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🦁 Emma’s Story: The Lion Heart

Around this time last year, I was struggling with self-belief. I felt like I was hiding behind fear, holding back from my own voice. Friends and family told me I was confident, but I didn’t feel it. I even took an expensive course to learn public speaking, even though people said I didn’t need it.

Then I discovered something wild. My maiden name means “Lion Heart.” It stopped me in my tracks. It felt like the universe had been whispering to me all along. So I reclaimed my name, Emma Howard. With my Leo sun and Cancer rising, I was being called to remember my strength, my voice and my story.

This month, I invite you to do the same.

🎂 Birthday Roars

Happy Birthday to our fellow Leo sisters! May your season be filled with confidence, celebration and clarity. Roar as loud as you like this is your time to shine.

🔮 Strength Card Message: Ask for Guidance

Pick up your Strength card and place it in front of you. Gently ask,
“What message do you have for me today?”
Let your intuition speak. Write down the very first thing that comes to mind, no filter. That’s your truth. That’s your roar.

🖤 Shadow Work: Golden and Taboo

To walk in our full power, we must own both the shadow and the shine.

The Golden Shadow is your hidden brilliance — the praise you shrug off, the skills you underestimate, the power you pretend you don’t have.
The Taboo Shadow is the part of you that was shamed — loudness, anger, desire, pride. The bits you buried to stay ‘good.’

To integrate both is to reclaim your whole self.

Emma’s Golden Shadow: Being told I didn’t need a course because I already had the voice.
Emma’s Taboo Shadow: Being told I talked too much and needed to be quiet. I shrank instead of shining.

Take a moment today to ask:
✨ What light am I still scared to let shine?
✨ What part of me am I still silencing?

🧙‍♀️Lammas Bucket List

The wheel turns, and we’re approaching Lammas, the first harvest, celebrated on 1st August. It’s a time of celebrating growth, releasing what’s no longer blooming, and preparing for the soft descent into autumn energy.

Here’s your Lammas Bucket List, from me to you:
🌾 Bake something with your hands, ideally using herbs you picked or dried
🌻 Sit outside and list five things that have bloomed for you this year
🔥 Burn a limiting belief on a bay leaf or a slip of paper
🧙‍♀️ Add sunflowers or corn to your altar to honour the land's abundance
🍷 Toast your ancestors with a little wine, cider or juice beneath the evening sky

This is the season of gratitude, strength and soul sovereignty. You’ve done more than enough. Celebrate that.

In this transformative season, it’s important to affirm your power with these witchy words. Repeat them daily or as part of your rituals, letting each phrase empower your journey:

• “I step into my true power with grace and courage.”

• “I trust in the wisdom that flows through me.”

• “I release fear and embrace my inner strength.”

• “I am brave, I am bold, I am magick.”

• “I trust my intuition to guide me with clarity and purpose.”

☀️ Sunrise, Midday Sun & Sunset Spread

Use this spread anytime this week to align with the sun’s natural arc.

Sunrise: What new beginnings want to rise for me?
Midday Sun: What energy am I being called to harness right now?
Sunset: What should I reflect on or gently release?

🌟 Whispers After the Draw ( find me in the paid edition )

Use these gentle questions to deepen the message of your three-card pull:

✨ What feeling arose first when I looked at each card?
✨ Which card stirred resistance, and why?
✨ What story do the cards tell together?
✨ If these cards whispered one thing to me today, what would it be?
✨ How do I feel now, compared to when I started?

It’s time to stop circling the same questions and start getting real answers, the ones that change things.

💖 In this sacred live session, Journalling with Tarot: From Cards to Clarity, you’ll learn how to:
🃏 Pull cards that reveal real truths, not just symbols
🖋 Craft questions that break old patterns wide open, like you’ve never done before
🪞 Build a journalling practice that becomes your mirror, not your mask

This isn’t about being more spiritual.
It’s about being honest, and reclaiming the parts of you that already know the way. ✨

💕 Save your space here and let your clarity begin.

🔥 Emma’s Fire & Flow: Solar Plexus Ritual

This month’s ritual is all about activating courage through your solar plexus with the help of sun magick and crystal energy.

You’ll need:

🔸 Orange calcite or garnet
🔸 Slices of fresh ginger
🔸 Lemon or orange slices
🔸 Yellow flowers (sunflower, calendula or marigold)

Ritual Steps:

1. Make a sunny drink or tea with ginger and citrus.
   

2. Sit in sunlight holding your crystal and let it charge.
   

3. Breathe deeply into your belly and visualise golden light expanding.
   

4. Repeat this sun chant:
   

5. Speak your full name aloud, claiming your space and power.
   

Let the sun kiss your courage awake.

✨ Enchanted & Obsessed

Here’s what’s lighting up our witchy souls this season:

🧴 Solar Plexus oil blend: Ginger, orange and a drop of cinnamon
📚 Currently re-reading: Women Who Run With the Wolves
🎧 Spotify playlist: “Sun Witch Energy” fire drums and Leo vibes
🕯️ Altar add-ons: Gold ribbon, citrine, lion statues, sunflower petals

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