Good Morning!

Morning, dear.

I hope you had good dreams.

I woke up singing a Dropkick Murphy song and I've been listening to them on repeat for the last three hours. It's quite a different environment here than it was last night.  I love that; daily differences.

Listening to my Celtic Punk, I poured myself a hot glass of homemade sangria. The warmth made my morning sweet and hopefully will bleed onto my entire day.

Normally, if I remember my dreams, I remember them the second I wake up and sometimes still think I am in them. But today, I realized belatedly that I dreamt I saw someone who's been a cause of strife for me lately.  I've dreamed of him before, and often see people I know in my dreams, but this was different. Rather than seeing something happening to him, or talking to him, I was enjoying my time, hanging with a couple of people, and I just walked passed him. I saw him, but I didn't acknowledge him. It was weird, and something that had never happened before.

I realized that in my dream, I had noticed my problem and literally moved on.

That's a pretty powerful message to  receive and I am once again grateful.

I thought the best way to top this off would be with another Oracle reading. I shuffled in my dominant hand, using my non dominant to cut the deck and I had a jumping card!

A jumping card is one that you don't necessarily draw, but slips out of the deck during shuffling.

I receive jumping cards fairly often, so it might just be that I'm a horrid shuffler, but I always like to read with them just in case; you never know!

This morning, Isis slipped right off the top of my deck.

When I was younger I was absolutely in love with Egyptian Mythology so I recognized this Goddess right away.  She says "This situation involves your past-life memories." I love Isis, but felt this card was more of a reference than my reading, so I went to pull another.

I felt my deck and didn't think it needed to be shuffled, so I simply pulled the next card off the top and it was Isthar. She says, "Boundaries, Love yourself enough to say no to others' demands on your time and energy."

This was my card.

Pairing the two together is a pretty great read. The issues I am having right now are actually extremely similar to an experience I went through ten years ago and it still hurts.  Part of my healing has been to know my limits and to try extracting myself from the narrative of others.  I think with my head rather than my heart, and I often feel like if I could do something to help out, the logical response would be to do it; but now I've seen the scars I give myself in those situations. I still like doing what I can, but I must learn that it can be healthier for me to take a step back and say no.

Love always,
Andy