This week, with Mother's Day on Sunday (5/10) we're thinking a lot about the tarot card The Empress and how that energy swirls around. Mother's Day can hold a lot of complexity -- joy, grief, memory, celebration. However you mark this day, or choose not to, know that your feelings are valid and you are not alone. The places we experience tension and the places we experience joy can give us a lot of information about how best to nourish ourselves. Self-parenting isn't always easy, but when it's cloaked in love and care it makes all the difference. Whether that means soothing your inner child, tending unmet needs, or allowing yourself to rest, you deserve to be held. Especially by yourself.

The Empress represents abundance, nurturing, and creative power, making them a powerful archetype to lean on when navigating self-parenting. This week, see how you can let that creative energy flow and direct it towards connecting with yourself! Let the Empress be the balm that soothes you. Let them illuminate your resilience, your softness, your shadows. Let it stoke whatever joy is present, let it cradle any grief right alongside it.