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Caution: Tensions Running High This Week—Here's How To Lead Through It | July 3–10
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This week's energy is calling you into leadership whether you feel ready or not — and the cards are giving you exactly what you need to show up for it.
The cards are highlighting:
A collective energy that feels big, fast, and emotionally charged — don't get swept up
Why your wisest, most grounded self is the most important version of you this week
Fast moving information coming from every direction — how to sort truth from noise
People falling away or stepping back — and why that's actually in your favor
The difference between reacting and responding this week could change everything
You get to decide who you are in this energy. Choose wisely.
Hey, beautiful, welcome in for your weekly guidance, reading energy and potentials for July 3 through July 10. Something is bubbling this week, and we are going to get into it. You know that I am not doom and gloom here, but I have to be honest about what I'm seeing in the energy. And we are really being called into leadership this week, and it seems like there might be some tumultuous energy coming our way. So let's get the heads up and the guidance that we need for whatever might greet us this week. These first three cards, I want to read together, because they're such an interesting energy together. So I'm going to tell you what they are, and then we'll talk about them as individual and then we are going to come to the last two cards. This first card we have is King of Swords, which, if you remember, we've talked about this before, the king is kind of the highest representation of that energy. So obviously we go through the cards from the zero or the ace card all the way through, you know, 910, page, night queen, king. So this doesn't necessarily represent a male energy. It is just the most evolved or the most dominant version of that energy. King of Swords sits with beautiful blue sky behind them and puffy white clouds, and on their throne above their head are these beautiful three carved butterflies. They are sitting in a wonderful light blue, kind of sky, blue suit, even with like clouds amongst their feet and a feats feet and a sword in their hand. I want to just say quickly about this card that swords are the suit of kind of our mental energy, our wisdom, what we're thinking about, what we're learning about, and also communication. So remember that I'll tell you what these next two cards are, and then I'll show you how they all work together. This next card, sandwiching between is the Emperor. This is another figure sitting on a throne, holding an ankh, which is the Egyptian symbol of life. They have a little crown sunbeams on their head and some kind of horns, meaning that they have made earthly progress, production, right? They have a big city behind them, a beautiful orange sky. They're wearing a suit as they sit on this like solid concrete throne. The suit is red, which is life force energy, the Emperor. Okay? And then this third card that I want to tell you a little bit about, Emperor is about not just what we're making, but rules, structure, order, leadership. This next card with these three that I want to talk about. First is this, king of cups. We've seen king of cups recently, just last week, King of Cups, again, King the most evolved or expressed version of this energy. King of Cups sits in a tumultuous ocean with a little fish even jumping out on one side. It's wavy, it's choppy. It's not still water. They're sitting on a concrete throne that has a beautiful shell in the back. So for the back of the chair or the throne is a beautiful shell. They're holding a cup. They have a crown on their head. They're also wearing blue. They are the most evolved representation of our emotional self, right? So what's interesting with these cards, these two kings, let's take them together, king of swords and King of Cups. This is asking us to be, to show up as to hold potential for everyone else to step into their most wise, best communication self and their most emotionally evolved self. So for us to need to step into this powerful of energy, this grounded, well rounded in all the areas of our life, most evolved versions of ourselves, along with this emperor, lets me know that there might be some version of upheaval, some version of disagreement. This could be in our like in this country, the US. It could be kind of in just North America in general. This could be a global issue that's rising this week with this emperor. This Emperor is part of the Major Arcana, which remember we talk about here being more the life trajectory for us, our soul's journey in this lifetime. And this card is reminding you that you have leadership qualities, but it also reminds us that part of leadership means things are fair and equitable, right, that we're not just ruling like a king over people. We are leading like an emperor, like one who creates and maintains great civilizations, which means you have the power to lead. That's part of what this red suit is for this person. You have the ability to build, to create, to create opportunities for others. And part of what we're being reminded here is that someone can only truly be the best version of the Emperor when they are in the most evolved version of their wisdom and communication and most. Evolved version of their emotions. So I just keep feeling like we might see some sort of kind of collective event happen this week. There might be something where emotions are high, where misinformation is high, where our communication is a mess, where we are being asked to think about, like, what is wise and logical and rational and real. So conspiracy theories, you know, beware, as I'm saying this, obviously you can hear this crazy ambulance or fire truck or something going by, which is interesting because I've been recording for a little while now and it hasn't been happening. So that lets me know everything's part of the reading, right? So what I'm saying is like, yes, very urgent, very important. Pay attention here. Some of us are going to be being asked to step into leadership by sharing. Who are you as a soul? What do you believe? What are your values? What are your morals? How do you hold that space for other people where you can come in, grounded, wise ability to communicate and remember. Communication is not just expressing our needs, it is fostering other people to share their needs, their experiences, taking all of that into account, the most evolved version of the emperor doesn't just favor or rule for one part of their community, but is really supporting all of the community. That's part of the power of the Emperor. It's part of their ability to build this wonderful city behind them. It's part of this Ankh that they hold this symbol of life, right? Creating life that is equitable and equal is probably not the right word, but like equal opportunity for all is what I want to say. So I can't predict the future. I don't know what is going to roll out or how this is going to show up, but it does feel like it will be affecting our individual lives, as well as bigger collective segments of our community and our global family. So I don't know what is going to be happening here. Something feels like a big change over right? A big change over of energy, a big pivot in the way we're looking at things, a big kind of reckoning or coming into stepping into these most evolved versions of ourselves. So I know I encourage it frequently, but really just be doing your inner work and paying attention to how you feel this week. Are you responding or are you reacting? Are you getting grounded and still and neutral before you make a decision, or before you share information, or before you give guidance on someone's emotions? Or are you emotionally lit up and coming from a place of fear or overwhelm or panic, right? Are you thinking about only what's best for you, or how one segment gets ahead, or are you able to be grounded in kind of this Emperor energy as well, of like, power for the community life, for the community support for All right, so I won't harp on that anymore, but that is the first part of this energy. So that is really what is occurring for all of us. And now here's some more about the potential, the guidance. These next two cards are both suit of swords, which I think is very interesting, because the card right before this, again, is this King of Swords, where we are being asked to be our wisest, most evolved, not sucked into drama or gossip or misinformation, really getting our own information, tuning into our own wisdom, who we are, what our moral compass says, but also the ability to communicate that in ways that people can receive. Now these next two cards, knight of swords is a knight charging forward on a white horse. We see about half of the horse, and the horse is lunging forward. There's like a definite forward motion in this image, this knight is kind of leaning forward, really leading the charge with this horse, and they're holding a sword. This card often indicates very fast moving energy. So it might feel like like you have to step into these versions of yourself all of the sudden, I'm telling you now, so buckle up. But it could also feel like the energy in general is moving very fast, lots of things popping off, lots of different information and or information in different areas of our life. Maybe there's something in the economy, something in humanitarianism, something in the ecosystem, or like the Earth itself, something in leadership, something in the way we're communicating more globally and locally. So it's a lot popping off at once, and it might feel like there's so much that we can't even pay attention to it all, that there's so much information coming at us, and so much is changing very quickly. It could even be just over the course of this week or that this sets greater wheels in motion. Now this next card is also a sword, five of swords in the five of swords card, it's like just a regular day, some clouds in the sky, but there's a figure towards the forefront of the card. They are holding three swords, one kind of down, just like you might hold a cane, and the other two kind of up over their shoulder, like they're carrying extra swords and they're. Two swords on the ground right by their feet, and there are two figures walking away at different distances in the card. So it's very clear that these other figures have dropped their swords and started moving away from our main figure in the card. Now if you've been with me for any length of time, you might already know that fives are often about change, pivots, things shifting, and with this knight of swords, quick pivots, quick changes. This could be people falling away. This could be people moving out of positions that they're in. Could look like retirement, or someone accepting a different job and not giving notice. Could look like changes in big, high positions, or changes in people stepping away or walking away, or others needing to be swapped in. Don't fear this change. This is good change. This sometimes can involve some truth coming to light, and that is part of this walking away. This can also be people no longer wanting to align themselves with this front figure, like, Hey, I'm not fighting this fight with you. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't agree with those facts or that wisdom, and I'm just not going to participate in this anymore. So they're dropping their swords and walking away now this can be in your personal life. This could be someone walking away from you. This could be you walking away from someone just not willing to fight, not willing to argue, not willing to try to change their perspective and not willing to agree to their perspective, or what it is that they're trying to push forward their agenda, but really having your own wisdom. And again, I'm back to these three cards that we spent the first several minutes talking about being the most evolved version of yourself, so you're not caught in the drama of whatever this is especially with the energy and information moving so quickly right now. So people falling away. It's okay. It's in your favor. There's certainly always something to learn, more wisdom to have. But also maybe you're just not aligned in your values, in your beliefs, in your communication style, in the facts of what is true and not true right now in our world, I think there's been a lot of conversation about that, just in the overall energy. So this just feels like a bit of division, a bit of people stepping away or falling away from our lives, or maybe you are kind of stepping away from some people in your life, or in our world in general, maybe you've come to different understanding, different wisdom, more growth in your emotions, or emotional evolution, and maybe you realize like, oh, I don't align with this belief system or these people or this way of thinking or doing things. I don't want to fight that fight anymore. I want to just drop my sword and move to a different way of doing things, or move into my wisest, best communicator self, most emotionally evolved self. So let us see what is popping off in our world this week. Does feel like tensions are a little heightened. It does feel like the potential for emotions to be a little heightened. You get to decide if you are going to be the most evolved version of your wisest, grounded, centered, emotionally, well rounded self, and how you are going to step into leadership this week. It's probably not going to work to be in the background this week or right now in the energy, and it might even mean you stepping out as a leader in your own life in a different way, or kind of taking charge of your life, right? So let me know what is showing up for you in the energy. I am always grateful for you being here. You know, there is a new podcast episode that releases every Monday on spirit speakeasy, so I will see you for that just around the corner. Big hugs. Bye for now, from inside spirit speakeasy, you
