Autumn Completion Ceremony and Intuitive Tarot Card Reading (4-Card Spread)
Updated December 2024 | Originally published December 2022
Before Autumn comes to an end, celebrate and complete the season. Here’s a step-by-step guide for holding your own ceremony with journal prompts, guided meditation, and tarot reading.
Before fall ends, celebrate and complete the season
While it feels like winter is in full swing, there are still days left in autumn. In the Northern Hemisphere, the official start of winter is December 21 on the Winter Solstice.
Do you remember when you were excited about sweater weather, pumpkin spice lattes, and the crunchy, beautiful leaves that fall brings? All of that magic is muted now by the buzz of the holidays and excitement about winter.
Before this next season officially arrives, give yourself space to celebrate and complete autumn.
How to have your own Autumn Closing Ritual — journal prompts, meditation, and tarot reading included!
We had our Autumn Closing Ritual this week in my signature program, A Year of You. Keep reading for a peek inside the experience and an easy 3-step guide to have your own ceremony for autumn at home.
Step 01. Connect with your inner wisdom
We started with a chat about how easy it is to rush into the next season when society is always pushing us forward. I made a joke that if you shop at Target next week, it's going to feel like it's time to shop for Valentine's Day. Instead of getting carried away into the future, give yourself the space to find stillness in the season you're actually in.
Grab your journal. Take a few cleansing breaths. And reflect on the following journal prompts:
How are you feeling about the season you're in?
Where are you spending time?
Where are you spending mental energy?
How can you shift your focus to what matters?
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Step 02. Appreciate the energy of autumn
Next, I led a guided meditation for connecting with intuition and appreciating the energies of autumn: abundance and allowing, comfort and connection.
Give yourself a moment to pause, breathe, and connect within. Purchase my meditation collection, Meditations for Real Life, or try this free meditation from the Celebrate Cultivate podcast.
Step 03. Pull cards to gather wisdom from the fall season
After our meditation, I did a 4-card spread to complete and celebrate autumn with The Fountain Tarot.
Pull your own 4 cards, asking for wisdom on honoring, releasing, celebrating, and completing autumn. Or watch this 11-minute video for the reading I gave in A Year of You.
Honoring: Ten of Cups
Releasing: Four of Swords
Celebrating: Page of Swords
Completing: The Lovers
Learn how to access intuition with tarot and oracle cards with this guide and my favorite decks.
Prepare for winter by closing the season behind you
There's no denying this is a busy and stressful time of year. Imagine you're walking on a bridge from autumn to winter. As you step off the bridge, you will land right into the holidays. It's okay (and even really good) to look at where you're going. Just be sure to also honor and complete the season you're leaving.
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