Day 24: First Quarter in Gemini

Sacred Rose

Dear Blossoming Soul,

Love in stories and fairy tales is often made out to be intense.
High highs. Low lows.
Battles to be won. Enemies turned lovers. Passion fueled by longing.

And because we absorb these stories so deeply, it’s easy to mistake this sort of intensity for love in our real lives.

I know I have.

I’ve confused the rush of longing, the chemical spikes, the emotional rollercoaster with connection. I’ve mistaken the push and pull for depth. The uncertainty for desire.

But intensity isn’t love.
It’s activation.
It’s nervous system patterns misidentified as passion.

Real love is steadier.

It’s calmer.
It’s a safe haven.
It doesn’t keep me guessing or bracing for impact.

So today, I’m choosing steady love over intense longing.

In my life, steady love looks like consistency. Showing up. Being able to rest. Being able to be seen without performing or proving. It looks like someone staying, not chasing.

It looks like devotion in the everyday.
In the way I care for myself.
In the choices I make that support my future rather than sabotage my peace.

This is the kind of love I’m welcoming now.

This is the tending today.

Daily Oracle Card

THE BREATHING ROSE

Her medicine today is heart healing.
Emotion. Connection. Time easing.

These words feel especially significant as I tend the wounds that once taught me that love had to arrive through intensity. Through longing. Through highs and lows that kept my nervous system braced.

The Breathing Rose reminds me that healing does not rush.
It isn’t linear.
And it almost always takes longer than we wish it would.

But healing is alive.

It breathes.
It unfolds in its own rhythm.
And somehow, again and again, the bud still finds its way to the light.

With healing comes growth.
With growth comes transformation.
And with transformation comes the quiet shift from longing to steadiness.

From intensity to safety.
From chasing to resting.
From surviving love to living inside it.

Always,
Your Trusted Friend 🌹

This reflection is part of the Sacred Rose: A 28-Day Journey of Self-Love. Click here to view the full journey roadmap.