Today’s meditation was just under eleven minutes long, and focused upon a breathing activity that was very similar to a body scan. That is to say that it actually was a body scan, but instead of just consciously checking in with each area of the body, the meditation involved using the breath to breathe in healing energy into each part of the body along the way, and then into the body as a whole once each part had been tended to individually.
I really enjoyed this, and the visualization of air swirling through the body part, one body part at a time, and pushing out discomfort and tension was very relaxing. This is definitely a meditation that I will be practicing again, and perhaps take some more time at it without a guide along for the ride in the future.
Today’s draw is something a little different. It’s from the Healing Mantra Deck, which is a meditation guidance deck. Today’s card is the “Liberating Love” card, which is about opening your heart to both give and receive.
This card indicates that love is healing, and the guidebook provides a reminder that when opening your heart to receiving and forgiving feels tiresome and exhausting, it means that we do not feel safe enough to remain open, giving guidance on using your will to find the strength to open anyway, for it is in opening up to love where the healing lives… not in closing yourself off.
This is a good reminder to me today, as I’m on the cusp of a subdrop. These drops make me feel extremely vulnerable, and it is my habit to close up when they come upon me. But the truth is, it is only in staying open and allowing the love between us to help me through where real healing happens.
DECK USED: HEALING MANTRA DECK
#TarotForGrowthApril Challenge Prompt
Question: Root Cause (built off yesterday’s cards)
Reading Summary: I have consciously made some choices lately (Eight of Swords) to focus on the positive (The Star) which is helping me in finding a better path through reflection as well as the rest I need at this time (Four of Swords).
Take Away: Essentially? Make good decisions and get good rest, and the whole world has an opportunity to look different… and better. The state of mind was a positive shift, and these choices to allow myself more rest and a time of reflection combined with making a conscious choice to look for the positive is helping in lifting me up out of the smog for a breath of fresh air.
DECK USED: FANTASTICAL CREATURES TAROT
#DiscordTarotholicsApr2020 Challenge Prompt
Question: What is the most valuable thing I can do for others this month?
Reading Summary: Lift them up (Six of Wands) by helping them to look at things differently (Page of Swords) and make good choices for themselves (The Lovers).
Take Away: Sometimes we all need to learn new ways to look at (and think about) the things that are weighing on our minds. As the Ten of Swords grows into the Page, there is growth in finding new ways to move forward. The cards indicate that the most valuable thing I can do for others this month is helping them feel better about themselves in their situation by encouraging that growth and helping them in finding the path forward that is right for them.
This is actually one of the ways that I very much enjoy interaction with others (as an introvert, I’m a little picky about social interaction) and it’s wonderful to hear from the cards that this endeavor is helpful and positive for others.
DECK USED: MIBRAMIG MAGICAL TAROT
#ConnectWithYourDeckChallenge by E Roebuck-Jones
Question: What do I know about myself for sure?
Reading Summary: I’m willing to walk away (Eight of Cups) from a sure thing (Nine of Cups) in order to go after something better (Queen of Wands).
Take Away: I demonstrate this on a regular basis, but in one of the most obvious ways that this is true is in how I make my living. I am three months from completing double science majors. I could, with the grades I was pulling down and my natural affinity for those subjects, have taken any number of high paying jobs even without my degree.
I chose to go my own way instead. I chose to enjoy my life, rather than spend it in an office or a laboratory or a classroom teaching others. This isn’t because I couldn’t have done any of those things, or all of those things. It’s because the learning burned bright within my passion and drive… but the actual careers? Left me cold. Instead, I chose to go after something that does kindle my spark of joy and passion and creation. I started my own business and do my own thing.
Yes, my other part time jobs (or some of them anyway) were very much in the wheelhouse of my education and knowledge base… but they bring me joy because there is a lack of pressure, and an abundance of freedom to do my own thing and go my own way and help… on an individual level. I enjoy that far more than some stuffy office or lab or classroom.
DECK USED: COSMIC TAROT
#MidnightTarotChallenge Prompt
Question: What opportunities are being presented to me this month?
Reading Summary: Overcoming my fear of the unknown (Two of Wands) and moving forward into a new beginning (The World) with self possession intact and a new understanding of my needs moving forward (Queen of Cups).
Take Away: I feel like a lot of the uncertainty I’ve been feeling in the past few months is an emotional influence. I’m so not used to my emotions being “out of the box” and able to influence… well, everything. The opportunity being presented to me this month is in starting on a journey that finally begins moving me away from that “holy crap fear” that comes with stepping out of the dark box I’d hid my emotions in and into the disorientation of the light… and moving past that blind moment of disorientation into somehwere more seated, comfortable, and assured.
Today’s meditation was just over ten minutes long and again touched upon a topic that I’d touched on in my previous day’s post. That is to say that the topic of today’s meditation was in altering how you look at the world and your life.
Twisting the Leaf 