Weekly Word: "You Need Attention"

    11:56PM Jul 11, 2022

    Speakers:

    Jeida K. Storey

    Keywords:

    feeling

    energy

    card

    week

    divine

    body

    texas

    sacred

    full moon

    give

    care

    dissociate

    cried

    lean

    weekly

    unable

    experiencing

    ace

    attention

    justice

    Hello, my friends welcome back to a weekly word with Jada Kay, I am. I'm so excited to do this reading. Because just that is it's just, I don't know, if y'all feeling like a particular energy, there's just a lot, it feels really heavy or it feels really heavy. So I'm not surprised when I pull these cards today, I've been trying to get this weekly word out for a couple of days. Now, I tried to record this, and just was having just all kinds of things were happening right now. But now that I'm able to sit down and actually spend some time with these cards, and meditate and pray, I it makes sense. Now, as I look at these cards, so without further ado, let's get into it. So the card that I have on the table for our weekly word, I have the ace of wands, it's reverse. So as soon as I saw this card, I was like, okay, so it's not just me, this may be just the, the collective energy right now, as we are entering into this week, or now that we're in this week. Just a lack of energy, just not feeling as spry as we may have felt before not really feeling energized. Some people now may even be feeling powerless. Just on a unable to push through, right. And so, I just found this interesting, because I haven't even finding it difficult, like I said, to even push through this weekly word this week, there was another message that came forth that I did record and it just was not feeling like it was for this moment. And so I had to take some time away. I had to take some time away. And so coming back to the table now and I'm seeing this ace of wands, and I'm really feeling like this is where a lot of us are just even in my conversations with other folks. Just not feeling like it like just not feeling like it, you fill in the blank for whatever it is for you. But I'm even like there's almost like this, almost like restless energy as well. I've been a lot of people have been telling me they're not really having good sleep, people staying up to three, four in the morning. So it's, it's like not having enough energy. And then also like this restlessness is like, unable to really just be PMPs. It's like, it's just like almost like this. Just this inability to get quiet and be with oneself. And this inability maybe to even focus on what you maybe should be focused on. Or even just an unable to be present. Maybe with yourself or with your loved ones or with your work, your creative projects, whatever it is, it's just is is giving dissociation right now. And so if you're feeling that I want you to know you're not alone. And I want you to know that this weekly word is going to speak to that moment. The card that I have on the table, that is the representing the energy we should embrace is the Justice card. Now this is the second week in a row, we've gotten the Justice card. And so this for me is coming across as us needing to be like I always say this like getting really honest and get into the heart of the matter, right. But I also think that is, is is clarity in being able to call a thing a thing and to name what it is that we're experiencing. Because this lack of energy, this wanting to dissociate from the harm and the trauma and the just the hardship of life. There's power and us being able to name what Daniel and muggles will say the source of our suffering. And what's powerful about the Justice card being here is that justice is here to remind us that it's okay It's okay to admit

    that we're tired. As great ancestor, Fannie Lou Hamer said, sick and tired of being sick and tired. The Justice card is here to say, It's okay to say that this was exactly what's going on with you. It's even okay for you to want to dissociate from the harm that you're experiencing. I think there's power in our true telling. And this power in a saying, I just don't have the spoons right now. There's power and us saying, I don't know how we're gonna make it through this one. There's power in us being able to admit that we just don't have the energy or the wherewithal to take another step is powerful, because right in the place of need is where the divine can meet us. In the place of need, is where the divine can send us people to meet that need, can send us answers to the prayers that we've prayed to the petitions that we've written to the tears that we've cried, that happens when we tell the truth when we name the source of our suffering. I live in Texas, and now, they are saying that they are going to start doing rolling blackouts. Because they, the government here has decided that we should be on this other grid system, apart from the rest of the United States that is regulated by the state is not federally regulated, if I'm not mistaken. And if I'm incorrect with my information, please let me know. Because I don't know all the details about that. I just know that it's messed up. Because many because of this is unregulated. Many people died in 2021, when there was the freeze here in Texas. And now that they're doing these rolling blackouts, they're saying they're they're telling the folks here in Texas conserve energy. Because we're doing these rollouts will conserve these energies and for me personally it feels like a threat. It feels like conserve your energy cause your family to like go without go without the air that you need to call your bodies down go without washing your clothes, or whatever it is that you need your energy for in your home go without that because we are not going to pick up the slack the slack that they left the problem that they caused, do this or if you don't, well, we're just going to cut off all your energy and then you're going to be stifling in your house from the heat you're going to suffer because we were selfish and wanted to get rich because we did not want we wanted to be able to pad our own pocket so who cares what happens to the families in Texas

    they are the source of our suffering here in Texas. The government and so

    this ace of wands in reverse this feeling powerless. This feeling like I just can't anymore. I just can't hear any more bad news y'all. I just don't want to get up out of bed y'all. I just don't. I just can't. Spirit is here to say it's all right. If you feel that way.

    It's okay if you feel that way because where your strength ends, the divine can step in. And the Divine is not just spirit. But as people who are led by spirit to join in with one another, to meet each other's needs to be the answer to the prayers, that we've prayed that we've cried that we've shouted that we've moan and groan. So the question becomes how? How do we tell the truth? How do we become honest with ourselves about the fact that we have been neglected and utterly abandoned? Not just in Texas, but this whole country, all over the world. There are two pandemics running wild right now in the land COVID-19, which has been here since late 2019 turned up a whole other notch by the time we got to 2020 and monkeypox. What in the world how in the world? How do we continue on? How do we gain this energy? How do we bring ourselves back right? A couple of things. I have pulled a card from one of my favorite oracle decks that earthcraft Oracle and this deck gives us medicine for the moment. And I love this because this deck says the card that I pulled it says you are sacred. That's important. You are sacred. I don't care what government officials. I don't care what the CDC. I don't care what patriarchy, racism transphobia. I don't care what ableist folks, I don't care what these institutions, these principalities that stand up against us have to say, you are sacred. You are divine. You are worthy of the utmost and most exceptional care. And you are deserving to sit down and to lie down. What is the scripture say to God makes us to lie down in green pastures, we're deserving of that because we are sacred. We deserve that rest. And so the first step into embracing that is to recognize that we are sacred, to recognize that we are important that all of us together is the most beautiful divine expression of love that exists in the world today. And so, the car, the tarot card that I have on the table to answer this question, how is the fool so this means anytime we see the fool, this means doing something that you've never done before. Or maybe is revisiting something you haven't done in a while. This feels like us entering to into extreme care for ourselves. Especially with us coming up on this full moon. I think about the body and how we must care for it. I think about how we must heal ourselves time and time again so that we can show up. The point of lying down in green pastures is that one day we'll be able to get up again and live and move and have our being right. And so the fool is asking what are the ways in which you can pour into yourself this week? What are the ways in which you can rehabilitate yourself? For yourself,

    I don't mean, you know, if you're feeling under the weather, you take a quick nap. So you can get up and do some more work. Or get up and do some more laundry. I mean, how can you actually carve out time for you because ace of wands in reverse, it wants to be productive. But it's actually asking for you to sit down. And to trust that you know what your body needs right now.

    I have a card here from the chocolate key Congo deck and the card that I pulled is Earth medicine. And so that feels really poignant for this moment. This is a time for us to ground ourselves. And a way for us to reconnect with our bodies. So when I think of the Earth, I always think of body first. And so how can we tune in to our bodies? How can we give our bodies what they need this week? How can we lean into pleasure and play and exploration? How can we lean into giving ourselves to do trician and pleasurable eating experiences? How can we give ourselves enough attention? I've been enjoying all of these gentle parenting, or conscious parenting videos of children telling their parents I need attention. I need attention. And oh the way my heart sways, every time I hear that I just swoon because how beautiful is for our children to be able to tell a person that they are in need of attention. And for that need to be met. Those are the needs that we need to be speaking this week. And so I asked you what is the attention that you need? What is your body asking for? Do you need to cry? Do you need to rock back and forth or front to back? Do you need to take a nice bath? Maybe even a spiritual bath with herbs do you need to spend some time in the water? Or at the water? If you're near a body of water? Are you there? Do you need to drink some water? Is it time for you to indulge in something sweet? Whether that's the sweetness of chocolate or the sweetness of a lovers or friends embrace? What do you need this week?

    What do you need this week we are coming up on a full moon this Wednesday. And I always appreciate the full moon because it always reminds me I need to get back in my body. And so if you do not have any full moon rituals, maybe this Wednesday night is a great time for you to do that. Even if the ritual is just looking yourself in the mirror and saying I am going to give you all of what you need tonight. If that's a good night's rest, if like if it's a great meal. If it's shampooing your hair with a nice minty shampoo you like or that conditioner that smells so good if it's rubbing your body down with lotion, whatever it is. Give yourself what you need. Give yourself what you need. What is the earth medicine for you this week? So of course because it's a full moon, I did pull a moon card and that card simply says that now this week is a time for healing. That this is a time for healing. It's a time for rehabilitation is the time for us to allow this, this the energy that we're feeling of just like being very slow and, and not wanting to produce. That's how you're feeling this week. That's okay. In fact, maybe that's good. Maybe that is your body speaking to you in that moment. That's the wisdom of your body saying not now. I need more energy, I don't have it now. And that's the truth that we have to be honest about. Not only the truth of who did this to us, it's also the truth and how we can help heal each other, how we can help support one another. And so I'm just going to close simply with this prayer card was shut which says, Trust me says I trust the highest way. Change me divine beloved into one who wants what you want from me. Let me trust that my needs will always be met in the highest way, when I allow you to guide me. And so that is my prayer for each and every one of you, that this week as you lean into your sacredness as you do, whatever it is that you need for your body to feel supported and loved and grounded, that you would truly lean into your wrist however that looks to you. And try something new with the full car here. We want to try something new. Try something you've never done. Try some try a new meal, try a different dessert, or whatever just feels good to you. Go into it with your arms open wide with faith that this healing journey that you're on this time of rehabilitation will be the just the beginning. Have a season of freshness of newness, of goodness of mercy and an abundance of everything that you need so that your needs will be met. See ya next week. Be good to yourselves.