Our Lady of the Holy Death
Pick-a-Pile Tarot Readings for Decision-Making
Happy New Moon in Scorpio! This is an intense lunation that has already swept away some things I took for granted I would keep on doing for a good while. Mind you, with my Sun, Venus and Mercury in the 8th House, I’m used to the gods pulverising my plans and having me carry the trash out afterwards. Currently, I shouldn’t be surprised at all with the Pluto-Mars opposition also happening during this New Moon, in the anaretic/shamanic degrees of Capricorn and Cancer of all places.
You can find the Scorpio New Moon Tarot Spread I created HERE.
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For instance, I had gone down the path of heathenry once more and thought I would keep going with that for a year and a day since I was enjoying my studies as well as doing daily rune readings. For Samhain, I had planned a ritual to cement these plans but yesterday was another busy day and when I finally sat down to meditate on how to do the ritual, Santa Muerte swept in and blew my Norse/ancestral deities out of the water. It was visceral and I knew that I had to pay attention.
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If you have been with me for a while, you may recall that I shared about Holy Death as she is also known earlier in the year. I started working with her tentatively but had some fears and doubts to still work through, even after she sent me a massive sign that she was prepared to guide me. The sign I asked for before going for a walk through the woods in February was some kind of animal bone. Well, within an hour of saying this prayer, I stumbled across this:
Yes, it was the mother of all signs and it was followed by a couple of very vivid dreams. In the first dream, she showed herself in her Orange Aspect. This aspect of Santa Muerte is associated with regaining vitality which made sense to me as my vitality levels have fluctuated wildly and often been extremely low throughout my whole life due to CPTSD.
The second dream came a day or two later. It was longer and I was not able to make sense of it upon waking. To be honest, it spooked me. ‘La Flaquita’ showed up in her Black Aspect and glided toward me in a ghostlike fashion. She then took my hand and lay down on a bed in what looked like the dormitory in an old-school nunnery, looking at me with her hollow eyes.
When she showed up yesterday, more than six months after that dream, I realised I had to meditate on its meaning and get over any fear and apprehension I still harboured. So I did and the answer came almost immediately. The second dream was a message about a need to rest more to regain my strength and vitality. Had I listened then, I might have had more energy all year but—to my detriment—I didn’t. Instead, I kept going, working way too hard.
Trust me when I say, I’m not ever not going to listen to the Our Lady of the Holy Death again. And I’m taking the weekend off!
After understanding her message and bowing to her superior wisdom, she asked me to get up and do a reading with the new Santa Muerte Lenormand deck that I received as a gift through the post the same day (another amazing synchronicity!). The cards I pulled helped me see that my decision-making process had been compromised all year due to not resting enough.
As much as I enjoy my work, I had not been able to actually enjoy the gift of life fully due to constantly feeling drained and this was mirrored back to me through the cards.
Below is a flip-through of the beautiful Santa Muerte Lenormand deck. I’ll do a review of it next week so watch this space!
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Blessed be!