I'm trying, y'all. I don't even think bees are cute today; it's that bad. We are about to get another week-long heat wave with 95+ temps, on the heels of this mini heat wave, and and I'm kind of losing my shit about it being that hot again for so long. Like, panicky and not handling basic life tasks well. I feel like I have a million ideas and essays and projects that I really want to do but I cannot get a single thing done because my brain is just cooked. It feels like these really hot days are just blank days; like I'm not really living them. I was trying to remember what is good, something to anchor myself in, and I remembered that tarot is okay and pretty good. So I pulled a card, and then another. I pulled the Seven of Stones and The Guild, both reversed. The Seven is saying, you are trying to grow so fast and checking and checking and checking to see how you've grown and you're running yourself ragged. Growing takes time. Slow the heck down, friend. "The Seven of Stones reflects the technical, aesthetic, or even spiritual contemplation of the craftsperson rather than the strategist. It encourages us to see understanding and acceptance as the fruit of this contemplation. This practice can be difficult because most of us have not been conditioned to savor pauses. Since we are given so few opportunities to rest, we may not know how to accept what rest offers when it finally comes. We may get frustrated because our rewards don't seem proportional to our efforts, tempting us to work further in a frenzy." Slow Holler Tarot, little white book (multiple authors and it seems like the intent is to credit a group and not individuals--please feel free to correct me). The reversed Guild is saying, remember what you have learned from your teachers, and don't let this difficult time pull you into old patterns of behavior/learned ways of being in the world that did not serve you. Your productivity is not the measure of your worth.
That helped a lot.
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