Taking To the Sidelines

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The @GlitterbyInk #MarchMoments26 Challenge
The Edge of Wonder Prompt for March 11th : Periphery
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Tarocco dell'Orror - The Emperor

Today’s draw is the Emperor card, which is traditionally a representation of taking charge, responsibility, authority, structure, and focusing on the greater good.

You don’t have to be in the thick of things to make sure that things are going the way you want them to. After all, with a herd of sheep, it’s not the sheep that are in charge, but the shepherd who lets them roam and then steps in when is needed to get them back on track.

By the same turn, you could do the same. There’s no need to micromanage.

The message in today’s Emperor card combined with the “Periphery” prompt as a reminder to take a step back, loosen your grip, and let them roam. Micromanaging just gets on everyone’s nerves, including your own. You can often keep things on track from the periphery instead of being right in the middle of it all the time.

DECK USED:  TAROCCO DELLA’ORROR

@lightningwildflower‘s March Reflection to Action Challenge
Jupiter Direct Prompt for March 11th : What area of my life is ready to begin expanding?

Intuitive Tarot Reading with the Teen Witch Tarot

Reading Summary: A new sense of abundance awaits (Left Card), as long as you’re willing to pick yourself up and get back on the horse again with strength and bravery (Right Card) each time you take a fall (Center Card).

Take Away: We all fall down now and then. If you let yourself give up at the first (or third) sign of failure, you miss out on the rewards that can come with trying again.

You struggle quite often with a sense of scarcity. If you can make it through the hard parts and keep going, though, there’s an abundance coming your way that will help in pushing that mentality of scarcity away.

This means confronting your fears, though, and getting back into the thick of things to figure things out and put things in line again.

Other elements included in this reading:
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Dried Purple Heather Sprigs for Independence and Luck
Turtle Figurine for encouraging Slow and Steady Progress
Green Aventurine for Harmony and Balance of the Heart
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: TEEN WITCH TAROT (trimmed naked)

#DiscordTarotholicsMar2026 Challenge
Philosophical Question for March 11th : Is love an inherent emotion, or is it learned behavior?

Tarot Reading with the Tarocco dell'Orror

Reading Summary: Even animals nurture their offspring (l’Imperatrice and Regina di Denari), creating room and stability for growth and success (Dieci di Denari).

Take Away: These cards indicate that love is an inherent emotion. That is, if we define love as support and care.

I’m well aware that not everyone defines love the same, but these cards appear to be speaking about the base emotion only. The response from the cards also doesn’t take into account that people express love in a myriad of different ways.

Things like devotion, passion, romance, and all of those other methods of expression and accoutrements are perhaps learned behavior; but the base emotion itself is inherent.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Cedar Tips for Protection from Negative Influences
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Green Jasper and Tiger Eye Turtle for Confidence within Progress
Clear Quartz for a boost of Intentional Energies
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED:  TAROCCO DELLA’ORROR
Daily Self Kindness

I treated myself to donuts and hot chocolate while on my drive this morning.

Gideon’s Challenge – Erotic

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Erotic

how is it
that even
on a dreary day
at work
in the
garden center
my brain
somehow finds
a way
to wander
back to you
again and again

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🎨 Weekly Creativity Prompt – Different Scenarios

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Prompt : “The purpose of this activity is to practice interpreting small spreads by combining card meanings, symbols and intuition. We will all interpret the same cards based on a few different (imaginary) situations. A 3 card spread will be posted together with 2 more specific scenarios. It’s your choice which scenario you’d prefer to use, or if you’d rather do a general reading of these cards as for an imaginary querent.”

Star Maiden Tarot - Wheel of Fortune, Page of Swords, and Justice

Scenario 1 – Kayla is worried about her upcoming month-long trip abroad. There’s a niggling feeling that something’s going to go wrong, but she can’t figure out if it’s just anxiety or if there’s something to it.

The cards here offer advice for your trip. Take care when things challenge your sense of right and wrong (Page of Swords and Justice). There will be some ups and downs (Wheel of Fortune) on this trip, and you need to stay true to what you feel is right instead of trying to get around any obstacles through unethical or sneaky means. Doing so will only create an opportunity for backlash.

It’s nothing you can’t get through, but it’s important to consider -how- you do so. Even if that means going back to the drawing board mid-journey.

Scenario 2 – Oni has been feeling directionless in their life over the last few months, not sure where to look for that “spark” to keep them going. With Spring arriving, they feel ready to approach this again with new energy but they want help to get going.

It’s easy to fall into a bit of a slump during the winter season. In the cycles of the seasons (Wheel of Fortune), that is often the time where we spend a bit more time at rest or even hibernating from the world.

As Spring approaches, make sure that you are leaning into something new. Don’t slip into old habits and cycles, but instead find something that creates a spark of inspiration, then start pulling at threads in that area as you dive into the rabbit hole (Page of Swords). The more you put into this pursuit, the more you’ll get out of it (Justice).

Scenario 3 – A general reading (feel free to add your own flair or a backstory).

You’re spending too much time focused on the past. What has you so distracted that instead of looking forward, you keep looking back? (Page of Swords and Justice both facing to the left.)

Seek out where a sense of imbalance (Wheel of Fortune) is holding you back from forward movement (Justice). Allow yourself to accept and deal with this issue instead of ignoring it, and you will be rewarded with a greater sense of understanding (Page of Swords).

DECK USED: STAR MAIDEN TAROT

The Sharpened Tongue

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The @GlitterbyInk #MarchMoments26 Challenge
The Edge of Wonder Prompt for March 10th : Ambiguity
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Hoi Polloi Tarot - Queen of Swords

Today’s draw is the Queen of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of a receptive alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s knowledge, education, logic, ambitions, or communication. This can often translate into themes that have to do with the people that foster you through tough love and sharp-tongued advice.

Speak clearly, because lack of clarity helps no one.

Don’t forget that being forthright and even full on blunt isn’t necessarily always a bad thing. Sometimes? People need to hear things without the fluff and hedging that makes what’s being said more palatable. Some people will refuse to listen until you put something to them in a way they can no longer ignore.

That includes you, sometimes, too.

The message in today’s Queen of Swords and “Ambiguity” prompt is a reminder that although being honest doesn’t have to be cruel, sometimes it -does- need to be blunt and forthright. Read the room, and if people are hearing you but not truly listening? Maybe it’s time to change up how you’re saying things in order to pull them out of their bubble and get them to truly pay attention to what’s being said.

DECK USED:  HOI PLOLLOI TAROT

#DiscordTarotholicsMar2026 Challenge
Prompts for March 10th

Tarot Reading with the Motherpeace Mini Round Tarot and Smithsonian's Our World in Pictures Trees of the World Flash Cards

How are you doing mentally at this time?

Son of Swords and Coastal Redwood – You are hiding behind a mask in order to keep the honest truth of your vulnerabilities hidden behind a veil of confidence.

You have a tendency to do this to protect yourself and keep your soft side safe, especially when you’re feeling vulnerable.

That means that right now? You are feeling vulnerable. Vulnerable enough that you feel the need to try and protect yourself.

How can you improve on this in the week ahead?

Eight of Discs and Cacao Tree – Making vulnerability and the softer side of your nature more palatable to you takes work.

This process is more than just growth and development. Acceptance in this area is an actual skill that you need to work on and develop over time. It won’t happen overnight, but can be done with focus and effort placed to the task.

Other elements included in this reading:
Black Spruce Needles to Boost Self-Confidence and Positive Thinking
Foraged Lodgepole Pine for Resilience, Growth, and Renewal
Dried Rosebuds for Potential and Beauty Waiting to Unfold
Dried Purple Heather Flowers for Independence and Luck
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Garnierite for help in Releasing Anger, Anxiety, and Guilt
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECKS USED: MOTHERPEACE MINI ROUND TAROT AND TREES OF THE WORLD FLASH CARDS

@lightningwildflower‘s March Reflection to Action Challenge
Venus sextile Pluto Prompt for March 10th : What deep desire is surfacing?

Tarot Reading with the Hoi Polloi Tarot - Eight of Cups, Knight of Swords, Five of Wands

Reading Summary: You want to react emotionally by running away (Eight of Cups) or diving headlong into conflict (Knight of Swords charging into the Five of Wands).

Take Away: You are in the mood to pick a fight and burn some bridges at the moment. This isn’t really surprising when you consider that you’re currently in the middle of a subdrop, which means your emotions are in turmoil and your reactivity is at its highest point.

The cards are pointing this out because awareness is the key to defusing the bomb before it goes off. Remember that your reactivity is due to extenuating circumstances, and take a step back and a deep breath instead of just diving in or lashing out.

Slow your roll and take your irritation home. Discuss the situation with a trusted friend and let your emotions vent as you share. In doing so, you divert yourself from diving into untenable situations that could end up causing irreparable harm to friendships and relationships with others.

Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Lavender Bundle for Calming and Comfort
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Black Tourmaline for Grounding and Protection
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED:  HOI PLOLLOI TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.

Gideon’s Challenge – Daffodil

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The First Daffodil

Daffodil

The first bloom
to open
and tilt its face
to the sun
smiles wide
as it
greets the world
with an
announcement
of spring to come
and each passerby
smiles back
relieved
to see the bloom
that announces
springs arrival
in vibrant hues

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That Welcome-Home Feeling

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The @GlitterbyInk #MarchMoments26 Challenge
The Edge of Wonder Prompt for March 9th : In-Between
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Small Mysteries Tarot - Nine of Cups

Today’s draw is the Nine of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of themes that have to do with contentment, accomplishment, and satisfaction in the area of one’s emotions, relationships, creativity, and intuition.

I love spending time in the forest. Especially when I can get far enough out that there are no other people and I can really relax and enjoy myself.

I have a tendency to walk off-trail and explore where others have not tread. (Yes, I’m skilled with a compass and bring one with me.) This isn’t because I want to find something that they haven’t, but rather because it feels like these places are places where I connect more deeply with nature and the trees and the roots within the soil.

These are my happy places. Wet and green, quiet, and yet loud with the sounds of nature, and only the sounds of nature.

Liminal spaces (The In-Between Spaces of the world) make a lot of people uncomfortable. I get that in a way, but for me, these places in nature that are liminal spaces draw me in and welcome me home. I visit them to wallow in that feeling, soaking it in so that it is part of my breath and blood and every cell of my being.

Today’s Nine of Cups card and the “in-between” prompt ask us… where is it that you find pleasure and calm and that wonderful sense of peace and home? Where is it that you feel happy and like to wallow? And why aren’t you visiting that place more often?

DECK USED:  SMALL MYSTERIES TAROT

@silkandsonder’s Journal Prompts to Feel Like Yourself Again 
Prompt No.1

Intuitive Tarot Reading with the Nicoletta Ciccoli Tarot

When was the last time I felt fully like me?

Cuddle and Discipline – The last time that you felt fully “like you” was when your vulnerability was hidden behind a tough exterior, and you punished yourself for that vulnerability existing at all.

What was different then?

Flora and Sleepwalk – Your eyes were closed to how damaging this behavior would become, and how lonely being so solitary can be. It was an unhealthy cycle that needed to stop.

Take Away: These cards bring up that perhaps it’s time to look at redefining what feeling “like me” actually means. Especially considering the last time you truly felt “fully like me” was during a time when you were abusing yourself and not allowing your vulnerabilities the space needed to breathe.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Moss Agate for Attracting Opportunities for Growth
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: NICOLETTA CECCOLI TAROT (trimmed naked)

@lightningwildflower‘s March Reflection to Action Challenge
Mercury trine Jupiter Prompt for March 9th : How can I speak from a place of wisdom rather than reaction?

Tarot Reading with the Small Mysteries Tarot and The Veiled Path Oracle

Reading Summary: Slow down (Eight of Matches and the fact they’re not all facing the same direction) and take time to unwrap what’s really going on (Cloak) instead of assuming the worst (Nine of Knives).

Take Away: When you act quickly, you jump the gun and don’t allow enough time to really see what’s going on. Wisdom takes time and thought, consideration and pause. Not immediacy and snap judgements.

In order to solve the issues at hand (no matter what those issues are) and speak from a place of wisdom instead of just reaction, you need to slow down. Take the time to pick things apart and consider all the angles invoved, rather than letting your emotions and fears prompt you into leaping immediately into the fray.

Other elements included in this reading:
Black Spruce Needles to Boost Self-Confidence and Positive Thinking
Dried Rosebuds for Potential and Beauty Waiting to Unfold
Dried Purple Heather Flowers for Independence and Luck
Turtle Figurine for encouraging Slow and Steady Progress
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED:  SMALL MYSTERIES TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

This is a catch up post, and I’m not entirely sure what the self kindness was for this day.