Cards and Coffee
And routine, I might add. How often do you think of your routines as being part of what creates flow in your life?
And when we say flow, do we mean habitual patterns of behavior, or something else?
I get up in the morning, and I drink coffee. I'm not on the run when I drink my coffee. If there's some place I need to be, I make sure I give myself time for my coffee before I have to go anywhere.
But what's so special about this routine? About giving myself time? Do I just sit and stare into my cup? Plan vigorously for the day, or think 'positive thoughts', making affirmations for abundance too?
Although my routine is informed by the same action – I get up in the morning and have coffee – coffee ends up doing something for me that's more than just quickening my senses or kicking me into some mainstream mindfulness business.
Coffee accompanies my session of reading cards, just for fun and inspiration, and it also gives me an opportunity to think about the beans at the bottom in aesthetic ways. For you see, I don't just drink coffee. I make art with it.
Armed with this art, I look at my cards again. I think of what I don't normally think of. After all, when the cards hit my table in a random way, they don't do it so that I can experience an extension of what's already habitual.
Thinking about what the cards may prompt me with, combined with the weird image patterns that coffee beans create enhances the flow of joy in my routines.
This cycle of tarot prompts will thus focus on how we can flavor our routines.