Join me in The February Tarot to start a journey on building a relationship with yourself and the difficult process of Self Love. This process will be one that will be addressing our wounds, opening our hearts, focusing on healing, and working through forgiveness. Each day has a prompt to pull one card and journal on it. In homage to the feminism of Audre Lorde, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self preservation, and that is an act of political warfare”. This self care to building self love exercise is one that is for community healing and radical action for yourself and your being. It’s not going to be pretty all the time, it’s not going to be easy, but my loves, it will be worth it.
This exercise is going to begin on the difficult end and gradually build to a more gentle analysis of the self. The hard work needs to be done first to find the beauty.
Day 1: Open up to yourself, how are you starting this journey?
Day 2: Today we are looking at your inner child. Is it being cared for?
Day 3: Let’s open up on some pain. Is there some that you are holding?
Day 4: What is something that you need to release? In any relation to yourself what is something you are holding that is hurting.
Day 5: Be honest with yourself, where are some of your faults, how can you improve?
Day 6: Are you holding anger? Where is it placed? Is it time to release it?
Day 7: Are you holding on to fear? Is it holding you back in your journey?
Day 8: What in your life is draining your energy? Is it serving you?
Day 9: What mistakes have you made? Are you learning from them or ignoring the lessons?
Day 10: How are you limiting yourself in your relationship with yourself?
Day 11: Where do you feel you are letting yourself down in life?
Day 12: What are some thoughts on yourself that you need to release?
Day 13: How are you feeding your spirit?
Day 14: Healing happens in community, where do you need to ask for support from others?
Day 15: How are you prioritizing your needs? Where can you add more care to yourself?
Day 16: We looked at our wounds, now let’s look at our healing, how can we add some healing energy?
Day 17: What are some of your hopes in life? How can you move towards them?
Day 18: Where are some boundaries you need to add in your life? Boundaries are a reflection on self worth. You are worth being comfortable.
Day 19: Where in life can you be kinder?
Day 20: Where in life can you give yourself patience?
Day 21: Look into yourself for your strengths. Embrace them.
Day 22: What in life is bringing you joy? How can you add more to yourself?
Day 23: Where do you need to forgive yourself?
Day 24: What if you only had yourself? Is your relationship with yourself improving?
Day 25: Where in yourself can you show graditute?
Day 26: How are you working in your journey to your future self? Is it moving positively? Can you change something?
Day 27: Opening your heart, how is your relationship with self love? It doesn’t need to be perfect, it’s now an easy task, but is it improving?
Day 28: Reflect on this cycle, Are there any places you need to go deeper in your self relationship?
As always, this is an exercise not a challenge. These prompts are meant to challenge yourself in addressing the difficult process of working towards self love. This work is worth it, it’s going to be difficult, but it is going to be worth it. Be kind to yourself during this process but also be honest.
