“Everything is created twice. Everything you ever see first has to be a thought before it can become a thing.” -Mary Morrissey

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Every day I do a divination practice of pulling cards. It consists of pulling several oracle cards in succession, and then sitting with how I can apply their meaning and insight to my life. Not everyone will resonate with divination actions and that’s totally fine. But the practice of sitting with yourself in self reflection at least once a day is invaluable and I would encourage that for anyone. These things are also a great metaphor for what we experience.

Today the message I got from the cards was particularly pertinent to where I’m at and I feel like going down this thought rabbit hole may be useful for others out there as well. Especially as we move into a New Year. (Pulled from the new Kim Krans Archetype Deck) 

The first three cards I pulled were “Agape,” “The Starborn,” and the “Gnosis.” These are all cards that tell you that the thing you really need to be focusing on is your true destiny, as well as connecting to something greater outside of yourself.

For me, my true purpose is making art, but each individual will have a different calling. I also believe that the whole point of me making work is to connect myself and others to the divine. But this could be read as anything that has a greater purpose outside of ourselves and our own ego. To have these three cards in a row was really like, “Hey, listen up. Focus your true purpose. Tap into something greater than yourself.” 

The fourth card I pulled was “Venom.” In the hero’s journey, venom is the thing that sidetracks from the true purpose. The hero is meant to be completely focused on their goal, but eventually, some monster or something comes along and drags the hero down into the muck, and then they have to spend a whole bunch of time trying to heal their wounds and find some magic cure for what bit them, etc, etc. It basically means a whole bunch of life distractions that knock you off course from what you truly should be doing. 

But if you push through that venom, then comes “The Threshold.” The place where you have extracted the venom from your body, you get back on track, and through that committed focus to your greater purpose you accomplish your goals and level up into the next great adventure.

This story is as old as time. A person knows their true path. A person commits to doing the hard work of achieving their goals and in doing so making the world a better place. The person gets sidetracked by the crap of the world. 

Unfortunately, this is where most of our stories stop. We get so mired up in the little dramas of our lives that we forget all about why we’re here in the first place.

This type of “snooze” can go on for months, years, sometimes our whole lives. We get so caught up in the minutia that we start to forget what our purpose is altogether. We start to make our drama mean more than our goals.

But right now it just turned 2020. It’s not only a new year but a new decade. What a perfect time to take a step back and realign with our core purpose.

One of my favourite tools for this is vision boarding. It’s where I take a giant poster board and divide it into a bunch of sections that I want to pay attention to. For me those sections are Work, Home, Relationships, Travel, Money, Health, but for you they could be anything. I like vision boards because I get to cut out a bunch of photos, which works well for me since I’m so visual. But you could do this by writing things down as well. The key is to really take the time to

suss out what you actually want from each of the areas, and make some physical record of that. 

One of the easiest ways I’ve found to see if stuff I’m picking is actually in alignment with my true path, is whether it makes me feel lighter, or heavier. If it makes me feel heavier than I know I’m committing to it out of obligation rather than joy and pure purpose. Even though the things we have to do to achieve our goals may be really, really hard, the end goal should always feel exciting and completely worth the process. 

When I’ve spent enough time sitting with these things (sometimes that can be days or even weeks), I put the final product somewhere I can always come back to when I get stuck in the venom of life. This helps me keep on track and pushing towards the things I truly desire. 

At the beginning of this monumental year, I highly encourage you to prioritize the time to realign with your actual purpose. Your future self will be so glad you did.

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