Eeee! Taylor Swift and tarot have been such glorious special interests for me post-deconstruction. There are so many great tarot decks. It really depends on what you're looking for. If you want a diverse take on the classic style, try the Queer Tarot, the Modern Witch Tarot, or the This Might Hurt Tarot. If you want cute, try the Cat Tarot or the Kawaii Tarot (by Lulu Mayo). There's even the super cool Music Tarot with various famous artists. Cheers to living as an antithesis of evangelical hustle culture!
Dec 22, 2023·edited Dec 22, 2023Liked by Christine Greenwald
Evangelical Hustle Culture! That's it! My evangelical son-In-law family never rests. Even camping they take this ginormous trailer, spending days filling it with groceries, preparing meals doing dishes, and cleaning up while camping as if they were at home, and then have to pack up all that shit and drag it back to civilization. I always camped on the trail in a small tent or no tent with dry food. So I never understood the extreme busyness of my Evangelical in-laws even when “resting”! Now I get it! I guess my failure to understand came from entering Christianity as an “untrained” adult! Thank you for explaining what should have been obvious to me.
Tarot!! Yes! I’m a neophyte, but I find it fascinating and very helpful on the path of personal growth for gaining insight into oneself and sometimes puzzling life circumstances.
Thanks for a helpful share, Christine. Enjoy Taylor!! 😉
Lol I can totally picture this camping situation 😂 I feel like SO many people (around here? In general??) “camp” like that. I.e. drive their RVs and park somewhere that’s not their house?
Glad to provide you some education on evangelical/Catholic/super religious culture 😆 And yes much enjoyment of Taylor is occurring!!
I love T Swift as special interest ❤️❤️ and hours of deep diving into music and interviews sounds absolutely perfect. “I’m still trying to figure out how to just have semi-meaningless fun.” SO RELATABLE!!!! If you find a deck you love, just try pulling one card a day with a simple prompt like “what does Love want to teach me today?” You don’t have to do a deep dive to have a lot of fun with tarot (*says the girl who’s done a massive deep dive over the last two years* LOL)
Such a helpful concept, Evangelical Hustle Culture! I have been trying to move away from the strive response (a threat response, which I think the fawn response is a version of). This post helps me see all the more clearly the reflexive, fear- and shame-based behavior I'm trying to soften back from. Thank you! So well laid out!
The strive response! I have not heard of that but makes so much sense. I gotta say that softening these responses can actually feel sooo much better... once we let ourselves be ok with it!
So loved this post! I laughed along with you (at myself and because I could so relate!). Love the term evangelical-hustle. I use the "work-earn-deserve paradigm," which I'm pretty sure is the opposite of what Jesus meant in his parable on the workers in the vineyard. And I laughed because I've had to learn to have fun too. I'm pretty far out of the deconstruction phase, and have embraced joy at this stage as the foundation of life. I've decided the world does not need my suffering or sacrifice, but is best served by my joy. Thanks for your post! (and enjoy playing with Tarot. It's a dirty little secret but there was a part of the Christian Church who used them. I know, shocking!)
It's not tarot - but these beautiful Art & Wisdom Cards by Melanie Weidner (Quaker EX-evangelical) are wonderful. https://listenforjoy.com/pages/offerings
Yay Quaker exvangelicals!! Those are lovely!!
Quaker ex-evangelical!! Those cards look beautiful!😍😍😍
Eeee! Taylor Swift and tarot have been such glorious special interests for me post-deconstruction. There are so many great tarot decks. It really depends on what you're looking for. If you want a diverse take on the classic style, try the Queer Tarot, the Modern Witch Tarot, or the This Might Hurt Tarot. If you want cute, try the Cat Tarot or the Kawaii Tarot (by Lulu Mayo). There's even the super cool Music Tarot with various famous artists. Cheers to living as an antithesis of evangelical hustle culture!
Yay glad to share these special interests! I have had a ridiculous amount of fun this week taking things less seriously and enjoying Swiftie things.
Ooh! Thanks for the recs! I will look into those- they sound really cool.
Yay! Cheers to having fun!
The evangelical hustle culture... feeling guilty in your free time!!! I had it so bad and agree that becoming a Swiftie is a good antidote to that!
Yes you write a lot about this topic too!! Oh gosh I’ve had so so much fun falling into Swiftie land!
Evangelical Hustle Culture! That's it! My evangelical son-In-law family never rests. Even camping they take this ginormous trailer, spending days filling it with groceries, preparing meals doing dishes, and cleaning up while camping as if they were at home, and then have to pack up all that shit and drag it back to civilization. I always camped on the trail in a small tent or no tent with dry food. So I never understood the extreme busyness of my Evangelical in-laws even when “resting”! Now I get it! I guess my failure to understand came from entering Christianity as an “untrained” adult! Thank you for explaining what should have been obvious to me.
Tarot!! Yes! I’m a neophyte, but I find it fascinating and very helpful on the path of personal growth for gaining insight into oneself and sometimes puzzling life circumstances.
Thanks for a helpful share, Christine. Enjoy Taylor!! 😉
Lol I can totally picture this camping situation 😂 I feel like SO many people (around here? In general??) “camp” like that. I.e. drive their RVs and park somewhere that’s not their house?
Glad to provide you some education on evangelical/Catholic/super religious culture 😆 And yes much enjoyment of Taylor is occurring!!
I love T Swift as special interest ❤️❤️ and hours of deep diving into music and interviews sounds absolutely perfect. “I’m still trying to figure out how to just have semi-meaningless fun.” SO RELATABLE!!!! If you find a deck you love, just try pulling one card a day with a simple prompt like “what does Love want to teach me today?” You don’t have to do a deep dive to have a lot of fun with tarot (*says the girl who’s done a massive deep dive over the last two years* LOL)
Such a helpful concept, Evangelical Hustle Culture! I have been trying to move away from the strive response (a threat response, which I think the fawn response is a version of). This post helps me see all the more clearly the reflexive, fear- and shame-based behavior I'm trying to soften back from. Thank you! So well laid out!
The strive response! I have not heard of that but makes so much sense. I gotta say that softening these responses can actually feel sooo much better... once we let ourselves be ok with it!
I love this post. And you. ❤️
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The antithesis of evangelical hustle culture is where it's at!!!
So loved this post! I laughed along with you (at myself and because I could so relate!). Love the term evangelical-hustle. I use the "work-earn-deserve paradigm," which I'm pretty sure is the opposite of what Jesus meant in his parable on the workers in the vineyard. And I laughed because I've had to learn to have fun too. I'm pretty far out of the deconstruction phase, and have embraced joy at this stage as the foundation of life. I've decided the world does not need my suffering or sacrifice, but is best served by my joy. Thanks for your post! (and enjoy playing with Tarot. It's a dirty little secret but there was a part of the Christian Church who used them. I know, shocking!)