First Impressions: Royalty, peace,
Meaning: Wisdom, knowing yourself, tenderness and light
This card called to me as I felt calmness and tenderness radiating off of her. Sophia speaks to me of turning inward to find wisdom and learning about who I am and applying that to the world. What I see around me is that so many people want to change the world, but they are unwilling to do the work required to change themselves. It seems as if it is so easy to point the finger at someone else and demand that they change instead of turning the magnifying glass inward and looking at our own actions and behaviors. The flip side of this is knowing what I'm not responsible for and what I can't control.
The border between my behavior and others behaviors is boundaries and that's the hardest area for me. I have a tendency to take responsibility and ownership for things that are really not my responsibility and that I shouldn't own. That goes back to we teach people how to treat us and that if we let people walk all over us, they will continue to do that. I learned a long time ago with my kids that I had to stop acting as if getting them to do their chores was a favor to me because that made them feel as if it was something extra that they were doing to be nice. I've learned that I have to make them understand that this is a requirement and that if they don't do it, there will be consequences. I'm still not perfect at it, but I'm getting there.
The same is true in work and we often don't do a good job of holding people accountable and making them understand that good behavior is not optional. However, I think as women we are so afraid of the bitch label and we are so afraid of not being liked that we tolerate bad behavior. My marriage taught me that it is my responsibility to stand up and call out the people who treat me badly. I need to be the one that says that certain behavior is unacceptable and that I will not tolerate it. Of course as a woman, people tend to label you "too emotional" or "too sensitive" when you stand up for yourself, but I don't believe demanding to be treated with respect makes me too sensitive. I was so fed up with X the other day when he was whining about how someone had disrespected him, but the behavior he was talking about was no worse than what he'd done to me. However, because I'm female I was being too sensitive. That was a huge lesson to me in how men like to give women the label of too sensitive as a way to keep them down.
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