07/09/2025
If you look up Joy in the dictionary, you'll find a definition similar to a feeling of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated or spiritual kind. In truth, Joy means something a little bit different to everyone, but I think we can all agree that it is a rare and wonderful thing. Life is full of sadness and stress, which makes those fleeting moments of Joy even more important. One truly joyous memory can get you through a lot of bad days. It doesn't matter how you define Joy what matters is that you seek it out, that you give it every opportunity to enter your life and that when it does, you make sure to appreciate it to the fullest. If you can do something that brings joy to others that's a bonus.
What brings you joy? Is it spending time with friends or family? Walking in the woods or by the ocean shore alone? Dancing, singing, eating a fresh baked cookie still hot from the oven? Do you find joy and ritual, communing with the gods? Or playing with children and animals, who are so much better at embracing Joy than many adults? Make of the list of the ways in which you feel Joy and try to find time to include at least a few in every week.
This card has a clear message find an embrace joy! Maybe you've been feeling down or blue lately or you're just too busy being an adult to find time for Life simple pleasures. Maybe, like so many, you don't feel worthy of joy. If so, I assure you, you are. Either way, you probably need some more joy in your life. It doesn't have to be anything complicated or expensive. You don't have to go to Disney although hey, if that's where you find your joy, go for it. But you do have to make the effort to seek it out or at the very least create space and opportunity for joy to come to you. And when it's there, right in front of you, don't shrug it off or be in a hurry to move on to the next thing. Embrace Joy fully. Dive into the moment. Yell and grin and leap if that's what is called for.