Trust that the body knows the way ~ May 2026

May 2026 Monthly Tarot Reading

At the end of 2025, I decided to do monthly tarot readings for the year ahead, 2026. At first it was only going to be personal readings for myself, but I ended up feeling called to share them as collective readings here as well.

They consist of a picture, an audio with what was basically notes to myself and its transcript, and thoughts written as I put together these readings now.

If you would like to read the more complete introduction to these 2026 monthly readings, you can read it here.

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Tarot reading for May 2026

Audio “notes to self” and initial energetic observations:

Audio transcript:

May. An order returns. The previously established order comes back… that which had started to come a little undone and be done in a different order, goes back to previous order.

There is stuck movement again- bringing back similar energies and themes of December. The chariot reversed again.

This time, though, there is stuckness in the heart area. The heart chakra… but, thinking of Human Design, the Will Center. But also, the Identity Center- those two… being the place that there is a need for…

There is a need for opening up to… for feeling… for acceptance… for working through, for letting go, for moving on… in order for the heart and the mind to work in order.

The mind feels stuck because there’s something in the heart that needs to be felt. Embraced. Accepted. Worked through… allowed to pass through.

There’s struggle.

Is struggle what’s stuck in the heart? Is the heart- Is the struggle because of the rejection of desire… of the heart…

There is a need to feel into the intuition of the spleen to understand which struggles are worth engaging in… if there’s value in the struggle or not… versus when the struggle is coming from the open Heart Center and the need to prove one’s worth…

Cleaning out the heart center. Facing the conditioned strategies of the not self in the Will Center… become important for being able to move forward in May.

Also, be careful not to move too quickly. And put a final period… point… whatever… on a situation on a matter or something… and end things before it is completely done… before all actions have been taken.

Be present, pay attention, think things through. Don’t be too hasty.

Center yourself.

Thoughts

The most interesting part of moving from April to May for me has been the timing that the readings have come through.

I have been working on these readings since December, doing different parts of them at different times. Pulling the cards and recording voice notes, then coming here to put it all together. And it has been consistent… I have gotten December, January, February, March, and April all done in sort of a same frame of time. Yet, not by mental choice, when it comes to moving from April to May, a very large time ends up elapsing… and it keeps happening.

I decided to actually create these readings on Substack back at the end of January, and in a short period of time had completed up until April. However, it was as if my body literally would not allow me to come back and move on to create and schedule May and beyond. Again, the same thing happened when I was originally pulling the cards. I got all the way to April then it took me days to a week (I don’t remember exactly anymore, but I do know it was at least a few days) to get to May and the rest of the months.

This feels extremely relevant. To the reading itself and to the events and situations that have been and will be unfolding…

There is something big that has ended in April. It is an ending that has been slowly building… slowly unfolding… needing time to take shape… and April is when the final peak is reached and the ending becomes complete.

The circle is completed.

The door is closed.

We have traversed an energetic abyss.

In March and April, that ending process intensified… became undeniable… but it all lived in almost a limbo-like state… and we were unable to see what was coming beyond…

It does not feel like we truly see the new that is taking shape in May, however, it is like the predawn… when the sky begins to lighten… and whispers of the new day are clearly heard and deeply felt. There is no more doubt… it IS happening.

However, maybe at this point there is a fear that comes up because now it all is feeling so real.

We have let go of the old and we are moving into the new… and Oh God. We have no real idea what to expect and the fear of not knowing how the new will feel becomes very real and relevant.

Like… Oh. We have gone and done it, but was this really the way we meant to go??

Not that it matters because there is no going back anymore… and the truth is that we would not want to, not for real. It’s just that first step into the unknown that feels precarious and unsteady… and that is always a little disorienting.

Up feels like down. Nothing feels quite set. Maybe it feels too foreign because there are no ruts to safeguard our way forward.

It is a brand-new way.

And we may fear we may fail.

We may fear we will not get it right.

We may fear we will look like a fool as we stumble through.

We may also fear we will not ever find our footing and be able to prove that we belong in this newness.

But the truth is, there is nothing to fear.

Embrace the desires that come up. They will lead us to where we need to go.

Trust that the body knows the way.

~ Relevant numbers: 8, 13, 28, 7