End of Year Housekeeping

Life and Substack Updates

Happy New Year, friends!

I am wishing you all nothing but the best for this year of strength, 2024. Strength is a card of confidence, of joy, of the sun. We are all being asked to become the leaders of our own lives this year. Even if you have dependents, you can still put up the boundaries that allow you to take care of yourself. It won’t always be easy, but collectively, we femmes need to be filling our own cups instead pouring from our ever depleting reserves. My wish for you is that this year be exactly what it needs to be, and that you come out of it on the other side feeling and experiencing joy, relief, love, and success.

This week has been an absolute shit show to say they least. I am exhausted, and in the spirit of the message above, I will be taking the first two days back to school off. I will be making my sub plans and resting. I have been triggered nonstop, and I need time to process. Chiron went direct and really said, “You will deal with your family and the wounds.”

On Thursday, I got a text from my dad saying, “Can you give me a ride home? My car is on fire. I’m fucked.” Well, I don’t have a car, but my partner does, and we did indeed do the 3 hour round trip to make sure my dad (whom I haven’t seen in person for longer than 20 seconds in 8 years) and his dog were safe. I came home and cried and cried. Grateful to the friends who lift me up and energetically cuddle me until I feel like I can function. I love you.

Friday, my mom texts me out of the blue and says, “We’re 20 minutes out.” From where? Me? Lord have mercy! I’d been trying to get a plan out of her for 3 days. three days, y’all and nothing until 20 minutes before she arrived. We get a mile from my apartment, and my brother (autistic and tall) jumps out of the car while we were in a drive thru, and he puked for a good minute straight on a random lawn. Our mom just sat there and didn’t even offer to help him. I hopped out once it was safe, and I went to help him and make sure no one called the cops on him.

I offered my apartment so he could lie down and rest, which he readily agreed to. As I relayed this plan, our mother decides that he should be fine now that he’s done emptying his stomach, and she thinks he should drive around with us... what? WHAT? I put my foot down, and we took him back to my place to rest.

This year will be a year of figuring out how to support myself and my brother because neither of us will survive if our parents stay involved. My Chiron in Cancer demands it, and I can no longer avoid the calls.

Why did I tell you the above? In order to care for my brother, I will need to be working on building up my business so I can work from home with more consistency. In order to help do that, I am going to start monetizing my Substack.

On January 15th, I am going to activate the payment plan for $5. For $5/mo, you will get access to the astrological season tarot spreads that I am no longer putting on Instagram starting with Aquarius Season. You will get the spread in your e-mail instead, or if you want to order the Creativity Journal by

Dianna Manjarrez

, you can access them there as well. If you have pledged the $5/mo but no longer want to do that, you have the opportunity to bow out.

I am also considering a $20/mo subscription where you can get the above and a new moon reading with 6 oracle decks and a PDF with an image representing each card that you can use as an altar, journaling, etc. Please let me know if you’d be interested in this.

I want 2024 to be a year of new opportunities for me. I have a couple of exciting things lined up and planned. I am hoping to travel more. I am hoping to really get The Oracle Portal off the ground. I am looking to read tarot professionally because I really and truly am passionate about tarot. I am more passionate about tarot and crystals and spirituality in general than I have ever been about anything. I would love for my life and path to really start heading in that direction. I want my practice to be at the forefront of my life this year. By September, I am hoping to be able to work half time or as a sub because my little business venture has taken off.

These are my hopes. I want to thank you for being here and supporting me and my dreams, and for helping make possible my supporting and caring for my brother. I love him a lot, and the situations we grew up in and that he is now in have not been ideal.

If you know someone who you think would enjoy my Substack, please feel free to share this with them or even consider gifting them a subscription. Thank you for being here.

Wishing you well this week! May your life offer what you need in this moment.

With love,

Aventurine ✨