July 2025 Angel Card Pull – Acceptance, Purification, Risk, and Flexibility
Here’s how the three-card pull works:
First Card: Reflects on lessons from the past and what you’re taking stock in.
Second Card: Focuses on what you’re cultivating in the present.
Third/Fourth Card: Represents the outcome of aligning past and present energies. Past + present = the outcome.
July 2025 Cards
Acceptance – Accept what is rather than adopting an illusion of how you want things to be.
Purification – Purification of the mind happens through reflection and contemplation.
Risk & Flexibility – I risk being flexible in my approach to life’s ups and downs.
About the Cards
Acceptance
We experience suffering when we resist what is. But like any practice, the more we return to acceptance, the more we feel it. Acceptance gives us the strength and power to act based on what is rather than what isn’t. When we don’t or can’t accept what is, we adopt an illusion of how we want things to be. But we can only control our own response to external factors. Others’ actions and feelings are not within our control to change.
Practice: Let your breath guide you back to yourself. Mindfully breathe. Close your eyes and focus on your breath. Feel the sensation of the inhale and the exhale. Breathing in, say to yourself, I know I’m breathing in. Breathing out, say, I know I’m breathing out. This calms the mind and relaxes the body.
Affirmation: I accept what is with an open heart.
Breathe in: I am breathing in acceptance.
Breathe out: I am breathing out acceptance.
Purification
Let go of the things that no longer serve you. Be willing to reflect and contemplate the things that create resistance and inflexibility in your life. This means loosening your grip on unproductive thoughts, behaviors, and actions. We start by noticing them. Then we can release them and invite a more neutral, spacious way of thinking.
In neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), this is called reframing. As John Grinder and Richard Bandler teach, the meaning we give something depends on the frame we use to perceive it. When we change the frame, we change the meaning.
Practice: Sit in quiet reflection. Use your breath to let go of your grip on thoughts, behaviors, and actions that are beyond your control. Identify one thought pattern that doesn’t serve you. As you breathe in, acknowledge the thought pattern. Breathe out the antidote to the thought pattern.
Affirmation: I purify my mind by letting go of outdated thought patterns.
Breathe in: I am breathing in purity.
Breathe out: I am breathing out that which no longer serves me.
Risk & Flexibility
By practicing acceptance and releasing attachment, we can engage with risk and flexibility. Why two words here? On my final draw, two cards were stuck together, so we have a fourth card to explore.
My yoga teacher often says, Dare to be simple. Let’s consider this in the context of risk: Risk simplicity in your approach rather than powering through things. Risk patience rather than allowing petty annoyances to overcome you. Risk compassion toward yourself rather than clinging to being right.
This practice makes you flexible. When we’re caught in attachment, we’re less likely to change our thoughts, behaviors, and actions. But with a neutral mind, we let go of outcomes and allow life to unfold.
Practice: Be flexible in your mind and actions. Root into this moment, the only moment you’ll ever have. Let it release you from attachment to suffering and old thought loops.
Affirmation: I risk being flexible in my approach to life’s ups and downs.
Breathe in: I know that I’m breathing in.
Breathe out: I know that I’m breathing out.
Attachment is at the root of all suffering. And suffering is part of the human condition. But the breath is our tool for quieting the mind and releasing attachments. This practice empowers us to be flexible in our mind and actions.