10/15/2026
‘It's not happiness that brings us gratitude. It's gratitude that brings us happiness.’ ~ Anonymous
There is a really unique story that goes along with the creation of Luminous Humanness Oracle Card deck. Published in 2023 two years after her perpetual calendar book with the same title, Kelly sat down to write the deck based on the simple phrase; ‘I'm only human’!
“I'm only a flawed, bumbling, awkward, klutzy, meandering piece of cosmic fluff, arbitrarily fumbling through this world with blinders on. I'm cut adrift from the spiritual realm, which excused me from being great, self-responsible, authentic, tapped in and operating from a sense of higher consciousness.” ~ Kelly Sullivan Walden
The opposite is true, encoded within the word ‘human’ lies the key to who we really are! ‘Hu’ comes from an Egyptian word meaning God, and ‘man’ comes from the Sanskrit word for (of the) Mother, mind, earth, and bread. So in other words, ‘as mere mortals, we are born to connect Heaven to Earth, to shine and to feed the world.’ ~ Kelly Sullivan Walden
To live and function on the planet we need the ‘airy-fairy’ and the ‘nitty-gritty’ … pragmatic logic and visionary epiphanies. If we are not grounded to the earth while our head is in the heavens we become incapable of being who we came here to be.
Working with these cards and deeply contemplating your Luminous Humanness – even for a few minuets each day – you come to realize that your light no longer needs to be a hidden mythical city – it is your true residence of resonance … your home sweet home.
I love both the book and the cards. Kelly has that ‘badass’ sass with her language that speaks to the soul.
Today's card is; Wanderlust is a Must
Why do we romanticize the virgin spaces? Land where no one’s walked or built … or fought over its uses? Land never once in it's existence beholden to anyone or anything, forming timelessly, inured us. We want to seduce the cluttered world of today out from under us. – Laurie Perez
If you had an unlimited budge, all the time in the world, and anything was possible, where would you go? What adventures would you take? With whom would you travel on this expedition? Wanderlust is a must because the act of exploring, embarking upon a rambling adventure, or taking a sabbatical – even if it's just in your mind – activates your joie de vivre (zest for life), entices your psyche, and arouses your soul to new realms of aliveness.
Allow your mind and body to travel to regions unknown today, and in doing, you'll invite previously dormant aspects of your inner world to come out and play.
Mantra:
I am willing to expand my horizons and explore, dream, and sojourn to places which I've only imagined.
Where will you travel to today?
In grace and gratitude,
💜Shannon