Reentry
A reckoning and an opportunity
How many of us have returned from holidays to ask ourselves how do we really want to live our daily lives?
How many of us come home to feel we’ve left home?
How many of us return from a beautiful and compelling journey to ask why isn’t my life more like that?
What is stopping us from living life like THAT?
I believe this is a typical response to reentry from magical holiday. But this is also an opportunity to ask what can be changed, what should be changed, what can be integrated, what won’t realistically work. I like to think of myself as a pretty practical person. But magical thinking is so easy after a magical holiday. I looked up the definition of magical thinking and oddly it is often defined as a sort of disorder, as if believing that there is a reason we cannot scientifically or causally link a behavior or series of events is somehow a reason for concern. I call bullshit on that.
For me, what a journey like the one I have just returned from in Greece offers is an opportunity to reassess and to intentionally integrate the aspects which gave what Lynn Roulo called during our week together, and in her newsletter this week, “glimmers.”
There were so many highlights to my journey but I think the one that stuck with me the most was on the last day when I did what I can only describe as “speed tarot” for seven participants in our retreat. We were running out of hours and more people wanted readings than I could fit in. So we did 20 minute three card spreads, mind, body spirit, and it was a wonderful way to wrap up the week and look forward to what would come next. I realized how close we had all become in so little time, what the practices of yoga, discussing enneagram, dancing, swimming, eating glorious food, and laughing uncontrollably had contributed to our integration and trust. I made eighteen friends last week, and I do not mean this flippantly. They are now my Paros family.
offerings
Elemental Wisdom with Natha Perkins and Hanna McElroy
One “glimmer” I am really excited about as I look forward is a class I’ll be teaching on Zoom with Natha Perkins on September 24th from 9-10:30 PST, Elemental Wisdom We will be using astrology and tarot together to discover which element may be our dominant element (fire, earth, air, water), as we also demonstrate how combining modalities can be both enlightening and illuminating. The class will be reorded if you can’t make the live event.
Tarot Readings
My calendar is a back open until the middle of November for readings. You can find me here.
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With gratitude,
xo Hanna