It’s Giving Mystical — Week of December 26

This week’s episode is an invitation to slow all the way down.

We’re in the liminal days — that strange, potent stretch between Christmas, the Solstice, and the New Year — a time that has long been understood as mythic time, outside the usual rules of productivity, urgency, and linear momentum.

In this episode, Kirsten explores the ancient idea of the 12 Holy Days — the days between December 26 and January 6 — and how they can be used as a powerful contemplative bridge between the year that’s ending and the one that’s forming.

Rather than rushing toward 2026, this is a call to stay with your life.

• Why 2025 isn’t over yet — and why wishing time away robs us of magic

• How the 12 Holy Days can be used as a gentle reflection on each month of the past year

• A simple ritual: giving each day to one month (January–December) — honoring what was, and sensing what’s coming

• The feeling of these days as out of time — sacred, strange, and deeply alive

This week’s cards speak to liberation, momentum, and integration.

• Eight of Swords (Reversed) — breaking free from mental confinement, outdated stories, and self-imposed limitations

• Eight of Wands — sudden movement, energy returning, something real taking shape

• Double Eight energy — manifestation, materialization, spirit entering form

• Temperance (appearing twice) — the reminder to pace yourself, to metabolize change rather than burn out on it

• Three & Six of Pentacles — collaboration, reciprocity, and remembering that your liberation lives within community

There’s an electric “I knew it” moment here — vindication, clarity, momentum — paired with a deeper wisdom asking:

How do I hold this energy without losing myself to it?

When energy finally moves after a long contraction, it can feel intoxicating — like anger, desire, or joy cracking something open.

This episode explores:

• How to ride the wave without getting stuck in the charge

• Why emotional highs can sometimes create their own hangovers

• How to come back to center, nourishment, and ground without dimming your aliveness

These final days of the year matter.

They are not filler.
They are not insignificant.
They are not something to “get through.”

There is a gift at the door — and you don’t want to miss it.

As Kirsten reminds us:

The worst thing is not discomfort — it’s numbness.
We’re here to feel, to experience, to stay awake to our lives.

Let this be a week of presence.
Of honoring who you’ve become.
Of staying open to beauty, mystery, and miracle — even now.

✨ Happy Holy Days. Happy Returning Light.
✨ And may you meet the threshold with open hands.

✨ Inside this episode:🃏 The Tarot for the Week:🔥 A Key Theme:🌑 The Deeper Invitation:

This week’s energy meets us at a powerful threshold.

As we move through the final days before the solstice, the tarot and the collective field are asking us to slow down, soften, and trust what’s quietly taking shape beneath the surface. What you thought you were working with at the beginning of the month may look similar but different now—because you are different.

We reflect on the King of Cups energy behind us, inviting emotional depth, honesty, and sovereignty as we learn to swim in deeper waters without losing ourselves. There’s a remembering here: I know who I am. I can be here, even when the terrain is unfamiliar.

This episode explores:

• The solstice as a time of untethering, quiet, and deep sensitivity

• Why this season asks for tenderness instead of performance

• The fertile void of a 9-year cycle ending—when identity dissolves and curiosity returns

• What it means to sit in emptiness without rushing to fill it

• The pressure building inside you—and why it’s not meant to be released prematurely

• Finding pleasure even in yearning, discomfort, and ache

Tarot for the Week
We pull the Two of Pentacles (reversed), signaling the end of limbo and false busyness. You’re done juggling what no longer deserves your energy.

Supporting cards:

• Ten of Swords — it’s truly over; there’s no life left in the old form

• The Tower (reversed) — the shock is settling, the dust is clearing

• Knight / Son of Wands — it’s time to move, follow desire, and choose life

This isn’t about forcing outcomes. It’s about honoring your vitality and allowing desire to guide you—not because it guarantees a result, but because of who you become by moving toward what calls you.

We also speak honestly about:

• Quiet heartbreak without a clear cause

• The complexity of the holidays—light and loneliness coexisting

• The necessity of art, connection, and truth as anchors in human life

• Letting truth transform you, even when it’s tender

As the light begins to return, you’re invited into a simple solstice ritual:
“As the light returns, so does this…”
Name what you’re calling back to yourself.

Be gentle. Float when you need to. Let the system re-organize itself.

You are not broken.
You are becoming.

Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah—however you mark this turning of the wheel.
I love you, and I’ll talk to you soon. ✨

Hello, my beautiful travelers.

This week’s episode of It’s Giving Mystical arrives straight from the portal of 12/12—Hangman month, Hangman day, Hermit year. A whole council of initiatory energies gathering at once… and we’re walking right into the depths with them.

Fresh off a massive Jaguar medicine initiation, I’m slightly spun, deeply grateful, and wildly in the in-between. So if I sound a little cosmic, just know: the medicine is medicining.

This week, the King of Cups / Shaman of Cups rises as our guide, pulling us from last week’s spark of Page of Wands desire into the emotional deep end—an initiation into the waters we want to swim in but might not yet feel fully at home in.

Inside this episode, we explore:

✨ Why 12/12 doubles down on Hangman + Hermit energy
✨ The shift from fire (Page of Wands) to water (King of Cups)
✨ What it means to navigate terrain where you don’t have home-field advantage
✨ Healthy respect for depth, emotion, and the unknown
✨ Whale medicine, hot springs, sovereignty, siren calls, and the ocean that will eventually have its way
✨ The difference between “Queen of Cups immersion” and “King of Cups mastery while trembling a little”
✨ Why emotional depth this week feels equal parts yearning and oh shit
✨ How resisting the waters creates more discomfort than answering their call
✨ The quiet initiation that comes from holding both sovereignty and surrender at the same time

Think of this week as an invitation into the kind of depth that cracks something open—not in a destructive way, but in a liberating one. The waters are rising. Something wants to be revealed. And you actually can navigate it… even if you feel like the away team.

This episode is a mix of tarot, shamanic insight, ocean metaphors, and honest post-Jaguar wobbliness. It’s tender. It’s powerful. And it’s definitely a ride.

Dive in, gorgeous.
Love you. 💙🌀