Sacred Rose
Dear Blossoming Soul,
This journey is a deeply personal one. I’m following a thread within myself that feels tangled… something that needs unraveling, unloosening, and undoing.
It feels like holding a delicate piece of jewelry that’s been knotted over time. In those first moments of trying to free it, my hands only seem to make the mess worse. Tugging too hard doesn’t help. Forcing clarity doesn’t work. What’s required is patience, attention, and the willingness to slow down.
February, for me, is being guided by the Six of Cups Reversed. You might be sensing that energy in this year’s Sacred Rose without knowing the card itself. It follows January’s theme of adjustment, which was about those small, micro tweaks that bring balance. I can still feel that energy present.
But February feels different.
This month feels like a cleansing of the heart. A careful examination of the ways I’ve been hypervigilant, overprotective, guarded, and armored. These strategies once served me well. They kept me safe. But now they’ve begun to limit me. This feels like a detox. Not of love, but of the ways I learned to protect myself from it.
This season of self-love is about gaining perspective on the past, releasing it, and moving forward without dragging it into every new moment. The past can be a guide, but it can also become a place we linger too long. When we live there, it quietly colors the present and blocks the possibilities trying to arrive now.
So today, under a waning gibbous in Virgo, my attention turns to perfectionism.
I notice how often I strive to make myself good enough. How easily care becomes correction. How instinctively I try to refine myself instead of asking whether refinement is actually needed.
I see this most clearly in my relationship with my body and in the standards I hold, the expectations I internalize, the quiet belief that tending must look like improvement.
Today’s work isn’t about fixing that.
It’s about seeing it.
About noticing where effort has tipped into over-effort.
Where devotion has become punishment.
Where care has hardened into control.
This feels like one small knot loosening.
Not solved. Not finished. Just seen.
This is the tending.
Daily Oracle Card
As I look at this card, THE SUN, I can’t help but notice how clearly it speaks to my perfectionism.
When I focus on being good enough, it gets in the way of joy.
THE SUN feels like summer to me.
Vitality. Play. Ease. The simple miracle of being alive.
So today, I’m releasing the need to strive.
I’m letting go of the pressure to be “good enough.”
And I’m choosing to bask in the small moments that remind me I’m here.
To be alive is already enough.
Always,
Your Trusted Friend 🌹
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