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Good morning sunshine! Welcome to merm shit #2. Today we’re talking about rituals. Specifically morning rituals. I love mornings, I want to be up and active and ready for the day but that doesn’t come naturally. Unless I’m signed up for 7am pilates I need an activity to pull me out of my cozy comforter. That’s where my morning routine comes in.
The first thing I do when I wake up is scroll on Instagram. I’m kidding but not. The goal is not to do this but I usually do. Then, I roll over to grab my journal and pen and start my morning pages. This activity is from ‘The Artist's Way’, a twelve week artist recovery guide that I completed earlier this month. I’m almost to 100 days of morning pages and have no plan of stopping. The goal is three pages of whatever it needs to be. Sometimes it’s filled with lovely ideas, like this newsletter, and sometimes it’s four sessions straight of me saying ‘I miss my boyfriend’ over and over again. I usually fall asleep between sentences and end up with pink pen marks on my cheek but it’s a great way to release any anxieties I have about the day ahead and take inventory of the current status of my life. I’ve found that if I write about the same issue for more than a few days I’m more likely to take action on it once I get myself out of bed. After my morning pages, I do a tarot card pull. Everything is a mirror and tarot is a perfect reminder of that. It can set the tone for the day, shine a light on an issue you may have been avoiding or simply introduce you to a new card in your deck. I shuffle my cards, think about my day then pull. I often pull the same cards, heyyy hanged woman - she reminds me to slow the fuck down, but sometimes there’s a new face in there that I take a moment to read about and reflect on before launching myself out of bed. On Monday mornings after all of the above it’s time for one of my favorite rituals of the week. Chani and cleaning time! Every Monday morning I start my laundry and clean my space while listening to Chani’s weekly mini podcast ‘the week ahead’ as well as my specific libra rising reading. This hour or so routine consistently sets the tone for a good week ahead. I have clean and calm in my physical space and also peace of mind knowing what’s to come for the week. At least in the sky. This little routine makes so much more sense after reading about my north node in Virgo from ‘Astrology for the Soul’. Astrology tells all, including why I find starting my week scrubbing grout so soothing. 10/10 recommend tapping in. I feel like it’s important to note that I do all of these lovely rituals for myself and still sometimes feel like shit. These rituals help me to calm my thoughts, activate my creativity and center myself but a tarot pull is probably not going to make your anxiety go away. Although, some days it truly does help!
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