Balance.
The Autumn Equinox occurs at 9:30am on Tuesday, September 22 with equal amounts of daylight and nighttime, and signifying the beginning of our descent into six months where darkness reigns.
Yesterday, I pulled The High Priestess, which is my absolute favourite tarot card. And it seemed like such a perfect card to pull right before the Equinox. She lives between the black and white pillars, and has a mastery of the subconscious and intuition.
Which is exactly what we’ll be exploring in Digging Up Your Roots: Using Tarot For Shadow Work. More on that will be coming soon enough, and make sure you’re on my newsletter list to be the first to know (and have access to the early registration discount).
I’ve started to think about all of the things I’ve learned about myself during this pandemic. Things I would likely otherwise have not figured out.
You probably don’t need as much money as you think you do. When we went into lockdown last March, I started to notice we had more money left over each month. Not going to Tim Hortons, not grabbing snacks on my lunch break or little treats here and there, not needing gas as often… over time, this added up considerably.
I can still have fun without going out. Yup, reading this over, I am fucking privileged as hell to be able to say any of this. I acknowledge that. But in the before times, my husband and I used to love having date nights - going out for drinks and dinner, new environments were stimulating and we’d have great conversations and reconnect. We haven’t had that in six months, and instead we’ve made our own date nights at home. And they’ve been pretty wonderful.
I have actually no idea how we did all that we used to do. Now that I haven’t done the “go go go” for six months, I never want to go back to that. The morning hustle, waking up at 5:30am to stretch, make my lunch, my daughter’s breakfast and lunch, get her dressed, get myself dressed, and out the door by 7:30am to get her to school before getting to work. It was an anxious-filled morning every single day, and now it’s… not. Like not even close. We take our time. There’s no pressure. I can’t help but think that my endocrine system is thankful, and my kid’s too!
You can’t control everything. And sometimes, you can’t control anything. And this, I think, is very important for those of us who haven’t had to deal with too many setbacks (let’s be real). Sometimes it’s important to realize you can’t just have what you want when you want it. Especially when we’ve become accustomed to that. (To a limited degree, obviously. I wanted to go to Jamaica last Winter, but I couldn’t just drag that out of the sky because I wanted it!)
I’m getting real with myself. I’ve had to face some fears, and certainly some challenges and deep losses these past six months. I’ve had to search my soul for answers, and I’ve visited some dark corners while I was there. It’s made me a better human and it’s made me a better coach. (It’s also made me a better speaker.) This is what sparked the idea for Digging Up Your Roots - combining my favourite things together in one course. Shadow work, intuition building, authenticity, visibility, combined with the story and imagery of the tarot journey and archetypes.
What about you? What have you been learning about yourself these past six months? What struggles have you overcome, and what are still challenging for you? Let me know in the comments, or shoot me an email. I’d love to know!
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