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The Hanged Man ⚡ The Shift Locks In/Your Body Knows

Something shifts this week. In this episode of It’s Giving Mystical, we move from the fiery awakening of the Ace of Wands into the deep reversal energy of The Hanged Man — a card of surrender, truth, attunement, and irreversible perspective shifts. Kirsten explores what happens when the body begins recognizing truth before the mind can explain it. This episode is a meditation on authenticity, desire, discernment, nervous system resonance, and learning to trust the quiet knowing inside yourself. There’s a strong theme here around reversal: What can no longer be sacrificed. What can no longer be desecrated. What your body simply refuses to abandon anymore. This conversation weaves together tarot, somatics, embodiment, desire, revolution, Zelda references, truth as resonance, and the strange sacredness of becoming more fully yourself. ✨ Themes explored: * The Hanged Man tarot meaning * Reversal, surrender & energetic shifts * Truth as a somatic experience * The body recognizing alignment * Desire, appetite & authenticity * Why “feeling good” matters spiritually * Nervous system discernment in relationships * Sacred embodiment & personal revolution * Trusting what you know without explaining it If this episode resonates, share it with someone moving through a major energetic shift. #thehangedman #tarotpodcast #spiritualpodcast #weeklytarotreading #embodiment #healingjourney #consciousness #mysticism #tarotreader #personalgrowth #divinefeminine #authenticity #itsgivingmystical

You’re Not Dead Yet: Ace of Wands Energy

The Ace of Wands arrives this week like a spark returning to the body. A remembering. A reawakening. A reminder that you are not done yet. In this episode of It’s Giving Mystical, we move through the energetic arc from the Ten of Wands to the Seven of Wands and into the life-giving warmth of the Ace of Wands — the tarot card of vitality, desire, inspiration, creativity, sensuality, and renewed life force. Kirsten explores what it means to release outdated identities, soften scarcity around joy and love, and open the gates to more aliveness. This conversation weaves together tarot, embodiment, grief, motherhood, boundaries, desire, nervous system safety, and the deep permission to feel good again. If something in your life is beginning to awaken… this episode is for you. ✨ Themes explored: * Taurus New Moon energy & “new beginnings” * The Ace of Wands as vitality, eros, and inspiration * Releasing old identities and scarcity thinking * Boundaries, openness, and safe connection * Feeling more alive in your body * Motherhood, grief, tenderness & nervous system regulation * Why pleasure and aliveness are sacred * Learning to trust there is more available for you If this episode resonates, share it with someone walking through their own reawakening. #tarotpodcast #aceofwands #taurusnewmoon #spiritualpodcast #tarotreading #mysticism #selfdevelopment #embodiment #divinefeminine #healingjourney #personalgrowth #energyupdate #consciousness #itsgivingmystical

Seven of Wands Reversed: Opening the Gates | Weekly Tarot Reading

There’s something fascinating happening collectively right now… a strange nostalgia for the quiet of quarantine, for sourdough and slow mornings and being forced back into ourselves. In this week’s episode of the It's Giving Mystical, we explore what that longing might actually be pointing toward: the body’s pacing, the sacredness of ordinary life, and the deep human need for space to simply be.  The tarot card for the week ahead is the reversed Seven of Wands — a card of boundaries, energetic space, and the tension between self-protection and connection. This week asks: what happens when you stop fighting so hard to defend your peace and begin trusting the safety you’ve already built? What if the gates could open a little?  We talk about hypervigilance, nervous system contraction, embodiment, authenticity, and the possibility of letting yourself be seen without abandoning yourself. There’s a softer invitation moving through this week — one that says you don’t need to over-control everything in order to remain safe. You may actually be ready for more connection, more spaciousness, and more ease than you realize.  ✨ In this episode: * Why people are suddenly nostalgic for lockdown * The body’s relationship to safety, pacing, and spaciousness * Reversed Seven of Wands energy for the week ahead * Hypervigilance vs. grounded boundaries * Opening the gates to connection without losing yourself * Somatic awareness and tracking tension in the body * Letting yourself be fully seen in your uniqueness * Why “safe” and “connected” no longer need to oppose one another If this episode resonates, you can explore deeper work with me inside Mystic Rising or reach out about private sessions and Shaman School. ✨ Connect with me: Instagram: @givingmystical Website: Giving Mystical [https://www.givingmystical.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com] #tarot #sevenofwands #tarotpodcast #spirituality #embodiment #nervoussystem #healingjourney #mysticism #archetypes #weeklytarotreading #collectiveenergy #selfdevelopment #tarotreader #energyupdate #sacredfeminine #podcast #shadowwork #intuition #consciousness #personalgrowth

The Hierophant & The Devil: Sacred vs. Profane, Inversion & Awakening

This month feels big. Like… quietly revolutionary. We’re working with the energy of the The Hierophant and The Devil—two archetypes that, on the surface, couldn’t be more opposite. One represents the sacred, the institutional, the “this is the way.” The other holds the body, desire, instinct, the things we’ve been taught to question or even reject. But what I’m seeing for May is something different. These energies are inverting. What we’ve been told is sacred… may not be. What we’ve dismissed as profane… might actually be where the life is. There’s something here about holding opposites—really holding them—without rushing to resolve them. And in that tension, something begins to shift. Something new emerges. A deeper truth, maybe. Or just a more honest one. This shows up collectively—in our relationship to institutions, authority, and what we’ve trusted without question. And it shows up personally—in our bodies, our desires, our choices, and the quiet ways we’ve outsourced our own knowing. One of the strongest threads this month is the body. Not as something to manage or override, but as something sacred. Intelligent. In conversation with you at all times. There’s an invitation here to listen differently—to let your body lead, even when it contradicts what you’ve been taught you “should” want or do. This might also bring up questions around desire. What you actually want… versus what you learned to want. And whether those are even the same thing. There’s a kind of unraveling happening. But it doesn’t feel destructive—it feels like truth. Like something that’s been upside down for a long time finally turning right side up. So for May, the practice is simple (but not easy): Stay with the tension. Get curious about what you believe is sacred—and why. And most importantly, listen to your body. It knows. Zodiac readings begin about two-thirds of the way through for each sign.

The 10 of Wands: Set Yourself All the Way Free

This week’s energy is a powerful threshold moment... moving out of April and into May, from mid-spring into the beginning of summer, and into a deeply transformative energetic shift. We’re working with the 10 of Wands, and the message is clear: you are being asked to release what you’ve been holding onto… even if it once felt good. This is a week of noticing where you are gripping, carrying, or over-identifying with something that has already completed its cycle. Old inspirations, past versions of yourself, relationships, identities, creative expressions; anything you’re holding because it once lit you up. The truth? Not everything that was once alive is meant to be carried forward. In this episode, we explore: * The deeper meaning of the 10 of Wands and why “too much” shows up * How attachment to past passion, identity, or success creates energetic stagnation * The difference between honoring something vs. holding onto it * Why desire is a portal (not a destination) * How following your aliveness shifts your entire trajectory * The courage it takes to trust that letting go creates space for something new * Reframing “burden” vs. conscious choice in your life This is a week to loosen your grip, trust the unfolding, and follow what feels alive now. You are not here to carry your life. You are here to move with it. ✨ Work with me: * Mystic Rising (now moving into the Mother archetype) * Private sessions opening in May * Shaman School (next cohort coming)