Pisces Ganesha speaks weekly? That’s what I started telling folks, half-joking, half-dead serious. Honestly, if you’d told me a couple years back I’d be sitting here, talking about Ganesha and weekly messages, I’d have laughed in your face. But here we are. And it’s been a trip, let me tell you.
It all started, as most things do for me, with a bit of a mess. I was feeling pretty lost, honestly. My work stuff felt like it was hitting a wall, and my head felt like a tangled ball of yarn. I tried all the usual things, you know, hitting the gym, trying to “journal my feelings,” even downloaded one of those mindfulness apps. Didn’t really stick. My brain just kept going a million miles an hour, and I needed something to just… quiet it down, get some direction.
One evening, I was just scrolling, not even looking for anything specific, when I stumbled onto something about Ganesha. I knew a little, just bits and pieces from here and there, mostly about removing obstacles. And I’m a Pisces, always felt a bit floaty, a bit too sensitive to everything around me. Something just clicked, you know? Like, “Hey, maybe this big elephant-headed dude could help clear some of my internal junk.” It was more of a gut feeling than any grand spiritual awakening. Just a desperate hope, really.
The Dive In: My Weekly Ritual Begins
So, I thought, “What the heck?” I wasn’t going to go full-on monk or anything, just try something. I decided I’d dedicate just one hour every Sunday morning. Why Sunday? Felt like a good reset button for the week ahead. My plan was simple, almost stupidly so:
- First, I’d clean up my little space. Nothing fancy, just my desk. Clearing the clutter physically always seemed to help clear my head a bit.
- Then, I’d light a candle and just sit. No music, no apps, just silence. The goal was to just breathe, really. I wasn’t trying to achieve Nirvana, just trying to feel my own breath.
- I grabbed a dedicated notebook. This was important. Not my work notebook, not my grocery list notebook. This one was just for this. I titled it “Pisces Ganesha Speaks,” ironically at first.
- I’d just write whatever came to mind. No judgment, no trying to make sense of it. Sometimes it was just worries. Sometimes it was random thoughts. But I focused on “what do I need to hear this week?” rather than “what do I want to happen?” Big difference, turns out.
- I’d pull a random card. I picked up a super simple oracle deck, nothing too wild. Just a picture and a word. I figured it was like a focus point, something to anchor all the random thoughts.
The first few weeks were a joke. I’d sit there, fidgeting, checking my watch, thinking about what I needed to buy at the store. The “messages” in my notebook were mostly grumbles about my boss or how tired I was. I felt pretty silly doing it, honestly. It felt like I was trying to force something that wasn’t there. But I made myself stick to that one hour, every Sunday. It was like a non-negotiable appointment with myself.
Then, maybe a month or so in, something shifted. It wasn’t a lightning bolt from the sky. It was more subtle. One Sunday, after my usual clearing and sitting, I actually felt a tiny bit calmer. When I wrote, it wasn’t just complaints. A phrase popped into my head: “Slow down to speed up.” It wasn’t some profound revelation, but it felt… right. And it was exactly what I needed to hear for my work situation that week, where I was just rushing everything and making mistakes.
That week, I actually tried it. I consciously slowed down, double-checked things, took an extra minute before hitting send. And guess what? Things went smoother. I actually got more done, with fewer errors. That was the first “speak,” I guess you could say. It wasn’t Ganesha whispering in my ear, more like my own intuition finally getting a clear channel once I bothered to silence the noise.
The Ongoing Conversation
From then on, it wasn’t about expecting grand pronouncements. It was about listening to that quiet voice, seeing patterns in the card I pulled, and connecting it to whatever was swirling in my life. Sometimes the “message” would be about patience, other times about being bold, or just about letting go of what I couldn’t control. And because I started writing it down every week, I began to see how these little insights actually helped me navigate the week ahead.
Why did I even start down this path? Well, like I said, I was in a rough patch. My last gig, before this current one, went sideways big time. I was in a pretty bad slump, felt like I couldn’t trust my own judgment anymore. It wasn’t like I got fired, but the whole project I was leading just crumbled, and I took it super hard, personally. It left me questioning everything, walking around with this constant background noise of self-doubt. So, I picked up a few odd jobs, just to pay the bills, and spent a good six months just trying to figure out what I even wanted to do next, or if I was even any good at anything. That’s when the “Ganesha speaks” idea started bubbling. I needed something, anything, to reconnect me to some inner compass that felt completely broken. And this weird, simple, weekly practice? It slowly, painstakingly, started putting me back together. It’s not magic, it’s just showing up for myself, every single week, and taking a moment to listen.
