Libra Season Tarot Reading: Finding Sanctuary Between Opposites

Opening Note

It's been awhile since my last collective reading here, and I want to be honest about why.

I could feel myself unravel, the way I've done many times before. In the past, this has meant checking into hospital. A pattern I know too well. But this time, I chose differently. Instead of repeating the cycle, Racquel and I packed our bags and went to Thailand. It wasn't an escape so much as a reclamation; a chance to choose sunlight, ocean, and unfamiliar skies instead of sterile walls.

That trip was both a joy and a challenge. A space where I learned more about what sustains me. This was my first overseas trip since I'd last dealt with crippling agoraphobia two years prior. This trip became a testament to all that I had overcome, despite others doubting what I would be capable of

But when we returned we were soon met with heartbreak.

Piper, my beloved dog of 13 years... not long enough, passed away. I credit her to keeping me alive through some of my darkest chapters. Such a large responsibility for such a wild little girl. She lived with me in cars and tents at some points of our life, though I think they were some of the best days we had... she could be her untamed self out there and I could breathe.

Piper also brought Racquel and I closer. Not many people could break through to Piper but Racquel did and with ease where other people had forced and made things worse. I am deeply grateful too for that bond they shared. And in the most bittersweet of goodbyes, Racquel kissed her and instead of growling as she usually would, Piper wagged her tail. A final acknowledgement of her love.

To say that her absence has changed the way we live our daily lives would be an understatement.

So, choosing life differently, walking through grief, travelling, and re-grounding, have shown me that the weekly pace I once kept here is no longer sustainable and never really was. It asked more than I could keep giving. What feels truer now is a slower rhythm: monthly collective readings, often aligned with the new moon. A cycle that breathes, that allows depth without burning me out.

If you’ve been waiting, if you’ve missed these letters: thank you. I return not in the old pattern, but in a way I can truly honour... spacious, sustainable, and steady.

Libra Season Reading

So, under Libra’s scales and the Dyad’s mirror, here is this month’s collective reading, a guide to help us find beauty between opposites, love between losses, and harmony in the middle of change.

✨ Pick a Door

Card One: Two of Cups (Positive Side) - "The Union Within"

"Go ahead and bark after dark Fallen star, I'm your one call away" - Joji, "Sanctuary"

The Two of Cups is love as sanctuary, connection as a place of refuge. It isn’t only about romance. It’s about the deep safety we feel in relationships where we are fully seen and met. Libra season reminds us that beauty thrives in reciprocity, and that love doesn’t have to be dramatic to be powerful; sometimes it’s as simple as knowing who will answer when you call.

Joji’s lyric embodies this... the steady presence of someone who says, “I’ll be here, no matter the chaos around you.” It evokes the heart of the Two of Cups: devotion without demand, intimacy that shelters rather than drains. This is the energy to lean into this month, the people and bonds that offer sanctuary in the storm.

Affirmation: I honour the love that shelters me. Connection is my sanctuary, and I am worthy of its embrace.

Card Two: Nine of Wands (Negative Side) - "The Weight of Vigilance"

"I swear on my life, I always try... better luck next time" - Doja Cat, "4 Morant"

The Nine of Wands reversed shows the exhaustion of always trying, always defending, always carrying. It’s the armour that becomes heavier than the threat it’s supposed to protect you from. Doja Cat’s lyric holds that sigh of futility, the effort poured out again and again, only to feel like it was never enough.

This card calls for a pause. To set down the constant vigilance. Libra season’s lesson is that balance doesn’t come from endless trying; it comes from discernment. Not every battle is yours to fight. Not every wall is needed. Better luck next time becomes less about defeat and more about recognising you don’t have to keep exhausting yourself for cycles that were never yours to carry.

Affirmation: I am not defined by my battles. I release the armour that weighs me down and choose rest as power.

Card Three: The High Priestess (Positive Side) "The Quiet Mirror"

“So I guess I’ll go home, into the arms of the girl that I love - the only love I haven’t screwed up.” - Lorde, "Liability"

The High Priestess is the sacred withdrawal, the deep inner listening, the choice to trust the quiet mirror within. Lorde’s lyric captures her essence perfectly: retreating into self, not as failure, but as sanctuary. To others, it may look like distance. To you, it is intimacy with the one voice that will never abandon you, your own.

Libra season asks for balance between outer bonds and inner truth. This card reminds you not to confuse solitude with emptiness. Returning to yourself is not being a liability; it is recognising that the only love you can never “screw up” is the one you hold for yourself. And from that wholeness, other connections can bloom in truth.

Affirmation: I trust my inner sanctuary. In my own embrace, I find clarity, love, and wholeness.

The Scales of Libra

Each of these cards is a doorway. Perhaps you chose one, perhaps all three spoke to you, but they offer guidance for the whole of Libra season and through October as were drawn on the very first day of the month. Hold what resonates, let go of what doesn’t, and let the rest move through you like air.

The Two of Cups invites you to rest in sanctuary.

The Nine of Wands asks you to set down the weight of vigilance.

The High Priestess reminds you that silence can be its own form of love.

This reading is the compass for the season ahead. And because Libra thrives in cycles, I’ll be offering an extra moment of clarity at the new moon, a second chance to reflect and realign as the month unfolds.

I encourage you to sit with the songs woven through these cards. Music, like tarot, is a mirror and these artists offer echoes the cards alone cannot.

If something here stirred you whether that be a lyric, a phrase, a card that mirrored your own story, I’d love to hear it. Your reflections keep this work alive.

Affirmation for Libra Season: I honour the guide I’ve chosen. Balance is not a finish line, but a way of walking with love, truth, and beauty.

With heart,

- Cat

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Featuring cards from The Dyad, Tarot of Oppositions by Pierluca Zizzi and Michele D Aloisio