Daily Practice

The first one I did for this week went really well. It was pretty standard-- aka I did it right before I went to bed tonight (Friday), so I was rather relaxed. Today went really well, and I think that because I felt happy and hopeful for most of the day that it helped me concentrate when it came time to go through the daily practice process. Hopefully, I can do it with a smile on my face more often. The card I pulled happened to be '6: the Lovers' which also is funny because I never usually pull that card for anything (c'est la via, yeah?).

[Saturday]

Instead of waiting till night time, I did my daily practice in the morning. I had been working really hard on homework and being really productive, so I just felt that I was in the right mindset to do the reading. My mind wasn't quite as focused as it had been the night before, however, because I still had the urge to plan the rest of my day. I did find it fairly easy to push the thoughts lightly aside, though. It definitely wasn't a struggle. I pulled the '2 of Spears' which didn't really help my confidence of all the work I had to do because it means "dread of future challenge, pessimism and heavy burdens." Hopefully if that's true I can work through it. Even though I felt ready to do the reading today at this time, maybe next time I should wait to do it at night. I tend not to try to plan as much at the end of the day because I am usually so exhausted.

[Sunday]

I'm not in a particularly good mood right now, but at the same time because of the emotional state I am in, I found it easier to do the reading. It was easy to go through the visualization process of casting a circle, because the sort of emotional overload I had before I did the reading emptied me a lot mentally, and I found it easy to go through and push my other thoughts lightly aside. Maybe it's because I didn't to think about anything at the moment, so finding a mental distraction was welcome. I pulled '11: Justice.' I'm not sure exactly how this will fit into my life. Hopefully it will mean that all of my hard work will be worth it by the end of this week. I'll have to keep it in mind.
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More to come for this week / next week combo since we're starting the new 'submit on Sunday' thing. I find the daily practice really easy to keep up with Friday - Wednesday, but Thursday (and sometimes Friday) is really hard because I have one ComDesign class that lasts from 2pm until 11pm so by the time I get home I am too exhausted mentally, physically and emotionally to do anything. Also Thursday morning I can't do it because I am working to finish my Comdesign stuff. But I do enjoy doing it, so I will be able to keep up with it for the rest of the week.