Today’s meditation was a ten minute long #DailyCalm session from the @Calm app.
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The @GlitterbyInk #FebYOUary26 Moments & Memories Challenge
Prompt for February 3rd : Longing
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.
Today’s draw is the Eight of Swords (Quills), which is traditionally a representation of willful ignorance, self-imposed restrictions, turning a blind eye (especially when it can be harmful to self), and entertaining a victim mentality.
When I was little and my father was cruel to me, there were many times when I would run away to hide somewhere and cry afterward. During these moments of crying, I would hug myself and repeat the phrase “I want to go home” again and again.
This is a curious phrase, as I was home. I was in the only home I’d ever known being treated the only way I knew to be treated. And yet the phrase came back each time this happened. “I want to go home.”
I still don’t know what I was referring to when I said these words. I am blind to the understanding of where this “home” actually is, and when I focus on this phrase now, I still feel that sense of intense longing for… I don’t know what.
The thing is, in my adult life now, I have a home that is safe and comfortable, and I have people who fulfill that sense of “home” for me as well. My partner, my closest friend, my twin sister. And yet, that longing persists.
The message in today’s Eight of Swords card and “longing” prompt asks us about what we’re not seeing. Are we refusing to see these things that remain hidden from us, or is it just that we have not found the path forward to self-discovery we need as yet?
Today’s message encourages self-discovery. It asks us to look within ourselves to figure out what it is we’re missing; what it is we long for deep inside. After all, we can’t begin the journey towards fulfilling that longing until we identify it in the first place.
DECKS USED: COTTAGE MAGIC TAROT
@de_tarotjuf’s Love Is All We Need Challenge
#detarotjuffebruaritarotchallenge
Prompt for February 3rd
What is an important lesson I’ve learned from a previous relationship/friendship?
Honeymoon Phase, Knight of Pentacles, All the Stars – Just because everyone has their good side or positive qualities doesn’t make them a good fit for you. It’s really easy, at the beginning of a friendship or relationship, to only see the good side of people. That’s why it’s important to go slow when getting to know someone and deciding if they are your friend or not.
Whether or not they are a good fit for you can’t be decided in the first few days or weeks (or even months, sometimes). It takes time to get past that surface level presentation and see their negative qualities for what they truly are, and to then decide whether or not those negative qualities are something that fit with you, your path, and your values.
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
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECKS USED: TAROT OF THE LITTLE PRINCE AND THE LITTLE PRINCE LETTERPRESS BOOKMARK SET
@ambitiouslyalexa’s February Journal Prompts
Prompt for February 3rd : One way I’ve grown without noticing
Reading Summary – You have become far more nurturing and grounded (Queen of Biscuits) when it comes to emotional upheaval (Eight of Teacups Rx) in your life. You pause to listen and try to understand instead of just flying off the handle and walking away from your emotions (Queen of Teacups atop Eight of Teacups Rx). This has created a greater sense of stability for you (Queen of Pentacles and Eight of Biscuits bracketing either side of the emotions/teacups within), furthering your skills in working with your emotions as well as your emotional intelligence (Queen of Teacups and Eight of Biscuits).
Take Away – Your efforts to learn about and work with your emotions are not going unrewarded. You are just not noticing how much you’ve grown because you are distracted by the fact that you are actually experiencing your emotions instead of hiding from them and burying them.
This distraction can often make it hard for you to see how you’re doing on this path, but here we see that you are doing well and advancing, even if it doesn’t always feel like it due to the emotions involved.
Other elements included in this reading:
Japanese Cherry Leaf as a Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy
DECK USED: COTTAGE MAGIC TAROT

I pushed myself to meditate today even though I wasn’t really feeling it.











