Tarot Tap for Sunday, August 3, 2025
- Michele Renee
- Aug 3, 2025
- 8 min read
🌟 Present Moment:
Four of Wands
Element: Fire 🔥
Numerology: 4 stability, home, foundation
Colorology: Yellow and red joy, passion, celebration
This is a moment of sacred pause, a breath of happiness in the midst of chaos. The Four of Wands is your divine checkpoint it's the Universe showing you that, despite everything, there’s something to celebrate. It's that Family , spiritual connection, and/or a long-awaited milestone might be whispering, “Look here. You're safe, even if just for a moment.”
“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
“Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.” – Cecelia Ahern
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
🕯️Message: Even in hard times, the light is flickering. Don’t ignore joy when it knocks.
⚔️ Conflict:
Nine of Swords (Reversed)
Element: Air 💨
Numerology: 9 endings, anxiety, climax
Colorology: Grays and blacks shadows, overthinking
In reversal, the Nine of Swords suggests either healing from inner torment or resisting the pain that needs to be acknowledged. It’s the insomnia that won’t let you go because you’ve silenced the wrong voice: your own‼️ Maybe you're starting to face what haunts you... or maybe you're avoiding it behind a forced smile. OR you just gave up and let others decide for you.
“Sometimes we need to sit with our darkness to understand our light.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” – Buddha
🕯️Message: Let the tears flow. What you’re burying is already weighing down your spirit.
🕵️♂️ Past:
Seven of Swords
Element: Air 💨
Numerology: 7 strategy, hidden truths, spiritual tests
Colorology: Pale blue and yellow manipulation, avoidance
Someone snuck off with pieces of your peace. This is a card of deceit, but it also shows where you had to be clever to survive. Perhaps you had to protect your heart or escape a toxic cycle. Either way, the memory lingers. Are you still trying to outrun what should be confronted?
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem
“Sometimes we must use what is broken to build what is unbreakable.”
“What you do in the dark comes to light.” – African Proverb
🕯️Message: Acknowledge the survival moves you made but don’t let them become your identity.
🧠 Root:
Eight of Swords
Element: Air 💨
Numerology: 8 power, cycles, entrapment
Colorology: White and gray mental fog, restriction
The root of this situation is mental entrapment. You might feel powerless, but it’s your own thoughts and fears that are keeping you bound. This is the inner voice that whispers you're stuck, when really... you're just scared to step out.
“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.” – Andrew Murphy
“Fear is the prison of the heart.”
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
🕯️Message: It's time to take off the blindfold. You’re not as trapped as you think.
👑 Crown:
The Devil (Reversed)
Element: Earth 🌍
Numerology: 15 / 6 temptation, cycles, detachment
Colorology: Black and red danger, seduction, release
Freedom is near. You are actively working to break toxic ties whether that’s to a person, a mindset, or a behavior. Reversed, this card is a sign of liberation, but also withdrawal pains. What once had a hold on you is losing its grip, and that can feel both scary and amazing.
“I am not afraid of my truth anymore, and I will not omit pieces of me to make you comfortable.” – Alex Elle
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Warren Buffett
“Detox your mind, body, and life. It’s time.”
Let go of it all DETOX !
🕯️Message: The chains are off. Now comes the real test walking away.
🌱 Near Future:
Page of Pentacles (Reversed)
Element: Earth 🌍
Numerology: 11 (Page as 1) inexperience, wasted effort
Colorology: Green and brown stagnation, uncertainty
This Page shows lost focus, procrastination, or burnout. You might have a plan, but no fuel. Or someone around you could be making promises without follow-through. Don’t give up just recalibrate.
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
🕯️Message: Delays are divine detours. Don’t abandon the seed because the flower didn’t bloom overnight.
This card screams missed opportunities, scattered energy, self-doubt, or fear of failure. It can reflect someone who starts things but doesn’t finish, or who feels stuck at the beginning of something that requires commitment. The reversed Page may also be overly focused on the material while missing the deeper spiritual or emotional value of growth.
Think: "I want it, but I’m scared. I’m dreaming, but I’m drifting."
💌 You & Me:
Knight of Cups
Element: Water 💧
Numerology: 12 (Knight as 12) messages, action, romantic energy
Colorology: Blues and soft pastels compassion, dreaming, love
Here lies a heart-led journey. This card may represent a romantic offer, a creative message, or someone emotionally sensitive moving toward you. Or it could be you finally leading with love instead of fear. But the knight still lives in a dream. Be sure reality matches the vision.
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you.” – Joseph Campbell
“A heart that loves is always young.” – Greek Proverb
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” – Aberjhani
🕯️Message: Romance, dreams, or creativity is moving in but stay grounded in truth.
🧊 External Influence:
Five of Pentacles (Reversed)
Element: Earth 🌍
Numerology: 5 transitions, hardship, spiritual reawakening
Colorology: Gray, indigo, moss green healing from scarcity, spiritual regrowth
In reversal, the Five of Pentacles indicates a light at the end of the tunnel. The cold, dark season is not over... but the frost is beginning to thaw. External forces may have left you (or someone around you) feeling abandoned or forgotten, but there's support nearby even if it hasn’t been clearly seen yet. This card is also about rising from the ashes finding spiritual warmth and emotional shelter again.
“Most of the time the universe removes people from your life to protect you. Don’t run after them.”
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère
🕯️ Message: The cold is fading. You or someone close is finding their way back to the firelight. Healing is slow, but it is happening.
This reversal shifts the external vibe from abandonment to resilience. It reinforces a theme we’re seeing in your spread: the breakthrough is beginning, but it’s quiet subtle. You’re being asked to notice the progress, not just the pain.
⚖️ Hopes & Fears:
Justice (Reversed)
Element: Air 💨
Numerology: 11 imbalance, lack of accountability
Colorology: White and steel gray broken balance, karmic reverb
There’s fear of being unseen, unheard, or wronged. This card screams, “It’s not fair!” Whether it’s court, karma, or personal principle, you may worry about being punished for what wasn’t your fault.
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” – Benjamin Franklin
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Sometimes the scales tip the wrong way before balance is restored.”
🕯️Message: You’re seeking fairness just don’t sacrifice your peace to get revenge.
Complex, raw, and unfair energy. This is not just imbalance it’s betrayal, gaslighting, karma misfiring, lies winning temporarily, and the deep ache when truth doesn’t get its day in court… yet.
“This is the card of feeling unheard, unseen, unprotected but also being dangerously close to becoming the villain just to be heard.” 🥀
“Sometimes karma wears stilettos and leaves quietly. Sometimes she kicks in the door.”
“Justice delayed is never justice denied it's justice transforming.”
“When truth is silenced, pain speaks louder.”
“You can’t unhear the lies. But you can decide who never gets to speak again.”
💔 Outcome: The Lovers (Reversed)
Element: Air 💨
Numerology: 6 disharmony, difficult choices
Colorology: Pink and red reversed disconnection, tension
Love, alignment, or a major life decision is off balance. This card reversed often speaks of misaligned values, tension between heart and mind, or needing to choose between what’s easy and what’s right. It could indicate a relationship that no longer reflects your growth or a choice between self-love and sacrifice.
“Choose people who choose you.”
“Sometimes we must let go of the life we planned to embrace the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
🕯️Message: You’re on the brink of transformation. Let go of the illusion to embrace truth.
This is the "I see the red flags now," the "this wasn’t love, it was a lesson," and the "how dare you stand beside me but not choose me" kind of energy. Whether it’s a breakup, betrayal, misalignment, or a painful fork in the road this is sacred heartbreak.
🔁 7 Reversals: The Sacred Pause, the Inner Turning
Seven reversals in a Celtic Cross? That’s a spiritual mirror maze. You are being guided inward not to punish, but to purge. This many reversals indicate:
Delays and divine detours
Shadow healing and old programming being rewired
Secrets, suppressed truth, and karmic lessons rising to the surface
Think: chrysalis phase. Not yet the butterfly, but no longer the caterpillar either 🐛🦋
🎨 Colorology Patterns
Across your spread, the colors paint a journey:
Gray/Silver (Nine of Swords reversed, Eight of Swords, Five of Pentacles reversed, Justice reversed): Shadows lifting, mental fog, and the discomfort of truth
Yellow & Gold (Four of Wands, Seven of Swords, Page of Pentacles reversed): Glimmers of joy, exposure, clarity trying to break through
Red/Black (The Devil reversed, The Lovers reversed): Power struggles, karmic bonds, and major emotional decisions
Green (Pentacles cards): Your relationship with value both self-worth and money is under reconstruction
🖌️ Message from color: Joy wants to re-enter. First, you must release the heaviness that dulled your shine.
🔢 Numerology Highlights
Let’s walk the numbers:
4 (Four of Wands): Foundation, stability
5 (Five of Pentacles reversed): Disruption → Recovery
6 (The Lovers reversed, The Devil = 15 → 1+5): Relationships, imbalance, karmic themes
7 (Seven of Swords): Spiritual challenge, introspection
8 (Eight of Swords): Power, mental cages
9 (Nine of Swords reversed): Completion, healing from suffering
11 (Justice reversed): Master number karmic law, spiritual re-alignment
Page (11) & Knight (12): Messages incoming, emotional offers, delayed opportunities
📿 Numerology Summary: You are exiting an old 6/7/8 cycle of survival based choices, deceit, and restriction and approaching an 11 gateway to karmic restoration and truth. Major soul contract updates are underway.
🌬️ Elemental Energy
Air (Swords, Justice, Lovers, Devil): Mind, truth, choices dominant
Earth (Pentacles, Devil): Stability, money, effort disturbed and healing
Water (Knight of Cups): Emotions, love romantic or intuitive offers blooming
Fire (Four of Wands): Willpower, action strong but isolated
🌪️ Elemental Summary:
Your mind is loud. Your spirit is ready to move. Your heart wants softness. Your body is catching up.
There’s a need to reconnect the four so you don’t burn out chasing peace.
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Here’s the central narrative:
🌿 “I once believed I had no choice. Now I see the cage was open all along.” 🕊️
You’ve come through deception (Seven of Swords), deep sorrow (Nine of Swords), and mental paralysis (Eight of Swords). Yet in the here and now, the Four of Wands says: joy is possible again. There is something worth holding onto.
But the Devil reversed and Lovers reversed in this spread are no joke. They say:
You’re breaking free from a soul binding contract (to pain, addiction, codependency, guilt)
A deep inner choice must be made: Do I choose freedom or familiar suffering?
Love is being redefined from who you give it to, to how you receive it.
💡Karmic Message:
Justice reversed + The Devil reversed = You’ve been hurt by unfair systems, false love, and unequal exchanges. But your soul is done repeating this loop. You can rewrite the ending now.
🛎️ Final Download:
This reading is a soul awakening disguised as emotional chaos. The breakthroughs aren’t loud but they are real. You're not losing your mind; you're leaving behind the cages you didn’t know you built.
You are rising.
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