12 Days of Dreaming

December: Learning to Receive

Where November was the tentative opening, December is the moment you realize that openness does not exempt you from the ache of being human. The Five of Pentacles arrives not as punishment, but as a mirror: a reminder that healing includes the seasons when the light feels scarce, when the ground is cold, when the… Continue reading December: Learning to Receive

12 Days of Dreaming

November: Being Met

Where October was collapse, November is the slow reawakening of connection. After a season of endings, the heart doesn’t fling itself back open overnight, it loosens. It exhales. It makes space. The Two of Cups arrives as a reminder that healing is not finished in isolation; some parts of us are restored only in the… Continue reading November: Being Met

12 Days of Dreaming

October: Honesty Through Darkness

September asked me to practice discernment, to cut away what isn’t aligned. October arrives with a more sobering demand: the ending itself. The Ten of Swords is the final chapter of a cycle, the moment where carrying the weight any longer is no longer possible. It is the collapse that makes space for rebirth. At… Continue reading October: Honesty Through Darkness

Happiness

Happiness Suckers

We've all known the happiness suckers, and even had them occupy spaces of importance within our lives. I once dated a man for a year that I would label as the epitome of a happiness sucker. Nothing in his life seemed to make him happy. His personal mantra was, “If only I had this ______, I’d be happy.” Needless to say, he’d get that — whatever that was — but his happiness would be short lived and he’d be right back to where he started.