Hello writers, we are live with another oracle deck poll from the Wise Writer Within Oracle Deck.
This morning I was asking how can I show up and shine and I wonder if you have that question in your writing, how can I show up and shine? How can I give my light to the world? And it can be a complicated endeavor.
And I wanna share before we even consult the deck, just one thing that came through is I was lying in savasana and surrender, just like, "Hey God, what wants to come through me today?"
Was this tendency we have to fear shining our light and sometimes that fears not even filled in it's not even if I shine my light then this will happen and we kind of stop at “Oh, it feels scary to shine my light.” We're not even sure why one of the fears can certainly be taking up too much space taking up too much room. Curious if you relate to that.
And this beautiful image just popped to mind. In a series circuit, if one thing in the series is out, then the electricity can't be passed on. And this is why sometimes Christmas lights don't work, right? If one bulb burns out, it ends the flow of electricity and none of the other lights can light up.
And I thought, what if we thought of shining our light in that way where when I shine, I'm passing on the current to someone else. And if I don't shine, I'm ending the current with me. And what a different energy that has. Curious to hear how that feels for you, but what a different energy that has when I think about showing up and shining, sharing my words, sharing my light, sharing the gifts I came here to share, sharing what I'm excited to write about, you know, what a different feeling it has to think when I shine I'm passing on the energy and then somebody else is gonna shine. I keep the current flowing. So let me know how that resonates for you.
I'm gonna pull us a Stability of Three Spread today. This uses one of each of the cards from the deck. The deck has prayer cards, powerful statement cards, and archetype cards.
And this is a great way to get a message you want to share.
So the first card gives us, what's the message that wants to come through me?
And then we have a card telling us what we need to face or surrender to or make peace with in order to allow that message to come through.
And then our final card is, where is support for sharing this message?
So as always, I will shuffle and I will, ooh, ooh. They're like a bunch of archetype cards that wanna play. Ah, okay, okay. Interesting when that happens.
So I like to do, when I do the Stability of Three Spread, I like to fan out the deck, I find the three cards and I just put them all face down and then wait to turn them over.
Card #1: Powerful Statement
All right, so beginning with an ivory card in position one. What's the message that wants to come through? Sometimes this is the literal message the thing that we feel called to share about called to write about. Sometimes it is the energy that we want to embody in order to bring our message through.
For those of you who are writing regularly, you're writing social media posts, you're writing emails, you're writing reflections, you're writing essays, you're writing for a Substack and you're like, what is the thing that I wanna be writing? This might be it, all right.
Ah, beautiful. I lead others when I lead myself. This is card number three. This is a potent theme.
Leadership has been a really big theme for me in teaching storytelling. When I teach Influential Storyteller, I do it from a place of “How can we be the kinds of leaders that we want to see in the world?”
And I really see this very big shift from the leadership paradigms that I grew up with to where we are now. I think the trend is going to continue.
So, the leadership paradigm that we are all very familiar with — it's certainly the one that I grew up with like in the world. I was lucky enough to have parents and teachers and other adults in my life who didn't embody this, who like did the new way, but in the world generally this leadership paradigm was Might makes right. I'm bigger so you better do what I said. Because I said so. Those are the answers that you would get. And we're all really familiar with this leadership paradigm.
And the new leadership paradigm that we're already in and that is continuing to grow is I lead others when I lead myself. And leadership actually comes from trust and mutual respect. And When I follow someone, it's because I feel safe to follow them, I feel inspired to follow them, I feel resonant with them. And there's also not just one leader and many followers, we're all following one another in different contexts.
This was something really powerful for me.
The first time in my work that I had someone as a writing coaching client who was already a colleague. That was a very big deal for me because I had all of these ideas from the old leadership paradigm of if you're a leader, you have to know more than everybody else and you have to keep yourself separate and you have to be completely “on” and professional all of the time. And by professional, I don't mean actually professional, like showing up and being a vault and keeping confidences and all those things that are actually the definition of professional.
I had this plastic professionalism idea like I have to show no emotion I can't you know nobody can know about anything that's the real Megan. It was a persona that I felt like I had to adopt in order to be a leader.
So, I remember specifically, the first person who was already in my world as a colleague, somebody I really respected, a friend, we were both working in the same container and were equals in that, and then she was going to be my writing coaching client, and I went, "How does that work?" And that was a tough thing to navigate.
Now, I've since realized the joy of “I coach you in this. You coach me in that, and we trade off leading one another in the different contexts in which we have that expertise, that skill, that capacity, that ability, and that gift that we want to share.”
So this may be something you feel inspired to write about. I lead others when I lead myself. Coming back to the theme I started us with is this question around How can I shine my light?
Well, I can shine by leading myself. I can shine by being in my own integrity by doing what I came here to do and not worrying about what other people are doing, not going over to their space and trying to steer them and say, You need to do it this way” or “Come over here and follow me.”
But being a person of so much Self -belief that you form this circle around yourself, right? And it just radiates out and other people are like, "Oh, I appreciate that energy. And I would also like to come and learn from you and have you lead me in this context.”
So see how that resonates for you.
Card #2: Archetype
Okay. What do we need to face, overcome, make peace with, accept, surrender to, dance with in order to be able to share this message of I lead others when I lead myself. That's our archetype card in the middle. Oh, beautiful. Okay, Goddess of unconditional love. Card number 42. Your voice matters.
If I wanna lead others by leading myself, if I wanna show up and shine my light, I must dance with this card, with this energy of unconditional love and that my voice matters. And I feel emotion just saying these words. I wonder how this resonates for you.
How does it even feel for somebody to say, we need to love unconditionally, and that begins with loving ourselves unconditionally. Ooh, it can bring up some pricklies. It can bring up some feelings of like, but it's okay to love other people unconditionally, but when it comes to me, First, I need to fix this, and then I'll be able to love myself unconditionally, right? We're such beautiful strange creatures, we humans. So this, to me, like there's a direct line, right? Okay, if I wanna show up and shine, if I wanna lead myself and be this new leadership paradigm and live that and model that and help other people see it and pass it along in the circuit of electricity. Boy, I'm going to need to dance with the idea that my voice matters.
Ooh, I just had a play on words in my head. A lot of people think puns are the lowest form of humor, but I think puns are one of the highest forms of receiving messages from Source because it's getting you to pay attention to a subtler idea around a word. So I just said your voice matters, and I'm also reading a Joe Dispenza book right now, so I'm sure that has impacted me. But this idea of Your voice matters could mean your voice becomes matter, right? What you speak, what you speak is energy that goes out into the world and bounces off of everything else and has an impact.
So if I think, “Oh, what does it matter?” Or “What I do doesn't matter.” By definition, everything you do matters in the sense that everything you do, every energy you put out becomes matter is matter, right? Matter and energy are the same thing. And we know this is true on some level, but it's really hard to hold present because things feel so solid, right? It feels like this bookshelf really is solid matter even though it's like 99 .999999999 whatever percent empty space, right? That's what atoms are.
But if I could really believe and really sit with and really meditate on the idea that my voice matters, it is matter, it is sound waves moving out becoming part of my reality, then I really, really want to tend to my voice. I really want to express the things I came here to express because that's me building the reality for me and for others.
Card #3: Prayer
So all right, let's see who is here now to support us to bring this message out into the world. And that's card number 20. Please help me to love the fear of expansion.
And we have butterflies emerging out. The fear of expansion. Why does it feel so scary to expand, to take up more space?
Well, as soon as I say that, I am flooded with a plethora of feelings and emotions from this life and previous ones where it's like, oh shit, it's actually literally not safe to expand and take up space, right? There's somebody after us and we gotta hide, we gotta make ourselves as small as possible to hide behind this thing.
And what's so interesting to note is that expansion is relaxation. Expansion is relaxation. It actually is taking energy to curl ourselves into that tight ball. I love the way Nature's wisdom is expressed.
So sloths, And maybe this is true for bats as well. Somebody help me out in the
comments. But sloths, they sleep hanging onto trees like this. For us as humans, this is like a closed, putting some energy into the system position to keep our fingers closed like this, right? If we fall asleep, eventually our fingers would relax. For a sloth, the natural relaxed position is like this. So they hold on, right? So you know, for some animals, it's true that like this is the relaxed, but for us as humans, curling, tightening up is actually the thing that takes effort.
And if you come to the end of a yoga class and you lie in Savasana, you let your hips splay out and you let your shoulders splay out and you create space between your head and your neck and your arms come out at an angle and you just melt like jelly into the floor and that's an expansion, right?
So expansion is actually a relaxing into a position that doesn't require effort. Expansion is actually a relaxing into a position that doesn't require effort.
So your natural state is expansion. So that's here to support you as you think about stepping into leadership and facing this big mamba-jamba idea of your voice mattering, of accepting unconditional love from yourself and from others.
What's here to support you is the idea that expansion is your relaxed state. So what if we thought about showing up and shining our light less as an action, activity, focused, contracted, gotta do it kind of thing. And more of a like, I just kind of stretch and this light shines out at me. Like, what if, you know, we may think like to shine, I've got to power the shining, you know, like those emergency radios where you wind them like this to create the electricity to run them, right? Okay, I gotta show up, I gotta shine.
What if it's simply relaxing and letting go and that opens you up and the light just comes out naturally?
I'm curious how that feels for you. Does that resonate?
All right, my friends, so if you were looking for a topic to write on. Play with this. What does this bring up for you? I lead others when I lead myself. What does it mean to lead yourself?
My mode of leading myself in order to lead others happens through storytelling. I process what has happened. I explore my triggers. I make glimmers as well, but a lot of this comes from triggers. Those moments of really intense uncomfortable sensation through storytelling and find the wisdom and go okay that's what I was learning in that moment or that's how I was shifting or like “Oh whoa, that's the old paradigm. Holy cow, do I want to keep doing that going forward or what I like to choose a different a different route?”
So I know for me that leading myself happens through storytelling. How does it happen for you? Do you do this in the work that you do with your clients? Do you do this in your practices? Do you do this through your writing? How are you leading yourself with your writing? Is it by setting yourself up for flow and finding your creative process that works for you and being the leader in that sense, okay?
So maybe you wanna take this up as a topic and write about it, whether it is for others or for yourself in your journal.
And then what does it mean to you to dance with the goddess of unconditional love and know that your voice matters? How does that resonate for you? Does that feel like a relief? Does that feel like an “Oh crap!” moment? Something in between?
And then how does it feel to know you're supported by expansion being your natural state and loving the fear. Not just loving the expansion, but loving the fear. Oh, and this brings me back to storytelling again, right? Like, “Oh, I'm afraid of that. So that means I'm at my edge.”
Now I don't have to force myself again, just like being in a yoga class, right? It does us zero good and it does us harm to get to that edge and go, "Oh, I just can't stop here. We're going to push past it. I'm going to push past it." No, that's not how we work with an edge. But we feel the edge and we're like, "Oh, can I breathe into it? Can I breathe into it and learn what this edge needs to teach me?"
We were watching Rick and Morty episodes the other day, my husband and I, and there was one in which the, if you've never seen the show, it doesn't matter. This character goes into a hole of fears, and it was like this hole that eats off your fears and it just shows you all of your fears. And the way he got out of it was just creating scenarios that were his most fearful things. So one of them was like, He auditioned or not auditioned there was a play and he's like, “Cast me in the play I know the part.” And they put him in the play. He walks on stage not knowing the part never having read the play not knowing any of the lines, and he's taken all of his clothes off. So he's naked on stage not knowing the lines of the play.
There are other things that he does, but it was this really beautiful poor portrayal of moving toward the fear and because you know it's a cartoon and it's in this scenario where he's like, “I know something is eating off of my fear and as long as I have fear inside of me, it's gonna continue to devour me, so let me just face all of my fears in one go.” But, as as silly things that aren't meant to be taken seriously so often are, it was very wise.
So I'll leave you with that image of just, you know, running toward your fears, rushing toward your fears, welcoming the fears and being like, "All right, well, what if I just made peace with that? What if I just made peace with that?"
Curious to hear how all of this resonates for you? Drop a comment. Let us know.
What are you taking away? What is your insight from this stability of three card pull?
You can get your own copy of The Wise Writer Within Oracle Deck. The guidebook walks you through how to do the Stability of Three spread and also another spread, a story spread.
All right, take good care and as always, happy writing.
Megan
