When I’m scrolling my email, Substack, or social media on a Monday, it’s for one of three reasons: I’m looking for something specific, I’m looking for something to distract me, manage my emotions, or fill my time, or I’m simply looking because I picked up my phone.
What are you looking for?
Clarity? An answer to a question?
Or is there something else that you need?
If you’re like me, you may be looking for direction away from or counter to reality (the fact that it’s Monday again) — something like a compass to point us back to where we actually want to be going.
We get ambitious about our weeks in capitalist America, wanting to fill them with as much as possible, make as much money as we can, or produce as much as we can. But I’m going to offer something today that has been sticking with me for weeks: a redirection towards something more.
Let it be an offering to you to consider what, if any, kind of perspective, pivot, or reminder you might need now.
I suggest you slow down and let the answers unfold. Expect the right answers to come to you, and they will. What you need is already inside of you.
Six questions
(to use as Tarot or journal prompts)
What is the crux of the matter?1
What is the invitation?
What strength can I call upon to accept the invitation?
What will it feel like?
What will it look like? What actions will I need to take?
What is the trajectory from here?
I don’t have the answers for you. My answers to these questions are answers I’ll be living into slowly over the next several months, or years.
Look around you. Look at the cards, or your words.
What do you see?
I’m curious. Tell me in the comments.
Xo,
Brittany
Crux: the most important point, the core issue, a difficult puzzle that needs an answer; the heart of a matter, the central, most vital part of an idea, argument, or problem; the hardest or most dangerous part of a climbing route; in astronomy, the formal name for the Southern Cross constellation (which by the way, is not visible in the Northern Hemisphere unless you are in tropical latitudes, and has not been visible here since 400 B.C. - !!!!).
I scroll on a Monday to get away from my thoughts. Lately they have been heavy and discomfiting. Playing on my phone or computer gives me peace. I also often find spiritual help when I scroll. Or a smile!