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As we journey through life we learn lessons that we wish we could share with the world and now Facebook has created a vehicle for us to do this. This is my way of giving back to the Universe and the world. Please feel free to Share any posts, like my page, ask questions and give your opinion on anything I post. We may not always see eye to eye but I will defend to the death your right to your own opinion/beliefs. Any pictures not taken by me have been sourced from Google images or pages I am a member of. If any images need to be removed, a request from the owner of said image will be required prior to its removal.

16/10/2026

Lesson # 257: Stop trying to find balance and just learn how to tilt

The modern obsession with "work-life balance" is a trap designed to make you feel like you are always failing. You operate under the delusion that you are supposed to give exactly equal, calm attention to your career, your relationships, your health, and your hobbies every single day. When the scales inevitably tip, you panic and assume you are doing life wrong.

But life does not sit still on a perfectly horizontal scale. Walking itself is just a series of controlled falls. To move forward, you have to throw your weight off centre and catch yourself. There will be seasons where your career demands all your oxygen, and seasons where your family requires your entire heart.

Stop fighting the asymmetry. Give yourself permission to lean heavily into whatever requires you right now, and trust that you will tilt back the other way when the season changes. Perfect balance is for statues, not living things.

15/10/2026

Three distinct messages here. Each one speaks to a different kind of clarity, from trusting what you already sense, to letting hope return, to allowing yourself to be fully seen.

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝟭: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘀
There is something you already know, even if you have not found the words for it yet. The High Priestess appears when your inner reading of a person or situation is worth taking seriously, especially if outside opinions have made you question yourself. You do not need more noise around this. You may simply need enough quiet to hear your own knowing again.

Notice what keeps returning to you when nobody else is influencing the conversation. Your intuition does not always arrive dramatically. Sometimes it is just the calm little truth that remains after all the overthinking has exhausted itself.

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝟮: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿
Something in you is beginning to believe in possibility again. The Star often follows a period that has taken more out of you than you realised, and its message is not to pretend everything is perfect. It is to recognise that hope is becoming genuine again.

There may be a dream, connection, creative idea, or version of your future that deserves another look. Let yourself be curious about what feels nourishing now rather than measuring everything against what disappointed you before. Healing can be surprisingly spacious when you stop demanding that it happen on schedule.

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝟯: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗻
You are being drawn towards what feels clear, warm and alive. The Sun can show up when confidence is returning, when a truth becomes impossible to ignore, or when you finally realise that you do not need to make yourself smaller to keep something comfortable.

There is joy here, but there is also honesty. What lights you up is giving you useful information about where your energy belongs. Let yourself enjoy what is good without immediately searching for the catch. Sometimes the lovely thing really is just lovely, babe.

14/10/2026

Lesson #255: Stop asking for evidence when your gut has already given you the verdict

We are heavily conditioned to revere logic and dismiss our own intuition. When you meet someone or enter a situation and your stomach immediately ties itself into a knot, you likely try to talk yourself out of it. You tell yourself you are being judgemental, that you need concrete proof to justify your feelings, or that you should give them the benefit of the doubt. You overrule your own biological alarm system because it doesn't have a spreadsheet to back it up.

But your body processes danger and misalignment long before your conscious brain can articulate exactly why. That sudden drop in your chest, the tension in your jaw, or the unexplainable urge to leave the room is not random anxiety; it is ancient, evolutionary data.

Stop requiring a courtroom trial to validate your own discomfort. You do not owe anyone the benefit of the doubt when your nervous system is screaming at you to walk away. Trust the warning label, even if you cannot read the fine print yet.

13/10/2026

Trying something different this time.

12/10/2026

Lesson #254: Boredom is a privilege, not a punishment

We have completely lost the ability to stand in a queue or wait for a bus without immediately burying our faces in a screen. We treat a quiet moment like it is a dangerous void that must be instantly filled with podcasts, scrolling, or productivity. You have likely convinced yourself that if you are not consuming information or producing results every waking second, you are failing at life.

But boredom is not a failure of your schedule; it is the necessary fertile ground for your creativity. Your brain needs empty, unassigned space to process the massive amount of data it absorbs every day. When you constantly drown out the silence with external noise, you are starving your own imagination.

Give yourself permission to be spectacularly under-stimulated. Stare out of a window for twenty minutes without a singular goal. Let your mind wander into weird, uncharted territories. The best ideas you will ever have are waiting for you in the quiet space you keep trying to avoid.

09/10/2026

Lesson #253: You cannot debate your way into being valued

There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from laying out a logical argument for why someone should treat you well. You bring receipts, you explain your feelings in perfectly calibrated therapy speak, and you desperately try to make them understand your worth. But you cannot debate your way into being valued. If you have to build a verbal PowerPoint presentation to prove that you deserve basic respect or affection, you are already in the wrong room.

Value is not something you negotiate; it is something that is either recognised or it isn't. When you stay and fight for scraps of validation from someone committed to misunderstanding you, you are subtly agreeing that your worth is up for debate. You are shrinking your universe down to the size of their limited perspective.

Stop trying to teach people how to see you. Pack up your energy and take it to an environment where your value is a baseline fact, not a daily argument. The right people will never require a sales pitch.

08/10/2026

Three very different messages today. One speaks to the story your mind has been telling, one to a chapter that has genuinely run its course, and one to stepping into firmer personal authority.

Card 1: Eight of Swords
Your thoughts may be making a situation feel far more fixed than it actually is. The Eight of Swords often appears when you have been circling the same questions for so long that every possibility starts sounding like another problem. There is nothing foolish about feeling unsure, but not every thought deserves a seat at the decision making table.

What matters now is separating what you actually know from what you fear might happen. A little distance could reveal an option you have been overlooking. The way forward may not require a dramatic breakthrough. It may simply begin when you stop treating uncertainty as evidence that you are stuck.

Card 2: Death
Something has reached its natural ending, and trying to revive the old version of it may only keep you emotionally occupied with a chapter that has already said what it came to say. Death is not here to frighten you. It clears space when your life is ready to change shape.

There can be tenderness in admitting that you have outgrown a relationship, role, dream, habit, or version of yourself. You do not have to know exactly what comes next before allowing something to be complete. Give your attention to what feels ready to change rather than what you feel obliged to preserve.

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝟯: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗿
There is a part of your life asking for stronger boundaries, clearer decisions, and a little less negotiating with yourself. The Emperor brings an energy of self leadership. Not controlling everything around you, but knowing what you stand for and behaving accordingly.

You may be ready to take something more seriously, particularly around work, money, home, or the way others access your time. Structure could be surprisingly freeing here. Focus on what makes you feel solid rather than what merely keeps everyone else comfortable. Your inner CEO has entered the chat, and frankly, the meeting was overdue.

07/10/2026

Lesson #252: Perfectionism is just a high-end hiding place

You likely wear your perfectionism like a badge of honour, pretending it just means you have impeccably high standards. You tell yourself that you just want to get it exactly right before you launch the project, send the email, or share your art. But true excellence allows for messiness and experimentation. Perfectionism is not about quality; it is a defensive shield. It is an elegant, high-end hiding place designed to ensure nobody can ever criticise you.

The problem is that while this impenetrable shield keeps out criticism, it also keeps out connection. You are so terrified of being perceived as flawed that you present a polished, heavily edited avatar to the world instead of your actual, messy human self. People cannot truly love a flawless facade; they can only admire it from a safe distance.

Put the clipboard down. Produce the messy draft. Release the project before you have triple-checked every single pixel. The world does not need you to be utterly flawless; it needs you to be finished, visible, and undeniably real.

06/10/2026

Ok back on track with the weekly Readings!

24/09/2026

Well then… this spread has walked in like it owns the place. We have good people, grounded energy, and one rather large cosmic plot twist waiting in the wings.

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝟭: 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝘂𝗽𝘀
This card is asking you to look closely at the people around you. Not just who is there when things are fun, but who actually makes you feel lighter, safer, more like yourself. You may have been carrying more than you have admitted lately, and there is a strong reminder here that you do not have to process everything alone.

There is also something about allowing yourself to receive joy without questioning it. You do not need to earn every good moment. You do not need to be productive before you are allowed to enjoy yourself.

If you have been isolating a little, saying no to invitations, or convincing yourself that everyone else is too busy, this card is nudging you back towards connection. Reach out. Say yes. Let yourself laugh properly.

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝟮: 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀
You may need to come back to what is actually sustainable for you. This card often appears when you have been keeping everything running for everyone else while quietly wondering when someone is going to notice that you are running on fumes.

The Queen of Pentacles is generous, capable and dependable, but she also understands that constantly giving from an empty tank eventually turns into resentment. Have a look at where your time, money and energy are going right now. Are you investing in things that genuinely support you, or are you maintaining commitments simply because you have always done them?

There may also be a practical decision sitting in front of you that does not need another month of overthinking. You probably already know what makes sense. The challenge is trusting yourself enough to act on it. Sometimes the thing that shifts your energy is not another answer. It is being around people who remind you who you are.

Take care of your foundations first. Everything else becomes much easier when you feel steady underneath it.

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝟯: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲

Something is changing, whether you have fully noticed it yet or not. The Wheel of Fortune tends to appear when life starts loosening something that has become stuck. That can feel exciting, but it can also feel unsettling because change rarely asks whether the timing is convenient.

You may find that something you thought was certain suddenly shifts, or an opportunity appears that was never part of your original plan. Try not to immediately label the change as good or bad. Give it room to show you what it is.

There is a strong sense here that you are moving out of an old cycle, but you may need to stop trying to recreate what was familiar just because you knew how to survive there. Sometimes the wheel turns because you are ready for something different before your mind has caught up.

Stay open. The next chapter may arrive through a door you were not even watching.

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