Tarot Reading & Practical Witchy Tips
In this episode of ‘The Witching Half Hour or So,’ we dive into the transformational energies of fall.
Join me as I discuss the shifts brought by the outer planets, the importance of Virgo season, and practical witchy tips to navigate these changes.
Stay tuned for a special tarot reading featuring the Page of Pentacles, the Four of Wands, and the Ace of Swords, offering insights into steady progress and commitment to self-healing.
Get ready to learn about simple, powerful rituals using candles or essential oils to harness autumn’s energy.
Don’t miss details on the upcoming Spirit Essence Fall Equinox event and an exciting new spell-casting class launching in October.
- 00:00 Morning Greetings and Fall Transition
- 01:15 Practical Witchy Tips for Fall
- 03:06 Astrological Shifts and Their Impact
- 04:56 Tarot Reading for Virgo Season
- 12:05 Simple Rituals for Personal Growth
Good morning, my beautiful friend. How are you? How is your morning? Maybe you're not listening to this in the morning. It's morning for me. I'm having my morning coffee with you, as I love to do here on the witching half hour or so. It's early. I can hear the birds luna's asleep at my feet. It's fall. Hey, that's what our episode is gonna be about, just kind of transitioning into fall.
We're gonna read a bit of tarot today. I do have housekeeping. I am super excited to be doing the Spirit Essence Fall Equinox event, September 22nd, so it's coming right at my loves. You can sign up now. There will be a link. Follow the link to my webpage. It's posted there, how you can sign up. It's gonna be so fun.
Lots of really. Amazing practitioners are coming together to get you through fall. There's been so many shifts. That is actually what our. Episode is about. Today we're gonna talk about real practical witchy tips to get you through this fall. We are in Virgo season right now, and I've been talking about this in our Instagram posts and on the pod.
Things are really shifting in life this year. There have been huge shifts. The outer planets have all moved. There's been this huge dance that's been happening, and I know we've all been feeling it. And this timing is perfect for this new class I have launching in October. I'm so excited my coven to bring this to you, a brand new class, you guys.
I'm super, super excited. It is a spell casting class. Casting specifically with the moon. It's a three part class, so it's a big class. There's three in a row. I've set it up so that we are working in real time with the moon in the phase we want it to be when we're doing the work we're doing. Please, if you have been going through the feels, the way I've been going through the feels and are really looking to work with this energy, this is the perfect class for you.
My loves will be meeting. We'll be focusing on what's coming up for you, what's coming up for each witch individually, and we'll be working powerfully together to shift that. I'm so excited about this class. It is going to be in October because it's gonna be in that time of year where we are shifting into new beginnings.
Right. We all know that the end of October, the witch is, new Year is about renewal. Well, this season is gonna be so powerful, which really brings us to my topic today. Let's get into this. We're talking about fall and the energies that are swirling around right now. 2025 was a really big year for planetary shifts.
I am still learning astrology. I'm not an astrology guru. I follow astrology gurus. I am a tarot card, slinging master for astrology. I'm very, very new to understanding. But what I do know is that the outer planets, the big planets moved and shifted. A lot of them did Saturn did. Jupiter did Neptune, I think as well.
And because they're big planets, what they do is they kind of shift around and move and, and it really changes things. It changes the energy we're in. And I'm only gonna talk about the planets. I'm not gonna talk about the politics. I cannot even, I'm not gonna get political. I have a lot of unrest. There is a lot of unrest in the world right now.
That's not our topic today. Today we're focusing on the fall and the shifts energetically around us, and how we as a collective can work with that. Right? So the outer planets are moving. It has caused a lot to come up and to be revisited for people. The north node has also shifted. If you know a lot about astrology, you know that that changes and affects things.
If you don't know, I'm not the person to learn it all from. They're beautiful astrologers out there, and we are on the cusp. My loves of this next eclipse season, there's two eclipses coming up, so that shadow work is gonna come up again. The things that you can only see in the darkness are gonna come forward again for us to look at, to work through, to heal through from a very different vantage point than they came up last year.
So I thought it would be really fun for us to do a tarot reading, a little tarot card poll, and to talk about Virgo season and some of the ways that we can work with the energy that's around us. The Virgo energy is earth energy. It's very organized earth, our beautiful Gaia. She follows rules and she follows structure.
The way that leaves grow, the way that the seasons work, everything is organized. I mean, nature is this kind of chaotic jungle of beauty, but there is a rhythm, an intelligence. Two, everything that nature does. So that's the Virgo energy structure organized, which means this time in the fall when we are at that equinox of equal light and equal dark coming, this is a perfect time to bring balance back to the structures and systems that we have in our lives that have gotten unstructured.
That have gotten a little bit shooken up by the changes, by the energies, by the shifts, by the planets moving. Maybe you're in your Chiron return right now, like me. Maybe you're in your Saturn return, like some of the other people I love, there's a lot going on and I wanted to pull a card or two. For you here on the pod and really talk to the energy of this season and how to move through it with grace and I can hear my guide saying that I should also offer my beautiful earbud, coven, some spell work ritual work that you can do to move through this space as well.
The eclipses are going to be, 'cause I don't want to terrify them. They're going to be big event. It's interesting to me, it looks like we have two solar eclipses coming up and usually we have lunar in solar together, so I think this is going to be like a real powerful moment. I feel like it's going to be more powerful than the Lion's gate that happens in July.
I feel like this is going to be. Less dramatic, but more powerful, if that makes sense to you. Please. Like a lot is going to happen, but it's not gonna be this boom. It's gonna be like a wave, right? An emotional wave. And also something that we will process and deal with in time. Actually, the lessons that you're gonna be breaking down and working through, they've already been showing up for you through the last half of summer, preparing you for this.
And it's interesting because those outer planets have been like moving into their new energy space, their new spot in the astrology wheel that is above us in the sky, and then moving back and kind of retrograding and shifting, giving us a preview of the new world we're moving into energetically. Isn't it interesting that all of this upheaval is happening in a year that ends with five?
Like five is such a number of shake up and transition. Right. It's so interesting to me that 2025 has all this change in it. The pod has really been shifting as I've been evolving this summer. It's shifting, so I feel like we're gonna have more episodes like this where we're doing some channeled stuff, where we're pulling some tarot cards and we're working together in the community we've built.
So the card that popped out of my deck while I was shuffling for you is actually the print or the page of Pentacles. So interesting to me that we have this card that is all about that slow and steady earth energy. If there was ever a Virgo card in the lower arcana, this would be it. Definitely that energy of working towards a goal going easy and steady.
So know that going forward through this fall, through these eclipses, through the Equinox, that what you need to do is take the pressure off yourself, go easy and steady. Even baby steps are steps forward. So take those little steady things. Commit yourself to things that are actually doable and accomplishable.
I know we want to do. Big things. I know we want to do amazing things with our lives and we will. Those amazing things start with small steps. Even climbing Everest is just one foot in front of the other. So pull in your focus to not the big scheme of what you're healing, not the big scheme of the chain breaking you're doing, but the little things you can do each and every day for that goal.
Does that make sense to you? My loves. I feel like we need one more card. I feel like this card kind of told us that we're in the right energy of our collective. Let's grab one more. The next card we've pulled for our collective is the four of Wands, another one echoing structure, the four of wands that I'm looking at.
Is showing me a marriage. We've got two people in like a four poster type, beautiful structure, and this is the tarot of the Illuminati that I'm reading from. So what it's telling me though, is the structure that we're looking for is committing, doing a commitment to ourselves, committing to the path we're on.
So know that there will probably be things that come up in the darkness of the eclipses that challenge whether or not you want to commit to this healing. I feel like that's what this card has to say. Let's round it out with one more. Should we do just one more? Here we go. Ace of Swords. The outcome that we're looking for.
My love is a brand new perspective, a brand new thought pattern, a brand new idea pattern. That air energy that we have with swords is so, so beautiful. When we have it as a outcome card, 'cause it talks about a shift that's going to happen in our mind and the way we think about things. The shift is not immediate.
It is an. Something that will evolve out of committing to your work on yourself and taking slow and steady steps to get there. Whew, that's a good message. I really like that idea of making a commitment to ourselves and to our own healing, to really put what we want and desire and what we're moving through at the center.
Of what we are doing and committing to it the same way that you would commit to a partner to commit to your own. Healing. So as I'm sitting here sipping my coffee with you dear Coven, I'm thinking about what kind of a ritual we could create to signify that because we also want to incorporate the idea of baby steps or still steps, that first piece of the reading around the Prince of Pentacles and how we wanna move with that slow and steady.
I feel like what we could do is maybe buy a very special candle and through the eclipse season we light it. Maybe we are the kind of person where we could light that candle for 20 minutes every day. Maybe we're the kind of person that on a specific day of the week, we light that candle showing our ongoing commitment to our healing and our growth.
We could also do it with something else, like maybe we take one of our favorite essential oils. And we use it as a ritual anointing every morning when we're putting on our moisturizer and brushing our teeth, that we just take a very favorite essential oil that we feel supported with something really earthy or something very airy.
Whatever floats your boat. I don't wanna tell you which one to use. I feel like. You guys could tune in and pick something and like D it on your wrists or jab it on your heart chakra or wherever you feel that would be good as a ritual of like committing to your self love and committing to your growth and committing to what is coming and unfolding and healing this fall.
Yeah, I think the rituals we do should be simple and beautiful. Those of you in the coven who've been here for a while know I am a very practical witch. I do not have time in my very busy life to do elaborate rituals every day. I've been in this place of raising children and balancing work and the passion project of the podcast for many years, and I need simplicity, and I can tell you simplicity works.
The rituals I do have not been elaborate, and they have shifted and changed my life. So I welcome you this fall to do a simple ritual together with me. I really am leaning towards the anointing one, just waking up every morning and choosing to do a little thing in my daily routine that is about committing to my path to my growth.
And building that energy so that when I'm in the middle of that eclipse feels and the bigness that I just know is coming, not in a scary way, but in a way that we can work with it, that I'll have built up that energetic battery almost so that I have what I need to work through this change that's coming, and I welcome you to do it with me.
Let's do a ritual together. This episode is actually gonna drop on the eclipse that is there. So let's do it. Full moon eclipse, September 7th. Let's start a ritual. And I don't think it matters if you're the candle girl, you let your candle. I'm gonna do some anointing and I'll share on Instagram what I'm gonna be using.
And, uh, I love to hear what oils you use. I think this is exciting. Okay, my beautiful coven. That's all I have for you today. It's a short episode, but I think it's the episode we need.
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Blessings to you guys. I love you dear Coven. Thank you so much for spending your time with me and listening to the reading I have for you today and just. All the ways that you support this little project. Thank you so very much, and I hope the rest of your day, whatever it brings you, is wonderful. Okay.
Jodi Anne 
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