May, 2024 Tarot Prompts
Sweet-Girl Spring
Have we started to reap the rewards of the new year yet? I’m hoping May will be a month of that beginning, the beginning of reward and fruition. I’m choosing to emphasize gentleness and acceptance for this month; a continuity of effort with a smoother flow.
Welcome to Sweet-Girl Spring!
The Empress in this deck is the Earthly Mother, the epitome of nature and nurture. She loves all living things and exercises gentle strength and power as often as she can. She’s a source of refreshment in life and you can lean on her or strive to be her as much as you need to.
However! Her reversed position insinuates a punishment, and that could mean on you or a punishment you’re required to take out on someone else. The card asks that you exercise constraint and justice if you’re responding in an adverse way to someone. Or! Be slow with your reaction to a punishment you may receive, and soothe your pain in a healthy way.
The major advice that this card gives is this: trust yourself and continue to practice kindness to yourself as well as to others. Kindness is nourishment for the soul.
The prompts:
- What does “a break” look like to you/your character?
- We know what a mother should be, what can she be?
- Use your senses to describe a nature walk (or a supernatural walk).
- There’s a breeze in the garden this afternoon; write about it.
The Ace of Cups2 is overflowing; you are well resourced and thriving emotionally and mentally. Your cup is a source of refreshment, take a drink from it as you need to, and be honest about how much you need to sip! (It’s probably more often than you think.)
Alternatively, an empty cup would represent burnout. There’s nothing left in the chalice, not a drop to sustain you. Focus on what caused this drought of energy, and how you ended up pouring out more than you were pouring in.
The advice this card focuses on is to recognize the complexity and nuance of each life you meet in order to fill your cup. Practice acceptance of people’s differences, and find that your cup doesn’t drain as quickly.
The prompts:
- What refreshes you/your character?
- To where does too much energy flow?
- What are the elements that contribute to your first impression of a person? To that end, how in-depth are your first impressions?
- How much water is currently in your cup? How does it fluctuate over the course of a day or a week?
Thank you for reading to the end! Another minor arcana card and the associated prompts are available (for free this month!) on my substack, So My Muse Says.
