🥾🎙️Enlightened Tarot – Walks & Talks - Week 4 - 8th - 14th December 2025

This week has had a very particular feel, like the universe was gently, (and sometimes not-so-gently), pulling us back into old patterns, old stories, and old triggers… Not to punish us, but to help us see what is finally ready to be released.

It’s that strange in-between space at the end of the year:

one foot still in the past, one foot already edging toward the new.

And nature reflected that so clearly on my walks…

🍁 Nature’s Messages: Endings, Beginnings, and Cycles

The trees still holding on to their last golden leaves said so much.

They’re not clinging out of fear, just naturally completing a cycle. Some leaves are ready to fall. Some are still serving a purpose. Nature never forces release before its time.

And that’s been the theme for me too:

This week brought up the last bits of old patterns that needed to go.

Not everything, not a full reset, just the parts that no longer sustain me.

We don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

We take through what nourishes us, and let the rest drop gently away.

🍒 Winter Berries – What We Carry Forward

Just a few steps further along the path were bright red berries, tiny bursts of life in the quiet of winter.

And that felt symbolic too.

Even in a season of release, there are things that stay with us.

Lessons. Strength. Insight.

The people, habits, and choices that feed us, rather than drain us.

Release isn’t about wiping everything clean.

It’s about choosing with intention what comes with us into the new year.

🪽Feathers & Small Signs – Gentle Guidance

This little feather was like a quiet nudge:

“You’re not doing this alone.”

A reminder of protection, alignment, and the subtle guidance that shows up just when we need grounding.

These tiny signs often appear in weeks where big emotions rise, not to overwhelm us, but to point us toward truth, boundaries, and clarity.

🌊 Flow, Movement & Emotional Release

The water was fast, unsettled, pushing its way forward after the storms… Finding a path even when branches, stones and fallen logs were in the way.

It reminded me that nature always finds a way through. Even when we try to hold things back, or slow down what’s meant for us, the energy eventually moves, sometimes more turbulently at first, as we try to stay in the familiar, but it always moves eventually. Teaching us to go with the flow and not fight against it!

This week felt the same: things rising, shifting, clearing, so truth and clarity can finally come in.

⚪️The Snowberries – Fragility & Resilience

They look delicate, almost fragile, but they survive deep winter.

That balance echoed the emotional weather of the week:

Yes, things came up that tugged at old wounds.

Yes, I was revisited by patterns I thought I’d graduated from.

But I didn’t crumble.

I stayed rooted.

That’s growth.

🪦 The Churchyard Cross – Closing the Old Chapter

This felt like a symbol of endings, but peaceful ones.

A gentle closure.

A respectful laying-to-rest of the old stories, roles, and versions of ourselves that we don’t need to carry anymore.

It’s the kind of closure that says:

“Thank you for the lesson — I’m moving on now.”

🎄 A Doorway Lit for Winter – Choosing Our Next Chapter

This doorway felt like an invitation.

A threshold.

A moment of standing between the year we’ve lived and the one we’re about to step into.

And after the week I’ve had, being pulled into old dynamics, old emotional loops, and old responsibilities. I understand now why it came up:

It was the universe giving me one final chance to say:

“No more.

I choose differently now.”

These final tests weren’t setbacks, they were confirmation that I’m ready for something new.

🌅 The Rising Sun – Light After the Storm

This sky sums up the entire week:

Intensity.

Emotion.

Release.

And then… Light.

A new dawn rising… Full of hope, clarity, and the quiet knowing that 2026 is going to be built on my terms.

Not from old patterns.

Not from old programming.

But from everything I’ve consciously chosen to carry forward.

✨ Closing Reflection ✨

Just when you think you’ve completed all the universe’s tests, something arrives to check your foundations one last time.

And that’s okay.

Because it means you’re ready to move on, not from a place of survival, but from a place of truth, clarity, and self-ownership.

This week helped me release the last remaining threads so I can step into 2026 with:

Clarity.

Peace.

And a sense of a horizon opening.

And nature, as always, walked every step with me… 🥾🍃🍁