78 Whispers

11/14/2024

I am staying off these putrid platforms. This isn’t an airport and I don’t have to announce my departure, but I want to so I will.

I have loved social media a long time. I love seeing your updates, and feeling connected to you all. I have been able to find a spiritual tribe and people I vibe with and that has been beyond lovely. I’m so grateful. I have been able to grow my businesses and been exposed to new ideas. I am so grateful for that too.

The problem with social media, for me, is that connection is an illusion. Posting makes me feel like I have done something, but I haven’t. It’s just lost in a sea of voices, and we have stopped listening to each other. There is little actual discourse, and we just create an echo chamber of our own viewpoint and therefore REFUSE to believe anyone else’s. How could we, when our feeds are FULL of things that reinforce what we “know” to be true?

These men get filthy rich, rich beyond what they can ever spend in a hundred lifetimes, trading on our desire to connect and be validated, without ever actually providing those things in truth. It’s illusion.

We are witnessing the rise of the Third Reich in another form. These are not people of God. They are not righteous. They are bent on money and power, and the price is human suffering. It matters not to them. Social media has been key to creating the circumstances. Remember, if we do not pay for a product or service, we ARE the product. Some companies just want our money. Some want our outrage and biases to play on. All want our attention, the most precious thing we have to give.

I am focusing the most precious thing I have to give on my home and my community, growing those and protecting them as best I am able. More than ever before I need to focus on making sure my actions match my values. This means a substantial change in how I interact with consumer goods. The only thing I exist for in the minds of the people who are running things, is to consume, breed more consumers, and die as cheaply as possible when I no longer do those. They can get fu**ed.

It is an act of rebellion to be happy without constantly chasing “things”. It is an act of rebellion to eat healthy, live a minimalist lifestyle. For those with eyes to see, it is clear the intent is to profane the most sacred aspects of being alive. It is defiance to celebrate life anyway, to love each other and connect genuinely.

I do not judge people staying, and I may be back in my time for my reasons. But I encourage all of us to be more invested in engaging with truth than protecting our perceptions. I encourage all of us to develop a network of independent media to know and understand what is happening. No one should comply in advance. And most of all, I encourage all of us to love, to celebrate joy defiantly, and to lean into each other.

09/25/2024

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09/25/2024

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09/12/2024

The only thing missing is me.

08/12/2024

Anyone else like to fk around with cards until you get The Tower? No, just me? 😬

I had a specific question in mind when I pulled these cards. At this time next week, how will I feel about work? The Wheel goes up, the Wheel goes down. It’s ebb and flow. The Tower is looking all ominous there but even if things have to change, the Wheel casts some good fortune on the situation, and the sacred connection in the Two of Cups shows me that I will be further on my way to fulfilling my sacred contractions, and that any decision made from a place of love will be the right one.

These cards are from The Sun and Moon Tarot. I took the borders off.

08/07/2024

A thing I have learned to love about myself is that is not just okay, but imperative, to put my mental health and self care FIRST. Not my family’s, not my employers, nothing can come before taking care of me. I did it the other way for 45ish years and I was completely drained and broken. I didn’t have a single thing to give the world, to give to those closest to me, or to make a living. I was so utterly spent that I was a brittle shell. And the worst part? That didn’t make a single person I thought I was doing it for happy. It didn’t change anyone’s life for the better, but it made mine incredibly sad, empty, and a drudge. Like many people, I am conditioned to see this as “selfish” and certainly any attitude or action can lead to selfish, unhealthy, unbalanced behavior. The Sun is so positive, bright light cast across every shadowed place, I know it reveals only truth. My family is beautifully taken care of. I am doing right by them in a different way than I used to. But I fill my cup first, so I have some to pour, and that has made all the difference. It’s so easy to say, but hard to do. I heard the advice to care for myself over and over but couldn’t fathom how to implement it until I felt nearly spiritually dead. I can’t tell anyone else the how but I see you. I empathize and my tea pot is always on.

These cards are from The White Witch Tarot and We’re Not Really Strangers: Self Love

08/05/2024

I would argue the middle path is the most helpful- The Star, offering healing. All we have to do is show up metaphorically naked, and vulnerable. The path to left leaves me wallowing in old emotions, and the one on the right forever on the defensive for unseen demons. The Star grants wishes, but only the ones I want so deeply I can bring them to life myself. Healing costs everything, the old wounds and the ways I used to cover them, but she promises to give it all back, whole and hale.

These cards are from the 90 Question Deck and Sheridan Douglas Tarot

08/04/2024

Ma’at has been asking for my attention. Lady, my eyes are upon you and my ears are open.

08/04/2024

How do I rise above the chaos? I put my head down and I do the damn work.

I pulled this card last week and I didn’t want to talk about the burdensome Ten of Wands then. I thought, Oh that’s wrong thinking, I try to take on too much to ignore it? But that didn’t feel right. I do take on too much, like most of us, and it creates more chaos and also robs me of my time to work on myself and make substantive progress to my goals.

Right card, wrong mindset. Since that day, consistently, I have been getting the message that I need to do my work. What is my work? For the purposes of this reading it doesn’t matter. Work is a word to convey sacred agreements but ones that need me to show up to be fulfilled. It’s my job to bundle up my creative thoughts and carry them where they need to be. It doesn’t matter what is happening outside or inside of me. I need to do my work. Sometimes it will feel like a slog. Sometimes I will despair. It still needs to be done. But always, always there is a tinkling refrain, a birdsong to guide me and remind me I am not alone. I can’t see the muse but she’s there. And if I do the work she will worry about the quality.

I like the neat symmetry of these cards, which come the 90 Questions Deck and This Might Hurt Tarot. I can let my work be my island, and then the burden will be as light as floating on water.

07/29/2024

I sing, loud and off key but I delight in it anyway. I find even a small joy and let it rise, coalesce until it lifts me up and away. One creative spark is enough. I disappear into my own imagination and there I am free.

These cards are The Knight of Wands from The Fey Tarot and from Rupi Kaur’s Writing Prompts.

07/29/2024

This is The Fey Tarot by Pietro Alligo, Mara Aghem, and Ricardo Minetti, lovingly relieved of titles and borders at my hands. I have convinced Jaida (my seven year old granddaughter I am raising and have been since she was a baby) this is a story telling game, which after all it is. The Wheel of Fortune in the upper left kicked it off, and we told each other a grand story of love and loss, hope and triumph, and the human condition. My boyfriend and little girl know nothing of tarot, but they described each card they set down to continue the story and valid meanings were shared. Tarot just works! I can study for a lifetime and learn something new each day, and a brand new to tarot person can pick a card and read it. Both are valid and rewarding. If you are wondering about tarot, or any mindfulness practice, this may be your sign to dive right in.

07/27/2024

All I gotta do is jump. No one can do it for me. Freedom lies beyond what scares me and all I have to do is trust, let go, and dive in.

These cards are from Songs For The Journey Home Tarot and The 90 Questions Deck.