BIRD Tarot Reading 11/1/21
Our theme this week is release, complete with an animal guide
Beluga 2:08
Is fear keeping your from hope? Is attachment to hope keeping you rooted in place when you should be moving?
Impala 4:32
Explore the things that are triggering anger and frustration? Are you fighting because you want to or because you're just used to fighting?
Rattlesnake 6:39
Check in with your personal power. What getting in the way of letting your warmest fire?
Deer 9:12
What's getting in the way of you connecting with the muse? Can you check into your instincts and release conditioning you didn't choose?
By Chelsea Mancini
Beluga 2:08
Is fear keeping your from hope? Is attachment to hope keeping you rooted in place when you should be moving?
Impala 4:32
Explore the things that are triggering anger and frustration? Are you fighting because you want to or because you're just used to fighting?
Rattlesnake 6:39
Check in with your personal power. What getting in the way of letting your warmest fire?
Deer 9:12
What's getting in the way of you connecting with the muse? Can you check into your instincts and release conditioning you didn't choose?
By Chelsea Mancini
Writing prompt for the week
What is your relationship to safety?
Consider the statement: I am safe.
What comes up for you when you say this? How does it land? Where do you feel it in your body? Does it feel true?
By Chelsea Mancini
Consider the statement: I am safe.
What comes up for you when you say this? How does it land? Where do you feel it in your body? Does it feel true?
By Chelsea Mancini
BIRD Tarot Reading 10/25/21
How can we lean into the energy of transformation this Scorpio season?
Beluga 1:21
Can you let it be messy? Can you approach things with an optimistic naivete? What if it just works?
Impala 3:06
Are you owning it? Look at where you tend toward guilt and shift it to pride. How can you better receive?
Rattlesnake: 5:11
Are you trading your ambition for safety? Nothing is truly assured. What's the story you're telling yourself around 'hard work?'
Deer 7:21
Are your decisions coming from a fear that you aren't safe? Can you let yourself feel safe, and know that you will always figure it out, no matter that challenge?
By Chelsea Mancini
Beluga 1:21
Can you let it be messy? Can you approach things with an optimistic naivete? What if it just works?
Impala 3:06
Are you owning it? Look at where you tend toward guilt and shift it to pride. How can you better receive?
Rattlesnake: 5:11
Are you trading your ambition for safety? Nothing is truly assured. What's the story you're telling yourself around 'hard work?'
Deer 7:21
Are your decisions coming from a fear that you aren't safe? Can you let yourself feel safe, and know that you will always figure it out, no matter that challenge?
By Chelsea Mancini
Recognize your own magic
I moved to Boston eight years ago.
Eight years ago, I was a very different person living a very different life. I knew deep within me it wasn’t where I would be in the future. I was unhappy. I was scared. I lacked confidence and conviction. I lacked a relationship of reciprocity with myself.
I would often attempt to escape reality by hiding in bookstores and cafes. I’d retreat into the shelves, into the quiet and calm. I’d retreat into the pages of a book that promised to teach me how to be better, do better, have more.
I think I knew in my soul that I was running. There were many actions I could have been taking to improve my situation. Physically I was more than capable of doing so. But energetically and mentally I didn’t believe that any of it would actually help. I didn’t yet know how to deal with the ghosts and the fears that lived deep in my unconscious and kept me paralyzed in a state of fear and lack.
And so the books were there for me. I’d buy a baked good from the café — one of the few things I’d eat all day. I’d sit and I’d read, because I couldn’t afford to actually buy the book and take it home. I also didn’t want to go home. Because who knew if the lights or the Wi-Fi would even be on. The bookstore was safety and possibility.
I would read and the books would tell me to figure out what I truly wanted. If I had the money I desired, what would I do? If I could do anything with my time, what would it be?
And I would think to myself: “I’d love to do exactly what I’m doing right now, minus the fear and the running and the avoiding.”
I wanted to be allowed the freedom to drink coffee and read books whenever my heart desired, without the foreboding feeling that as soon as I stepped outside those walls I’d be met with the crushing weight of reality. I wanted to feel freedom, safety, and excitement.
That was eight years ago, and it feels like an entirely different lifetime.
Time is a funny thing. It passes, and life goes on, and somewhere along the way, you become a new person.
I almost forgot today’s anniversary. But my subconscious asked me to remember. It brought me back eight years ago, and I remembered that girl. That scared yet hopeful version of myself. I felt sympathy for her. I felt proud of her. And so, I took her to the bookstore.
We got a coffee. We roamed the shelves. And I bought her every book her heart desired. Because somewhere along the way over the last eight years, she fulfilled her dream.
She became the person who can sit in a bookstore on a random afternoon and feel secure in knowing that she is safe. The lights will be on when she gets home. She doesn’t need a cheap muffin because she has plenty to eat (but she can have it if she wants). She can even buy the books and bring them home.
She kept going even when she was surrounded by darkness and uncertainty. Her desires lived in her heart, until eventually, they were all around her.
And then I thought about who I might be in another 8 years. What will that version of myself look back and see? I sent that future version of myself love and gratitude, because I know she’s realized dreams even this present-day version of myself hasn’t thought to dream yet.
Over the last eight years, I didn’t even realize the creative power and magic I was wielding. I hope over the next eight years I never forget.
By Chelsea Mancini
Eight years ago, I was a very different person living a very different life. I knew deep within me it wasn’t where I would be in the future. I was unhappy. I was scared. I lacked confidence and conviction. I lacked a relationship of reciprocity with myself.
I would often attempt to escape reality by hiding in bookstores and cafes. I’d retreat into the shelves, into the quiet and calm. I’d retreat into the pages of a book that promised to teach me how to be better, do better, have more.
I think I knew in my soul that I was running. There were many actions I could have been taking to improve my situation. Physically I was more than capable of doing so. But energetically and mentally I didn’t believe that any of it would actually help. I didn’t yet know how to deal with the ghosts and the fears that lived deep in my unconscious and kept me paralyzed in a state of fear and lack.
And so the books were there for me. I’d buy a baked good from the café — one of the few things I’d eat all day. I’d sit and I’d read, because I couldn’t afford to actually buy the book and take it home. I also didn’t want to go home. Because who knew if the lights or the Wi-Fi would even be on. The bookstore was safety and possibility.
I would read and the books would tell me to figure out what I truly wanted. If I had the money I desired, what would I do? If I could do anything with my time, what would it be?
And I would think to myself: “I’d love to do exactly what I’m doing right now, minus the fear and the running and the avoiding.”
I wanted to be allowed the freedom to drink coffee and read books whenever my heart desired, without the foreboding feeling that as soon as I stepped outside those walls I’d be met with the crushing weight of reality. I wanted to feel freedom, safety, and excitement.
That was eight years ago, and it feels like an entirely different lifetime.
Time is a funny thing. It passes, and life goes on, and somewhere along the way, you become a new person.
I almost forgot today’s anniversary. But my subconscious asked me to remember. It brought me back eight years ago, and I remembered that girl. That scared yet hopeful version of myself. I felt sympathy for her. I felt proud of her. And so, I took her to the bookstore.
We got a coffee. We roamed the shelves. And I bought her every book her heart desired. Because somewhere along the way over the last eight years, she fulfilled her dream.
She became the person who can sit in a bookstore on a random afternoon and feel secure in knowing that she is safe. The lights will be on when she gets home. She doesn’t need a cheap muffin because she has plenty to eat (but she can have it if she wants). She can even buy the books and bring them home.
She kept going even when she was surrounded by darkness and uncertainty. Her desires lived in her heart, until eventually, they were all around her.
And then I thought about who I might be in another 8 years. What will that version of myself look back and see? I sent that future version of myself love and gratitude, because I know she’s realized dreams even this present-day version of myself hasn’t thought to dream yet.
Over the last eight years, I didn’t even realize the creative power and magic I was wielding. I hope over the next eight years I never forget.
By Chelsea Mancini
BIRD Tarot Reading 10/18/21
Beluga 0:42
Take the middle road this week. How can you look at things with a more balanced perspective?
Impala 2:54
Are you taking the time to receive the things you're asking for? Are you being the person that can hold what you're asking for?
Rattlesnake 4:49
Time to shift away from burnout. What change do you need to make this week?
Deer 6:07
What spells are you casting? Focus on your intention and give your creative power the credit and attention it deserves.
Take the middle road this week. How can you look at things with a more balanced perspective?
Impala 2:54
Are you taking the time to receive the things you're asking for? Are you being the person that can hold what you're asking for?
Rattlesnake 4:49
Time to shift away from burnout. What change do you need to make this week?
Deer 6:07
What spells are you casting? Focus on your intention and give your creative power the credit and attention it deserves.
BIRD Tarot Reading 10/11/21
Beluga 0:38
What important shift can you make this week, especially regarding your energetic boundaries?
Impala 3:11
Can you look back in order to move forward without getting stuck in the past?
Rattlesnake 6:06
Check in with your masculine energy. Is it serving the right purpose/being perceived the way you want it to be?
Deer 9:20
As you move towards and through transformation, take the time you need to feel prepared. Are you ready to welcome in transformation?
What important shift can you make this week, especially regarding your energetic boundaries?
Impala 3:11
Can you look back in order to move forward without getting stuck in the past?
Rattlesnake 6:06
Check in with your masculine energy. Is it serving the right purpose/being perceived the way you want it to be?
Deer 9:20
As you move towards and through transformation, take the time you need to feel prepared. Are you ready to welcome in transformation?
BIRD Tarot Reading 10/4/21
Beluga 2:21
Keep going! How can you connect with excitement and celebration this week?
Impala 3:43
What thoughts need tending to? Can you let the sludgy, sticky come up and out?
Rattlesnake 6:12
What internal structures need to fall? Thought patterns, ways of being - can you surrender to divine timing?
Deer 9:11
Time to build your squad. How can you merge practical structure with being heart-led?
Keep going! How can you connect with excitement and celebration this week?
Impala 3:43
What thoughts need tending to? Can you let the sludgy, sticky come up and out?
Rattlesnake 6:12
What internal structures need to fall? Thought patterns, ways of being - can you surrender to divine timing?
Deer 9:11
Time to build your squad. How can you merge practical structure with being heart-led?
BIRD Tarot Reading 9/27/21
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Beluga 0:59
Keep it simple, write it down, and move forward however imperfectly. How can you come back to your own equilibrium?
Impala 4:29
How does opening your eyes to your own healing and commitments contribute to the healing of the collective? What ripple effect are you having?
Rattlesnake 6:58
You are not your pain. What cords is it time to cut?
Deer 9:47
Is it really that bad? If so, something good will eventually come. If not, stop playing yourself. What are you really here to
Closing thoughts 13:30
By Chelsea Mancini
Keep it simple, write it down, and move forward however imperfectly. How can you come back to your own equilibrium?
Impala 4:29
How does opening your eyes to your own healing and commitments contribute to the healing of the collective? What ripple effect are you having?
Rattlesnake 6:58
You are not your pain. What cords is it time to cut?
Deer 9:47
Is it really that bad? If so, something good will eventually come. If not, stop playing yourself. What are you really here to
Closing thoughts 13:30
By Chelsea Mancini
BIRD Reading 9/20/21
Deer 1:30
Have you defined how you want to relate to the World around you? Now is the time.
Rattlesnake 4:59
Self-talk check in: Pay attention to your repetitive thoughts without judgement or analyzing
Impala 7:55
Are you agreeing to things that are broken or old attachments that need to be let go?
Beluga 9:51
What has to go? What decisions do you make from a place of joy?
Have you defined how you want to relate to the World around you? Now is the time.
Rattlesnake 4:59
Self-talk check in: Pay attention to your repetitive thoughts without judgement or analyzing
Impala 7:55
Are you agreeing to things that are broken or old attachments that need to be let go?
Beluga 9:51
What has to go? What decisions do you make from a place of joy?
BIRD Reading 9/13/21
Beluga 01:33
With eyes closed, it's impossible to see opportunity. What thought/feeling patterns need updating?
Impala 04:31
What does a harmonious yes feel like in your body? It's hard to find it externally if you aren't tuned into your body's clues.
Rattlesnake 06:37
Get out of your head and into your head this week. Where can you call in creativity?
Deer 09:12
What energy are you living from? How can you expand it to call in what you're looking for?
With eyes closed, it's impossible to see opportunity. What thought/feeling patterns need updating?
Impala 04:31
What does a harmonious yes feel like in your body? It's hard to find it externally if you aren't tuned into your body's clues.
Rattlesnake 06:37
Get out of your head and into your head this week. Where can you call in creativity?
Deer 09:12
What energy are you living from? How can you expand it to call in what you're looking for?