Everyday this week I’ll be pulling a (virtual) card from the Universe Has Your Back deck and reflecting on it.

I let go of the shadow of the past by seeing someone for the first time with the eyes of love.

This card feels appropriate for my first day back at work. I also forgot that I don’t have any seminars until next week, so I have a day off tomorrow too. I had a slow day, reading emails and reviewing my various notebooks that I’ve stored around my flat. I had a big clean last week – kinda like a spring clean but at the end of December. I filled four bags with bric-a-brac/clothes for charity shops when they opened. And I organised my stationery so everything is packed away, and I put a lot of unused collage/zine materials into the recycling bin. Because I had so much! Now I feel neater but not as creative. I feel tidy but not informed.

Now when I look at my notes I see new tasks to do, rather than see a reminder of who hasn’t replied to me. When I look at my art supplies I have to think of new ideas, rather than glue/sew together half-completed scraps I have lying around. It’s hard to start anew but I don’t miss the baggage one bit.

Everyday this week I’ll be pulling a (virtual) card from the Universe Has Your Back deck and reflecting on it.

Instead of praying for an outcome, I pray for the highest good for all.

Mondays are my days for writing, and I’ve written a lot. I don’t expect to hear back from any of the jobs I applied for today, or any of the pitches I sent off, or any of the competitions I entered but I hope for the best. I ordered We Are The Weirdos today, I felt such an affinity to Maranda Elizabeth‘s writing that I wrote them a letter-zine.

My partner returned to work today, it was my first day alone for weeks. I went out to buy stamps and bread. I came home with a tub of ice cream too. I felt like I wanted to celebrate.

Everyday this week I’ll be pulling a (virtual) card from the Universe Has Your Back deck and reflecting on it.

My energy creates my reality. What I focus on is what I will manifest.

What a great first affirmation card of the year! I’m back to work overmorrow and I’m nervous, I had planned to finish my projects during the last week of December. I didn’t. I needed rest and it made me feel a million times better. And, also, the news. I didn’t finish my projects but we’re in the middle of a pandemic, so do I expect people to criticise me? No. But do I criticise me? Yes. I’d love to have entered this new year with an empty schedule and my checklist all ticked off. I didn’t. And I’ll deal with it.

Slowly.