Ritual Reflections

The Star × Post-Burnout Hope: When Hope Feels Impossible — Ritual Reflections The Star after burnout: when hope feels more exhausting than despair. How to rebuild purpose when you're running on empty—and why that's enough.

Hope after burnout doesn’t feel like hope.
It feels like obligation: one more performance of okayness you don’t have the energy for.

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#TarotSky #TheStar #BurnoutRecovery #ShadowWork #RitualReflections

The Moon × Perimenopause: Trusting a Body in Transition — Ritual Reflections The Moon appears when your body is in twilight—no longer what it was, not yet what it's becoming. On perimenopause, uncertainty, and trusting the transition.

#Perimenopause #MenopauseMatters #Tarot

Perimenopause asks the same question The Moon asks: what if you can't optimize your way through this?

Your body is dismantling one version of itself to make room for another. You just happen to be awake for it.

On rewilding and uncertainty.

The hot flashes, the brain fog, the emotional swings—these aren't malfunctions. They're your body dismantling itself to rebuild.

The Moon × perimenopause: on living in the uncertainty when your body speaks a language you don't understand yet.

#Perimenopause #Tarot #MenopauseAwareness

There's a particular way you start holding yourself when pain becomes constant: in your jaw, your shoulders, your breath. A tightness that started as protection and became your posture.

The Four of Pentacles and chronic pain.
#ChronicIllness #Tarot #FourOfPentacles #ChronicPainAwareness

Nobody tells you how much of your life you end up saving for later with chronic pain. You can't go to the thing because you need energy for the other thing.

The Four of Pentacles isn't just about control, it's about the grief of rationing your life.

#ChronicPain #Grief #Tarot #SpoonTheory

Nine of Wands: When Resilience Becomes Defensiveness — Ritual Reflections The Nine of Wands appears when your armor has become a cage. What happens when survival mode never turns off—and how to finally let your guard down.

Resilience has a shelf life.
What once saved you can start to cost you.

#NineOfWands #TarotSky #Resilience #HealingJourney #ShadowWork

The Star × Post-Burnout Hope: When Hope Feels Impossible — Ritual Reflections The Star after burnout: when hope feels more exhausting than despair. How to rebuild purpose when you're running on empty—and why that's enough.

The stars are still there.
The water is still pouring.
You’re still here.

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#TarotSky #TheStar #ShadowWork #Healing #Burnout

Nine of Wands: When Resilience Becomes Defensiveness — Ritual Reflections The Nine of Wands appears when your armor has become a cage. What happens when survival mode never turns off—and how to finally let your guard down.

Your nervous system might still be protecting you from a threat that no longer exists.

Sometimes your gut isn’t intuition...it’s memory.

#TarotSky #TraumaInformed #NineOfWands #SomaticHealing #ShadowWork

The Moon shows a domesticated dog and a wild wolf, both howling at the same light.

This is perimenopause: you contain both the version of yourself that's learned to function, and the version that's done being managed.

On the rewilding nobody mentions.
#Perimenopause #Tarot #TheMoon #Midlife

Four of Pentacles × Chronic Pain: When Your Body Becomes Something to Control — Ritual Reflections The Four of Pentacles appears when chronic pain turns your body into something to control. On gripping too tight, energy rationing, and tiny releases.

The Four of Pentacles: when chronic pain turns your body into something to control instead of something to live in.

On energy rationing, the scarcity economy of limited capacity, and learning to hold less tightly.

#ChronicPain #TarotSky #SpoonTheory #DisabilityJustice

The Moon card appears during perimenopause: when your body is in twilight, no longer what it was, not yet what it's becoming.

On hot flashes that aren't gentle ceremonies, brain fog that isn't mystical, and what it means to trust a body in transition.

#Perimenopause #TarotSky #TheMoon #Menopause

Four of Pentacles × Chronic Pain: When Your Body Becomes Something to Control — Ritual Reflections The Four of Pentacles appears when chronic pain turns your body into something to control. On gripping too tight, energy rationing, and tiny releases.

"Just relax" when you're living with chronic pain lands somewhere between insulting and impossible.

What if you could release the grip by one percent? One finger? One breath?

The Four of Pentacles × chronic pain.
#ChronicPain #SomaticHealing #Tarot #InvisibleIllness

The Star × Post-Burnout Hope: When Hope Feels Impossible — Ritual Reflections The Star after burnout: when hope feels more exhausting than despair. How to rebuild purpose when you're running on empty—and why that's enough.

What if you’re standing in the aftermath of burnout, staring at The Star, and feeling absolutely nothing?
What if hope feels more exhausting than despair?

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#TarotSky #TheStar #TarotReflections #Burnout #Healing

The Star × Post-Burnout Hope: When Hope Feels Impossible — Ritual Reflections The Star after burnout: when hope feels more exhausting than despair. How to rebuild purpose when you're running on empty—and why that's enough.

Hope after burnout isn’t fireworks.
It’s brushing your teeth, watering a plant, answering one email.
It’s not glamorous; it’s just the quiet fact of still being here.

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#TarotSky #TheStar #BurnoutRecovery #ShadowWork #RitualReflections

The Empress’ Shadow: When Care Becomes Control — Ritual Reflections Explore The Empress reversed—the shadow of care that becomes control—and how to heal the need to be needed through boundaries and rest.

She doesn’t break because she cares too much, she breaks because she’s forgotten she deserves to be cared for too.

#TarotReflections #TheEmpress #SelfWorth #ShadowWork #RitualReflections

The Star × Post-Burnout Hope: When Hope Feels Impossible — Ritual Reflections The Star after burnout: when hope feels more exhausting than despair. How to rebuild purpose when you're running on empty—and why that's enough.

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The Star after burnout: hope doesn't feel like hope. It feels like obligation. Like one more thing you're supposed to muster up when the truth is you just want to lie on the floor and not think about what comes next.
On post-burnout apathy and the smallest possible version of forward.

The Empress’ Shadow: When Care Becomes Control — Ritual Reflections Explore The Empress reversed—the shadow of care that becomes control—and how to heal the need to be needed through boundaries and rest.

When you make yourself responsible for everyone’s wellbeing,
you rob them of their agency. Control dressed up as devotion.

#Tarot #TheEmpressReversed #EmotionalBoundaries #Healing #ShadowWork

Nine of Wands: When Resilience Becomes Defensiveness — Ritual Reflections The Nine of Wands appears when your armor has become a cage. What happens when survival mode never turns off—and how to finally let your guard down.

The armor you built to survive has become the cage you live in.
Hypervigilance kept you safe, but now it keeps you small.

#TarotSky #NineOfWands #ShadowWork #Healing #Boundaries

The Empress’ Shadow: When Care Becomes Control — Ritual Reflections Explore The Empress reversed—the shadow of care that becomes control—and how to heal the need to be needed through boundaries and rest.

She doesn’t break because she cares too much—
she breaks because she’s forgotten she deserves to be cared for too. www.ritualreflections.com/reflections/...

#TarotSky #TheEmpress #SelfWorth #ShadowWork #RitualReflections

A stylized tarot card titled "King of Wands" shows a crowned figure seated on a throne. The figure wears a black robe with a white fur collar and a golden, dotted cloak. They hold a large flowering wand in their right hand. The throne's back is decorated with lion symbols, representing strength and fire. A small black salamander appears near the figure’s feet, symbolizing transformation and resilience. The card’s background is minimalist, with tones of grey, yellow, black, and white.

#tarotcardoftheday

King of Wands

Plant your feet on the ground. Roll your shoulders back. Take a deep breath and ask: What am I being called to lead today? What kind of leader do I wanna be?

#tarotsky #kingofwands

You deserve a break. Stop healing. Choose violence. go batshit insane. do it for the plot.

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I've been playing with generative animations just for fun. I love the idea of The Hanged Man or Hanged One as a chrysalis. It’s voluntary stillness, a sacred in-between, the transformation that requires a pause.

The World, Major Arcana 21, from the Numinous Tarot deck. It is bright, concentric rings tucked together into a disc. At the outermost edge is a ring of stars against the black of outer space, then a ring showing the moon in all its phases. There is then a ring of green spotted triangles on pink, surrounding a blue band adorned with light green leaves. This is followed by a circle of orange and red butterflies, around a ring of lime green with slightly darker leafy vines, and finally in the center, the planet earth showing the atlantic ocean. At the bottom of the card is a bright pink lotus, open and bearing the weight of the entire structure.

This is what we are fighting for, do not take your eyes away. This planet, our home, is the birthright of us all. It is not just for a few pale freaks with too much money. We can and will win this world through love & supporting each other & mutual aid & battle & sex & determination. #tarotsky