{"id":3306,"date":"2025-08-10T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:58:18","slug":"being-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/being-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Still"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">My vacation has officially started!<br>I can\u2019t remember the last time I took a legitimate vacation where I didn\u2019t fill every moment of my day with other work or constantly kept myself occupied with something to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I\u2019m in a totally different headspace this time around compared to my other trips out to Utah.<br>And so one of my goals for this trip is to take advantage of this new headspace and not only give myself the permission to rest and relax, but the chance to practice being still\u2014mentally, emotionally, and physically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This trip feels momentous for me, and so I wanted to pull a tarot card to meditate on regarding this trip. I was expecting a major arcana card to reveal itself but instead it was the <em>Daughter of Cups<\/em> who showed it\u2019s face to me.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/38341A18-F962-4D3C-85A0-F5BD67D52EF1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Unknown Daughter of Cups tarot card sitting on top of a navy blue, bird print fabric featuring a baby swan swimming with a rainbow reflect amongst the black and white lines, and a silhouetted cup floating atop her head.\" class=\"wp-image-3305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/38341A18-F962-4D3C-85A0-F5BD67D52EF1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/38341A18-F962-4D3C-85A0-F5BD67D52EF1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/38341A18-F962-4D3C-85A0-F5BD67D52EF1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/38341A18-F962-4D3C-85A0-F5BD67D52EF1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My first impression was that of a sweet, sensitive, soft baby swan who is navigating a body of water\u2014a river, a pond, or maybe a lake. Her mother isn\u2019t very far off, but this baby has been given some space to practice swimming and exploring the water on her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I later noticed how peaceful this card is\u2014<br>The water is quiet and calm, and the young swan isn\u2019t splashing or swimming about. She is simply floating atop the surface allowing herself to be gently\u2014and naturally\u2014supported by the water itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She is still.<br>Still enough for the water to show a reflection;<br>Still enough to see what\u2019s below the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My vacation has officially started!I can\u2019t remember the last time I took a legitimate vacation where I didn\u2019t fill every moment of my day with other work or constantly kept myself occupied with something to do. I\u2019m in a totally different headspace this time around compared to my other trips out to Utah.And so one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,27,59],"tags":[28,25],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures","category-brain-dump-2","category-tarot-tea","tag-brain-dump","tag-for-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}