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Tag: self care
Balance Your Inner Critic
Lately, I have been thinking about the balance between striving to do things well, and suffering with the critical monster of perfection.
A lot of us are taught to do our best and aim for the top. There are positive attributes to this, but the side effects can be dire.
Many of us are so hard on ourselves when we fall short that we decimate the joy of our accomplishments.
Quality Alone Time
I recently had a bout of COVID. It was so light that I was shocked when I tested positive, which was lucky, but I still had to isolate.
At first, I was grumpy. Right at the start of extroverted Leo season, I had to tuck myself away. Blarg.
I cleaned my car and room and my office to feel productive. But I knew that I needed to rest properly.
I decided to tap into the wisdom of the Hermit Card and do one of my favorite things that most people don’t enjoy. I put on the Kanopy app (free movies with your library card!) for some obscure cinema, and I watched slow existential movies.
Water Rituals
As the heat builds, let’s all engage more with water for body, mind, and spirit.
In the Tarot, the water element of the cups suit represents emotions and spirituality. It’s the essence of the heart. When we drink or consciously touch water, we better balance our whole system from the heart center.
Self Care is Community Care
Even in this individualistic Western culture, many of us were taught to put others ahead of ourselves.
At first, this switch felt selfish to me.
Then, I witnessed my loving friends drain their vivacity in over-giving.
I saw how people came to rely on them and slowed their own self-reliance.
I saw the givers become resentful and sometimes shut off the support completely.
The tarot has a lot of cards about balance, and this is an area that often is skewed for many of us.
It’s essential that you show up for others, yes. It’s also imperative that you offer what feels sustainable so there’s energy left over for your own growth.
Make Halloween Meaningful
It’s time to figure out what you’re going to be for Halloween (if you haven’t already).
Some of us enjoy a clever wordplay joke as a simple costume. Others may learn some dance moves to be their best Olympian Aussie breakdancer.
I prefer to focus on how you can relish this opportunity to express some darkness within.
Halloween can be healing. It’s an opportunity to look at the parts of you that reflect the Moon card’s disturbing hidden secrets.
Free October Tarot Reading
October looks like a great month to root into your home and get grounded in healthier routines.
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Reflecting on Achievements: A Tarot Perspective
This hand is here to high five you. And me.
In the last 3 months, I have been going going going nonstop. Even though I am tired, I get a thrill out of the productive gains forward.
Today, I ask you to take a moment to simply acknowledge what you achieved this week or this month from the perspective of each of the 5 suits of Tarot.
Simplify Your Choices
In the age of information overload, we are all juggling a lot. It seems like everyone is expected to perform smoothly in a myriad of ways.
Today, consider how you can make a little wiggle room to feel more at peace with the to do list. Here are some ways to approach this by using the Tarot suits.
How to Help Life Suck Less
Scrolling through Reddit this week, I came across a post on r/ask simply titled, “Does Life Suck? Why / why not?”
People gave all variety of answers, from long pep talks to short, sullen statements to philosophical meanderings.
It got me thinking about how both are inherently true, life has lovely aspects and awful aspects, and we are all going to get a mix.
The real question is how to make life suck less.
It’s different for each of us, but here are some of my personal tried and true ways . . .
Drink from the Cup
The Cups Suit is about water. This element relates directly to the heart as a center of emotions and spirituality.
Water flows with gravity and finds it’s way to the ground. It’s incredibly powerful in this insistent path and cuts through rock to create canyons over time.
Our own hearts are the same element. Big feelings can be contained temporarily, but they will carve through to freedom, often becoming a churning eddy that bursts forth when time and circumstance set them loose.
In my experience, this ends up happening at inopportune times. I am so grateful for the stranger on the bus who held my hand while I openly wept. And all the others who were in the right place at the right time to nurture my tears unexpectedly.
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