spiritual

How To Make A Love Spell Jar

January 31, 2022

My new found interest in divination and spirituality has brought me to spell jars, specifically love spell jars for February! What I like best is that unlike Valentine’s Day, the focus of these love spell jars is not solely on romantic relationships. They can seek self-love and platonic connections with others as well. Read below for a list of recommended ingredients and links for where to get them!

Love Spell Jar Ingredients

Love Spell Jar Instructions

Charge your crushed rose quartz crystals (clean with water while focusing on an affirmation, leave them out in the moonlight the night before, etc.)
Cleanse your glass bottle with a smudge stick (I like these white sage smudge sticks and this cast iron stand)
Add the Pink Himalayan Salt and sugar as a bottom base
Add the crushed rose quartz crystals and flower petals

BONUS: write down a love affirmation and/or desire to roll up and place inside the jar as you’re building the layers

Disclaimer: the links in this post are through RewardStyle and will provide me with a small commission if the item is bought. I appreciate everything that makes Sweating Champagne possible!

Each Ingredient’s Purpose

Pink Himalayan Salt: removes negative blockages, protects relationships, and promotes love
Sugar: used to attract others, bring in happiness
Rose Quartz: the stone of love, emotional healing, and trust. Used to reawaken the heart chakra.
Red Rose Petals: represents passion, physical attraction, and strength

New Year Tarot Card Reading

January 10, 2022

Happy New Year! What’s on your list of wishes and affirmations? I’m starting out 2022 with learning how to use crystals and tarot cards in my everyday lifestyle. It’s something I’ve been interested in for awhile, and now feels like the right timing! My shopping spree to buy supplies has spread across Etsy and Amazon, including this beautiful Stardust Tarot Card Deck from Terra Soleil. The deck includes 78 traditional cards of major and minor arcana as well as a guide book. The cards are literally gorgeous.

My 2022 Tarot Card Reading

Tarot cards can be used for daily, lunar, new year readings and more. It’s important to have your question or questions prepared before pulling your cards. For the new year, I decided to pull nine cards associated with nine questions in a stack of 2, 3, 4. Read what they are below!

My New Year Questions

How am I entering into the new year?
What part of myself should I work to unlock this year?
What obstacle lies before me?
How can I prepare to overcome that obstacle?
What message does the new year have for me?
How will I connect with others this year?
What skills will be most useful to my career this year?
How can I better take care of myself this year?
How do I need to grow spiritually this year?

My New Year Reading Results

1. How am I entering into the new year?

Strength: vitality, confidence, power. This card is most commonly associated with triumph over an injury, disease, or traumatic life obstacle. It can also symbolize inner willpower and determination.

2. What part of myself should I work to unlock this year?

Knight of Wands: charming, brave, heroic. This card urges you to go after your ideas and manifest them into existence. It also denounces fear and urges you to be bold and fearless.

My Interpretation

I ended 2021 with new knowledge towards my mental health and what I need in a relationship. I completed two months of partial hospitalization where I learned how to better manage symptoms and received validation of others my age also living with Bipolar Disorder. Months later I received my PTSD diagnosis and learned that some of my sensory sensitivities stem from those past events. Knowledge is power, and power is strength. This year I need to continue being brave and stay true to what I need in a relationship. This includes clearly communicating my deal breakers and boundaries with others. All of this requires myself to be bold, fearless, and forget my fear of not being able to connect with another person romantically.

3. What obstacle lies before me?

Justice: balance, fairness, truth. This card represents the need for accountability. It symbolizes moral truth and offers fairness and ethics to solutions of corruption.

4. How can I prepare to overcome that obstacle?

Wheel of Fortune: destiny, luck, opportunity. This card symbolizes the denial of chance and the fatality which is implied from its existence. It can also indicate good luck and the circle of life.

5. What message does the new year have for me?

The Hermit: solitude, reflection, peace. The card represents spiritual reflection and introspection. It can symbolize the discovery of the self through the intimate analysis of one’s life.

My Interpretation

Many times in my life I have found myself feeling misunderstood, or someone that no one will truly understand. An obstacle that I have found is expecting others to be just as honest and blunt as I am, when many are not. Forgetting this can tip the scale in what I feel is fair within a conversation or a relationship. I’m still figuring our how the Wheel of Fortune and opportunity will play in to overcoming this obstacle, but I agree with The Hermit that the discovery of the self will continue to help me move forward in everything I do.

6. How will I connect with others this year?

Five of Pentacles: hardship, recession, poverty. This symbolizes economic turmoil and financial hardship. Bad business investments and unemployment are characteristic with this card as well as divorce or scandal within the familial sphere.

7. What skills will be most useful to my career this year?

Queen of Pentacles: business, prosperity, loyalty. This card represents a kind and thoughtful woman with a strong head on her shoulders. This is typically a woman with a dawn to earth and nurturing spirit.

8. How can I better take care of myself this year?

The Chariot: drive, ambition, success. This is a card that embodies the importance of determination and willpower. It represents the conquering of internal and external conflicts. It also represents victory and divine evolution over time.

9. How do I need to grow spiritually this year?

Four of Swords: anxiety, stress, sanctuary. This is typically associated with introspection, anxiety, and fear. It may suggest that your personal emotions are clouding your better judgement, making you prone to irrational decisions. Having a support system is vital.

My Interpretation

I’m not going to lie, the Five of Pentacles has me sweatin’ a bit. My take is that someone close will have a hardship that I will be there for to connect with them, or vice versa. When looking at my career, I hope that I do come across as a thoughtful team player who will prosper. I’m looking forward to continuing on the business path I am currently on. Without a doubt, conquering internal and external conflicts, especially those related to stress and anxiety, will be a way for me to better take care of myself. Acceptance towards these conflicts will be the key to move on.

I can’t wait for the rest of the year and the readings to come! Happy 2022

What It’s Like To Get Your Aura Read

April 19, 2019

I feel like I’m super into spiritual discoveries and analysis right now. Anyone else catching that vibe?? My most recent spiritual investigation was having a private aura photography reading. The private session included having my photograph taken and discussing what my aura colors meant afterwards. There was even a little bit of channeling! Read below for more information on my experience and where to get your aura read in Chicago.

What is an Aura Photography Reading?

Aura photography readings are when a photograph is taken of you while your hands are being read on panels to – literally – analyze your aura through colors. The colors that come to surface are a visual snapshot of your current energy. They can also show what you are attracting into your life within the next 3-6 months! Pretty cool, right?

Aura Photography Readings with Revealing Soul

Revealing Soul, a spiritual – and super sweet – guide named Cindy Luffred, is located in the city of Chicago. Her sessions are run out of her apartment in the Gold Coast neighborhood, which provides a very calm and homey atmosphere for the experience. Her apartment, by the way, is the most gorgeously decorated apartment I have ever been in #goals. Private Aura Photography sessions are $55 each for 20 minutes. While this might seem like a short period of time, the session is jam packed of great information. There is also a group option available, as well as private and group for Channeled Medium Readings.

What Happens in a Private Session?

I choose to do a Private Aura Photography session with Revealing Soul – and I’m so glad I did! The session began promptly with me arriving at Cindy’s apartment, sitting on a bench, and placing my hands/palms flat on two panel readers. I then stared into the aura photography machine for about 10 seconds, with my hands still on the plates, while it read my aura and took my picture. The image popped out like a Polaroid! Cindy took me to the kitchen where we sat and chatted about my image results – and Kate Spade iphone cases :). She had me record her analysis on my phone, which I am SO THANKFUL for. There’s no way I could remember everything on my own! I recommend doing the same, you’ll want to catch every bit of information.

What Do the Colors Mean?

The meaning of colors in an aura photo is a little different for everyone based on where they are located on your body, what side of the image they land, and how much of a color there is. There were many colors that showed in my aura photo – remember, there are no bad ones! – however gold and yellow were very predominant for me. Read below for my specific analysis of each color based on where they are located on the photo!

Colors To The Left, To The Left (Cue Beyonce)

Colors to the left show what you are working on today. These could be things you have been going through and things you have been thinking about a lot lately. Gold and yellow were my two predominant colors to the left of my aura photograph. Gold can be a “golden opportunity” is around the corner. Since I have a lot of it, it can also mean that there is a transition or change of some sort in which I need to go with the flow. The yellow symbolizes leaving behind the feeling of “being stuck” energy and ushering in a new phase or chapter.

Colors To The Right

Colors to the right are what you are attracting in within the next 3-6 months. Your actions and thoughts today are attracting your future reality! Colors above the head symbolize what the universe is bringing in. This is why it is always important to think positive. Striping (between the blue and green on my photo to the right) literally means a move or a change is coming. This can be moving apartments (we are thinking of moving), switching jobs or titles, getting a new certificate, etc. It symbolizes giving “birth” to something new. A new chapter is about to start and help get rid of all the “stuck” energy.

Colors Above & Everywhere Else

Colors above the head and everywhere else is what the universe is bringing in as your “theme” for the year. Above consisted of A LOT more yellow and gold – surprise, surprise. There was, however, also pink. Pink brings in love, joy, and romance. Pink above the head means that I will meet someone new. Now before you freak out, meeting someone new is not always romantic. This could be a new best friend, mentor, boss, etc. I also had pink over my mind and heart, symbolizing that I am ready to take the next step in my relationship. My inner child wants to be a wife, but also wants to make sure my career is fulfilling. While discussing this Cindy picked up that Vince and I were school sweethearts!

Purple over your stomach symbolized that I was very spiritual, had great intuition, and a spot-on gut feeling. While these are great skills to have, my head can sometimes get in the way, even though my feelings towards something is usually always right. People with this are usually a good resource for others that want insight and an honest opinion. They can tune into others’ energies.

Orange shows someone who is very creative and could be a great entrepreneur. Where I am now is not my forever job – her words! – and while I like the work I am doing, an opportunity is presenting itself to welcome change.

White streaks mean that I am doing what I need to do and I am where I need to be. This was reassuring! The one thing Cindy mentioned as a ‘need’ was a need for more balance. Having a lot of colors is great, however a balance between them could be better.

What Was Unexpected

During the photograph analysis, Cindy also gave me a small taste of channeling. This is where she picks up on other, more specific energy that I am giving off. The most unexpected channeling moment was when she asked if I had a grandma that passed. My Grandma McHugh passed last year, and it is honestly still a sensitive subject for me. Cindy said she saw roses, and I explained how my grandma loved to garden and that flowers and butterflies remind me of her. Believe what you want, but I was totally caught off guard, and in awe, with this!

Was It Worth It?

Absolutely. Not only is aura photography reading a unique experience, it is also catered specifically to you. This means that no two readings will be alike, which is pretty cool. For those that are like me, always looking for truth and insight, this was a relaxing and validating experience that I would absolutely do again. I would even try one of Cindy’s channeling sessions!