I’ve been pondering this week’s blog post topic for a few days and largely drawing a blank to be honest.
It’s felt as if something has been guiding me to pause and reflect.
Maybe the transition from the Chinese Year of the Snake to 2026’s Year of the Fire Horse has had a hand in this pause…who knows…
So, now that I’ve paused, I’m taking a moment to look back. I prefer to look forwards. I’m not a fan of looking back on certain emotional levels. The past is in the past and can’t be changed. However, that said, lessons learned from the past can help to shape the future.
I was reminded recently of an angel card/ oracle card reading that I had over fifteen years ago. It’s no secret to those who know me that I love oracle cards and have several…many…different decks. (I’m more cautious and wary around Tarot cards but that’s a whole different story.)
The card that I was reminded of is the one pictured above. It’s from a Doreen Virtue deck and shows an Earth Angel with her wings folded behind her, holding a crystal ball filled with butterflies in her hands. I love butterflies! At the time I was that told that I had skills/talents to share but that I wasn’t ready to spread my wings. Back then, it didn’t make much sense but looking back now, it makes perfect sense.
That reading was in 2010 if memory serves me correctly, three years before I decided to embark on my creative journey. It was eight years before I embarked on another journey that I rarely mention on here- my Reiki journey. (During that angel card reading, the medium/fortune teller had been adamant that I was a healer.)
So much has changed in my life since that card reading all those years ago… so much.
I don’t intend to go into it all here, largely because most of it is too personal to share in such a public space.
I will share this though…
If you’d told the “me” who was offered that card that I’d write and self-publish seven novels plus a poetry collection and have an eighth novel in the works, she would have thought you were insane.
If you’d told the “me” who was offered that card that I’d write a weekly blog, every week for over eleven years and counting plus an ad hoc music blog, she would have thought you were insane.
If you’d told the “me” who was offered that card that I would be qualified as a Reiki Master Teacher (although technically I can’t call myself a teacher until I have actually taught a Reiki student) I would have thought you were insane.
If you’d told the “me” who was offered that card that I would confidently travel solo and go to concerts on my own, I would have thought you were insane.
None of these things felt achievable back then. They were the stuff of dreams. They were things that confident, capable people achieved and felt completely beyond the reach of shy, introverted wee me.
Now that I have paused to reflect, perhaps that “Earth Angel” has quietly spread her wings. Maybe now, in these early days of the Year of the Fire Horse, it is time to spread them further and fly.
Time will tell…
Coral McCallum 