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Cards For The Week Of 12/28/2025 – 1/3/2026

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Messenger Of Spirit Oracle by Whitney McNeill

The cards are late coming out. Sorry about that! It’s been a busy day.

The cards going into the new year jumped out of the deck while I was shuffling. I love it when that happens.

42 Detox & 34 Environment are what we’re looking at to see 2025 out and 2026 in, and just the initial impression appears spot on. Let’s face it, 2025 has been intense for a large number of people on so many levels. What better way to show it out than to clear our energy and release the residue of things or events which made this past year difficult. Release what no longer serves in order to move forward into the new year. Interestingly enough, in numerological terms we are seeing out a 9 year which signifies wrapping up a cycle and entering a 1 year which signifies a new beginning, taking forward with us the lessons we have learned and moving ahead. Moving upward, using the foundation which has been built is what it’s all about. Remember to give yourself permission to do this as gently as possible. There’s no need to power through the changes in a way which feels forceful.

As for the Environment card, it can absolutely mean travel or a move. On the other hand, it can be as simple as doing a little decorating and freshening up our living space, which will be perfect after getting through the detox part. The most important thing about this card is making our outer space a vibrational match to our inner state of being (which our detoxing is going to go a long way in raising). Making the internal and external worlds a match sets the stage perfectly to begin both the new year and a new 9 year cycle. The flow of these two cards is very harmonious and shows us the makings of a very positive week, year, and cycle ahead.

While the detox/purge/letting go portion of this week’s focus can be a little rough and it involves some level of processing where we’ve been during the past year, or perhaps several years (as we are ending a 9 year cycle). If there are losses which were important to you or perhaps major shifts in life, give yourself space to grieve what was lost, whether a life altering one, or a loss of how you thought that things were going to be. Let go, and be kind to yourself in the process. Once any dust settles from the release, begin making those changes to your inner and outer worlds. Make the most of it and prepare for a fresh start.

Wishing you all a very happy, healthy, and abundant new year ahead!

Card For The Week Of 12-21 to 12-27, 2025

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Deck- Messenger Of Spirit-by Whitney McNeill

When I do cards for the week in a public space such as this, instead of for an individual, I always ask the question, “What do I and anyone who comes across this need to know, and focus on this week?”, in order to get an overall, universal energy theme. With that being said, let’s get into the reading.

While this card is pretty self explanatory in that boundaries are crucial this week, there may be more angles to this than meets the eye. Boundaries with others, as the card states is so important because we need to protect ourselves in all aspects; physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, and spiritually. Sometimes in life, the other person involved may understand and respect a boundary when it is stated. Others however, may listen while you state it but clearly not honor it, as evidenced by their actions. This is when boundary enforcement becomes difficult, because it could mean standing your ground to attain your need, or as (what might seem) extreme as cutting people out of our lives when this is a theme in a relationship of any kind. There are other boundary scenarios which I’ll explore a few of below, briefly.

Creating a boundary can also be applied to situations. Those situations can be whatever they need to be. Saying no to attending a party which you either do not wish to attend or that you know that someone who you do not wish to encounter will be at. Saying no to visits, holiday gatherings, reunions, or any other event with toxic family or associates is another. Sometimes that boundary around a situation can be because you just want to stay home and curl up with a good book or movie! I realize that there are some situations which we cannot simply walk away from, such as unfixable employment situations, until a better environment can be found or created independently. Until that can happen, boundary creation will have to be just a tad bit more creative and can look how it needs to look in order to get through it until you can walk away. There are more examples, probably endless examples, but you get the drift.

Sometimes, we need to create boundaries with ourselves! I know that I sure do. This can look like reminding ourselves that it’s okay to say no. Ditch the guilt. Let go of responsibilities that aren’t ours. To not carry around burdens that do not belong to us. One of the most important ones is to remind ourselves to respect ourselves as much, if not more than we do others, even when this means that the other person might not react well.

Boundaries can be so difficult, depending on the people in our lives, as they can react with guilt trips, the cold shoulder, the silent treatment, or even anger at times. This is our cue that we are dealing with one of the most important people to create a boundary with! It can also be really hard for people who are empathetic, people pleasers, or those who have been “trained” to feel responsible or guilty for not going along with things which are not in their best interest.

While this might be a hard task to achieve, or even begin, we can and should do this in order to create a healthier, happier life. Not only that, but to travel the road toward self realization! My parting words for when this task might seem too daunting are that you’ve got this. Remember that you are stronger than you think, and deserve to have your needs met just as much as anyone else.

Blessings Of A Furry Alarm Clock

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I’ve never been an early morning person and for the most part I’m still not, but I’ve had to adjust to being one anyway. In late July of 2024 I lost my best friend, who just happened to be a very large (in size and personality) orange cat named Wooka to cancer. That dear boy had been with me for the rough years I mentioned yesterday, and frankly I have often wondered how I would have gotten through it all without him. He laid at my side (or on top of me) through the lengthy time that I was in bed most of the time due to the effects of medication, got me through an ugly break-up, saw me through the depths of grief, and then we made a long distance move together. Losing him was deeply painful, and I swore that if I got another cat that it wouldn’t be for a very long time.

Fast forward a whopping two and a half weeks. I had thought that if another cat happened at some point that I’d like to adopt a black cat if one were available at the animal shelter, because they are more difficult to find homes for. Well, I had been looking through the animal shelter’s site for a few days and who popped up? An adorable little five month old, black male kitten. I spent the rest of that day, telling myself that it was too soon. The next day, I was talking to a neighbor and his mom about the kitten and she offered to take me to the shelter to see him. We got there, and the shelter employee led us back to the cat room. There were so many beautiful cats in that sunroom, laying on perches, swinging in little kitty hammocks, roaming around the room, and there at the back part of the room on a perch looking right at me was the kitten.

I spent some time there petting him, and he was very sweet. When I went to walk away to think about what I should do, he reached out one of his little paws and tapped me on the middle of my back. Turning around to give him another pat on the head I see him reaching for me with his entire body hanging from that perch to the point that he was about to fall. Closing the distance before he could tumble, he climbed into my arms just as soon as I was close enough. Something about this filled my heart with love and my eyes with tears, and I didn’t even care how silly it might have looked for me to be starting to cry at that moment. Needless to say, he came home with me that day. It would be an understatement to say that he’s different from Wooka (I didn’t expect him to be the same). The contrast is so stark!

This guy is adorable, funny, sweet, has the softest fur I’ve ever felt, and he’s an absolute hellion. He’s into everything he isn’t supposed to be (more than the average cat), has used curtains and the coats hanging on the door as his personal Tarzan vines, knocks things off of anything he can reach (including paintings on the wall), makes it almost impossible to cook or eat a meal unless you put him in another room (example: I still have a mark on my arm from a few months after bringing him home after catching him mid leap in an attempt to jump INTO the oven when it was open for all of five seconds), and he rarely lets me sleep past 6am which finally brings us to the title of the post.

For the first several months after bringing him home, he woke me up every morning at 5am on the dot which was hell. He still does this way more often than I’d like, today for example. When he has let me sleep until 7 (which used to be early for me) on rare occasions, it feels great, as I am a lifelong insomniac and it usually takes me no less than an hour to fall asleep but typically much longer. With all of that being said you might be wondering where the blessings come in. Trust me, I often do too. A lot of the early morning wake-ups are done in the sweetest way. He will gently pat my cheek with his little paw until I wake up enough to snuggle with him for a few minutes. I love that part, as he’s not much of a snuggler most of the time. He loves being petted, but just isn’t really a lap cat (unless I have yarn or a pen in my hand). The big thing I’ve grown to appreciate about getting up at such ungodly hours, as long as I’ve had more than just a few hours of sleep, is that I usually have the world to myself for a while. It’s nice to be able to enjoy so much peace and quiet before most people start moving about.

Being able to have the world to myself for a little while is something I have needed for a while, and still do. Having that peace first thing really helps me to start the day in such a way that makes for a better day overall. On the days when I feel up to doing something, it comes in handy to be up before people are starting to want my attention or the world gets too noisy. So, while my furry alarm clock has been a lot to handle (please let him mellow a bit with age), there are sweet blessings too in the form of affection, laughter, and early morning peace.

What are some challenging things which also hold blessings in your life?