New year messages: card spread & journal prompts
Download your printable journal, listen to monthly oracle card prompts and a channelled audio message from Lisa.
Hello Lovely Wildheart,
I’m sorry. I’m a little later than intended with this month’s journal prompts. I’ve been sick, and taking it easy. I’m forever reminding other people to put themselves first, and that’s why this year I’m taking my own advice for a change.
Coincidentally, that’s the theme of this month’s messages - being gentle with yourself and pausing to let the healing land. I don’t know about you, but so often I do the work, have an aha moment or powerful insight, and then rush straight on to the next part.
It takes time for the healing to integrate. Maybe that’s why when I slowed down and stopped I got the sniffles.
“Colds, runny nose, and tears are all related—mucus and tears are both ways of releasing repressed or pent-up emotions. You may feel the same helplessness and despair, the same need for comfort. So, if you have a bad cold, you may want to see if there is some crying or grieving you are repressing, some deep feeling that has been pushed aside.”
- (Shapiro, Your Body Speaks Your Mind, 184)
As I withdrew my energy from the outside world and came back to myself, I sat with the grief of being estranged at Christmas. It isn’t my first rodeo. Was I consciously aware of it? No, but my inner child’s voice came through loud and clear when she told me she felt empty.
I asked her: ‘Is it them that’s you miss?’ I clarified empty to mean lonely. I was alone but not lonely. I’ve grown to love my own company in the last nine years. She then told me that Christmas felt pointless and meaningless without ‘family’.
I share the conversation I had with my inner child’s from my journal in this month’s audio message.
It always amazes me that our bodies are finely tuned and have their own intelligence which guides us to process and release what we no longer need. All we have to do is get out of the way, and give them the time and space to do so. This is healing. We shed the layers and uplevel our energy to align more with who we truly are.
Even though this month’s 9-card spread is with the new year in mind, as with all my readings, this is a timeless reading. This means whenever you stumble across it, you’ll be ready for a new start. Beginnings are about letting go as much as they are about planning and building the new.
Card Decks Used:
Self Care wisdom Cards by Cheryl Richardson
Metatron Self-Mastery Oracle Deck by Amanda Ellis
Wisdom of the Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid
Crazy Sexy Love Notes by Kris Carr
Disclaimer: Lots of people go for tarot card readings because they think that the tarot is there to predict the future. I don't use the tarot in that way. The tarot for me is a mirror. It is a reflection of what is going on inside of you that perhaps you can't see or are unaware of. The minute you bring it into your awareness is the minute you can start to heal it.
