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• Eight of Swords (Reversed) — breaking free from mental confinement, outdated stories, and self-imposed limitations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

This week’s episode arrives on the heels of that wild Gemini Full Moon — jittery, electric, disorienting in the body, clarifying in the mind. If you’ve felt unsettled, sleepless, or like your system was being rewired… you weren’t imagining it. Something real has been clearing out, and as you land into this week, the ground beneath you is stabilizing.

We’re moving through an ending that is not cute or symbolic, but earned — the kind where you exhale and think, holy sht… we made it.*
Two cards are walking with us through December: XII The Hanged One and XXI The World, echoing that powerful 12–21 portal and the long arc of transformation since December 2021. Time has bent these last few years; we’ve moved through a maze, a gauntlet, a spiritual compression chamber… and we’re not the same.

This month offers two things at once:
✨ The final shedding of a 9-year cycle
✨ The prep work for the fire-horse energy of 2026

You have all the pieces — but December rearranges them into a completely new picture.

And for the week ahead?
We’re in the energy of the Daughter (Page) of Wands. 🔥

She’s the spark-tender. The first breath of inspiration. The raw-faced enthusiasm before self-consciousness sets in. This is your permission to:

• Let your freak flag fly

• Follow what turns you on

• Be a little wild, a little free

• Express without monitoring yourself

• Run toward the things that make you feel alive

There’s contagious joy in this card — cranes overhead, freedom in motion, the sense of “YES, this is what my body has been wanting.”

Let yourself surprise yourself.
Let yourself feel good.
Let yourself be seen in your fire.

We close with a blessing for the week and a peek into what’s coming next as Kirsten steps into Jaguar medicine — the West direction of the Shamanic wheel: shadow, death, tracking, and the liberation that follows.

May this week bring you that delicious feeling of:
Damn. It feels good to be alive. It feels good to be free. It feels good to be in this body. It feels good to be me.

The Hanged Man & The World – December 2025

In this month-ahead episode, we walk straight into the tender, mysterious heart of December 2025 — a 9 year coming to completion — with the Hanged One (XII) and The World (XXI) as our guides.

I share honestly from a very real and raw place: the anniversary of my mom’s passing (12/1/21), the ache of grief in the body, and the strange comfort of numerology, ritual, and mythic time. We talk about how endings don’t just “take something away”… they also quietly reconfigure what’s already here into something wholly new.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• The 9 Year coming to a close
  How 2025 has felt like five years in one and what it means to be in a collective year of endings, release, and karmic completion.

• The Hanged One (12) & The World (21)
  The mirror magic of 12/21, the ouroboros, and why December invites us to see our lives from a new angle using the ingredients we already have.

• Linear time vs. mythic time
  The tension between what’s “actually” happening in 3D and what you know to be true in your bones… and how to stop over-explaining your knowing to people who aren’t seeing what you see (yet).

• Grief, love & the illusion of separation
  The anniversary of my mother’s death, the train-track dream that changed how I hold loss, and why our stories of separation sit inside a deeper circle of never-ending connection.

• Jaguar in the West
  A peek into the next gate of the medicine wheel in Shamanism, the feeling of strapping into a big ride, and what Jaguar medicine might be stirring in you as we close the year.

• You already have what you need
  The branch, the velvet ribbon, the chandelier crystals — and the alchemical magic of recombining the “random” pieces of your life into something surprisingly beautiful.

• Ritual & reflection for December
  Gentle prompts to honor what’s ending, track what’s transformed in you this year, and prepare your heart for the new cycle of 2026 (Horse / 10 / 1 energy).

And of course, we close with tarot + animal spirit messages for every sign — from Sagittarius’ warm, sun-bright fire to Pisces’ invitation to let happiness linger just one beat longer.

This one is for the part of you that feels tender, in-between, and strangely hopeful.
May you feel the circle inside the line, the beginning inside the ending, and trust that you’ve had everything you needed all along. 💫

This week on It’s Giving Mystical, we’re moving through the energetic aftershock of that Scorpio New Moon — and wow… WTF. The cellular activations, the shedding, the quantum reordering? A lot.

(Also: why can’t I drink coffee anymore?? Rude.)

In this episode, we explore how the most mundane moments — a text, a tiny interaction, a micro-blip — can actually function as portals into something much bigger. Spirit loves to use the small doorways to reveal the big stuff, and this week’s energy has been highlighting exactly that.

Let’s talk about why your “outsized reaction” is actually an initiation. Why the boring disruption is medicine. And why your heart might be cracking open in the most unexpected places.

The Wheel of Fortune comes in as a blessing, a turning point, a shift in your favor — and it couldn’t be more aligned.

The Wheel (10) is the same archetype that governs 2026, so what you’re experiencing this week isn’t just a moment… it’s a preview of the energy that will shape the entire year ahead.

Something is turning. Something is opening. Something is aligning.

You softened somewhere you used to armor.

Y ou allowed something you used to defend against.

You said yes — even a little — and the universe is rushing in with more steps toward you than there are grains of sand in time.

We also talk about:

* The strange, holy discomfort of the Scorpio New Moon

* Why tiny things can trigger huge healings

* How to work with your hypervigilance instead of against it

* The magic of giving yourself “one more beat” of joy

* Softening your armor without losing your power

* What it means to enter a cycle of new relational karma

* The Wheel of Fortune + Ten of Cups combo blessing this week

* Ancestor energy, Thanksgiving portals, and a birthday tribute to my beautiful mom

If you’ve been needing a win, the universe is like: I got you, baby.

Stay open to the unexpected doorway it walks through.

Listen now to anchor the energy, claim the blessing, and move into the next chapter with softness, curiosity, and a wide-open heart.

✨ Card of the Week: The Wheel of Fortune

This week on It’s Giving Mystical, we’re moving through a powerful energetic arc — from the reclamation of sight in the Three of Wands to the deep, soul-level mastery of the Nine of Wands.

We’re just coming off a spicy, astrologically-charged New Moon (Uranian surprises… Mercury retrograde… all the cosmic shenanigans), and many of us are feeling the pressure of some final threshold we’re meant to break through. If you’re bumping up against an inner wall right now — you’re not alone, and you’re not doing it wrong. Something is trying to open.

Inside this episode:

🌙 New Moon Reflections
Why this lunation may have activated the final push you need to cross into a brand-new cycle — and why what you’ve been manifesting for years may be closer than you think.

🔥 Three of Wands → Nine of Wands Energy
We explore the movement from the perfection of the 3 to the “trinity of trinities” in the 9 — an energetic leap into a higher octave of your own power.

🛡️ Two Ways of Holding the Wounded Warrior
Are you standing guard out of hypervigilance… or standing tall because you finally know who you are?

💗 Seeing with the Eye of the Heart
A mystic teaching on dropping your vision from the mind into the heart space — and why this changes everything.

🌀 Boundary Lines & The Center
A personal story from my shamanic wheel that shifted how I understand protection, tenderness, and true power — and an invitation for you to step out of the edges and into your own sacred center.

💔 Letting the Past Be the Past
How to notice when old battles are coloring new opportunities… and how to meet life with fresh eyes, even when you’ve been hurt before.

✨ The Real Assignment of the Week
Not to be fearless — but to stay open.
Not to predict the next wound — but to trust who you’ve become.

If you’ve been feeling a little raw, stretched, or pushed… this episode is a balm, a recalibration, and a call forward.

Tune in to learn how to hold yourself gently and step boldly into what’s next.

I love you.
Take exquisite care of your heart.

— Kirsten 🤍

Hello, beautiful humans — it’s me, Kirsten.

This week’s energy is a wild one. We’re moving through the echoes of Justice and Judgment, and the universe is feeling a little… dominant. Think: Sky Daddy energy — that friction between “don’t tell me what to do” and “please, tell me exactly what to do.”

What happens when life takes a stronger hand with you? When you’re being lovingly dominated by the Mystery itself? Can you find the pleasure in surrender — the creative tension between control and release, structure and flow, justice and grace?

We talk about:
✨ The erotic tension in spiritual surrender — domination and devotion
🔥 The liberation that comes from realizing all of it is made up
💫 Why the Three of Wands is your invitation to trust your own fire
🌍 Breaking free from “good girl / good boy” conditioning
💖 Reclaiming your right to make art of your life — in the kitchen, in the chaos, in the everyday magic

This episode is your reminder to check in with the you who stands alone in the dark — to trust your desire, your power, and the direction your own heart is calling you.

Tarot card of the week: Three of Wands
Theme: Trust yourself. Trust your fire. Trust what’s calling you.

May you feel your edges — and expand beyond them.
And may your benevolent Sky Daddy be proud. 😏