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Let your song be the song of the world. Feel your heart beat in unison with your friends, with your ancestors, and with the streaming waters of life. Tap into a massive power that isn’t yours by letting your heart break open—in joy or in pain. Be a vessel for healing and you heal the world.

The Visionary of Vessels is deeply intuitive. Ancestral wisdom, sacred knowledges, and healing poetry flow through them. For this reason, people are drawn to them for their powerful capacities to listen deeply, to counsel, to nurture, to heal, and to calm in times of emotional tumult. The reason that the Visionary is able to hold space so well or others, however, is that they know how to hold space for themselves. They know how to create their own sanctuary for rejuvenation and restoration. They know that they must be intentional, that emotional alignment comes with practices of delving deeply into their own should and cleansing rather than repressing.

The Visionary also knows the importance of boundaries. Remember that not all vessels are meant to hold us and not everything is ours to absorb or carry, The Visionary reminds us that boundaries are not the same as impasses or walls. You are not obligated to let everyone into your sacred space, especially not those who make toxic demands on your emotional labor. In the long run, the more grounded and supported you can be, the better you will be able to direct your supportive and healing energies to the benefit of others.

Un-make who you thought you were in order to make whole who you need to be. Give yourself permission to grow, change, evolve. Sometimes it is the tearing apart that makes it possible for you to remake and remember.

The Traveler of Stones asks you to find your solid core as you move among scenes and environments that may try to shake you up or wash you away. It’s important to find a balance between being tight-fisted with your resources and wanting to share them indiscriminately. Similarly, you may feel an internal struggle between experimentation and sticking to what’s tried and true. Make sure that your head and heart stay connected as you make this choice.

The Traveler of Stones is committed to following through on what they begin, and can be hard to sway from their course. When this card appears in your reading, channel the stable, responsible, and consistent energy of the Traveler of Stones without getting trapped in a too-narrow path.

Change is the only constant, especially in our hearts. Allow shifts in desires and creative expression. Be present only with the flow of time and how it answers to your own internal movements and shifts. Ask yourself, are you getting carried away? Do you want to be?

Driven by emotions as a source of inspiration, the Traveler of Vessels sets off to explore the furthest reaches of the heart. They are prepared for a creative adventure, such as a new artistic project or creating new emotional bonds. They move so quickly and frequently that their feet never seem to touch ground long enough to call any one place home. No matter how far they travel, they always carry a piece of home with them. Their insatiable desire for novelty can make them appear inconstant.

They may turn up in your life to shake it up like a snow globe, only to vanish as quickly as they appeared. The Traveler can remind us to be grounded and centered even as we allow our heart to be our compass. We can still allow our deep sea of emotions to move us—whether physically or psychically—without losing ourselves. If someone you know embodies the spirit of the Traveler, appreciate the loving and creative energy they usher in your life. If you are the Traveler, be open to new creative or emotional insight. The Traveler can also appear as a reminder that, ultimately, we are responsible for our own healing, even as others can hold space for us and offer guidance. No one else can go on our emotional journeys for us.

Wake up. Let your light shine and your freak flag fly. Expect success. Enjoy vibrant health and enthusiasm. Celebrate your achievements. Be the center of attention. Believe in your own radiance.

The Sun rises after the unease of the Moon has passed. With this card, we experience a glorious breakthrough—joy, relief, and the dawning of our own inner light. The Sun speaks if the brilliance, splendor, and alignment with inner truth that is possible for each of us when we not only accept, but truly rejoice in our own existence. This is a moment of coming home and sensing the patterns at the heart of things—truly understanding your own unique genius and enjoying the spotlight.

When the Sun bursts into your reading, embrace the opportunity to share your fiery creativity and enthusiasm with the world. Let yourself overflow. The sun encourages everything with which it shares its light to thrive. In allowing ourselves to grow, we help others give themselves permission to experience renewal and growth.

Allow yourself to heal from your wounds—inflicted by yourself or others. Acceptthe death of old relationships, and invite the birth of new ways of engaging. Trust that something better is coming, and make space for its arrival. Keep the words on your tongue tender and life-giving. Release narratives about contributing that don’t serve you.

The Ten of Knives signals the end of a cycle where we’ve exhausted ourselves through an excess of mental agitation. This could be through anxiety, overextension, or pushing ourselves to prioritize logical decisions over the needs of our hearts and bodies. This could also point to experiencing hurt, betrayal or distrust at the hands of our communities. We are grieving that those we thought we could love and trust have treated us with such discard, especially with the ways in which they have spoken to us or spoken about us. Either way, there is a sense of hitting bottom. Thankfully there is also a promise of now being ready to find your way back up. Be gentle with yourself in these moments and meditate carefully on what you actually need from your community to feel safe and loved.

This card can also hold a hidden message of inflation: is your situation really as bad as all that, or is some part of you being a little overdramatic? Sometimes we cling to narratives of martyrdom and imagine that our sacrifices are not being appreciated by the community. This card encourages us to discard that narrative and think about whom or what that narrative truly serves or sustains.