Overwhelmed or Under Supplied?
It is easy to feel overwhelmed. Job stress and family responsibilities can be a lot. Emotional issues such as anxiety, grief, trauma, or depression can add to a sense of overwhelm.
Creative people can feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the projects they envision. Local and global issues can feel overwhelming, dangerous, and unsolvable.
Psychic, intuitive, and empathic people are often overwhelmed by their experience of the many energies around them. Neurodivergent people are often overstimulated.
When we have health issues the overwhelm may be double. We may feel poorly, and still must deal with doctors, tests, and insurance. That can often feel like an impossible task.
The problem with a sense of overwhelm is that it feels impossible to get ahead. You may feel that you are drowning, without hope of rescue.
Here is something to understand when you feel this way.
The feeling of overwhelm very often comes not from too much to do. Overwhelm often comes from lack of supply. We may not have enough people to complete a task at work. We may not have enough hours to get everything done. We may not have enough money to cover our expenses. We may not have enough physical or emotional energy to handle the day.
When we realize this is the case, we very often feel shame at our lack of supply. We feel like we should be better at managing our resources. We feel that we should not have to ask others for help. That sense of shame can be overwhelming in and of itself.
When we deal with lack of supply, there is a very real possibility that we will not be able to access more of what we need right way.
Perhaps this is an important step in recovering our balance. We need to discover where the short supply is, and if there is a way to become better supplied. Sometimes this requires asking for what we need or asking for help.
If that is not possible, the next step is to manage our expectations. Perhaps we need to change a deadline or hold ourselves responsible for less.
When we get to this stage, very often we discover we have created overwhelm because we are competing against a distorted image or striving to meet an imaginary standard.
When this is the case, what is in short supply is our own self-esteem, and our own knowledge that we are enough.
One does not need to be psychic to know that life is probably not going to get easier. We must get better at handling the pressures around us. Sometimes the only way to do that is to manage our own supply of self-love, and our own expectations.
The StaarCorner
The StaarCon 2023 AfterGlow ended yesterday evening. With that, a very exciting, fun, and successful hybrid conference comes to a close. Thank you to all our sponsors, exhibitors, presenters, volunteers, and attendees for making this our best year so far.
StaarCon 2024 will be January 19-21. We will be in person at the Hilton Palm Beach Airport Hotel and online on Accelevents. Mark your calendar now, tickets will be available soon.
Look for new presenters and topics, new activities, as well as your favorite exhibitors and tarot and divination authors, artists, and teachers.
If you are interested in being a sponsor, presenter, or exhibitor, please email me.
Remember that our community connection continues all year long in our private Facebook group, StaarCon Community Group, and with our podcast/YouTube show, the StaarCast Variety Show. Subscribe on YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts. Expect a new episode soon!
Check this column next week because we will be announcing our headlining presenters for 2024!
Finding Solutions with Tarot
So often dealing with overwhelm seems to require attitude adjustment, flexibility, and clarity. Tarot is such a great way to find those things when we need them.
Sometimes the first question is to understand why we are feeling overwhelmed. We may think we know the answer to this, but the true root cause might surprise us. We can always begin a session with the cards by asking, “What is the true source of my overwhelm?”
When we ask this question, we can pull one card or several. Sometimes this single question and answer is enough to make a difference.
If we want to continue our divination session, there are many other questions we can ask.
If we determine that our issue is a lack of supply, we can frame questions around strategies to increase our supply. These questions might include, “How can I manage my time differently?” or “How can I budget differently?” or “Who might I ask to help me?” or “How can I communicate with my boss that my assignment is unrealistic?”
If we determine that our root issue is one of self-esteem, our question can include, “How can I show myself more grace?” or “How can I remember that I am enough?”
If we find that we need to manage our own expectations, we might ask questions such as “Why is it so important for me to have something beyond my budget right now?” or “What can I do to feel happier where I am right now?”
When we ask the right questions, the cards will give us focus, solutions, ways to manage our situation, and ultimately to create the changes we need.
The Week in Review
Were you able to join us for class yesterday evening? Our class The Elemental Major Arcana on YouTube explains the traditional elemental association for each of the twenty-two Major Arcana. Knowing the elemental associations can help us have a deeper understanding for each of these cards. You can watch the replay anytime!
Tomorrow, Thursday, is our Stars and Suns Zoom Gathering. If you are a member of my YouTube channel at the Stars or Suns level, find the Zoom link in the community tab of my YouTube channel, or email me.
From Around the Web
We are all eagerly awaiting StaarCon presenter Erika Robinson’s upcoming book on Lenormand cards. You can pre-order it on Amazon now!
In the meanwhile, you might enjoy Erika’s blog, In the Company of the Cards. I found her February First entry very moving.
SelfTarot has a spread to try when you are feeling overwhelmed.
Creation and Divination
Creative visualization is a way of using your imagination to help you solve problems, transform energy, bring healing, and create change in your life.
Creative visualization is used in the Law of Attraction, and other magical techniques. The term was popularized by Shakti Gawain with her book of the same name in 1978.
We can use creative visualization techniques with tarot to solve problems of overwhelm.
Here is a way to do that.
Which cards do you associate with overwhelm? Perhaps the Ten of Wands, the Nine of Wands, or the Seven of Wands? Perhaps the Four of Swords, or the Eight of Swords?
Choose the card that most accurately represents your sense of overwhelm at present.
Look at the image. Slow your breathing and soften your gaze. Consciously bring your focus to your third eye (brow chakra). As you breathe with the image, imagine yourself as the character in the image. See yourself in this picture in the present moment, and in three dimensions. Look at what is around you and find strategies to change your situation within the image.
As you do this, you will naturally bring to your life a sense of comfort, and some new solutions to the things that are overwhelming you.
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 6 Issue 8
February 22, 2023