Day 1: Pull a card. What healthy qualities of this archetype do you embody?

Card: 8 of cups.

Positive qualities: moving on, leaving negative situations, moving forward, trying to start fresh.

From my previous experience, this has a negative and a positive aspect to it. I’ve been able to get up and move somewhere new, and start fresh, my whole life. It’s basically how I’ve lived for the last 12 years! I’ve moved from country to country, new workplace and new friends, and it’s been amazing in so many ways, but it’s also been incredibly difficult in ways I didn’t expect.

You’d expect there to be difficulties in meeting people, adjusting to new cultures and countries and ways of living and that’s true- but the real difficulty is how it feels when you decide to settle back in the country you’re from. There’s a kind of reverse culture shock, which is normal and it’s something you can get used to, especially when you consider that it’s a normal part of readjustment. There’s a really cool graph of the challenges most people experience when they move to a new culture, and then attempt to reacclimatize to your home country.

Something that most people don’t mention, or maybe that most people don’t speak about, is that it’s very difficult to fit in when you’ve never really stayed in the same place for very long. You have no problem getting along with people who have had similar life experiences to you- people who’ve immigrated, or lived in a different place before. They seem to understand what it’s like to have different points of reference within your life, different priorities and different values and the way they’ve changed as your life shifts. It’s hard to find people who have maintained similar goals at your age, or who value the experiences you’ve had. It can feel incredibly isolating, and I’m sure it’s not something only I’ve experienced.

Hmm. A good card for further thought!

What card did you draw? How does it reflect your life?

Happy Readings!💛💛💛

-Madame Starbeam