An Invitation
Home
is where
the heart is
and my heart lies
in green moss
and stretching fronds
of sword fern
where quiet giggles
stir the air
as tufts of green
rustle and shake
as friends
tempt me to
come play
Month: July 2021
Morning Bonus Read – Perspectives
The prompt for this reading came from one of my Discord servers and is as follows:
“Sometimes an outside perspective is helpful. Do a divination reading about yourself from the perspective of someone else. Maybe ask a spirit or deity who cares for you what they see when they look at you.”
What do my spirit guides notice about my body?
Six of Hearts – You’re working at finding better harmony. This isn’t an easy task, but you’re slowly becoming more accepting and more kind to yourself, and at finding a way to balance your wants and desires with your body’s needs.
What do my spirit guides notice about my mind?
Ten of Clubs – Overloaded. So many plans and ideas, so much judgement of self, so much inner dialog getting in the way and making you feel overwhelmed even when you’re not actually being overburdened at all.
What do my spirit guides notice about my heart?
Two of Diamonds – Your heart knows where it wants to be rooted, but you’re playing tug of war with it. It’s not a weed, stop treating it like one.
What do my spirit guides notice about my soul?
Six of Diamonds – You are generous with giving of yourself. Sometimes too much so. You offer so much of yourself to others that at times it can be unhealthy for you.
What do my spirit guides notice about my life?
Two of Spades – Two paths before you and you are stuck at the crossroads. That stagnant feeling you’ve been feeling lately is a sign of this crossroads and the internal struggle you’re going through in trying to “pick a lane”.
What do my spirit guides notice about my problems?
Four of Diamonds – Stop bracing for impact. It does no good and only holds you back. This is a habit from your youth, and you don’t have to worry anymore about that second shoe dropping… or the first one for that matter. Take a breath and relax.
What do my spirit guides notice about my general relationships?
Three of Spades – You’re always far too prepared to be disappointed by others. It’s okay to have a little faith in people and not be ready for them to rip your heart out. It’s okay to not expect the worst.
What do my spirit guides notice about my relationship?
King of Spades – There is a great sense of security, and you know where you stand. You know that your advice and opinions are heard and valued, and that submissives really steer the ship. You know that his support is not a burden to him, even if logically from your perspective it feels like it should be.
What advice does my spirit guides have for me?
Queen of Spades – Own your forthright nature. Own the qualities that make you your mothers son. Your sense of values and moral compass will assure that you don’t follow in her footsteps. Instead, you will use these qualities for the good of others, instead of for your own selfish desires.
What warning do my spirit guides have for me?
Four of Hearts – Stop stalling when you need to get things done that you’re not enthusiastic about. Just get them done.
DECK USED: SINS ANIMA PLAYING CARDS
Restoration Is Important
Today’s meditation was about ten minutes long and was a guided meditation from the Calm app combined with an interval timer for my piriformis stretches.
The focus of today’s meditation was about shame concerning our past experiences and traumas. It was about how we carry this shame with us, and how it can eventually eat us alive… but that the solution is simple. Sometimes, what is needed most, is just to be heard. To speak our truth and be heard, understood, and cared about. This is often why therapy can be such a good tool for people. It gives you someone to talk to that is not about judging you, but hearing you and helping you.
Today’s draw is the Four of Swords, which is traditionally a representation of taking time to rest, recuperation after a trying time, and stillness for restoration and meditation on the events that have brought you to this place as well as where to go from here.
We all need rest. This is something that took me a long time to accept in myself. I used to push myself hard, so hard. Again and again I’d push myself to burn out, give myself just enough recovery that it would let me push forward again.
These cycles just brought me deeper and deeper into exhaustion. I was not treating myself or my body well, and after a time, it became to rebel against this treatment. Now, I’ve learned that I need that rest. Everyone needs rest. And it’s only through caring for your body and your needs, that you can then continue forward and achieve your goals.
DECK USED: TAROT AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW AND LESS ANXIETY AFFIRMATION CARDS
#DiscordTarotholicsJul2021 Challenge Prompt
Questions for July 2nd & 3rd
What inner injury from my childhood needs healing?
Pink Pepper, Cassia, Ace of Coins
Being constantly told that I’ve never enough just the way I am and that no matter what I tried it was never going to be good enough.
How can I begin working on healing that injury?
Birch, Grapefruit, and Two of Swords
Don’t allow what was said then hold so much weight, take a deep breath and let us roll up all that pain and discontent that this experience still has for you… then exhale it out. This is something that you’re going to have to consciously put time and attention into in order to eventually be able to choose to let go of.
DECK USED: ORACLE OF THE ESSENCES 2ND ED AND TAROT AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
The Sacred Grounds Tarot Club Prompt
Questions for July 2nd and 3rd
What message does July have for me?
The Chariot and Seven of Swords
Look at that smile on the leprechauns face! July is offering me the opportunity to reconnect with my values and principles, to examine them and choose wisely so that I can make sure that I continue on the path that I want to continue on as I move forward into the future. My future and direction upon my path are in my own hands. I need to ensure that my actions are compatible with the direction I wanna go in.
What challenges is July going to bring me?
Five of Swords atop Ace of Wands, Three of Swords
Disappointment over not being able to go after all of my different ideas and passionate pursuits. Lots of prioritizing will be needed and I’m going to have to leave some things behind in order to shine in the things that I end up prioritizing.
DECK USED: TAROT AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
I’m sort of playing catch up at the moment, so I don’t actually remember what I did for myself back on this day. I should have written it down at the time, but I didn’t and now I’m not sure.
Gideon’s Challenge
Time Alone
Cloak me
in your verdant splendor
of softly draping moss
and lichen’s cling
Let me lie
upon soft beds
of delicately
feathered fronds
while leaves flutter
and branches sway
above
and birdsong
becomes a lullaby.
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
A Work In Progress
Today’s meditation was skipped because it’s an orders day.
Today’s draw is the Fool card, which is traditionally a representation of new beginnings, rebirth, innocence, naivete, blind trust, optimism, and unrealistic expectations.
What really sticks out to me in these cards today, though, is not in the Fool card, but rather it’s in the words “nothing is ever enough for a mind always striving for more” in today’s affirmation card.
I fall into this trap again and again, whether it’s with my emotional growth, my business, my financial stability… it seems that at the root core of everything, I am always striving for more. Pushing for more. Demanding more from myself than might be expected from others.
I have not figured out how not to push. I have yet to discover how to simply be still in the now without fighting to move forward and accomplish more. The Fool card here is a reminder of this folly that I can’t imagine I am alone in struggling with. It’s a reminder that we are all pieces of work in progress, always in progress. There’s no need to push.
DECK USED: THE NEW CHAPTER TAROT AND LESS ANXIETY AFFIRMATION CARDS
Mr Lionharts’ #TheJulyTarot #TarotSuitsChallenge Prompt
Questions for July 1st thru 3rd
What major energy am I invited to work with this month?
Dogwood (Cornus florida) and Death – It’s time to change up your wards. Whether they’ve been tapped early through extra challenges to their protections, or you’ve shared enough information on them to leave you vulnerable, it’s time.
What major energy is here to support me throughout the month?
Burdock (Arctium lappa) – You excel at being stubborn. Use that to your advantage.
How can I best embrace and work with this available energy?
Cohosh (Actaea racemosa) and Four of Wands – These cards echo back to the first question. You need to make new defenses and wards for your home and all that you hold dear. It’s stressful, but this needs to be done throughout the month. Start changing things up, and refresh everything a bit earlier than normal with new methods in place in order to both protect and ensure stability and peace in your home life.
DECK USED: HEDGEWITCH BOTANICAL ORACLE AND THE NEW CHAPTER TAROT
#DiscordTarotholicsJul2021 Challenge Prompt
Question: How can I better connect with my inner child?
Reading Summary: By looking inward (The High Priestess) and not allowing your more solemn nature and self destructive tendencies (The Hermit Rx) to stand in the way of seeing life as an adventure (The Fool). Stop pushing so hard to move on and move past everything (Ten of Swords Rx).
Take Away: To connect with my inner child on a deeper level I need to spend more time looking inward at what makes me tick and what uncertainties and hidden motivators are lurking in my subconscious.
I also need to take time to look at life in a more optimistic and positive light, and use that perspective to set aside destructive tendencies.
All this pushing I’m doing is fear and an effort at avoidance so that I don’t have to deal with these things or look too closely at things that make me uncomfortable.
DECK USED: THE NEW CHAPTER TAROT
I took a nap when I got home from the farm today, even though it’s an orders day.
Transitioning from June to July
NOTATION: I did not finish interpreting this spread here on the blog. I got some of what I needed from it at the time of the reading, but I just never got around to writing it all down. Regardless, I want to place this on the blog to make sure I have a record of it to look back on.
Here and Now, I Am – The Wheel atop The Sun, Salamander –
Leaving Behind – Seven of Shells and Telekinesis –
Focus Forward – Queen of Feathers and Mantra Medicine –
Negative Influences – Nine of Acorns, Songbirds atop Voudon Roots – Someone is trying to fuck you. Don’t turn a blind eye. Make sure that you are diligent in your words. Doing another severing would be a good idea.
Positive Influences – Page of Acorns and Burning Man –
Relevant Shadows – Eight of Crystals and Hecate’s Path –
Lift From The Past – Ace of Acorns, Astral Travels atop Florida Waters –
Future Event to Prevent or Overcome – Seven of Acorns and Brigid –
Approaching Opportunity – Page of Feathers and Ancient Amulets –
Twisting the Leaf 