February 2025 Review

A month in review, Tarot forecast and what happened: February 2025

This past December, I decided to the 12 Magical Nights Ritual to set my intentions and manifest awesomeness for 2025 (I will be happy to go over this ritual towards the end of the year). I made the decision to pull a tarot card each night to set the intention and energy for each month of the year. I would do the mini tarot reading for the month, write it in my yearly "Goal" journal, do the ritual (outside), and then come back in and describe what happened, how I felt, and what went through my head while performing it in the journal as well. I decided that at the end of each month, I would review the entry I made and see what how it coincided with my experience and then do another tarot pull to see what I should take away from that month.

February just ended and let's go back and see just what happened...

The card pulled: The Moon (REVERSED)

Here's literally what I wrote in my journal for the meanings I felt I needed to remember about the card for the month:

• Releasing of fears and anxieties

• Learning to trust intuition

• Gaining freedom from repressed emotions

Now, once again, I had pulled a great card (if you haven't read January's review, you should)! And once again, I was excited. I headed outside to do my wish burning ceremony for the second night in a row. To be honest, I was just proud of myself for making it a second day and not forgetting about it. But then to have another promising mini read was an absolute bonus! This time, I was a decided to try a new technique with the paper to burn it. After the candle was lit and the match thrown into my mason jar, I pulled my wish blindly and kept it folded this time. I also decided to be braver. I could hold the burning wish for a bit longer knowing that I learned from the previous night, it takes a little while to burn as well as it may need a little extra help to be completely consumed. So, I let it burn until I thought that it was a blaze enough to continue burning once I dropped it in the mason jar. Of course, I was wrong. As soon as I dropped it in, it fell into two separate pieces. I grabbed the match that I had used to light my candle and re-lit it to burn both pieces of the wish, which gratefully only needed just a few seconds until they both turned to ash.

Now, let's fast forward to February. If you read the January Review (which you should...), I can tell you it wasn't much better, outside I traveled to Iowa to visit my family. The situations that created so much chaos in January didn't improve. But I can say that I had far less fear and anxiety in the face of everything than I would have previously. I actually had a lot of peace even though things hadn't quite come together the way I really wanted them to, which was something that had started to develop in January. Just trusting...at least more than tend to do. As quiet as my intuition has been lately, as hard as it is to follow, I truly believed it was telling me that it was all going to be okay...that it was all going to work out in the end. I followed it to get to Iowa in more ways than one. But I know I still need to develop more trust in it; in myself. And I will say, it is so much harder to change and grow in the place that you grew up, around the people that raised you. It's hard to change mindsets from the past when around the people who instilled most of your mindsets as children. My trip home was difficult for me. I missed my mom and needed support and care in the middle of everything that was going on, so I really needed to be home. But I was not prepared to be so effected by not only the political climate, but my resentment to all the belief systems that supported it. I was not aware that I was going to take some things very personally and come face to face with some big time deep wounds. Wounds that needed to be recognized so that I can work on reframing and healing. All in all, the trip was needed in more ways than I even knew.

Even though things hadn't changed much and I was still in the thick of all the "yuck" of the previous month, looking back at the card pulled did anything come of it?

• Releasing of fears and anxieties? I absolutely had more peace.

• Learning to trust my intuition? I got to Iowa. But it is a learning process.

• Gaining freedom from repressed emotions? I uncovered very deep emotions from a deep source.

There were definitely some insights from that mini pull in December. That I wasn't expecting to come about the way they came about. And I will say that the two cards that I pulled in the January review (6 of Swords and Queen of Cups) actually gave me little rafts of hope and peace that held me up and reminded me that I had this.

I decided that from this month on, instead of just pulling one card at the ending of the month to sum up what I should glean from the 28+ days I just went through, I would also do a full mini reading for the month coming. And man, I will tell you, after the one card that I pulled to talk about February...well, here:

The 6 of Swords...REVERSED! I just pulled that card last month, giving me hope! And now, it's REVERSED! And that message:

You are avoiding things that you know you should be doing. It's not going to help you in the long run. It's not rest, it's atrophy. The discomfort will be worth it.

Um, excuse me! God has ways of calling us out when we say we want change and growth. But most often, that means doing things that are hard physically, emotionally, and/or mentally. It also means trusting your intuition. And again, it has been a struggle for me lately. I really don't want to run away from hard things. I just need to know I doing the right thing. And that's where I struggle.

So, let's look at the mini reading I did for a little guidance into the month of March, in hopes that I continue on this journey with more peace and trust.

What to expect: 7 of Wands REVERSED- Even if overwhelmed, remember how far you've come and that you are capable of making your dreams come true.

How to handle the month: The Star REVERSED- Believe in what you are doing and trust yourself.

The end results of March: 9 of Cups REVERSED- The people who are supposed to be around you, will stay around you. Be true to yourself.

Well, that's hopeful and helpful, right? I mean, there's still no promise of relief from the chaos that has been going on the last couple months, but I think that in the month of March I will have opportunity, as always to learn to trust God. To trust myself.