Tarot & Meditations February 2026 Newsletter | Drishti: The center is not the point.


Hello February!

You will notice our art workshop is no longer listed in the offerings below.

This month’s Second Sundays Asemic Art Tarot Workshop has already passed, and for now I’m choosing to pause this series. The last few sessions have been small, and while they were meaningful for me, I don’t currently have the time or energy to keep scheduling them without rethinking the format more carefully. Rather than continuing by default, I want to make space to consider what would make this offering feel more alive and sustainable.

If you’ve attended before, or if you’ve been interested but haven’t joined, you’re welcome to reply and share what might make a workshop like this more accessible or compelling for you—or what kind of creative gathering you’d actually want right now.

I may revisit these workshops in a different form in the future. For now, thank you for being here.


An excerpt: Drishti: The center is not the point.

I’ve been working with the Chariot this month, and as the days just begin to noticeably lengthen around Imbolc, this tarot card has me thinking about light, vision, and drishti. The Chariot is known for its single pointed attention on a goal, for its stillness in the midst of movement. But at this moment I’m asking myself, what role does the peripheral play in getting the chariot where it’s going?

Drishti is a Sanskrit word meaning sight, view, or point of focus. In yoga, drishti refers to the intentional placement of the gaze. When practicing yoga asana, drishti is used to stabilize the body. You fix your eyes on a single point so that the rest of you can organize around it. A point on the wall, the edge of a mat or shadow. Drishti teaches us that yoga asana is not about holding still in a pose. Weight shifts. Muscles make small corrections. If you find yourself tipping over, notice where or what you are looking at as this happens.

In meditation, drishti helps to center the mind into relative stillness. Of course the practice of meditation will quickly teach you that the mind is rarely if ever still and stillness is not the point here either. The gaze rests, the mind follows, wanders, returns. Thought becomes visible when it is no longer being followed but simply observed coming and going. Stillness appears and disappears.

While each meditation pose or asana traditionally comes with a recommended direction for the gaze, what you choose to look at really doesn’t matter. A candle. A corner. The line where the wall meets the floor.

Keep reading here: https://www.kimberlyessex.com/blog/drishti-the-center-is-not-the-point

Your invitation:

We meet this week for Tarot Reading Practice to read this month's tarot spread together. This Chariot was drawn from The Jungian Tarot by Dr. Robert Wang in our 2026 year-ahead spread for the month of February, and this spread was inspired by that particular Chariot. Whether you practice with us or on your own, notice how the depiction of the Chariot from your tarot deck shifts the message you find. Feel free to use these questions as journal prompts—with or without tarot or other oracle.

This month's Focus & Periphery Tarot Spread asks:

  1. The drishti of my journey?
  2. The view along the way?

This month's writing workshop:

Join us on Zoom for Last Sundays Generative Tarot Writing Workshop from 3pm to 5pm ET to write from the tarot together. No tarot or writing experience is necessary. You need only a tarot deck and something to write with to participate.

Meditations:

If you didn't know, I've returned to school full time and also have a full time day job. So meditation offerings are currently on hold. You can continue to explore past live offerings at the Tarot & Meditations YouTube page.

xo kim

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Questions? Something you'd like to learn about in a blog post or workshop? I am happy to help. Email: kim@kimberlyessex.com

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