Are We There Yet?

I woke up a few mornings ago with a pen on my bedside table and this written on my hand.

Fortunately, it was my handwriting, or I would be sending you this from an undisclosed bunker location while freaking the fuck out.

The “whatever you want to call it” of my intuition, the Ancestors, or dream-walking got very loud is what I’m saying.

And accurate, right? I don’t need to trust all beings. And I definitely don’t have to trust this particular moment in time. But I can (or at least should…for the sake of hope) trust life to continue to find a way forward, and I can work in support of us doing so. And I think maybe I found the central planning point of the summer solstice celebration I am thinking about/desperately trying to clean up my property for.

I am currently working on multiple projects at once (as one does) that I am increasingly excited about. One of which, returns me to some pretty deep roots. I think we will be ready to announce very soon. So yeah, being a tease. Which means “stay tuned,” I guess?

(I am terrible about self-promotion. I know. I’m sorry. I’ll likely never get better at it.)

I do have a few things to share right now, however. The Unfuck Your Brain graphic guide is in, the communication workbook is in, and two new decks are in (the Unfuck Your Brain deck and the Kink deck)! All are now listed in the Etsy store Baby Nephew runs if you want a signed copy, and he put several books on sale for the graduation season. Unfuck Your Adulting (because it often gets put out on “presents for graduates” tables at bookstores), the stress books (because that is probably even more immediately useful for new graduates, and the new graphic guide (because why not).

And, as always, he includes stickers, trinkets, and the like with all orders and an extra book or deck or the like with really big orders. So feel free to put him to work and help fund my continuous cat-rescue-and-coffee-drinking shenanigans.

Also! Speaking of cats, my publisher is doing Kickstarter pre-orders for a kitty tarot deck! One of the add-ons is a zine of mine about how to use Tarot for deeper self-understanding instead of divination. This isn’t a new idea at all (think Jung and archetypes and symbolism and all that) and the zine is based on a class I’ve taught several times over the years, showing clinicians and coaches how to use tarot and oracle decks with the clients. So you can buy a cat tarot and get the zine and then it’s totally a therapeutic tool instead of shiny-object-collector-Crow-brain impulse that is insisting you have a new deck.

And in the meantime, let’s keep focusing on what nurtures us and gives us hope and endeavors positive change. All the things that help us “trust Life” when it’s so hard to do so. Currently, I am:

Listening To: Ribbon Skirt’s new album

Reading: Several books at once, per usual. For fiction, I just started the latest Fredrik Backman novel, “My Friends.”

Watching: American Rust (still on the first season).

All while trying my damndest to stay curious and creative and work on some projects both in and outside my norm. What are you currently enjoying? Share in the comments with the rest of the class if you’re up to it!