a well needed wellness break

take time out to recharge your spirit and your mind

Four of Swords

The crow appears to be dead, but what he is doing is going to a place of complete inner calm so that his mind and body can strengthen. He has encountered several challenges and there still one more issue he must face, but before feeling up to the task, he needs to take a wellness break. The Four of Swords is as a reminder to take time out to recharge your spirit and your mind. Find a quiet place where you can freely travel inward and absorb the loving energy of your higher-self. The Four of Swords indicates you will be able to resolve your situation from a place of clarity and compassion.

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I don’t know about you, but I find it to be a ritual of sorts to sit down and shuffle my oracle and tarot cards, to take a few deep breaths with those cards resting right at my heart’s center, and asking from that spaciousness and Sacredness of my heart to all that hears me, loves me, knows me, guides me, and believes in me with the fullest of faith, what it is I need to know, what it is I need to hear, what it is that would be of my heart’s highest, healthiest, happiest, most abundant, and free… it is in that space that I with the deck and the Divine create a portal so to speak, where messages can find me and free me all in the same.

The IV of swords is a card I have gotten to really know as it continually flies right out of the deck, which is what I ask the cards to do for absolute clarity, and into my perception continually… to take a break, to take a rest, to allow myself the spaciousness needed to remedy and realize ease, clarity, and even calm… no matter what I am in the middle of personally and collectively, this card signals to me a very clear sign: rest Keri, rest Keri, be…. be….

so, ya’ll, that’s where I have been. and that is what I have been doing. in the spaciousness of these weeks and days without my words finding their way to you in this matrix and miraculous mode of interconnectivity, I have been resting… I have been taking time to unplug from the phone and social media apps and any sort of need to plan and agree to an agenda. and it has been so rewarding… not in the sense of what reward might automatically mean to some, yet to me, a preciousness of such value no idea of work ethic or productivity and capitalism or greed could take from me. soul food so to speak. and it’s been yummy.

I’ve been able to stretch my slumber and sleep a little longer, I’ve been able to lay on the grass and breathe with the breeze and sunlight, I’ve been able to honor my time and energetic capacity free from the scroll and the need to know what’s globally and locally happening, I’ve been able to dream, and dare to make them come even more true.

I’ve been able to do the very act of self-preservation that I can only hope and extend to you.

we are so worthy of the spaciousness.

we are so worthy of being well in every capacity.

yet, I know all too well, that this isn’t always the priority - for ourselves and for each other. and that always gets me really curious and maybe even a little furious as I really contemplate and think… why are we not resting? why are we not allowing ourselves and each other to be well? why is it that taking a break, taking a pause, even taking a step back, are usually grouped into categories of privilege, laziness, and even unnecessary? why do we bypass and belittle the very things we need?

I know I am guilty of it at times, which is why this last week for me has been really special to just take note and see what being off my phone can do for my spirit, what doing less can do for my own creativity and influx of inspiration, and how by simply slowing down has actually allowed me to get more clear into my needs, feelings, and hopes.

and I get so curious as to what your experience and our shared experience would be like - alchemize into - if we began to take the IV of swords and crows lead.

rest.

resist.

replete.

I think that is going to be my pace from here on forward as well as taking a step back, letting a breath move its way in, out, and through, and changing the outer world by maximizing the medicine and mending of my own inner world and life.

there is so much to the story that is us, you, and me.

can we please prioritize all the practices that keep us well, keep us held, keep us free?

are you open to taking this leap of faith as well as restfulness with me?

when was the last time you traveled to a place of inner calm?

when was the last time you placed your efforts into your own well-being?

we don’t have to be ambitious here, my friends. we just have to be courageous, consistent, and choose the choices where we can be and breathe.

i’m thankful that through the cries and cracks, through the flux and fragments, through the losses and the gains, I have somehow someway cultivated a life where I can slow down, where I can say no, where I can feed, fuel, and free me in whatever way I need and learning how to do it all guilt and fear free…

my holiest of hopes is that this inspires you, ignites you, insists to you that you too can and must take that same lead in your own life, in whatever degree you need to.

please, stop normalizing any idea where you are not happy, healthy, and free.

and please, stop normalizing that same absurd concept and condition for all my brothers, all my sisters, all the planet and all her creatures, and for me.

we are the ones who can change the entire landscape of the future. imagine with me just how lovely and supportive it and we could be…