Dare to ask for your dreams...this lunar cycle we explore abundance and how to prepare for calling in support for your dreams. Listen as Zaneta shares the energies around our art + career for this cycle, Mar 29 through Apr 26.
This lunar cycle is all about abundance, how we lean in or lean away. In this episode we'll explore the mind's role in spellcasting for our dreams and the ways that we can clear road for the next journey.
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[00:00:00] Zaneta: Hello and welcome to Art Witch, the podcast where creativity, magic, and healing align for personal and collective liberation. I'm your host Zaneta and welcome Art Witch aims to provide resources for creative empowerment, helping folks make and share their art, and also find their authentic expression.
In this podcast, you'll hear from a variety of artists, witches and healers, as well as experts in various art industries and related fields, all with the intention of helping folks share their art and their unique magic with the [00:01:00] world.
Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Zaneta, and thank you so much for tuning in. Today's episode is a creativity tarot reading for this lunar cycle, starting on March 29th with the New Moon in Aries. So if you wanna hear about the energies for this cycle and how they apply to your creativity and your art career, then.
Listen on to the episode. I am so excited to be back in this space, to be here with the energies and all the amazing art that we've been working on, and just feeling into this community. I know that many of you have been going through quite a doozy of the eclipses, and we have one today. So it's very interesting to record on a day like [00:02:00] today, but I had a clear message to do so, and I thought, okay, I will roll with that.
So typically with eclipses, I try to give myself a lot of space, try to not do as much magic or divination, try to really think about what an eclipse invites rather than what I'm trying to create or, you know, get out into the world. And for me, eclipses usually track as more tired. The energy just feels really different and sometimes that's different in a good way.
Sometimes it's different in a not so great way. They're certainly very powerful, and in that way it can be really hard to get clarity around the things that we're trying to, let's say, call in. [00:03:00] So when I am, experiencing eclipse, I really try to focus on, you know, just being, and, you know, relaxing and resting and not trying to do so much, or not trying to bring about so much, change or transformation.
So for this last portal, I felt like, or the last eclipse, I feel like there's just been a, a residual exhaustion that I've personally been experiencing. And I'm not so sure if that's just mostly like my own placements or if that's like collective issues, but for now I'm just saying that was a pretty tiring eclipse hangover and I'm gonna leave it there.
And also, I feel like recording on this particular solar eclipse with the New Moon and Aries, I'm not really necessarily trying to bring in what was just composted. So [00:04:00] I wanna give us like kind of a nice clean break here. And that reminds me, you know, we are in the season of spring. We are here in the direction of the east, in the element of air, we're reconnecting to fresh energy and new beginnings and you know, things that inspire us and give us life.
And so new beginnings are definitely part of saying, you know, thank you for the old and thank you for what happened, and thank you for anything that you know, needed to change and get composted. And also I would no longer like to carry that into the next season. So you may wanna think to yourself what needs sweeping out, what still needs to be decluttered, what needs to be released? Any old spell remnants that need to be, you know, cast [00:05:00] out and properly disposed of any kind of energies that you're saying, I might need to cut the cord with this, or even dare I say, banish it.
Those kinds of things, it's like you want to say that was in that container of the past and now here's the new container. The new thing that I'm setting up, the new space that I'm inhabiting, and what does it look like to clear some space and to open up to that stuff. Internally, what does it look like to clear space. Externally? What does it look like to clear space, in your time, in your relationships, in your resources, in your way of thinking? What does it look like to clear some space?
So those are some just starting themes that we're touching upon here [00:06:00] at this new moon in Aries today on March 29th. So before we get in fully to the reading, I want to say that this upcoming spring, this season, this month, coming up in April, we have a couple really cool things that are happening in, in my world and in the art witch world.
So. The first thing is, is that I am opening up in person readings. Yeah. So I usually do readings online and I love doing them online. There's no real like energetic shift in terms of being able to read for someone online versus reading for someone in person, but. I personally really love reading for people in person.
It's a very joyful act for me. It's also very joyful to do it online, but there's something about being able to have a cup of tea and [00:07:00] read the cards or tune in. That's just so, I don't know. It's just really nice and I like getting in-person readings from people too, and there's just something about that that really I love.
So. I have an office space here in Nyack that I am opening up, and I will have in-person readings available at that space starting in April. So if you would like to get a reading one-on-one in person, there will be those dates available in my calendar, as well as online dates. My readings have really been shifting more towards.
Psychic mediumship and with some tarot, but a lot more in that direction. So it's been interesting to see how that evolves as I've been practicing and working on mediumship more and more and more. to see how, you know, who [00:08:00] comes through when we have these readings. Sometimes it's ancestors, sometimes it's guides, sometimes it's angels, sometimes it's, entities and deities that we're working with, you know, in our rituals or, part of our, our process for transforming.
So I've had a spectrum of, beings and spirits of place that have come through and ancestors who have come through these readings. It seems like there's a lot of nature, spirits and, um, spirits of the land and waters that love to come through these readings and plants and animals. So. It makes sense to me why that seems to be a starting point for a lot of my readings, but if you're interested in seeing who some of these folks are on, let's say, your spirit community and on the other side and other dimensions who might be coming through to have some guidance and [00:09:00] some support for what you're working on, or some insight as to some of the things that you're maybe finding challenges with, that's there in these readings.
And another aspect of them is really, collective wisdom and guidance that really comes through a lot of times with these readings. talking about the Claires, talking about different kinds of senses that we have. A lot of what comes through for me is clear cognizance. And so when I'm hearing or experiencing things, there will be a strong kind of knowing often that accompanies, what is coming through in a reading. So this is just a lovely way to, touch base with what you're working on from a soul perspective often, I think that that's what readings offer us is the guidance of realignment with our true essence and kind of framing things from that position [00:10:00] helps us to say, okay, where do we put our energy? Where do we put our time? How can I go about this in a way that is truly kind to my whole being? Not just trying to push, push, push, but you know, trying to do things in a way that honors my spirit.
So if you would like to get a reading one-on-one with me, either in person or online, check out the links down below, and then if readings are something that you would like, but maybe that feels like you financially can't really engage with that at this time, I do offer mini tarot readings for art and career through the Art Witch circle on Patreon. So our next Art Witch circle, gathering is on April 12th, and that is actually the Saturday, I think it's Passover. So just so you know, we're meeting up. We are going to be learning about how to cast spells for our [00:11:00] art and career.
This is part two of a series that I'm teaching on this topic, and part two is getting into the actual practical how-tos of spell casting. Last session, we got into our magical spirit community, our web of collaborators. We got into interdimensional beings who we might collaborate with when we are casting spells.
And in this session we're getting into magical correspondences, how to cast a circle, like all of that kind of. Really practical, process stuff we're gonna get into, and this is from my perspective as having cast a lot of spells for my art and career, and many of which have been very successful for me in the sense that they came to being in a way that felt right for me.
[00:12:00] That the results of that spell ended up being really helpful and powerful and was the right thing I needed at the right time. So I feel that I have some good, good experience with this topic and I'm really happy to share it with other people. In the Art Witch circle I not only lecture on a topic that we're working on at the time, but I also give these mini tarot readings as a check-in for our monthly, sense of wellness around our creativity. I know that when I first started out, I really could have used regular check-ins with the reader or regular kind of support in just kind of realigning so this is a great opportunity to ask those yes or no questions. You know, get some, check-ins on a project or, some guidance onto where to focus at this time.
So I will leave the link down below for the Art Witch circle. That [00:13:00] space is really evolving and there's a lot of materials that are in the Art Witch Patreon. There are meditations. There are replay sessions of all the guided art meditations and channeling art sessions that we do.
There's a whole series on how to read tarot for your art and career. Guides to that. There are card spreads and posts that I frequently put in there that never see the light of day on Instagram. So it really is this place where I get to share a lot of, you know, information and help kind of amplify some topics and some things that we get into on the podcast. But we can really go deeper with on Patreon. So I hope you'll join me there and let's start the reading.
So for this lunar cycle, we are beginning on March 29th with the New Moon in Aries, which is also [00:14:00] a partial solar eclipse here. And we have the full Moon on April 12th, and then the sun enters Taurus on April 19th. And then right, on April 27th, we have the New Moon and Taurus. So basically this lunar cycle goes from March 29th through April 26th. And that's just to give you a little bit of clarity around, what these cards, what these messages are, like, the timeframe for when they're supposed to be. this reading is probably going to be applicable to people long after , this time period has passed, but this is primarily for this cycle.
So when I was kind of checking in and tuning into guidance for this lunar cycle and essentially who and what we should focus on, how we should focus. I got this really [00:15:00] interesting card that came through for what we're focusing on this cycle, which is the nine of Pentacles. When I think of the nine of Pentacles, I think about gratitude.
Gratitude for what we have been given, what has been shared with us, the opportunities to grow and to, deepen, to fall in love even more with what we do and what we, find that sacred. Who we found that really loves us and cares for us, and how we've been cared for. The night of Pentacles gives me this feeling of the future as well. It shows me that, you know, in that gratitude, there's so much potential. There's so much opportunity to be blessed even further. To enjoy the fruits of a future harvest, to feel the harvest now, but to also know that the [00:16:00] harvest is in the future as well. And so there's this sense that abundance is not scarce.
Abundance is not scarce. It is freely flowing. It does ebb and flow, but it will return. It will return, and it really returns, especially when we're in this cycle of giving and receiving in a sense of balance.
So taking that kind of energy with us into this cycle, because many of us will be casting spells in this upcoming season of, Aries, of Taurus, of Gemini, like in these upcoming, really wonderful times to cast spells where I feel like Taurus really gives us a lot around abundance. So I am definitely leaning towards Taurus season and, Taurus, lunar moments where we [00:17:00] might want to cast a money spell. We might want to cast a spell for abundance, and our relationship with abundance is something that we can kind of check in with and prepare ourselves for even before we cast the spell right, like what we think abundance is, is what we have gratitude for now, right? It's like what you have gratitude for now, and whether or not you believe that that is a possibility in your future. Whether or not you believe that that is, flowing and abundant, or if you feel like that's scarce or somewhere in between.
If you feel that this is as good as it gets and it's not gonna get any better, that does very much limit the scope of the kinds of spells you're gonna cast. It limits the scope of the kinds of opportunities you think are available to [00:18:00] you. And we have so much that we can do in the mental realm before we ever cast a spell, before we ever call upon, help from any of our guides or, the wonderful beings that we work with, we can do so much on our end to essentially lay a, a solid foundation that opens the road. you've probably heard of a road opening spell. You've probably heard of, kind of unblocking and like, you know, anything that needed to be cleared out, clearing it out, but.
Really, a lot of what needs to be cleared out is internal. It's mental. It's the understanding that we are in the freshness of spring. We are in a new time, in a new beginning. No matter what you see or what you hear, or what anyone tells you. [00:19:00] There is always the possibility of a new beginning, a new start, freshness, and how much do you really believe that?
How much do you really receive that? those are things that are coming through with this nine of Pentacles because the challenge card that came right after it where it's like, this is actually kind of a block for us around accessing this sense of nine of Pentacles, a sense of abundance returning, recurring, and meeting us in the future is the Ace of Swords.
This is our mind. It is what we know to be true, and it is how clear we truly are. If you have a practice of clearing your mind, if you have a practice of, getting your thoughts out of the way and kind of releasing some of that [00:20:00] pent up energy from your mind. This is a great time to do it right.
This is a really great time to do it because it essentially is that road opener. It is that clearing the path so that you can see the possibilities, that you can vision, you can dream, you can imagine, you can say yes, I dare to ask for that dream. I dare to ask for that dream.
There is a very, very large sense of contraction that many of us are feeling and we have to parse out and discern that that's not necessarily what we have to exist in. We have to say, okay, cool. I'm experiencing this. I'm a pretty sensitive person. I can sense that this is happening in a lot of spaces, in a lot of my, [00:21:00] you know, peers and friends and you know, a lot of the stuff I'm seeing around me and the narratives that are being presented to me, the messages that are being presented to me. But you know, that's part of the path of being a witch, is to be aware and also to choose differently. To be aware, and to choose differently. To choose when you need to clear your mind and when you need to reset and say, okay, that's not helping me, how do I really, really help myself so that I can help others or so that I can be a part of change or that I can be a part of something better.
Because what ends up happening when things get really, really mucky mentally, is that you know, your scope is very limited. What you can see is very, very murky and foggy. It's not easy to [00:22:00] discern what the path is if you can barely see it, because things are just clouding your sense of inner vision. So, I really love just doing basic breathing meditations. I love just focusing on my breath, closing my eyes, and just returning to the breath and just noticing it and letting the mind kind of expel what it needs to expel.
Kind of like watching a dog go to the dog park and like cut loose and run around and go crazy, and then when they come home, they're really tired and relaxed. That's basically what I feel like happens in meditation. So. Just imagine that, you know, you're letting those thoughts go. You're letting them run loose and cut loose, and then eventually you'll come to some place where maybe you feel more settled and calm.
And in that space, check in with how you feel about [00:23:00] abundance, how you feel about this potential, this possibility, these opportunities around resources, around the material. I'm talking about money. I'm talking about your housing. I'm talking about, you know, the car that you want. I'm talking about your studio space, your sense of time, the way you get to live your life, your access to materials, to, support for your work. If it's residencies, grants, if it's, gallery spaces, if it's. connections to organizations who are going to uplift and support your work. We're gonna get really clear this cycle because with this Ace of Swords, it means we want the truth. We wanna know exactly with ourselves what we want. And I don't mean you have to have it all like outlined for the rest of your life in a type A situation.
I don't mean that. It's a level of soul [00:24:00] clarity that you're getting to where you're like, when I connect to my soul and I connect to the sense of my highest and best. You know who I am when I am just truly in, the love of the universe. That eternal sense of love, that transcends, mundane everything, but it's also woven in everything when I really am there. What do I care about? What does an abundant life feel like? What does abundance, what is nine of Pentacles arriving at the greatest sense of gratitude feel like? And what am I supported in? Who am I held by? How am I connected? What am I resourced in? All of that stuff becomes very clear when you are clear. When you are clear.
The card that came through as helping us understand [00:25:00] what to embody, how to move forward in this really embodied place was actually the seven of cups, which I found so fascinating. I love seven. I love the energy of the chariot coming in here and the idea also of the cups and like the holy grail and like what the heart truly values.
What the heart truly values, not the nonsense that we're told we need to value, but what the heart truly values and holds as sacred is what we can aim for. Chariot style, what we can aim for, what we can align with and redirect towards. We're in a redirection period right now. A realignment, and we're coming back because we're about to really set some things off. And if you're gonna set [00:26:00] those things off, you're gonna call those things in. You're gonna say, I want this, I need this. Please help me with this. If you're gonna go there, this. Upcoming season. If you're gonna bring any kind of change into the world towards your art and career, or towards the work that you want to see existing out in the world, you're gonna want to make sure that you're in the truth of the heart.
You are gonna really, really wanna make sure you're in the truth of the heart. If that is hard for you right now, because you are feeling a lot, you are experiencing a lot of heartache or grief or struggle, it's good to really take time, feel those things, and to know that they're not necessarily the only truth of your heart.
Right. Like you can have temporary feelings on things. You can have feelings that are ebbing and flowing, but to discern like that [00:27:00] level of truth, like soul truth is different. Those are different things. There's needing to attend to the heart and in, the ebbing and flowing emotions that are as a result of being a relational being and being in a dynamic world, a world that is going through a lot right now, and you can go and let yourself feel and experience and go through all those things as well. But when you go and you say, this is the future that I am praying and dreaming of, it's so important to get soul clear, basically if nothing else, to get soul clear on that and to trust that that is possible. And that trust usually is hard to access when we are dealing with a lot of emotions that need to be processed or we are inundated with a lot of thoughts [00:28:00] from seeing a lot of things or, thinking about a lot of things.
It's not even necessarily like that you saw something that was, particularly disturbing or anything. It's just that you can have a lot of clutter. That just accumulates internally and we are really clearing the slate here, this cycle. So if you've been finding yourself in that space of, I know there are things that I'm gonna want to call in that are big projects. Things that I wanna change in my life. I wanna bring about real change, not just change that's temporary or blah da da da da, you know? But like, not ego-driven change, but like, I mean, heart change. Like I want to heal something. I want to change something. I know that this is my work on this earth. That kind of thing. If you wanna go that level with things, then you have to get really, really comfortable clearing the slate [00:29:00] and clearing it regularly, frankly.
This would be a great cycle to recommit, to clearing your mind every day. Doing it as some kind of, devotional practice to your dreams, to your art, to your work, and saying, every day I'm holding time and space, whether it be through Tai Chi, whether it be through a walking meditation, whether it be through breath work or breathing meditations, some kind of clearing practice.
I would say that journaling. I know this isn't for everyone. Okay. So I wanna just like put a caveat out there that not everyone feels this way about this activity, but to me I've noticed journaling is different from clearing the mind. It helps to process, it helps to, deal with things that are coming up and it's really important. It's a super, super important practice, but it is not the same [00:30:00] as meditating. Because meditating allows you to refocus on something other than those things that are coming up. And to get some perspective that goes beyond those kind of more temporary, experiences internally. So like, you know, flitting thoughts and, you know, emotions that ebb and flow and change and morph. Those things are more temporary, right? And they are good to connect with and to process things because they can really, really lead us back to some larger things that need to be addressed and healed. But they're not necessarily meditation. They're not necessarily coming back to, clearing energy or clearing the slate or anything like that.
So meditation. Can be really, really helpful this cycle in being very committed to doing that practice regularly to set yourself up [00:31:00] for what you're gonna call in and what you really, really, really feel is abundant on a heart level, on a soul level. So just understanding that this nine of Pentacles is always there. You know, it's always available for us to go this deep and to, dream this truly. But it isn't always available when our mind is just, you know, zooming, zooming, zooming, and you know, just culturally we are really over inundated with information. We're over inundated with visuals. We're over inundated with information with voices.
To be honest, when I do psychic mediumship readings, I'm basically making sure that I don't really read a lot before I do them. Or watch a lot or listen to a lot, and the reason why is because [00:32:00] I notice the difference when I am ingesting a lot of media. When I'm intaking a lot of media, how it impacts being a channel. How clear am I truly.
I've talked with other people about this. They resonate with this. There's a certain comfort that we have to develop with space, with quiet, with silence. We're still in that moon year. We're still in that hermit year, right? These are figures, archetypal figures that are quiet, still, that are allowing the messages and the mysteries from the deep to be shown and revealed to us.
You really can't receive much information if you are Overwhelmed by information externally, you know, how can you really, really tune in and hear, you know, the voices of spirits if you've been just [00:33:00] listening to, you know, all sorts of talk all the time. That's not to say that you can't at all, it's just that it's definitely a lot more to sift through internally as you're like, okay, wait, was that a vision from a movie or was that a vision that a spirit just gave me?
So I think that there's something there that's like really, really tricky, for all of us, and we're all getting this message to be, Comfortable with getting quiet, comfortable with silence, getting back to some space of clarity. Consistent clarity, right? Consistent clarity will serve us so well this cycle.
For me personally, I'm going to commit to going to the mountain that I love regularly and being with the mountain, going and meditating with my ancestors at my ancestor altar, That seems to really help me. I tend to be a really social person, at [00:34:00] least in the sense that I need to feel like there's another being with me. It doesn't need to be a human being. It can be a spirit being, but I generally need that kind of connection to go quiet and still, and that really helps me a lot. Think to yourself, what are those conditions that you really thrive in when you are, you know, creating that space, that sanctuary for stillness and silence for yourself.
Ooh. Okay friends, we are preparing for abundance. We are reflecting on our relationship with abundance, we're going to get into gratitude this cycle. It is also really great to take time every day to be thankful for what you're truly thankful for, because that also harmonizes and they're telling me re- harmonizes your sense
of heart with what you care about and like kind of gets you in that place [00:35:00] of being like, yes, that's what I need more of. That's what I want in this life. This is my joy. You know, what's your joy, truly? And you can be really honest with yourself. You can make a list, you can say it out loud every day. You can say, I'm thankful for this. I'm thankful for that. just being really, really clear. It is like you're setting your aim, essentially. You're getting really good at aiming energetically for what you want in this life. And what means something to you, so you clear your mind, you clear the slate, and then you're giving a lot of gratitude and feeling into gratitude regularly, and that's also kind of attuning you to this sense of true abundance, not fake abundance where it's like, oh, this is a goal I should have as an artist. Oh, this is this thing that means I'm, you know, prestigious or whatever. Those egotistical things are, fake outs, you [00:36:00] know, those are things that like you've maybe Conditioned to think that is important or valid or meaningful or like that you need to hit those goals in your career or in your work in order to be successful.
And the fact is, what if you never had to do any of that ever? What if you actually could be successful and thrive, but like do it with a sense of integrity? That is very much possible. It is very much possible. Some people believe that they have to suddenly be, you know, social media wizards and have to be so visible and this and that.
And you know, there's like so many shoulds. It's all very relative, right? It's all really different for each person. Some people will be actually called to be very social and be on social media and be very visible in that way, but you know, that's not a blanket fit for everyone. And sometimes. We get this vision of our, successful, thriving art life.
[00:37:00] And it's like, oh, well I had to have done this and I had to have done that. And there's all these arbitrary expectations and markers that are coming through that aren't yours. You have to acknowledge that if you're really in your heart, you know that that's not yours. That came from someone else, that came from somewhere else, some other time, some other message or whatever.
And you know, you can accidentally internalize that shit. So it's really, really important. To be very clear, to get into your heart, to get into whatever the highest and best, your soul, whatever you wanna go and use that language. I use highest and best often 'cause that helps me feel like I have a, a more sense of connection to source and to the sense that I'm connected to, you know, more than just myself and to really say what does it feel like to be in the, the space of true gratitude and [00:38:00] love and appreciation for what's been given and shared with me that true nine of Pentacles, that true holy grail, ACE of Cups energy. what is that? and then we cast the spell. Then we're like, please help me to achieve that.
And the spell casting, I do not recommend that on an eclipse, but I do think we're gonna be moving into that this cycle, and in the next cycles. Anyway, friends, that is the message for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you enjoy this episode. If you want to get a reading with me in person or online this month of April, check out my links down below.
If you want to join the Art Witch Circle, learn how to cast spells for your art and career on April 12th, go ahead and check out the link down below for that. I hope you have a blessed lunar cycle and be well.
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