A Year Of Journaling With The Violets - Week 15

Over the next 52 weeks, we'll use journaling as a tool for deep self-discovery—a chance to reflect, embrace, and shape your future with honesty and without fear. Each week a new Oracle card provides a prompt to guide you, but remember, this is your journey. There are no rules. Take what resonates and leave the rest. Whether you prefer pen and paper or a digital format, scripting, doodling, or writing, the key is to engage and enjoy the process.

We'll be using Yanik Silver's "The Cosmic Journey Oracle."

This week's card: #IV "Divine Dragon"

Our soothing background music is by fellow Insight Timer teacher, Blossom Violet. You can find more of her beautiful piano tracks by following her here. I've also included her music in my journaling playlists, which you can find on my teacher profile under the "Home" tab.

Please connect with us in a supportive community of users and many wonderful teachers in the "Ask Your Guides" group here on Insight Timer.

Transcript

Hello and welcome beautiful Insight Timer community.

Today we are on week 15 of our year of journaling.

So today I went to our deck,

The Cosmic Journey Oracle by Yannick Silver and I pulled a random card and got Roman numeral IV,

Divine Dragon.

So this one's a little unusual.

Of course I was immediately caught by the fact that the serpent is purple,

Which we know is my favorite color.

So I opened up the book and it says attributes,

Sovereignty,

Power,

Full expression,

Magic.

A dragon chooses you.

You do not choose the dragon.

A dragon's power connects you to your own power from within to stand sovereign.

It's also connected to your root expression of power,

Fire,

And even sexual energy,

Kundalini rising.

You cannot serve the collective without first being alive and ablaze.

Allow the dragon's fire of purification to cleanse you.

In the east,

The dragon was seen as a mythical guardian with influence over all the elements.

In the west,

It was seen as a feared fire-breathing serpent because people didn't fully understand the magic and divine wisdom dragons carry.

There's an awakening of the dragon archetype now and you can embody that with this cosmic conversation.

Your power is engaged for a purpose,

Breathing fire when needed.

Now the potential questions to ask,

Which is what we're going to use for journaling.

One was,

Why did you choose me?

Interesting question.

Didn't really resonate with me.

Perhaps it will resonate with some of you.

Also,

How do I more fully proclaim my power in this situation?

And again,

I believe that relates to that first question.

Now the third question,

Which immediately resonated with me and may resonate with many of you,

What areas of shame,

Guilt,

Or smallness do I need to examine and cleanse?

Wow,

That's definitely my journaling prompt.

What areas of shame,

Guilt,

Or smallness do I need to examine and cleanse?

Let's put some time on the clock,

Let's do some journaling,

And let's meet back here in a few minutes.

All right my friends,

I hope you enjoyed journaling and listening to Blossom Violet's beautiful music.

If you don't know her already,

Please follow her on Insight Timer.

She's an amazing piano player and shares her beautiful piano tracks with me so that I can use them for my journaling,

Which is what I'm sharing with you in the background music.

So I hope you had some good things to write down.

And as for me,

That area of shame,

Guilt,

And smallness that I need to examine and cleanse,

That totally made sense for me.

As many of you know,

I do consider myself an introvert.

In fact,

I have a couple of tracks on that topic.

And I have often spoken about the fact that I felt like for many years I was playing small.

And this is why that question resonates with me so much.

I've often said that one of the things that Insight Timer has done for me in a big way is to help me step from that shadow where I was always playing small and step forward and start using my voice.

A lot of you have heard me say that I did not like being on video.

I was terrified to go live.

I didn't really know how to create tracks.

So this was all new to me.

And it was something that I pushed myself to do so that I could step outside my box and perhaps stop playing small.

I felt like I didn't have enough to offer.

I still think that sometimes.

I think,

Is anyone listening to this?

Do I have anything to offer?

And then I say to myself,

Do what you love.

This is what I love.

And if this helps me step outside my comfort zone,

Even better.

Probably one of the reasons why I enjoy doing it so much.

And honestly,

I would probably continue making these tracks,

Even if I was the only one listening to them,

Because I enjoy doing this.

So,

But thank you,

Friends.

I know some of you are out there listening.

I read your beautiful replies and comments and I appreciate them.

So thank you for the encouragement.

Thank you for helping me to not play small anymore.

And thank you for being with me on this journaling journey that I love so much.

So until next week,

Continue having an amazing week.

Shine like the beautiful diamond that you are and let's meet back here next week.

Take care,

My friends.

Reviews

There is nothing small about you Violet, you inspire me all the time and give me the courage for my own journey as a teacher on here. Thank you so much.

Beautiful practice Violet. Wonderful contemplation time thank you!! 🥰🙏🫶

This one was so heartfelt as I am currently feeling shame, guilt and smallness after several conversations with my younger daughter who is struggling with times in her childhood when she felt I wasn’t there for her. I am truly sad for her because I wasn’t equipped or aware enough to help her and now she needs to feel these things and work thru them so that she can become the person she wants to be as a mother and a woman. I will be cleansing myself through journaling, art therapy, chakra and incense to create a calm internal message for myself. I have also decided to take a week and really reflect on what I need to move forward in my life. This is going to be a magical week as I connect with my heart home, the universe and my compassion for myself so that I can have compassion for others as I move forward in service.

So love the owning of one’s own dragon power … and thanks for reminding me there’s a certain smallness that I carry that no longer serves … onwards and upwards dearest V108 💜