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First month summary! Nothing new here, just collecting things for easier reference in the future.

I started the year with revving the engine and flooring it down the “I'm gonna make the most of what I've got” road. It was exciting and the achievements gave me a thrill each time I could close one project and progress to the next. Among those were:

• successfully reading more fiction
• successfully journaling twice a day, plus pulling a tarot card with each entry (I think it's the limited space in the daily stoic journal that allowed for that consistency)
• trying new knitting patterns
• trying yarns in colors I never would have picked for myself, but loved in the end
• trying some crafty journaling – love the effect but not the process, so probably won't be doing that too much in the end?
• trying to formalize how I read pip decks – I will definitely be returning to this more this year
• trying digital collage
• going nuts with traditional collage
• rearranged my tarot decks, packing away 2/3 of the collection
• deeper focus on the Tarot de Luz and the Margarete Petersen deck
• surprisingly took out Tarot of the Magical Forest for a series of self-care readings based on spreads I'm collecting from the internet (this is new for me, I generally don't work with spreads but I've been warming up to them the last half of last year. What next? Reversals? lol)
• archiving my art from the last two years

And after all that I arrived at the mental shift of just needing to be present. Recognizing projects are one way to not be wasteful but they can also be a way of escaping the here and now, just like mindless buying. They can still be a “look, a new shiny!” distraction. To go deep I need to go slow. To be a person who doesn't engage in retail therapy, I have to address the causes, not just the effects. There needs to be more self-acceptance and compassion in my life.

I'm curious to see where this goes next.