Nikki’s Weekly Tarot Reading: May 26-June 1, 2025

The cards pictured are from the ‘Rosa Obscura’ deck by Orla Bird.

The Devil and Temperance

This week begins with a New Moon in Gemini and concludes with the start of a new month. We are encouraged to reset and rebalance ourselves to navigate the path ahead with more vibrant energy.

The Devil card offers guidance this week. It appears when we need to examine our habits, asking if we are satisfied with our current patterns and whether we are making healthy decisions.

Are you engaging in activities that used to make you feel good but now seem like unhealthy coping mechanisms? Alternatively, are you avoiding things that bring you joy and instead doing what others expect of you?

The Devil card points to two sides of the same coin: overdoing pleasure or overdoing perfection. If we are overdoing pleasure, we can start to feel like a slave to it. We avoid healthier activities and instead choose fast fixes. We might even be struggling with an addiction.

The Devil wants us to feel truly alive. When we find ourselves trapped in unhealthy patterns or behaviors, we lose our sense of energy. Instead of genuinely living, we start to feel like we’re just going through the motions of life.

Consider whether you are trapped in unhealthy patterns. Reflect on how you manage stress. Assess whether your habits enhance your life or detract from it.

On the flip side, if we overdo perfection, we might not have much pleasure in our lives at all. We might be so focused on doing what others want that we make little time for ourselves.

We can become so preoccupied with following rules that we overlook what truly makes us feel good. In our pursuit of achieving goals and making our loved ones proud, we might end up neglecting our own personal needs.

The Devil card encourages us to seek clarity in what we need to change. It urges us to feel balanced in our actions and free in our choices.

Temperance is a card that also represents balance, continuing the theme from The Devil card. The figure depicted on the card is a powerful energy worker who creates harmony among the elements.

The Temperance card often showcases alchemy, blending different items to create something new and even more valuable. It raises the ideas of trust, faith, and order and tells us that the universe is always at work, maintaining the flow of all things.

The Temperance card powerfully reminds us that while inner work and growth are essential, there is strength in trusting and letting go. The divine goddess and her cleansing waters guide us, ensuring a harmonious balance between the forces of light and dark.

Temperance invites us to trust in a greater force at work and assures us of our protection. It encourages us to ‘let go and let God,’ which can often feel like the most challenging task of all.

To work with the Temperance card, ask yourself these questions: Are you investing too much energy in things that drain you? Is there something you are longing for or lacking? Can you create moments of stillness to achieve balance?

When we stop trying to force things to happen, we create space for unexpected opportunities to come into our lives. This trust allows the universe to work wonders as we release our control.

The energy of Temperance and The Devil helps us recognize our imbalances. They seek to ensure our scales are in order and encourage self-love, guiding us toward a healthier path forward.

Mantra for the week: I expand my freedom through my choices, trusting that each step I take leads me to where I need to go.

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