It is Monday again, and I’m writing you from a disheveled den. Candles are cooling, packages are waiting for shipping labels, sauté pans are covered in the remnants of dinner, and we just ran out of toilet paper. We’ve also just begun moving out of our apartment!
Every night & every morning I give thanks for these trivial tasks & troubles. It is so overwhelming to realize how lucky we are, and when I say we - I truly do mean you & I. Those of us trying to cultivate some sort of unshakeable inner peace so that we can be more resilient in the face of struggle, and in turn, support others.
With that in mind, today I pulled cards for us.
May they inspire new ideas, personal reflections, solutions to problems, or other creative endeavors in the coming days ~
Immediately after shuffling, I was intrigued to see the Sagittarius card emerge, because the Moon is currently moving through that zodiacal realm. The Personal Transformation card came next (equally interesting), thus, this is our pair for the week.
When I think about Sagittarius as an aspect of our human consciousness, I think about our tendency to believe that our beliefs are universal truths. ‘Believing our beliefs’ is an act which itself can be attributed to Sagittarius, and that idea alone is a tremendous concept to contemplate.
When it comes to personal transformation, this awareness of objectivity is a crucial thing to consider. I wonder sometimes, how different the world would be if all the many religions of the world never cared to be “true” or “right”. On a smaller scale, how many petty arguments could we avoid in life simply by hearing each other out rather than clinging to our aggravations simply because they are our own.
And when it comes to all this personal transformation stuff, it’s so.. well.. personal! We have to zoom out, widen the lens, take it all in, and leave no stone unturned. No lesson unlearned! Because transformation might not occur within the parameters that your personal trainer promised or your Sunday School teacher declared. It might not even come from reading the book that guaranteed monumental perspective shifts.
You have to remain curious, and devoted to freedom of choice. Together, these two cards remind me of the constant work required when we choose to grow… to understand… to evolve. Hundreds of people will tell you how to do it, the best way to do it, the quickest way, the real way, the most enjoyable way, etc. But only you can pave the particular road you’re meant to travel.
Just because you aren’t adhering to a highly specified schedule or method, does not mean you are somehow failing, or struggling, or not trying hard enough.
Find your pace.
Find your practices.
Find your peace.
Free yourself from specificity.
Sometimes, the most meaningful change you can make is adjusting your approach.
The quote above is from this May musing ~
Now that you’ve read my interpretation of these cards, what’s yours? Take this invitation to practice intuitive writing (stream of consciousness), and allow the mind to ramble, watching words reveal themselves one by one. You never know what might come through.
Enjoy the practice, and enjoy this Full Moon week !
~ Alyssa
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