For the May reading, I pulled four main cards. Then, for each one I pulled a smaller card that's like the underlying layer of meaning or energy for the card above it.

And, of course, there's the 'clue from the universe' card up top. :)

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Ok, let's see what we got!

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7 of Pentacles with Ace of Wands

Important thoughts reveal themselves when you slow down. The mind can be a tangle of vines that are trying to fruit. Pull one out and look at it for a long time. Can you see it growing in your mind's eye? What do you feel passionate about?

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Page of Cups with 5 of Pentacles

Joy can come from more places than you are used to looking. In fact, it's already there, waiting for you, but it's up to you to hop out of the poverty mindset. Things don't always have to be so serious. Is it possible to re-imagine the story of your life in a playful way?

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Ace of Swords with the Moon

This one is screaming, "Trust your instincts!" The Moon card can represent intuition and fear and how important it is to distinguish between them to know which way to go. It's only in the gentle light of this wisdom that you can see the form of something important. With the Ace of Swords, your action carries power that may be greater than you know. If you wield it in the moonlight of your own, true wisdom, it becomes a magic wand. 

In the words of Grandmother Willow, "You know your path, child. Now, follow it!"

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4 of Wands with 10 of Pentacles

True harmony, fulfillment, and abundance, with an underlying energy of enduring peace! Magic everywhere. Wow, I am a bit at a loss for words... 

I guess the message here is to just know that all of this is truly available to you, if you accept the abundance. Sometimes life experience can train us to focus on scarcity and lack. Receiving the universe's gifts is kind of like an art. It involves aligning what you do and how you tend to think about things with what truly makes you feel happy and abundant and peaceful. That way we don't duck when a golden butterfly flutters over, or swat it away.

The butterfly can be something as small as receiving a nice conversation when someone walks up to you instead of being shy and escaping. Or it can be as grand and sweeping as choosing enduring peace for your true self.

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...and "Seeing Things for What They Are"

​This is an interesting "clue" to inform everything the cards had to say. It seems to point to:

Putting energy into what you can do now rather than later

Knowing that there are two sides to everything and it's still possible to be an optimist

Honing the ability to ground oneself in practicality without losing oneself to it

Finding a quiet place so your soul can find harmony and the magnitude of your abundance can unfold before you

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