Getting My Mojo Back

Isis: "A growing awareness of the magic within yourself. A yearning to grow beyond perceived limitations. You are able to transform your life through the strength of your originality and power ~ all you need to do is own it. Renewed creativity and vigor." --The Goddess Tarot, by Kris Waldherr

I have been doing tarot card readings (mostly for myself and family) for a few years now and I often draw the Magician card. I don't think I have ever liked it, though, as much as I do in goddess guise.

Butterfly: "Every one of us emerges from the chrysalis of darkness and gestation, in which we enter as one self and come out as another. ... Whatever part of the cycle you're in--be it the larva phase, the cocoon stage, or the emergent phase, where you spread your wings and float into your new life--know that you're safe and that this is part of a natural movement." --Power Animals: How to Connect with Your Animal Spirit Guide, Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D

Seeking guidance from the animal spirit realm can happen in several ways. You can look for encounters with certain animals that seems unusual. Not the way it would normally happen, like, say, a dragonfly that heads toward you, flies around your head and then, lands at your feet, when such a thing never happens. Or you can use animal spirit oracle cards.

You also can combine those by going to look up the animal once you have had an unusual sighting or encounter.

Right around the time I was musing about this situation in my life and the need for guidance, a butterfly landed on my window while I was in a room I am rarely in during the day and it stayed there for quite some time. When it finally did move, it flew from one windowpane to another several times before flying away for good.

And I appreciate the encouragement, from both places, let me tell you!

(1) Get LOTS of sleep!: I never really get enough ad you'd think that during stressful times, you'd need more, right? So I, incurable night owl, am going to try my best to go to bed earlier several nights in a row so I can get a bit of extra sleep somewhere in there.

(2) Watch movies that encourage me:

The Holiday
Pride and Prejudice

(3) Listen to music that encourages me: so far, what has occurred to me, is the Hallelujah video where Celine Dion surprises the Canadian Tenors on the Oprah Winfrey show and Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" performance on "Britain's Got Talent" (makes me cry every single time).

(4) Read books that encourages me: I'm thinking chick lit but we'll see what else I find on Amazon...

The Summerhouse by Jude Devereaux
Return to Summerhouse by Jude Devereaux

(5) Take long walks and come back to afternoon tea with pineapple pound cake cookies: this is my favorite season (autumn) and I need more exercise. But wouldn't it be cool if I could have "milk and cookies" when I come back inside form my walk?

(6) Take a week off from work: when you work from home, you almost never take time off because the things that still need to be done sort of scream at you from the back of your mind.