The Mediocre Black Woman

<p>Something just shifted. The spring equinox arrived. The Sun moved into Aries. And whether you felt it as a jolt of energy or a deep exhale or something you couldn’t quite name — your body registered it. It always does.</p><p>This is the astrological new year. The first breath of a new cycle. And in The House, we’re moving with it — seasonally, intentionally, and with a lot more play than we’ve been allowing ourselves. Because here’s what I need to say before anything else:</p><p><strong>A lot of us just pushed through one of the heaviest Pisces seasons in recent memory. And now Aries is here with all its fire and we’re trying to match it. We’re trying to plant every seed, start every project, be everything this season is supposed to represent. And your body is still carrying Pisces.</strong></p><p>That’s what the cards told me before I even sat down to write this. Before I pulled a single tarot card, I already knew — this Aries season wants something different from us. Not less ambition. Different energy. <strong>Play. Flow. Rest woven into the doing. Joy as a practice, not a reward.</strong></p><p><strong>🎙 The Season Opener Episode is live.</strong></p><p>The episode that goes with this post is up now. It’s the an Aries season temperature check — the cards, the teaching, what this season is actually asking of us — plus everything that’s coming inside </p><p><strong>✨ What’s Coming in The House This Season</strong></p><p>Here’s everything we’re moving through together from now until April 19th.</p><p>🎙 <strong>Episode 1: Season Opener + Card Pull</strong> · March 24 · <em>FREE</em> The episode that goes with this post. The full Aries season temperature check and what The House is holding this season.</p><p>✍️ <strong>Love Letter to Aries</strong> · March 29 · <em>FREE</em> A written love letter to the energy of Aries season.</p><p>🌕 <strong>Full Moon in Libra Reading + Integration Session</strong> · April 1 · <em>PAID — members only</em> Full reading on the Libra Full Moon — where you’ve been performing peace instead of claiming it. Plus a solar plexus integration session.</p><p>🃏 <strong>Make Your Own Tarot Deck w/ </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/96384533-high-priestess-lakeisha">High Priestess Lakeisha</a> · April 3 · <em>Silly & Sacred Seasonal Magick Lab · Special pricing for members</em> A workshop with High Priestess Lakeisha. Playful, creative, embodied. This one is going to be so good.</p><p>📡 <strong>Episode: The Wound That Says You Have to Earn Visibility</strong> · April 7 · <em>FREE</em> Chiron in Aries is activating the identity wound all season. We’re naming it directly.</p><p>📿 <strong>What Spirit Wants from Aries</strong> · April 15 · <em>PAID — members only</em> The companion piece to the Love Letter — deeper, more intimate. What spirit is actually asking of your Aries energy.</p><p>🌑 <strong>New Moon in Aries Reading</strong> · April 14 · <em>FREE / PAID </em>The take-up-space reading. Open to everyone — come plant your seed with us.</p><p>🔊 <strong>Sound Healing w/ Lamar</strong> · April 17 · <em>FREE</em> The monthly free sound healing session. Come let your body release what this season has been stirring.</p><p>🎙 <strong>Personal Episode: You Model the Work</strong> · April 21 · <em>PAID — members only</em> The most intimate episode of the season. Me, showing you what Aries season is actually doing in my body.</p><p><strong>🌀 The Chakra Journey This Season</strong></p><p>We are moving through four energy centers — each one connected to a visibility wound that Aries season is specifically here to work on.</p><p>☀️ <strong>Solar Plexus</strong> — Identity & Sovereign Action Stop asking permission to take up space. This is where we begin.</p><p>💚 <strong>Heart</strong> — Worthiness & Receiving Letting yourself be loved, paid, and celebrated without immediately deflecting it.</p><p>🔵 <strong>Throat</strong> — Voice & Being Heard Saying the true thing at full volume. Naming your price. Asking for what you need.</p><p>🔮 <strong>Third Eye</strong> — Intuition & Inner Knowing Trusting what your body shows you before you have proof. Visibility as a spiritual act.</p><p><strong>✨ The Embodied Visibility Guide for Aries Season 2026</strong></p><p>I built something for you. If you want to do this season’s work on your own terms — at your own pace, in your own space — the Aries Season Guide is for you. It’s a condensed, practical, embodied guide to moving through Aries season intentionally. Tools for your body. Prompts for your practice. Something to work with, not just read.</p><p><strong>$22. And if you’re a paid member of The House, it’s already included in your membership. No extra cost. Just go get it.</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/p/aries-season-the-embodied-visibility"><em>Member Link to Read Now</em></a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://mediocreblackwoman.gumroad.com/l/aries_season2026"><em>Link to purchase for $22.22</em></a></p><p><strong>Welcome to Aries Season.</strong></p><p>This is a season for your body. For your play. For the part of you that has been pushing so hard for so long that she forgot what it felt like to move with joy instead of urgency.</p><p>You don’t have to plant every seed.</p><p>You don’t have to do everything Aries season is supposed to represent.</p><p>You just have to show up — in your body, with your intuition, with a little more room for play than you had before.</p><p>The House is here. The season has begun. And you are right on time.</p><p>xoxo, </p><p><strong>Empress Theadora</strong> </p><p><em>The Mediocre Black Woman</em></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>🌑 <em>The last New Moon before Aries season. Watching the replay? Drop your name in the comments and I’ll pull an affirmation card for your new zodiacal year kickoff. Offer open until Thursday morning.</em></p><p>Pisces doesn’t want your logic right now. It wants your body. What does your body expand toward? What does it contract away from? Expansion is a yes. Contraction is information.</p><p>Tonight I went live and we moved through a Threat to the Script spread — and the script we released was the one that says you have to deplete yourself to be a good mother, a good friend, a good partner, a good whatever title you carry. That self-sacrifice is love. That pouring from empty is devotion.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading The Mediocre Black Woman! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p>It’s not. Taking care of yourself is the ultimate flex.</p><p>The cards said: mother yourself first. Tend to your inner child. Let yourself break when you need to. Because as you heal yourself, you heal your lineage. The three women on that card? One of them is you. One of them is who comes after.</p><p>Plant tonight.</p><p><strong>What does your body want — not what you think you should want — right now?</strong></p><p>xoxo,</p><p>Empress Theadora</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>Someone recently shared a memory about me from when I was a little girl. They described me as defiant.</p><p>I wasn’t trying to be defiant. I was just existing. I came into a room, in my body, in my hair, just myself — and that read as too much.</p><p>I’ve been sitting with that word all week. Because I think a lot of us got a version of that message. Maybe it wasn’t defiant for you. Maybe it was <em>aggressive.</em> Or <em>difficult.</em> Or just a silence. A room that went still when you walked in and spoke.</p><p>Somewhere along the way your voice learned it had to earn its place.</p><p>And right now — Mercury retrograde in Pisces, eight days from a New Moon, the eclipse portal from March 3rd still open — the sky is asking all of us to go inward. Your exhaustion is not a malfunction. Your body is doing something real.</p><p>This episode is about the throat chakra wound. Where it lives. How it spreads — into your relationships, your work, your money, your ability to ask for anything at all. And what it actually feels like to stop collapsing your own voice.</p><p>xoxo,</p><p>Empress Theadora</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>If you’re a free subscriber, you can hear the preview of this episode above. And I want you to know — what came through in this reading is the kind of thing that doesn’t leave you quickly. It’s going to sit with you. I used the Body Knows Spread for this reading. Three questions. Six cards. And everything that came through was about one thing: <strong>How long have you been defending yourself to people who have already decided how they see you? </strong></p><p>The full episode unlocks for paid members, along with the complete written reading below — all three positions, the integration, and the body-based practice to help you actually move this through your system instead of just thinking about it.</p><p>And if the preview of this reading is already doing something in your body — that tightening, that recognition, that quiet <em>oh</em> — that is your sign.</p><p>The House is $55/month. There’s a 7-day free trial so you can feel the space before you commit.</p><p><strong>JOIN THE HOUSE NOW.</strong></p><p>I’ll see you inside.</p>

<p>This morning did not go according to “plan”. I had an episode written.Structured. Layered. Ready to land. <strong>And I didn’t want to do it. Literally said to myself, “fuck that”!</strong></p><p>I woke up with resistance. Didn’t want to adult. Didn’t want to be disciplined. Didn’t want to execute the outline. So instead of forcing it, I said that out loud. And we pulled cards.</p><p><p>The Mediocre Black Woman is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p>Day 13 in tarot is Death — shedding. Shedding old reactions. Shedding urgency. Shedding ego noise. Shedding the need to control perception.</p><p>What I didn’t realize until we were mid-live was this: <strong>The thing I was meant to shed was my agenda.</strong></p><p>One of the cards literally said: “I release my own agenda.”</p><p>And that’s when it clicked. Releasing my agenda didn’t just mean surrendering control in life. It meant surrendering the plan for the episode. Because if I’m teaching spirit versus ego…Then forcing the structure would have been my ego.</p><p>Ego would have said: Stick to the outline. Be polished. Be consistent. Don’t derail the arc.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading The Mediocre Black Woman! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p>But my Spirit said: You’re tired. You want to play. You don’t want to perform. <strong>And I listened.</strong></p><p>We pulled:“I’m the motherfucking prize.”“I am my own home and I say who is welcome here.”Eight of Wands — momentum.King of Swords — cut the crap.Page of Pentacles — stop being your own enemy.Death again — release what’s over.</p><p>And at the very end, when I pulled one more card for the road? “I tend to the needs of my inner child.” I laughed. Because that was the whole lesson.</p><p>This resistance wasn’t sabotage. It wasn’t laziness. It wasn’t regression. It was my inner child saying: <strong>What about me? </strong>What about play? What about freedom? What about doing something just because I want to?</p><p><strong>Play is not a detour from purpose. Fun is not a distraction from alignment.</strong> </p><p>Being seen today meant being seen un-curated. Being seen resistant. Being seen playful. Being seen real.</p><p>But whether you watched live or you’re reading this now, here’s the visibility practice: <strong>Notice where you are gripping the plan so tightly that you can’t hear spirit.</strong></p><p>Release the agenda. Let one thing be led by joy today.</p><p>Pulled by spirit. Dragged through the lessons. Still divine.</p><p>xoxo,</p><p>Empress Theadora</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>