balance: weekly reflection on duality with unakite
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image: what did we decide practice deck - duality card, unakite die, dowling the succulent
since what did we decide cards is new, how about we do this together for a bit?
awesome.
it's a practice for us too (see our first blog post - the practice).
ok. so, every week for the next 8 weeks, wdwd will explore one of the 8 cards from our practice deck.
we will shuffle our deck, roll the die/pick a number (maybe not?) and share our thoughts.
you can play along with us, even without the deck in hand.
let us know what you think in the comments.
pairing unakite with duality (practice: week 1)
we are about halfway through the last quarter of 2026.
the foliage has changed. the temperature in many places has as well.
year over year pumpkin placement has increased.
(it is a versatile squash.)
and we are grateful to be launching our prototype deck today, the 1st of November.
it gives new year's resolution vibes without the try-hard. just let it flow. forward is progress.
or as my pilates teacher says, "any bend in the elbow counts as a push-up."
in honor of megan's generosity, i rolled one of our limited edition unakite die for this week's practice.
i rolled a 5. although, i'm not sure why i used the die or rolled it as this is quick play, but here we are.*
for this week's practice/quick play, i let the die roll mean I would take 5 full seconds before responding.
five 1 mississippi seconds.
i moved the cards around (they are hard to shuffle) and picked duality.
i don't know if I heard the word duality being used differently recently or my brain was just up for a journey, but I began to think about how just as we sometimes hold two opposing thoughts in our minds, we can hold two opposing personas.
personally, as i've moved into a new age bracket on the census form, i thought about how who I thought i might become and who i actually am and the regularly scheduled cage match that I sponsor for the two of them.
but also, how do they even know each other? like, why did i introduce them? i didn't have to?
the person who I dreamt of as a younger human, certainly was just an amalgamation of influencing factors: what I'd seen, what I'd been told (I could), etc.
how much of that had changed over the course of *cough* years.
why did i keep sending party invites?
why did i still check in on birthdays?
why did i send holiday cards?
wouldn't it be more authentic to just let the relationship end?
I have a pretty good feeling, if I didn't perform the relationship upkeep (however minimal), it would just end.
then I thought about unakite. balance and gentle transformation. growth with compassion and love.
hm.
hm.
hm.
i think, i will have more thoughts about this.
what do you think?
*[you can also use a number generator. In regular play, you would use the (die roll) number to pick a perspective, or opportunity to reconsider, outlined on a card included with the deck.]
