Catie Golden Thread Collage

Golden Thread: Catie Santos de la Rosa | Divined December 2025

Cards: Eight of Coins, Five of Wands (Black Tarot); The Divine, Inspiration and Creativity, Peace (Elemental Alchemist Oracle); Be Still, Full Circle (Follow Your Heart Oracle); Rescue (The Awakened Soul Oracle); Black Moon Lilith in Virgo / Release Perfectionism, Nodes of the Moon / Release Clear and Align (Black Moon Lilith Cosmic Alchemy Oracle); She Who Flows, Water Codes (Healing Waters Oracle); Land Animal Earth (Alchemy Elements - Shaman Derek); Yemaya / Awakening (African Goddess Rising Oracle).

The piece is wide format. The upper half is a dramatic night sky with snow-capped mountains and stars. The lower half is open blue ocean water. At the center, a woman in a long pink ruffled dress stands in the water, her body arched and one arm raised upward, a long braided green and black serpentine rope winding around her body and trailing behind her. On the left, a vintage truck bed sits in the water overflowing with a massive arrangement of marigolds in orange, yellow, and red. On the right, a cactus shaped like an anatomical heart blooms with red roses and red fruit. Multiple moon phases in gold, cream, black, and dark tones float through the mid section. Nautilus and ammonite shell fossils float through the upper field. A golden cross shape appears in the upper left. On the left in blue handwritten text: RIDE THE WAVE. On the right in a bold ribbon banner: CHANGE IS SCARY BUT SO IS STAYING THE SAME. At the very bottom center in small script: be still and know.

The reading relayed a message centered in stillness, flow, creativity, and releasing the grip of perfectionism. The cards asked for slowing down enough to hear what is already known, for asking for help when it is needed, and for trusting that the changes coming are leading somewhere more fulfilling. Yemaya arrived as the goddess of awakening, calling for a deeper relationship with water and with the wisdom it carries. The Eight of Coins said keep honing the gifts and releasing the perfectionism around them. She Who Flows said embrace the obstacles as part of the path. And the Nodes of the Moon said the direction is already shifting and it is time to release what has been blocking the way.