The Dark Side of Acceptance(Messages of Divine Love)
April 28, 2025/Granny's Postcards Tarot
The Messages of Divine Love offer intuitive insight for the week. Through using tarot or oracle cards, these readings channel guidance from Mother Earth, who supports us, the ancients who walk with us, the guides who urge us toward growth, Mother Mary, who loves unconditionally, and our future selves looking back on the signs we see around us today.
Because I exist as a bisexual, disabled Chicana and have a history of working in trauma-informed care & public policy, these readings are offered in the spirit of creating a world of collective care & creative connection.
INTRO NOTES TO THE DECK & READING
If you’ve been following along the past few weeks, you’ll notice that many of the themes converged to lead to this inevitable transformation, a dangerous dance with a constitutional crisis beyond what I think many ever imagined. I had hoped we would have seen a more daring collective uprising by now, but judging from the interactions I had last week, too many have burrowed into allegiance that they’re not paying attention to what the outcomes will be.
Last week, we had the death card, the ten of cups reversed, the ten of swords reversed framed against a bunch of other challenging cards. This shift feels almost unbelievably big and undeniably dangerous. And with the Attorney General making a declaration that denies due process, there is no going back to what was.
This is the dark side of acceptance - we accept that we cannot follow where they are going, which means we also have to accept that we cannot truly “save them”. They’re going to have to find their way out, motivated by the awareness that bubbles up from within - all we can hope is that we’ve planted enough seeds for that will grow into the bridges, breadcrumbs, and clearings they need to find their way back to reality. Yet, if we stick around waiting for them to finally get it, we’ll be burned up in the fervor of their self-hatred, eaten alive by their greed.
The month of May will be difficult; we’re grasping at the tattered remnants of the services, programs, and rights we expect. This month, we’ll see the consequences of tariffs continue to shake out, as other disasters like measles, food testing standards, and likely some increased threats of weather events, the lack of a functional government will feel all the more pressured once kids are out of school, too.
That’s why the biggest investment you could make for yourself this month is to meet your community where they are. Even if it’s just coming together for a Star Trek marathon with takeout and box wine, make togetherness a priority. We need each other now more than ever - lean into this darkness of acceptance and reach for the people who have proven themselves, who are as familiar with these corners of their humanity as you are with yours.
Where We Are This Week
Five of Swords (R)
Throat Chakra
A few months ago, I decided to restart my Twitter presence. It’s been slow going - only the same five followers see my posts, and my arguments get drowned out by the cacophony of phony accounts that all proudly declare “this is what I voted for” and spew lies about due process. The hope had been to reclaim some space, but it’s proving to be a futile battle. Instead of wasting time this week on fights I’m never going to win, this card is telling me not to stir up something that will have me talking in circles. It’s best just to drop it this week - these are losing battles 90% of the time. I advise you to do the same.
From Our Guides
Seven of Pentacles
Root Chakra
A welcome reprieve from last week’s Death card, the message is to apply our higher selves to the business of tending to the earth, taking care of the seeds we planted, the nourishment of the body, and the simplicity of the soul. Find groundedness in the shared connections of our physical reality - these will become even more necessary in the weeks and months to come.
Messages from Lady Gaia/Mother Earth
Seven of Cups
Sacral Chakra
There are a lot of opportunities available to you, but while you still try to inhabit an old self, you’re going to be constantly tempted to go back to what was. This is an illusion; one that is easier to see when you are familiar with your true desires rather than those this material world told you to want. It is a worthy investment to have a long, hard look at what you want, what your soul is crying out for - it’s now or never.
Messages from the Ancients
Page of Wands
Solar Plexus Chakra
There is a playfulness with these cards this week. We can twirl around the baton while walking on a tightrope, all while shaking the natural assets and gifts that the ancestors gave us. Honey, we’ve played this dance of survival before - but never with as much freedom, voice, and global connection as we do now. Show off those talents and shine so that others know not to be afraid, too. For if we all cower in fear, who will be left to foster the next generation? No, now is the time to dig deep into the fire our ancestors left us and let it drive our next movements.
Messages from Our Future Selves
The World
Crown Chakra
What if you were assured of not just the righteousness of your cause, but an outcome that doesn’t look like dystopia? How might it guide your decisions if you knew that all you need to do is 1) stay together and 2) keep driving forward, and success can be ours? Hold tight to that vision, make it a part of everything you are, and the power of the angels will be at your back. Sooner or later, this all will be over, so keep pressing forward until we have the world we came here to achieve. It can and will be ours, but only if we believe.
Messages from Mother Mary
Eight of Pentacles (R)
Third Eye Chakra
Many of us have been applying ourselves to career ladders that no longer exist or are quickly going to be consumed by AI in the swirls of destiny that are all coming together right now. Instead of applying yourself to a dying system, take a step back and assess why things are done the way they are. Is there a more direct way to offer services? A more creative solution that might never have worked if those contract obligations continued? Mind the attachments to old processes that keep you tethered to a system that wants to consume your labor without proper reward or support. Reassess everything, no matter how small, about the routines, procedures & priorities that govern your talents. Let those ancestors help you shake up the assumptions that keep you from seeing the pathway of true co-creation.
Undercurrents
Death (R)
Heart Chakra
One of the hardest interpersonal truths I have had to face with my calling was in recognizing the boundary of what is mine vs. what is theirs. No matter how much I loved a person, no matter how willing I was to stand with their inner monsters, to absorb the pain by their side, they would always have to be the one to take the lead in doing so. No matter how vexing it is, we cannot do it for them. We can’t substitute our experience for theirs. No matter what, we have to respect that each person is fighting a battle in their own time. All we can do is leave behind what tools we can, offering a map to find us when they reach their own dark acceptance. You will have no choice but to continue pressing forward - trust that if it is the will of the divine, your paths will cross under better circumstances in this life or the next.
Final Advice
Nine of Pentacles (R)
Crown Chakra
Look, I’m not going to mince words - shit sucks right now. Unless something drastic happens in the next few weeks, we will see: gradual shortages, layoffs, canceled travel, the destruction of public lands, the eradication of due process, and more scandalous WTFs that we can’t even predict yet. We’re kind of chasing around tradition (the turkey in this card) without admitting that it’s over. This isn’t about giving up, but changing strategies. Instead of chasing the ideal, it might be better to give in to our more wild and ungovernable nature. Since we can’t control the outcome, we are creatively freed up to channel new solutions.
PARTING WORDS FROM A GEEK EMPRESS
The hardest part of acceptance is that when you’ve reached that point where the illusions have shattered any innocence, laughter is not just inevitable, it’s cathartic. We are living in a dark comedy moment to moment - men in make-up declaring themselves the savior of women, while carbon copy women who all look like they shop at the same botox superstore, are declaring themselves both the victors and the victims of whatever manufactured consent is on the menu this week. I mean, if we weren’t living in this, it might be funny.
Enough people have swallowed lies about due process, regurgitating them at an alarming speed that an off-ramp from reality has been created, and a bunch of people are following the leader off a cliff. Supported by the scaffolding constructed by the QAnon-contaminated spiritualists, they are told they’re in for a “Great Awakening”. They march proudly toward what they hope is ascension, but instead, it’s a distraction, an isolation, a smoke & mirror show to make them feel special. The false oracles never questioned their visions, never took a step back from the rabbit hole to realize the trap waiting on the other side of the lawn behind the fencing that commodified information to weaponize us against each other. The “healthier-than-thou” left the unchecked vanity of their white supremacy so open to flattery that even an ego-driven perpetual eleven-year-old who can’t stay awake for a funeral rallied them to a cause.
No matter how much we mentally prepared for the reality we are in 100 days after this inaugural of Clown-in-Chief, things have not gone according to plan, not in the slightest. We expected delays and disasters - they didn’t. The collaboration needed to adapt is too difficult, so we know they're only ever reaching for force or coercion, making their tactics easy to spot and block. And we are the best ones to do it.
As difficult as it might seem, if you have done ANY healing of your own trauma, you are ready for this! If you have faced your internal darkness, at some point in the past month you’ve also worn the smirk of “I fucking dare you” written on your face. I’m right there with you - on the surface, we are trying to keep our cool, but internally, our senses are attuned for surprises, ready to pounce out of the way the moment our amygdala tells us danger is present.
But we are no longer reactive without reason, bouncing out of sight at the first twinge of a feeling like a scared rabbit. Instead, we have learned what signs are good, which ones are bad, and we are better at listening, discerning, and responding. If we could get rid of our need to maintain decorum (Dark Woke), we could be invincible. To continue to play by their rules, the rules of a failing patriarchy, is not only risky, it’s siphoning off our energy to our detriment. And as many who are neurodivergent will attest, the energy it takes to keep up appearances is far better applied to living in the moment and being present and responsive, so we keep one another safe.
What we need is a little divine chaos as the dark release valve on our pent-up frustration. Too many of us have been avoiding the mental fallout of this period, we’re trying to stay strong for families, trying to hold together communities that are sliding apart, or seeking the approval from systems or figures who abandoned us. Either way, a shake-up is needed. It didn’t have to be this way, but now that we’re here, we might as well lean in with acceptance and have some fun with it.
There’s very little we can do to influence the outcome - certain wheels are already in motion and will play out the way they will. We can’t undo this death, but we sort of like anyone dealing with Alan Tudyk’s character in Death at a Funeral, we’ve just got to get through the day and let the madness wear itself out. All we can do is mitigate the harm he might cause. Eventually, either you’ll laugh or you’ll crack - but either way, it might just be the chaotic good of acceptance that we needed to stir things up.
The only useful prescription when things seem bleak and hopeless is to laugh. Often, it’s the humor that allows us to see the cracks of possibility and the alternate pathways that were hidden in these storms. Just don’t let your fun take the form of punching down or beating up on the people on your side - laugh with them, not at them. Allow yourself to recognize each other in community, solidarity, and creative care.
May your week be blessed with love that reminds you of our interconnected truth: We are never alone💖
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