Tarot Reflection What Are You Starting This August? | August 2026 Tarot Message
August Tarot Message featuring four tarot cards: The Fool, Ace of Wands, The Devil reversed, and Ten of Pentacles.
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August 2026 Tarot Message

What are you starting this August 2026?

August Tarot Message featuring four tarot cards: The Fool, Ace of Wands, The Devil reversed, and Ten of Pentacles. The message reads: “A new spark. A lighter beginning. No need to have everything figured out. Start lightly.” Thrive Life Design.
8月のタロットメッセージ。愚者、ワンドのエース、逆位置の悪魔、ペンタクルの10の4枚のタロットカード。「軽やかな情熱の始まり。完成形にこだわりすぎず、軽やかにスタート。」Thrive Life Design。

<Tarot deck: Modern Witch Tarot Deck by Lisa Sterle>

If you would like to reflect on how you want to move through the second half of the year, please check the main page for session details, fees, and booking information.

About the Author

Chie Sawa is the founder of Thrive Life Design.
Drawing from decades of experience in psychology and reflective practice, she now offers The Reflection Room, a non-clinical space for one-on-one conversations and intuitive tarot readings that help thoughtful professionals realign with clarity, confidence, and calm purpose.

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Ever since I was little, I’ve been fascinated by American culture. That curiosity led me to study abroad, build a career in the U.S., and become a licensed mental health counselor.

I spent 11 years living in four different states, meeting incredible people and building a life that changed me deeply. Part of me will always cherish what I created there.

After returning to Japan in 2010, I experienced reverse culture shock and sometimes felt out of place in my own country. Over time, I began to rediscover Japan, its culture, its people, and forms of connection I had once overlooked.

Living between cultures made me think more deeply about how I wanted to live, what I wanted to keep, and who I was becoming.

For more than 20 years, I have worked as a psychotherapist. What has stayed with me most is the privilege of witnessing people change, grow, rebuild, and sometimes surprise themselves.

After co-founding and running a group private practice, I wanted to create something beyond my usual psychotherapy work.

That is how Thrive Life Design was born.

At its heart is a simple belief:

I believe we all have the capacity to design a thriving life that feels intentional, alive, and deeply our own.

When I use the word thrive, I think of 繁栄 (hannei) in Japanese. To me, it means flourishing, like a seed becoming a tree, growing steadily, spreading outward, and eventually becoming part of something larger.

I am especially interested in how each individual life continues to grow and thrive, and how that growth can then create something bigger.

I do not think a thriving life looks the same for everyone.

Sometimes it means movement. Sometimes stillness.

Sometimes it means making a bold decision, creating something new, or finally hearing what you already know.

Thrive Life Design brings together psychology, reflection, intuition, creativity, curiosity, and a belief in human possibility.

On a personal note, I am an ambivert who leans introverted. I am a deep thinker, an observer, and an emotionally intuitive person. I am also a visionary, a builder, and a dreamer.

Since 2011, I have been serving international communities in Japan. I understand both the joys and challenges of living between cultures and creating a life that feels truly your own.

My values here are transformation, creativity, intuition, freedom, curiosity, hope, calm, flexibility, and peace.

I believe a thriving life is not something we simply find.

It is something we continue to shape, build, and grow into.

My background:
-20+ years as a psychotherapist
-Licensed Mental Health Counselor (MA, USA)
-Certified Clinical Psychologist (Japan)
-Certified Public Psychologist (Japan)
-11 years of living and working across four states in the U.S.
-Serving the international communities in Japan since 2011
-Certified SoulStory Tarot Therapist

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Tarot decks: Modern Witch Tarot by Lisa Sterle; Universal Waite Tarot (U.S. Games Systems, Inc.)

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