Admiration
Sweet treats
created with
aesthetic
perfection
brings home
the truth
that cooking
is more than
the creation
of food
but truely
includes
presentation
that makes
the mouth water
even before
you’ve had
a taste
Today’s meditation was a nine minute long #DailyTrip session from the @Calm app.
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Seven of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of slow growth, sustainability, domestic harmony, hard work, and practicing patience while the fruits of your labors develop and take form.
The Seven of Pentacles has then been combined with a Forest Bathing card, which says, “When visualizing a bouquet of flowers we often imagine a lovely arrangement of perfectly proportioned colorful flowers. I invite you to create a bouquet using the fallen bits and pieces of nature you encounter along your path. I wonder what will be revealed…”
Like the activity described in the Forest Bathing card, our lives are much like a bouquet of random things collected along the way from day to day. It’s not some perfectly arranged spray of flowers and ornamental greenery, but rather the beauty of something more rugged and natural that comes together over time.
Each experience picked up adds to the whole, and what at first may look like a mishmash of random things, when brought together ultimately creates something beautiful.
The message in today’s Seven of Pentacles and the affirmation card is a reminder that whether events in our lives are small and feel consequential, unpleasant, or beautiful on their own… When added to our lives as a whole, they create something unique and beautiful. Our lives are all unique and beautiful.
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Prompts for May 20th and 21st
Philosophical Question: What is happiness?
Three of Swords and In or Out
Happiness is savoring one’s life while step-by-step making the choice to lean into the positive instead of wallowing in the disappointments, painful experiences, victim mindsets, and the pessimism these things can create.
What path moving forward can help you attain more happiness in life?
King of Cups and The Dingus
Continue allowing your partner to help in teaching you how to have fun, and how to experience the positives that come from feeling your feelings instead of forsaking them.
Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Citrine for Energy Lift (easing the weight of heavy energies)
Carnelian Agate for Inner Drive and Focusing On Aspirations
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompt for May 25th : A simple pleasure I want to protect
Reading Summary: The banishment of unpleasant things (all three reverse cards – Justice, Hierophant, and Five of Cups) that have spending time with my partner creates for you (Father of Cups).
Take Away: You have a tendency to fixate on fairness, or rather the lack of fairness in the world around you. This makes it extremely difficult for you to see positive perspectives or connect with optimistic thinking.
Spending time with your partner allows you to connect to the world around you with a more positive outlook, and to see things from their perspective instead of the negative perspective you are used to. This doesn’t necessarily take away your own perspective, but helps to round it out so that it doesn’t all look quite so bad.
He is aware of this tendency in you to lean towards the pessimistic, and is always happy to not just accept how your mind works, but provide alternate perspectives for you to consider without trying to force anything upon you.
The blend of acceptance and guidance often goes unnoticed and underappreciated, but it’s something that you treasure a great deal.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Black Tourmaline for Grounding and Protection
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
I taught Ms B how to make recipe cards on the computer, and then created a “back up” file so that when she messes up the template I can just refresh it back to the original instead of trying to repair it later.
Invigorated
Spring comes
in a riot
of colors
that flash brightly
from garden centers
and grocery stores
front yards
and porch stoops
as the celebration
of life
begins
with bursts
of blooms
that fill the world
with life
and cheer
Prompt: “Draw (at least) three cards, and use them to create a new ending to a movie you wish had ended differently. Share your cards, as well as the name of your movie, and the new ending that you have devised from the cards.”
Movie: City of Angels (1998)
After having seen the ending of this movie for the first time, I’ve always chosen to turn the movie off at the cabin scene instead of watching it all the way through.
The ending is just too heart-wrenching and painful. I think it makes the movie even more striking, but I just can’t deal with the emotional upheaval that it causes.
The New Ending
Left Card – God looks down at Seth and Maggie from on high, and is pleased with what he sees, the happiness and love that the couple has found, and forgives Seth for having fallen in order to love Maggie as a man.
Center Card – God blesses them with stability in their relationship and lives together. The type of stability that provides a rock of strength under their feet, even in rough or difficult times.
Right Card – With that stability, Seth and Maggie plant the seeds of love and family. They have five happy and healthy children; all with a touch of angel magic within them.
Today’s meditation was a twelve minute long self-guided visualization session while listening to Tony Ann’s orchestra version of ICARUS on loop.
• ◈ • • •Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Six of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of nostalgia, joyful memories, childhood experiences, and revisiting the past in some way.
The Six of Cups has then been combined with an affirmation card from the LOBILAT Rumi Quote Cards, which says, “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
Love comes naturally to children. With their innocence and their open hearts, it’s easy to love, and to seek out love as well. It’s only with age that experience begins to create barriers in place of openness.
As age and experience step in, we begin to see innocence as dangerous naïveté, and something to be shut down. With each hurt we harden more, trust less, and as a result become far less open to love… to the point where even loving ourselves can sometimes become difficult.
The message in today’s Six of Cups and affirmation card is an encouragement to open yourself up to love more. Those safeguards we learned when we were growing up restrict us from finding the happiness we seek in adulthood. These cards remind us that it is important to connect with this softer side of ourselves, as we can only connect in love and trust with others once we’ve connected with ourselves in this way.
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Prompts for May 18th and 19th
In what area are you not practicing enough self-care?
Knight of Cups and Texture Walk
You are not spending enough time sitting with your emotions, which is meant to allow you to examine them more closely and get to know them better. Instead, you are trying to experience them quickly and get them “over with”.
In order to better understand your emotions and yourself, you need to have patience when you sit with your emotions instead of trying to push past them too quickly.
How can you improve upon your self-care at this time?
Ace of Cups atop Knight of Wands; Nature’s Movements atop Rooted to the Earth
Be eager to explore your emotions instead of simply rushing through them.
Remember that even trees move. There is no stagnancy, even while you were sitting with your emotions and exploring them. Keep moving. Stagnancy is not your friend, as both learning and healing require the circulation of fresh air and movement to accomplish.
Other elements included in this reading:
Foraged Oak Branch with Moss and Lichen for Perseverance
Foraged Red Pine Cone for Inner Strength and Rejuvenation
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Calcite for Gently Calming the Mind and Stimulating Insights
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
@ambitiouslyalexa May Journal Prompts
Prompt for May 24th : What this season is teaching me
Reading Summary: The biggest obstacle (center card) to your own happiness (The Lovers and Two of Pentacles) is your own negative self talk (Five of Cups).
Take Away: This season is teaching you that nothing and no one holds you back as much as you hold yourself back.
Listening to negative inner narratives and allowing your pessimistic nature to have free reign has the result of setting everything off balance and creating additional problems and obstacles in the way of connecting with those things that really “fit” for you.
When you aren’t actively counterbalancing these negative inclinations, they cake over. Thus why even when you are feeling discouraged, it’s important to reach for those positive and optimistic perspectives to help keep things on an even keel.
Other elements included in this reading:
Dried Lavender Bundle for Calming and Comfort
Pressed Pansy Flowers for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Desert Rose for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
I paid too much for fresh chicken today instead of buying from the bargain bin or the frozen aisle.
Refreshed
Awakened slowly
the world outside
is merely
a whisper
of sound
as the first
birdsong begins
and sunlight
kisses upon
unfurling leaves
with a promise
of something
new
Twisting the Leaf 