✨ Rewrite Your Story: Confidence, Courage and Limiting Beliefs

🌘4th August 2025

August 04, 2025

🌕 Moon Reflection: Waning Gibbous in Aquarius

✨Moon Reflections

As the light begins to soften after the Full Moon in Aquarius, we enter the Waning Gibbous, a sacred pause for reflection, truth-telling, and gentle release.

This is the moon phase of integration. Of looking at what the light revealed, and choosing what to keep, what to let go, and what to rewrite entirely.

Welcome to this brand new, illuminating edition of The Tarocle. Today we’re holding space for the woman who is ready to quiet the echo of self-doubt and listen instead to the wisdom of her own voice.

You’ll find soul tools to help reframe your story, a tarot spread for rewriting your inner narrative, and soft rituals to bring your power gently home.

We’re stepping into the season of harvest. It’s time to remember your worth and rise with it.

✨ What’s Brewing at The Tarocle (Contents)

Rewriting the Script

🙋‍♀️ Honest Check-In, skipped prompts and gentle truths
🃏 Tarot & Limiting Beliefs, rewriting your story through the cards
🖤 Shadow Work, what are you hiding and why?
📓 Journal Prompts, questions to spark courage and clarity
🧙‍♀️ Claire’s Grimoire, Lammas reflections and solar spell
🔥 Emma’s Fire & Flow, stretches, sound and gratitude writing
🔮 Tarot Spread, rewriting your story with sunrise guidance
💫 Enchanted & Obsessed, what’s lighting us up this month
📊 Poll Time, what are you loving in The Tarocle?
💌 Special Announcement

🙋‍♀️ Honest Check-In with Emma

Have You Skipped a Few Prompts?

Okay, hands up... who hasn’t done a single spread or prompt from past newsletters? It’s alright, we get it. Life has been life-ing. Maybe the kids were off, work’s been wild or the newsletter got buried in your inbox. We’ve all been there.

But here’s a thought: could some of those reasons be limiting beliefs?

The ones that whisper, "There’s no time," or "You won’t do it properly anyway."

This month we’re unpacking that idea, and we’ll show you how tarot, oracle and journaling are tools that prove you already love yourself enough to grow.

Let’s bring your focus back to you and use the energy of August to rewrite your story with courage and clarity.

🃏 Tarot & Limiting Beliefs

Re-reading the Story

Last year we crafted a talk on how limiting beliefs show up in the tarot, and now we’re finally sharing some of those ideas with you.

Think of cards like the Eight of Swords, Five of Pentacles, or the Devil. They don’t just warn us of struggle, they reflect inner blocks we can overcome.

This month, choose a card that feels sticky. One you dislike, fear, or avoid. Ask:

  • What belief does this card reflect back to me?

  • What truth have I ignored?

  • What power have I given away that I now reclaim?

🖤 Shadow Work

Where Are You Holding Yourself Back?

It’s not just about facing fear, it’s about meeting the parts of ourselves that still feel unworthy.

This week’s prompts:

Ask yourself:

✨ What do I believe I must “earn” before I am worthy?

✨ Where in my life am I playing small to be safe?

✨ What am I ready to say no to, even if it disappoints someone?

📓 Journal Prompts

Confidence Edition

  • If I spoke to myself like someone I loved deeply, what would I say today?

  • What belief is ready to be released with compassion?

  • What does confidence look and feel like for me?

🧙‍♀️ Claire’s Grimoire

Lammas Reflections + Sun Spell

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Lammas may have just passed on 1 August, but the energy still lingers.

Here’s your Lammas reflection and a quick spell to tap into your inner light:

🌾 Gratitude Harvest Reflection:

  • What did I plant earlier this year that has now bloomed?

  • What am I proud of?

  • What needs to be composted?

🔆 Mini Sun Spell for Confidence:
You’ll need: a yellow candle, a small mirror, and a pinch of cinnamon.

  1. Light your candle and gaze at yourself in the mirror.

  2. Sprinkle cinnamon in a circle around the mirror.

  3. Say aloud: “I see my power. I feel my fire. I shine with confidence.”

Let the candle burn down safely.

🔥 Emma’s Fire & Flow

Stretch, Sound, and Gratitude

This month’s soul flow is all about gentle energy.

🧘‍♀️ Gentle Stretches:

  • Neck rolls

  • Seated twist

  • Cat-cow flow

📝 Gratitude Writing:

  • Write 3 things you are proud of

  • Write 3 ways you’ve been resilient

  • Write 1 thing you want to celebrate today

Go all out, give yourself that flow of prasie and appreciation for who you are, honour who you came here to be. Radiate positivity.

🌗 Tarot Spread

Sunrise Story Rewrite

Use this 3-card pull to guide a new beginning:

Sunrise: What part of me is awakening now?
Midday Sun: What strength do I already hold?
Sunset: What can I leave behind with love?

🌟 Enchanted and Obsessed

Release and remember

Here’s what we’re loving this month:

🔮 Crystals: Yellow Calcite & Citrine
These sun-kissed beauties are bursting with solar plexus power.

✨ Yellow Calcite helps clear old patterns, boosts confidence, and gently energises your spirit. It’s perfect for times when you want to feel brighter from the inside out. Hold it during meditation or place it on your solar plexus to awaken your inner fire.
✨ Citrine is pure sunshine in crystal form. Known as the stone of abundance and joy, it’s a powerful ally for manifesting success, feeling radiant, and staying upbeat. Pop one on your desk or carry it in your bag to invite in golden energy throughout your day.

📖 Book: The Wild Unknown Journal by Kim Krans
This isn’t your average journal. It’s a deeply intuitive, beautifully illustrated space to connect with your inner world.
With raw, poetic prompts and lots of open space, it invites you to feel rather than analyse. Ideal for those who want to draw, scribble, release, and reflect, it’s like entering a sacred cave of self-discovery with a torch in your hand.

🌿 Ritual: Affirmations on Leaves into Water
Write a powerful affirmation on a leaf, something like “I am held by the universe” or “My light is safe here.” Then, release it into a stream, river, or the ocean.

As the water carries it away, feel your intention travelling with it, carried by nature to wherever it’s needed.

This ritual connects your words to the elements, Earth (the leaf), Water (the release), Air (the breath you take), and Fire (your solar intention). A beautiful practice for letting go and trusting the flow.

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💌 With Sacred Love

Something Sacred Is Stirring…

Starting 1 September, The Tarocle will be reborn.
Both the free newsletter and her deeper, wilder sister Secrets, Spreads & Spells are uniting under one glowing flame -
✨ Soul Fire Feminine Edition ✨

From September, all four monthly editions (yes, one every week!) will be available for just £1/month.
That’s four beautifully-crafted, magick-rich, soul-nourishing editions, delivered to your inbox like sacred scrolls.

What’s inside the new Soul Fire Edition? In addition to the amazing content we already share in The Tarocle you will also receive -
🕯️ Printable spells + ritual pages for your grimoire
🌿 Moon phase self-care to support you through every cycle
🔮 Tarocle spreads and affirmations
🖤 Shadow work prompts + tarot journal downloads
🧙‍♀️ Sneak peeks, behind-the-scenes and exclusive extras just for our circle

This shift is born from the love you’ve shown both editions, and now we want to offer even more, for even less.

Important Note:
If you’re currently a subscriber (free or paid), your subscription will not automatically renew or carry over.
Everyone will need to manually resubscribe to join Soul Fire Feminines. No one will be charged unless they opt in.


Your next sacred cycle begins soon - and we’re so honoured to walk it with you.

✨ Remember you don’t have to identify as a woman to hold Soul Fire Feminine energy, it’s a force that lives within anyone ready to lead with intuition, softness, courage, and inner truth.

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✨Your feedback helps shape this sisterhood space, and your energy means the world to us.

Wrapped in love, steeped in gratitude, may your week ahead be blessed and beautifully magickal. ✨

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