Just a Little Chat to Warm Us Up
Snow, tarot, tapioca, pulkka glides, 2026 wishes, and the habits I’m using to romanticize my life
🍵 Grab a hot chocolate and take three — your attention span deserves a treat.
If you’re curious to explore tarot, join our first 2026 workshop: How to Read Tarot for Yourself —a cozy, creative afternoon of cards, writing, and sound. ✨
When it gets really cold, and the sidewalk starts showing, I always get this dramatic feeling that the earth might crack into pieces. But it’s finally snowing again, so we’re safe.
It was around eleven in the morning, and I was eating tapioca for breakfast like it was six. No shame. The snow today looks like tapioca flour: tiny, steady flakes, like when the white powder falls through a sieve into the bowl before it hits the pan.
I got this flour from Brazil. Whenever my family visits, they bring bits of the food I grew up eating. I love it, but I don’t really miss it anymore. I’ve gotten used to hard bread, rice porridge, rice pie, egg butter, and smoked salmon. Finnish food quietly became my food?
It’s ridiculously windy today. We were planning to go outside, but now we’re hesitating. The app says “severe weather,” yet everyone seems to ignore it and carry on as usual.
That must be sisu.
Snow doesn’t stop people here, but it does slow them down. I haven’t seen anyone sprinting to catch the tram these days. Nature is paused, but humans — as if we weren’t nature — keep moving anyway. We walk, we ski, we glide. Which reminds me: last autumn, friends who moved to Spain gave me a pulkka. Now, I’m ready. If you’re a member of Secret Club, you probably saw the poll to decide the date.
Oh — and did you do the 13 wishes ritual?
I did it twice. Which meant a lot of paper to burn. First, I did it alone. Then I joined a Winter Solstice Cacao Ceremony and ended up doing it again. The second time, I wrote intentions instead of wishes. After all that burning, the universe left me with two very clear messages: ✨ apply for a writing grant (the wish) and trust my creative potential before anyone else (the intention) ✨
These first days of the year feel slow to me — like I’m calibrating myself for what’s coming. My tarot card for the winter is a big one: The World. I briefly imagined winning the lottery or getting pregnant, but neither has happened yet. It’s early. We’ll see what this card and this season actually bring.
I’m genuinely excited to start 2026 because, for the first time in a while, I know what I want to do. And more importantly, I’ve given myself permission to follow the right path. That alone feels like a miracle. I feel incredibly lucky to have you here with me, trusting the magic we’re building together.
Before I go, I want to share my winning habits for 2026. They’re all connected to the throat chakra, communication, and self-expression. I feel called to clean the chimney of my heart, so my voice can flow without hesitation.
🐬 Hydrate properly every day — For my body, but especially for my throat. Winter air dries everything out, including my voice. Drinking water is my way of choosing clarity and flow, inside and out.
🎤 Sing one song every day — To loosen my throat and release whatever gets stuck there. Singing reminds me that my voice doesn’t need to be perfect to exist.
💋 Wear red lipstick every morning — A tiny ritual of self-authorization encourage myself to be seen and heard.
🛼 Move my body for 10 minutes every day — To wake things up, release tension, and make space for expression.
Hope it inspires you to choose new habits that lead you to create the life you want for yourself!
xoxo,
Tássia
Continue reading 🪐
✺ Saturday, 10.01 at 15:00 — Our very first workshop of 2026 will be a loud, creative Tarot & Journaling session! The venue is a delightful, colorful spot — not a hotel this time, but trust me, you’re going to love it.’
✺ Wednesday, 14.01 at 18:00 —
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Secret Club to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.