Spiritual light, soul renewal, and the path after the storm

After the Tower crumbles and the ground feels uncertain, there it is —
a single star shining through the darkness.

The Star is one of the most beloved cards in the tarot, and for good reason. It brings hope, healing, and spiritual reassurance. It tells us that the worst is behind us, that renewal is possible, and that divine guidance is quietly lighting the way forward.

Whether it appears in a card, a dream, or a quiet moment of clarity, the symbol of the star invites us to return to faith, intuition, and light — even when we feel lost.

🌟 The Star in Tarot – A Symbol of Healing and Spiritual Trust

Traditionally the Star shows a naked figure kneeling, pouring water into a pool and onto the land. Above her, a large central star glows, surrounded by seven smaller ones — a symbol of divine connection, cosmic harmony, and spiritual alignment.

The water represents emotion and intuition. The land symbolises the material world. She pours into both — showing us that healing and trust must happen both within and without.

This card often appears:

• After a difficult time (especially following The Tower)

• When your faith is being restored

• When a quiet, gentle guidance is beginning to stir again

It whispers:
✨ You’re not alone.
✨ The path is returning.
✨ There is light — even if it’s faint, even if you can’t see the end.

💫 Stars as Spiritual Symbols

Across cultures, the star has always been a symbol of guidance.
Think of the North Star for navigators, the Star of Bethlehem, the seven-pointed Faery Star, or the stars used in astrology to divine personality and destiny.

Stars symbolise:

• Higher guidance or spiritual presence

• Soul purpose or a calling

• Renewal, clarity, and deep inner truth

• A return to calm after chaos

In a reading, a star might suggest:

• It’s safe to hope again

• You’re being guided, even if you can’t see the full map

• Healing is happening (or is ready to begin)

🌙 Symbolic Layers Within the Star Card

• Water – Intuition, emotional healing, the sacred feminine

• Nudity – Vulnerability, authenticity, truth without armour

• Stars – Cosmic support, spiritual messages, inner light

• Foot on land and in water – Balance between physical and spiritual realms

• Stillness – A pause, a breath, a return to centre

The Star doesn’t shout. It glows.

It doesn’t rush. It waits.

And it doesn’t demand faith — it simply reminds you where to look when you’re ready.

When The Star Appears…

✨ You are healing — even if you’re still aching
✨ You are being guided — even if the way is unclear
✨ You are held — even when you feel alone

It’s a promise that light returns.
Not always as fireworks — but as a single, steady glow. Enough to keep going.

With deep roots and an open heart,
Sarah x

Discovering the sacred language that only your soul speaks

So far in this series, we’ve explored symbols that show up in tarot, oracle decks, runes, rituals, and spiritual traditions around the world. But some of the most powerful symbols you’ll ever encounter?
They won’t come from a book or a guide.
They’ll come from you.

Your personal symbology — the intuitive signs, images, and motifs that speak directly to your heart — is one of the most powerful tools you can weave into your divination practice.

Because when you begin to notice the patterns that arise in your life, dreams, visions, and readings, you start to build your own inner language. And that language?
It’s your soul’s way of saying: This matters. Pay attention.

🔮 What Are Personal Symbols?

Personal symbols are images, objects, creatures, shapes, or even words that carry unique meaning for you — based on your experiences, memories, dreams, or spiritual connection.

They might include:

• Animals you always dream of or see in readings

• A specific flower or tree you feel deeply drawn to

• Repeating numbers, colours, or geometric shapes

• Symbols that appear in visions or meditations

• Images that evoke a strong emotional or intuitive response — even if you don’t know why

These symbols often bypass logic and land straight in the heart.

🌙 How to Discover Your Personal Symbols

✨ Keep a symbol journal
Write down recurring images that show up in your dreams, readings, synchronicities, or creative work.

✨ Notice emotional responses
If something in a card, image, or moment makes you pause — follow that thread. Ask: What does this mean to me, not just traditionally?

✨ Use meditation or journeywork
Ask your guides, higher self, or subconscious: What symbol do I need to work with right now? See what appears.

✨ Pay attention to what’s always been with you
Sometimes personal symbols are inherited — family heirlooms, tattoos, childhood obsessions, ancestral images. Nothing is random.

🔁 Integrating Personal Symbols Into Your Practice

Once you’ve begun to identify personal symbols, you can begin weaving them into your divination work. Try:

• Creating your own oracle or sigil deck using personal imagery

• Designing a custom spread around a meaningful symbol (e.g., “The Butterfly Spread” for a transformation cycle)

• Placing symbolic objects on your altar or in your reading space

• Using your symbol as a question prompt: What is this fox trying to tell me right now?

The beauty of personal symbols is that they make your spiritual work deeply yours. They honour your lived experience and create a bridge between intuition and imagery.

You Already Know the Language

You don’t need to “learn” your personal symbols — you just need to remember them.

They’ve been speaking to you through goosebumps, dreams, patterns, and pulls of the heart all along.

So next time you pull a card or light a candle, ask:

✨ What symbol is rising for me right now?
✨ What meaning does it hold — just for me?
✨ And what wisdom is it ready to reveal?

Because the universe is always speaking.
And sometimes, it speaks in your own sacred dialect.

With deep roots and an open heart,
Sarah x

What rises, must fall. What falls, must rise.

Some cards carry an energy so strong, it ripples off the deck — and The Wheel of Fortune is one of them.

At first glance, it may look like a strange old wheel surrounded by symbols and creatures — but make no mistake: this card is a powerhouse of universal movement, divine timing, and the mystery of fate.

When The Wheel turns up in a reading, something is shifting.
Cycles are completing. Doors are opening. And the Universe is at work in ways you might not fully see — yet.

🔄 The Wheel Itself – The Ever-Turning Cycle

At the centre of the card is the wheel — symbolic of life’s cycles: birth, death, rebirth. Fortune and loss. Expansion and contraction. It reminds us that:

• Nothing is permanent

• What’s down will rise again

• There’s always a bigger picture in motion

The Wheel doesn’t ask for control — it asks for trust.

When this symbol appears, you may be:

• In a moment of karmic return

• At the end or beginning of a major cycle

• Being asked to surrender to divine timing

✨ The Creatures – Wisdom, Guidance & the Four Elements

Look to the corners of the traditional Rider-Waite card and you’ll see four winged beings — representing the four fixed signs of the zodiac:

• 🦁 Leo (Fire) – Strength, creativity

• 🐂 Taurus (Earth) – Stability, embodiment

• 🦅 Scorpio (Water) – Transformation, depth

• 👼 Aquarius (Air) – Intellect, clarity

They’re also echoes of the four evangelists, the four elements, and the four suits of tarot — suggesting balance, protection, and sacred design.

These figures read from open books — symbolising that even amidst chaos, wisdom is always available.

🐍🦓 The Side Figures – The Rise, The Fall & The Mystery

Around the wheel, you may find three key figures (depending on the deck):

• The Sphinx – Crowned with a sword, symbolising mystery, riddle, and higher knowledge

• Anubis or a similar figure rising – Evolution, growth, the soul ascending

• A serpent descending – Shedding, descent, transformation

Together, they show the motion of fate — what ascends, what descends, and what holds the centre. It’s not about right or wrong — it’s about movement, rhythm, and sacred unfolding.

🌀 Keywords Behind the Symbols

When The Wheel or its related symbols show up in your reading, they may carry messages of:

• Timing – Something is about to shift

• Karma – You’re reaping what’s been sown (good or otherwise)

• Cycles – What chapter is closing or opening?

• Trust – Even if things feel chaotic, something larger is holding it all

• Destiny – You’re in the right place at the right moment — even if it doesn’t look like it yet

Working With the Wheel in Readings

When this card or its symbology (wheels, spinning, serpents, rising/falling, zodiac signs) appears, ask:

✨ Am I clinging to control — or willing to flow with change?
✨ What cycle is repeating — and what’s my role in it now?
✨ Can I trust the timing, even if I don’t understand the plan?

The Wheel doesn’t promise comfort.
But it does promise movement, evolution, and ultimately — alignment.

Because even when the wheel spins wildly…
You are the still point at its centre.

With deep roots and an open heart,
Sarah x

Nature’s language woven through the cards

Sometimes, the most powerful symbols in a reading aren’t the figures or actions — they’re the background.
The roots, the vines, the blossoms clutched in a hand.
The ancient oak. The falling leaf. The lone rose. 🌿🌳🌺

In divination, trees and plants are everywhere — and for good reason. They are more than visual elements; they are archetypes of growth, healing, and sacred relationship with the Earth.

Whether they appear on a card, in your ritual space, or through intuitive imagery, plants carry messages that speak to the soul in a quiet, rooted way.

🌳 Trees – Strength, Lineage & Deep Wisdom

Trees are pillars between the worlds — their roots in the earth, their branches reaching skyward. When a tree appears in a reading, it may symbolise:

• Strength and endurance over time

• Ancestral wisdom or family legacy

• A connection between the seen and unseen

Specific trees carry unique meanings:

• Oak – Stability, power, ancient strength

• Birch – New beginnings, purification

• Yew – Death and rebirth, spiritual guardianship

• Willow – Emotional depth, flexibility, intuition

• Ash – Protection, connection between realms (think Yggdrasil)

Ask: What roots am I tending? What legacy am I growing?

🌸 Flowers – Beauty, Transience & Emotional Messages

Flowers are symbols of the heart’s language — beauty, vulnerability, and the sacredness of timing. They bloom, they fade, they return.

In divination, flowers may represent:

• Emotional expression or relationship dynamics

• The delicate nature of something new or healing

• A message from spirit, the heart, or the divine feminine

Symbolic meanings vary by type:

• Rose – Love, devotion, passion or grief (depending on colour)

• Lily – Purity, peace, the otherworld

• Sunflower – Joy, hope, vitality

• Poppy – Dreaming, remembrance, release

• Daisy – Simplicity, innocence, truth

Ask: What is blooming in me — and am I willing to honour its pace?

🌿 Herbs & Plants – Healing, Magick & Everyday Wisdom

Herbs carry centuries of spiritual and medicinal symbolism — and when they appear in divination, they often speak to what’s needed to restore balance or empower action.

Some examples:

• Lavender – Calm, clarity, rest

• Mugwort – Intuition, dreamwork, the liminal

• Basil – Prosperity, protection

• Rosemary – Memory, cleansing, honouring ancestors

• Mint – Fresh perspective, movement, breath

These may show up as literal plant imagery, be mentioned in a card name, or even come to mind intuitively. Trust that.

Ask: What medicine is being offered here?

Green Language in Your Readings

Plants teach in cycles. They offer subtle, grounded insight.
They remind us that growth takes time, that beauty is sacred, and that healing often begins in stillness.

Next time you notice a tree, flower, or herb in your reading, ask:

• What is this plant symbolising for me right now?

• Am I in a season of rooting, blooming, or shedding?

• What can I learn from how nature moves — slowly, gently, with purpose?

Because plants don’t shout their wisdom.
They simply grow — and invite you to do the same.

With deep roots and an open heart,
Sarah x

Symbols of stillness, soul-searching, and sacred illumination

In the quiet of a reading, there’s often a flicker — a candle, a star, a lantern — some small light guiding the way.
And just as often, there’s the shadow — not to fear, but to explore.

In divination, the dance between light and darkness is more than mood — it’s message. The imagery we see, the colours, the contrast, even the posture of figures in the cards all tell a story of inner vision, hidden truth, and quiet power.

At the centre of it all stands The Hermit — cloaked, still, and holding a single lantern. Not to light the world… but to light just enough of the path ahead.

🕯️ The Symbolism of the Lantern

The lantern is a beacon of personal wisdom, quiet clarity, and internal guidance. It doesn’t blaze — it glows. It suggests:

• Going inward to seek your own answers

• Trusting the path even when it’s only lit one step at a time

• A time of spiritual retreat or reflection

When lanterns or similar light sources appear in readings, they may be saying:
✨ Look inward. The light you’re seeking is within you.
✨ Go gently. Let clarity come in its own time.
✨ This is a pause, not a stop.

🌑 The Sacredness of Darkness

We’re often taught to fear the dark — to rush for clarity, seek light, avoid shadow. But in spiritual practice, darkness is holy.

It is the womb.
The cave.
The space where seeds take root before they sprout.

In readings, darkness might represent:

• The unknown (not as a threat, but as potential)

• Shadow work and truth beneath the surface

• A call to rest, retreat, or reflect

• Energies still forming, unseen but alive

Cards heavy with black, grey, or twilight tones often hold mystery — not as a warning, but as a reminder: you’re not supposed to know everything right now.

Light vs. Illumination

Not all “light” is helpful. Sometimes, seeking too much clarity too quickly can overwhelm or distract.
And not all “darkness” is absence. Sometimes, it’s where the most profound insights live.

The key in divination is to notice:

• Where is the light focused?

• What’s being revealed — and what’s being protected?

• Is the darkness fertile, or is it hiding something from fear?

This nuanced dance invites you to read with both your eyes and your soul.

Reading with the Hermit’s Energy

When you feel The Hermit’s Lantern in a reading — whether in an actual card, a visual element, or a gut feeling — pause.
Ask:

• What inner truth am I being invited to sit with?

• What am I ready to illuminate — softly, gently, without force?

• Where might I need to honour the dark and trust its timing?

Because not all magic is bold and bright.
Some of it lives in candlelight.
And some of it lives in the quiet, sacred dark.

With deep roots and an open heart,
Sarah x