February 11, 2022
Hello there,
How into Valentines Day are you? I just realized it is Monday. As I sit trying to write something about it I unexpectedly realized I have lots of complected thoughts! Maybe someday I will share them, but not today. Some things need time to sort and settle.
Instead here are some other tiny thoughts.
1.
If you are a hearts and flowers and candy in February type, indulge and enjoy in all the red and pink possible! Love yourself and or others up! If not, make yourself some pancakes for dinner. Why not? Breakfast for dinner is my go-to when I'm too tired for anything else or I feel out of sync with the world. It's comforting and gives me a just right amount of "I'm a rebel, I don't need any stinkin' rules!" vibes. I know, I know, my rebel
cred needs some work, but it works for me.
2.
One of my very favorite quotes on love, and why it is not an emotion. It's long, but worth it.
When an emotion is healthy, it arises only when it’s needed, it shifts and changes in response to its environment, and it recedes willingly once it has addressed an issue. When love is healthy, it does none of these things.
If emotions repeat themselves endlessly, or appear with the same exact intensity over and over again, then something’s wrong. Yet real love is a steadfast promise that repeats itself endlessly through life and beyond death. Love does not increase or decrease in response to its environment, and it does not change with the changing winds. Love is not an emotion; it doesn’t behave the way emotions do. Real love is in a category
of its own.
Those things we’ve learned to equate with love – the longing, the physical attraction, the shared hobbies, the desire, the yearning, the lust, the projections, the addictive cycles, the passions – those things move and change and fluctuate in the way emotions do, but they’re not love. Love is utterly stable and utterly unaffected by any emotion.
When we love truly, we can experience all our free-flowing, mood state, and raging rapids emotions (including fear, rage, hatred, grief, or shame), while continuing to love and honor our loved ones. Love isn’t the opposite of fear or anger or any other emotion. Love is much, much deeper than that.
(image of swans via Upsplash_
3.
I am committing to a big thing so I made myself a little magical rosemary bundle for strength, and to remind me of why this is so important and what my intention is. I'll wear it or have it near as I do my work. Magic is practical and ritual is powerful. Inviting the natural world to help me hold intention and creating something with my hands to concertize that, some may say is superstition. I do not agree.
4.
Overlooking the park from my office window has it's perks. Like watching these ladies playing tennis in tutus. We humans are delightful creatures. It is good to be reminded of that.
5.
A blessing for your week:
And, look who is making a repeat appearance from last week! (I swear I don't do this intentionally. I shuffle my cards very well. Sometimes an oracle has a bit more to offer.)
(image from the Animal Wisdom Tarot)
May you know when to open yourself to opportunity.
Sandi Davis
(c)2022 Sandi Davis
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