Deck: Rider-Waite Tarot
Spread: 5-Card Mini Cross Layout 
Cards: (1) Tower; (2) 5 of Cups; (3) Queen of Cups in reverse; (4) 2 of Cups; (5) 8 of Swords 

Summary: After you were not able to break yourself free from a situation, the Universe will intervene and free you from it.  This was likely a situation involving another person where you didn't want to see that it was going nowhere or accept that it was a loss.  Once the Universe tears down your "Tower,"  you will first feel a sense of relief and then appreciate the chance to use the building blocks to either rebuild and redefine the old relationship or to invest them in a new partnership.  This experience, however, will teach you to recognize signs early on and to trust your impressions.  

Deck: Piatnik Lenormand
Spread: 3-Card Mini Layout
Cards: (1) Sun; (2) Dog; (3) Bear

Summary:  Whatever happens, at any rate, this will be a very positive and successful week.  Perhaps someone pays you a nice compliment, telling you that you have a nice voice or nice hair or that you appear to have lost weight.  This will then leave you feeling good in your skin.  Or, you meet a friendly, older person suddenly and unexpectedly who is very good for you.  Maybe two people in your environment - e.g. a father and son; a colleague and a boss - will be getting along exceptionally well. 

Deck: Rider-Waite Tarot
Spread: 5-Card Mini Cross Layout
Cards: (1) 10 of Swords; (2) 7 of Rods; (3) Queen of Cups in reverse; (4) Queen of Swords; (5) Moon in reverse

Summary: This month you have an opportunity to stop investing effort, energy and work into an area of your life that has not been coming easily to you and where you had fought hard and struggled to maintain and uphold your position.  In other words, this situation did not flow naturally, so you had kept it alive artificially.  Unfortunately, this type of behavior is exhausting when practiced over a prolonged period of time.  So, when (and if) you finally wake up from your dream or delusion and allow the mental shift, cut yourself free and move on, you will then likely experience relief.  However, the moment you stop investing, the situation dies as you were what had been pumping life into it.  What then happens is you experience a period of "nothingness" where you simply allow yourself to live in the here and now without focusing on future prospects or distracting yourself with other projects.  This then makes you receptive to anything and everything because you are no longer holding on tightly to your idea of how things should be.  

Cards: Piatnik Lenormand
Spread: 3-Card Mini Layout
Cards: (1) Coffin; (2) Park; (3) Moon

Summary:  This is a week when our passions will lead to action, activity, movement.  Also, the New Moon will cause us to go within where we will then discover sides of ourselves that we will bring to the surface and express outwardly

Deck: Rider-Waite Tarot
Spread: 5-Card Mini Cross Layout
Cards: (1) 8 of Rods in reverse; (2) Page of Cups; (3) 4 of Rods in Reverse; (4) 2 of Rods; (5) 4 of Pentacles

Summary:  Something new is coming into our lives, something that will likely require a choice to be made around the Full Moon in Sagittarius when you decide between the old and the new.  Very likely that which is about to enter your life doesn't fit into your picture of how things should be or what you imagined for yourself, nonetheless it is a better fit than what you thought you had wanted for yourself as it is attracted to and is a direct reflection of the values, worth, priorities and interests you are projecting.  

Deck: Rider-Waite Tarot
Spread: 5-Card Mini Cross
Cards: (1) 3 of Swords in reverse; (2) Moon in reverse; (3) King of Rods in reverse; (4) Sun; (5) Hierophant in reverse

Summary: This is a time of healing where we will begin to see the glass as half full rather than as half empty.  There might have been a wake-up call out of a dream or delusion in Taurus time but there is now room for something new to enter your life that you did not see coming and which does not fit into your "picture" of how you imagined your life being.  It's almost as if the "rules" of your life aren't being followed.  The first week of June with the Grand Fire Trine between Venus and Uranus in Aries, Saturn in Sagittarius and the North Node in Leo has something to do with this.

Deck: Rider-Waite Tarot
Spread: 3-Card Progressive Layout
Cards: (1) 3 of Cups in reverse; (2) 2 of Swords in Reverse; (3) 3 of Swords in reverse 

Summary:  A decision will likely need to be made between alternatives.  This very likely involves people or activities.  It is almost like you are standing at the crossroads.  This decision, however, is necessary to free up energetic space so that something new can enter your life that will have a healing effect on you.

Deck: Piatnik Lenormand
Spread: 3-Card Mini Layout
Cards: (1) Dog; (2) Clouds; (3) Ship

Summary:  A situation or a relationship with a certain person that appeared bleak is going to improve as you plot a new course starting now and lasting over at least the next few months.  

Deck: Piatnik Lenormand
Spread: Mini Layout 
Cards: (1) Fox; (2) Lilies; (3) Dog

Summary:  The Full Moon in Scorpio that took place on the 10th of May either marked us defeating our personal dragon or at the very least inflicting a debilitating wound upon it.  As a result, the energies of the previous weekly reading can/could come to fruition, those being latent skill sets, talents, gifts or abilities now being able to come to the surface.  The defeat of the Dragon is also heralding in a period of peace and improved relations with others as a result of us being happier and in a better place.  
​(For more information, see article "Taming the Dragon during the Full Moon in Scorpio..." under Musings.)  

Deck: Piatnik Lenormand
Spread: Mini Layout
Cards: (1) Main Man; (2) Key; (3) Fox

Summary:  The Full Moon in Scorpio that is taking place this week will likely reveal to you a talent, gift or skill set that lies within you that you never knew you had.  Or, you receive a type of tool that you can then employ in a strategic way.  This will likely come suddenly and/or unexpectedly, perhaps through an epiphany, and might provide you with a solution through or out of a confusing or otherwise unclear situation.  

Deck: Rider-Waite Tarot
Spread: 5-Card Mini Cross Layout
Cards (1) Page of Cups in reverse; (2) Star in reverse; (3) Queen of Swords; (4) Queen of Rods in reverse; (5) 6 of Cups;
+ (6) Knight of Cups in reverse

Summary:  This Full Moon in Scorpio involves a transformation in your beliefs in regard to how others should approach you. Perhaps you were hoping that they would reach out on their own, or that things would fall into place, line up or otherwise materialize with little action or activity on your part.  However, this stance shut you off energetically; instead you must announce your receptivity to the universe, and you do that by opening up, becoming more demonstrative and going out (of yourself). In other words, by approaching others rather than hoping that things will simply develop, you make yourself more approachable. 

Deck:  Piatnik Lenormand
Spread: Mini 
Cards: (1) Bear; (2) Letter; (3) Sun

Summary:  There is much potential for this month to end very well and successfully.  Until the Full Moon that is taking place on the 10th, it is a good time to make an agreement with ourselves and to write down what is important to us, to set clear intentions, to lay these down, define them, and to come up with a plan how we hope to achieve them.  We must discipline ourselves to do so because there is a likelihood that we will be lazy.  Any intentions set in the first 10 days of the month will take root and then shoot up into the air in Gemini time which begins approx. May 20.  

Inner Wise Message from the Universe no. 91: the Black Panther

With Mercury retrograde then direct still conjunct Uranus this week, there will likely still be some uncontrollable changes occurring in our lives.   Predictability gives us security, and this week, there are too many unknown factors.  We are being asked to embrace, allow and accept these and to not be fearful or worried about the future, so that we can fully enjoy the present moment.  Trust in the universe.  You will probably also identify a part of you that still needs healing.  Very likely this part of yourself can be healed as Venus travels through the sign of Aries which she just recently re-entered following her own retrograde phase.