Collective messages are prose poems that can be used as creative inspiration, for spiritual guidance, or for entertainment purposes. They are based on a set of cards, runes, and numbers I pull intuitively every Wednesday.
Below you will find the message in both audio and text format. If you’d like to receive the message more deeply, try reading and listening simultaneously!
These messages are timeless, which means they are relevant to whenever you feel drawn to them. If you don’t find any resonance here, feel free to survey past messages. If you are seeking guidance, there may be something there for you!
The ambient violin music included in the audio message is from this video and was performed by Anna Konoplyova.
You must go back to every place where a piece of your heart was left behind.
A shard lies wayward by the playground where you first learned boys don’t cry.
Another hides deep under the ground, in the place where your grandfather’s dreams were laid to rest beside him.
Still one more sits tucked under the house of one you thought would be forever yours—until they tumbled out of your bed one night and never came back.
You must go back to every place where a piece of your heart was left behind. You won’t get much further without it.
It’s easy enough to be hardened by the world. For the body to become a house of joy, you must commit.
Commit to being the fool who believes in miracles. Commit to being the fool who makes them happen.
Commit to being the one that makes the realists roll their eyes and bites their thumb at common sense professed from deadened mouths devoid of wonder.
Commit to being the only fool when no one else is brave enough to join you.
Who was it that told you growing up meant being hardened by hardship?
Who was it, love, that stole your miracles away?
Who is it now, love, that must dip their toes in every ocean, in the hopes that a secret treasure might tickle them and ask to be taken home?
It was you, love.
You were the one who sloughed off every heart-shard and sacrificed them to the stiff and stoic God of the status quo.
It must be you again now, love. You must go back to reclaim your heart.
You must go back to reclaim your miracles. To reclaim those lost treasures of feeling and scavenge what jewels remain beside your grandfather’s abandoned dreams.
You must go back.
You won’t get much further without your heart.
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Rune
Wunjo
“Joy”
Force of attraction between sympathetic beings. Two beings descended from a common source. Clans and marriages. Alliances. Integration and wholeness. Fellowship and goodwill between siblings and social relations. The binding together of different energies. Harmony and well-being.
Number
10
10 is an amplification of 1, with the added symbology old cycles closing and new ones beginning.
1. Pioneer. Alone. Discovery. Rawness. Creative. Direction. Purpose. Aggression. Dominance. Independence. Leadership.
Druid Plant Oracle
Yarrow
Upright: Fidelity. Masculinity. Virility.
Love charms. Faithfulness to a partner or to one’s values. Trust. Reviewing values, goals, and boundaries. Powerful and virile masculine energies.
The Witch’s Materials
Teacup
Ease. Rest. Small mind. Simple joys. Routine.
Affirmators!
Courage
No one is fearless. No one. But even though I’m not fearless, I am courageous. When fear shows up, I don’t run away from it. I use my courage to conquer it. My courage allows me to walk right up to that fear and kick it in the nuts—then quickly hide behind someone bigger until it goes away.
Tarot
The Wheel of Fortune
Karma. Fate. Cycles. Luck. Turning points.
King of Cups
Stoicism. Equanimity. Emotional maturity.
Temperance
Balance. Alchemy. Bringing together opposites. Patience.
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