope that this ritual performs well for you. All right, this section is all about contemporary witchcraft, the modern witch, how things are evolving, and how nothing is the same. And this is really fun for me. I thought of it a couple weeks ago when I was mapping out this season, and I thought, you know, it was really time to do something contemporary, because as much as the witches of the world like to honor the old ways, and I love that stuff, you know, I love to wear a t shirt that has a pentagram on it that says, give me that old time religion and that type of stuff. But we are moving forward in the world, and we can't always do things that the way that they were done hundreds, if not 1000s of years ago. And so the world is not the same as it was in the year 2000 in the year 1982 etc. And we the craft is not going to sit there and remain the same as much as we would like it to. And so I just want to pick out in this contemporary witchcraft section of these podcasts. I'll put it in several episodes, just things to contemplate and think on, if you will. It helps us all to modernize our craft. And so I've picked three topics to talk about quickly and briefly in this episode, just for your contemplation and maybe understanding them a little more and helping you to modernize. And so the first one is eclectic witchcraft, which is certainly not new, but it's a trending topic right now. Techno witchcraft, and I'm not talking of the music variety. I'm talking of the technical, technology that's another trending topic, and environmental or green witchcraft is another trending topic. And those are the three that we're going to talk about briefly today. So let's dive right in with eclectic witchcraft. This one speaks near and dear to my heart. I have always, always been an eclectic witch. And what I mean by that is that I borrow from everything and anything. Born and raised in the Catholic Church, went to a Catholic grade school, went to a Catholic high school, had parents that would never let us miss a service. And so that's where my love of the smells and bells, if you will. You know the incense, the sounds, the deities. You know deities and saints, very much the same thing. And I love all that stuff. And so that was my foundation. Then I started studying things like wicked and Druidry and voodoo and hoodoo and Buddhism and all that stuff. And I borrow from all of them to build this lifestyle that is tailor fit for me, and that's really the heart and soul of eclectic witchcraft. It's a highly individualized and flexible approach to the craft, and it allows you as the practitioner, to draw from various traditions, cultures and spiritual pasts, to create your own unique practice and belief. It's the inclusivity and adaptability that make it quite popular for the modern witch such as yourself and me, eclectic witches might incorporate elements from Wicca. For instance, I certainly have studied Wicca extensively. I don't practice Wicca. I don't call myself a Wiccan, but I know all about it, and I've read all about it, and I revisit text on it. Actually, DJ Conway has a great book called Wicca, the complete craft, and I love to read that book. I've probably read it three times, and I get something new out of it every time. What I love about Wicca is the karmic nature of it. You know, harm no one, and it'll come back to you. Now, there are other people that would argue me to the ground and say that's the most ridiculous thing, and people you know deserve to be hexed and smacked down. I'm not coming against you for believing that, but I think that is a bunch of hogwash. I don't think that me, Brian, I have the ability to discipline anyone for choices they've made, even if it's against me. I just That's not how I think. And so I I kind of love that stuff, that wicked belief, but I don't like the organized religion aspect of it. You know, that's what I got away from Catholicism for I don't want to be told that I have to be in this place at this time and I have to do this during this time. And stuff I do like a framework. Of course, we all do. We all like organization, but I don't want organized religion in my life. It doesn't work for me. I borrow from voodoo. I love the aspect of a voodoo doll, and it's not to harm people. It's the poppet aspect. I like to infuse a poppet. And we actually do puppet classes at Raven's cauldron for my own good and stuff, that thing full of rare herbs and crystals, and make it work for me. So that's a little borrowing from that. Anytime I'm in the state of Louisiana, I bring back droves of Spanish moss, and I work with it in my craft. That's what I like to do. This is eclectic witchcraft. Again, I do 1000s and 1000s. Of rituals, and I do them my own way. I don't read a book and and feel like I have to follow steps one through 10. And I certainly hope you don't either, but if you do, you will evolve. I know this. I used to be that person that read those books. I used to want to gather all the books, and if it said I had to have a tonka bean, for instance, this sticks out of my memory. Tonka beans smell like vanilla, and they're very poisonous. They can kill you in quantity. And there you can get them. You can find them online and stuff. And that used to be in the days of Scott Cunningham and the older authors, they would always recommend tonka beans. And if I couldn't find one at the time. You know, I'm going back again. I'm 52 years old, so you know, if I couldn't get it, Amazon didn't exist, then I wouldn't I felt like I was not doing the ritual correctly. And that is just nonsense. So always remember these things. Remember that you can adapt and do it your own way. The emphasis is on your personal intuition and creativity, and it allows for you to have a more personalized and meaningful spiritual practice. And if you can obtain that meaningful spiritual practice, you'll stick with it for a lifetime, and that's what's wonderful about it. So it's wonderful to be an eclectic witch, and this is trending right now, and I couldn't be happier. All right, let's talk about the techno witchcraft. What is this? What does it mean? It has to do with technology, and as technology has become an integral part of daily life, us modern witches need to incorporate it into our practices. And when I say need to, I mean, it's not a requirement, but it's in our face all the time. We can use digital tools and platforms to enhance our magical workings. Things like Facebook, you can create a coven in less than two days, probably, and get a bunch of followers and groups to do what you want to do. Back in the old days, you didn't have that digital tool and you weren't able to do that. And so it's we need to honor it, as much as I sometimes get really bogged down and despise social media, if you stop and think about the good that it does, and not just the bad, I think you'll see where its value lies, if you will. We can use smartphone apps for moon phases in astrology. We can use digital altars. We can do online covens, like we talked about in communities. I mean, there are Facebook groups. I'm a member of eclectic witches, and it's probably got 50 or 60,000 members at this point. I don't use it for much, but it's nice to always hear what people are saying in the modern world. And I wouldn't have been able to do that before. I would have just had to assume. And so one thing I just said that stuck out to me when I was researching this was digital altars. This was something I didn't know about. And it's really nothing big. It's it's a combination of for young folks that maybe don't have the financial capital to set up an elaborate altar if you wanted an elaborate altar, or they have to hide from their parents and stuff. And so it's usually like Pinterest accounts, Tumblr accounts dedicated to deities or spells, and it's a repository. That's what a digital altar really is. And then, you know, of course, social media, like we talked about, it's created a platform for sharing our knowledge and connecting with other practitioners. For instance, what I'm doing right now, I'm sharing pieces of myself on all these podcasts. I wasn't able to do that 20 years ago. And so we must acknowledge this stuff. We must embrace it, because we have each other, and that's what's the most important. Just remember that technology, witchcraft, reflects the evolving nature of this craft and its ability ability to adapt to contemporary lifestyles. And that's really what it is. It's just a way to modernize what we do and what we believe, all right? And then finally, and this is the most basic one, even though this is a trending contemporary witchcraft topic, I don't know why it is, because it's been around forever, but I think it has to do with global warming and the concern for the environment, and that is environmental or green witchcraft, and it's everything to do with the growing awareness of the environmental issues that we're facing globally, on the planet, and it's gaining huge prominence. Green witchcraft, its focuses simply on living in harmony with nature and incorporating eco friendly practice into the craft. That's the important thing, because witches have always been in harmony with nature. That's how you basically know you're a witch. But you know, less plastic, more natural, if you will. This is so basic, but it's true, and it also has to do with the cooking aspect of the kitchen, which, even you know, less waste there, growing your own food, the alchemical nature of cooking in itself, taking raw ingredients and making something beautiful out of it, so that you can perform a ritual, participating in herbalism, foraging outside in the woods, that type of thing. This is all the green witchcraft movement, and it is very, very lovely movement. I think about myself sometimes do I consider myself a green witch? Not out foraging in the woods, and I'm not the kind of witch that wants to discuss it Indian style in the woods. I can understand wanting to do that and hear the nature sounds and the birds and stuff, but that's not it's not just exactly the fabric of my being. But what is the fabric of my being is that I'm a definite Kitchen Witch. I love to do take weird ingredients and cook difficult cuisines and study like right now I'm on an Indonesian kick. I'm studying Indonesian curries and Indonesian cuisines and the spice paste that make it up, and getting things that are hard to obtain, like candle nuts that are poisonous and you have to heat them. But that's the basis of a white spice paste in Indonesia, for instance. And it's fascinating stuff. That's the kitchen witchery that I love, and so it's a form of green witchcraft. And on that note, I want to talk about what's coming to Raven's cold and real soon is that we're going to have an entire section on kitchen witchery, and we've partnered with a publisher called Fade on P, H, A, i, d, O N, and they have the most exquisite, exquisite cookbooks, anything from the most space, they have a cookbook called toast, and it's all about different toast, all the way up to the most in depth, Asian cookbooks or Indonesian, like I was just talking about Irish, and it goes on and on, and we're going to do demonstrations in the store and hit out samples and stuff. Another one I've been studying right now is the cuisine of Finland, and it's been fascinating, so look forward to that in store, and we'll talk about it on the podcast. But those are our contemporary witchcraft topics, what they mean and how we can apply them. So again, we went over eclectic witchcraft, and that's just simply borrowing from anything and everything to make ourselves whole in our own spiritual path. Nobody has to approve it. Nobody has to like it. It's who we do, and that's what we love. Techno witchcraft, the use of technology and all of the digital platforms that are technology to grow our craft, to grow our community and to get involved, and then environmental and green witchcraft, and that's just simply getting back to basics, getting back to Earth and saving our planet. So look forward to more of these topics coming up. I just do some social media trends and look at some Google Trends to see what's trending in witchcraft, and I will report on them. So that is all I want to say about that. This week coming up, we're going to talk about part three of building your crystal toolkit, and we're talking about rainbow Moonstone. All right, friends, let's begin part three of our building your crystal toolkit series this entire season, and we have talked about the master crystal of clear quartz, and we have talked about Carnelian. Today we're going to talk about rainbow Moonstone. What is it? And how would we use it? I've talked about this. But if you're just picking up an episode here, and you're not listening in sequence, I'll just quickly say that to get to know your your crystals takes a lot of work, good work, though, and what I want you to do first and foremost, before we start talking about the metaphysical properties of rainbow Moonstone, is if you you you have procured a piece, whether it's a rough piece, whether it's a palm stone, whether it's the smallest of tumbles, whether it's a massive piece, it doesn't matter. Get to know it. Sit near it, hold it. Put it on your nightstand. Meditate with it. Take it to work with you. Put it in your car. Close your eyes at night when you're holding it, and see how you feel. Figure it out. Get to know it. Does it work for you and does it not? I've talked about this in the past. Amethyst is not a favorite of mine. It's not a stone I ever work with. I appreciate it for its physical beauty. I love the semi transparent nature, the beautiful purple hues of it. I especially love it in geodes. But working with it, it's just a crystal to me, and that's okay. So all this stuff is subjective to you. So rainbow Moonstone one of the most popular, popular crystals that we sell at Raven's cauldron. People just adore it. They adore it for its flash. And I want to talk about that before we start talking about how to use it. It's flash. And when I say flash, Rainbow Moonstone, for those that don't know that are listening, is a white ish stone that has black fleck all throughout it. And if you hold it in the right light, especially out in the sun or under fluorescent lighting, and you move it just in the littlest of ways, it'll have what looks like blue lightning flashes all through it, not unlike our good friend, Labradorite, which we will be talking about next week. What is Moonstone? Moonstone is a type of Labradorite. It's that simple. It's a It's kind of like white Labradorite, if you will. But it's it's got the same chemical compositions, same hardnesses. Is and everything as Labradorite Moonstone does, but it's not the exact same stone. It has a little bit of a different mineral composition. But think of Moonstone as Labradorite, and that's why it has that flash. So let's talk about metaphysically, what would I use it for now. Again, I must always say that this is subjective. I use rainbow Moonstone to enhance my psychic abilities, and that's a tall tale for me to say. Because I I'm not a psychic. I can't tell you that your dead great aunt wants you to go to McDonald's today get a large french fry. I don't have that ability, but I have intuition, and I use it. I'm a almost 40 year tarot card reader, and that requires no psychic ability, but it requires that ability to pull information out of the air with the person in front of you and to understand their question and why they're questioning it, and relate what seems to be basic cards back to their situation. So it really, really, really does make for a powerful, powerful amulet for me, Rainbow Moonstone, and so I use it for enhancing my intuition and my psychic abilities. It is known for that, but it is also known for protection and grounding and all kinds of other things. And that's the thing about getting to know your crystals. If you were just to go to a crystal store, get online, you will, you could basically weave the same theme through every stone. I assign a lot of my own personal meanings to them, and so that's why you don't have a lot of courses for building your crystal toolkit, because it's different for everyone. So this is just me telling you how to use it again. It is associated with enhancing intuition, tarot reading, psychic perception and spiritual insight. I 86 the psychic protection. Because I'm not a psychic. I don't have that gift. But rainbow Moonstone is known to open your third eye and your crown chakra, and that facilitates a much stronger connection to the spiritual realm, and that's where I use it. Those that come to see me for tarot readings, you may or may not know, but there's always a piece of rainbow Moonstone nearby, maybe in my pocket and maybe sitting on the table. I may be holding it while you're talking to me, but it's always nearby. So that's one way that I use it. Why do I use it? Because it helps me, in combination with a piece of red calcite that I've had for 30 years to give you the best reading, to tap into your question, to bring the universe into the room that we're reading, so I can deliver a message to you and move on. So that's how I personally use rainbow Moonstone. You can do some chakra work with it as well, by sitting it on my third eye or my crown chakra, and doing a meditation. And it's not so much as a meditation, as much as a visualization. If I'm looking for an answer and I'm not getting the vision that I need, I grab rainbow Moonstone instantly, and I may lay on my back and I may put it right on my third eye so I can get the answer. It is known to open the third eye and your crown Chaka helping you see things for what they are. You can also use it for divination. A lot of people will use rainbow Moonstone as a focus object when they're doing a Tarot reading to kind of get the answer. I don't use it that way, because I just don't I use it more for tapping into my abilities. To give you the best message I know. Said that twice, but that's really important, because I want if it's resonating with you, and you're an aspiring rune reader, tarot reader, something I really would ask you to try this because it's a very, very powerful stone. I keep it right up there in the top three of my stones. Cardigan is also a favorite of mine. And if you really want to go backwards, in our podcast this season, we talked about the master crystal clear quartz. Put a clear quartz palm stone with a rainbow Moonstone, palm stone on your third eye. Shut your eyes and visualize what you're wanting to know, should you take the job? Should you sell your house? Should you buy? I don't know. It doesn't matter. You'll see the answer. That's how powerful it is. And when you magnetize it with the clear quart, you cannot go wrong. Finally, you can use it for dream work. I'm not a dream work person. I have trouble remembering my dreams, and it's just not something that I live by. But I know many witches that do. And so you can keep a rainbow Moonstone. I would recommend a tumble or a small piece under your pillow. Is the best place to put it, or in your pillow, and it will stimulate vivid and meaningful, meaningful dreams that you can then recount and go back through and recall the next day. And that's the important thing there. So friends, getting to know your crystal toolkit, Rainbow Moonstone, powerhouse crystal using for enhancing tuition and psychic abilities is what we're talking about here. Give it a try every every crystal toolkit should not be without it, all right, friends and coming up, we are going to do our tarot reading for. This episode to find out what the universe wants us to know. All right, we have reached the final section of Episode Three, and that is our tarot reading for the week. I'm pulling the cards right now. I've pulled the eight of swords, the queen of cups and the star reversed, wow. Kind of a tough reading, but we must remember that not everything is peaches and cream in the world, and Tarot is certainly no, no difference. So let's get right on it. So reading this spread, this is a basic three card spread, and basically the way I do a three card spread is the card in the middle is dictating everything and helping us and things, the gotchas, what we need to be aware of, and how to get past it, or on the left and right. And so coming up on the left is the eight of swords for the for those that don't know Tarot. So I show a figure that is bound in a ribbon and blindfolded with eight swords, five to the left of them, and three to the right, they're standing on the earth that has got water running through it, and their feet is sitting in the water, and there are mountains behind them. What does it mean? Oh, and they're Cloaked In Red, which is power and passion. It means that this person is trapped in their own head, and they're dealing with anxiety, and they're wanting to run to the hills because they feel trapped. They've gotten into a project. They've gotten into a situation in their life where it was good, and now it's overwhelming, and they don't know what to do, so they just go internally. That's where they're blindfolded. They could certainly take the ribbon that's binding them right off of them. They're not like in a straight jacket or anything, and free themselves, but it's their own thoughts that are keeping them imprisoned. They're standing on that water that means that emotions are flowing and the world is going on, and the mountain in the background tells us that the challenges are behind them, but they're not seeing it. Now we're going to skip to the third card, because we're anchoring in the third card, which is the queen of cups. And so the third card is the star, and that is my favorite of all tarot cards. But unfortunately, this time, she is reversed. I don't want to get into a deep dive on the star. We've done that before, and I will do it again. But basically, this person has lost hope. This person has went through a situation that was really difficult, ie, the tower that precedes the star in the fool's journey in a tarot deck. And now they are reversed, and they have lost all hope. They have given up on the situation, and they're just, you know, it's a crisis of faith, and not of the religious kind. You know, you've always believed that I'm just going to make up a situation here, and you've been saving and saving and saving because you want to get a new Mercedes, okay? And you've taken on odd jobs, and you've done all these things, and you've lost hope, because the price of those cars keeps going up, and you have unexpected bills, and so far right now, you've just given up all hope. It's never going to happen for you, and you just feel entrapped, and now you have to keep earning money, and you can't get what you want. That describes the eight of swords and the star being reversed. But what does this queen of cups in the middle have to do with it is a reminder from the universe that you have eloquent emotions, that you know exactly how to handle them, and you know how to get past anything your foot is grounded to Earth. If you were to study that card, and we could go into all the symbolism on that card, but we're not going to this is not a Tarot training, but this is more of what the universe wants us to know. You are a badass, and you don't need to throw a temper tantum. You don't need to have all this anxiety, the water of the cups card, the queen of cups. She has got a cover on her cup. It's the only cup card that is covered, and it's because she's eloquent in speaking her mind and taking action to make things right. Don't let the swords, which is an air represented suit of tarot, it's the toughest suit. It has to do with your intellect and what you think. Don't let that dictate you, because it already has dictated you enough to the fact that we have a reverse star and you've lost hope. And so it's a reminder to pull yourself up by your waist and get back on it. You've got this so tough reading, but hopeful reading, hopeful reading from the queen of cups. You've lost hope from the star. And if we were to do this in our own life, and we pulled that, if I pulled this reading for me, and I analyzed it and I was able to do it, I would set it aside, and I would get myself together, and then I would pull cards again to see what I get. But it's just not to lose hope. You've got concrete. Emotions flowing. You've got a support system. It's just a tough time, and that's what the universe wants us to know for the week ahead. So happy end of first week of August, friends. It's been great talking to you. I hope that this episode was chock full of information that you gained knowledge from. It's been really interesting to me, and I'm going to me, and I'm going to continue that contemporary witchcraft discussions on trending topics, because I think that we do need to continually modernize and evolve, and what a great way to do it, to see what's trending in the world and how we can apply it to the craft. So until next time, I'll be thinking about you, and I'll talk to you next week. Have A great Week, Friends. You