Last weekend, I bought my first set of oracle cards. (I’m feeling the call to explore my more mystical side after years of logic and strategy.)
Oracle cards are similar to tarot in that they provide you with insight about what you want in your life right now. I don’t believe in using them for fortune-telling as I know that you create and manifest your own future through your actions and beliefs. I use them to deepen my intuition, to connect with my spiritual self, to listen to my inner wise voice.
Today, I asked it to help me set my intention for the week.
The card that came out, interestingly, was CHOP WOOD.
According to the little guidebook that came with the cards,
“Now is the time to take small steps, rather than larger leaps… Move your focus off your big dream and attend to the mundane chores. Focus on the little things that may have piled up while you’ve been mapping out the greater plan for your life…”Chop wood, carry water,” as the Zen proverb advises…”
That makes sense. For the past few months, I’ve been focused on the big picture and doing the work that will make that happen.
This week, I’m noticing the grace and beauty in doing the little things, the admin duties, the non-glamorous, more mundane parts of life. By clearing these up and doing these with love, I’m opening to more flow. I’m allowing that life is about the big dream AND the little duties. I’m letting myself fall in love with ALL aspects of my self—not just the side that plays, thinks and believes big but also the part that chops wood, does the dishes, tidies up.
This week, I encourage you to see the beauty in chopping wood.
