This card asks you to align with your soul’s journey and place it first in your life. We may not always know what our soul’s journey is or how to align with it. It takes dedication to know our path this lifetime. The first step in working with this card is to give yourself time to hear your soul. Spend time in meditation for the next week, with the intent of listening to yourself. You can also go somewhere that inspires you, like the ocean or woods, harnessing the power of nature to unleash your soul. Ask yourself what makes you feel aligned each day. What activities, people, or projects feel like home? What feels like your mission in this life? What are your resounding yes’s? Give time for these answers to appear.

Once you understand what your soul truly wants, then it’s time to begin. It’s time to change your life in a way that aligns with your soul’s path. This may mean making small changes to embrace your life’s mission, or it may mean making big changes. Whatever you need to do, this card asks you to begin.

Feel into what motivates you to overcome internal barriers and harness that motivation to begin on the path of your soul.

This card is also a reminder that motivation to stay on your soul’s journey takes effort. Burnout can set in quickly, even if you love what you do. It’s essential to find ways to nurture your creativity and love for your path. After miles on your journey, you may feel like quitting despite success. If you feel unmotivated, find ways to reconnect with your joy and the part of you that remembers when it was all brand new. Revisit old memories of when you first started on your journey and remember what signs showed up to affirm your alignment.

Also, take a break. Pick a new hobby that restores your energy, or focus your attention on something else. Come back to your purpose afterward renewed and begin again.

I should take notes…

Alright, by now almost everyone should be aware of the new kid in the block, well, apparently, it isn’t that new. I am talking about Kagi Search, the privacy-oriented search engine service.

Kagi is a high quality, 100% privacy-respecting search engine with results augmented by non-commercial indexes and personalized searches.

Sounds cool, huh?

I will be honest, I don’t know how much I care. I mean, yes I should care about privacy and give the least amount of personal data to services like Google and others, but, at this point, how much does it really matter, I often wonder. But, that’s neither here nor there.

I signed up for it a couple of weeks ago. It was mentioned in a super-secret iMessage chat I hang out at. I reached my 100 search limit a few days ago, and yesterday I decided to give them my money and upgraded to the 300 searches tier.

So far I like it, I feel like the results I get are “true to type” as we say in my world. Not ads-generated results bullshit. I like their “Small Web” feature, it’s kinda like Stumble Upon, and it’s a cool way to explore and find other blogs. Oh! and the mascot, I like the cute doggie they have on their page.

I am sure there’s more to it than search, a cute-looking dog, and blog discovery, but that is it for now.

What makes it better than something like DuckDuckGo? Honestly, I don’t know, I rarely ever used it 😅. But as someone who tries to stay away from Google services as much as possible, I don’t even have a Gmail account, I guess is worth checking it out.

Today I changed my system’s settings to “dark mode”. It is nice, given that my corner of the office (which is really in a trailer) is not very illuminated so dark everything suits me nicely. The problem with this is inconsistency. Every app and every website has a different dark color scheme so it can get weird. And if a particular webpage or web app doesn’t have a dark mode (like all my work web-based tools), it is like taking a punch in the eyes. 😅

The last two nights I have had very bad luck with my sleep, I mean, I have been having issues with it for months but even more so the past two nights. This morning I realized, that I may have been “missing” my ADHD medication by mistake. Both my ADHD and Gabapentin pills, look exactly the same. There is a chance that I have been taking my Gabapentin instead of the ADHD the past few days, making me chemically unbalanced 🤪, which in turn could and will mess up my sleep.

Ever since I have been blogging, especially since using Micro.blog as my platform, I have had this Day One IFTTT action that every post gets logged as an entry in Day One. I have had this for years and it is nice to use it’s On This Day to recall past events and posts. However, it can be weird at times. The entries aren’t necessarily clean, they always come with random ifttt links and the blog’s URL too, so is not the cleanest format. Also, if the post had multiple images, it’d only show (or import) the very first one and omit the rest. At some point, it would seem like I managed to clean up better whatever came from gaby.micro.blog’s RSS rather than from the main blog URL (Gabz.blog), and has no random links and such but still missing photos if multiple.

The good thing about this is that it all works in the background and I don’t even have to think about it or even manage it. That being said, since I have both recipes going, I do find myself now with duplicate entries, ups! Thus, I am thinking of a different approach. It would be more manual, but it is doable.

If I compose my post in Ulysses, I can always export it in markdown format to Day One, all pictures and all. Pretty straightforward. The Challenge will be when I am composing from my work PC, which I often do. Well, luckily, Day One has a web app, currently in beta I believe, so it is all about copy and paste.

We will see how it goes.

📺 Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal (2019)

This Animated motion-picture show has been on my radar for a long while, I see it every time I open Max. Today I finally decided to give it a go. I have to say, it is quite something. It is savage, it is violent, and even cruel at times. There is no dialogue, everything is conveyed in “body' language, eye emotes, grunts, and roars. The art is very comic-book-like, in fact, that’s how the show feels as if you were watching an animated comic-book.

Pretty cool!