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🌱I shouldn't have written this

🌱I shouldn't have written this

This week, The Hanged Man asks us why we are resisting reality.

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Feb 25, 2024
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Welcome to the Greenhouse 🌱 where we plant seeds for the week ahead with a tarot reading, a digital altar, and more! Consider this your digital quiet place to exhale, read, and nourish your busy lil brain to ground you for the upcoming week. Maybe we’ll bask in the sun a little, too (wearing SPF, of course!) So if you haven’t already, please consider upgrading your subscription!

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This week’s seed 🌱: Inhale: surrender; exhale: perspective shift

The compost 🪱: The Hanged Man

This week’s card came to me in a NyQuil dream. I literally had a dream that I pulled the Hanged Man out of my deck. I woke up confused, and then forgot about it. Later that day, I went to pull our card for the week, and, of course, I pulled the Hanged Man.

I’ve been sick all week, as you may have guessed by the NyQuil reference. Admittedly I still am, and right now I should be resting instead of writing this! Yet here I am, trying to fulfill my commitment to you. But instead of spending the rest of my night, my only free time (mom thingz) today working on this, I am going to keep it short and sweet, because the Hanged Man says: surrender.

The Hanged Man from the Waite-Smith tarot deck.

So, in this moment I am surrendering to the fact that I’m sick, and no amount of wishing or doing is going to change that fact in this moment. Despite me wanting and needing to show up more energized for my life right now, I simply can’t. I am sick. I need to take it easy. What in your life have you been resisting? What would it feel like to surrender to this reality?

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