What a gift your grandmother left you - not just the deck, but a window into her inner life. That's so rare and precious.

I came to spirituality similarly - through someone else's belongings, actually. Found a worn copy of "The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets" at a garage sale and it just rewired something in my brain. Spent the next year going down every rabbit hole I could find.

What I've noticed after years of working with people is that most of us don't choose spirituality so much as... arrive at it. Something creates an opening, and we walk through. Sounds like your grandmother's box was yours.

my entry point was so embarrassing lmao. I downloaded a horoscope app in college as a joke and started reading my chart ironically and then... stopped being ironic about it very quickly

like three months later I had a whole shelf of astrology books and was trying to explain moon signs to my very patient roommate

the grandma box thing is giving me chills because my uncle had a whole shelf of metaphysical books that I always thought were weird growing up. after he died I actually started reading them and I get it now?? like completely get it

I think sometimes our people are just ahead of us and we catch up later

these replies are making me so happy!! love that we all got here in such different ways

@ocean_child that last line is going to live in my head for a while. "our people are ahead of us and we catch up later" is exactly how it felt

ok this thread is making me emotional lol

for me it was a really rough patch after a job loss a few years back. I had way too much time and zero direction and a friend suggested I try journaling with oracle cards just to have something to focus on each morning.

I thought it was kind of silly honestly? like I was humoring her more than anything. but there was this one card I kept drawing during that period — something about stepping into the unknown — and every single time it pushed me to think about what I was actually afraid of, not just the surface stuff.

I ended up applying for a completely different field than I'd been in. scary as anything. but that whole practice of sitting with a question instead of just panicking... it changed how I handle everything now.

so yeah I got into spirituality because I lost my job lol. not the glamorous origin story but it's mine

reading through everyone's stories with actual tears in my eyes. mine was way less poetic, just hit a really lonely stretch after college and stumbled into an astrology podcast at 2am. but it's wild how many of us found this through grief or hard times honestly

still thinking about everyone's stories honestly. finally started going through the notebook properly this week instead of just keeping it in the box - turns out she had a whole system for reading the cards that i never would have guessed. feels like getting to know her all over again