Month: November 2022

Creating Joy From Within Oracle Reading

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Creating Joy Oracle Reading with the Gentle Creatures Wisdom Deck

Topic: How can I create joy from within?

Focus On Now – Create – Only you can create happiness into your life. Don’t look to others for this, but seek out those things that make you happy. Instead, look to yourself and what brings you joy, then do yourself the kindness of carving out time for these things.

Release the Past – Connections – Learn to lean into the things that make you feel content and happy, including those people from your past that bring you joy… and release the rest.  It’s through positive connections that you create positive results in your life.

Embrace the Unknown – Support – Don’t take for granted that people that love you and seek to support you in all of your endeavors. Allow yourself to be open to their support as you step into the unknown, for they are there to help you along your path… even when it’s dark and you can’t see the way.

DECK USED: GENTLE CREATURES WISDOM DECK

Something Has To Give

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Today’s meditation was skipped… although I did get a lot of napping in.

Note of Intent:  The holiday rush is about to swing into overdrive and steal away whatever spare time I might have -thought- I had left. With it’s arrival, I’ve need to cut down on my blogging for the time being.  I’m going to try to continue to pull my daily card, though, as well as note down my daily kindnesses.  The longer posts and participation in divination challenges, etc will resume once the holiday rush has ended.

Le Tarot de la Sorcière et de La Roue de l'Année BrochéToday’s draw is the As de Terre (Ace of Earth/Pentacles), which is traditionally a representation of the seed of new beginnings in the area of one’s finances, resources, health, home, labors, manifestations, and the physical world. It often references themes that involve opportunity and fresh starts.

Today’s card is a representation of my self care, and the changes that I am making to ensure that I am giving myself some self care instead of just abandoning it for old, unhealthy habits over the holiday season and the rush that creates such pressure on me during these last few weeks of the year.

The massive amount of growth seen in the card is a promise of healthy changes… the stars are a shimmer of hope that these changes can reap results that will benefit me in the future.

DECK USED:  LE TAROT DE LA SORCIÈRE ET DE LA ROUE DE L’ANNÉE BROCHÉ

Daily Self Kindness

As outlined above, I’ve decided to cut down on my posts over the next few weeks in order to give myself more time for my personal needs during the busy month ahead.

Gideon’s Challenge

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IMG_6998Too Early

Sunrise shines
golden and bright
through
through autumn fog
as morning breaks
on the promise
of a new day
and the air
crisp with
winter’s approach
stings the sinuses
and whispers
of colder days
soon to come

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Taking the Wheel

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Today’s meditation was skipped.

Tarot of Spells and PotionsToday’s draw is the King of Wands atop the Strength card. I don’t usually accept two cards for my daily pull, but the deck insisted.

Traditionally, the King of Wands is a representation of a projective alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s drive, willpower, passions, determination, and inner spark. This often translates into themes that have to do with a style of leadership that impassions others to the leader’s projects and cause.

The Strength card is a representation of inner strength, courage, persuasion, and sometimes manipulation.

With the King of Wands atop Strength, the message in today’s card(s) is about building upon your inner strength when pursuing your dreams. It’s not always enough to want something, or to even want it enough to be fired up about it. Sometimes it’s in convincing others to join you in your goals where success lies.

This card combination asks us to examine where in our lives would our goals benefit from the involvement of others? And how can we best gather others to us to help in achieving our goals?

DECK USED:  TAROT OF SPELLS AND POTIONS

@The.Journey.Well ‘s Friendship & Community Challenge Prompt
Questions for November 21st and 22nd

Inklings Meditation CardsWhat energy do you bring to relationships?

Grounding and Dream – You provide a sense of grounded strength and stability, while encouraging others to see the worth in their dreams and go after them.

What activates you in conversation?

Freedom and Self-Love – When you are able to accept myself, you are better able to join in conversations and not hold back.

What triggers you in conversation?

Divine Timing and Abundance – You don’t like it when people blame the good things in life (either in your life, or in their own) on chance instead of the hard work that it took to achieve them.

DECK USED: THE INKLINGS MEDITATION DECK

#DiscordTarotholicsNov2022 Challenge Prompt
Question for November 22nd: What do I need to focus on for self care for this new moon?

Tarot of Spells and PotionsReading Summary: Don’t judge yourself harshly when you are still feeling your way forward (Judgement and Page of Pentacles). Be happy with how far you’ve come (Nine of Pentacles) and keep moving forward on the “straight and narrow” (Judgement).

Take Away: It’s important with this new moon that you re-dedicate yourself to the goals you want to achieve and the person you have decided you want to become.

Make sure that those things you do in life from day-to-day continue to further these distant targets and aspirations you have decided to go after instead of inserting distractions and obstacles in your path.

DECK USED: TAROT OF SPELLS AND POTIONS

Daily Self Kindness

Today was early Thanksgiving, and I ate a LOT of really, really good food.  God so much food.

🌑 New Moon in Sagittarius – November 2022

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Tomorrow is the new moon, and like all new moons and full moons, I did a spread aligned to the moon’s current themes as a part of my recognition of the moon’s cycle and influences upon us. Today’s spread is about the medicine within, and brought to you by Ethony‘s Tarot by the Moon series.

New Moon in Sagittarius Oracle Reading with The Shaman's Dream Oracle

What bad habit need to be kicked to the curb?

Wailing Tree – As recently pointed out in another reading that was done the other day, it’s time to examine where you are holding on to things from your past that need to be let go and begin releasing your resentment in these areas.  Forgive yourself, and consider softening harsh feelings towards others that were involved. These feelings are harming you far more than they are harming those others.

What positive steps can I take instead?

The Farther Gate – Step beyond your pain and resentment. Take the first step in moving past these issues. That first step can be much harder than you think, but is well worth it to find freedom from that ugliness you hold onto.

Where can I bring some adventure into my life?

A Tidy House – Who needs adventure? Get your ducks in a row and your safe space sorted instead. Only after you have this sorted will you be ready for “adventure”.

What needs shaking up?

Closing Door – That project that you’ve been feeling is decreasing in its margin of success? Don’t close that door just yet. Set it aside for a while, and come back to it later when you have some extra time to commit to it.

New Moon advice from the Minoan Goddess Amalthea.

The Wall atop Root Girl – Dig deep into yourself to find the strength to move past obstacles this month. There will be plenty of them to stand in your path, but if you stay calm and dig deep within yourself for direction and answers, you will move through  each obstacle without fail.

DECK USED: THE SHAMAN’S DREAM ORACLE

Gideon’s Challenge

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IMG_5139The Sea’s Call

The grit of sand
between
cold, wet toes
as sea grasses
tease at ankles
and water laps
against
goosefleshed skin
creating ripples
with each step
as the blue beyond
whispers promises
that coax each step
to be followed
by another

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