Dec 1 – Ace of Wands – Start a Fire and Let it Burn Bright
On the first day of December, the tarot advent calendar said to me …
You are Boss Santa, in charge of a magical run-up to the big day. What do you want to happen? What are you most looking forward to? What new activities or traditions could you try this year? What foreseeable snags or pitfalls do you want to ditch or delegate?
That’s a lot to unpack. Too much, really.
What am I looking forward to? How about not forgetting to buy turkey, as I did on Thanksgiving. Definitely don’t want to make “going to McDonald’s” a tradition.
The sad part is I was on vacation and had nothing BUT time to shop for everything else. Oy!
I like this whole “getting paid to not work” business. I intend to repeat it for Christmas. Preferably far, far away from here.
I’ve been closely following Christina Applegate and her battle with MS as she works on “Dead to Me.”
She’s worried this will be her last project, as her condition worsens and will impact her ability to be active for long periods of time.
She worries that she can ONLY work five hours a day.
A five-hour marathon sounds awesome.
I mean, yeah, she’s used to working all day and night. I used to be used to that, too. But I don’t want that anymore.
So I guess when thinking about what I would change for upcoming and future holidays, feeling OK with “just” working five hours seems like a good goal to have.
I mean, it probably means getting a different job and getting used to having less money. But it’s something I think increasingly more about.
I’ve been enjoying being supervisor/psychic healer to 25. But they keep talking about hiring someone to take the crypto half of the duties. Which makes me sad because that team is growing on me. But if I had my way about it, I’d pick one franchise (out of the remaining four) to really blow out of the water.
I always say “if I were editorial director, I’d …”
That’s what I’d do. Focus. Ditch the hags … I mean snags … and not need two weeks to try to recuperate from utter and complete exhaustion.
There’s a new goal for the new year. Not save up all my days and need a whole damn month to recuperate from burnout.
As for what to look forward to, I guess that depends on what I’m allowed to do.
Or maybe I’m allowed to do more (or, for the purpose of this conversation, LESS) than I think.
As one of my favorite seers wrote, “Use your energy to its best ability.”