The Hierophant: interpreting Life Lessons through timing & tarot
I never thought we’d venture down tarot cards on this blog, but here we are. And after the weekend I’ve had? The Hierophant is the first installment on our Tarot journey. The Hierophant is an educator, a lesson personified. He represents values and knowledge; but he also represents institutions and tradition. A myriad of sites…
Raining intuition: learning to trust yourself
The one – and possibly only – thing I miss about Florida is the rain. If you grew up in the sunny state of corruptible mayhem, you knew rain in all its forms: heavy and booming; soft and chiding; gentle and misting. Florida does rain right. For all its two seasons, rain is a constant.…
Overcoming the Fantasy of the One You Never Had
We’ve all done it: constructed a false reality of someone we’re romantically attracted to. In some ways, it’s a rite of passage. To love is to imagine. Because if you don’t, how can you know what you really want, or desire? Fantasy works until your brain tries to warp it into a false reality that is ultimately…
Moving day: When Fate and Freedom Collide
There is something innately spiritual about seeing a moving van. No matter when you see it – night, day, or evening – the emotions hit all at once, but in a distant way, almost if you can feel the move as your own but still be detached from it. You see the van – idling…
Dealing with the death of old dreams: keeping their ashes vs. setting them free
How to navigate the death of old dreams without dispelling them entirely. I’ve done a few pieces recently on changing careers and returning to old dreams as you’re stepping into new ones. I love these pieces, as they speak to speak in more optimistic aspects of ebbing and flowing with your future. But they miss…
The Truth about Traveling and Tears
Airports are messy, transient places that see all versions of us. Like wind, they shepherd us from place to place, leading us through an airborne dance between one state to the next. Often, the state is mental: less of a change of physical scenery, and more of an inner shift from one way of being to…
Rewiring Hyper-independence
There’s a balance between independence and dependence. In nature, the process is demonstrable. You see tides clearly ebb and flow; ecosystems wan and replenish; grasses die and return from season to season. It is a reliable balance that, while endlessly influenced by external factors, clearly shows a sustainable process. A expected give and take. The…
When growing into the new you demands embracing the old
Real growth hits like a pressure cooker. Individual adversities and tragedies aside, everyday life activities become a persistent pressure test. How you walk, the places you work out, even the clothes you wear start to feel different. Tight. As though they’re challenging you to really notice them, examine them. The pressure builds, and builds, until one day you find…
Piercing Eyes: The beauty of seeing through your lived experiences
Do you ever think back to who you were a year ago, and wonder: Who the hell was she? It’s almost comical how change finds you — weaving in and out the mundane — and lands before you, raw and ready. A year ago… Well, I was one large, gaping wound. But the focus of this piece…
Taking loss by its hand, letting it know where it stands
One of the hardest parts about navigating your twenties is this line we walk between finding ourselves, and losing everything we once were. Often, it is metaphorical: we shed the layers, emotions, and people we used to be. Sometimes, this is literal — we lose pounds, baby faces, and people. People — we lose all…
The Great Migration: Contours of Walking Away from One Career to Another
It’s funny — how what we always dreamed of being becomes antithetical to who we actually are. I won’t say that the thought doesn’t bother me — it does, greatly — but there is a calmness to it, too. A steady, subtle warmth that heralds growth. Switching careers is not something I’m unfamiliar with. I’m…
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