This Week's Energy Is Turning Effort Into Abundance | April 24–May 1

If you've been waiting for a sign to finally go for it — this week's energy might be it. Welcome to the weekly reading, energy check and guidance for April 24–May 1.

The cards are highlighting:

• A golden opportunity — what you pour your energy into this week has serious potential
• Why spreading yourself too thin could cost you right now
• The inner compass you keep forgetting to consult
• A defensive moment coming — and how not to let it derail you
• A fresh start that's bigger than you're giving it credit for

You are guided. The question is — what are you finally ready to go all in on?

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Hey, beautiful soul, welcome in for your weekly reading and energy check for Friday, April 24 through Friday May 1. This is an amazing spread. So if you have been really having some creative energy moving in you, or you've been wanting to know, where is my creative energy, this just might be the answer for you. I am so excited for what we're about to talk about. This is all really good energy and happy. May this first card that we have is king of pentacles. Now this is a king sitting on his throne holding a golden pentacle, and this is reminding us that now is the time for moving things forward that have to do with your abundance. So if you have been thinking about a new project or an expansion of your business or adding some services to your business, for example, this might be the time to do it with this card. It is often said that this represents King Midas, and so for those of you that don't remember King Midas, everything he touches turns to gold. Now I wouldn't take this literally, although I wish, but I do think that anything that you are putting your energy into, pouring your life force into really allowing your creativity to express those things in the energy this week have an extra potential to really either take hold or to expand or to have success in ways that might be surprising. There's a little caution that comes with this card in the form of the next card, which is two of Pentacles. And this card literally shows a figure juggling two Pentacles with the infinity sign that goes between them, with two of Pentacles. One of the things we're being asked to remember, or to have as a heads up, really, is, yes, you have this ability to create and to become abundant right now and to really grow whatever it is you're pouring your attention into but just know that we can't always do all of the things all at once that we might like to do. So if you are really spreading your energy thin as part of this pouring in, just know you might really feel like you're juggling a lot right now, if you are really wanting to create something new for you. That might mean a choice in these two Pentacles that this figure is juggling. This might mean, well, you can't focus 100% of energy on two different things, so something's got to give, right? So this is a very give and take energy with this two of Pentacles. But it's not a bad heads up, because this figure eight, this infinity symbol that dances between these two Pentacles being juggled reminds us that abundance is an energy. It is not something that is static and unmoving, right? It's like water. It moves. There's a flow. What goes around comes around. We have seasons that we're having to till our garden and seasons that we're harvesting, we have times where the energy feels abundant and other times where we need to pull back. So a little caution and reminder about all of that with this wonderful news of the Midas touch king of pentacles, who doesn't love a king of pentacles in their life. And again, this could also be about someone close to you. So if this isn't you, but perhaps your partner, let's just say, is wanting to expand their business or wanting to take a promotion in their job. That could also be representative of this. And then the two of Pentacles would be the same heads up like something's going to have to give they might need more time and energy in their workspace. To create this abundance, you might then have to renegotiate some of the other duties that we share, for example. So this next card is wonderful news, alongside these Pentacles. This is the star now. This is a major arcana card, which means that it is a season of our life or for the collective we do have a guiding light right now, a North Star. So we can look at this a lot of ways. And there are several meanings that I want to share today as part of this reading. Just so you know, I won't always share every meaning of each card in every reading, because we are reading them specifically for the energy of the week. This star is reminding you that you have this compass within you. You can call it your intuition. You can call it your higher self. You can call it the God of your heart, whatever you like, but you are not swimming in the sea of vast confusion. You really do know what is in integrity for you in any given situation. As part of this Guiding Light, we're being asked to have temperance, which, if you can see the figure on the card, it is a woman who is kneel down on one knee, and she has two pitchers of water, one neither hand, and she's pouring one pitcher out onto the land and one pitcher into the water. So. Now this is reminding us that we have to have some version of ebb and flow between our earthly pursuits and our emotions, our emotional development, right? That's part of being guided. That's part of receiving our breadcrumbs. That's part of moving forward in an intuitively guided or a higher, divinely guided way. The other piece of this is remembering that there will be different seasons of different things to focus on with this card as part of this guidance. So sometimes something might not be moving as fast as we'd like, for example, and then all of a sudden, pick up speed. I do feel like this is a picking up speed week, just for the record, but reminding you that there is some version of balance or give and take that's going to need to be a part of your either spiritual practice, personal practice, scheduling practice. So it's a beautiful card with a little bit of warning of just remembering that it's not always all one way, but that you are divinely guided. So if you are feeling like you need to search for answers, remember to search within. Remember to get an integrity with yourself, to really tune into your beliefs in any given situation, the person that you're wanting to grow into becoming more of, and pause and connect in with that divine guidance that you have access to, and know that you really are moving as part of your plan and what your soul wants you to experience as part of all this. Now there's a caution card that follows, and then another exciting, fun card. So this caution card here is seven of wands. In the picture on the card is depicted a person. She's female in this depiction, and she's holding a wand. I think I said wand, it's seven of wands, if I said seven of swords, and she's holding this wand, and there are these other wands, six of them pouring towards her with no figures behind them. They kind of look like they're just standing at different heights. But she is on guard as if she is being attacked by these swords. She is not being attacked by these swords. So part of what I know here, with the rest of this spread, is this is a little bit of an echo of a continuation of last week, when we were being asked to look from different perspectives in an overarching way. This time, we're being asked to look from different perspectives in a day to day way. While it might feel like someone's feedback is aggressive or is less than constructive, could you see it from a different perspective and take any granules of worth out of what they have to say, even if it feels not great in the overall right, could you look at people who are disagreeing with your opinion with either compassion, or could you get neutral? Or could you realize that it's not your job to fight every battle to argue out every point entirely, and you might be feeling just a little defensive or a little on edge this week, or someone around you might be so the reason it's important to know this is because then we can choose how we respond. So pause. You might receive an email or a communication or, like I said, some feedback about something that you're really passionate about or that's important to you, and you might feel on guard. You might feel your initial response. Might be offended, pause. Look from a different perspective. See if you can either have some time or you can take some space with it. See if you can ask someone that's a wise advisor of how to better use this information than to just let it make you angry or defensive or want to fight back, because that is rarely the best solution. But as the most wonderful news you have in this next card, the option to make a whole new choice. This next card is the fool, and this is us this year. We are still in this one year. Collectively, we are all stepping out onto new parts of our journey, new parts of our path, coming into ourselves. Even more, this is also a major arcana, so it's a collective overarching energy. This week, there might be some whole New Beginnings that we are not fully expecting or that are just bubbling up. This could be things like changes with people in positions of power. This could be things around changing of Alliance or allegiance, right? This is a whole new chapter, fresh start, new beginning type of energy. So I just want to put that little bit out there. But then I want to come back to this first card, this king of pentacles. And maybe this is you starting a new business, or starting a whole next chapter or new location of your existing business. Maybe this is you really deciding, oh, I want to pursue this passion of mine. Or. Creative pursuit, or I really want to give all of my time in this direction, maybe not all of your time. But you know what I mean? I really want to give my time in this direction and start this whole new undertaking, right? So it doesn't have to be a complete 180 or a complete upheaval, but it is something that's starting, that's new and fresh and exciting. And the the cards here are doubling down on this fact that we are being guided. Because in this card, alongside this fool stepping out, kind of onto a cliff, with the city in the background, sun shining down, there is a little tiny dog at their heel. It kind of looks like a wiener dog puppy. It's so cute. And this represents our spirit guides, our team us, not being alone those on the other side that are cheering us on. So I love that this is such a happy, wonderful, good news card. But we're being shown twice in this spread that, hey, you have an internal compass. You know what is right for you and what you want to align yourself with and who you're becoming in this next stepping out and you are guided along the way. So let me know what is shifting or pivoting or coming to the surface for you this week. What are you touching that you're hoping to turn to gold this week? Leave it in the comments wherever you're watching or listening to this. And if you want to see the video version, remember it's available on my website, joyful medium.com, in the blog section, and I will see you. Those of you that are listening via spirit speakeasy podcast, I'll see you all on Monday for our next scheduled podcast episode. Big hugs. Lots of love. Bye for now you.