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Artist Feature - Sav
What led you to BTS? My best friend had gotten really into them and I wanted to know more about them; they seemed like an important part of her life so I wanted to learn about it. I let her show me music videos, YouTube compilations, interviews, Run BTS episodes, and so on, and I was like, “okay wow, I’m really into this!” Their music is just amazing; that plus the choreography and music videos really drew me in for their talent.
ACE OF SWORDS
The Ace of Swords represents a moment where we’re presented with a kind of understanding – a truth revealed, a sudden mental connection, new data, a primordial idea. When it shows up for us, all we have to do is be curious and open to what’s happening in our life. It might not be obvious, but try to pay attention to any shifts, omens or messages. What conversations, sources and thoughts are coming through? Give them the space they might need to bloom.
SEVEN OF WANDS
The Seven appears as a reminder to be honest with yourself about the challenges ahead of you but not to dwell on them too long. There’s a difference between strategizing and spiraling, and you don’t want to lose the momentum you’ve built.
CANCER SEASON
Happy Cancer season! Time of feeling everything deep in your chest, letting it out into the world, pursuing emotional connection, giving and receiving care, and tuning into our intuition. Cancer is the tide, the place where ocean meets land, this point of contact that’s always in flux. Ruled by the moon, it describes the space of cyclical change where we meet the world around us, where we exchange thoughts, feelings, and sensations.
MERCURY RETROGRADE IN GEMINI
On the 10th of May, Mercury stations retrograde in early Gemini before dipping back into Taurus. With this transit, the planet of information, communication and mental processes temporarily leaves its own home sign to revisit a very different space. In many ways, it feels like a reminder to stop and reflect before moving forward full-speed. As we saw in the overview of this Taurus season’s astrology, Jupiter’s move into Aries the day after Mercury’s station marks the beginning of a significant change in the astroweather. Most notably, we’re entering an initiatory, catalytic, fire-starting, fast-moving season with a summer heavily influenced by cardinal and mutable energy.
SIX OF WANDS
The Six of Wands is the card of hard-won victory. It’s not the end of the road (though, truly, what is?) but it’s the moment when you can see your efforts beginning to pay off and your vision starting to crystalize into something more tangible. If you push and push yourself without taking the time to rest, to recharge, and to recognize how far you’ve come, the only thing you will be left with is demoralization and burnout. It is exhausting to go through life feeling as though all your efforts are simply not good enough.
SEVEN OF CUPS
The Seven of Cups is often depicted as a card of confusion, overindulgence, or delusion due to too many options. It can be totally overwhelming to sit in the fog, unsure of which cup to choose. We may feel pressure to make the “right” choice, even when we aren’t ready.
THE HANGED MAN
The Hanged Man is card 12 of the Major Arcana, and one that I always put into context with its ensuing card-Death. Meaning, this is the soupy space we must sit in before a transformation. It is the time to invite stillness, even if it’s uncomfortable. The more we struggle, the less we hear our own inner knowing. And so, we can be curious about where this discomfort is coming from. Listen deeply in this stillness to our needs, no matter how quiet the voice. Release what isn’t working in order to make room for change.
FOUR OF SWORDS
The Four of Swords is a card that quite literally offers us a pause amongst the challenges of its suit. Traditionally, we see images where someone is lying still and at rest, whether literally or symbolically. When we take this in the context of the suit of Air, we can understand the Four of Swords as being about finding ways to quiet and calm the mind.
THE HIEROPHANT
The Hierophant is a card that represents tradition, belief structures, learning and growth. It tends to appear as a reminder that our inclination toward rebellion may not always serve us well — there are times when breaking the rules liberated us and there are times when it simply creates more work for ourselves. Why make things harder by reinventing the wheel when we can follow the tried and true patterns others have left for us?
THREE OF WANDS
Like all the Threes, the Three of Wands represents a foundation, specifically that which we build all our dreams upon. Because Wands are such an intangible suit, this tends to speak of our vision for our goals and what it looks like if we should reach them. Simply put, it’s difficult to make progress when one is wandering aimlessly or has a vague idea of what success would even look like; how can you break down the steps necessary to reach your dreams if you don’t even know what you’re dreaming of?
FIVE OF SWORDS
The Five of Swords isn’t a light card, even by this suit’s standards. Like the other Fives, it represents a kind of crisis point – in this case, we’re working with the mental aspects of difficult emotions. As with many of the Swords, the Five really shows us how tricky our relationship to our own minds can be. It’s often when something goes wrong and/or we feel hurt that we’re most prone to getting tangled in the noise of our more unhelpful thoughts.
THREE OF PENTACLES
The 3 of Pentacles is about putting effort towards building something tangible and long-lasting – something bigger than the sum of its parts, whether it’s a project or a space. It speaks to collaboration, asking us to understand our unique skills and abilities. Beyond a capitalist understanding of productivity, this card draws our attention to what we can contribute and put into the world, brick by brick.
FOUR OF WANDS
Like all the Fours, the Four of Wands represents a natural pause. It’s a moment to breathe, to reflect, and appreciate your efforts thus far. Let’s face it - starting a new project or journey takes a lot of work and energy. It’s relatively easy to come up with new ideas and passing inspiration, but actually finding the motivation to put them into action is a feat in and of itself.
EIGHT OF SWORDS
The 8 of Swords, like its siblings in the other suits, is about choice and having faith in the process of change. Often, it depicts situations where we’re kept stuck by our own thoughts, fears and lack of perspective. Our brains are wired to feel that what’s familiar, even if harmful, is safer than the alternative of the unknown, and this card asks us to work on rewiring those patterns so we can grow.
Happy Birthday j-hope!
Happy Birthday to our dearest Jung Hoseok aka j-hope aka uarmyhope aka Hobi! There’s so much to gush about over this Aquarian and Piscean king. Hobi is the dictionary definition of our hope, a human battery, our source of the best candid photos/videos (Hobi gallery!), and owner of the most infectious laugh.
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Whenever I draw The Wheel of Fortune for myself or others, I find that it’s usually this invitation to check where we’ve tightened our grip to avoid the negative. Where we’re clenched, where we’re hoping to stay in control of flawless outcomes. We want to seize the wheel and control its direction, rhythm, and velocity so that we don’t get hurt.
THREE OF SWORDS
The image of the 3 of Swords is perhaps one of the most striking in traditional decks. We see a heart pierced through by three swords against a rainy background – not the most comforting imagery. And it is a challenging card, but it’s no omen of doom.
ACE OF CUPS
Aces in the tarot represent an invitation to receive, to open ourselves up, to start a new beginning. For the Ace of Cup, our cup is overflowing, bursting forward with feelings of abundance, love, joy, and euphoria. I personally see it as the feeling you get when you don't know the destination, but you don't care because you trust yourself. You know you are inherently worthy to love and receive love. The Ace of Cups marks the journey to indulge in creative time, nurturing our bodies, and seeking comforts and joy of any scale.
Tarot Reader Feature — Kirstin Wu
I was casually aware of BTS from around 2019 – I’d watched a couple of videos, but never fallen down that rabbit hole we know so well. I think part of me held off, knowing it wasn’t something I’d be able to just put down once I took the leap. For a while I just absorbed snippets of information from ARMY friends, including fellow astrologers like @charmastrology and @alicesparklykat. I still remember Charm’s use of Jungkook’s chart as an example in an Astrocartography lecture!