Sunday Check‑In | Spiritual Guidance, Desire & Scary Tarot Cards

Plans for the Week

This week I’ll be working on three things across the platforms:

Patreon:

• Somatic Sensuality Class – continuing our embodiment work with a full-length class

• New Yoga Class – to be decided :)

• BTS Work – progress on the new outdoor yoga space

And on YouTube this week:

Full Body Yoga Without Wrist Strain | Balance, Strength & Deep Stretch

Now onto student questions-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waxc4ZpSRu8

1) If you believe in a higher power outside religion, what guides you when emotion, desire, and ego conflict?

You mean like… all the time lol.

I do believe in a higher power, and I also don’t believe I am my thoughts or emotions. We’re all conditioned from childhood — what hurt us, what got us love, what caused rejection, the old wounds that show up in current moments. Most reactions are echoes of the past, not reflections of present truth.

Thoughts and emotions are learned patterns. Over‑identifying with them creates so much unnecessary suffering. I can think about wanting to run into someone with my car because I’m angry, but I’m not going to do it — and I know it would make me feel awful. We think and feel things all the time that are pure fantasy, yet we latch onto certain thoughts as if they’re absolute truth. But what makes one thought “true” and another “just a thought”? Neither, really. The mystery of life is that we don’t actually know.

Through meditation, I get glimpses of my true nature — peaceful, unchanging, spacious. I remember that I’m here having a fleeting human experience, and that I’m so much more than I can comprehend. In those moments, everything feels aligned, and all my little likes, dislikes, and emotional storms feel tiny in the grand scheme of things. Even most trees will outlive me.

So I can either cling to the belief that I know how everything should be, or I can relax into gratitude and hand things over to a higher power, because I truly don’t know. I don’t need to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders. I control very little — only my perception. I can live life angry that it doesn’t match my expectations, or I can live life on life’s terms and find peace in this brief moment on earth.

2) Can someone experience lust without losing awareness, self‑control, or respect for the other person?

Of course. Most of us desire things or people all the time — sometimes intensely — and we don’t act on it because it wouldn’t be appropriate. Otherwise we’d all be in jail for lack of impulse control.

Lust is simply strong desire, usually wrapped in a sexual tone. You can lust after people, experiences, ideas, or even a version of yourself you want to become. Wanting something doesn’t automatically turn us into little monsters. Most people have a functioning moral compass and a sense of boundaries. Desire doesn’t erase that.

3) Why do tarot cards like Death and The Tower feel so frightening?

Because they’re meant to grab your attention.

The subtlety is gone — a message is coming through loud and clear. These cards show up when major change is happening whether you’re ready or not. Something needs to burn down. Something needs to die so something new can be born.

The message itself isn’t scary. It’s dramatic because it’s saying:

“The time for hesitation is over. Change is here.”

It’s not punishment — it’s transformation. The Tower and Death don’t show up to hurt you. They show up to move you.

PS I'll be sending out a cool post later this week from my talk on Patreon about lucid dreaming and how it can be related to the eight limbs of yoga!