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<\/p>\nTarotscopes that slay: Eclipse season<\/b><\/p>\n
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The tides are high, babies.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been feeling particularly edgy, angered or just downright depressed, there may be an Astrological explanation for that.\u00a0 Cancer Season, as the first water sign of the Zodiac, stirs the emotional soup. But that\u2019s just the start of it, because Cancer Season is always an emotional one.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t explain the especially high stakes anxiety in and around our collective experience. That we can blame on Eclipse Season.<\/p>\n
Eclipse Season happens twice a year with six months respite between them.\u00a0 Sometimes we get three eclipses in a season, this go round we have only two\u2026 but they are powerful AF.\u00a0 I like to think of eclipses as cosmic course correctors. They help us get where our soul wants to go. Eclipses like to take things away.\u00a0 Literally. They take away the light of the sun or the moon. First the Sun, which happened last Tuesday July 2nd; then the moon, occurring next Tuesday on July 16th.<\/p>\n
Energetically, eclipses help us release the things we\u2019ve been clinging to for so long.\u00a0 Sometimes they also bring in miracles we\u2019ve been too afraid to pray for. Above all, eclipses bring clarity.\u00a0 They turn out the lights so that they can be turned back on. It\u2019s like coming back into your own home after a long vacation, you see it with fresh eyes\u2013 sometimes you smell it fresh, too.\u00a0 And that can be horrifying but also, ultimately, healing.<\/p>\n
These eclipses are here to help us evolve, individually and globally.\u00a0 But they will not do it for us. Like all Astrology, you must partner with the cosmic energies if you are wanting to make change. It\u2019s like buying all the ingredients for a cake and then setting them down on your kitchen counter, hoping the cake will bake itself.\u00a0 Gurl, it wont. So we must measure and mix, fold, stir and pulse these astrological energies so as to bake the lives we\u2019ve been waiting for.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn invites us into a profound letting go.\u00a0It\u2019s a doozy. You\u2019ve probably already started feeling it. We are being challenged to release our toxic masculine energies and the internal structures that continue to imprison us. You see, Capricorn can represent the Patriarchy and this Eclipse will help us release our own inner patriarchal voices.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care how woke you think you are, all of us need to continue to root out the deeply entrenched patterns that keep us feeling small, separate and unvalued. We all have voices in our heads that tear us down, that belittle us, that talk us out of pursuing our dreams.\u00a0 But the truth is: YOU would never talk to yourself that way. Those voices aren\u2019t you. Those are the voices of the Patriarchy, disguised as our own inner monologue. And if you are vigilant, you can root them out.<\/p>\n
Capricorn is also the ruler of large buildings and institutions, governments and organizations with longstanding. So this Eclipse wants to tear down those old tired structures too\u2013 but let\u2019s focus on the ones that have been built up inside of yourself. I\u2019m not trying to get too psychological with you here but, honey child, you\u2019ve got mental structures from childhood still running you. You may even have some of the mental structures of your parents or your grandparents still calling the shots from the inside. The good news is that we have the power. If you can see it, you can free it. Observe the old stories, the mental patterns that play out in your head. These mental jungle gyms waste our time and our energy. They are how we thwart ourselves from the inside. If your mind feels like a prison then make a jailbreak! You can and you will be able to liberate yourself from the corporate, religious and technological brainwashing that so many of us are finally starting to notice.<\/p>\n
If this all feels serious, that\u2019s because it is. But here\u2019s some good news and goddess knows we need it. Currently, in Capricorn, real close to where Tuesday\u2019s Eclipse is happening, sit Pluto and Saturn. And they are hanging out right by the South Node. Think of the South Node as the cosmic toilet, flushing away the old, stale, broken shit in our collective hearts and minds. Saturn (the planet of hard werk and responsibility) and Pluto (the planet of deep transformation) are here to help us really get rid of this shit once and for all. If you are willing to do the work to see where you\u2019ve been blocking yourself, and if you\u2019re really willing to kiss your old self goodbye and become someone new\u2026 well babies, there\u2019s no telling just how far you can go. But we must be willing to change. The willingness is everything. And if you\u2019re not ready right now, that\u2019s ok. There are always cosmic opportunities for release\u2013 but lemme get all the way real\u2013 this is the biggest portal we\u2019re gonna have for some time. So if you\u2019re ready, take my hand, and let\u2019s jump.<\/p>\n
The last piece of astrology that needs mentioning is the Mercury Retrograde that began on the 7th of July.\u00a0 Remember that retrogrades are not a punishment or a curse. They are a pause. They give us a chance to slow down, to sift through our lives and make new connections.\u00a0 If we are always moving forwards we struggle to see the patterns in our lives. Eclipse Season plus a Mercury Retrograde is a brilliant recipe for clarity. This could be the month where you really see how you have been getting in your way for so long.\u00a0 And you finally make those changes you\u2019ve been resisting\u2013 and guess what? It can be easy. It can be fun. It could be easier than ever to put down the pipe, the bottle, to pick up the pen, the paintbrush. Give yourself that permission. Watch miracles happen in your own life. Above all, the message is to slow all the way down. Be gentle with yourself but don\u2019t go to sleep. Stay present. Keep observing the shifts trying to happen. WE need you. We need all of you!<\/p>\n
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Speaking of miracles, on July 27th, in Los Angeles, I\u2019ll be starting my three week Tarot class which I <\/a>playfully call Tarot + Vino<\/a>.\u00a0 But you don\u2019t have to drink to enjoy the offering.\u00a0 It\u2019s happening on three consecutive Saturdays in July and August, so maybe I should\u2019ve called it Tarot + Brunch-O but\u2026 let\u2019s be real, that doesn\u2019t have quite the same ring to it.\u00a0 Each class comes with delicious food, nourishing teachings, my personal notes on the Tarot and wine\/coffee\/tea\/juice. You also get your own deck to keep (The Wild Unknown Deck, to be exact) and two mini-readings from yours truly throughout the course of the class.\u00a0 If you have been wanting a safe space to explore your own psychic potential (and let\u2019s be real, everyone is psychic) then THIS is the class for you! The first four Queerty readers who sign up before July 7th with the code QUEERAF can save $50.<\/p>\n Lastly, if you\u2019re not listening to The Spiritual Gayz <\/a>yet, what\u2019s the hold up?\u00a0 Do you not like podcasts? Do you not like me? My husband and I started this offering over a year ago now and it just keeps growing and expanding.\u00a0 Our latest episode was a deep dive into Jupiter and how it\u2019s placement in your birth chart is a gateway to abundance and expansion. We keep it fun, we keep it fresh, we keep it one-hundred, okur?\u00a0 And if Astrology isn\u2019t your thing, you should go back and listen to our episode all about the Major Arcana\u2013 or how about our interview with LGBTQ icon Lena Waithe? And if you love it, why not share the love?<\/p>\n Please find your individual Tarotscopes below.<\/p>\n Taking into consideration the impending Mercury retrograde, I kept things short and to the point.<\/p>\n Consider these your cosmic marching orders. Read for your SUN and your MOON.<\/p>\n (Also, don\u2019t panic, 10 out of the 12 signs had cards that came in upside down.\u00a0 We can chalk that up to the fact that Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are currently retrograde and Mercury is about to join that party.\u00a0 A reversed card is like a retrograde planet. It is neither good nor bad, it just adds a needed layer of complexity to the message.)<\/p>\n CANCER<\/p>\n Eight of Swords (Rx)<\/p>\n This butterfly is ready to expand and yet these swords seem to prevent its metamorphosis.\u00a0 Remember that swords are the stories we tell ourselves. This card speaks to a mental expansion that is wanting to occur, if only we could transcend our self-imposed limitations.\u00a0 You are limitless, you are boundless\u2013 but until you believe that, no further transformations can occur. At the end of the day, you are the person standing in your own way. Pay attention to where and how you are blocking your own growth.\u00a0 You have enough time, you have enough resources and you have enough talent to make it all happen. When you can believe in this with your whole heart, you will be ready to fly. Let these eclipses take your mental blocks from you. It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n LEO<\/p>\n Ten of Cups (Rx)<\/p>\n Your community is calling to you this moonth.\u00a0 The Ten of Cups comes when we are ready to take our heart out into the world but not the whole world\u2013 our immediate village.\u00a0 Remember that once we lived in villages. We knew our neighbors intimately, we relied on them. We not only knew how to be vulnerable to them, our well-being depended on it.\u00a0 Share your heart, your whole heart with your immediate village. And if you don\u2019t know who or where your village is, that would be your first step. Isolation is a plight of this modern world.\u00a0 Don\u2019t retreat inwards. Don\u2019t try to do this all by yourself. There is so much support, so much sweetness right outside your front door. But you must enter into it open-hearted. Let these eclipses take away your resistance to showing your vulnerability.\u00a0 It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n VIRGO<\/p>\n The Tower (Rx)<\/p>\n If there is one card in the Tarot that embodies eclipse energy, it\u2019s this one.\u00a0 The Tower is the hand of the goddess, coming in to remove our comfortable but false prisons.\u00a0 Sometimes it feels like an existential crisis, sometimes it feels like being lost in the woods of your own life.\u00a0 But the key is to surrender. Stop fighting the direction your life is trying to take you in. Resistance is futile.\u00a0 The Tower always wins. Generally, a reversal tends to soften the energy of this card. So imagine that the Tower is a stretch limo, trying to generously usher you from one chapter of your life to the next.\u00a0 Let these eclipses take away every false belief you have, your inner critic and your heavy judgment (of yourself and others). It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n LIBRA<\/p>\n Father of Wands<\/p>\n Something transformative is about to happen to you.\u00a0 Perhaps you already the feel the great storm of your own power brewing.\u00a0 The Father of Wands is arguably one of the most forceful cards in the deck.\u00a0 He is fire of fire, meaning that he is electric, transcendent and wholly magical.\u00a0 He is the sorcerer of the deck and he can empower others with his words, his deeds and his presence.\u00a0 This card is a reminder that you can do the most good for others when you stand fully in your own power, first and foremost.\u00a0 Step all the way into your power. If it makes other people uncomfortable, fuck<\/a> \u2018em. You cannot afford to stay small any longer. Step all the way into your gifts.\u00a0 Pack up all your doubt and set it on fire. If you let them, these eclipses will relieve you of your passivity. They will shred your laundry list of excuses for hiding from your magic.\u00a0 It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n SCORPIO<\/p>\n Ace of Pentacles (Rx)<\/p>\n The Ace of Pentacles signifies a new beginning in the physical realm.\u00a0 This can mean a new job, a new home, a new car, diet or hairstyle. But no matter the outer manifestation, the inner message is the same: You are ready for a completely different method of engaging with the world.\u00a0 Of all the Aces this card really gives you a clean slate, a white canvas. Perhaps you don\u2019t want this fresh start, perhaps you were happy with the way things were (even though you knew they weren\u2019t all that great).\u00a0 Well too bad. Spirit does for us what we can\u2019t seem to do for ourselves. Stop resisting the fresh opportunities cropping up all around. You, above every other sign in the Zodiac, thrive on transformations. So here is your opportunity to thrive as a new version of yourself.\u00a0 Let these eclipses take away your resistance to starting over. It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n SAGITTARIUS<\/p>\n Nine of Pentacles<\/p>\n You lucky little truth seeker.\u00a0 While everyone else is struggling with upside down cards and deep existential crises, this Eclipse Season has a different agenda for you.\u00a0 The Nine of Pentacles is a moment in time where we fully step into our true value. We receive a felt sense of our worth in the world\u2013 and if we are smart, we monetize that shit.\u00a0 These next four weeks are prime time for you to be recognizing your skills and selling them. You have tremendous gifts and you deserve to be compensated for them. But that doesn\u2019t always mean money.\u00a0 We live<\/a> and breathe capitalism so that seems like the easiest way to make sure our efforts are rewarded. But there are other ways exchange can occur. Your job this moonth is to make sure you are being seen, heard and above all valued for everything you contribute.\u00a0 Let these eclipses take away your resistance to receiving your full worth. It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n CAPRICORN<\/p>\n The Moon (Rx)<\/p>\n The Full Moon Eclipse is in your sign on July 16th and here\u2019s the Moon card just for you.\u00a0 The Moon invites us into our shadow, our unconscious. It brings light to our dark places. The appearance of this card in your sign is a strong message, use these energies to transform your shadow.\u00a0 Or else be the victim of them. Start now. Have the courage to face yourself fully. What are you deepest fears? Where are your childhood or adolescent traumas still running your whole life? These eclipses may surprise you.\u00a0 You may not be as healed or as whole as you like to present in the world. Remember, you have to feel it to heal it. And I\u2019m gonna go out on a limb and say you haven\u2019t felt the full weight of your own wounds. Let it out, all the way out and you\u2019ll never be back here again.\u00a0 Generally, a reversal tends to soften the energy of this card. So imagine that the Moon is your fairy godmother, coming in to transform your inner demons into warriors of light. Let these eclipses take away your anxiety. Let them dispell your fear. I know the world has hurt you but you need to release your firmly rooted need to overcompensate for that deep pain.\u00a0 It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n AQUARIUS<\/p>\n Strength (Rx)<\/p>\n Welcome the season of your heart, wacky Aquarius.\u00a0 Let\u2019s be real, as Air signs, we love big ideas, sweeping theories and flying 20,000 feet above sea level.\u00a0 We like to point out the patterns and tell other people where their problems are. But as far as our own hearts are concerned, we tend to avoid them like the plague.\u00a0 Our hearts are not necessarily the most comfortable place for us to sit, emotions don\u2019t come easy to us. If you\u2019re anything like me, you may not even know where the path to your heart is.\u00a0 Well get ready for a redux because all of that is about to change. Strength is connected to Leo, your polar opposite, and Leo rules the heart. We need this next month of transformation to bring us into the depths of our heart-centered yearnings.\u00a0 The heart holds the secrets. The heart knows why we are here and what we are here to do. You can\u2019t think your way into the heart. You must feel your way. Let these eclipses take away your resistance to feeling your way in the world (as opposed to over-thinking).\u00a0 It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n PISCES<\/p>\n Ace of Cups (Rx)<\/p>\n The suit of cups rule over the things in our life which flow: your relationships, your creativity, your intuition and your deep well of feels.\u00a0 The Ace of this suit signifies finding a new flow particularly around issues of the heart. I know you\u2019re a Pisces and emotions come easily to you.\u00a0 I know your heart is not a stranger to you. But perhaps you resent it. Perhaps you are tired of being so easily moved and feeling the slings and arrows of this broken world.\u00a0 Well honey child, get over it. That\u2019s your gift. You are here to feel, sometimes you have to feel extra to make up for those who can\u2019t feel at all. But that doesn\u2019t mean you have to be a victim of it.\u00a0 The Ace of Cups is here to help you find a new way of living in your heart. I\u2019ve never met a Pisces who wasn\u2019t at least a little bit of an empath and empaths need boundaries or else they just puddle through their lives.\u00a0 Let these eclipses teach you how to work with your deep sensitivities but release the onus that you have to be the feeler for the world at all times. It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n ARIES<\/p>\n Son of Cups (Rx)<\/p>\n The Son of Cups is a mirror that spirit wants you to see yourself in.\u00a0 This is an aspect of ourselves that holds the dual awareness of the head and the heart\u2013 meaning that you can recognize your triggers without being triggered by them.\u00a0 When we allow ourselves to fly off the handle, to rage and regret, to let someone have it, what we are actually doing is gripping more tightly to our triggers. If we can cooly observe ourselves and allow these unpleasant feelings to move through us like the flu, we can actually begin to evolve beyond them.\u00a0 That is exactly your invitation this next moonth. Which might mean you are looking at four weeks of serious emotional challenges. Give yourself permission to notice everything you are feeling throughout the course of the day and try to name it. Don\u2019t judge it. Don\u2019t act from it. Interrogate it. Investigate it.\u00a0 Dance with it. Pour it some tea and ask it where it came from. Let these eclipses take away your resistance to marinating in your feelings. Don\u2019t put your feels on somebody else, sit with them and before you know it, they\u2019ll be gone.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n TAURUS<\/p>\n Judgement (Rx)<\/p>\n If the Death card is an invitation into transformation then Judgement is when that transformation has been achieved.\u00a0 You are not the same. You have been on a journey that has taken you into the darkest woods and the brightest vistas. You have met with monsters and magicians.\u00a0 You have been wounded, betrayed, abandoned, but now you are healed. At its essence this card asserts that you have been profoundly rearranged. Now, before your journey comes to its thrilling conclusion, you must take a moment a fully receive how changed you are.\u00a0 The hero can only return home as an upgraded version of themselves or else the hero\u2019s journey was for naught. Can you take this next moonth and be awed at your own metamorphosis? Only by accepting that you are a completely different version of yourself will you be able to make new choices and live<\/a> a new life going forwards.\u00a0 Let these eclipses take away your past and each of your previous incarnations. It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n GEMINI<\/p>\n Five of Swords (Rx)<\/p>\n The Five of Swords is a mental contraction, like writer\u2019s block or a migraine.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a pleasant card but it\u2019s big medicine if you take it. Essentially, this card signifies the moment where we start to realize how hard we\u2019ve been making our lives based on the inner turnings of the wheel of our mind.\u00a0 Once we realize how many hoops we make ourselves jump through we can simplify our process. You leak so much energy through your worrying, your doubting, your competition (with yourself and others). Each and every one of us will eventually have to slay our mind, so stop giving yourself a hard time about it\u2013 that just elongates your process.\u00a0 But this Eclipse Season is all about an opportunity to clear out your head so you actually enjoy your time spent in there. Your mind doesn\u2019t call<\/a> the shots, you do! Let these eclipses take away your negative mental chatter. It can be easy to let that shit go.<\/p>\n ***Give a reading as a gift or schedule your own reading or healing with Brandon here<\/a> and follow him on Instagram @thebrandonalter<\/a> and @thespiritualgayz<\/a>.***<\/p>\n BRANDON ALTER is a queer healer, Tarot reader, teacher, mystic and writer living in Los Angeles. He is passionate about sharing spiritual tools that have helped him reconnect to the wisdom of his heart. He is the Tarot reader in residence for The Numinous and he co-hosts The Spiritual Gayz with his husband, a twice-monthly podcast dedicated to exploring the wide reaches of spirituality, without pretending that it all makes sense. Brandon\u2019s mom took him to his very first psychic when he was seven and gave him his first Tarot deck when he was eleven. Since then he has devoted himself to the study of Tarot, Yoga, Pilates, Reiki, Astrology and Shamanic Skills.<\/p>\n Visit www.brandonalterwellness.com<\/a> to learn more. And to sign up for his twice-monthly newsletter, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nwww.queerty.com\/tarotscopes-slay-eclipse-season-20190710?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tarotscopes that slay: Eclipse season The tides are high, babies.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been feeling particularly edgy, angered or just downright depressed, there may be an Astrological explanation for that.\u00a0 Cancer Season, as the first water sign of the Zodiac, stirs the emotional soup. But that\u2019s just the start of it, because Cancer Season is always … Continue reading Tarotscopes that slay: Eclipse season<\/span> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2019\/07\/unnamed-1-670x562.jpg\")
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