08/12/2026
NEW MOON IN LEO ECLIPSE TAROT: Today’s solar eclipse in Leo, represents the closing of major cycles, big portals of karmic reset resetting, and an opportunity to step into our heartfelt authenticity, examine and integrate our shadows, and show up — as we truly are ready to be seen by the world.
Judgment is a card that I have always associated with eclipses, and I really enjoyed Lindsay Mack’s / Lindsay Mack recent writing about this card and eclipse energy – I also pulled this card recently reversed…I normally never work with reversals — at least I haven’t for the entire over 30 years that I’ve been working with the cards – but something about Lindsay Mack’s guidance around the reversal meanings has been really fun for me to play with lately, and I have been really appreciating her reversal interpretations, more than anyone else’s I’ve ever looked at before!
I pulled Judgment reversed, right while I was in the middle of launching my Kickstarter for my memoir, and mother‘s art retrospective — and its messages about coming full circle, closing cycles, ancestral reverence, and divine time spoke to me very deeply.
From the Soul Tarot booklet, by Lindsay Mack / :
“Judgment reversed invites us to trust in the timing of when things will be revealed. More information will be available to you when it’s time.
Try to be present with the unfolding.”
In the baking high heat of summer’s furnace, Leo energy plus eclipse season can lead to going too hard, high tempers, and short fuses. We need to pick our battles very wisely, and get focused on what truly matters — especially for the legacy that we want to leave in this life, and the mark we wish to make on the world through our our art, our craft, and our calling.
This is a moment to really examine what matters most, what is the HELL YES, and what is a no – and get serious about dedicating ourselves with utmost BLISScipline!
This is an invitation to get curious about what we want to dedicate ourselves to, and what it is that we truly wish to become good at, and develop mastery in.
It’s also a powerful moment to interrogate what is it that we want to be truly known for, and celebrated for?
I’m not talking about success as a litmus of how hard you’ve worked, or how tirelessly you’ve put aside your own pleasure in order to attain wealth, fame, or notoriety – but the things that you wish to bring to the world, to bring joy to others.
The legacy that you make through deep connection, through authenticity, and through a love of what is beautiful and sacred in the world.
I got to experience this firsthand this past weekend at my mother‘s art retrospective, Double Eternity — and it was an extraordinary feeling, witnessing so many of her dear friends, who expressed to me that she had changed the course of their lives by encouraging them them to understand that they were artists, to take up a skill like jewelry making, taught them fiddle, put a mandolin in their hands, or shared her passion for music with them.
We’re talking about lasting impressions and effects of her care and friendship, over 50 years or more. Half a century later, there are still people whose lives were affected by her attentiveness and her drive to share what she found true and important and special with the world with people that she cared about.
And I really think that even these really momentous occasions in other peoples lives, for her were probably just hanging out and having a good time and being her naturally Capricorn self and just caring about people.
Getting to be part of celebrating that and honoring her body of work, and the way that she showed up in her communities, has truly inspired me to move in a similar way in my own life.
This retrospective was a beautiful celebration of her life, and in some ways the memorial, the sitting shiva, the giant sparkly and delightful Irish wake that she never got to have when she died.
We were all just so wrecked with grief no one could really muster the kind of event or party that she truly deserved, and I was just 7 years old — so it took 40 years before I was really able to do that for her in the right way — and my goodness was it ever RIGHT! I know she is very thrilled with how it all happened.
I’m coming away from this weekend feeling so incredibly inspired, and engaged and ready to step into all the things that feel like a HELL YES for me.
I can finally recognize that staying focused on those passions and working hard at them, while also making time to celebrate and to raise a glass with friends, is really a huge part of why I’m here — and what I want to spend the rest of my days on this earth, in this body, in devotion to.
What is that for you? What is your calling? What is it that you want to develop that level of dedication to? This eclipse might be the perfect time to get joyfully serious about whatever that might be.
And trust — sometimes that awareness can develop over tea, or glasses of wine with your dearest friends — so, pay attention to the conversations you have, and the way that your true friends see you, and what they believe you are capable of doing.
They often believe in us when we can’t believe in ourselves, and see us truly when we can’t clearly see ourselves.
Who are those people in your life? This would be a powerful time to gather with them, and be thinking about the next big chapter of your life and what you hope to bring into fruition for this next turning.
This also makes me think about the big turning points in our lives – our graduation, our spiritual rituals of maturing, rites of passage, like a bar or bat mitzvah, weddings, baby showers, funerals, retirement parties — any of those occasions where people in your life might be moved to raise a glass and make a toast to you.
What would they say? What would come up in their speeches? What stories, anecdotes, or truths might be revealed in that moment of commemoration for your life?
Seeing the way people did that for my mother, and the way I felt it was necessary even at 40 years after her death, has really inspired me to think about the life I want to lead, and what I want to be remembered, known, and most appreciated for by the most important people in my life, my friends and family and community.
Consider holding this lens up to your own life, without shame, without desperation, without judgment – but like, for real, what is it that you want to be remembered for, what is it that you want to do, as the poet Mary Oliver said, with your one wild and precious life?
This is the moment to recommit to that. It doesn’t have to be some grand vision, though. It really might just be hanging out on a park bench with friends, feeding the birds, fishing for crawdads, watching sunsets, going on road trips – perhaps that’s what you want to be in devotion to, and get really good at.
It doesn’t have to be dedication to the grind, or to the capitalistic hamster wheel, or to outdated and solipsistic notions of success.
It truly could be about a life well lived, and treating that as your greatest work, your masterpiece. It’s also what we choose to fight for, what we believe in, what matters most to us. Think about this. Are you a lover? A fighter? A poet? An artist? A fisherman? Why are you here? Sit with these questions during this eclipse portal, and see what emerges!
I’m very excited to share more about all this and more with y’all this evening, so if this resonates with you, so really hope you’ll join the conversation for the IG live Leo New Moon Eclipse tarot broadcast TONIGHT (Wednesday — 8/12) around 9:30pm (maybe later!) CST
p.s. If this post speaks to you, & if you benefit from my writing, and from the work I share here, please consider supporting my Kickstarter to honor my mother Maggie for the 40th anniversary of her death, and my healing process from the loss I experienced at 7 years old.
We surpassed our first goal with this fundraising effort I launched (to get my memoir made!) but still have a lot further to go to unlock some bigger dreams with this project!
Pledging even a dollar helps, and you can stay in the loop with what's happening! And I've got gorgeous postcards of one of my favorite paintings of my mom's for $11, & lots of other exciting goodies (including my first book!)
Please go take a look (& definitely watch the video, if you have a few minutes! I found some old footage of my mom playing fiddle that I had never seen before!), support, & share with anyone you think would be interested in this project!
Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/double-eternity (it’s in my bio, too!)
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Judgment, from the Soul Tarot, by Lindsay Mack / @