Today’s meditation was eleven minutes long and was another guided meditation with interval timer for my piriformis stretching. The topic of today’s guided meditation was dealing with feelings of overwhelm.
Specifically, the meditation spoke on how when we become overwhelmed, it is often because we are trying to take on too much at once. In truth though, a project or any topic of overwhelm is so overwhelming because it is so big. To solve this problem, we need to remember to break these huge projects and responsibilities down into bite sized pieces.
Like when you clean a house… you look at the house as a whole and it looks overwhelming and like so much work. Too much work. Instead, we need to look at the cleaning of a house as a bunch of little tasks. Dust one piece of furniture. Wipe down one counter.
In breaking down these big projects, we then can see them as small things we can manage to do. And if we focus on one small thing at a time, pretty soon that huge pile of crap to get done is whittled down to nothing.
Today’s draw is the Five of Swords, which traditionally is a representation of tests, trials, and conflict in the area of one’s thoughts, logic, intellect, and communication. This type of conflict often comes across as disagreements and competition, but what I find this card often indicates that is not so common of an interpretation is the “winning at all costs” attitude that this card can often convey, as well as being a reflection of “the spoils of war”.
Probably not surprisingly, what stood out to me in the imagery of this card is the plants. The flower in the background looks a lot like a clover bud, and yet the greenery beneath looks like dandelion leaves.
One of the lesser known representations of the white clover is revenge. This combined with the dandelion, which commonly represents standing strong and overcoming hardships, gives me the impression that in this case the battle has already been fought, and what we are witnessing in the card’s imagery is the aftermath.
The card here today is a reminder that the honor of standing tall is more important than the temporary satisfaction of retaliation. Sometimes (and I admit that this very well could be due to my Scorpio moon) I have this overwhelming urge to lash back at those that piss me off or irritate me. The card here today is an encouragement to rise above these urges.
DECK USED: HUSH TAROT
#ConnectWithYourDeckChallenge by E Roebuck-Jones
Question: How do I grow from my mistakes?
Reading Summary: Open your eyes and pay attention (Eight of Spades) so that you can see your mistakes (Ace of Diamonds Rx) as opportunities to grow (Jack of Diamonds).
Take Away: This is about carrying forward the knowledge gained during my mistakes so that I don’t repeat them and can course-correct before mistakes become catastrophic. By learning to identifying mistakes early or by taking the lessons that come from them when you can’t course correct in time, I am then able to turn those mistakes into something of value instead of just another fuckup.
Today’s meditation was ten minutes long and another of the guided meditations with interval timer for my piriformis stretching.
Today’s meditation was just under eleven minutes long, and like yesterday’s meditation, it was a guided meditation with interval timer element added for the sake of my piriformis stretches.
Today’s meditation was just over ten minutes long and was a yoga nidra meditation with interval timer. It was a guided meditation, and based on moving one’s consciousness and awareness through the body slowly starting at the head and moving to the toes. At each part of the body you stop and pause, acknowledge the sensations present and breathe into that area, then exhale and move on to the next. 
Twisting the Leaf 