I have been asking my community for months now if they’ve felt this wall of determined energy barreling towards us. Something alive and almost electric in its tenacity as time marches forward. Well, that energy, seems to have taken quite a shape in the form of the electoral race now being run by Vice President Kamala Harris, and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, for president and vice president respectively on the Democratic side. Tonight as I sit here typing this it feels imperative that we pay attention right now. This wave has only just begun rolling.

I love writing and love using the tarot to guide the way. For November, I want to show you how I use the tarot in writing by posting short snippets of a never written work based on an idea I had a while ago.

The Ace of Swords often is said to represent truth, mental clarity, inspiration, new ideas, breakthroughs, success, and those aha! moments. Like all four Aces in the tarot, these are moments that can be fleeting and thus moments of opportunity ripe for the picking.