#weekly focus

Weekly Focus - The Fool

Weekly Focus

Divine Masculine: Sun to the Moon, Yang to the Yin.

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Living life in either extreme of turbulent emotion or absolute stoicism leads to great distress.

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Divine masculine energy is the energy that grounds us into ourselves, puts our thoughts to words, and our words to action. The energy that pulls us to the earth when we feel like we could float away in our minds.

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#MonthOfSpreads2 Day Fifteen: Weekly Focus

During my self-care journey, one exercise that my therapist suggested was to focus on one small goal each week and nurture it. I thought that this concept would make an incredible spread to help those who want to set a positive intention and focus at the beginning of their new week.

Step One: Shuffle your deck or mix up your divination tool of choice. How many times and however long is completely up to you.

Step Two: Choose one weekly focus keyword below.

Weekly Focus Keywords:

Peace | Strength | Self-Love | Clarity | Freedom | Authenticity | Creativity | Positivity | Courage | Gratitude | Forgiveness | Your Own Keyword

Step Three: Replace the blank space in the spread position below with your weekly focus keyword.

What can I do to nurture and cultivate more ____________ in my life?

Step Four: Pull three cards and read the spread as you normally would, answering the above question. 

I figured the best way to choose a keyword was by checking in with the card on the bottom of the deck. Uranium - Balance of Power is what came up, and while I could justify choosing ‘Peace’ here with this specific imagery, the underlining Strength implied behind that peace is what I went with before laying out the three cards. And now that I’m writing this, I could see justification for at least a couple more of them. But Strength it is.

What can I do to nurture and cultivate more strength in my life?

Antimony - Ancient Knowledge. Study. Which includes both reading and writing.

Cobalt - Evil Spirit • Radiotherapy. Do the work. The kobolds grabbing at my feet holding me back, well, I invited them. Let’s sit down and figure out how to court those feet-holding fiends to become fleet-flying friends.

Nitrogen - Breath • Neutrality. Breathe deeply. Strength requires exercise, exercise requires breath.

I like that the cards are all blue. I took home a small chunk of blue calcite from last night’s magick night. At one point during circle, I held the stone and waved it around saying, “blue wave! blue wave!”

Step One: Shuffle your deck or mix up your divination tool of choice. How many times and however long is completely up to you.

Step Two: Choose one weekly focus keyword below.

Weekly Focus Keywords: Peace | Strength | Self-Love | Clarity | Freedom | Authenticity | Creativity | Positivity | Courage | Gratitude | Forgiveness | Your Own Keyword

Step Three: Replace the blank space in the spread position below with your weekly focus keyword.

What can I do to nurture and cultivate more ____________ in my life?

Step Four: Pull three cards and read the spread as you normally would, answering the above question.

Deck: Tarot of the Silicon Dawn

As a writer, I can get obsessive about word choice and almost picked from the offered batch with my pendulum, but in the end, I did some dictionary meditation (looking up) and decided to go with “efficiency,” from “efficient” meaning “producing the desired results.”

What can I do to nurture and cultivate more efficiency in my life?

4 of Pentacles - well hello again, Happy Place.  In this instance, I’m going to interpret things more physically, and say the card is telling me to set up the space to do what I need to do.  I’ve been using some of the rooms in my house differently and I need to roll with that more, and make a space that somehow suits my writing the same way I have a dedicated altar space that suits my spiritual practices, or how I’ve been doing this tarot challenge every morning because I have a little tarot station set up, and I make tea and have breakfast, and space is ready and waiting to shuffle and lay out the cards.  I need to establish a writing space that is pre-dominantly for just that.  Interestingly, historically, I’ve always been most productive when where I was writing was right next to a window, looking down and out.

6 of Wands - Yesterday’s Happy Borg who was sharing successes with the hive, is today more in the light of “your writing needs to be shared” rather than the traditional sense of writing in a vacuum.  In short, this card feels like it’s telling me yes to my thoughts on Patreon.

Humeur

Cette semaine a été plutôt calme niveau sorties mais une seule a fait ma semaine mercredi avec PALEOOOOOO, ce n’était pas vraiment prévu mais merci à Nestlé Waters pour les billets!!

Ben oui, Julien Doré, Arcade Fire, 24 degrés à minuit, une gaufre, une “vodka pomme” comme quand j’étais jeune et ma meilleure amie que demander de plus?? Y a pas à tortiller, le Paléo c’est notre Coachella suisse, même si les artistes au programme ne sont pas forcément dans ma playlist, impossible de sauter une année! Si je devais avoir un seul regret, ce serait de ne pas avoir été voir Macklemore mais merci à toutes celles qui en ont fait des stories!

Sur le blog

J’essaie de publier 2 articles par semaine mais sans pour autant publier pour publier et vous souler, alors c’était un premier article léger avec le 5e épisode de l’Indispensable du dressing et le second un chouilla plus recherché avec un récapitulatif des plus beaux ballets à voir dans la région à la rentrée (décidément je suis en mode recap ces temps!) et qui semble beaucoup vous avoir plu! Il y a plus de fan de danse qu’on croit :-p

L’indispensable du dressing #5

Agenda balletistique AW17-18

Mes coups de ❤

Vous pensez bien que je n’ai pas passé la semaine sans rien acheter ou du moins sans rien repérer…Bon personne me croira mais je deviens raisonnable niveau Zalando, si je commande beaucoup, je renvoie le 90%. Sabine: 1 gommette!

  Mules Lost Ink          Miss Selfridge                Jeans Newlook                   Pull Edited                    Robe Yas

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La semaine à venir

Pour l’instant rien de prévu, eh oui l’agenda est vide et pourtant c’est pas comme si le blog et l’organisation de notre Fashion Fair du mois d’octobre n’allaient pas accaparer toutes mes soirées. En plus vu la météo annoncée, ce ne sera pas désagréable de rester à bloguer devant Secrets d’histoire ou Netflix (d’ailleurs je vous prépare une petite sélection à ne pas manquer sur Netflix).

Voilà j’espère que ce nouveau rendez-vous hebdomadaire vous plaira et que j’aurai chaque semaine des aventures trépidantes à vous raconter, ça c’est moins gagné ;-).

Bonne semaine les cacahuètes! (oui je sais c’est ridicule mais chatons, mes ptis chats, les ptis citrons etc. sont déjà pris alors si vous avez d’autres idées, lâchez-vous!).

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The focus of the second week of yoga is awakening connection - in seeing my contextual relationship with my environment and how my individual balance is synonymous with the balance of the whole (whether that means my whole body, my whole life, my whole family, my whole community). The practice for the week is based on learning Sun Salutations, a traditional movement practice that connects balancing, forward-bending, back-bending, and centering poses. The focus is on seeing the relationship and connection between its poses rather than getting too wrapped up in the exactitude of any one pose.

Body focus: shoulder blades, collarbones, and upper arm bones (shoulder girdle); lower ribs (diaphragm attachment) and upper chest; back of the neck and position of the head

Poses of the week: Cat Pose, Volcano Pose, Extended Standing Forward Bend, Lunge, Powerful Pose, Plank Pose, Push-Up Pose, Upward-Facing Dog Pose, Staff Pose, Cobbler's Pose, Reclined, Cobbler's Pose, Constructive Rest Pose, Seated Crossed-Legs Pose

Personal Reflection: I'm really looking forward to Sun Salutations. When I previously did yoga regularly, I first turned to Sun Salutations to awaken my body and energize my mind, and there is something about them that can lighten any dark mood. After the first week of yoga, I noticed a marked improvement in my moods, or at least the sense that I could acknowledge my emotions and try to let them run their course without affecting other parts of my day. I still feel tired most days, but I see the potential in slowly being able to draw more energy from yoga, and I think if I can do at least the Sun Salutation portion of each practice in the morning, I will really benefit from having more vitality during the day.

This chapter of the book opens with Rodney Yee talking about the pace of our lives today, and how, despite the myriad ways we have of communicating at rapid speed, we still feel isolated and disconnected. We don't give our experiences time to digest and sink deeply into our bodies, and we do not stop to think about the immeasurable number of connections around us. I think this is very true, especially when it comes to social media (hyprocritical that I'm blogging this, right?) - we are communicating on a surface level, but we are not taking the time to appreciate our friendships, our relationships, our connections with other human beings. I feel this deeply as a new mom who spends most of her time alone at home. And with the assembly line mentality of the foods we ingest and the products we consume, we've also lost the connection to what sustains us: the earth. I can sit alone at home eating an apple for lunch, for example, and think little of the abundant connections it took for that apple to get to my table. But through yoga, Yee suggests, we come to realize that we are not actually disconnected, but are under the illusion of isolation, which the practice of yoga helps to lift by awakening our consciousness of connection and providing that much needed time for us to acknowledge and take in all of our experiences.

I often feel as though I am alone in the world, despite being surrounded by the people I love, and despite the lovely efforts of many of my friends to keep in touch from the cities they live in. Sometimes I feel as though those connections have lessened because the people around me now see me as a mother first, and a human being second. The idea of awakening an awareness to all of the connections around me is intensely appealing. I also want to live a life of connectedness so that my daughter never has any doubt of how much she is loved and how deeply she is connected to the people who love her, to the world around her, and to the earth itself.

The focus of the first week is in being present, in observing and responding to whatever arises. The practice for the week is based on the standing poses, meant to awaken the body through their vibrancy, and through the mind, body, breath and spirit, invest my whole being in the present. This focus depends upon the alertness of my mind, but also the receptivity and relaxation of my body. The standing poses also aim to awaken and renew my connection to the earth, which is essential in creating presence of mind.

Body focus: front, back, outsides, and insides of heels; sitting bones, tailbone, and pubis; natural curves of the spine

Poses of the week: Mountain Pose, Downward-Facing Dog Pose, Standing Forward Bend, Triangle Pose, Warrior 2 Pose, Extended Side Angle Pose, Tree Pose, Warrior 1 Pose, Half Moon Pose, Pyramid Pose, Legs Up the Wall Pose, Relaxation Pose, Hero Pose

Personal reflection: While looking forward to this practice, I'm also feeling very daunted right now. Will I have the time to complete even a single day? I'm trying not to push myself too hard... I haven't been sleeping well, and I want to make the most of this, so if I can't finish a whole day, I'll cut to the restorative poses and resume the rest of the session the next day. The book is based on practising six days a week, so maybe I will end up practising all seven, or maybe I will still take days off when I need to. I realized that if I look at it ONLY as six days of one hour of yoga each, I will never end up starting at all. I'm just going to dive in and try to make it work for me, whether that means a couple ten-minute sessions during the day, trying to focus on my breath while my daughter is playing, or waiting until she is asleep to begin. I'm not sure what will work yet, but I've put it off too long and can't let that keep me from starting.

Being present is something I struggle with. As a mom, a solo mom most of the time, 24/7 of my time is spent with my daughter. It's hard not to want to give myself a break sometimes and pick up my iPhone or flip through a magazine, but in doing so, I end up with my attention split between special moments with my daughter and my own relaxation, and in doing so, I'm left dissatisfied, with neither the bonding moment or the calm of mind I so desire. Splitting my focus accomplishes none of the things I intend it to do, and leaves me feeling like a failure as a mom and burnt out as a person. I want to be fully immersed in the moments of my life and to draw energy from those moments.

Being grounded in the present is also important to me so I can be able to appropriately respond to whatever arises. I often feel that I have absolutely no control over most, if not all, aspects of my life, and it's hard for me to let go, to accept the things I can't change. I want my heart to be open to receive and respond, I want to be able to let go of my expectations, allow my body and mind to balance over center and thus move easily in any direction, without any presumptions, fluid and able to respond in the ways that I choose.

I don't know if it's a coincidence that I'm starting this project at the beginning of the new lunar year / Chinese New Year, but I'm going to believe that this is a little push in the right direction from the universe.