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.
The focus of the guided meditation today was about compassion, and it reminded me of someone that I watch on YouTube from time to time. Dustin often closes his videos with “Remember that everyone is fighting a battle that you know nothing about. So be kind. Always.” It is a phrase that has really stuck with me over time, and it is a prime example of the topic of today’s guided meditation.
The guide brought up how sometimes we are impatient or frustrated with others. Whether it’s because they’re slower than we’d like in a store or on the road, or they’re paying with pennies in the grocery store and we’re stuck behind them, etc. And the thing is? Sometimes? These things that irritate us only do so because we don’t understand what’s going on and why they’re happening.
The thing is though? It’s none of our business. But what is our business is treating these situations and people with patience and understanding, regardless of whether we personally are in the know as to why whatever is happening is happening.
Today’s draw is is the Three of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of collaboration towards a shared goal or endeavor, usually in the area s of finances, resources, or projects focused on the process of manifestation.
This card feels a lot like the Three of Cups to me. Three birds enjoying a treat, perched around the rim of a cup together.
And yet, being the Three of Pentacles has it’s own relevance here. It makes this card about more than successful endeavors and collaboration, but also about enjoying the process. It’s important to enjoy the time you put towards your projects and endeavors, and when you involve others in on these projects? Then it’s important that it’s enjoyable for them as well.
The other day a reading suggested I figure out what it is that others who help me during the holiday season enjoy, so that I can shift those jobs to them rather than waiting until I’m desperate for help and handing them whatever jobs need done at the time. In both instances, they are helping, and getting things done that need done. But in the former instance they get to really enjoy the process… whereas in the latter scenario they could end up stuck with jobs that suck.
Here in this card I see the results of finding out what people enjoy and giving them those tasks rather than just tossing whatever needs done their way.
DECK USED: HUSH TAROT
#Zentember #LovelyHealing Challenge Prompt
Question: Where am I emotionally?
Reading Summary: Feeling secure and grounded (Ten of Pentacles) and supportedly (new word) inspired (Queen of Wands) as at the moment I am both receiving and giving equally (Six of Pentacles).
Take Away: Emotionally I’m feeling pretty good right now. Having a sense of balance and security is really helpful in keeping me on an even keel and making life tolerable as a whole. I also feel pretty good about my work. Although I’ve fallen behind a bit, I’m getting help from both L and Z, which is helping a lot in keeping that “fallen behind” from becoming something that feels insurmountable.
DECK USED: SASURAIBITO TAROT
#DiscordTarotholicsSep2020 Challenge Prompt
Philosophical Question: What is Humanity’s biggest accomplishment?
Reading Summary: The ability to rise above (Hanged Man and The Sun) experiences of betrayal and deception (Seven of Swords), allowing those experiences to inspire us to be better and become more than before (King of Wands).
Take Away: This is about more than just “learning from our mistakes” but rather about taking the bad things that happen to us that aren’t our mistakes at all, and learning how to not just move past them, but turn them into a positive growth experience.
I know that not everyone has this ability, but I do agree that the ability to “rise above” really could be one of humanity’s biggest accomplishments, if not one we’ve quite managed to master yet.
DECK USED: TAROT OF THE SECRET FOREST
Lionharts #AstroTarotChallenge
Question: How has my family or foundation positively shaped, influenced or impacted the way I move or carry myself today?
Reading Summary: I learned to fend for myself (Page of Swords) instead of depending upon external praise (Six of Wands), and to be secure in laying claim what’s mine (Queen of Disks).
Take Away: I can’t say that my family foundation has been all that positive, but it has taught me self sufficiency. Although I do enjoy praise and admiration, I don’t require it. I’m more than capable of motivating myself without that carrot dangling before me.
By the same turn, it has taught me to feel a good deal of protective ownership over what belongs to me. This goes beyond personal possessions and includes thoughts, ideas, values, and those things that I work so hard to obtain such as a home, stability, and security.
DECK USED: HARDY TAROT
#ConnectWithYourDeckChallenge by E Roebuck-Jones
Question: How can I make life choices more consciously?
Reading Summary: I need to make it a conscious choice (Two of Spades) to worry less about my fears and anxieties (Nine of Spades) and focus instead on embodying the strength and purpose of my endeavors (King of Clubs) while practicing the moderation needed to keep things balanced (Temperance).
Take Away: To make life’s choices more consciously (and more confidently, for that matter), the cards indicate that I need to spend less time worrying and more time finding a balance between my drive and my need for self care. Moderation is not my strong suit, and I have a habit of dropping myself into an endeavor and allowing it to overtake every facet of my life until it is all that I eat, sleep, or breathe. This is a tendency that I am trying to break myself free of.
The thing is, when I focus on my anxieties? It only pushes me more towards the need to delve deep, and pulls me away from the self care I need to sustain in my life.
DECK USED: WIENER SECESSION TAROT