Quiet Moment
At last
a moment
just one moment
to pause
and breathe
while heart rate
slows
and the tension
in the gut
begins to ease
its ugly knots
as the silence
seeps in and
the stillness is
a goodnight kiss
Month: January 2023
Don’t Wanna Know Lenormand Reading
Something you left behind.
Lily and Coffin – You have made peace with your loss of the loved one that passed recently. There was some guilt over your atypical grieving process and how others might perceive it, but you processed through it well and have moved past it.
Something you’re doing now.
Mice and Bear – Undermining authority figures is not usually your style, but desperate times call for desperate measures. There’s a good chance this isn’t going to turn out how you want, but no one can fault you for trying.
How you’re living honestly.
Broom and Stork – You are willing to look at those things you don’t like about yourself and work on them. This process requires an acceptance of your flaws, for only when you can accept that there’s a problem can you begin the long process of transformation and healing.
DECK USED: BLUE NIGHT LENORMAND
Ideas and Inspiration
Today’s meditation was skipped.
Today’s draw is the King of Needles (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.
The man sews by hand in neat stitches, radiance glowing from his head as he works. This is clearly something he does often and well, and yet the radiance around the head also indicates that there is more here. Ideas and inspiration flowing freely and ready to be applied to his work. Others think he is brilliant for a reason… because he is able to translate those sparks of inspiration into something beautiful.
Where in your life to you transform ideas into something beautiful? For me, it’s in my work with jewelry. Today’s card asks us to look at these activities and allow inspiration to flow freely. Don’t choke it up with worries or nay-saying… allow it to flow into a process that might bring those ideas to life for all to see and admire.
CrowSister’s #DeckStudyTenTrueWords Prompt
Prompt: Distill your reading of the card to your ten truest words.
Before manifestation
breathes its first breath
comes ideas
and inspiration
DECK USED: STITCHERY WITCHERY TAROT
Lionharts’ #TheJanuaryTarot 2023 Year of Evolution Challenge Prompt
Question for January 23rd: What are my current biggest strengths? Draw up to 3 cards.
Ingwaz – Your openness to growth and willingness to let that develop at its own speed. Patience isn’t one of your strong suits, but the fact that you’re willing to try and let things develop at their own speed provides you with a potential for growth you wouldn’t otherwise have.
Dagaz – Your ability to seize upon moments of realization and epiphany and adapt with them rather than allowing them to create blockages and hurdles. By being able to adapt more freely when these “epiphany moments” appear, you continue to evolve rather than growing stagnant.
Kenaz – You are clever and intelligent, and you use these qualities in ways that create a spark of inspiration for your creativity to flourish. This allows creativity to be a part of your life in a variety of aspects and incarnations rather than one or two, and with each creative endeavor you pursue and experience you garner, your skills and abilities continue to grow.
DECK USED: THE RUNIC ODYSSEY ORACLE POCKET EDITION
#DiscordTarotholicsJan2023 Challenge Prompt
Question for January 23rd: Measure Your Feet Day – Who in your life could you understand better by putting yourself in their shoes?
Reading Summary: Ms B (Queen of Buttons… literally) could be understood better by looking at things from (The Hanged Man) a more emotionally anchoring and supportive role (King of Chalices).
Take Away: She is full of feels… so many that she doesn’t know what to do with them all. By putting yourself in her shoes, you are better able to see what she needs and provide that for her.
This, in turn, is healthier for you because you won’t feel like you are jumping through hoops and getting nowhere. It will provide you direction and allow you to offer help where it is needed instead of expending time and energy where it is not.
DECK USED: STITCHERY WITCHERY TAROT
This is a catch-up post, and I can’t remember what my self kindness might have been on this day.
Gideon’s Challenge
Changing Guard
Moments slip past
as movement
and stillness
collide
in the drop
of the sun
beneath horizon
and the flare
of vibrant colors
that are cast out
as the day
breathes
its last exhale
and night steps in
for the next breath
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Unexpected Mercy Moments
oday’s meditation was skipped.
Today’s draw is the Queen of Pentacles, which is traditionally a representation of a receptive alpha energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s finances, resources, home, health, manifestations, and the physical world. This often translates into a supportive or nurturing energy or entity in the areas of one’s health, home, and financial responsibilities.
Sugar Daddy. Yeah, it’s a bit of a strange interpretation for the Queen of Pentacles, and yet… somehow, it fits.
This question asks what do the authority figures in your life allow you to get away with? And why? Did you get pulled over and get by with only a warning instead of a ticket? Do something at work that should have gotten you fired but it only earned you a talking to? What is it you’ve managed to step away from unscathed due to the mercy of the authority figure you thought was going to skin you alive… but instead showed you a hint of humanity?
Take some time to consider these circumstances in your life and why they turned out as they did. Did the experience help to humanize the authority figure in question? Do you look at them differently now? Is that a good thing? Or is it just confusing?
DECK USED: MYSTIC GNOME TAROT
Lionharts’ #TheJanuaryTarot 2023 Year of Evolution Challenge Prompt
Questions for January 22nd
What is left underutilized that could help me attract good things?
The Hermit’s Home and Ritual of Water – Clean your damned house or get a housekeeper in to do it. As much as you hate housework, putting it off just results in a situation that aggravates both you and your allergies.
How am I asked to utilize this dormant energy, strength, or skill?
Welsh Waters and Stone of Memories – See it as a self care exercise in grounding and centering your energies. Everything feels a little bit better when your environment is at its best. It’s time to move back into that feeling instead of trying to ignore that it’s something you need.
DECK USED: DRUID WISDOM CARDS
#DiscordTarotholicsJan2023 Challenge Prompt
Topic for January 22nd: Do Spread 2
Question: What can I do at this time to work at heading off the encroaching depression?
Awareness is key (Anchor card).
There is a color coordination between the darkness in the anchor card, and the cloak that the Five of Cups wears, as well as in the raging lion in the Strength card. This speaks of not allowing yourself to fall into the darkness by entertaining your natural pessimism. It has the ability to influence you if you let it.
There is also a color connection and a radiant lightness in the right hand side of the anchor card, which contains the windows and the book, and in the Seven of Wands. This indicates a need to lean into the light, and rely on what you have learned to keep you from falling into that dark pit. You’ve experienced the benefits of focusing on optimism firsthand, and now it’s time to use that experience to keep depression’s darkness at bay.
DECK USED: MYSTIC GNOME TAROT AND THE ART OF PIXAR POSTCARD SET
This is a catch-up post, and I can’t remember what my self kindness might have been on this day.
Gideon’s Challenge
A Morning Walk
Winter wonderlands
coated in snow
a pristine blanket
to make the world
look new
In early morning
the path is pristine
and instead of alone
come and walk
with me in this scene
so we can
see the world
through the same eyes
as we kiss
between foggy breaths
Twisting the Leaf 