Finding the Positive for June 16 – 18

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Tattoo Tarot Ink & Intuition's Six of Coins, Tarocchi Fine dalla Torre in Bologna's Four of Wands, and Tarotbot Black Edition's King of Swords

June 16 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneMessenger26 Challenge
Message From My Spirit Guide Prompt for June 16 : Guard
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 Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of charity, generosity, sharing the wealth, asking for or accepting help, and balancing the scales between the “haves” and the “have nots” in life.

Being generous is all well and good, but the generosity given should help in balancing the scales, not tipping them further out of balance.

I forget this sometimes, which is how I often end up in burnout. I’m not particularly generous with my money, but I am with my time and energy. I help those I love… sometimes to the detriment of myself.

What this does, though, is just make the situation worse. Not only do they still need -more- help, but because I’ve burnt myself out? I then am unable to help at all. Things pile up while I recover, then I have to burn myself out again helping in getting everything “back to normal”.

It’s an ugly cycle, and I’m trying to break it.

The message in today’s Six of Pentacles and the “guard” prompt is a reminder that when you’re being generous with your time and energy, make sure you guard your own well-being in the process. Ensure that you have boundaries in place to protect yourself from burnout, and if you don’t have any? Then consider if maybe it’s time to make some.

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June 17 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was skipped.

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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneMessenger26 Challenge
Message From My Spirit Guide Prompt for June 17 : Nurture
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the Four of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of one’s passionate love for the security and welcoming energies of home. This often translates into themes that have to do with homecoming, celebrating home and stability, as well as relaxation in comfortable spaces.

I think that a lot of people forget that “home” isn’t always about where you rest your head and the roof above it. Sometimes it can be a person. Other times it’s a place that has nothing to do with where you live your day-to-day life.

Home is where you feel safe. The place (or person) that creates a feeling of welcoming, homecoming, and safety for you. The place where you feel the most at ease and the knots in your solar plexus can ease a bit. It’s that place (or person) where you feel -relief- in arriving and the worries of the world can slough off your shoulders, even for just a moment.

This place (or person) nurtures our soul. The message in today’s Four of Wands and the “nurture” prompt is a reminder that “home” is where the heart is… not where the head rests. Today’s message encourages us to take time to enjoy, appreciate, and yes.. celebrate! your home. No matter what, where, or who it is.

DECK USED: TAROCCHI FINE DALLA TORRE IN BOLOGNA

June 18 – Mental Health Card of the Day

Today’s meditation was a ten minute visualization exercise off of YouTube (which I was not impressed with, but finished anyway).

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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneMessenger26 Challenge
Message From My Spirit Guide Prompt for June 18 : Whisper
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

Today’s draw is the King of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of a projective “alpha” energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s thoughts, intellect, education, ambitions, and communication. This often translates into themes that have to do with someone that has a way with words and is able to use those skills to lead others to their way of thinking, as well as those that are in authority on intellectual topics such as professors, doctors, etc.

Have you ever heard the advice that when you’re angry, and in a debate of some kind with someone else, that instead of raising your voice to get your point across you should lower it to a quieter register? It forces the other person to also lower their voice in order to hear you, and creates the need for them to lean in and (in doing so) be receptive.

Leadership is often much the same. Yes, you can shout and bluster and be a pain in the ass, but overtime people decide that it’s irritating and they tune you out. On the other hand, when you speak softly, people lean in to hear what you have to say… especially when you’re a leader. This creates a sense of greater power and increased gravitas than being loud and intrusive ever could.

The message in today’s King of Swords and the “whisper” prompt is a reminder that when you are in a position of leadership, instead of shouting at the top of your lungs and using bluster to motivate others, try using your “inside voice” instead.

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Gideon’s Challenge – The Welcome

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Mushrooms on Tree Trunk

The Welcome

the forest
welcomes me
home
with green leaves
and earthy scents
of soil
and raindrops
bark
and mushrooms
and the kind
of decay
that hides
in dark places
and promises
moments
of solace

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Gideon’s Challenge – Perfection

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Antique Car Restoration

Perfection

Shiny bits
of glass
and a sexy
little curve
strong angles
cut a path
as they tell
a story
of love
dedication
and detailed
perfection
that borders
on obsession

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🎨 Weekly Creativity Prompt – Imagery Interpretations

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Prompt: Pull the same three cards from your deck(s) and tell us how you might interpret these decks differently, and why. Same question, same cards, different decks. And if you’d read them similarly? Tell us that, and explain why! Today’s cards are Seven of Dandelions (Swords), Ten of Mushrooms (Coins), and Ten of Branches (Wands). And the question from our imaginary querent is “What is something I’ve been neglecting lately and how could I pay it some more attention?”

Enchanted Forest Felines Tarot

“What is something I’ve been neglecting lately and how could I pay it some more attention?”
 Interpretation from the Enchanted Forest Felines Tarot:

All that hard work you’ve been doing has the potential to slip through your fingers if you’re not careful.

Pay attention to what you choose to pursue, and what you’ve chosen to leave behind. You can’t turn back for those discarded bits later, because you’ll already be carrying far too much on your shoulders, so make sure that you choose wisely.

Keep in mind when making these choices that what you take on benefits not just you and your goals, but also those that join you on your journey or wait for you at the end of it.

Hoi Polloi Tarot

“What is something I’ve been neglecting lately and how could I pay it some more attention?”
Interpretation from the Hoi Polloi Tarot

You think that you’re supporting everyone and that they’re all appreciative of what you provide, but all that back breaking work is being taken for granted by someone far more interested with taking off with what’s yours than enjoying it along side you.

Pay attention to those that take what you offer for granted, and ensure that they aren’t taking more than their share without respecting the work you’ve put into it.

DECK USED: ENCHANTED FOREST FELINES TAROT AND HOI POLLOI TAROT

Gideon’s Challenge – Anticipatory

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Awakening Azaleas

Anticipatory

Flares of red
promise blooms
full of color
and cheer
as long
as the rain
keeps coming
there’ll be plenty
of flowers
never fear

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Protecting the Potential

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

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The @GlitterbyInk #JuneMessenger26 Challenge
Message From My Spirit Guide Prompt for June 15th : Protection
Daily Mental Health Prompt: Seek a positive message to carry with you throughout the day and offer perspective.

The Veleda Woods Tarot - The Empress

Today’s draw is The Empress card, which is traditionally a representation of a nurturing energy of strength and empowerment without losing that “softer side” in the process, abundance, fertility, the divine feminine, and Mother Earth.

There’s more to protect in life than what you’ve earned. Sometimes it’s about the potential yet to be discovered.

When we look at the future, we often see it through the lens of whatever goals we have set forth for ourselves. In truth, the future is an infinite miasma of opportunities; an abundance of potential and opportunity yet to be discovered. It’s only our narrowed focus that limits us.

With this in mind, priorities are important. The question is whether the goals we’ve set really deserve the priority we give them, or should we be open to something new and completely different than what we’re aiming for?

The message in today’s Empress card and “protection” prompt is a reminder that it’s more important to protect our potential than it is to protect limiting goals and aspirations. Don’t allow yourself to be held back by goals that do not fit anymore or may not fit in the future. Keep an eye open to the potential for something new and different that may fit you even better than the stuff you’re already focused on.

DECK USED:  THE VELEDA WOODS TAROT

@de_tarotjuf’s De Zomer In! #detarotjufjunitarotchallenge
Prompts for June 15th and 16th

Oracle Reading with the Räucherungen für die Seele

What do I want clarity on, and how do I find it outdoors?

Urvertrauen Entwickeln – It can be hard to trust that things are going to develop on their own in a way you want them to. This trust becomes especially difficult when you abstain from meddling, for without your fingers in the process you worry things will go awry.

What you seek clarity on is in that you seek to develop this trust and release the controlling grip that you often find to be too overwhelming, but often can’t seem to loosen.

Erfolg Zulassen – It can be easier to let go of control when you’re not in control in the first place.

When you’re outdoors and enjoying nature, any of a vast myriad of things can change, happen, or go wrong. Instead of controlling every aspect, you depend on adaptation. This is the key to letting go in other parts of your life and trusting things will still come out okay.

Which boundary may I guard during this season?

Geborgen Sein – Reflect upon those things that help you to feel safe, and ensure that they are “tamper proof” from meddling and manipulations. These things are what help you to feel steady when the world around you feels uncertain.

Other elements included in this reading:
Pressed Pansy Flower for Hearing the Heart More Clearly
Foraged Silver Maple Key for Bouncing Back to Thrive
Gneiss Stone for Patience in Moments of Discomfort
Garnierite for help in Releasing Anger, Anxiety, and Guilt
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED: RÄUCHERRUNGEN FÜR DIE SEELE

The @lightningwildflower June Inner Journey Challenge
Venus sextile Uranus Prompt for June 15th : How can I embrace change with excitement?

Tarot Reading with The Veleda Woods Tarot

Reading Summary: Balance (Two of Pentacles) your dread for endings that you feel you’re not ready for (The World Rx) with the opportunities for success that change is offering (The Sun).

Take Away: Its in the new opportunities that change is offering you where you can find excitement in change and embrace it more fully.

Instead of focusing on your feelings of uncertainty and unpreparedness, turn your attention to the opportunities that are opening up for you as changes take place. Transitions are wobbly and unsteady for a reason. All the bricks are a a bit loose and cattywampus so that they can be settled into a new configuration and create a new structure in the process.

This unsteady moment in time gives you the opportunity to use those bricks to build whatever you want.

Other elements included in this reading:
Bird Figurine for Fostering Hope, Positivity, and Renewal
Dried Cedar Bundle for Protection from Negative Influences
Conch Shell Knot for Concentration, Clarity, and Determination
Rose Quartz for Gentle Kindness to Self and Others
Selenite for Purification and drawing in Positive Energy

DECK USED:  THE VELEDA WOODS TAROT
Daily Self Kindness

I put off shipping until Tuesday instead of tomorrow due to things just not really going as smoothly as they should in processing orders today. Instead of fighting, I just let things go at their own pace.