The Lonely Woods has a message for your heart 💜🌲
Pick-a-card for your week
Hi friends,
For the past two months, I’ve been a part of an online accountability group called the Dharma Artist Collective or DAC.
More on that experience another time.
One portal you are invited to walk through in this group is parts work. This deep exploration of my psyche, why I do what I do, feel the way I feel, or act the way I act, has been life-changing.
It hasn’t been easy.
But if I asked you to name the most rewarding things you’ve experienced in your life, my guess is not a one was easy.
Am I right on that one? (Here’s your sign to do the thing you need to do even if you know it’ll be hard)
This morning’s work was particularly tender, and whenever I feel that tenderness, I’m drawn to today’s deck: Into the Lonely Woods
It’s part imaginary friend, part animal spirit, and part my own heart if it had a different form.
I invite you to step into today’s reading with a tender heart. The part of you that might cry or is crying.
Allow this beautiful deck to offer you some medicine to begin your week.
Let me know how it goes for you.
xo,
Natalie
PS: Did you know? My calendar is open for one-on-one readings!
The Cards
WAIT A SEC! 🌼
Check in with your heart.
Take a deep breath or two.
Look at that tender thing that needs a little support.
Then pick a card and scroll down for your reading.
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The Lonesome Gardner
By tending to something outside of yourself with love and care, you’ve given yourself a beautiful gift in return.
Generosity and loving care can sometimes feel almost selfish. When they come from a true place, the giver often receives the most benefits, from good feelings to a raised vibration and more.
If you’re feeling stuck or low, this is an invitation to offer love and kindness outside of yourself. What will begin growing within you, as a result, is exactly the medicine you seek.
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Your Inner Light Will Guide You
There is profound power in lighting your way when you feel unsure or lost.
But how?
Ask your heart what is true. Then, take the next best step and make the next best decision. Even if they are tiny and small, they’ll still add up.
Perhaps you’re telling yourself that all is lost.
Is that really true?
Or you’re facing an indecision of some kind. Choose an outcome and ask: does that feel true for me?
Your heart knows the way. Trust that it can guide you through whatever you’re looking at.
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The Truth Comes Softly
The answers you seek will come softly. This is about accessing the space of being rather than doing.
Often, we fill our time with doing anything we can, productive or not, to avoid being with ourselves.
But making time to be with yourself is where you begin to understand more clearly. It’s where you unearth all of the answers.
Only you know your truth. And you contain multitudes of them. They are your guides. They are yours and only yours.
Make some time to connect with your truths. They hold the answers.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I love the artwork on these cards!