Threshold tarot Joural no. 1|the moon,page of pentacles, ace of swords, six of swords
this is my threshold tarot practice, a series of intuitive card spreads I pull at the top of each month
to guide me over the transitions ahead.
an introduction
Last month (september 2026), I began a practice of pulling four cards from my Light Seer’s Tarot deck as a way to receive clarity about the month ahead. Each month, I’ll ask myself four guiding questions and pull a card in response to each of the following questions:
where to focus my energy this month?
what blocks my work this month?
what supports my success this month?
what is my space of infinite creative possibility?
I’d love to start sharing this practice right here on my blog. I’m calling this series my threshold tarot journal. Below are the cards I pulled this month and the initial feelings they brought up for me:
the moon - swimming in the darkness of the unknown
page of pentacles - a lack of grounding
ace of wands - the fire within
six of swords - the hard journey is the medicine
the moon - embracing that which you cannot see
the moon - the light seer’s tarot deck
This is the first card I drew for October. This is the card that answered the question regarding where to focus my energy this month. In the Light Seer’s deck, the moon card depicts a mystical mermaid floating at the bottom of the ocean. The figure levitates as if the water is carrying them. The bottom — that is the dark or the unknown — doesn’t appear as a heavy or scary environment. Rather, the figure is held by this environment, held by the darkness of the unknown itself. And if you look closely (see above), they are not without light completely. The moon’s illumination penetrates the deep waters, softly lighting the figure’s way.
Right now, I feel like I am yet again at a threshold. This has been a year of a lot of instability for me, both emotionally, physically, and materially. Instability has a way of evoking fear inside of me. I become obsessed with being able to know what comes next. This obsession, in turn, robs me of presence in my own life and turns the day to day existence into a miserable journey of constant anxiety and yearning for that which I don’t have.
The moon card feels like an invitation to make a safe environment out of the unknown, to begin a new relationship to faith. Some of the card’s common reading notes include trusting intuition, grounding down into dreams, welcoming mystery, moving away from linear thinking and finding comfort in the darkness.
So much of fighting the unknown for me has also been wrapped up in needing to have a stable, material outcome that I can hold. But what if the darkness has a texture and a materiality that I can turn into a makeshift home? After all, my first home was the inside of my mother’s womb, a dark, watery place that was full of nourishment and potential. I’m hearing the moon card ask me if I don’t have the certainty of the sun’s brilliant light at my disposable, what groundwork can I build from under the moon’s faint yet powerful light?
page of pentacles - bringing hopes & plans down to earth
page of pentacles - the light seer’s tarot deck
This is the card I drew regarding the question of what blocks me for the month ahead. I think about this question as inquiry into what energy may feel difficult to work with or hold this month. In this card, there’s a figure at the center who is holding a mandala at their heart but their one foot lightly touches the earth below them. There’s a brief illusion of floating, but when you look again you can see that there is indeed contact with the earth.
I think this card is about balancing the airy energy of hopes and dreams and the “foot-on-earth” energy of bringing dreams into material form. This is such a perfect card to follow the moon because the moon is so much about the realm of water/dreams. I can hear the page of pentacles saying bring some of that water back up to the surface… In other words: what are you gonna do with all that water?
This card feels like some gentle course-correction. I often struggle with staying in the formlessness of the unknown. And staying in that place can activate the sense of instability I am already carrying. Instead, this card is giving me another way: begin shaping the unknown through the stability of the earth. I may not have all the answers about where my life is headed or if my dreams will come to fruition but I can slowly chip away at these dreams through practical routines, rituals, and daily acts of devotion, When the ocean (the unknown) feels like this huge, impenetrable force, the page of pentacles is encouraging me gather the resources I already have at my disposable. Maybe there’s a floating piece of driftwood in the ocean I can hold onto or some pieces of an old boat I can turn into something useful. This is the time to tap into practical magic in order to move towards my desires.
ace of swords & six of swords reflections coming soon…