Hello and welcome to this collective reading.
My name is Simone and I will be guiding you today.
We have the Sacred Cycles deck and today we are accompanied by the Empress.
Remember this is a collective reading so take what you will and leave what you won't.
And let's begin.
The Empress is number 24 in this deck which if you follow numerology,
Two plus four equals six so this would be a six.
In numerology,
The six is ruled by Venus and it is a gentle planet concerned with beauty and pleasure and existence.
It's a gentle card,
A loving card and focused on the beauty of the things around you.
I see the highest path.
This is the Empress's message for us today.
Her reminder to us is to pay attention to where we have our boundaries set.
There are endless demands of our time and energy.
No matter who we are and where we live,
We will always have more to do and people will always expect things from us especially if we have children,
If we work in jobs,
If we are close to our family or friends and even the simple fact of owning and living in a house means cleaning it,
Taking care of it and doing the uptake.
The Empress is here to give us a different perspective on self-care,
Care of others and boundaries which is really,
Really powerful for Virgo season.
However,
If you're listening to this at any other time of the year,
It is equally as powerful a message.
But as I'm reading this now,
We are in Virgo season who is the champion of the care of other people.
She is asking us to take a wider look at our kingdom or queendom if you will and see what is serving us and what is not serving us,
What we should be keeping and what we can let go because it's no longer serving us.
She encourages us to practice self-care as long as we are doing things for others as well.
We want to find a balance in the way that we nurture both ourselves and those around us.
She doesn't say that we give up what's right for the collective in search of what's right for us but that we find a nice balance.
She calls on you to make balance in your life,
To seek an equilibrium and to say that it's okay to take care of myself as much as it is okay to take care of the other people or the other obligations I have in my life.
We have what's called sacred sovereignty,
The ability to say no,
The ability to step away,
The ability to set a boundary with those in our lives and to speak confidently about what it is that we need in this lifetime.
Remember that the earth is our guide.
So just as we are in an earth sign right now,
And even if you're listening to this at a different time,
This is a powerful reminder that our self-confidence and our ability to make decisions,
Our ability to set boundaries can be supported very clearly by the earth and that spending more time in nature is going to naturally enhance that ability.
She asks us to release the focus on the detail as it is very Virgo energy and to take a look at the big picture,
To understand that we're all interconnected and that just like everything else in this world,
We need to be taken care of and that very often,
More often than not,
We have the answer within ourselves about how things need to be done and where things need to be done in order to create a sense of harmony within ourselves,
A sense of balance.
So her question to you today is,
Where do you need to stop questioning yourself and where can you trust that you have the right answer within your own soul?
She also asks us to take a look at our boundaries.
So where have you been slightly ignoring your boundaries or letting it go just a little bit further than you should?
She says it's okay to say no and it's actually very healthy and powerful to set boundaries so if you're a journaler,
Grab your journal and answer those questions today,
Reminding yourself that once we have those powerful boundaries,
We're much more able to step forward into the world with confidence to be able to go after the things that we want,
Being able to create space based on the things that we don't want exiting our lives.
Thank you so much.
This has been a collective reading with Simone.
If it didn't resonate,
Feel free to head back to my profile and choose any of the other readings.
I'll see you in the next one.
