In the garden of life, she finds herself at a door. Above the door sits the Muse of Materials, reflected in all of nature. She whispers from the flowers, the grasses… the trees… she flitters with the birds and babbles in the creeks. The Muse of Materials uses all the materials of the earth to bring her world to form. She looks down at the small traveller and offers a lesson of manifesting and abundance, “Sweet creator, these things are yours for the taking and the using. The fusing and the gentle forming. Your harvest, little sprout, arises from the earth, so ground into her low humming energy and breathe in her humidity and warmth.” The traveller takes a small step towards the gardens of light and treasures, and commits to watering, healing, dancing and loving as much as she can. She commits to her own undoing and re-becoming. She commits to her own love and abundance. She commits to being open to it all, and the pathway opens up for her. Material success and joys are arriving! The Muse promises a pathway of so much wealth for those who are willing to live in her inspired love. Seek the grounding energy of her earthly delights, and know that your own fertile lands are blooming now.

Strong and loving, determined and courageous, this Queen stands beneath a poster of her upcoming Prosperity and Ascension premiere. The other Muses lovingly tease her about her larger-than-life self-promos, but she knows that she must walk the talk in order to model the path to self-love and acceptance. She wants to nurture this in all of us – this path to wealth, health and joyful abundance, but her unconditional love means she will always teach us how to do it for ourselves instead of simply gifting us prosperity. She will shower us with warm, nutritious meals and freshly dried linens to keep our spirits up, and offer a limitless supply of opportunity for comfort and security. She wants us to learn how to be independent and accountable within her safety net of life. She reminds you to lean on family and to nurture those around you. She loves to see all of her children succeed, and she reminds us that loyalty, trust-worthiness and a steady, down-to-earth approach will always help move us in the right direction.

This knight loves to cultivate the fields of his success. He takes great joy in tilling the soil and removing the tiniest of weeds, and he finds such gratification tending to the smallest of details, knowing that they will make a difference in the future. He runs through his little patch of soil, every day, and he works towards his harvest in a consistent manner. Purposeful. He once tried to take great risks with his fields, working in long, sleepless spurts and with giant showy plants that would reap even bigger rewards. Most of the large plants withered when his worries about his income overtook his ability to just be. To just do. To just find happiness in the simple movement of life. He soon found that he was much happier without the splashy accolades, and that he was infinitely more confident with his beautiful little succulents… the ones that offered guaranteed, stable success, whenever he was consistent. While his tasks may seem like a hum-drum routine to some, he finds great Zen and relaxation in a task well-done. Meaning. He is more than satisfied with his growing collection of beautiful plants, watered and loved – sunned and birthed with his energy. Finding the right routine for his style of care, and choosing the right plants for his style of watering made all the difference in the world to his harvest and his happiness. And he watches them grow… knowing that someday he will be well taken care of, because of the them.

She’s been working on new skills and manifesting her future into being, and she allows us to witness her, mid-manifest. This Page of Materials has thought about what she wants, felt it… dreamed it up and now she’s ready to bring all of that energy to form and give it a shape. She is delighted to share the good news with you – that this earth magick is here for all of us to tap into. These new opportunities and beginnings that are sprouting in your life have so much potential to become beautiful roses that mark triumph and success. Tap into the youthful and prosperous energy that’s available to you right now, and play, learn, study, explore and practice. Keep working your way up, leaf by leaf. Embody and ground this magickal creator energy, and diligently grow into your ideal state of love.

Everyone wins with the material success of the 10 of Materials. This Muse shows up as beauty and abundance in ways that benefit the seeker, the manifestor and the group. She showers down blessings of love and hope through the gifts of nurturing food, vitality and health, financial prosperity and gifts of joy and generosity. She is the Muse of legacy and material things, and she offers windows of wealth that will benefit the whole community for lifetimes of wonder. Here, she has blessed them, and they honour her by eating and dancing together. By stepping into wholeness and compassion. They honour her by making a seat for generosity at their table. They honour her by lifting others up who may not have had the same opportunities or blessings in their lifetime. They honour her, fully, by living in the spirit of abundance, and by trusting this perpetual love. They trust that they are held in this cycle of flow. The diligence and perseverance that they have put into the earth came back to them 3 times over, and so there is ample harvest to share and much more on the way. They sway and sing a tale of gratitude, and for the love of all existences. They sway, knowing that their own individual intentions for the greater good of all lies at the heart of earthly abundance. They become her people. Her creatures. Her love.

The Muse drops infinite blessings into the situation, and not because she didn’t want to do it earlier, but because the shell –the protective facade– hat the hardworking 9 of Materials had constructed around her has finally dropped away. Her mask faded as soon as she realized that it didn’t truly protect her from any harsh realities of the outside world, and that her own internal light was the only way to the infinite safety and success that she craved. She didn’t need to fake this status, or covet this prosperity. She simply had to step into her garden of creature comforts after doing the work required. She did the work, happily, and now her harvest is here. The Muse smiles, “Dance sweet light, and rejoice in this deserved success. You have discovered this comfort through your own exploration.” The 9 of Pentacles dances like a child, and radiates the contentment of knowing who she is. She radiates with purpose. Vitality. Presence. And with so much love. The world around her responds in tune, and begins to fluctuate and waver, bringing even more of this material essence onto her path. She vibrates her core lessons so very brightly, “Walking in the world as nothing but yourself, and doing things your way, with your heart, will create a funnel for material magic and success.”

In any journey there are pauses… places to re-think, re-establish and re-direct. Stepping onto her timeline, she waits patiently, ready to reap the rewards she sowed in the past. And she knows they are almost ready. Her gut tells her. Her heart tells her. She knows.
In the lucidity of the pause, she realizes that her lace has come undone. She ties it up slowly, knowing it would have tripped her up in the future had she not taken notice now. She’s grateful. Graceful. Mindful. And she’s moving through the reverberations of yesterday’s thoughts and actions, while sending out tomorrow’s reality with love, energy and intention. She steps into liminal space and puts herself squarely in the present. She knows that this plateau serves as a beautiful break to breathe and take stock. ‘Deep breathe in, you’ve come so far!’ Even though she’s not there yet, her timeline is moving quickly now, even if she can’t see it. It’s time to make another order with the Universe. To evaluate. To assess. And to keep on keepin’ on. Her beautiful roses are coming.

The Muse whispers, “Sacred mirrors are all around, and when the energy flows in perfect balance, all parties are served, loved, found, helped, seen, appreciated and empowered.” She reminds us that we live in a duplicity that strives to distribute resources (and power!) between the states of having and having-not – and between gifting and being gifted. She shows you that needing to receive and needing to give aren’t all that different, besides your perception of who you think you are when you are standing in either spot. Imbalances of energy can arise from holding on to things too tightly (stagnation) and not being able to hold on to them at all (too fleeting.) And both can stem from a mindset that’s rooted in scarcity. “Give freely… share…. open your gentle generosity, and give of your time, energy and money.” From the simplest kindnesses from strangers that we receive to the most generous of charity we offer, the health of an energetic system takes all of our giving and receiving into account. From a bird’s eye view, the energy should look like a balanced river. You can choose to share or to ask for assistance at this time, as this Muse reminds you that the flow in and the flow out should be consciously created.

The Muse spots her sleeping outside of the gates of flow and abundance. She’s cried herself to sleep, believing that she hasn’t been granted access to this entrance. She is dangerously close to the edge, wrapped in little more than a thinly worn sheet of self-worth and memories of better days. She has been having a hard time, this little spark, and is withering quickly. She holds a tiny light of hope close to her as she sleeps, but it is so very dim that the Muse wonders if she can still see it. It certainly doesn’t look bright enough to light her way into the hall. With a helping hand, the Muse paints bright roses on the entrance to make it more obvious and much easier to find, and she nudges the small creature to safety. The Muse knows that the entrance is closer than her sleeping companion can imagine right now, and hopefully, when she wakes, she will make the choice to enter the doorway of acceptance and well-being, and begin to heal the rift that has grown so wide… between the wealth and health that she desires… and the life that she has wrapped herself up in.

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda