The Color of Comfort
Today I felt called to unwrap my Prism Oracle deck -by Nicole Pivirotto- I purchased months ago in Portland, OR at the store Psychic Sister (I love it’s sibling store of the same name in Olympia too—excellent gift card idea for your witchy leaning loved ones with the holidays coming up, no?!). I am feeling so drawn to rich color as our seasons change and our landscape takes on much more muted and subdued schemes while our earth hibernates, gently consumes, and breaks down in order to replenish its energies and resources come our new year.
I have never worked with an oracle deck like this before. The cards are thicker than the average tarot deck, each card glean with newness and and their edges quite literally prism with light. Surprisingly, my Virgo and generally earth heavy astrology chart, does not keep the excited little kid in me in check when I receive something new and often do not read directions but dive right in. I figured since I am so new to this kind of tool, I better take it slow and pick up the beautiful well colored, simply designed guidebook. With any sort of divination tool, it is important to remember, this is always an invitation. We dictate our future as much as we are willing to understand and reflect on our choices. This particular deck focuses on connections with the vibrations of color and hue, and how we can be inspired by the associations-culturally, visually, and energetically with each color.
I came to this reading for myself today with a specific question that has been popping up in my general care practice—What false narratives have I been clinging onto (coping with, maybe?) that I now need to let go? Its eclipse season, hunny!
I pulled Comfort. A Pink card with a simple white lined drawing of three flowers (or maybe artichoke hearts!) connected together. Before I decided to read what the guidebook has to offer as direction. I wanted to sit and ponder myself what comfort means to me and what false narratives have I created around the idea of comfort.
I think we all have many different associations with this word. Sometimes I think have a firm bed with soft pillows and a heated blanket. Other times I focus on comfort in the idea of economic and need based security. Occasionally I get quite tied up in capitalist ideas of comfort and that often distorts the work that brings me peace outside of capitalism.
This soft pink card (pretty much my favorite color) is soothing, peaceful, it delights abundantly my idea of comfort! The explanation Nicole gives is when this card comes up in a reading, it is an welcome invitation for opening yourself up to more self-care, nourishing your spirit and giving your nervous system and soul the gentle break it needs. Whatever I think I should be doing right now, at the very least I should be doing it with ease.
I have long heavily carried a narrative around that rest must be earned, and comfort is fleeting as I should be constantly working at “bettering” myself and my circumstances at all times. The past year especially I have been trying to deeply push back against “never getting too comfortable”. Greed, fear, and lack of worth breed well in spaces of the “never enough narrative”. I have to actively choose every single day to honor my worth outside of what I produce. Sometimes the things you do, do not have to have a purpose other than to bring you joy. As this card has invited me, I also invite you to reflect on what genuinely brings you comfort and how to gently dispel narratives of care needing to be earned. We are here to live, to experience, to pass out matter along with great knowing it will always be and has always been.
And so it is!
CC