It’s tempting to hold back—especially when being seen has meant being misunderstood. But we aren’t meant to live as spectators. My work exists to invite people back into relationship with life: through meditation, tarot, art, and writing experiences that hold space for connection. Each offering is a small gesture toward re-entry. When we begin to show up, others do too. And that’s how it happens: we co-create something better, together.
Tarot & Meditations October 2025 Newsletter | The not me that is me.
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Hello October! As the nights stretch longer, we are gently invited into a period of reflection. October asks us to notice both the shadow and light within ourselves—to take inventory of what we’ve inherited and what we’ve built for ourselves. During our year-ahead reading for the tenth house—linked with Capricorn and themes of status and purpose—we drew a card that centered less on achievement and more on contentment. Maybe this month’s work isn’t only about what we hold close, but what we release—what we share. This month's tarot card:Drawn from Colette Baron-Reid's The Good Tarot as part of our 2025 year ahead reading, our October card is the Ten of Cups—a radiant and round buddha sits at the edge of a waterfall holding a broken string of prayer beads as water flows beneath. The deck highlights the elemental aspect of the Cups with the title Ten of Water. This Ten of Cups reminds us that fulfillment doesn’t come from holding too tightly, but from letting life move through us. This card carries a steady joy—— built not on gain but on circulation. Emotional wealth lives in motion: in giving and receiving, in laughter that fills a room, in the people who just show up for us again and again. This inheritance isn’t material but lived—passed through gesture, care, and shared presence. Your invitation:Let this month be a time to notice what you’ve carried forward—habits, traits, or beliefs that shape how you move through the world—and to consider which of them still serve you. Spend time with what feels shared, what feels chosen, and what might be ready to flow elsewhere. A basic tenet of shadow work is that what you can't see consciously in yourself, you notice in others. This month's tarot spread is designed to help you see those unconscious aspects of yourself. Feel free to use these prompts with any divination tool or simply journal and see where it leads you. Join us this week on Zoom for Second Thursday Tarot Reading Practice from 8pm to 11pm ET if you'd like to read the monthly tarot spread together. No experience necessary. You need only a tarot deck to participate. This month's Me Not Me Tarot Spread asks:
A new project:The Amethyst Gate Literary Art Series is a new collaborative project that kicks off this month on October 23, 2025, with a poetry reading and open mic to be held at Space 1026 in Philadelphia. Details and updates can be found at amethystgate.com. This month's art workshop:Join us on Zoom for Second Sundays Asemic Art Tarot Workshop from 3pm to 5pm ET for some abstract art-making inspired by tarot. No experience necessary. You need only a tarot deck and art materials of your choice to participate. This month's writing workshop:Join us on Zoom for Last Sundays Generative Tarot Writing Workshop from 3pm to 5pm ET to write from the tarot together. No tarot or writing experience is necessary. You need only a tarot deck and something to write with to participate. Meditations:If you didn't know, I've returned to school full time and also have a full time day job. So meditation offerings are currently on hold. You can continue to explore past live offerings at the Tarot & Meditations YouTube page. xo kim Book a Private Tarot or Meditation Zoom Session--for yourself or a small group: https://www.kimberlyessex.com/appointments Sign up to attend Tarot Reading, Writing, and Meditation Events: https://www.kimberlyessex.com/events View Monday Meditation Replays: https://www.youtube.com/@tarotandmeditations |
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It’s tempting to hold back—especially when being seen has meant being misunderstood. But we aren’t meant to live as spectators. My work exists to invite people back into relationship with life: through meditation, tarot, art, and writing experiences that hold space for connection. Each offering is a small gesture toward re-entry. When we begin to show up, others do too. And that’s how it happens: we co-create something better, together.
Hello 2026! This month I decided to bring my art and tarot knowledge together to create an exercise you might find useful. I ended up writing quite a bit about my own tarot reading practice, specifically about the difference between projective tarot reading and intuitive tarot reading. You may be surprised at how I use both and why. The full post turned into a writing exercise you can try for yourself with any tarot or oracle card. After the excerpt from this blog post below, you will find my...
Hello December! This month's blog post has been in the works for months. I wanted to create a quick guide to help someone recognize whether a deck of cards is a tarot or not. As a tarot meetup organizer, I could see there was a need for this. Along the way I decided it was necessary to make clear what is not a tarot as well. So, if you already know what a tarot is, the section on non-tarot oracle deck systems may be of interest to you. Or the section on historical decks. I really went on a...
Hello November! That new collaborative project I told you about last month kicked off on October 23, 2025. Details about the next Amethyst Gate coming up this month on November 21, 2025 can be found at amethystgate.com. Our friend Elizabeth Kirwin did a write up on the first event that you can read at fairiesinamerica.com. I chose to write about the process that brought Amethyst Gate into being. Amethyst Gate is a new monthly literary series in Philadelphia that brings together poetry, music,...