Grieving

Grief, mourning, deep sorrow, heartbreak

The chambers of your mourning are surrounded by nothingness, emptiness waiting to be seen.

Your higher self chose this card because grief isn’t just about the death of a loved one. Mourning is defined as ‘feeling regret or sadness about the loss or disappearance of something’. You can grieve the end of a career, a move from one place to another, letting go of a dream or seeing your children leave the nest. While grief isn’t pleasant, it’s important to acknowledge the loss of something or someone that was important to you. Doing so doesn’t reduce the love you had for what you’ve lost but it does give you a way to let go and move on.

To ignore your sadness is to deny a meaningful part of your life story. Pulling Grieving is an opportunity to embrace the heavy emotions you have been carrying. Express the fullness of your heartache as a tribute to what once was, and then once you have cried, screamed, gotten angry or sad your spirit will be free. It’s only when you deny your grief that it becomes baggage. Will you feel sad from time to time? Of course. Memories have a way of creeping in even with a healthy grief process, but it won’t be a constant thorn in your soul.

This card also reminds you that it’s okay to feel sorrow for something or someone who is gone even if that person or thing brought you great harm. The bad memories don’t erase the good ones, and there’s nothing wrong with cherishing any happiness you once experienced together. It doesn’t matter if other people don’t understand your grief because it isn’t theirs to understand in the first place.