Tarot Mad-Libs: The Crossing Draw a card for each blank. Use a keyword or phrase that the card brings to mind — from your deck, a digital deck, or the Tarot Meanings Guide in Field Notes. Fill in the blanks, then share your completed story in the comments. No two crossings will be the same. The Crossing The ferryman had worked this river longer than memory allowed. The passengers were always the same — [adjective], unburdened, already halfway somewhere else. But tonight's passenger stepped into the boat with the [adjective] certainty of someone who had not yet finished living. Halfway across, she spoke. "What's on the other side?" The ferryman answered without hesitation. "Whatever you stopped [verb ending in -ing]." She didn't speak again. But when the bow touched the far shore and she stepped out without looking back, something [adjective] settled in the ferryman's chest — and they couldn't remember, for the life of them, when they had last crossed over the mselves.

InkBlood What if this poem was backwards? I am the ink that bleeds from veins, Spilling toward a page that isn't there yet— Only hush, only the shape of waiting. Waiting gathers itself into a pulse, A pulse no ear has learned to hear, A pulse becoming rhythm, becoming breath, Breath shaping itself around a single word, A word too small to hold what's coming, So it reaches for another, and another, Until reaching becomes a kind of meaning. Meaning wants a voice to carry it, A voice leans back into a body it can live in, A body remembers it is only ink, Ink remembers it was always blood, Blood remembers the vein it came from, The vein remembers the hand that shaped it, The hand remembers the page it reached for, The page remembers it was empty once, Empty, and endless, and entirely possible. Now I am whole. Now I am written. Now I am read. What if this poem was backwards?

Just a reminder, folks - the biweekly Community Connect is kicking off in less than an hour! 😁 Hope to see you there! I'll be doing the name drawing for the free reading from the Cabinet Of Curiosities post!

Today, I'm sharing something in the Field Notes that has been quietly taking shape for a long time. "Eudaimonia" began more than a year ago as an attempt to put words around a deeply personal journey through survival, collapse, healing, and the gradual return to participation in life. I stepped away from it for many months because I wasn't yet sure what it wanted to become. Recently, I found my way back to it, and with that return came clarity. This is not a story of having everything figured out. It isn't a guide to healing, nor is it a declaration that difficult things can be neatly resolved. It is an honest reflection on what it has meant, in my own life, to learn how to move from endurance toward engagement—to stop asking only how to survive, and begin asking how I might want to be here. Because of the nature of the experiences explored, this piece includes discussion of depression, mental health struggles, emotional collapse, and experiences of profound hopelessness. Please take care of yourself as you read. There is no expectation that anyone engage with it before they're ready, or at all. WonderWander was created as a space for curiosity, meaning-making, and honest conversations about what it means to be human. Sharing this here feels both vulnerable and deeply aligned with that intention. If you choose to read it, thank you for witnessing it. And if parts of it echo your own experience, I hope it offers this reassurance: You are not alone in learning how to be here.

Greetings and Blessings, my friends! 🤗 I thought it might be fun to offer a little WonderWander engagement challenge—an invitation to share a piece of yourself with the community. Below, you'll find three different prompts. Choose the one that speaks to you most (or answer more than one if inspiration strikes!). This isn't about finding the "right" answer; it's simply an opportunity to connect, reflect, and get to know one another through the many ways we experience and make meaning of life. As a small thank you for participating, I'll be offering a complimentary one-on-one reading to one member of the group. You're welcome to answer more than one prompt if you like, but each member will receive only one entry into the final drawing. Responses should engage meaningfully with the prompt you've chosen. Follow the thread that feels most genuine, interesting, or alive for you. Option 1: "The Museum of Ordinary Magic" If your current season of life had an exhibit in a museum, what object would represent it, and why? Option 2: "The Belief You Outgrew" What's something you once believed about life, yourself, spirituality, healing, success, love, happiness—or anything else—that you no longer believe? What changed? Option 3: "Curiosity Trial" You may ask one question of the universe and receive a completely truthful answer. What do you ask, and why? A little note: Everyone who participates in good faith and engages with the spirit of the prompt will have their name entered into a random drawing, which I will reveal on the next Community Connect live meet and greet on June 27th at 3pm central time. This isn't about having the "best" answer. WonderWander isn't a competition for wisdom. It's simply an invitation to show up, join the conversation, and share whatever this moment calls forth in you.