Tarot Advice On How Each Birth Month Can Cope With Winter Blues
April
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 9 of Pentacles
You’ve worked hard, and it’s time to treat yourself. Don’t hold back your favorite outfit, the fancy china, or the enviable craft supplies for some time special – that time is now. Let yourself enjoy what you’ve worked so hard to earn and create.
Where Can I Find Joy? – The Moon
You’ll find joy in taking some time for some deep introspection, and look beneath the surface of some of your more fleeting desires – is there something that connects them?
What Will I Learn? – 10 of Pentacles
There is a permanence to what you’re building that will transcend the momentary struggles you have in making it happen. Don’t forget why you’ve started on your journey.
May
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 6 of Swords
The best option can sometimes be to get away from everything and start in a new place. Give yourself as much grace on this journey as you would to others. If you feel like you need help, the most compassionate thing you can do for yourself is ask for it.
Where Can I Find Joy? – The Fool, Reversed
There is a way that you can allow adventure into your life without incurring a lot of risk, so go out there and find joy! Just be smart about how you enjoy what the world has to offer.
What Will I Learn? – 6 of Pentacles
If you take the opportunity to help even one person, it makes the world a better place. It’s the most important and necessary work that needs to be done to build a brighter future.
June
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – Knight of Pentacles
Spend some time making your physical self feel more safe. Maybe that’s as simple as a cozy blanket and a good book, or it might be as complicated as engaging in some financial planning. Once you’re able to feel that you’re safe, you’ll feel relaxed enough to address your deeper psychological issues.
Where Can I Find Joy? – Eight of Swords
You feel trapped and like you can’t even see to make a move. You can take joy in the fact that you have far more options than you think and that the perception that you’re trapped is just your perception.
What Will I Learn? – The World
The world is full of wonders, and oftentimes the hardest lessons are the most profound and meaningful, and make way for us to understand The World on a deeper level than before.
July
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 7 of Cups
Daydreaming of a better tomorrow can be an important part of realizing what you have to do to create it. Allow yourself the time and space to dream of the biggest things, of the things you enjoy the most, of anything, really. Just let your thoughts go for a bit, and dream.
Where Can I Find Joy? – Page of Pentacles (Rx)
There’s a lot of joy to be found in the small, emotional moments that bring us closer to spiritual answers and enlightenment. You’re more likely to find joy there right now than answers you’d find in the physical or material realm.
What Will I Learn? – 4 of Pentacles
You’re adaptable and are in a situation that offers enough stability that you can create some savings for the future.
August
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 4 of Wands
You’re not completely feeling it, but you’ve hit a big milestone. The best way you could be compassionate with yourself is to allow yourself to celebrate it with those who you love. There may be a reason that you’re considering putting it off, but the celebration itself is an important way you can remind yourself that what you’ve achieved is important and worthy of recognition.
Where Can I Find Joy? – Justice
You’ve been very focused on issues about justice and fairness, and your focus on those causes, and making situations more equitable, has helped you find joy.
What Will I Learn? – Ace of Pentacles
There’s a lot of potential for success, and you’re adept at making the absolute most of any opportunity you’re handed.
September
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 4 of Cups
You feel like you’ve missed some big opportunities, so don’t push yourself to reframe everything into the positive right now. Give yourself the same grace and sympathy you’d give to others, and when you feel like you can handle little doses of gratitude, start to recognize and appreciate what you have.
Where Can I Find Joy?– 6 of Wands
Hard work and perseverance has led to you being recognized for all of your hard work. While you may underplay your efforts, you’ll find yourself wrapped in the joy others hold for you.
What Will I Learn? – Ace of Swords
What you’re learning now about your own resilience will be important to your future growth.
October
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 6 of Pentacles
Charity, and other acts of generosity, deal with the balance between giving and receiving. There are few signs that are more attuned to maintaining balances than you. The act of charity can awaken a flow that helps you to recognize and share the abundance around you.
Where Can I Find Joy? – Death
The chance to shed things that no longer help you are where you can find joy. As you honor what you are letting go, remember that you’re also making space for the person you’ve been trying to become.
What Will I Learn? – The Emperor
You’ve learned a lot about leadership, especially how setting healthy boundaries can create an atmosphere of safety and vulnerability that can nurture trust.
November
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 5 of Wands
Examine how you feel that you’re being held back. Are you using competitive language when you think about what others are doing? What sorts of stories are you telling about yourself? Instead of making yourself feel inferior, use the work of others to inspire and uplift your creativity.
Where Can I Find Joy? – Page of Cups
Life holds so many mysteries, including why it can be so magic-touched while simultaneously melancholy. Allow yourself to enjoy the magical moments and expand on them. Explore and enjoy the whimsical when and where you find it.
What Will I Learn? – The Magician
You’ll grow to understand the power and resources you have to create the future you want for yourself.
December
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – The Tower
The best and most compassionate thing you can do for yourself is to meet the moment and make the radical changes that you are being presented with. There are times where small incremental changes can work, but this requires something far more extensive. Be courageous. There are few signs more readily able to adapt to a challenge like this.
Where Can I Find Joy? – 10 of Cups
There is harmony, wholeness, and connectedness you’ve been able to feel in your relationships, and people offer you the safe and joyous harbor you’ve always offered to them.
What Will I Learn? – 3 of Swords
Heartbreak and grief offer us a chance to understand how we can nurture and foster our own resilience in the face of adversity.
January
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 8 of Cups
When the most powerful and protective thing we can do for ourselves is walk away, compassion needs to help guide us toward the healing that needs to take place. Knowing how much we gave, and that we still walked away, can create feelings of inadequacy and emptiness. Acknowledge the difficult feelings you need to process, while still honoring the fact you’ve made the best decision you could for yourself.
Where Can I Find Joy? – 9 of Cups
The ‘wish’ card indicates that you’ll be in good health and surrounded by a lot of life’s luxuries. Find joy in the warmth of your hearth, the fullness of your cup, and the promise in the future you’re building.
What Will I Learn? – Queen of Swords (Reversed)
You’ve had to face off with some of the more difficult facets of your intellect and how to shrink your inner critic’s power.
February
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – 5 of Cups
Instead of rushing your grief or insisting that you reach particular milestones of emotional recovery on a timetable, allow space and time for your feelings of loss. Give yourself the same emotional kindness you’d give to others. Honor the feelings of disillusionment and disappointment that you feel, and let yourself feel the grief and sadness for a while – no matter how messy it might be.
Where Can I Find Joy? – 10 of Pentacles
Love, abundance, generosity, and joy, are all around you. You’ve built a life so beautiful that you’re always surrounded by them, and they are always close by.
What Will I Learn? – The Lovers
The people that you bring into your life, especially those you love, ultimately reflect who you are and what your values are.
March
How Can I Be Compassionate With Myself Right Now? – King of Swords
Give yourself the time to think about how you feel, and understand what the roots of some of those feelings are. Take a longer-range view than the one you hold now. Instead of obsessing over the progress you haven’t made, consider if you’d see the improvement, and the ultimate worth of your actions, if you saw them from outside of your experience. You are worthy of your own love and admiration.
Where Can I Find Joy? – 5 of Cups, Reversed
Self-love isn’t about egotism, it’s about engaging in the care we need to grow.
What Will I Learn? – 6 of Wands
You’ve learned that you’re able to make amazing things happen, and your accomplishment has given you a perspective that will help you create future successes.