Timeless Tarot For Your Week Ahead - Symbol: Tourmaline Bear

When Black Tourmaline & Bear calls to you, it is a sign to ground, protect, and return to your quiet inner strength. This Timeless Tarot session offers the protective, clearing energy of Black Tourmaline—helping you set boundaries and release what no longer serves—alongside the Bear, guardian of solitude, wisdom, and steady power.

This reading is perfect for moments when you need to pause, fortify your spirit, and root deeply into your resilience. Let the tarot guidance and journal reflections in this session walk with you as you reconnect to your strength, patience, and quiet knowing.

Song: Soft Pine by Jobii

Transcript

Hey there,

My name is Lisa and welcome to your timeless tarot reading.

This reading is for the group Black Tourmaline Bear.

So when it comes to black tourmaline,

It is the stone of protection and boundaries and grounding and clearing of negative energy.

You can use black tourmaline,

I have a piece in my car,

You can use it in your closet or at your front door and set the intention into the stone that only positive energy can come in and negative energy can clear out.

So it's an incredibly powerful stone,

You could also wear it in a necklace or a ring,

So black tourmaline.

And the bear is the sense of strength and grounding and inner wisdom and quiet power.

I also love how bear has turned into something nurturing like the Bernstein bears or for the jungle book you have blue bear and bears have turned into almost a sense of family,

The teddy bear,

Comfort,

Grounding for sure,

But I also feel this is the energy of nurturing,

The energy of quiet power and community and taking care of loved ones.

So with that,

Let's go ahead and get on into your tarot reading,

My black tourmaline bears.

Tourmaline bears,

You have received the four of cups and I'm actually using the moon and crystal tarot decks,

So this is based on Sailor Moon characters.

And in the artwork,

I see four cups and then from the clouds,

One cup and there is an individual sitting down and they just seem very apathetic.

And this is the symbol of apathy,

Of seeing things in front of you and being like,

I don't have enough,

I don't have that fourth cup and the universe is presenting you with the fourth cup,

But it's so hard to see,

It's so hard to see that gift.

I think it's very easy for individuals to walk outside and see that it's raining and say today is messed up,

No good,

Very bad day.

It's very easy to see that on rainy days or on days when things just don't seem to be going in the way you would like.

And I say that very specifically because in the way one would like is very different than things not going your way.

In the way you would like,

It's like,

I would like for today to not be raining.

I would like for today for my toddler to cooperate with me.

I would like for today for my cat to be healthy and not spend a million dollars at the vet.

I would like these things.

I would like a million dollars.

I would like a home spa.

I would like all of these things.

And it's very easy to get down and negative and apathetic and not see the sun behind the clouds or not see the health of your toddler,

Your growing,

Evolving toddler,

Or not see the home that you do have or the life that you do have.

The universe tends to,

And psychologically I feel,

We tend to as human beings see opportunities or get opportunities more than when we are open to seeing the bright side.

When we are open to seeing the positive side,

We can see the opportunities coming our way.

And that's what the Four of Cups is asking us to do.

The Four of Cups is asking us,

Hey,

If we took a moment to release a little bit of that apathy,

Or if we took a moment to release a little bit of that,

Why can't I have life like this,

Or why aren't things going my way?

The frustration of where we aren't.

The frustration of I wish I was here and I'm not.

If we allow ourselves to release that a little and say,

You know what,

But this is what I do have.

I have my Three Cups.

I have my home.

I have my health,

My life,

My family.

I have loved ones.

I have my strength.

I have my ability to discern.

I have boundaries.

I have self-respect.

Then we are able to see the opportunities that come to us.

For whatever reason,

This came into my mind right now and I'll share it very quickly.

You may meet someone,

A person,

That is everything you want on paper.

They are everything that you want,

Everything that you need in terms of this amazing personality and this amazing human being.

You develop a crush and you want to date them,

Only to find out when you are dating them that even though they may be great on paper,

They're all these other things.

Maybe there's a toxic narrative.

Maybe there is a manipulation component,

Or maybe there's this seed of unhappiness.

Dare I use the word that we're using all the time,

Gaslighting.

By gaslighting,

I mean specifically this.

Maybe it is that they bumped into you and you fell.

It was this energy of,

Why did you do that?

They say,

No,

You did that to yourself.

That's straight up gaslighting.

That's gaslighting 101.

You did this to yourself.

In that energy,

You say,

Man,

I'm losing this partner.

What if?

What if I don't find someone like this partner?

What if this partner also puts this in your head of,

You're never going to find anyone like me.

But let's say with the Four of Cups energy,

The universe is like,

Please leave this person.

Because there's someone super,

Super amazing around the corner.

Let's say you choose to trust the universe and say,

You know what?

I have my self-respect and I'm worthy of so much.

And yeah,

I may not have you,

But I have me.

And I have my friends and family and people who do love me and people who do respect me.

And then you leave it up to the universe and before you know it,

Someone really amazing who sees that or vibrates that same energy comes in.

So that's what I'm talking about here,

Really,

To put it as bluntly as possible in the Four of Cups.

It's very easy to get lost in the sauce when we feel we don't have enough.

And by getting lost in the sauce,

I mean it's very easy to not see the beauty and the opportunities around you if you're not looking through heaven's eyes and seeing all the good around you and all the love around you.

So for this card,

This card is asking us and for my Black Tourmaline Bear group,

What do you have?

What do you have around you?

Are you feeling a bit apathetic,

Frustrated?

And how do you begin to let that go and see life a little bit more through heaven's eyes or child's eyes?

Because happiness is very much an inside job as an adult,

Especially.

So my last question for you is,

How do I do the work of the inside job trusting the things that I don't love,

The things I don't like about my present moment?

That's just for now.

That's just for now.

And trusting that the universe rewards those who trust themselves and trust the world around them and the good.

So there you have it,

My Black Tourmaline Bears.

It is the call on the Four of Cups to see the opportunities by looking on the bright side.

Looking on the bright side and doing the work of looking on the bright side.

So I thank you so much for joining me and I will see you next time.

Bye for now.