Each morning, I “pull” three tarot cards.
It’s a fun and insightful habit that I have developed in the past year.
The first card I “pull” is a card that is served to me on an astrology app that I look at each morning. The second is one from a glass box of cards that I keep on my bedside table, and that I have owned for 25 years now (but only in the past year got into actually using). The third is a set a I keep in a ceramic tray in my home office, and that I acquired earlier this year – they’re a really cool set from the singer Kacey Musgraves (who I think is a style icon).
I use the cards to not predict how the day is going to go. (That’s not how I roll.) I use them to process my thoughts and feelings… Opening me up to thinking about things differently that I have going on in my day.
Yesterday, my bedside table card was the Sun, A card that represents positive energy. Nice, I thought.
The other two cards, from the app and the Kacey deck, were the same. It actually happens more often than – that two of the three cards I pull are the same.
And yesterday, they were the Death card.
The Death card is number 13 in the Major Arcana of any tarot deck. Thirteen has always and will always be a lucky number for me. So I never get scared when I see it..
Because it is a card of transition.
It could be a big transition or a small one.
It could be a habit I have that is ending/needs to end. It could be a way of thinking that needs to be done. It could be a relationship/job/way of living that is ending.
And yes, it could mean a life ending. But it very rarely means that.
When I saw the card twice in my path yesterday I knew what it meant.
“Stop thinking about things regarding (redacted – thing I have been dwelling on recently) in a negative way. Seriously, cut that shit out.”
My way of thinking about this particular thing has been a habit for over 20 years. It’s what had been on my mind a lot… And as soon as I saw the cards it was clear that it was time to just stop thinking that way.
“But how do you just change your way of thinking full stop?” you might be wondering.
I don’t.
It’s a process to unwind it. But I spent some time shifting my perspective to be positive… Saying…
“There is something I am supposed to learn from this feeling of discomfort. And instead of saying, ‘Fuck this shit,’ just sit with it. Get comfortable with the frustration and the annoyance. It doesn’t mean you have to tolerate it. But don’t be angry with it.”
Basically, allow it to help me focus on the opposite energy of the situation. And what I truly want.
Plus, the addition of the Sun card was a push to remember that things are positive.
I was reminded at the end of the day that getting these cards on the Autumnal Equinox is a positive thing. It’s a day of transition… from one season to the next. Letting things go (like the leaves from the trees), finding more balance (as the days span to have more even distribution of light and dark), and finding more comfort.
All great reminders.
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