✦ Cosmic Letters
Monthly astrology & tarot musings — arriving around the new moon.
Upright: clarity, breakthrough, new idea, truth
Reversed: confusion, misinformation, poor judgment
A sudden moment of mental clarity, cutting straight through confusion to what’s actually true.
Upright: difficult decision, stalemate, avoidance, weighing options
Reversed: indecision, information overload, releasing a stalemate
A choice being avoided, often because both options feel equally hard, or equally unclear.
Upright: heartbreak, emotional pain, grief, betrayal
Reversed: healing, forgiveness, moving past pain
Real pain, usually from truth landing somewhere it hurts, not gentle, but often necessary.
Upright: rest, recovery, contemplation, a pause
Reversed: burnout, restlessness, forced rest
A deliberate pause to recover, mentally or physically, before picking back up.
Upright: conflict, win at any cost, tension, betrayal
Reversed: reconciliation, moving past conflict, lingering resentment
A win that costs more than it’s worth, worth asking whether being right is actually the goal here.
Upright: transition, moving on, leaving hardship behind, gradual healing
Reversed: resistance to change, unresolved issues, stuck in transition
Moving away from a difficult stretch, not instantly, but steadily, toward calmer water.
Upright: deception, strategy, acting alone, getting away with something
Reversed: coming clean, facing consequences, self-deceit
Cutting corners or working around others, sometimes strategic, sometimes something to be honest with yourself about.
Upright: feeling trapped, restriction, self-imposed limitation
Reversed: releasing limiting beliefs, finding freedom, self-empowerment
Feeling stuck in a situation that, on closer look, may have more give than it appears. Often the restriction is the story you’re telling yourself.
Upright: anxiety, worry, fear, sleepless nights
Reversed: releasing anxiety, facing fears, finding relief
The 3am spiral, fear that’s often bigger in the mind than in reality, worth naming out loud.
Upright: painful ending, betrayal, rock bottom, a difficult conclusion
Reversed: recovery, resisting an ending that’s already happened, gradual healing
A hard ending, but a complete one, nothing left to salvage, and nowhere to go from here but up.
Upright: curiosity, new ideas, vigilance, mental energy
Reversed: gossip, scattered thinking, all talk no follow-through
A sharp, curious mind, eager to learn and question, not always with the tact to match.
Upright: fast action, assertiveness, direct communication, ambition
Reversed: recklessness, impulsiveness, aggression
Moving and speaking quickly, sometimes brilliant, sometimes too fast to consider who’s in the way.
Upright: clear thinking, honesty, independence, direct communication
Reversed: coldness, bitterness, using words to hurt
Clarity that doesn’t soften the truth to spare feelings, honesty as a form of respect.
Upright: intellectual authority, truth, fairness, clear judgment
Reversed: manipulation, cruelty, abuse of power
Judgment made from logic rather than emotion, authority earned through clarity, not force.
A glossary can tell you what a card means. A reading tells you what it means for you.
✦ Cosmic Letters
Monthly astrology & tarot musings — arriving around the new moon.