I've been pulling the Queen of Swords for SO many folks lately, and she was a real guiding force — and my ally card — in 2025. So I know her message pretty well. To help you if you're dancing with her energy this year, I'm reading my chapter on her from my upcoming book, Tarot for People Pleasers and Perfectionists: How to Use the Cards to Make Better Decisions, Set Boundaries, and Finally Trust Yourself. Enjoy!

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive Substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com or Instagram @catherineandrews.

What do orienting your morning routine to include pleasure and safety have to do with healing physical health conditions? More than you might think. Tune in to hear a story about why you might want to think about starting your day with a cookie and a book.

The Nourished Healer has one spot left and we start Jan. 21. Read more here.

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive Substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com or Instagram @catherineandrews.

Welcome to your Tarot for 2026 year ahead forecast! I asked the cards several questions about this coming turn on the wheel, so let’s get into it…

2026 brings a collective shift out of isolation and survival mode and into movement, agency, and light. While the energy is more expansive, the main challenges ahead are internal: comparison, self-doubt, shame, and “not enoughness.”

Through cards like the Five of Cups reversed, Wheel of Fortune, Star, and Pages of Pentacles and Cups, this reading explores emotional healing, devotion to meaningful work, rebuilding intuition, and the return to local community. The medicine of the year asks you to ground deeply, trust divine timing, choose kinder inner language, and create purpose slowly and devotionally.

With Eagle Spirit as a guide, 2026 invites you to rise with courage, perspective, and trust — becoming a grounded leader and healer in your own life and community.

If you liked this forecast, know I do these Tarot readings every week for paid subscribers, and I have a 20% off sale going on until January 10 — making it just $60 for the entire year of The New Sensitive.

New Workshop: How to make your first 10k in your healing, creative or spiritual business in 2026; $44, Tuesday, January 13, 7pmET (replay provided) inside mine and Missy’s Trust the Universe membership.

The most important message for 2026 for my podcast and Substack listeners: 5 of Cups reversed, Ace of Pentacles, 3 of Pentacles

Our ally card for 2026: Wheel of Fortune

How 2026 will feel: Five of Swords and the Star

The medicine of 2026: Page of Pentacles

The most important aligned action to focus taking in 2026: Page of Cups

A message of support from your guides for 2026: Six of Wands

Answering a question on your heart about 2026: Queen of Cups

The animal wisdom that will guide us in 2026: Eagle

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive Substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com or Instagram @catherineandrews.

The mood swings. The fatigue. The anxiety and looping thoughts. The burnout that hits, again and again. The long-term chronic symptoms or autoimmune diagnosis that no one can quite explain (Lyme, mold, long COVID, CFS, MCAS). The disrupted sleep. Migraines. The sudden weight changes. The bloating or digestive issues. The exhaustion. The hormones that feel all over the place.

Why does being a highly sensitive person sometimes feel like your body is betraying you? And what if I told you it wasn’t betraying you: it’s SIGNALING to you. Signaling danger, confusion, protection. And that it doesn’t have to be this way? Once you learn to signal safety to your nervous system and body, with the right nutrition, environment, and nervous system approaches, your body can relax.

That's what I'm discussing in today's podcast, as well as introducing Signals of Safety, my new six-month health and healing small group container that starts January 21.

Signals of Safety is a six-month healing program for highly sensitive people navigating chronic illness, mysterious symptoms, burnout, adrenal and energy issues, and hormonal imbalance. It’s a supportive, science-backed, holistic container where HSPs learn the nutrition, lifestyle, and nervous-system tools that help you rebuild energy, stabilize mood, reduce symptoms, and finally feel safe and steady in your body again.

Read more about SoS here, and reach out through the form on that page if it feels like a right fit for you.

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive Substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com or Instagram @catherineandrews.

One of the questions I get asked about most is a combo of "How can I leave my soul-sucking job to start my own creative or healing business?" plus "How can I do this when I don't have a way to bridge the gap the income?" I address this question with the help of Tarot today, because this is a huge theme I see coming for 2026: It's time to quit, re-evaluate, or somehow seriously shift your soul-sucking job, for sure, so you can step into purpose. That message has been coming through loud and clear the last few months.

What if you could view this act of leaving the safety of traditional employment, which terrifies most of us HSPs, as a spiritual practice? Of faith, of trust, of believing you have a divine mission on your heart?

In today's episode, I do a message from your higher selves about leaving your job, and also share 5 reasons I think that quitting your corporate job is one of the most spiritual things you could ever do.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

Upcoming offerings:

• Signals of Safety, my 6 month HSP health small group, is open for enrollment.
• Want some more personalized spiritual guidance for 2026? I am offering, for the first-time ever, Your Year Ahead intuitive readings! Book here, limited spots. (Open until the end of January)
• New Workshop: How to Use Tarot to Guide Your Year Ahead: Join me Saturday, January 3, 12pmET (replay provided) for a 90-minute workshop where I’ll guide you through using Tarot as a reflective tool to plan your year. Together, we’ll explore the Wheel of Fortune — the collective card for 2026 — and what its themes of change, trust, and destiny might mean for you personally. I’ll also show you how to find out your personal card of the year, how to pick an ally card for 2026, and how to do a 12-month spread. $33
• Mine and Missy’s Italy September 2026 retreat will be focused on divine feminine leadership and how to activate it in these coming times. (We need to update the copy for the website to reflect that, but you can find all details here.)
• I am so excited to announce I’ll be teaching live in Washington, DC, in a half day retreat! Create Your Intentional Life is a 4-hour workshop at Flow Yoga in Logan Circle I am co-hosting with Megan Brackett, movement teacher and coach. We’ll spend the afternoon together in a cozy, candle-lit space—moving, journaling, reflecting, and casting visions for what you want to call in during 2026. 15 spots, register here.

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive Substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

Want to ask Catherine a Q for an upcoming Q&A episode? Submit anonymously here.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com or Instagram @catherineandrews.

This month’s intuitive reading is an invitation into ease, joy, pleasure, and feminine healing. December carries a soft but powerful energy, one that asks you to stop gripping so tightly and let yourself be supported and have some dang fun. We explore what becomes possible when you stop pushing, stop proving, and start receiving. What if your life got to be easier than you’ve ever allowed? This reading also brings through themes of courage, boldness, and authenticity. As the year closes, you’re being asked to show up as who you really are—not the polished version, not the “safe” version, but the truest, most aligned expression of you. And finally, a message from Eagle arrives with clarity, vision, and higher perspective. Eagle reminds you to rise above the noise, reconnect with your spiritual eyesight, and trust the path unfolding beneath you—even if it doesn’t look linear.

Oracle deck used: The Spirit Animal Oracle Deck

Reflection prompts for December:

• What do you want your inner child to know about how wonderful and magical they are? What do you wish for them in 2026?'
• If December got to be easy, what would that look like? Write out as if the month unfolded and everything was easeful and joyful

Offerings:

• Want some more personalized spiritual guidance for 2026? I am offering, for the first-time ever, Your Year Ahead intuitive readings! Book here, limited spots. (Open until the end of January)
• New Workshop: How to Use Tarot to Guide Your Year Ahead: Join me Saturday, January 3, 12pmET (replay provided) for a 90-minute workshop where I’ll guide you through using Tarot as a reflective tool to plan your year. Together, we’ll explore the Wheel of Fortune — the collective card for 2026 — and what its themes of change, trust, and destiny might mean for you personally. I’ll also show you how to find out your personal card of the year, how to pick an ally card for 2026, and how to do a 12-month spread. $33
• Mine and Missy’s Italy September 2026 retreat will be focused on divine feminine leadership and how to activate it in these coming times. (We need to update the copy for the website to reflect that, but you can find all details here.)
• I am so excited to announce I’ll be teaching live in Washington, DC, in a half day retreat! Create Your Intentional Life is a 4-hour workshop at Flow Yoga in Logan Circle I am co-hosting with Megan Brackett, movement teacher and coach. We’ll spend the afternoon together in a cozy, candle-lit space—moving, journaling, reflecting, and casting visions for what you want to call in during 2026. 15 spots, register here.

The New Sensitive podcast is a spin-off of The New Sensitive substack, a weekly newsletter that helps highly sensitives thrive in body and soul with accessible health, wellness and spiritual practices.

You can find Catherine on her website catherinedandrews.com, or @catherineandrews on Instagram.

Hey there, sensitive ones! I'm back... ish. After a nearly 1.5 year hiatus, this podcast will be returning in 2026 with a new look, a new name, and a new orientation on content. Tune in to hear all about it, as well as some other life changes and updates that have flowed in.

Don't forget to sign up for my free new moon in Scorpio circle tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 20, 8pmET (replay provided). We'll do Tarot, journaling, and yoga nidra. If it's what your heart has been yearning for, then it's time to check out my upcoming Sedona 2026 retreat before early bird prices go up on December 1st.

You can read about the Substack and podcast changes I reference at this link.

Hey Soothers! This is audio from my group call today inside the Imperfect Artist's Way. It was a message about capability, power, compassion, struggles with shame and the highly sensitive person's nervous system. Something in me told me more folks needed to hear it, so I share this audio with you today. It includes a Tarot reading, a bit of a lecture, a nervous system exercise, journaling and a meditation.