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The Third Trimester

The fear, the pivots and breaking up with my tarot reader.

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Sally Patti
Nov 03, 2025
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Wow okay, how’s the shift?

Is it just me, or has Scorpio season already brought massive upheavals, unknown twists and turns, and dark days?

I heard that this month we’re going through multiple retrogrades. A sister said, “Stay low, we’re entering a time where triggers are brought to the surface and emotion runs wild.”

Not only is the cosmos having a tantrum, but last week I went and had a tarot reading that truly hijacked my energy field, and of course, all of this was coupled with the impending dive into the third trimester.

The shift is massive.

The weight I feel in my body, the tiredness, the puffed-out breath while talking… it’s all here. I was so loving the second trimester, and now that the third is here, I’m like, oh yeah, I’m pregnant and everything needs to slow down, thanks.

I have a few friends who had similar experiences during pregnancy. They went to tarot readers and were handed worst-case-scenario readings — ones where they were bleeding, screaming, and terrible things unfolded in birth.

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