some years ago I started learning how to do my own Tarot readings. I love doing them once I understood how to read, interpret and use the cards during the year. The first weekend of December I do an astrological reading, and then ask three key questions. I find them both fun and deeply insightful as long as I don’t expect them to predict. Like all of life, they suggest.
I ask one very quiet question about the overall outlook for work, a question IF I have a partner, and the overall outlook for my body.
In 2022 I got the Tower for my body. I've had seven major surgeries in one year and broke my hip. I tend to take some of the trending seriously.
Interestingly this year's readings there were three or four cards which returning ( including the Tower) but all were in different spots, all after careful shuffling. So fascinating.
Oh I never thought about how the Wands are a connection to the spiritual aspects! I love that perspective. I also love that you mentioned the shadows around the healer archetype, that can be often dismissed or overlooked! That more preferred state is so beautifully put Jenna, and the fact that it’s different for everybody in every part of their journey is also something to keep in mind! 🙏🏼✨💗
Thank you, Christine! 💕 To me, it feels like everything is always in flow and so this would true for healing too. Like, it's not a static, concrete thing. Thinking of it in terms of a preferred state was the best way I could hold that idea.
Oh this is wonderful Jenna. I am filled with a radiance after reading your post. I feel as though the healer in me holding the wand for me to rise up higher and higher, and to shine like a lighthouse further afield.
Jenna, these two together are so potent...WOW! Thank you. I feel a tingling around me as I write this. I will head to bed now and let the tingle go deeper.
Ah yes, and you shine so beautifully for all of us, my soul sister! If your bedtime tingles brought you any amazing dreams, please do let me know. I love hearing about the wisdom from dreams.
I will keep you informed dearest one. No conscious dreams. Yet, there are things a brewing. And I'm very ungrounded this morning... as I've stubbed my toe on the kitchen chair...a sign that I'm not very present in my body. I am feeling that something is happening. I am still "out there somewhere integrating", and that I need to be very gentle with myself today. I feel it is something to do with the Solstice energies, my purpose and the importance of pausing - to look at the past year taking for it all the wisdom and learnings and messages, into the year to come.
Wow this is brilliant as I can see how the Ace of Wands, the passionate spark associated with it creates true healing. The term “healing” has been so perverted which is why I never liked it in the first place. But you said this so well.
Every week of Archetype and Tarot gets richer and seems to unfold from the one before. I'm now beginning to wonder, as I read--and enjoy!--comments the extent to which this collective participating with you is participating in the cards being pulled, and how much what is being pulled is influencing us as a collective. Of course, it's all there in the "field." But something stirs of the integrity of this weave of us as a community you've called to the table in this work. To say: Thank you.
Your reflections on the shadow side of healer archetype really speak to me. This shadow side stems from the Power/Domination Paradigm and is not about healing. It's about power. It's writ large in the Western allopathic model: aka, the "White Coat Syndrome." And, of our own shadow side as recipients of this 'healing', we participate by handing over our own inner healing authority to the 'healer' in the costume of healing. Instead of healing, we go in search of a "cure," i.e., a fix. "Fix me. Don't make me do it." !!! As you say, healing doesn't always look like fixing. And I'll stop here, but I could go on (for days!) because I have (a few!) feelings about this! Haha!! Thank you for bringing the healer out of the shadows. Now, may the true healing begin! For all of humanity.
I hear you! I have a few feelings about it all too. 😁 "Fix me. Don't make me do it." That quote right there is why I hung up my hat as a healer for living humans. I'm certain I have my own shadows to deal with in the whole scenario, but I had come to think of it as a waste of time for everyone involved. I also have some strong feelings about "western" medicine from the patient side of things. As you wisely put it, so much of it is about power, not healing. And not being in relationship with our own systems and overall wholeness. But YES! May the true healing begin! Yay!
I know exactly what you mean about the participation of this archetype/tarot thing that's unfolding. It IS in the field. And the cards keep reflecting what we all here seem to need. I have recently set up an altar for my substack subscribers and community that I pray over and send love to. I pull the cards at the altar, holding the intention that what comes is for the benefit of all who will read the post. And then when I read the comments, without fail, I am the one who receives all this amazing guidance I hadn't even considered when writing the post. I am truly in love with this community here!
Reading that we are all at your alter lends the sweetest feeling. You are such a phenomenal presence and are creating such a caring community here. Thank you. 🙏
The relationality you are creating here brings balance and harmony to the power dynamic in healing in the Modern world. This power dynamic in medicine and healing long precedes and therefore, informs today's healthcare and healing practitioners. Western medicine cannot heal itself without the help of the likes of what you are offering. So, in that sense, you hung up your hat, but it's still hanging around lending help!
Oh I loved your story about your dog in the sanctuary! That must of been hysterical! And what I good example of the AofW. Putting the healer together with the AofW is a wonderful combo. The gift of passion and fire illuminating what is needed. For me, many times a burst of inspiration is all that is needed to bring me out of a funk!
I agree, enthusiasm can be a healer in of itself. I am troubled by the fact that we as a culture depend too much on allopathic pharmaceuticals. Fixing the problem instead of getting to the root. So many alternative means work the whole body, which is important since we are multifaceted individuals. For example, the body may show symptoms, but it might be the spiritual side that needs the reboot. It is a complicated subject, where we have been taught to rely on doctors, handing our power over to them. Instead of a mutual relationship of understanding the issues.
I'm right there with you on allopathic pharmaceuticals, that whole person needs to be addressed, and that there's a tendency to hand our power over to doctors. I can get pretty angry about the whole thing. But like you said, it's complicated. And I do understand (and share) the desire to just feel better as quickly as possible. Seeing through to the whole being is the true path of the healer.
Hi Julie, I just wanted to say that I adore how, for those of us who understand healing involves mind, body, emotions, and spirit, and excavating the root issue in order to heal, Substack is allowing a space where we're able to connect and share and exchange ideas and information. For me (of course) this is part of the Rising of the Divine Feminine😁 and isn't Jenna's definition of healing phenomenal?!
Yes Camilla, I really appreciate substack for this. I love reading each person's offering. Then the mutual conversation that becomes possible. And me too! This is really all about the Divine Feminine rising. My whole life at this point is devoted to HER! How wonderful to connect with others that feel the same! And yes I do love the "preferred" way of seeing healing. This is softer, more flexible, able to shift as new information comes forward.
Thank you so much, Camilla! And I SO agree...the Divine Feminine is where we'll not only find this beautiful connection, but also the wholeness of healing.
Thank you for sharing. This week I’ve been dealing with a new skin infection and trying to understand the spiritual meaning. I kept hearing the word “boundaries” and was confused because I feel like in general I have pretty good boundaries in my life. Then, I saw that skin is related to our crown chakra and understood that I need to adjust the boundaries I have with spirit (not being willing to receive) and the boundaries I have in my mind with thoughts of comparison/resentment.
Trusting in the healing advice of others also resonated as I’m very wary of medical experts (being a nurse myself, ha!).
I am leaning into my more preferred state which is one of ease, joy, and creativity for the sake of communing with a presence like the Ace of Wands leading to more enthusiasm!
Thank you, Mariah! I'm sorry about your skin infection, but I'm glad about the exploration of boundaries. I didn't know the relationship of skin and crown chakra, but that makes perfect sense. I'm wary of medical experts too and the question about what avenues of healing do I trust is very relevant for me. I love your more preferred state! Yes to all of that!
Oh yes, this has sparked something Jenna! We cannot define healing by what we traditionally see, because at any given time we might need an alternative. It can be easy to take the pill, close our eyes and wish it all away. What we are being called to do is deepen the relationship with ourselves and our own healing abilities. To seek out external guidance only when we have first got to the bottom of what we need. Physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. Otherwise we are trying to 'fix' ourselves blindly. You've switched the light on. Thank you beautiful soul! 🙏
Thank YOU, Louise! Your words brought me such clarity! "To seek out external guidance only when we have first got to the bottom of what we need." This is pure brilliance and exactly what I needed to read today. I feel like my whole spirit team just spoke to me through you. Thank you for that!
Oh for some big hand with a big wand energy right now! ;) Love your mini-ritual - thank you for reminding: we cannot determine which cards show up in a reading, but we can meditate on their meanings and our wishes - they represent ideas that go beyond a piece of cardboard and images.
Jenna, you are a gifted word master. Your description of a healer blew me away. As a clinician, I was reading it asking myself if you too were once a healer. Well, I know you are but you nailed it in the physical, emotional, and mental sense. Well done.
I agree these cards dovetail perfectly with last week but I also got a strong sense of them being about THE WORLD. Perhaps we are being told that our world is in a state of healing and the Wands indicate that it will be healed through Spirit and elevated consciousness, rather than the physical, emotional or mental. It seems the swell of elevated frequency is on the rise (or I choose to believe it is) and this is what will shift the current chaos.
This is magnificent, Donna! YES! I agree with my whole heart and soul that we are collectively moving towards a new unfolding of consciousness, one that is more relational in nature. I love that you saw this week's cards in terms of the world like this. Oh my gosh, how perfect! We can hold the vision of the world's "more preferred" state so the healer can get us there. ❤️ And thank you so much for your kind words! 🤗 I was a spiritual healer for living humans...actually seeing clients one on one...for many years. Then my path shifted to a focus on healing the dead and that's where I've been ever since. Thank you so much for the incredible healing work you do in the world. The whole world is better because of it!
Haha, my brain is like a cartoon going zip zip trying to recall why I don't remember that you were a spiritual healer in years gone by. I know as soon as we chat about it I'll recall the entire thing but🤣 Can I use the excuse that I'm slightly under the weather today?!
Oh dear, I'm so sorry you're under the weather! You know, I don't think my past as a healer HAS come up in conversation yet. We've had much better things to discuss! I'm sending you big hugs and healing vibes today!
I find there are more and more people growing inward which has a big effect on the collective. However, I admit to a personal bias because that is my deepest hope, it's how I operate and what I surround myself with so that's what I see. But, it's a better view than the other🤣
I was thinking the same thing about me, Donna! I'm loving this conversation between you two. ❤️ For me, in a very ideal sense, I would hold the perspectives of all the dimensions at once. But talk about a work in progress! I'm only beginning to even understand what that would mean.
Your writing is so warm and interesting. I know nothing of Tarot. but I'm learning a bit because I enjoy hearing your thoughts. Please excuse my naivety, but tell me: it seems like the suits are perspectives and the symbols/characters are applications. Is that fair? I like that it all makes you think about your situation from a different perspective.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Ellen! ❤️🤗 When it comes to tarot, I tend to think of it as a language with 8 billion (or more) different dialects. It's something I am always learning, but will never fully know. Your take on the suits as perspectives and the symbols/characters as applications is absolutely brilliant! One thing I often wrestle with concerning the suits is that it can feel like a parsing out of something that is inherently whole, if I look at them as aspects or facets of the self. But if I use your framework of looking at them as perspectives, well, that changes everything! This is an incredible insight, thank you so much. I'm going to sit with this and ponder it for quite a while.
Hi Jenna, I love the timing of this post as I was recently conversing with a friend about really old emotional wounds, and do we ever actually heal them?
And I love your definition of "healing means moving from a non-preferred to a more-preferred state."
But this is also interesting in a Buddhist context, as the Buddhist monks across the road here play with investigating preferences, and not being attached to preferences...
So much of spirituality is paradoxical and perhaps my takeaway here is to know that my preferred state is one of healing, wholeness and no suffering, but the reality is that my preferences will not always come to be, so perhaps this is another situation where I can know my preference, while practicing remaining detached from outcomes... I'd love to hear your thoughts too...✨🌟💖🙏🕊️
This is brilliant Camilla, thank you! My first thought is that I've always said that I know I'm dealing with divinity whenever a paradox is present, because the divine is complete (so it is a thing as well as its 'opposite'). I have deep roots in eastern philosophy (primarily hinduism) and have actually pondered the idea of preferences quite a bit. And I have no answers of course. Lol. But I think it's what you said. We're always going to have preferences, I think that's built into the system. But If my "preference zone" is too narrow, I'm not as likely to feel fulfilled. If I can expand my "preference zone", ideally to include paradox, fulfillment will comes easily. This is such a wonderful line of questioning. Thank you so much for bringing this here!
Thanks so much Jenna - and right back at you - brilliant and I love this: "If I can expand my "preference zone", ideally to include paradox, fulfillment comes easily."✨🌟💖🙏🕊️
Ok saw the question at the end. I love that you used the word enthusiasm here because that word has been coming to me a lot when I have been meditating. I did not know that it translated to God inside. My preferred state is the flow state for sure, one where I am not dealing with paralysis or hiding myself -- one with enthusiasm, focused on gratitude and the moment. One where I feel like I am efficient and able to move through the day without getting in my own way. One where I can feel safe in my body and not desire anything outside of the present moment. 🙏🫡
Oh yes! That feels so good to me! Especially the part where I am safe in my body. That sort of safety and comfort is more and more a requirement for me as a foundation for feeling enthusiasm. Thank you for this beautiful description of flow state. ❤️❤️❤️
some years ago I started learning how to do my own Tarot readings. I love doing them once I understood how to read, interpret and use the cards during the year. The first weekend of December I do an astrological reading, and then ask three key questions. I find them both fun and deeply insightful as long as I don’t expect them to predict. Like all of life, they suggest.
Hi Julia! Your exercise in the first weekend of December sounds wonderful! Can I ask what your three key questions are? I'm intrigued!
I ask one very quiet question about the overall outlook for work, a question IF I have a partner, and the overall outlook for my body.
In 2022 I got the Tower for my body. I've had seven major surgeries in one year and broke my hip. I tend to take some of the trending seriously.
Interestingly this year's readings there were three or four cards which returning ( including the Tower) but all were in different spots, all after careful shuffling. So fascinating.
Oh I never thought about how the Wands are a connection to the spiritual aspects! I love that perspective. I also love that you mentioned the shadows around the healer archetype, that can be often dismissed or overlooked! That more preferred state is so beautifully put Jenna, and the fact that it’s different for everybody in every part of their journey is also something to keep in mind! 🙏🏼✨💗
Thank you, Christine! 💕 To me, it feels like everything is always in flow and so this would true for healing too. Like, it's not a static, concrete thing. Thinking of it in terms of a preferred state was the best way I could hold that idea.
Oh this is wonderful Jenna. I am filled with a radiance after reading your post. I feel as though the healer in me holding the wand for me to rise up higher and higher, and to shine like a lighthouse further afield.
Jenna, these two together are so potent...WOW! Thank you. I feel a tingling around me as I write this. I will head to bed now and let the tingle go deeper.
THANK YOU.
Ah yes, and you shine so beautifully for all of us, my soul sister! If your bedtime tingles brought you any amazing dreams, please do let me know. I love hearing about the wisdom from dreams.
I will keep you informed dearest one. No conscious dreams. Yet, there are things a brewing. And I'm very ungrounded this morning... as I've stubbed my toe on the kitchen chair...a sign that I'm not very present in my body. I am feeling that something is happening. I am still "out there somewhere integrating", and that I need to be very gentle with myself today. I feel it is something to do with the Solstice energies, my purpose and the importance of pausing - to look at the past year taking for it all the wisdom and learnings and messages, into the year to come.
I hope that makes sense....
Wow this is brilliant as I can see how the Ace of Wands, the passionate spark associated with it creates true healing. The term “healing” has been so perverted which is why I never liked it in the first place. But you said this so well.
Thank you so much, Miriam! This means a lot to me!
Jenna,
Every week of Archetype and Tarot gets richer and seems to unfold from the one before. I'm now beginning to wonder, as I read--and enjoy!--comments the extent to which this collective participating with you is participating in the cards being pulled, and how much what is being pulled is influencing us as a collective. Of course, it's all there in the "field." But something stirs of the integrity of this weave of us as a community you've called to the table in this work. To say: Thank you.
Your reflections on the shadow side of healer archetype really speak to me. This shadow side stems from the Power/Domination Paradigm and is not about healing. It's about power. It's writ large in the Western allopathic model: aka, the "White Coat Syndrome." And, of our own shadow side as recipients of this 'healing', we participate by handing over our own inner healing authority to the 'healer' in the costume of healing. Instead of healing, we go in search of a "cure," i.e., a fix. "Fix me. Don't make me do it." !!! As you say, healing doesn't always look like fixing. And I'll stop here, but I could go on (for days!) because I have (a few!) feelings about this! Haha!! Thank you for bringing the healer out of the shadows. Now, may the true healing begin! For all of humanity.
I hear you! I have a few feelings about it all too. 😁 "Fix me. Don't make me do it." That quote right there is why I hung up my hat as a healer for living humans. I'm certain I have my own shadows to deal with in the whole scenario, but I had come to think of it as a waste of time for everyone involved. I also have some strong feelings about "western" medicine from the patient side of things. As you wisely put it, so much of it is about power, not healing. And not being in relationship with our own systems and overall wholeness. But YES! May the true healing begin! Yay!
I know exactly what you mean about the participation of this archetype/tarot thing that's unfolding. It IS in the field. And the cards keep reflecting what we all here seem to need. I have recently set up an altar for my substack subscribers and community that I pray over and send love to. I pull the cards at the altar, holding the intention that what comes is for the benefit of all who will read the post. And then when I read the comments, without fail, I am the one who receives all this amazing guidance I hadn't even considered when writing the post. I am truly in love with this community here!
Jenna,
Reading that we are all at your alter lends the sweetest feeling. You are such a phenomenal presence and are creating such a caring community here. Thank you. 🙏
The relationality you are creating here brings balance and harmony to the power dynamic in healing in the Modern world. This power dynamic in medicine and healing long precedes and therefore, informs today's healthcare and healing practitioners. Western medicine cannot heal itself without the help of the likes of what you are offering. So, in that sense, you hung up your hat, but it's still hanging around lending help!
Oh I loved your story about your dog in the sanctuary! That must of been hysterical! And what I good example of the AofW. Putting the healer together with the AofW is a wonderful combo. The gift of passion and fire illuminating what is needed. For me, many times a burst of inspiration is all that is needed to bring me out of a funk!
I agree, enthusiasm can be a healer in of itself. I am troubled by the fact that we as a culture depend too much on allopathic pharmaceuticals. Fixing the problem instead of getting to the root. So many alternative means work the whole body, which is important since we are multifaceted individuals. For example, the body may show symptoms, but it might be the spiritual side that needs the reboot. It is a complicated subject, where we have been taught to rely on doctors, handing our power over to them. Instead of a mutual relationship of understanding the issues.
I'm right there with you on allopathic pharmaceuticals, that whole person needs to be addressed, and that there's a tendency to hand our power over to doctors. I can get pretty angry about the whole thing. But like you said, it's complicated. And I do understand (and share) the desire to just feel better as quickly as possible. Seeing through to the whole being is the true path of the healer.
Hi Julie, I just wanted to say that I adore how, for those of us who understand healing involves mind, body, emotions, and spirit, and excavating the root issue in order to heal, Substack is allowing a space where we're able to connect and share and exchange ideas and information. For me (of course) this is part of the Rising of the Divine Feminine😁 and isn't Jenna's definition of healing phenomenal?!
Yes Camilla, I really appreciate substack for this. I love reading each person's offering. Then the mutual conversation that becomes possible. And me too! This is really all about the Divine Feminine rising. My whole life at this point is devoted to HER! How wonderful to connect with others that feel the same! And yes I do love the "preferred" way of seeing healing. This is softer, more flexible, able to shift as new information comes forward.
Thank you so much, Camilla! And I SO agree...the Divine Feminine is where we'll not only find this beautiful connection, but also the wholeness of healing.
Thank you for sharing. This week I’ve been dealing with a new skin infection and trying to understand the spiritual meaning. I kept hearing the word “boundaries” and was confused because I feel like in general I have pretty good boundaries in my life. Then, I saw that skin is related to our crown chakra and understood that I need to adjust the boundaries I have with spirit (not being willing to receive) and the boundaries I have in my mind with thoughts of comparison/resentment.
Trusting in the healing advice of others also resonated as I’m very wary of medical experts (being a nurse myself, ha!).
I am leaning into my more preferred state which is one of ease, joy, and creativity for the sake of communing with a presence like the Ace of Wands leading to more enthusiasm!
Thank you, Mariah! I'm sorry about your skin infection, but I'm glad about the exploration of boundaries. I didn't know the relationship of skin and crown chakra, but that makes perfect sense. I'm wary of medical experts too and the question about what avenues of healing do I trust is very relevant for me. I love your more preferred state! Yes to all of that!
Oh yes, this has sparked something Jenna! We cannot define healing by what we traditionally see, because at any given time we might need an alternative. It can be easy to take the pill, close our eyes and wish it all away. What we are being called to do is deepen the relationship with ourselves and our own healing abilities. To seek out external guidance only when we have first got to the bottom of what we need. Physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. Otherwise we are trying to 'fix' ourselves blindly. You've switched the light on. Thank you beautiful soul! 🙏
Thank YOU, Louise! Your words brought me such clarity! "To seek out external guidance only when we have first got to the bottom of what we need." This is pure brilliance and exactly what I needed to read today. I feel like my whole spirit team just spoke to me through you. Thank you for that!
Oh for some big hand with a big wand energy right now! ;) Love your mini-ritual - thank you for reminding: we cannot determine which cards show up in a reading, but we can meditate on their meanings and our wishes - they represent ideas that go beyond a piece of cardboard and images.
Thank you, Troy! And, yes, I could use some big wand energy myself! 😂
Jenna, you are a gifted word master. Your description of a healer blew me away. As a clinician, I was reading it asking myself if you too were once a healer. Well, I know you are but you nailed it in the physical, emotional, and mental sense. Well done.
I agree these cards dovetail perfectly with last week but I also got a strong sense of them being about THE WORLD. Perhaps we are being told that our world is in a state of healing and the Wands indicate that it will be healed through Spirit and elevated consciousness, rather than the physical, emotional or mental. It seems the swell of elevated frequency is on the rise (or I choose to believe it is) and this is what will shift the current chaos.
YES!
This is magnificent, Donna! YES! I agree with my whole heart and soul that we are collectively moving towards a new unfolding of consciousness, one that is more relational in nature. I love that you saw this week's cards in terms of the world like this. Oh my gosh, how perfect! We can hold the vision of the world's "more preferred" state so the healer can get us there. ❤️ And thank you so much for your kind words! 🤗 I was a spiritual healer for living humans...actually seeing clients one on one...for many years. Then my path shifted to a focus on healing the dead and that's where I've been ever since. Thank you so much for the incredible healing work you do in the world. The whole world is better because of it!
Haha, my brain is like a cartoon going zip zip trying to recall why I don't remember that you were a spiritual healer in years gone by. I know as soon as we chat about it I'll recall the entire thing but🤣 Can I use the excuse that I'm slightly under the weather today?!
Oh dear, I'm so sorry you're under the weather! You know, I don't think my past as a healer HAS come up in conversation yet. We've had much better things to discuss! I'm sending you big hugs and healing vibes today!
I feel the same way about spirit and higher frequency being the change in our chaotic world uncoupled from spirit.
I find there are more and more people growing inward which has a big effect on the collective. However, I admit to a personal bias because that is my deepest hope, it's how I operate and what I surround myself with so that's what I see. But, it's a better view than the other🤣
And a good view of the matrix, the unpreferred state. Donna, do feel yourself to be in the 4th or 5th dimension?
I likely vibrate between the two with less 'time' spent in the 5th than I would like. How about you?
I was thinking the same thing about me, Donna! I'm loving this conversation between you two. ❤️ For me, in a very ideal sense, I would hold the perspectives of all the dimensions at once. But talk about a work in progress! I'm only beginning to even understand what that would mean.
Your writing is so warm and interesting. I know nothing of Tarot. but I'm learning a bit because I enjoy hearing your thoughts. Please excuse my naivety, but tell me: it seems like the suits are perspectives and the symbols/characters are applications. Is that fair? I like that it all makes you think about your situation from a different perspective.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Ellen! ❤️🤗 When it comes to tarot, I tend to think of it as a language with 8 billion (or more) different dialects. It's something I am always learning, but will never fully know. Your take on the suits as perspectives and the symbols/characters as applications is absolutely brilliant! One thing I often wrestle with concerning the suits is that it can feel like a parsing out of something that is inherently whole, if I look at them as aspects or facets of the self. But if I use your framework of looking at them as perspectives, well, that changes everything! This is an incredible insight, thank you so much. I'm going to sit with this and ponder it for quite a while.
Hi Jenna, I love the timing of this post as I was recently conversing with a friend about really old emotional wounds, and do we ever actually heal them?
And I love your definition of "healing means moving from a non-preferred to a more-preferred state."
But this is also interesting in a Buddhist context, as the Buddhist monks across the road here play with investigating preferences, and not being attached to preferences...
So much of spirituality is paradoxical and perhaps my takeaway here is to know that my preferred state is one of healing, wholeness and no suffering, but the reality is that my preferences will not always come to be, so perhaps this is another situation where I can know my preference, while practicing remaining detached from outcomes... I'd love to hear your thoughts too...✨🌟💖🙏🕊️
This is brilliant Camilla, thank you! My first thought is that I've always said that I know I'm dealing with divinity whenever a paradox is present, because the divine is complete (so it is a thing as well as its 'opposite'). I have deep roots in eastern philosophy (primarily hinduism) and have actually pondered the idea of preferences quite a bit. And I have no answers of course. Lol. But I think it's what you said. We're always going to have preferences, I think that's built into the system. But If my "preference zone" is too narrow, I'm not as likely to feel fulfilled. If I can expand my "preference zone", ideally to include paradox, fulfillment will comes easily. This is such a wonderful line of questioning. Thank you so much for bringing this here!
Thanks so much Jenna - and right back at you - brilliant and I love this: "If I can expand my "preference zone", ideally to include paradox, fulfillment comes easily."✨🌟💖🙏🕊️
Ok saw the question at the end. I love that you used the word enthusiasm here because that word has been coming to me a lot when I have been meditating. I did not know that it translated to God inside. My preferred state is the flow state for sure, one where I am not dealing with paralysis or hiding myself -- one with enthusiasm, focused on gratitude and the moment. One where I feel like I am efficient and able to move through the day without getting in my own way. One where I can feel safe in my body and not desire anything outside of the present moment. 🙏🫡
Oh yes! That feels so good to me! Especially the part where I am safe in my body. That sort of safety and comfort is more and more a requirement for me as a foundation for feeling enthusiasm. Thank you for this beautiful description of flow state. ❤️❤️❤️
I love these posts thank you so much!!!!!
Thank you, Tess! 💕