 Hello. Thanks for watching. This is Kristi with Art of Awakening and welcome to this reading. For the upcoming week I do readings for the Lunar Weeks. So we are looking at the third quarter moon here, starting on Friday, May 26th through next Friday. I'm sorry, this is for April 26th through next Friday, May 3rd, moving into a new moon in Taurus on May 4th. And I will be using my Spirit Animal Awareness Card deck. Just let me shuffle for a bit here. And this has been quite the week in terms of energy following the Easter weekend, last weekend. I don't know if you felt it, but for me it felt like a tidal wave. I've heard a lot of other people say so too. Just a lot of energy as so many people on the planet had this resurrection concept in mind over Easter. And it felt like it really shifted a lot of things. And for me it really brought a lot into focus on where's the truth? Where's your own truth? And letting go of stuff that's really not serving it. So I'm going to do a Four Directions reading for this coming week. And starting with the East. And I do, this Spirit has directed me to put the East left hand side. I'm going to do my readings. So the East represents the element of air and the mental body. So this is kind of what's going to be going on mentally and how to address those energies coming up mentally. I'm going to go ahead I think and pull the cards for all the directions and then we'll just turn them over one by one. So this one being for the South. What wants to come forward for the West? And let my little still life go here maybe. Let me put this feather over here. Going first with the direction of East. And again this is going to be really addressing the mind. Okay. And the animal coming forward for this week is Cougar. Now every animal has many many different reading meanings. We can read into it. So really when you're working with the animals you want to just use your intuition and see what this particular animal wants to say, which meaning, which characteristic, which trait is coming forward from Cougar for this particular aspect. And I'm getting just this image of a mother Cougar with her cubs. And somehow in terms of what this card is bringing forward, the strategic use of time is coming forward. Both of those images coming forward. So I'm sort of getting the idea of birthing something new, a new creative idea. And protecting that, right? So like you, this is a really amazing time right now for setting intentions. You know this whole month coming up ahead is going to be incredible for intention setting. So this is really an encouragement to set aside time, protect that time, protect time to set intentions and maybe come up with some affirmations. You know set aside time. Early morning is a great time to do it when you wake up or before you go to bed. Just maybe write down three things that you really want to manifest over the next year. Or whether it's for the next month or even for the next day. But you know just taking the time to really focus on that and your intention. And then throughout the day maybe set aside some time. Maybe choose a specific time per day that you're going to actually take action on this idea, this seed of an idea that is going to help you manifest. Sorry about that. Okay so moving into, moving into the direction of south, south is going to be the fire element, the spiritual element. Okay we've got B in reverse. So let's see what wants, what B wants to say. Okay in reverse, sometimes I use that reverse in cards. I'm starting to do that more often and sometimes I just do it purely intuitively. So turning it the other way because I think some the quote-unquote shadow aspects they can you know come in handy sometimes so it's not necessarily that they're always bad. But this is really I think sometimes when it turns up in reverse it's like pay attention to this because this is where you could get you railed. Okay so B has a lot to do with your tribe, with your community, with you know the community or family where you feel identified with. And coming up in reverse this has two sides to it right because the B defends and the B works very very cooperatively you know with its high, with its family but then it will viciously attack anything that's that's going to you know get in that way, get in its way or to threaten it. Okay so this is coming up in reverse I'd say watch your tendency, any tendency maybe it's in others, maybe it's in yourself to defend its spiritual ideas right, blindly because coming up in reverse this is sort of like an overreaction. So anywhere that you feel spiritually threatened I'm getting the encouragement to rather than reacting and this could be from other people it could be your own demons coming up but it's like rather than reacting which could cause a lot of inflammation consider just just really non-action. What happens if you simply don't react, if you just come to center, if you just start to breathe and just with this attitude of you know just what's mine is want mine what's yours is yours the whole idea of the get thee behind me just you know you don't even exist whatever it is you know and or maybe if it's somebody else it's like okay you're a title to your opinion you know that's your opinion it may not be mine but I don't necessarily need to approve that mine is better it's it works for me I'm going to just retreat into that and and be fine with it. So just staying chill where spiritual things are concerned we have another reverse card here this is in the west the west is the direction associated with the element of water and with the emotional body. So we're looking at Otter has been coming up a couple times recently and coming up in terms of light-heartedness play versus really focus because they're a predator and and and they need to eat a lot right and they are hunters so they do have that focus but then they also have this very very playful side and coming up in the motion I'd say look at your emotions if you're struggling with emotions if you're dealing with anxiety anything like that rage things like that watch where you maybe like emotionally fixated on something and consider bringing a little bit of air element into that a little bit of play a little bit of okay how can we make this fun how can we bring a little bit of light-heartedness into it and maybe dance okay so one thing that can really help if heavy emotions are coming up is to literally bring air into it dancing is an amazing way to release things to release emotion to to bring a little bit of light-heartedness into situations so try making time for dance this week or like just even breathing just bringing some air into it remember that water when it gets stagnant gets very toxic but when it's aerated then it can be you know there's there's a lot of life that it brings and this is the last one another reverse card a lot of reverse cards so a lot of awareness has to happen this week I think this week is let's say this way the week is calling for a lot of awareness and a lot of discernment okay because there may be things coming up and in many many different areas this week that will call for discernment to where we can you know just say what's really happening here do I really need to react to this okay so mosquito again is one that we tend to react to very quickly this is coming up in the physical like this is the direction of north and associated with the element of earth with the physical body so I'm looking at irritations maybe coming up um associated with a physical or material okay this could be when are my taxes gonna come in right you know could be associated with money okay mosquito it's pretty easy to see the irritating side of mosquito um but again put things in perspective like a mosquito yeah it's super annoying but is it life threatening well if you let it get to you a lot you know like it can be if it carries something with it but the mosquito itself um is is pretty harmless you know just one mosquito what you want to do is make sure that uh you don't get yourself you know just walk into places where there's swarms and swarms of them because you know so we do have some choice we can choose to walk into the swamp you know on a hot day in July or we can choose maybe to walk up into onto the mountaintop where there's a breeze blowing and the mosquitoes aren't congregating so you know kind of watch especially in terms of the the material the financial or the physical um you know choosing the environment that we choose to put ourselves in if you are feeling impulses to spend impulsively right maybe stay away from the mall maybe stay off of amazon right now um if say you're wondering about your taxes and it's irritating you again bring air to into it you know just do something fun because the tax return will come in its own time it'll be divine timing and just trust that maybe it's being delayed for a reason maybe maybe it's going to prevent you from some impulsive spending that won't serve you and be there for you when you really need it for something that's going to really serve these intentions of yours okay so um so this week it's really all about first of all intentions and what's really going to serve you and keeping that in mind really focusing on that and then being just very discerning just very discerning about things that are going to be distracting you away from those intentions trying to get your focus elsewhere we want to keep bringing the focus back to the intentions that are going to serve your higher purpose and that's the the big message for this week so I hope that you have enjoyed this reading I do appreciate if you are on my channel to I'd love to hear your comments I'm gonna post links below to this deck and also to um I'm signing up for sessions with me if you are looking for clarity in your life I do offer readings and shamanic sessions so thanks again so much for watching I love you all appreciate your likes subscribe shares and you have a lovely lovely week moving into this new moon in torus this feels like an amazing time of manifestation right now so just enjoy and I'll catch you again tomorrow