11/08/2022
This week’s self-care practice is connecting with your womb. This doesn’t have to be about having an actual womb in itself, but connecting with the energy that a womb creates. Ultimately, the womb is a creative organ and this week, you can connect to your own creative forces to produce whatever is calling to you right now. This could be a diy project, a creative endeavour- in your work, in your home, with a new routine. Whatever you’re feeling drawn to create right now, you’re being asked to heed it. The womb is fertile and equally, something may come up this week that is steadily growing in your life. Tend it to it, nurture it, and allow it to grow organically. Draw on your patience and compassion, and you will soon reach the results you’re hoping for.
For those of you with a womb, meditating with your womb or about it may help you connect to it deeper or get to know it better. As it’s an inherent part of our body, we think we know everything we need to know but a lot of us aren’t actually deeply connected to our body in that way. Particularly when it comes to menstruation and menopause, we don’t always take the time to get to know ourselves, our needs, our own bodily sensations, and we often push to ignore, to keep going about our daily routine. We see it as an inconvenience. It’s painful; it’s messy and we have so much to do. We don’t have time to cater to our womb. With this card, we’re reminded that now is a time to stop and start listening to our body, what messages we receive from it, what knowledge and insight. It’s not an inconvenience; it’s a gift. It’s not so easy to think that when we’re in pain, when we’re tired and hormonal, or when we’re constantly going to the toilet, but to have a womb is to have the gift of life and that’s not indicative of children in itself. We’ve grown up in a patriarchal and capitalist society, that sees nurturing, compassion, and rest as a bad thing, that we can’t take a moment to give that to ourselves. Yet, our womb very quickly reminds us that we have to take care of ourselves in some way to get by. We can’t just work and push with no rest, with no care. How can you connect to your womb if you don’t know already? This can be done through meditation, journalling, and through general contemplation. Explore what your exact connection is to this part of your body- what feelings, beliefs, and experiences do you have around it? What meditations are out there to help you connect to the womb, and are there any journal prompts that can help you start connecting to it easier on a more regular basis? If you have any trauma around the womb, now may be a time to seek professional help or the support of a group who understands your experience. Allow yourself to receive the help you need.
