 Hey, this is Christy with Art of Awakening and welcome to this New Moon in Aries reading. This is a reading for Friday, April 5th through April 11th, which will be next Thursday. It's a lunar week starting with the New Moon in Aries on the 5th. And I'm feeling just a little playful today. I don't know why maybe because the sun is so shining bright in the springtime. I thought I'd pull out all the decks, not all of them, but a lot of them. And just pull out a bunch of decks. We'll just do a quick reading with a whole bunch of different cards that it'll be fun. As always, thank you so much for watching. Appreciate your likes, your subscribes. And this is the 4th of daily uploads all through April as a thank you for reaching 1000 subscribers last month. So thanks to everybody who has liked and subscribed, all that stuff. Alright, so just introduce the decks I'm using here in the... I'm actually using this as the east position here because it's actually facing east where I'm at. That's the animal messages deck from Susie Green. And in the north position, we have the Shaman Wisdom cards from White Derechison. I've pre-shuffled all these by the way. And this is my Spirit Animal Awareness Deck in the west position. That's this one and the link to purchase this deck is below if you're interested. And here in the south position, I'm using the Medicine Cards by Jamie Samms and David Carson. And then I may top it off with a Michael Card Archangel Michael deck from Drain Virtue. Love Michael, he's the best buddy of mine. Alright, so let's get started. I'm gonna just go ahead and draw a card from the Animal Messages Deck and we'll see what that wants to say. Okay, we've got Beaver. Investing in Home Comforts. Alright, so Beaver's got a lot of meetings. Home Comforts could be one of them easily and then there's always also the busyness. And I'm kind of getting that, not necessarily that it has to be super busy, but it could. So just kind of be aware that this week could be a busy one and that you have control over it. So that, you know, there's busyness and there's busyness, right? So there's busyness that actually is productive and, you know, maybe we should say business, right? Or there's busyness that's just running on a hamster wheel. Beaver is a rodent, just like a hamster. So just be aware and be sure that you are choosing what serves you best and that you can dial back on the busyness if you need to stay aware of, you know, if things are busy, kind of look at, okay, is this really productive? Is this productive busyness? Because Beaver is a productive animal. I mean, it really, it gets a lot done. It's not out there to spin its wheels. Beaver is not a hamster, all right? So just kind of keep that in mind. And also it likes to eat aspen, which is a very fast-growing tree. So I keep getting this, like this, this month of April just seems like a lot of growth happening in this month. Okay, we're gonna head to the north position here. I already shuffled these. I did. All right, so let's just see what card wants to jump out. Oh, this one. Flying Leaf Moon, all right. So these cards are very interesting and they're a deck that I'm still kind of learning to work with. And some of the things in them, like the moons, the different moons, I'm not all that familiar with. So that, I take that as a learning opportunity. And see what they say about Flying Leaf Moon actually refers to late October, October 24th through November 21st, which would be like the Scorpio season, okay? So this is talking about death and transformation, like the leaves falling and moving into the, you know, into the earth, getting ready for the winter. This is kind of letting go of the old, so that the new can in its time spring forward. So we've had a lot of purging over the past year. But this week might be one where, like, the ghosts come up and like don't, you don't necessarily have to expect this, but if they do, like there may be some things that haven't quite been cleared or, you know, just the final, final bits that need to be cleared. So just kind of be aware that if things come up, if you find emotions flaring or, you know, maybe depression or whatever hardships or challenges coming up, just, just realize that it's just coming up because it's, it's just time to let something go and come to center and just, you know, allow it to, you know, allow the emotions that just notice them, but don't get caught up in them. You know, this could be a, might be a good week to, you know, this could be a, might be a good week to just kind of work through whatever is left that you need to let go of. It could be just even, even spring cleaning. Even spring cleaning, I've got a new roommate that came in, it's kind of purging stuff and I've got my kids and it's time for me to do that too. I think a lot of us are starting to think about just what even physical things are we needing to let go of so that we can really step into this coming year you know, with our energy clear, full moon in general is a really good time to purge. So consider any kind of clearing ritual, purging ritual, letting go. A ritual might be a really good thing to consider doing. There's something, maybe a relationship that you've already left, but you find that you keep thinking about things that happened and that's haunting you and just trying to, maybe write a letter or something and then burn it. Come forward. I've got several that keep wanting to come forward. But this, this is the West position. I think it's this one, Tiger. All right, trusting yourself. Tiger's very, like all cats, very kind of self-contained. All right. And Tiger, I find, comes up with a lot of healers. A lot of healers seem to resonate with Tiger a lot. So there could be some inner healing work to do, maybe in conjunction with this letting go purging kind of thing. So you are your own best healer. Always remember that. It's like it's good to work with healers. Like sometimes we need that help that guidance, but ultimately you are your own best healer and your inner, you know, your higher self knows, knows what to do. So trust your gut this week. And finally, we're gonna, this deck, this is the medicine cards deck. Oh, I like this deck. I'm with the Shazam symbol on the back. Whoa, Shazam. Let's see. What does someone want to say here? Porcupine. Okay, I'm sort of getting two sides to this. One is sensitivity, right? We can, we're overly sensitive. Everything can feel like a prick or like a sting, you know, prickle. So just, just watch that in yourself and in others. Like be aware that others might be having this sort of sensitive mode and that there might be the tendency to see everything as a quill being thrown at them or see things like challenges, like there's this tendency sometimes to see challenges as like a quill that's stuck that won't come out, all right? Keep aware that this is a mindset, but just be super sensitive to, you know, that in you and others there may be this tendency to kind of be overly sensitive. On the other hand, the other side of porcupine, feel what it feels like to be a porcupine and you've got all this protection around you, just all this stuff. I mean, you can look at these quills, they look like rays of light. If you hear that scratching, that's your roommate's bearded dragons. I think they're mating. That's hilarious. Okay, so there's a lot of like creative energy going on right now. But think about the porcupine and it looks like it's just surrounded in light. And I wonder if I felt playful. And just like imagine yourself just encased in light with like as a porcupine, like covered in these light rays, like sort of like selenite crystal, you know, selenite ones or something, all over your back. And just kind of, you know how porcupine doesn't rush its way through, things that just sort of trundles. It just kind of takes its time and trundles because it doesn't have to rush. It knows it's protected. So this is like going back to this beaver thing. It's when we start feeling anxious and rushed that we start doing that hamster wheel thing. Okay, so if we kind of kind of combine porcupine and beaver, we can just kind of trundle through the week and really get a lot done this week. But also just kind of keeping in mind that sometimes, you know, sometimes the most productive thing is to sit back and just breathe. So just, this is a really good week to consider our balance, be aware of where we're in balance. Maybe that's why I was called to do this four directions kind of reading. Because Michael's gonna go in the middle and Michael's middle is the place to be. We want to always be balanced. So let's see if Michael can give us some guidance on how to stay balanced this week. Interesting. Time to leave this unhealthy situation. I think this really hits our home with that Scorpio energy in there and the letting go. This may be a very powerful week for just finally stepping out of situations that haven't served us, of belief systems that haven't been serving us, you know, false beliefs, emotions that haven't been serving us, maybe job situations that haven't been serving us, maybe relationships. You know, really, I think he's really saying, you know, really think about that purging. And it's okay to leave. Like it can be scary sometimes to change, to step into the unknown, you know, but the more aware we can be about what's going on, the easier that is. And just know that you are protected and that you have that inner guidance. Okay, you're guided and protected. So enjoy this week. I think this is gonna be a really good week for a lot of people. It feels like it can be a week that really, like feels like a week of putting down roots of, you know, maybe taking some practical steps for a really good future. So I have a good one and we'll catch you again. Turn off.