A Year Of Journaling With The Violets - Week 42

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, writing, the key is to engage and enjoy the process.

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

This week's card: #19 Memento Mori. There Might Not be a "Someday"!

Our soothing background music is "Dance of Inner Peace" by fellow Insight Timer teacher, and friend, 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.

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Transcript

Hello and welcome beautiful Insight Timer community.

Today we are on week 42 of our year of journaling.

So as always I pulled a random card from the Cosmic Journey Oracle by Yanique Silver and ironically I got number 19,

Memento Mori.

There might not be a someday.

I'll get into why this is ironic but let me read what he says in the book.

As my friend Sam Horne proclaimed in the title of her recent book,

Someday is not a day in the week.

The time is now.

Imagine if the unknown countdown timer to our expiration date was almost at zero.

What would you be doing now that's different?

How would you want this situation to unfold?

One day the sand in our cosmic hourglass will be gone and then what will you ask for?

More time?

Sorry you've had it all along.

But what did you do with it?

The moments,

The days,

The weeks,

The years.

What have you done with your short sojourn here?

The clock has struck the exact hour to act.

Go.

And our journaling question.

If I had 10 years left on this planet,

What would be truly mine to do?

So the reason this card seemed almost ironic was because last night I spent about five hours in the emergency room with my husband who had gotten up in the middle of the night and passed out for no known reason.

Anyway it was one of those moments where I was truly terrified.

I thought what is happening here?

You know your life can change so quickly in an instant.

I won't get into detail but after a trip to the emergency room thank goodness he is fine.

But it gave me so much to think about and this journaling prompt is definitely one that I needed right now.

So let's listen to Blossom Violet's beautiful music and let's do some journaling.

All right my friends.

I am looking forward to hearing what you had to say for this journaling prompt because I think it's one of the most intense ones I've seen so far.

And after I paused to journal I saw another prompt in his book.

Usually I don't read the last prompt but I'm going to share this one because I decided to use this as well.

It says write exactly six words as they would appear on your tombstone and write six different words with your non-dominant hand.

I would love for you to share with me if you do this what words you came up with.

So with my dominant hands I had loving,

Kind,

Ambitious,

Generous,

Persistent.

And with my non-dominant hand I wrote brave,

Alive,

Loved,

Amazing,

Unstoppable.

I'm definitely going to think about where all these words came from because I just did it.

I didn't think about it.

I tend to think a lot and this time I just didn't.

And part of the reason why I just wasn't thinking too much was because I was in the emergency room as I said before with my husband.

He had some kind of an episode passed out and when he came to he was so delirious and so confused that I honestly for a minute there thought he was having a stroke and I've never experienced anything like this in my life.

He's 57 years old.

I don't expect stuff like that to happen but really if you think about it shouldn't we always be prepared?

Like this card says,

There might not be a someday.

So I thought this was a huge wake-up call for me.

There are so many things I've been putting off and I definitely planned to do them and I and I have to say I was terrified watching him confused,

Dazed,

Not knowing what was going on and me trying to figure out what to do,

Trying to hold him with one hand so that he didn't fall on the floor and reaching for the phone with the other to call 9-1-1 and what goes through my mind but all the emergency shows that we watch on tv and how they're always trying to keep the person awake so they don't die and my husband is telling me he wants to go to sleep so of course that flashed in my mind and I'm yelling at him that he needs to keep talking to me.

He needs to tell me what's going on.

So yeah this was a terrifying experience for me and like I said it had a great outcome.

He's fine.

You know some kind of low blood pressure,

Blood sugar thing,

Just the fluke is what they always tell you when they don't really know which of course I'll be looking into that as well.

But he's fine today.

I'm home today.

I slept for about five hours this afternoon.

Probably not the clearest head right now but I was determined to do my journal entry for this week because this exercise has been amazing and I hope you feel it's been amazing for you too.

I love the feedback I see in the comments and the shares.

So my friends until next week,

Week 43,

I hope that you are having an amazing and hopefully uneventful week.

I am totally filled with gratitude for the outcome of what for probably an hour of my life was a terrifying experience and also a heart-opening experience.

So there's that.

I feel like there's always something to learn right?

Things can be scary at the moment but you get through them and you come out a little wiser perhaps.

There's a lot of things that I'm going to do that I hadn't done before and just things that I should have planned out that I haven't thought about because we all think we're immortal but the truth is obviously we're not.

So my friends I hope you have a beautiful day.

Continue to shine like the beautiful bright diamonds that you are and continue to share with me because that really feeds my soul.

Until next week just continue to be amazing.

Reviews

Funny how the words with the non dominant hand were so different. With my right hand it was more about what other people would say and with my left what I truly see as what I am.

Hope all is well with your husband and there’s no recurrence. I had a scare with my other half a few months ago when I had to bring her back to consciousness, so know what you went through (a little).

It gives my journalling some context as I have three large projects and at least one novel in the works that need finishing. I don’t suffer from procrastination but what has happened is that they have taken on a new trajectory with AI and several AI mini-courses have gotten in the way. That said, maybe the large projects are not for now.

I’ve been following my gut and no bad thing. I will take something with me from this journalling though, deliver something new and of value every day. I have the time, the space and the capacity.

Six words on tomestone:
Dominant : Surety, Brilliant, Inspirational, Kind, Insightful, Visionary
Non-dominant : Doubtful, Unsure, Self-depreciating, Intolerant, Worrier, Foolhardy