Welcome Beautiful Beings of Light to Mindfulness Monday. Your mindfulness awareness practice to hold from Monday to Monday.
Or whatever day of the week you happen to hear it upon, try to hold this practice for at least a week.
This is a general reading, so please only take what resonates and leave the rest for whom they need it.
A Destined Moment
The very first card coming in this reading is Destiny.
Destiny comes in with the message that you are currently standing in a destined moment.
That all the work you have done has brought you to now and Destiny offers a visual story to help you understand where you are in this moment.
Close your eyes and see yourself on a road. Whether it’s a dirt road, a paved road, a path, a thicket, grass, whatever it may be, there’s a trail that you have been following.
One that leads you towards the next adventure, towards the goals you are setting until the peace that you have been seeking through.
[At] this stage of your journey, you’re not running towards anything nor away. You’ve just come out of a battle near walking towards the next the next thing whatever it may be and as you wander slowly on this path since there’s nothing else to do your mind begins to wander.
Remembering the journey that you have been on, the trials and tribulations, the winning and the losing, the fears, the doubts, the hopes and possibility.
As these memories reflect in your mind, you become aware of the lessons the tools, the shields, and the armor that you have gained through all those experiences.
You realize how strong you’ve become. How you’re able to just continue to keep pushing and pushing and pushing forward. Regardless of the battle in front of you. Regardless of the weight of all the lessons, tools, and armor that you carry.
One foot in front of the other, like a harmony of “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can keep going”.
Until your body gives out from exhaustion.
You fall to the ground, unable to get up again. Whether from pure tiredness, from weakness of continuing forward without a break, or physical pain from not allowing yourself to feel or process all the experiences you’ve gone through.
You are now at a point where your body is forcing you to pause.
As you sit in a puddle of anger and frustration and pain as you’re willing your body to get up and keep moving forward. As you look around, you start to notice that you are three steps onto a path that had forked in the road.
You hadn’t even noticed the fork to begin with.
Luckily, your destiny has brought you to this moment, this realization and this opportunity to see which path you’re walking down.
Is this the path that you were truly meant to be on? Or were you supposed to take the other path?
As you start to become more aware of your surroundings, the path that you are on and the path that you almost missed. You see from the corner of your eye a person has materialized next to you on your path.
Taking a closer look, you see that this person is yourself. With compassion in their eyes, the reflection of yourself asks you:
“Is this really the path you want to walk down?”
“On this path, will you be able to stay true to who you are?”
“Will this path offer self-care and self-healing?
“Is there nature on this path that will help refill you and keep you rooted to the now?”
“And most importantly, do you like who you’re becoming on this path?”
As quickly as it appeared, the reflection of yourself leaves and you are left alone to ponder these questions and find their true answers.
Resting In Destiny
Destiny has brought you to this moment, to this opportunity of choosing which direction you want to be heading.
One that will take you to the glory of where you want to be aligned in the life that you wish.
The other, whilst it may get you there, may be full of pain and agony and twists and turns that you weren’t expecting.
Destiny asks you to choose your path wisely and to take the time you need to make that decision.
Allow this time of rest and reflection to fill you and heal you after all the battles that you have been facing. There will be time for you to take action, but now is the time of rest, reflection, and awareness.
A coming back into yourself is required at this time to realign yourself to practices you have forgotten. As well as allowing yourself to release the lessons or traumas or emotions that are no longer serving you in this time.
Destiny’s Tools
Destiny brings with it three tools for you.
Learning the Truth
The first tool is the Learning the Truth card.
This card, this energy, this tool is that of awareness of where you are in this moment. Of what you have become lax on and what self-care needs to be implicated?
Now, this isn’t just go get yourself a cupcake or go to the spa for a day. This is true, deep self-care.
What have you been filling yourself with? And is it really filling you or is it just a band-aid for the true filling that you need?
Maybe it’s time to see a healer. Maybe it’s time to ask somebody else for help. To really get into the pushing out of those things that no longer serve you. Perhaps even a sweat lodge would do to help you to release yourself.
Safe Travels
Destiny also brings with it the card of Safe Travels. The tool of safe travels.
This is the inward journey. The blessing for you on your path.
If you allow yourself the time to rest, heal, and [re]fill. Then you will be able to continue on this journey safely guided by those who want to assist you.
Whether it be your ancestors. Whether it be other healers, friends, guides, family, or even the creature nation, plant nation, water nation, whatever it may be.
If you allow yourself this time to rest and choose the path that you want to be on, then there are safe travels to be found.
Willpower
And the last tool and card that destiny brings with it is Willpower.
You have an amazing amount of Willpower. So much so that you have been trudging along just step by step down this path because of the willpower you wield.
So, Destiny wants you to refocus that Willpower.
Instead of focusing it on blindly following a path. It would like you to use that strong willpower to refocus it into yourself, to yourself. To allow yourself that permission to heal yourself, to go down a different direction. To reconnect to yourself and get grounded back into the Earth, grounded back into the true alignment that you are seeking.
Mindfulness Practice
Which leads into our mindfulness practice for this week. Release and rest.
Oftentimes when you come home from a really heavy day of work or a struggling day with friends or children or high emotional problem-solving, intense situations. The instinctual response is to zone out. To clear the mind by filling it with something that is so far away from that experience.
Whether it’s watching TV, jumping into a book, a project, or doom scrolling on social media.
The mindfulness practice for this week will be to release, to inhale and exhale and allow the day to drop off of you before you go into that restful state.
You can do this in several ways.
Mindful meditation for five to ten minutes.
Mindful breathing: Really feeling yourself breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. Inhaling the good while exhaling all the stuff that no longer needs to walk into your house. Bonus points: to get your whole body involved and allow your shoulders to come up and go down as you breathe, letting your/the weight of the world off your shoulders.
You could also journal for five to ten minutes.
You could scream,
Or you could just sit in the silence of nature and allow Mother Nature to fill you back up.
Then go inside and rest.
Until next time,
May Destiny find you on the path of your heart’s desire.
Mantras From the Cards:
Talisman Oracle by Nora Paskaleva
Destiny: I am free.
Learn the Truth: My flaws helped me grow, and now I see the truth.
Safe Travel: I am ready for this journey.
Willpower: I persevere!
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