Wow. What a weekend!

In our home we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, and our son's birthday.

Nationally, we celebrated our 1st amendment right to freedom of speech by hopefully & peacefully calling out the fascist and tyrannical actions of our elected president.

And today I woke up feeling, well, exhausted.

My intuition said "slow and steady. Sip your tea. Watch the leaves change. Slow down."

But I fought back hard, because it's MONDAY and I have to get moving. There are Things To Do.

That's my internalized capitalist productivity gremlin talking, though. It's not what I really need.

And lo and behold? Here comes our card for today!

Page of Wands

And, let's be honest this is NOT a card about "getting shit done". This is a card about indulging in your ADHD and stopping to notice the butterfly, and letting yourself be soothed and uplifted by the fact that this magical little butterfly exists.

It really gives the same energy as this meme:

Things to consider:

This card calls us to allow ourselves to be stopped in our tracks by our curiosity about the world, and to not judge ourselves too harshly for these little pauses. Our lives are not a race to see who can be the most productive. They are collections of precious present moments, and we push past those at our own risk.

How to bring this guidance into your week:

• This is a good week to be spontaneous! If something pops up that you really want to do, but you haven't placed it into your carefully color-coded schedule? Do it anyway. Especially if it comes at you from out of nowhere, or by some seeming "accident". (There are no accidents).
• This week is going to have (and is already having) lots of little hiccups, reschedules, and chances for you to slow down or re-adjust. I mean, just this morning AWS had an outage that shut down some MAJOR (and a lot of my favorite minor) apps and web services. Try to meet these with the understanding that this is an OPPORTUNITY for you to put down your devices and reconnect with the physical world around you. It's a gift of more free time. Receive it like a gift and make the most of it.
• It's also a particularly great week to get out of your house and go observe things. Take a nature walk, or sit in the coffee shop and just people watch, instead of going from house to car to work to car to house again. Stop. Turn your music/podcast off and notice.
• What to do with your gifted downtime? Try a new hobby, especially a creative one like painting, drawing, musical instruments, etc. This is a week where inspiration is trying to find you.

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Thanks for reading! If you enjoy this newsletter, and if this guidance has helped you, would you mind quickly replying and letting me know how? Oh! And maybe forward it to a weird and woo-woo friend? Thanks SO MUCH!

Love,

Megan