Present Path Tarot
Navigate to your best life
Action overcomes Apathy
This week my low-back was super tight.
I went to work it out with a strength trainer (Shannon at Fireborne Fitness). She was cautious since movement is a risk when you’re injured.
I assured her that it was the right choice for me and promised to go gentle. She gave me some unique moves to engage the muscles that support the QL.
I then slept with a pillow under my knees. Huzzah! My back felt much better the next day.
There is a great satisfaction of taking a step toward pain in order to cure it. Especially when it gets results.
This feels like a metaphor for the upcoming election. I’m not talking politics on here, but I am hoping to motivate us all to take action for our collective benefit.
There is pain in hope of change. But stasis will not relieve the suffering.
We each can make an effort to learn about the issues and fill in the bubbles that serve our better future.
I remember when my dad walked me over to our neighborhood voting station when I was 18 years old.
Some parents get really excited for graduations. It delighted my dad far more to take me through this sacred threshold of democracy.
People have fought and died for this right. Suffragettes starved themselves on hunger strike. It’s that relevant.
In 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives was split in the middle to ratify women’s right to vote. They were aligned to become the 36th state to pass this right, making a 3/4 majority that would set forth a full Constitutional amendment.
Febb Ensminger Burn was a suffragette whose son, Harry T. Burn, was a representative in Tennessee. He was going to abstain from the vote. She wrote him a letter asking him to “be a good boy” and help “Mrs. Catt (Carrie Chapman Catt) put the rat in ratification.”
His ‘aye’ vote swung the state and thus the nation.
One vote. It can make a difference.
The last election only had a turn out of 65%. A powerful message happens when that number increases. It’s a statement that I hope more people will make this election.
My dad and I vote differently now. Despite that, I know that he’s still proud that I cast my vote in every election. Even when I was abroad.
I don’t have any way to know whether you would vote in a way that I would, but I still want you to vote. (Granted, I think most people into witchy stuff are on the same side of the fence.)
I hope you will check to see that you are registered and go read the boring details of the issues and politicians in your area. Then block out the time to cast your vote.
To celebrate, I am offering a 10% discount for an online personal tarot reading in November to anyone who shares some obscure detail about their own voting process. Because we can also have a laugh at the frustrations of our civic duties.
Bring in a friend who you pondered about your voting choices with in a Tarot Together session.
Support our witchy freedom of speech when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers to entertain. The last few weekends of October are filling up fast, but there’s still a few spots left!
Have a great weekend of learning about the issues and maybe watching a debate.
Flex Your Freedom Muscles,
Jenna Lynne Roberts